Hawkmoon In Cologne

Kölnarena

Cologne, Germany.

12 - July - 2001.

Attendance: 18.000 (sellout) - Support: Söhne Mannheims

Disc 1 (65:16)

01. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (PA)

02. Elevation Influx Intro (PA) / Elevation

03. Beautiful Day

04. Until the End of the World

05. New Year's Day

06. Kite

07. New York

08. I Will Follow

09. Sunday Bloody Sunday

10. In My Life / Stuck in a Moment

11. In a Little While

12. - Band Introductions -

13. Hawkmoon 269 / Desire / Running to Stand Still

Disc 2 (65:55)

01. Stay (Faraway, so Close!)

02. Bad / Wild Horses / "40"

03. Where the Streets Have No Name

04. Mysterious Ways

05. The Fly

06. Bullet the Blue Sky

07. With or Without You

08. One

09. Walk on

Recording Equipment - History

Sony ECM717 mics + Sony MZ-R30 MD

Taper: W. Roubos

Comments

This is a very good recording, with great clarity and cleanness overall. It sounds slightly distant and lacks more bass, but music and vocals come through pretty well overall. Crowd are audible clapping and cheering, but shut up during songs, so they don't bring any inconvenience. Note a rough transition / little gap (standard) between tracks 1 and 2 CD1.

* Comments by Justin Cook: The awesome 'Hawkmoon 269 / Desire / Running to Stand Still' medley alone is enough to convince almost any U2 fan to acquire this bootleg. "Hawkmoon" hadn't been played since the Lovetown tour over a decade ago. To be honest, it's not really played during this show, but Bono sings the 90 seconds worth of the lyrics with The Edge playing the opening notes of "Desire" softly in the background. The band then launches into "Desire", at the end of which Bono starts singing "Running To Stand Still" virtually unaccompanied seemingly on a whim. Again, the song is not played in its entirety, but almost two minutes are included. At the end, The Edge segues back into the closing notes of "Desire" and Bono plays his bit on the harmonica. It is truly an incredible performance. Even with the band changing the setlist a bit on the Elevation tour, U2 hasn't displayed this type of spontaneity for many, many years.

The medley track that Justin mentioned, was read by Bono from a sheet that a fan held in the audience.