"The Spaghetti Incident?"

Sydney Set List Living End BDO

2012-01-26T22:06:00.001+02:00

Living End Sydney Set List 2012

Same set as their other Big Day Out shows this year - see their Auckland Set list. Still, it's a nice collection of songs for a truncated Festival gig.

January 26th

Set List Sydney

Song For The Lonely

Second Solution

Roll On

Machine Gun

Who's Gonna Save Us?

Prisoner Of Society

How Do We Know

Breed

(Nirvana cover)

White Noise

The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating

West End Riot

Battles Big Day Out Set List Sydney

2012-01-26T22:00:00.001+02:00

Battles Big Day Out Set List Sydney

Sydney 2012 on January 26, 2012

From what I heard of Battles at the Auckland Big Day Out, these guys have a pretty cool sound!

Set List

Africastle

Sweetie & Shag

Atlas

Wall Street

Tonto

Ice Cream

My Machines

Incubus Set List If Not Now, When? Tour 2012

2012-01-25T21:49:00.000+02:00

Incubus Set List If Not Now, When? Tour 2012

Incubus played their set at the ShinkibaStudio Coast, Tokyo, Japan to a huge amount of adoring fans. The set featured plenty of classic Incubus hits to keep the fans happy. They are building up quite the back catalogue of songs to draw from!

January 24th, 2012

Set List

Privilege

Pardon Me

Adolescents

Promises, Promises

If Not Now, When?

A Crow Left of the Murder

Anna Molly

Circles

Glass

In the Company of Wolves

Love Hurts

Quicksand

A Kiss to Send Us Off

Echo

Switchblade

Nice to Know You

Drive

Megalomaniac

Encore:

Zee Deveel

Tomorrow's Food

Kasabian Australia BDO Set List

2012-01-22T23:09:00.003+02:00

Kasabian Australia BDO Set List

Goldcoast Big Day Out

January 22 2012

Kasabian Set List

Days Are Forgotten

Shoot The Runner

Underdog

Where Did All The Love Go?

Club Foot

Re-wired

Empire

Goodbye Kiss

L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)

Switchblade Smiles

Vlad The Impaler

Fire

Check out Kasabian's Auckland Set List.

The Vaccines BDO Set List 2012

2012-01-22T23:07:00.000+02:00

The Vaccines BDO Set List 2012

Gold Coast, Gold Coast Parklands, Southport, Australia

Jan 22 2012

Vaccines Set List

Blow It Up

Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)

Tiger Blood

A Lack Of Understanding

Wetsuit

Teenage Icon

Under Your Thumb

Post Break-Up Sex

All In White

Wolf Pack

No Hope

If You Wanna

Nørgaard

Gold Coast Set List Sound Garden BDO 2012

2012-01-22T22:54:00.000+02:00

Soundgarden's Gold Coast Set List BDO 2012

Following on from a very strong performance in Auckland, Soundgarden played a slightly different set for their fans from the Gold Coast.

Set list

Searching With My Good Eye Closed

Spoonman

Let Me Drown

Jesus Christ Pose

Outshined

Blow Up the Outside World

The Day I Tried to Live

My Wave

Burden in My Hand

Ty Cobb

Loud Love

Fell on Black Days

Black Hole Sun

Rusty Cage

Beyond the Wheel

JJ Reviews the Final Big Day Out

2012-01-22T12:07:00.001+02:00

Gin Wigmore

JJ Reviews the Final Big Day Out

Auckland 20 January, Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland, NZ

Well, the 2012 BDO turned out to be the final Auckland one as the economics of the event were no longer there. The immediate response to that was book better bands.....

This year the BDO organisers changed things up by reducing the main stages to only one with a second, smaller stage for 'in between' acts. This was an epic fail and totally ruined the feel and vibe of the event when compared to past years. Living End aside, there were no truly quality bands until Kasabian, Soundgarden and Noel Gallagher made their mark on the day. This is not to say other bands like Cage the Elephant weren't great, it was more of where's the bands like New Order, Placebo, Rage Against the Machine, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails also on the set to support Soundgarden on the mainstage??

Here's my thoughts on the bands I saw:

Soundgarden - loved them - they played a greatest hits package with a few less well known songs. Kym got all the right notes, Cornell was in fine form, that drummer from Pearl Jam was stonkin' and the bass was heavy as a rock to your head.

Kasabian - never listened to their music before but they sounded like they were the business. The crowd loved them and they had a sweet sound.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel was the reason why I went to BDO and I went home a happy man. He played a good mix of Oasis and solo songs in his set but the inclusion of three b-sides was enough to make this fan die happy.

My Chemical Romance - I love these little fuckers (despite their emo tag) it was a real shame they had terrible sound. The Black Parade was a real highlight.

Cage The Elephant - nice, fiesty band from Kentucky. Played their guts out - sounds like they had some tunes I'd better check out!

Gin Wigmore - she's got the sass and the tunes to back it up. Like MCR she suffered a terrible sound mix. Her cover of The Animal's House of the Rising Sun was a most bizzare thing but it kind of worked, and at the least was a performance that will stick out in the memory.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - saw one song and they were shit. The Mint Chicks should never have broken up.

Battles - Saw two songs, they had a damn good groove going on.

Cut Off Your Hands - who the fuck booked this band?

Mariachi El Bronx - who the fuck booked a Mariachi band? Completely the wrong music for a main stage BDO band but the lead singer was entertaining and the music sound good.

Beastwars - utter fucking rubbish. Not mainstage material. The front man must have taken too many drugs in his youth. You'd have been better off getting a locally popular covers band.

The Living End - I love this band so was pleased they played a few classic hits. Good energy all round and they did a cover of Nirvana's Breed with Jon Toogood (from Shihad) - an absolute classic BDO moment, one I'll never forget.

Tony Hawk Skate Jam Show - Tony and his boarders got some great air time and actually had a big audience than Midnight Youth which is not thattttt surprising.

I Am Giant - we got filmed for their video they were doing but didn't appear to make the cut. Sad face! Never heard them before but they played some good songs at the end of their set after a same same start. Lead Singer seemed have what it takes to be a good show man - they suffered from being on shitty smaller main stage.

Cavalera Conspiracy - I don't care if these were the boys from Sepultura, this kind of music sucks.

Regurgitator - I like their old stuff better than their new stuff but these guys were pretty shit live. They sound nothing like their recorded music - playing rap songs about licking assholes has it's place but when you have bigger hits and you're not playing them, you've missed the point of Big Day Out.

Parkway Drive - music was a similar style to Cavalera Conspiracy but was was impressed that they were a pretty tight unit.

Midnight Youth - I thought this band was over-rated before I heard them and nothing changed for me. Lead singer seems like a real dick.

Noel Gallagher Gold Coast BDO 2012 Set List

2012-01-22T10:54:00.002+02:00

Noel Gallagher Gold Coast Big Day Out 2012 Set List

Fresh from his Auckland show, Noel did a set with an extra two Oasis songs for the Gold Coast punters.

Set List

(It's Good) To Be Free
Mucky Fingers

Everybody's on the Run

Dream On

If I Had a Gun...

The Death of You and Me

Wonderwall

Supersonic

Talk Tonight

Half The World Away

Stranded on the Wrong Beach
Little By Little

The Importance of Being Idle

Don't Look Back In Anger

Kanye West Set List Big Day Out BDO 2012

2012-01-22T10:45:00.000+02:00

Kanye West Set List Big Day Out 2012

Arriving 45 minutes late, The Telegraphs review noted "Yeezy did spend a great deal of time sharing the stage with a dozen ballet dancers, all of whom moved in a classical frenzy around him as he belted out Runaway. Like his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, his performance felt less like hip hop and more like universal, gigantic music. Michael Jackson 2.0 indeed."

Kanye West is a jackass. The American President said so. So goodness knows why the organisers of the Big Day Out saw fit to have him headline the Australian BDO shows.... but seeing as you've found this you probably think BDO is ACE for having Kanye do a headlining turn so here's the set list from his show. He didn't do anything from The Throne Tour - he said he'd made a pact not to perform it solo.

Jan 22 2011 Gold Coast

Kanye West Gold Coast Set List

H•A•M

(Intro)

Dark Fantasy

Power

Jesus Walks

Can't Tell Me Nothing

Hell of a Life

Monster

Flashing Lights

Good Life

Love Lockdown

Say You Will

Heartless

Run This Town (Jay-Z cover)

Homecoming

Through the Wire

All Falls Down

E.T. (Katy Perry cover)

Touch the Sky

Gold Digger

All of the Lights

Stronger

Runaway

Lost in the World

Hey Mama

Cavalera Conspiracy BDO Set List 2012

2012-01-22T10:37:00.001+02:00

Cavalera Conspiracy BDO Set List 2012

Setlist from the Big Day Out Auckland 2012 on January 20th

The Cavalera brothers played three Sepultura songs so that kept the fans happy - this kind of music was not my cup of tea and I really don't think they should have been a 'main stage' act for the BDO.

Set List

Warlord

Torture

Inflikted

Sanctuary

Terrorize

Refuse/Resist

Killing Inside

I Speak Hate

Attitude

Roots Bloody Roots

Kasabian BDO Set List 2012

2012-01-22T07:14:00.000+02:00

BDO fans

Kasabian Setlist at Big Day Out Auckland 2012

January 20, 2012

Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand

British Oasis wannabees played a surprisingly good set list at the Auckland Big Day Out 2012

Kasbian BDO Set List

Days Are Forgotten

Shoot The Runner

Underdog

Where Did All The Love Go?

Club Foot

Re-wired

Empire

Fast Fuse

L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)

Switchblade Smiles

Vlad The Impaler

Fire

Check out Cage The Elephant's Set List

Cage The Elephant BDO Set List 2012

2012-01-22T07:10:00.001+02:00

Matt Shultz does some BDO crowd surfing

Cage The Elephant BDO Set List 2012

Auckland January 20th

Mount Smart Stadium

My cousins-in-law had been raving about this band, and they delivered a high intensity Big Day Out set list, worthy of their morning slot on the main stage indeed they gave The Living End a run for their money. Kentucky should consider itself lucky to be able to call these boys sons!

Set List

In One Ear

Aberdeen

Shake Me Down

Indy Kidz

2024

Ain't No Rest for the Wicked

Tiny Little Robots

Sabertooth Tiger

Big Day Out Set List 2012 My Chemical Romance

2012-01-22T07:04:00.003+02:00

These boys have no idea what a bad romance is, all they do is play their music with high intensity which makes all the EMO kids fall in love with them. Teenagers eh?

Sadly for this performance, MCR suffered a really terrible sound mix - Gerard Way gave it a pretty decent effort but the mix was just below par - who ever did that job should reflect on how shit they are.

Here's My Chemical Romance's Big Day Out Set List for 2012

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

Planetary (GO!)

Mama

Helena

Our Lady of Sorrows

Teenagers

Famous Last Words

DESTROYA

Welcome to the Black Parade

The Kids From Yesterday

Check out The Living End's Big Day Out Set List

Living End Set List BDO Auckland 2012

2012-01-21T12:17:00.000+02:00

The Living End Set List BDO Auckland 2012

Jan 20th

Being one of the true veteran bands of the BDO, The Living End delivered a hit fulled set list including a nice nod to Nirvana (having played the original Big Day Out) by playing a sweet cover version of Breed with Jon Toogood from Shihad (but actually playing with The Adults) sharing sing duties with Chris Cheney - it was a classic BDO moment.

