Back At The N.E.C.

Birmingham, England

08/03/87

Disc 1:

1. Star Spangeled Banner

2. Bullet The Blue Sky

3. Running To Stand Still

4. I Will Follow

5. Silver And Gold

6. Gloria

7. Sunday Bloody Sunday

8. Exit

9. In God's Country

10. Electric Co.

11. I Still Haven't Found

12. Exodus/MLK

(49:20)

Disc 2:

1. The Unforgettable Fire

2. Bad

3. October

4. New Year's Day

5. Pride

6. Party Girl

7. Spanish Eyes

8. With Or Without You

9. 40

10. (Italian TV): Announcement of Bono and Edge

11. All I Want Is You

12. (Italian TV): TV moderators talking

13. The Ground Beneath Her Feet

(65:17)

U2 use their return to Birmingham to play an exceptional setlist. They start out with Jimi Hendrix' Woodstock interpretation of "Star Spangeled Banner" which segues into "Bullet The Blue Sky" like they will use to do on some Lovetwon shows. Also note the premiere of "Silver And Gold"!

The sound of this recording is unfortunately not as uplifting as the setlist. It is muffeled and a bit distanced. But what improves thing is that the recording is free of any background noise and also audience noise is no factor! Therefore, all instruments and Bono's voice are audible and not buried somewhere in the stew.

A nice bonus is the recording of Bono and The Edge's San Remo appearance 2000. This seems to be from a non Mp3-source but I cannot substantiate this since I have no reliable source information (when I traded for this boot I didn't even know that these bonus tracks are included...).

A nice bootleg for a collector of Joshua Tree material!