Vertigo Madrid (2DVD)

Madrid, Spain

08/11/05

DVD 1:

- Pre-show footage

- Wake Up (PA)

- Vertigo

- I Will Follow

- Electric Co.

- Elevation

- New Year's Day

- Beautiful Day

- I Still Haven't Found

- City Of Blinding Lights

- Miracle Drug

- Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own

- Love And Peace Or Else

- Sunday Bloody Sunday

- Bullet The Blue Sky

- Miss Sarajevo

- Human Rights video

- Pride

- Where The Streets Have No Name

- One

DVD 2:

- Zoo slots/Zoo Station

- The Fly

- With Or Without You

- All Because Of You

- Yahweh

- Vertigo

Bonus:

- TV special Popmart Lisboa (Portugese TV), including live snippets of Mofo, I Will Follow, Gone

- TV special Zooropa Lisboa (Portugese TV), including live snippets of The Fly and Even Better Than The Real Thing

- TV special Joshua Tree Madrid (Spanish TV), including live snippets of Where The Streets Have No Name, I Will    Follow, I Still Haven't Found, some promo video snippets and an interview with Bono

- ZooTV special (French TV) with live and promo video snippets

The show was taped from the upper ranks off Adam's side of the stage, the camera located approximately in the middle of the stadium. The camera is handheld and, hence, is not rock-stable but the shaking is not too heavy and the camera rarely loses its focus (except for a few bumps and when the taper focusses on the B-stages)). Sometimes a head or arms block parts of the picture. The colours are crisp but the shapes could be a bit more defined to detect more details. However, the distance of the camera to the stage is too large to catch real good close-ups, even when the taper zooms in maximally. Therefore, she/he uses the LED-Screens above the PA-stacks to catch some portrait images of the band from time to time. Also, the taper zooms out sometimes to catch some shots of the audience.

Both DVDs are not authored, so the track divisions are random during the songs.

The audio quality is good. The vocals and instruments come through clearly but the audience noise is present all the time.

A nice bonus are the TV specials from previous tours, especially the Popmart Lisboa footage, which is the first live recordings I saw from this concert so far.