The Wife and I were amused to come across Living End's bassist the night before on the Streets of Auckland - he seemed to have had a good day...

Set List

Song For The Lonely

Second Solution

Roll On

Machine Gun

Who's Gonna Save Us?

Prisoner Of Society

How Do We Know

Breed

White Noise

West End Riot

Check out Soundgarden's BDO Set List for 2012

Noel Gallagher Big Day Out Set List 2012

2012-01-18T13:33:00.003+02:00

There were two reasons two go to the Auckland Big Day Out in 2012. One rhymed with Garden and the other was Noel Gallagher. Mr Oasis. Mr Wonder Wall.

He said the day before the show:

"I haven't been to NZ since 1997. I have no recollection of it at all! My tour manager informed me I may have had an impromptu sing song round a piano in a hotel bar with that singer Joe Cocker!! I don't remember that at all!! Scary, eh?"

I saw that show - it was pretty crazy, Liam was drunk, Noel stormed out!

Playing the last ever gig at the BDO, Noel had some big shoes to fill. Joe Strummer did an amazing set after the RCHP in 2000 and the Flaming Lips will live in infamy for their costume filled closing act in 2005.

So did Noel deliver? Let's just say for him to close the Big Day Out with Don't Look Back in Anger was pretty apt. Also die hard fans got three Oasis b-sides! Stocked to here Talk Tonight - I pretty much learnt how to play guitar with the chords from that song! Any way, here's the set list.

Noel Gallagher Big Day Out 2012 Set List

(It's Good) To Be Free

Everybody's on the Run

Dream On

If I Had a Gun...

The Death of You and Me

Wonderwall

Supersonic

Talk Tonight

Half The World Away

Stranded on the Wrong Beach

The Importance of Being Idle

Don't Look Back In Anger

Soundgarden Set List Big Day Out 2012

2012-01-18T13:23:00.004+02:00

Soundgarden Set List Big Day Out 2012

Auckland January 20th

Mount Smart Stadium

We'll the kings of grunge that are still living (RIP Kurt, Justin Beiber mourns you) are back at the Big Day Out for what turned out to be the last festival at the Mount Smart Stadium.

Chris Cornell turned up in NZ late last year to perform acoustically and it was well received by the punters. He mentioned during that gig the prospect of Soundgarden doing a BDO show and that was enough to get me to Auckland (and the fact Noel Gallagher was playing too plus that they dropped Kanye West from the line up) .

This year's BDO was almost a low key event, lets face it, Soundgarden and the guy from Oasis were the only artists who have had the record sales and a place in rock history that the rest of the other performers can dream of.

So with perhaps one last cup of sorrow, here's Soundgarden's final Big Day Out Set List:

Set List

Searching With My Good Eye Closed

Spoonman

Let Me Drown

Jesus Christ Pose

Outshined

Rusty Cage

Blow Up the Outside World

The Day I Tried to Live

My Wave

Ugly Truth

Fell on Black Days

Drawing Flies

Ty Cobb

Black Hole Sun

Room a Thousand Years Wide

Slaves & Bulldozers

Tool Last Vegas Song List 2012

2012-01-16T09:22:00.000+02:00

After their tour opener in Reno, Nevada, Tool monstered Las Vegas with this concise but sharp as a shark song list.

Venue: Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA

When: January 15th 2012

Why: Because Tool rock the shit out it.

Tool Song List:

Hooker With A Penis

Jambi

Stinkfist

Ticks & Leeches

Pushit

Schism - featured an extended introduction

Intension

Forty-Six & 2

Lateralus

The Pot

Ænema

Check out Tool's Set List from their Reno show.

Tool Set List Reno, Nevada, USA 2012

2012-01-16T09:11:00.002+02:00

Tool Set List Nevada 2012

Tool opened their first show of their tour at the Reno Event Center on 14 January 2012.

I heard a rumour that Hooker With a Penis had it's first outing in a Tool concert since 1999. The cynic in me wonders if it was some kind of response to Lady Gaga's Government Hooker but somehow I doubt it ;)

Tool Song List:

Hooker With A Penis

Jambi

Stinkfist

Ticks & Leeches

Pushit

Schism

Intension

Forty-Six & 2

Lateralus

The Pot

Aenema

Tool now head to Las Vegas for a show.

JB Hi-Fi are not Metallica Fans

2012-01-13T02:42:00.001+02:00

Check out this pretty honest review of Metallica's Lulu by a staff member of JB Hi-Fi. Classic and arguably true?

Kasabian Set list at O2 Arena, London, England

2012-01-09T10:40:00.002+02:00

Kasabian Set list at O2 Arena, London, England

Kasbian played a New Year’s Eve show on December 31, 2011 atthe O2. I am soooo hanging out to see them at the Big Day Out in January. And Noel too......

Set List:

Days Are Forgotten

Shoot The Runner

Velociraptor!

Underdog

Where Did All The Love Go?

I Hear Voices

Vlad The Impaler

Club Foot

Re-wired

Empire

La Fée Verte

Fast Fuse

Misirlou

(Dick Dale and His Del-Tones cover)

Goodbye Kiss

L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)

Kasbian Set Encore:

Switchblade Smiles

Stuntman

Fire

Do you like U2?

2011-12-27T13:23:00.001+02:00

Want to learn more about U2? Check out the lyrics to:

U2 songs that name check real people

2011-12-27T06:44:00.000+02:00

U2 as lego blocks!

U2 songs that refer to real people

Here's a few songs where Bono was named checked real people in his song lyrics. There's also a few songs where the lyrics a talking about a real person but they are not directly named.

Angel of Harlem

A song about singer Billie Holiday, Bono was trying to throw the kitchen sink at this song, referencing all kinds of musical figures including John Coltrane and Miles Davis.

One Tree Hill

Bono name dropped Victor Jara in this song that is really popular in NZ for some reason.....

"And in our world a heart of darknessA firezone where poets speak their hearts
Then bleed for it Jara sang his song a weapon
In the hands of love
You know his blood still cries from the ground"

This verse is referring to how Victor Jara was executed for his political disssent and thus became a symbol of the struggle for human rights.

Elvis Ate America

This is possibly the U2 lyric that refers to the most people Lisa Marie Presley Chuck D, Johnny Cash all feature with shout outs to Hitler, Nixon, Christ, Mishima, Markus and Micheal Jackson. Bono would later refer to Jackson in Pop's The Playboy Mansion as well.

God Part II

This song was intended as a sequel to John Lennon's song called God. Lennon's song refers to things he didn't believe in such as war and The Beatles - Bono's version also refers to things that he also doesn't believe in but also goes on to refer to how angry he was at the author Albert Goldman who wrote an unflattering biography of Lennon (and also a controversial biography of Elvis, and given U2's love of Elvis, I'm not surprised Bono made the reference).

Pride

"For the Reverend Martin Luther King, sing". Pride was inspired the the civil rights activist - that particular line comes from the live version of Pride on Rattle and Hum.

Stand Up Comedy

References the famous French soldier Napoleon and his wife Josephine...

Peace on Earth

Inspired by the Real IRA Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland on 15 August 1998. The song lists the names of people killed in the bombing. Similarly, inspiration for the lyric, "She never got to say goodbye / To see the colour in his eye / Now he's in the dirt" comes from the funeral of Barker, another victim of the bombing. Other bomb victims named were Sean, Julia, Gareth, Anne, and Brenda.

Dirty Day

Whilst not directly referenced but the liner notes of Zooropa showed the song was dedicated to Charles Bukowski.

Who have I missed?

Dave Grohl Fan Letter

2011-12-14T05:27:00.001+02:00

Shortly before the Foo Fighters played their gig in Auckland, Dave Grohl wrote a fan letter... to his fans....

Dave here. It's been quite a while since I've sat down to write something for you guys, but as we're coming to the end of an amazing tour and an amazing year, I figured I'd take this opportunity to say thank you....

Where do I begin?

Thank you all for making "Wasting Light" the most incredible album experience of our band's 17 year history. For real. The fact that a rock and roll record, made in a garage, completely analog to tape with no help from computers, could be a #1 album around the world, AND get a Grammy nomination for "Album of the Year".....well....these days that's no small feat. It's truly inspiring, and it makes us feel like the luckiest band in the world. So thanks. It means everything to us.

And the shows......from the secret club gigs, to playing in peoples garages all over the country.....from the arenas to the festivals to the stadiums....we've had the best gigs of our lives. Thank you so much to each and every one of you who came out and spent those 2 hours and 45 minutes with us every night. It's been exhausting.....but it's been a blast.

Looking back at the past 18 months, I don't think we've ever worked so hard at making an album, and it ever being so easy. From day one, the idea for this record was to make something completely simple and honest, to capture that thing that happens when you put the 5 of us in a small room. No big production, just real rock and roll music: That's why we decided to do it in my garage. We wanted to retain that human element, keep all of those beautiful imperfections: That's why we went completely analog. And, most of all, we wanted it to sound huge: That's why we decided to use Butch Vig. His role in this whole experience is huge, and he deserves a great 'thanks', too. Not many producers would accept the challenge that we handed him. He's the best, for sure. Together, we made the album of a lifetime. Again.

And to all of you.....we're not finished yet. There are still more shows to play, more songs to write, more albums to record, for years to come. I mean.....If you would have told me 17 years ago that in 2012 I would be writing songs for our 8th studio album....well.....

If it weren't for you guys, we wouldn't be here. We owe you so much.

Take care of yourselves.

We'll see you out there, folks.

Dave

Foo Fighters New Zealand Set List & Reviews

2011-12-13T22:06:00.000+02:00

Foo Fighters Set List Auckland New Zealand

Wasting Light Tour

Western Springs

December 13 2011

This was the second show that the Foo Fighters have played in NZ this year after they generously played a benefit gig to support the people of Christchurch following the dreadful earthquake.

The Herald's review said "While it's taken 17 or so years, the Foo Fighters are now a stadium-sized rock band and the near 45,000 people at Western Springs are testament to it. Not many bands have the pulling power to play the Springs these days."

"Tenacious D - the duo of actor andcomedian Jack Black and guitarist Kyle Glass (who joined the Foo Fighters forthe encore) - were the comedy show before the main event. And as Black joked,if Ten D are the thunder, the Foos were the lightning."

Stuff reported in their review "And around 50,000 fans did fill it, stretching up into the tops of the slippery banks, and belted the well-known songs back at the band. They weren't forgotten by Grohl who had the two sections of the crowd sing to each other towards the end of the show.

The crowd lit up further when Grohl announced the band was filming a live video at the concert to go with the new single These Days - dubbed by the singer his favourite he has written.

For two hours and 45 minutes the Foos were relentless.

Older tunes and new were received with equal enthusiasm, with the new album Wasting Light having been out long enough now to avoid the inevitable restlessness for their old hits that bands touring with new material often have to overcome."

