Viva PopMart!

Festival Site dell'Unità

Reggio Emilia, Italy.

20 - September - 1997.

Attendance: 150.000 (sellout) - Support: Prozac, Casino Royale

Disc 1 (70:07)

01. Pop Muzik (PA)

02. Mofo

03. I Will Follow

04. Gone

05. Even Better than the Real Thing

06. Last Night On Earth

07. Until the End of the World

08. New Year's Day

09. Pride (In the Name of Love)

10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

11. All I Want is You

12. Staring at the Sun

13. Volare  (karaoke)

14. Miami

15. Bullet the Blue Sky

Disc 2 (57:38)

01. Please

02. Where the Streets Have No Name

03. - Lemon Intermission (PA) -

04. Discothèque

05. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

06. With or Without You

07. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

08. Mysterious Ways

09. One

10. MLK

Recording Equipment - History

Core Sound Binaurals + TCD-D7 > CDR > remastered (F.D.) > CDR

Comments

A fantastic show that Bono described right before Still Haven't Found as "Questo è la più grade serata della mia vita" ("this is the greatest evening of my life"). It's the biggest rock concert with the highest number of payers for a sole band: 150.000 tickets were sold, but the estimated attendance may be between 170.000 and 180.000 people. Before MLK, Bono dedicated the concert to Andrea Gianotti, a fan who died two days before at the Rome show, as he fell ill during the show and passed away when arriving at the hospital.

This tape brings excellent sound quality. All instruments are perfectly audible and sound comes through pretty clean and strong. There are tiny marks between most of the tracks, and I detected a dropout at 0:40 in Gone. Crowd noise is noticeable throughtout the show, but never too detracting.