Popmart Reggio Emilia (DVD)

Reggio Emilia, Italy

09/20/97

Main set menu

1. Pop Muzik (PA)

2. Mofo

3. I Will Follow

4. Gone

5. Even Better Than The Real Thing

6. Last Night On Earth

7. Until The End Of The World

8. New Year's Day

9. Pride

10. I Still Haven't Found

11. All I Want Is You

12. Staring At The Sun

13. Volare

14. Miami

15. Bullet The Blue Sky

16. Please

17. Where The Streets Have No Name

Encores menu

1. Lemon (PA)

2. Discotheque

3. If You Wear That Velvet Dress

4. With or Without You

5. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

6. Mysterious Ways

7. One

8. MLK

The first three songs of this DVD are broadcast pro-shots taped for MTV. Beginning with "Even Better..." the source are four (?) cameras in the audience. One is located at an elevated position off Edge's stage side (in proximity to the B-stage), one at the opposite side (off Adam's stage spot, in proximity to the catwalk/B-stage) and one located close to the main stage. Material from the latter one is used rarely in the first half of the concert. It provides some very nice close ups from the main and B-stage but is very shaky at times and has a lot of hands and heads in the way. Beginning with "Please" it is used more and more frequently.

The other two cameras provide mostly stage totals. The camera off Adam's side is handheld over the head of the taper, which results in shaky pictures, often out of focus. The third camera is more stable and zooms in from time to time. In both perspectives a lot of heads and hands are obstructing the view, especially during the clap-along songs. Most annoying for my taste is the bias to use slow motion for large parts of some songs. Also between some songs, the audio stops, cutting out audience noise.