Foos Auckland Set List:

All My Life

Rope

The Pretender

My Hero

Learn to Fly

White Limo

Arlandria

Breakout

Cold Day in the Sun

Long Road to Ruin

Stacked Actors

Walk

Monkey Wrench

Let It Die

These Days

This is a Call

In the Flesh? (Pink Floyd cover)

Best of You

Foos Set List Encore:

Wheels (Acoustic - Dave solo)

Times Like These (Started acoustic, then full band)

Generator

Tie Your Mother Down (Queen cover)

Everlong (with Tenacious D supporting)

Metallica Fillmore 30th Anniversary Set List

2011-12-13T00:33:00.002+02:00

Metallica The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, America

30th Anniversary Show Night Two

December 10, 2011

Metallica teamed up with a few specialguests for their set at the Fillmore – highlight argulably being Dave Mustaineperforming four songs with Metallica at the end of the show.

Set List

Orion

Through the Never

Ride the Lightning

The God That Failed

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Rebel of Babylon (Unreleased song. WorldPremiere)

Blackened (with MetClubbers Dennis & Annette Diaz,preceded by Escape jam)

Dirty Window (with Bob Rock) (Firstperformance since November 20, 2004)

Frantic (with Bob Rock) (Shortened; 2ndchorus leads to outro)

Sabbra Cadabra (Black Sabbath cover) (withGeezer Butler)

Iron Man (Black Sabbath cover) (with OzzyOsbourne) (and Geezer Butler)

Paranoid

(Black Sabbath cover) (with Ozzy Osbourne)(and Geezer Butler, followed by War Pigs jam)

King Nothing (with Jason Newsted)

Whiplash (with Jason Newsted ex Metallicabassist

Motorbreath (with Hugh Tanner)

Phantom Lord (with Dave Mustaine) Jump inthe Fire (with Dave Mustaine from Megadeath)

Metal Militia (with Dave Mustaine)

Hit the Lights (With Dave Mustaine, Ron McGovney and LloydGrant)

Seek & Destroy (With D. Mustaine, R.McGovney, L. Grant, H. Tanner, J. Newsted, Mark Osegueda, Soul Rebels)

Coldplay Set List Scotland

2011-12-06T09:14:00.001+02:00

Coldplay Concert Setlist at S.E.C.C., Glasgow, Scotland

December 3 2012

Coldplay Scotland Set List

Mylo Xyloto

Hurts Like Heaven

Yellow

Lost!

Major Minus

In My Place

What If

Daylight

Violet Hill

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

The Scientist

Up in Flames

Til Kingdom Come

Politik

Viva La Vida

Charlie Brown

Paradise

Coldplay Set List Encore:

Clocks

Fix You

Every Teardrop is a Waterfall lyrics

Foo Fighters Australia Set List / Review

2011-12-06T09:02:00.001+02:00

Foo Fighters Set List from Australia

Dave and the boys played their concert at the Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia.

5th December 2011

Wasting Light Tour

Popular Aussie radio station Triple M gave the Foo's a fairly decent review "Dave Grohl gave pause 13 songs in to celebrate real music made by guitars, drums and bass, to thank the audience for coming out to a rock show – and said, 'if one of your favourite bands comes to town and they’ve got a computer behind them – tell them your friend Dave said this'... as the band launched into a full-on, rockin' "Monkey Wrench"."

FF Setlist:

All My Life
Rope
The Pretender
My Hero
Learn to Fly
White Limo
Arlandria
Breakout
Cold Day in the Sun
Long Road to Ruin
Stacked Actors
Walk
Monkey Wrench
Let it Die
These Days
This is a Call
In the Flesh (Pink Floyd cover)
Best of You

Foo Fighters Set List Encore

Wheels
Times Like These
Generator
Tie Your Mother Down (Queen cover)
Everlong

Is Michael Jackon really history?

2011-11-23T12:47:00.000+02:00

What rhymes with achtung?

The one thing that truly stands out for me when thinking about the brilliance of U2 is not their songs, the drums, or riffs. Nor is it the hype and hyperbole of one of the world's most popular bands but their lyrics.

Bono has written the vast majority of U2's lyrics and in many of them you can find some true gems of penmanship, little sparkles of lyrical bliss that took a good song and put it into the territory of musical greatness.

I suggest that while some non U2 fans take any chance to diss Bono, they would be really grumpy buggers if they denied that Bono was a great lyricist.

Like a good poet, Bono's lyrics feature a whole range of subjects - love and loss, drugs, faith, faith in drugs, gods, Elvis and other monsters and of course, politics and it's prisoners. This work leaves ample room for an inquiry into U2's lyrics, especially when The Edge chips in the odd song.

So what are Bono's best lyrical moments and qualities? What's his inspiration for putting pen to paper. What makes Bono's lyrics so well received by millions of listeners and readers around the world? I can't speak for any one else but I thought I could share 10 U2 songs which I think highlight Bono's mastery of his craft. Some of thing are simply clever word plays, others are stories of delight and irony - a thing which Bono and the boys were very heavy on in the 1990's. Trabants on stage anyone?

10 songs that show Bono's lyrical qualities

One

Perhaps second only to With Or Without you in terms of popularity, it is arguably U2's finest song and I believe the lyrics are what make this so - I think this is because it's one of those songs where the lyrics can mean anything and everything to anyone.

At work last week a manager did a pop quiz and asked what this song was about. The answers varied from 'it's about a gay couple' or 'two torn lovers'. I think Bono's actually on record in the U2 by U2 book as One being a song about a couple that's breaking up. But that doesn't matter as its words are universal and have been taken to heart by so many U2 fans - indeed some have even had it as their wedding song which I'm sure would be a delicious irony for Bono.

The Wanderer

"They say they want the kingdom but they don't want God in it". I think that's Bono perfectly capturing the wishes of so many of us. We want the nice things, but aren't prepared to put in the effort. Or something. For me, The Wanderer always seemed like some post apocalyptic dream - and it's perhaps a sign of a great song where it allows you to shape your own thoughts and fantasies around it (well when Bono mentions the 'atomic sky', that's nice nudge). Indeed, the whole of Zooropa's lyrics seem to take me to a strange other world, where in some places it's OK to feel numb or taste the lemon but spit out antifreeze.

Original of the Species

The title is suggestive of what's to come in this song, a play on Darwin's epic work about evolution - the song's lyrics are possibly a father looking at his daughter's own evolution from - child to woman. The second half is more likely Bono singing to his wife (and the message in the first half could also before her) - either way both, themes are heartwarming.

If God Will Send His Angels

'Blind leading the blond' is perhaps my favourite U2 line ever. It's just a cleverly simply play on words. Bono does that trick a fair bit in the Pop album - an almost too cute example is from The Playboy Mansion which opens with the lyric "If Coke is a mystery, and Micheal Jackson, history..." which was a nice play on the failing career of Jackson and a play on the name of his Greatest Hits album.

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Bono defiantly wears this song's lyrics on his sleeve. A song about soldiers shooting civilians in Northen Ireland - the lyrics capture the moment crisply by invoking a cross fire between religion and the military (and by extension the State) and the sad consequences when both collide. Featuring a fine use of a marching drum beat by Larry Mullen, the song's chorus is a defining moment for Bono - it was one of U2's first truly popular 'classic' songs and it many ways this song defined U2 as a band that could carry some political weight.

Until the End of the World

"In my dream I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows, they learned to swim
Surrounding me, going down on me
Spilling over the brim

Waves of regret and waves of joy
I reached out for the one I tried to destroy
You, you said you'd wait
'Til the end of the world"

Simply one of Bono's finest song writing moments. Water is commonly used as a metaphor life yet here's Bono drowning in his sorrows. The song can be seen as a obvious story about how Judas betrayed Jesus and thus seen as one of those "U2 going on about God and spiritually" type songs but as with all good lyrics they can mean anything. I tend to see this one more of a dramatic break up between two lovers where the relationship perhaps has been bit one sided.

The Wanderer

"They say they want the kingdom but they don't want God in it". I think that's Bono perfectly capturing the wishes of so many of us. We want the nice things, but aren't prepared to put in the effort. For me, The Wanderer always seemed like some post apocalyptic dream - and it's perhaps a sign of a great song where it allows you to shape your own thoughts and fantasies around it (well when Bono mentions the 'atomic sky', that's nice nudge). Indeed, the whole of Zooropa's lyrics seem to take me to a strange other world, where in some places it's OK to feel numb or taste the lemon but spit out antifreeze.

Please

Not a hugely popular song on release as a single but I think time has shown that Please was a fine song from U2's Pop album. Lyrically it was a political plea, invoking the captains of Irish politics to sort their messes out. The listener would perhaps know the song had political connotations if they had seen the cover which featured Gerry Adams and other elected leaders - however this stanza effectively leaves no stone unturned as Bono thows a rock in the air to hit home the issues:

Your Catholic blues, your convent shoes
Your stick-on tattoos, now they're making the news
Your holy war, your northern star
Your sermon on the mount from the boot of your car

Strong stuff from an album many people were quick to write off.

Get on Your Boots

One could be forgiven for thinking that Get on Your Boots was simply a throw away song by U2 ( indeed one wonders why they released it as the first single from No Line on the Horizon when Magnificant probably would have given them a hit single) however the lyrics of this song run deep. Almost a stream of consciousness, tripping through it's seemingly nonsensical words but when Bono writes "I don’t want to talk about the wars between the nations" he's saying everything.

All I Want is You

This is Bono's finest love letter he has ever written. The closing from Rattle and Hum is simply a man tell a woman how he loves her - it's perhaps not the happiest song with undertones suggesting things may have gone awry - indeed the tremendous coda at the end suggests a passionate love affair being ripped apart by uncaring forces. A good lyric deserves a fine musical backing and All I Want is You has it in spades.

Summary

So that was my attempt to highlight some of the fine lyrical qualities and charms that Bono and U2 have to offer. Of course with any interpretation of songs, the whole exercise is a subjective journey, indeed a musical journey that could have stopped at a completely different set of songs.

Bono is a bit of a lyrical magpie. He steals lines from the bible and riffs on the work of others (such as when he tried to write a sequel of sorts to John Lennon's 'God') to make his point. But he does that and gets his unique messages across to the listener very well.

If someone hasn't already printed a book featuring all of U2's lyrics, they surely will as they serve as some fine literature in their own right. Throw in some politcal rallying and a little love making and there's a best seller book of poetry on your hands....

What are your favourite lyrical moments from U2?

Clapton and Winwood Japan Set List

2011-11-22T09:14:00.001+02:00

Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood Setlist

When: November 21, 2011

Two of the greatest guitar slingers around teamed up for a shared night of fret play in Osaka, Japan.

Keen fans might recall Winwood and Clapton played in Blind Faith together in the late 60's and toured together again in 2010.

Their show features a multitude of famous covers, being top heavy in JJ Cale - not that I think anyone in the audience was complaining! Plenty of Blind Faith also featured and songs from other bands Winwood has played in.

