


With 500,000 video pixels, it sometimes dominated the show and gave the proceedings an IMAX-in-the-making feel. The "Claw" was the most extravagant and creative staging ever used in any live performance. A magnificent night of music, on the best day of weather in nine months, might have kicked off with the one song in U2's catalog that would have best summed up this outdoor concert: "Beautiful Day."Īs it was, "Beautiful Day" showed up 10 songs into the set, and Bono did acknowledge the weather: "The whole city looked like it had come out of a washing machine," he said, standing in the middle of the "Claw," the 90-foot-tall scaffolding that covered the stage. If there was anything the 65,000 U2 fans at Seattle's Qwest Field could have found fault with in the band's show Saturday night, it might have been the choice of opening song. Review: U2 brings 'Beautiful Day' to Qwest Towards the end of the video, he appears reciting the lyrics of the bridge: "See the world in green and blue.". The video premieres before "Beautiful Day" and shows Kelly holding up sheets of words for the song before saying: "tell my wife I love her.

Amongst the highlights in Seattle include a new featured video starring astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. U2 plays Seattle and several members of R.E.M., Pearl Jam and Heart are in attendance as well as Aung San Suu Kyi's son. Encore(s): One, Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Where The Streets Have No Name - All You Need Is Love, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, With Or Without You, Moment Of Surrender. Even Better Than The Real Thing, I Will Follow, Get On Your Boots, Magnificent, Mysterious Ways, Elevation, It's The End Of The World As We Know It - Until The End Of The World - Where Have All The Flowers Gone, All I Want Is You, Stay (Faraway, So Close!), Beautiful Day - Space Oddity, Pride (In The Name Of Love), Miss Sarajevo, Zooropa, City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight (Remix) - Discotheque - Life During Wartime - Psycho Killer, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Scarlet, Walk On - You'll Never Walk Alone.
