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Live From the San Diego iPayOne Center

U2's eagerly awaited (now that's an understatement!) Vertigo Tour officially kicked off in extraordinary fashion in San Diego tonight at the iPayOne Center.

Watch this space for more information, news, reviews and photos as we get it, but for now, enjoy the setlist and notes from the show, courtesy of our own Contributing Editor Devlin Smith. Show was filmed. Our crew spots Steve Lillywhite, Paul McGuinness and Ned O'Hanlon. Look for our full report tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime, make sure to visit our busy, busy tour forums to see what U2 fans are chatting about!

For photos from the show, courtesy of Yahoo! go here.

Press Reviews
For U2.com's writeup, go
here.
For MTV's writeup, go
here.
MSNBC/AP review here.
NME's review.
RollingStone here.
San Diego Union Tribune
here.


Here's the set list:

*City of Blinding Lights (Slide guitar effect from Edge)
*Vertigo/Stories for Boys
*Electric Co. ("I can see for miles and miles" - Bono Who song)
*An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart
*Beautiful Day/Beatles' "Black Bird"
*New Year's Day
(Bono doesn't talk to audience)
*Miracle Drug (Edge sang last verse)
*Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (Bono says, "My father would have loved to have been in show business")
*Love and Peace or Else (Larry uses drum set at end of Ellipse for beginning of song, then leaves midway. Bono drums on little drum set at end) (Larry singing "Release! Release!" with Bono)
*Sunday, Bloody Sunday
*Bullet the Blue Sky (Hands that Built America/Donnie Comes Marching Home - Bono puts blind fold over eyes, drops to his knees)
*Running to Stand Still (Edge sings "la la la di days") (Movie with Global Declaration of Human Rights. Different faces reading articles)
*Zoo Station (bull-fighting w/ Edge singing thru head mic)
*The Fly (streams of light that showed slogons from ZooTV)
*Elevation (Larry w/ head mic. singing)
(end of main set)


REUTERS/Mike Blake

(Encore)
*Pride (Bono speaks on Africa on MLK's dream. "Sing for Africa")
*Where the Streets Have No Name
*One (Bono thanks "Mexican friends for coming up. We'll see you next year" and talks about the One Campaign)
*All Because of You (Bono w/ tamborine)
*Yahweh (Larry steps away from drums, playing keyboard)
*40 (Bono introduces the band and calls himself "the little lord Jesus," and leaves the stage first. Then Adam, then Edge, then Larry ends with drum solo)

Acrobat_Al

OMG!!!!


OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, they're coming to Mexico in the tour???????????