Clapton & Winwood Set List:

Had to Cry Today (Blind Faith)

Low Down (J.J. Cale)

After Midnight (J.J. Cale)

Presence of the Lord (Blind Faith)

Glad (Traffic)

Well All Right (Blind Faith)

Hoochie Coochie Man (Muddy Waters)

While You See A Chance

Key To The Highway

Midland Maniac

Crossroads (Robert Johnson)

Georgia On My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra cover)

Driftin'

That's No Way to Get Along (Robert Wilkins)

Wonderful Tonight

Can't Find My Way Home (Blind Faith )

Gimme Some Lovin' (The Spencer Davis Group)

Voodoo Chile (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

Cocaine (J.J. Cale)

Set List Encore:

Dear Mr. Fantasy (Traffic cover)

U2 lyrics featuring atomic bombs

2011-11-21T06:59:00.000+02:00

U2 songs that reference nuclear bombs and other horrors

U2 are known for their political views and agitation to get policy change but where as a band like Rage Against the Machine would be all in your face – U2 are just as obvious but less angry – their last tour featured members of Amnesty International coming out on state during Walk On – a song dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burman political prisoner and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Both band’s lyrics also push the barrel of whatever agenda they have – a long standing on for U2 has been referencing atomic war and nuclear issues.

U2 also once famously protested against the Sellafeild nuclear plant by colluding with Greenpeace to stage an event on a beach near the site that was contaminated with radiation as the result of the power plant’s activities.

As far as I can figure the earliest U2 song lyrics that refers to atomic bombs is from the non album single, Celebration where Bono sarcastically shares that he believes in the following three things:

“I believe in the third world war

I believe in the atomic bomb

I believe in the powers that be but they won't overpower me”

That was as far back as 1982.

Seconds from the popular War album is another early U2 songs to make direct references to atomic bombs

“And they're doing the atomic bomb

Do they know where the dance comes from

Yes, they're doing the atomic bomb

They want you to sing along

Bono said to the NME music magazine in 1983 of the song "There is a line in 'Seconds' about a fanatic assembling a nuclear device in an apartment in Times Square, New York, but it could be anywhere. We are now entering the age of nuclear terrorism where a group of fanatics could have the capabilities of bringing a bomb into a city and holding millions of people to ransom."

The Unforgettable Fire was released in 1984 in a time when the world was worrying itself sick about the arms race between the US and the Russians. Bono was inspired by a collection of paintings collectively known as The Unforgettable Fire which was a reference to atomic bombs being dropped in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Ngagasaki.

Says the Edge of the art display (in the book U2: Into the Heart: The Stories Behind Every Song) "the image of that purging quality, coupled with the insight it gave into the horror of nuclear holocaust, stuck in Bono's mind".

It is perhaps ironic then the lyrics to song The Unforgettable Fire do not reference anything nuclear or atomic!

The Wanderer, featuring country and western legend Johnny Cash from the Zooropa album was definitely suggestive of being set in a post apocalyptic world set under an 'atomic sky'. Lyrically it featured a character that appeared to be struggling to find some kind of spiritual identity.

Another U2 album title also referred to atomic bombs in a most direct fashion – How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb was a popular album that had a bonus track Fast Cars which gave the answer to the album’s question – one dismantles an atomic bomb with love.

Foo Fighters Georgia Setlist Duluth

2011-11-12T08:56:00.001+02:00

Foo Fighters Georgia Setlist Duluth plus Review

While these was no Georgia on my Mind played, Georgia was on the minds of the Foo Fighters as they cranked out at epic set list at The Arena at GwinnettCenter, Duluth.

Playing to a pretty damn decent crowd of fans, the Foos played a fair mix of new material and classic tracks and even chucked in a Pink Floyd number and some Tom Petty. The set's encore even featured Dave Grohl performing a few numbers acoustically.

Foos played their set on November 7, 2011

Set List

Bridge Burning

Rope

The Pretender

My Hero

Learn to Fly

White Limo

Arlandria

Breakout

Cold Day in the Sun

Stacked Actors

Walk

Monkey Wrench

Let It Die

These Days

This is a Call

In the Flesh? (Pink Floyd cover)

All My Life

Set List Encore:

Wheels (Dave Grohl acoustic)

Best of You (Dave Grohl acoustic)

Times Like These (Dave Grohl solo acoustic leading into full Foos band)

Dear Rosemary

Breakdown (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers cover)

Everlong

Noel Gallagher's set list Canada

2011-11-09T09:00:00.000+02:00

Check out Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds setlist from the the gig at the Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada.

Noel's Setlist

(It’s Good) To Be Free
Mucky Fingers
Everybody’s On The Run
Dream On
If I Had A Gun
The Good Rebel
The Death Of You And Me
Freaky Teeth
Wonderwall
Supersonic
(I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine
AKA... What A Life!
Talk Tonight
Soldier Boys And Jesus Freaks
AKA... Broken Arrow
Half The World Away
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Little By Little
The Importance Of Being Idle
Don’t Look Back In Anger

Noel has announced today he'll play at the Big Day Out in 2012

The Throne Set List Watch The Throne Tour

2011-11-08T09:42:00.000+02:00

The Throne Concert set list

28 October 2011

Kanye West and Jay –Z hooked up for a sweetset as The Throne.

Venue: Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA, USA

Watch The Throne Tour

The Throne Set List

H.A.M.

Who Gon Stop Me

Try a Little Tenderness

Otis

Welcome to the Jungle

Gotta Have It

Where I'm From

Nigga What? Nigga Who?

Can't Tell Me Nothing

Jesus Walks

Diamonds From Sierra Leone

(Remix)

PSA

U Don't Know

Run This Town

Monster

Power/Power Remix

Murder To Excellence

New Day

Hard Knock Life

Izzo

Good Life

Empire State of Mind

Runaway

Heartless

Stronger

On To The Next One

Dirt Off Your Shoulders

Touch The Sky

All of the Lights

Big Pimpin'

Gold Digger

99 Problems

No Church in the Wild

Lift Off

Niggas In Paris

The Throne Set List Encore

Made in America

Why I Love You

Aerosmith Setlist São Paulo, Brazil

2011-11-08T09:23:00.002+02:00

Aerosmith Setlist São Paulo, Brazil

Aerosmith have sobered up and stopedfighting with each other long enough to get their shit together to go on theBack on the Road tour.

When: October 30^th 2011

Venue: Arena Anhembi, São Paulo, Brazil

Aerosmith Set List

Ride of the Valkyries introduction

Draw the Line

Same Old Song and Dance

Mama Kin

Janie's Got A Gun

Livin' on the Edge

Drum Solo

Rag Doll

Amazing

What It Takes

Last Child

Combination

I Don't Want To Miss a Thing

Cryin'

Sweet Emotion

First Aerosmith Encore:

Dream On

Love in an Elevator

Walk This Way

Set Encore 2:

Angel

Train Kept A-Rollin'

30 Seconds to Mars Set List Latvia

2011-11-04T11:26:00.000+02:00

30 Seconds to Mars Set List Latvia

Venue: Riga Arena, Riga, Latvia

Closer to the Edge Tour 2011

November 2, 2011

Set List

Night of the Hunter

This Is War

A Beautiful Lie

Search and Destroy

Vox Populi

Acoustic Session

L490

Alibi

Hurricane

The Kill

Set List Encore:

The Story

Closer to the Edge

Kings and Queens

Alter Bridge Setlist Switzerland 2011

2011-11-04T11:20:00.000+02:00

Alter Bridge Setlist Switzerland 2011

Miles must have taken time off from touringwith Slash to hook up with his Alter Bridge buddies to place a gig at Fri-Son,Fribourg, Switzerland on November 1, 2011

Set List

Slip to the Void

Find the Real

Before Tomorrow Comes

Come to Life

Brand New Start

White Knuckles

All Hope Is Gone

Metalingus

Broken Wings

I Know It Hurts

One Day Remains

Ties That Bind

Blackbird

Watch Over You (Acoustic)

Open Your Eyes

Alter Bridge Set List Encore:

Ghost of Days Gone By

Isolation

Dueling Guitar Solos – Mark and Myles

Rise Today

Pearl Jam Brazil Set List 2011

2011-11-04T11:00:00.002+02:00

Pearl Jam Brazil Set List 2011

Where: Morumbi Stadium
Country: São Paulo, Brazil
When: Nov 03, 2011

PJ's set list was a very different show from their PJ20 show from Canada in September.

PJ Brazil Set List

01. Release
02. Corduroy
03. Why Go
04. Animal
05. World Wide Suicide
06. Got Some
07. Evenflow
08. Unthought Known
09. Whipping
10. Daughter/WMA
11. Olé
12. Down
13. Save You
14. The Fixer
15. Do The Evolution
16. Porch

Set Encore One

17. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
18. Just Breathe
19. Come Back
20. I Believe In Miracles (Ramones cover)
21. Alive

Encore Break Two Set List

22. Comatose
23. Black
24. Betterman

25. Rearviewmirror
26. Rockin’ In The Free World

Sauce: Two Feet Thick

Bob Dylan Set List Sweden

2011-11-04T10:22:00.003+02:00

Bob Dylan Set List Sweden

The world’s most poplar folk singer turned Christianturned rocker playerd a fairly standard set list at the Malmö Arena in Malmö,Sweden on November 3, 2011

Sweden Set List

Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

Girl From The North Country

Things Have Changed

Tangled Up In Blue

Honest With Me

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

High Water (For Charley Patton)

Blind Willie McTell

Highway 61 Revisited

Love Sick

Thunder On The Mountain

Ballad Of A Thin Man

All Along The Watchtower

Like A Rolling Stone

Blowin' In The Wind

Beady Eye Chile Set list 2011

2011-11-04T10:15:00.002+02:00

Beady Eye Chile Set list

Beady Eye played their show at the IndustriaCultural, Santiago, Chile

When: October 31, 2011

Set List by Beady Eye

Four Letter Word

Beatles and Stones

Millionaire

Two of a Kind

For Anyone

Three Ring Circus

The Roller

In the Bubble With a Bullet

Bring the Light

Standing on the Edge of the Noise

Kill for a Dream

The Beat Goes On

Man of Misery

The Morning Son

Wigwam

Beady Eye Set List Encore:

World Outside My Room

Sons of the Stage (World of Twist cover)

BBC Set List Noel Gallagher and his Birds

2011-11-04T10:06:00.002+02:00

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds set list from the BBC Radio Theatre in London, that was

broadcast by the BBC across it's network.

Again, it was a set list pretty standard for the tour thus far - see the High Flying Bird's London Set list as an example.

Noel's BBC Setlist

(It's Good) To Be Free
Mucky Fingers
Everybody's On The Run
Dream On
If I Had A Gun
The Good Rebel
The Death Of You And Me
Freaky Teeth
Wonderwall (acoustic)
Supersonic (acoustic)
(I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine
AKA... What A Life!
Talk Tonight
Don't Look Back In Anger
AKA... Broken Arrow
Half The World Away
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach.

The Acacia Strain Set List God Dam Tour

2011-11-04T09:58:00.002+02:00

The Acacia Strain Set List

God Dam Tour

November 2011

Set List

Dr Doom
Whoa! Shut It Down
See You Next Tuesday
The Hills Have Eyes
Balboa Towers
Beast
4x4
Nightman
The Impaler
Passing The Pencil Test
Ramirez
JFC
Carbomb

Sauce

Ash Set List Free All Angels Tour 2011

2011-11-02T11:40:00.000+02:00

Ash Set List Free All Angels Tour 2011

Irish lads (with a lost but found lass) Ash played the famous Academy in Dublin last week as part of their Free All Angels Tour, where they played their 2001 album in its entirety. This kind of thing is very popular thing to do these days, as it's a sweet way to con the fans out of some more money - The Pixies have been touring Dolittle for a while....

Ash Setlist:

Walking Barefoot
Shining Light
Burn Baby Burn
Candy
Cherry Bomb
Submission
Someday
Pacific Palisades
Shark
Sometimes
Nicole
There’s a Star
World Domination

Encore 1

Projects
A Life Less Ordinary
Starcrossed
Orpheus
Wildsurf
Warmer Than Fire
Oh Yeah

Set Encore Two

Lose Control
Kung Fu
Girl From Mars

Sauce: Swear I'm Not Paul

Alice Cooper Set List London 2011 Tour

2011-11-02T09:56:00.000+02:00

Alice Cooper Set List London, England

When: October 29th, 2011

Where: Alexandra Palace

Does this guy ever give up? He's like the Eveready Battery or something. Isn't he older than the Rolling Stones combined? Alice Cooper is like the mail man because he always delivers - and here's a hit laden set list. I look back on the time I saw Alice in Wellington very very fondly!

Alice Cooper's London Set List

The Black Widow
Brutal Planet
I'm Eighteen
Under My Wheels
Billion Dollar Babies
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Hey Stoopid
Is It My Body
Halo of Flies
Jam
I'll Bite Your Face Off
Muscle of Love
Orianthe solo
Only Women Bleed
Cold Ethyl
Feed My Frankenstein
Clones (We're All)
Poison
Wicked Young Man
Killer / I Love The Dead
School's Out

Set list Encore

Elected
Fire (with Arthur Brown)

Machine Head Set List The Eighth Plague Tour 2011

2011-11-02T09:49:00.000+02:00

The opening night of Machine Head's The Eighth Plague Tour brought about the following set list. Bring Me The Horizon, DevilDriver and Darkest Hour chimed in with sweet bills of their own too.

The bands all played at the Sentrum Scene which is in Oslo, Norway

November 1 2011

Machine Head Set List

1. I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)
2. Be Still And Know *
3. Imperium
4. Beautiful Mourning
5. The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears
6. Locust
7. This Is The End *
8. Aesthetics of Hate
9. Old
10. Darkness Within
11. Bulldozer
12. Ten Ton Hammer
13. Halo
14. Davidian

* apparently this was the 1st time the song has ever been played live.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Setlist London

2011-11-02T08:11:00.000+02:00

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Setlist London

Noel and his Birds played at the HMVHammersmith Apollo, London, England on October 29, 2011.

Noel seems to be sticking to the same setlist as his Irish and Scottish gigs. This was a pretty standard approach that Oasis took - as did Meatloaf when he toured NZ recently!

Set List:

(It's Good) To Be Free

Mucky Fingers

Everybody's on the Run

Dream On

If I Had a Gun...

The Good Rebel

The Death of You and Me

Freaky Teeth

Wonderwall

Supersonic

(IWanna Live in a Dream in My) Record Machine

AKA... What a Life!

Talk Tonight

Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks

AKA... Broken Arrow

Half The World Away

(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach

Set Encore:

Don't Look Back In Anger

The Importance of Being Idle

Little By Little

Halloween Set List Greenday NY

2011-11-01T08:23:00.001+02:00

Green Day Halloween Set List NY

Green Day played their Halloween Set at the The Studio at Webster Hall in New York, NY.

October 27, 2011

Green Day's Halloween Set List

Monster Mash Intro

Hybrid Moments

(The Misfits cover) (Played 3 Times in a row!)

Carpe Diem

Oh Love

Make Out Party

Sweet 16

Stop, Drop, and Roll

(Foxboro Hot Tubs cover)

It's Fuck Time

(Foxboro Hot Tubs cover)

Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Elvis Presley cover)

Murder City

Letterbomb

Hitchin' a Ride

Geek Stink Breath

She

Welcome To Paradise

2000 Light Years Away

Paper Lanterns

Going To Pasalacqua

Monster Mash Outro

Meatload Auckland Review and Set List 2011

2011-10-29T23:02:00.001+02:00

Following a fun but flawed Wellington gig and a 'postponed' Tauranga show - Meat Loaf and the Neverland Express arrived at the Vector Arena in Auckland to deliver the hits and perhaps show how good the great guy can actually be.

When: 29 October 2011
Where: Vector Arena, Auckland, New Zealand

The reviews are in and they are kind of kind:

Auckland Now's review was quite friendly:

"After opening with Rocky Horror's Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul, the singer swaggered around the stage doing his best to rock out, his age and health obviously restricting his performance.

Meat Loaf's voice isn't what it used to be and he's certainly aware of it. The singer didn't let that get in the way of giving his all, however it was hard to hear the singer during almost the entire show - a combination of age and the band's overpowering instruments no doubt.

After half an hour the show hit a road block with an awkward lull. Taking a few minutes to chat and share a few career anecdotes, Meat soon had the audience back on side and threw himself into some of his biggest hits with You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth and Bat Out of Hell, accompanied by a gigantic blow-up bat of course."

"The audience said it all, really: Hundreds of seats were empty well before the encore even began. Many punters, it seems, were put out over the singer's inability to replicate his golden years. But all that really shows is the lack of appreciation some folk have for an entertainer who has worked for almost 45 years."

Meat Loaf Auckland Set List

Hot Patootie/Time Warp (from Rocky Horror Picture Show with accompanying film footage)

If It Ain't Broke, Break It

Bat Out Of Hell

Peace On Earth

Living On The Outside

Los Angeloser

You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)

Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through

Stand in the Storm

I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Set List Encore One:

Let it Roll (The Doors cover) / Free Bird instrumental

All Revved Up With No Place To Go

Set List Encore Two:
Mercury Blues

Noel Gallagher Solo Set List Scotland

2011-10-27T08:12:00.001+03:00

Noel Gallagher's Solo Setlist

Noel at the High Flying Birds performed their second ever show at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland on October 27, 2011 following their debut gig in Ireland earlier in the week.

The set featured songs from Noel's solo album and of course some classic Oasis tracks.

Set List

(It's Good) To Be Free

Mucky Fingers

Everybody's on the Run

Dream On

If I Had a Gun...

The Good Rebel

The Death of You and Me

Freaky Teeth

Wonderwall

Supersonic

(I Wanna Live in a Dream in My) Record Machine

AKA... What a Life!

Talk Tonight

Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks

AKA... Broken Arrow

Half The World Away

(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach

Set Encore:

Don't Look Back In Anger

The Importance of Being Idle

Little By Little

Eddie Vedder Bridge School Benefit Set List

2011-10-27T06:54:00.001+03:00

Eddie Vedder Bridge School Benefit Set List

Date: 10/23/2011

Venue: Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA, USA

Set: Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Last Kiss, I Am A Patriot, Society, Tonight You Belong To Me, Sleepless Nights, Don’t Cry No Tears

Points of interest: Neil Young turned up cos Eddie mucked up the prior night

Source: Two Feet Think

Meat Loaf Review and Set List Wellington New Zealand

2011-10-26T14:17:00.000+03:00

Glory Days

Meat Loaf Review and Set List Wellington New Zealand

26 October

TSB Arena, Queens Wharf

Opening act: Luga Boa

Fresh from a stint in Australia where Meat Loaf learned aussie rules fans just don't fucking get him, Meat Loaf and his band of truly talented players hit Wellington for a one night only show.

Meat is 64 years old and in ill health with a voice that's had better days. And he knows it so he plays with that and makes it a part of his set to good effect with fun humour - his band thus has to carry him a fair way but the Neverland Express is a great ride.

Patti Russo shines as his foil for so many of the vocals - and as when I saw Meat Loaf in the same venue in 1997 (?) the highlight was her efforts during Paradise By The Dashboard Light. For some strange reason I liked it when she kicked Meat in the balls.

Generally speaking, fans go to see Meat Loaf play classics from Bat Out of Hell and the odd hit from his comback years in the late 90s. So we got a rocking Bat out of Hell that featured some absolutely dire vocals, an excellent Rock and Roll Dreams and a pretty damn good Too Out Of Three Aint Bad.

Three songs from Hang Cool Teddy Bear were played all in a row to good effect - and as they were recently recorded Meat Loaf's live vocals filled those songs well.

To counter Meat's fragile health, the band plays loud and does plenty of musical interludes to let the big fella rest up a little (kind of reminds of what Axl Rose does these days!) - the violin and piano duel during Aint Bad was a great example and a fine piece of musician ship.

Meat Loaf was brilliant as he played up to the crowd, cracking jokes and rambling through a story about acid and teletubbies which made no sense until the end of the show when we were visited by actual Teletubbies and Alice in Wonderland characters. It only makes sense if you don't want peace on Earth and were actually there.

A fine night out was had by the crowd - their sing alongs showed it and despite the shortcomings, Meat Loaf proved once again he is a great showman and entertainer.

Hang Cool Teddy Bears.

Meat Loaf Wellington Set List:

Hot Patootie/Time Warp (from Rocky Horror Picture Show)

If It Ain't Broke, Break It

Bat Out Of Hell

Peace On Earth

Living On The Outside

Los Angeloser

You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)

Acoustic guitar solo (by Paul ‘Full Metal Jacket’ Crook)

Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through

Stand in the Storm

I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

Acoustic guitar solo (Randy ‘Nashville’ Flowers)

Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Set Encore 1

Let it Roll (The Doors cover) / Free Bird instrumental

All Revved Up With No Place To Go

Set List Encore 2:

Mercury Blues

Meat Loaf heads to Tauranga next and then on to Auckland.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Set list Debut

2011-10-25T12:03:00.000+03:00

Noel kicking it solo

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Set list Debut

Noel Gallagher played his first ever solo show with his group High Flying Birds atOlympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland on October 2. Quite the historical night really - it was Noel's first set list since the demise of Oasis and it featured a wise selection of Oasis singles and b-sides mixed with his new songs from his debut album (which went number one in the UK and Irish charts this week - promptly outselling Liam's Beady Eye record).

I would imagine it was with a very deliberate action that Noel's song choice to open his set was (It's Good) To Be Free - a sure reference to the solo road he has taken.

October 23rd 2011

Noel Gallagher's Set List

(It's Good) To Be Free

Mucky Fingers

Everybody's on the Run

Dream On

If I Had a Gun...

The Good Rebel

The Death of You and Me

Freaky Teeth

Wonderwall

Supersonic

(I Wanna Live in a Dream in My) Record Machine

AKA... What a Life!

Talk Tonight

Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks

AKA... Broken Arrow

Half The World Away

(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach

Noel's Set List Encore:

Don't Look Back In Anger

The Importance of Being Idle

Little By Little

Foo Fighters Setlist Oakland California

2011-10-25T11:46:00.002+03:00

Chris Shiflett rocking out for the Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters Setlist Oakland, CA,USA

The Foos played their gig on October 19, 2011 at the Oracle Arena as part of the Wasting Light Tour.

Foos Set List

Bridge Burning

Rope

The Pretender

My Hero

Learn to Fly

White Limo

Arlandria

Breakout

Cold Day in the Sun

Stacked Actors

Walk

Monkey Wrench

Let It Die

These Days

This is a Call

In the Flesh? (Pink Floyd cover)

All My Life

FF Set List Encore:

Long Road to Ruin (Dave Grohl solo acoustic)

Best of You (Dave Grohl solo acoustic)

Times Like These (DG solo acoustic leading into full band)

Dear Rosemary (with rock legend Bob Mould)

Breakdown (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers cover performed again with Bob Mould)

Everlong

LULU song lyrics Metallica

2011-10-20T23:38:00.001+03:00

Metallica and Lou Reed looking cool as fuck

Check out out lyrics from 'Loutellica's' album Lulu. Lou Reed and Metallica have teamed up to produce a collaborative effort that explores the work of Frank Wedekind. Lulu tells the story and drama of a young and nubile abused dancer’s life and relationships as found in Wedekind's plays “Earth Spirit” and “Pandora’s Box”

Lulu features the following songs. Click on the links will take you to the lyrics for the song.

Brandenburg Gate
Cheat on Me

Frustration
Dragon
Junior Dad
Little Dog
Mistress Dread
Iced Honey
Pumping Blood
The View

Stone Roses announce they are a band again

2011-10-19T02:46:00.003+03:00

Stone Roses announce they are a band again.. how long will it last?

A reformed Stone Roses never seemed likely - they seemed to hate each other in - and it took the death of Mani's mother to put it all in perspective. Not to mention the thought of all the cash a tour will rake in ;)

From Stuff

'The Stone Roses, one of the best-loved and most influential bands to emerge from Britain's 'Madchester' scene, announced Tuesday that they are reuniting and working on new material.

The band members, who split in 1996 after releasing two albums, said they will play two shows in their hometown of Manchester on June 29 and 30, followed by an international tour.

"Our plan is to take on the world," said singer Ian Brown as the band announced its reunion at a London news conference.

"It's not a trip down memory lane," he added. "We are doing new songs."

Formed by Brown and guitarist John Squire, the band's self-titled 1989 debut album was a huge British hit. But fans waited five years for the followup, Second Coming, and the group soon split up amid internal wrangling and legal disputes.

The band members insisted for years that they would not get back together, but Squire said he and Brown had met recently at the funeral of bass player Gary 'Mani' Mounfield's mother and "in some ways it felt like 15 years ago was yesterday."

The band's blend of rock, pop, psychedelia and dance influences made it one of the biggest acts to emerge from the 'Madchester' scene in the late '80s and early '90s in and around the northwest England city of Manchester.'

From the Guardian

'The Manchester foursome sang beautiful songs about infatuation, insurrection and the monarchy, inspired bands from Oasis to the Beta Band and changed the lives of ordinary fans. When they granted this unknown kid an interview that produced the Best Band On The Planet cover story of my Avanti! fanzine, it sold thousands around the world and gave me a major break in journalism. At their second Leeds gig of 1989 I met a girl who was with me for 17 years, but the band themselves began a very public crumble. A career-damaging hiatus ended in 1994 with the flawed but still powerful Second Coming, but band members gradually decided they weren't feeling it any more, and it felt wrong to pretend otherwise. Behind the Manchester ruffian image, they were conscientious people.

And now? None of them can need the money that much for them to risk the enduring love they inspire by blowing it again. With the Squire-Brown friendship rekindled and Reni back on drums and backing vocals, they have a point to prove: that a Third Coming can be done with dignity, and that the once-mighty Stone Roses can be The Best Band On The Planet once again.'

Guns N' Roses Argentina Setlist

2011-10-11T12:51:00.000+03:00

DJ Asha

Guns N' Roses Argentina Setlist

Venue: Estadio Ciudad de La Plata,La Plata, Argentina

Date: October 8, 2011

Chinese Democracy

Welcome To The Jungle

It's So Easy

Mr. Brownstone

Sorry

Richard Fortus Guitar Solo (James Bond Theme)

Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney & Wings cover)

Instrumental Jam

This I Love

Better

Rocket Queen

Instrumental Jam

Estranged (with Gunners band presentation)

Dizzy Reed Piano Solo

(Baba O' Riley by The Who)

Street Of Dreams

You Could Be Mine

DJ Ashba Guitar Solo (Mi Amor)

Sweet Child O' Mine

Instrumental Jam

(Maybe I'm Amazed / Another … more)

November Rain

Bumblefoot Guitar Solo

(Pink Panther Theme)

Riff Raff

(AC/DC cover)

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

(Bob Dylan cover)

Nightrain

Set Encore:

Instrumental Jam

Don't Cry

Madagascar

Paradise City

Check out GNR's Rock In Rio set list

GNR Rock in Rio Set List 2011

2011-10-11T07:00:00.000+03:00

Guns N' Roses Rock In Rio Set list

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

October 2 2011.

Axl and his hired guns got back into the touringwith a set for Rock in Rio. Media reported concerns about Axl’s vocals - he missed a queue in Patience. I say big deal.

‘Cidade do Rock’ Set List

Chinese Democracy

Welcome To The Jungle

It's So Easy

Mr. Brownstone

Sorry

Richard Fortus Guitar Solo (James Bond Theme)

Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney & Wings cover)

Rocket Queen

Instrumental Jam

This I Love

DJ Ashba Guitar Solo (Mi Amor)

Sweet Child O' Mine

Estranged (Played for the first time since 1993)

Better

Dizzy Reed Piano Solo (Baba O'Riley by The Who)

Street Of Dreams

You Could Be Mine

Instrumental Jam (Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2)

November Rain

Bumblefoot Guitar Solo (Pink Panther Theme)

Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover)

Nightrain

Rock In Rio Set List Encore:

Patience

Paradise City

Chris Cornell Auckland Set List NZ

2011-10-05T06:31:00.001+03:00

What: Chris Cornell Set List
Where: ASB Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand
When: Tuesday, October, 2011

This was the first of two show's in Auckland, following a popular set in Wellington.

Here's some notes on Cornell's solo set as reported by Chris Schulz from the Herald

"He sure looked lonely up there, but the fans packed into the ASB Theatre gave Cornell a rapturous welcome as he launched into a set full of hits, B-sides, soundtrack singles and covers that showed off his influences.

There was also room for the Beatles' Ticket to Ride, his single for the Bond film Casino Royal, newbie 'Cleaning the Gun' and even a couple of Mother Love Bone and Temple of the Dog songs.

But Cornell was in an accommodating mood, taking requests like a grunge jukebox and even performing Outshined acoustically for the first time."

Chris' Auckland Set List - Not sure where, but the Chris's first ever acoustic version of Outshined was played somewhere.... this list is from a photo of the actual set - he may have changed it up. It's a very different set list from the Wellington show.

Cornell Auckland Set List:

Scar on the Sky

Ground Zero

All Night Thing

Be Yourself

As Hope and Promise Fade

Fell on Black Days

Man of Golden Words

Say Hello 2 Heaven

Black Hole Sun

When I’m Down

Can’t Change Me

Cleaning My Gun

I am The Highway

You Know My Name (from James Bond)

Like a Stone

Doesn’t Remind Me

Ticket to Ride (Beatles cover)

Photo from NZ Herald.

Chris Cornell Set List Wellington Micheal Fowler Centre

2011-09-28T12:35:00.000+03:00

Chris Cornell Set List Wellington New Zealand

2 October 2010

Micheal Fowler Centre, Wellington

A rather chirpy Chris Cornell kicked of the first night of his solo acoustic tour 'Songbook Volume 1' with a set list full of classic Soundgarden songs, hit singles in his own right and a few of Audioslave numbers - these songs were packaged with 6 cover songs as well, including the very popular, Bille Jean.

Chris took requests every so often - Like a Stone was one of the first. He had some good crowd banter, talked about the Rugby World Cup and not drinking and then cooking and burning the house down. At one stage he gave the audience a choice between Like Suicide or Billie Jean - he thought the vote was pretty even and said he could do both.

Chris seemed genuinely pleased to be in Wellington and the crowd was very receptive to his mentioning that he'd be back with his band Soundgarden next year.

Cornell's Set List

Dark Globe (Pink Floyd - Syd Barret Cover)
Wide Awake
Can't Change Me
As Hope And Promise Fade
Call Me a Dog
Sunshower
Fell on Black Days
Hunger Strike
Like a Stone
State Trooper (Springsteen's song from Nebraska)
When I'm Down
Seasons
Blow Up The Outside World
I am the Highway
A Day in the Life (Beatles Cover)
Like Suicide
Doesn't Remind Me

Set List Encore
Redemption Song (Bob Marley song)
Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)
Blackhole Sun
Imagine (John Lennon)

Chris now heads north to Auckland.

Fitz and The Tantrums Setlist

2011-09-18T10:41:00.000+03:00

Fitz and The Tantrums Setlist

Fitz and The Tantrums played their show at the Austin City Limits 2011 on September 17, 2011

Pretty standard Fitz set list compared to some gigs a few months ago.

Set List:

Breakin' the Chains of Love

Winds of Change

Don't Gotta Work It Out

Wake Up

Rich Girls

Steady As She Goes (cover of The Raconteurs' song)

The Power of Love

Dear Mr. President

Pickin' Up the Pieces

News 4 U

Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics cover)

Money Grabber

Jimmy Carey singing Bullet with Butterfly Wings

2011-09-13T11:52:00.001+03:00

Do you remember when Jim Carey sang the Beatle's I am the Walrus or the time he did a creepy singing turn in The Cable Guy film? Those were good times. Judge for yourself, however if you think it's a good time when Carey sings the Smashing Pumpkin's mega hit, Bullet With Butterfly Wings? If you are really keen, check out Carey's oddly amusing cover of Radiohead's Creep.

Set List PJ20 Canada Night Two Toronto

2011-09-13T11:24:00.000+03:00

Eddie Vedder

Set List PJ20 Canada Night Two

Following the success of night one's set list, Eddie and the boys took it up a notch with the following songs
in Toronto's Air Canada Centre

September 12, 2011

01. Go
02. Animal
03. Olé
04. Hail Hail
05. In My Tree
06. Sad
07. Dissident
08. Setting Forth
09. Corduroy
10. God’s Dice
11. Deep
12. Garden
13. Wishlist [dedicated to Doug Gilmour]
14. Evenflow
15. Present Tense
16. Rats
17. State Of Love And Trust
18. The Fixer {Eddie Vedder talks about The West Memphis 3 and thanks the Canadians that helped support them and their cause}
19. Porch

Set Encore One

20. Last Kiss-(Cochran) {played to audience behind the stage}
21. Just Breathe
22. I Got Shit/Cinnamon Girl-(Neil Young) {Ed sings chorus of “Cinnamon Girl”}
23. Light Years
24. Jeremy
25. Why Go

Set Encore II

26. Do The Evolution
27. Alive
28. Kick Out The Jams w/ Mark Arm & Steve Turner of Mudhoney-(Davis, Kramer, Smith, Thompson, Tyner)
29. Baba O’Riley-(Townshend)
30. Yellow Ledbetter

Pearl Jam Canada PJ20 Set List

2011-09-13T00:56:00.001+03:00

Pearl Jam's third PJ20 tour set list at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.

September 11, 2011

01. Long Road
02. Do The Evolution
03. Once
04. Got Some
05. Faithfull
06. Nothing As It Seems
07. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
08. Setting Forth
09. Not For You/Modern Girl-(Sleater Kinney)
10. Given To Fly
11. Just Breathe
12. Off He Goes
13. Daughter/It’s OK-(Cole)
14. Grievance
15. Down
16. Unthought Known
17. The Fixer
18. Porch

PJ set encore one

19. Nothingman
20. Betterman/Save It For Later-(Charley, Cox, Morton, Steele, Wakeling)
21. Leatherman
22. Black
23. Rearviewmirror

Set List Encore 2

24. Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns-(Wood, Mother Love Bone)
25. Alive
26. Rockin’ In The Free World - PJ joined by Neil Young

Second Toronto PJ20 Show Set List

Pearl Jam PJ20 Festival 2011 Second Show

2011-09-05T23:48:00.000+03:00

Chris Cornell and Pearl Jam rehearsing

Pearl Jam PJ20 Festival 2011 Second Show

September 4, 2011

Here’s the second set list of the PJ20 anniversary shows. Pretty epic set there with some classics and rarities, it would be my favourite of the two shows so far. Here’s the first PJ20 set list

Set:

Wash

The Fixer

Severed Hand

All Night

Given To Fly

Pilate

Love Boat Captain

Habit

(with Liam Finn)

Even Flow

Daughter

(It's OK Tag)

Leatherman

Red Mosquito

(with Julian Casablancas)

Satan's Bed

Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

(with Dhani Harrison)

Unthought Known

New World

(X cover) (with John Doe)

Black

Jeremy

Pearl Jam Set list Encore:

(Unknown)

(New Song)

Just Breathe

Nothingman

No Way

Public Image

(Public Image Ltd. cover)

Smile

(with Glen Hansard)

Spin The Black Circle

PJ set Encore Two:

Hunger Strike

(Temple of the Dog cover) (with Chris Cornell)

Call Me A Dog

(Temple of the Dog cover) (with Chris Cornell)

All Night Thing

(Temple of the Dog cover) (with Chris Cornell)

Reach Down

(Temple of the Dog cover) (with Chris Cornell)

Sonic Reducer

(Dead Boys cover) (with Mark Arm)

Third set Encore:

Alive

Rockin' in the Free World

(Neil Young cover)

Yellow Ledbetter

(Star-Spangled Banner outro)

Pearl Jam Twenty Tour Set List PJ20

2011-09-04T10:11:00.001+03:00

Pearl Jam Pearl Jam Twenty Tour Set List "PJ20"

To celebrate 20 years as a band Pearl Jam, the PJ20 tour kicked off with an epic set list, heavy on the early songs and and the odd hit and with some Temple of Dog songs making the set, it was wonderful to see Chris Cornell turn up to sing some songs with Eddie and the lads.

PJ played at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI on September 3, 2011. Other acts from the evening's concert also took turns coming out to perform with Pearl Jam.

PJ20 Tour Set List:

Release

Arms Aloft (Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros cover)

Do The Evolution

Got Some

In My Tree

Faithfull

Who You Are (with Liam Finn, Glen Hansard, Joseph Arthur)

Push Me, Pull Me

Setting Forth

Not For You (with Julian Casablancas from The Strokes fame)

In the Moonlight (with Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age)

Deep

Help Help

Breath

Education (with Liam Finn)

Once

State Of Love And Trust

Better Man

Wasted Reprise

Life Wasted

Set List Encore:

Rearviewmirror

Stardog Champion (Mother Love Bone cover with Chris Cornell)

Say Hello 2 Heaven (Temple of the Dog cover with Chris Cornell)

Reach Down (Temple of the Dog cover with Chris Cornell)

Hunger Strike (Temple of the Dog cover with Chris Cornell)

Love, Reign O'er Me (The Who cover)

Porch

PJ20 Set List Encore 2:

Kick Out the Jams (an MC5 cover with Mark Arm and Steve Turner from Mudhoney)

Rise Against Set List 2011 Reading Festival

2011-09-04T00:56:00.000+03:00

Rise Against Concert Setlist Reading Festival 2011

The newest ‘band with a social conscience’ to make any head way in the music scene, Rise Against played a very popular set list at the Reading Festival. This band wears their heart on their sleeve – just look at the names on the set list – I’m sure Rage Against the Machine was a huge inspiration to them growing up…..

Rise Against Set List

Chamber the Cartridge

Satellite

The Good Left Undone

Re-Education (Through Labor)

Prayer of the Refugee

Make It Stop (September's Children)

Help Is on the Way

Audience of One

Architects

Ready to Fall

White Riot (The Clash cover)

Savior

Check out MCR's Reading Set List

MCR Reading Festival Set List 2011

2011-09-04T00:47:00.000+03:00

My Chemical Romance Setlist Reading Festival 2011

MCR played their reading set list on August 26, 2011 at Little John's Farm, Reading, England. The show was notable for Queen’s Brian May helping the band out in the encore on Queen’s We Will Rock You and The Black Parade.

MCR set list:

Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

Planetary (GO!)

The Only Hope For Me Is You

DESTROYA

Mama

SING

Vampire Money

The Kids From Yesterday

Famous Last Words

Teenagers

Dead!

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

Helena

MCR set list Encore:

We Will Rock You

(Queen cover) (with Brian May)

Welcome To The Black Parade

(with Brian May)

Check out 30 Seconds to Mars set list from Reading

30 Seconds to Mars Set list at Reading Festival 2011

2011-09-04T00:41:00.000+03:00

30 Seconds to Mars Set list at Reading Festival 2011

August 26, 2011

Venue: Little John's Farm, Reading, England

Escape

A Beautiful Lie

Attack

Search and Destroy

This Is War

100 Suns

Vox Populi

Hurricane

The Kill (Bury Me)

Closer to the Edge

Night of the Hunter

Kings and Queens

Check out Muse's Reading Set List

Muse Reading Festival Set List 2011

2011-09-04T00:37:00.001+03:00

Muse Reading Festival 2011 Set List

Here's a massive set list from Muse for the Reading Festival

Set List

What's He Building?

(Tom Waits song)

New Born

Bliss

(Synth intro, extended outro)

Space Dementia

(Guitar Outro)

Hyper Music

Plug In Baby

Citizen Erased

Micro Cuts

Screenager

Darkshines

Feeling Good

(Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley cover)

Megalomania

Muse Encore:

Stadium Siren/We Are The Universe Intro

Uprising

(Extended Outro)

Supermassive Black Hole

Hysteria

(Interlude intro, Sweet Child … more)

Stockholm Syndrome

(Bored and My Own Summer (… more)

Helsinki Jam

Undisclosed Desires

Resistance

Starlight

Time Is Running Out

(House Of The Rising Sun intro,… more)

Knights of Cydonia

(Man With A Harmonica intro)

Eels V Festival Set List

2011-08-26T12:36:00.001+03:00

Well that was a shit effort - this was from 2010!!!!!

Here's a reel eel

Eels V Festival Set List

Mr Soul Jacker himself took the time to get out of bed and play a hit laden set listed at the Weston Park, England

Eels Set List:

Prizefighter

Summer in the City

(The Lovin' Spoonful cover)

Tremendous Dynamite

My Beloved Monster

Spectacular Girl

Souljacker, Part I

That Look You Give That Guy

Talkin 'Bout Knuckles

Mr. E's Beautiful Blues

I Like Birds

Summertime

(George Gershwin cover)

Looking Up Yourself

Talk of the town is the Enimem's set list was the show to blast every one out of the park.

Eminem V Festival Set List

2011-08-26T12:25:00.001+03:00

Eminem Set List V Festival England 2011

The Real Slim shady played his set at the Weston Park in England

When: 20 August 2011

Eminem Set List:

Won't Back Down

3 a.m.

Square Dance

W.T.P.

Kill You

No Love

So Bad

Cleanin' Out My Closet

The Way I Am

Fight Music

(with D12)

Purple Pills

(with D12)

Fast Lane

(with Royce da 5'9")

Lighters

(with Royce da 5'9")

Airplanes, Part II

Stan

Sing For The Moment

Like Toy Soldiers

Forever

Space Bound

Till I Collapse

Cinderella Man

Love The Way You Lie

(with Rihanna)

I Need A Doctor

My Name Is / The Real Slim Shady / Without Me

Not Afraid

Encore:

Lose Yourself

It was always clear in my mind that U2 were going to go all the way

2011-08-23T12:19:00.000+03:00

Steve Lilywhite circa late 80s

I came across this article on @U2 which featured an interview with Steve Lilywhite who, as time has now told us, has been one of U2’s most best and consitent collaborators.
Clearly U2’s The Joshua Tree album has started to go stellar at the time of the interview and U2 were becoming a huge band. I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of his comments about the future U2 and see where they landed.

His words from 1987 are telling.

"They have still got their best to come. They have now started to write songs and The Joshua Tree is far more song-oriented. They spent four albums trying to write songs and now, on their fifth album, they are just beginning to get it together. By the sixth and seventh albums I think we'll see some classic songs coming from U2."

Did we see some classic U2 songs from those sixth and seventh albums? We sure did! Rattle and Hum produced All I Want Is You, Desire, Angel of Harlem and a wee hit called When Love Comes to Town. And then what happended? If you paid attention as Actung Baby commanded, you’ll have heard the majestic One – a song which some how managed to top the beauty of Joshua Tree’s With or Without you. There was also the monster of a song, The Fly, the haunting Who’s Going to Ride your Wild Horses, and of course the mega hits of Even Better Than the Real Thing and Mysterious Ways.

So we can safely say Steve Lilywhites prediction was bang on!

'If you can build a band up from the first to third albums it is quite a nice little progression. It was always clear in my mind that U2 were going to go all the way. There was no question of that."

It would appear that Steve thought U2 had gone all the way with Joshua Tree and perhaps that’s a fair enough sentiment – two number ones on the US charts is pretty much going all the way in my book.
Could Steve have predicted how far U2 have actually ended up going? No, I doubt he would have thought U2 would have become the biggest band in the planet taking over the Rolling Stones in terms of sales and concert tickets sold, but he was still there went U2 basically had their third coming with All That You Can’t Leave Behind. The songs from that album owned the Grammy Awards, and then Steve swam the tide of U2 popularity with How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb* and the slowburning but the more you listen the more you love it, No Line on The Horizon.

"This is very close to being an album of classic songs, but I think that within one or two albums they could have an album which might be one of the biggest-selling records of all time.

Two Words: Achtung Baby.

"This album will do well, it'll probably double their sales so far, but the next one will be brilliant!"

Well I wouldn't say Rattle And Hum is brilliant but it had some brilliant songs - U2 got a bit of crap for trying a bit to hard to emulate the soul / blues thing that they were in love with - regardless, as I mentioned above Rattle and Hum had the songs, and believe me when I saw U2 in Auckland play Angel of Harlem, the fans went nuts with appreciation.

So based on that rough cut from the Lilywhite interview, he had a fair measure of where U2 would end up!

* You dismantle an atomic bomb with love

Originally published on The Optimus Prime Experiment as Steve Lilywight talks future U2 in 1987

The Kills Set List New York

2011-08-10T01:23:00.001+03:00

The Kills - Terminal 5, NYC

Set from 8.8.11 - thanks to Big G for sending in the set list!

Kills Set List:

No Wow
Future Starts Slow
Heart Is A Beating Drum
Kissy Kissy
U.R.A. Fever
DNA (Jamie made a dedication "This is a song for my wife." Kate Moss.)
Satellite
Tape Song
Baby Says
One Silver Dollar (Marilyn Monroe cover)
You Don't Own The Road
Sour Cherry

Kills set Encore

The Last Goodbye
Pull A U
Pots and Pans
Fried My Little Brains

RHCP set list with Josh Klinghoffer

2011-08-08T03:56:00.000+03:00

I'm With You Album Cover

Red Hot Chili Peppers Set List The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA

July 31, 2011

This RHCP show was a private gig to help the Chilis kick out the jams with their new guitarists, Josh Klinghoffer - who's chops on the new single, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie seems to fit in with the RHCP vibe quite well.

Chilis played a fair few songs from their new album, I'm With You, which is released later this month.

Set List

Monarchy of Roses

Charlie

Ethiopia

Universally Speaking

Look Around

Soul to Squeeze

Factory of Faith

Throw Away Your Television

Meet Me at the Corner

(Live debut)

I Like Dirt

The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie

Right On Time

By the Way

Set Encore:

They're Red Hot

(Robert Johnson cover)

Sir Psycho Sexy

Give It Away

Final U2 Set list from the 360 Tour

2011-08-01T01:02:00.000+03:00

U2 Set list Canada

U2 played on July 30, 2011 at Moncton, NB, Canada at a place called Magnetic Hill

The opening acts were Carney and the popular Arcade Fire.

At one point Bono addressed the crowd with:

"On bass guitar tonight, we had Adam Clayton. On drums, 'the man who gave us our first job', Larry Mullen. On guitar? 'People like to remind us that without Edge we'd be nothing... but without us, he'd still be in his room twiddling knobs.'

And at the microphone: 'My name is Bono, I'm a work in progress...'"

Set List: Even Better Than The Real Thing, The Fly, Mysterious Ways, Until the End of the World, I Will Follow, Get On Your Boots, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Ballad of Springhill, Stay, Beautiful Day - Space Oddity, Elevation, Pride, Miss Sarajevo, Zooropa, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy (remix) - Discotheque, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Scarlet, Walk On

Set Encore: One, Hallelujah - Where the Streets Have No Name, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, With or Without You, Moment of Surrender, Out of Control, 40

Comments from U2tours: The U2 360 tour ends with three artists on the bill at the Magnetic Hill Music Festival in Eastern Canada. The three bands are spotted watching each other perform throughout the night. Bono sings a bit of 'The Ballad of Springhill' (AKA but incorrectly referred to as Springhill Mining Disaster sometimes) in honor of the nearby town devastated by an earthquake in 1958. It's the first time Bono's sung any of that song since 1987.

The show concludes with a full-band version of 40, each member leaving the stage separately, with Larry last to go. The 360 tour ends as the most successful tour ever, grossing $736 million on sales of 7.2 million tickets.

U2 Minneapolis Set List 2011

2011-07-24T12:36:00.001+03:00

Adam at Glastonbury

July 23, 2011 at Minneapolis, MN

As the U2 360 tour finally draws to a close, U2 played the one of few remaining shows at the TCF Bank Stadium. Bono did the obligatory Amy Winehouse song dedication, there was also something about starving kids....

U2's Set List

Even Better Than the Real Thing, The Fly, Mysterious Ways - Rain, Until the End of the World - Anthem, I Will Follow, Get On Your Boots, I Still Haven't Found, Stand By Me, Stuck in a Moment, Beautiful Day - Space Oddity, Can't Stand the Rain - Elevation, Pride, Miss Sarajevo, Zooropa, City of Blinding Lights - Singing in the Rain, Vertigo, Miss You-I'll Go Crazy (remix)-Raindrops Keep Falling-Discotheque-Life During Wartime-Psycho Killer, Please - Sunday Bloody Sunday, Scarlet, Walk On

Encore(s): One - Purple Rain, Hallelujah - Purple Rain - Where the Streets Have No Name - Singing in the Rain, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, With or Without You, Moment of Surrender - Singing in the Rain

Source: U2 Tours

Metallica Concert Rock the Hill Festival Set List

2011-07-20T11:58:00.000+03:00

Metallica Concert at Rock the Hill Festival, Halifax, NS,Canada

Metallica played their Rock the Hill set on July 14, 2011

The Ecstasy of Gold (standard Ennio Morricone concert opener)

Creeping Death

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Fuel

Ride the Lightning

Fade to Black

Cyanide

The Memory Remains

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Sad But True

All Nightmare Long

One

Master of Puppets

Blackened

Nothing Else Matters

Enter Sandman

Set List Encore:

Last Caress (cover of the Misfits' song)

Hit the Lights

Seek & Destroy

Fitz and The Tantrums Set List Summerstage

2011-06-27T00:26:00.000+03:00

Big Daddy G reports in "Yesterday's FREE Summerstage lineup was all about soul. It started off with an R&B group named King and ended with Lee Fields and the Expressions. The crowd pleaser, however, came in the middle of the set - Los Angeles' own Fitz & The Tantrums. Taking the stage around 5pm the busted out a slew of soul jams hotter than the slowly descending sun !

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

Fitz and The Tantrums - Central park Summerstage, NYC

Don't Gotta Work It Out

Winds Of Change

Breakin' The Chains Of Love

Wake Up

Pickin' Up The Pieces

Rich Girls

Steady As She Goes (Raconteurs cover)

Dear Mr. President

L.O.V.

News 4 U

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (Eurythmics Ultimate Collection cover)

Money Grabber

The Chemical Brothers Set List Glastonbury Festival 2011

2011-06-26T11:08:00.000+03:00

The Chemical Brothers Set List Glastonbury Festival 2011

June 25, 2011

Chemical Bros set list:

Intro
Another World
Do it Again / Get Yourself High
Horse Power
Chemical Beats
Swoon
The Swoon Arpeggios
Star Guitar
Three Little Birdies Down Beats
Hey Boy, Hey Girl
Galactic Phase Shift Interlude
Don't Think
Out of Control
(With "Setting Sun" Snippet)
Saturate / Believe
Escape Velocity
Superflash
Cherub Clown Harmonies
Leave Home / Galvanize
Block Rockin' Beats

Checkout Beyonce's set list from the third night of Glastonbury.

Coldplay Glastonbury set list 2011

2011-06-26T02:23:00.000+03:00

Coldplay Glastonbury set list 2011

Following from U2's set on the Pryamid Stage on Friday, Coldplay headlined the Saturday evening roster for Glastonbury. The show was notable in the sense that Coldplay played their new song, Every Teardrop is a Waterfall.

Here's the festival set list from June 25, 2011:

Hurts Like Heaven
Yellow
In My Place
Major Minus
Lost!
The Scientist
Shiver
Violet Hill
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
Everything's Not Lost
Us Against the World
Politik
Viva La Vida
Charlie Brown
Life Is For Living

Coldpay's set encore:

Clocks
Fix You
Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

Check out Mumford and Sons set list from Glastonbury

Arctic Monkeys Set List Glastonbury Festival

2011-06-25T02:39:00.000+03:00

Arctic Monkeys Set List Glastonbury Festival

The Monkey's denied they were playing but were pretty obvious in their intentions - heck, less people knew about the 'surprise' Radiohead gig!

Arctic Monkey's set list:

The View From The Afternoon
Brianstorm
This House Is A Circus
Still Take You Home
Brick by Brick
Teddy Picker
Crying Lightning
Reckless Serenade
Cornerstone
All My Own Stunts
Library Pictures
Do Me A Favour
The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
Fluorescent Adolescent
That's Where You're Wrong
Encore:
When The Sun Goes Down
505

Mumford and Sons set list Glastonbury 2011

2011-06-25T02:35:00.000+03:00

Mumford and Sons set list Glastonbury 2011

Set List

Sigh No More
Winter Winds
Little Lion Man
Below My Feet
White Blank Page
Timshel
Hopeless Wanderer
Roll Away Your Stone
Lover Of The Light
Thistle And Weeds
Awake My Soul.
Lover's Eyes
Dustbowl Dance
The Cave

Check other set lists from Glastonbury such as U2, BB King, Primal Scream and Morrissey.

Primal Scream Set List Glastonbury 2011

2011-06-25T02:28:00.000+03:00

Primal Scream Set List Glastonbury 2011

Poor Primal Scream had to go up against U2 - sux to be them, at least their set list was powered by a sweet selction of their hits.

Primal Scream's set list from the Glastonbury Festival

1.
Movin' On Up

2.
Trip Inside This House

3.
Don't Fight It Feel It

4.
Damaged

5.
I'm Coming Down

6.
Higher Than The Sun

7.
Loaded

8.
Come Together

9.
Country Girl

10.
Jailbird

11.
Rocks

U2 Glastonbury Set List 2011

2011-06-25T02:22:00.001+03:00

The Future Needs a Big Kiss

U2 made up for a non appearance at last year's Glasto gig due to Bono's Bad Back (though the Edge helped to make up for it) with a truly epic performance and set list for the 2011 Glastonbury Festival.

Bonovox was is fine form, while the Edge chipped in with some chiming guitars too. U2's set was notable in that they brought a lot of their own stage with them to the Pyramid Stage - the usual routine at Glastonbury is that bands jump on, do their thing then let the next act on.

Not U2, who brought the kitchen sink with them and gave the Glastonbury punters what they wanted. Fans were treated to an Actung Baby centric set list It was Zoo-TV on fire, as if U2 woke up this morning back in the 1990s.

U2's Glastonbury Set List

Even Better Than The Real Thing, The Fly, Mysterious Ways - Independent Women, Until the End of the World, One, Jerusalem - Where the Streets Have No Name, I Will Follow, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Movin' On Up, Stay, Beautiful Day - Rain, Elevation, Get On Your Boots, She Loves You - Vertigo - Garageland, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Bad - Jerusalem, Pride

Biffy Clyro Set List Glastonbury 2011

2011-06-24T23:54:00.001+03:00

The Bifster

Biffy Clyro Set List Glastonbury 2011

Set list

1.
The Captain

2.
That Golden Rule

3.
Glitter And Trauma

4.
Born On A Horse

5.
God & Satan

6.
Who's Got A Match?

7.
Shock Shock

8.
Know Your Quarry

9.
Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies

10.
Bubbles

11.
Machines

12.
57

13.
Many Of Horror

14.
Mountains

Check out Radiohead's set list from Glasto

Morrissey Glastonbury Set List 2011

2011-06-24T23:38:00.001+03:00

Morrissey had that difficult 'have to do my thing just before U2 come on' set slot but he performed admirably well playing songs for the crowd.

Morrissey Glasto Set List:

'I Want The One I Can't Have'
'First Of The Gang To Die'
'You Have Killed Me'
'Shoplifters Of The World Unite'
'Everyday Is Like Sunday'
’There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'
'Alma Matters'
'People Are The Same Everywhere'
'Satellite of Love'
'Meat Is Murder'
'One Day My Goodbye Will Be Farewell'
'Action Is My Middle Name'
'I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris'
'Irish Blood, English Heart'
'This Charming Man'

Check out BB King's Set List from Glastonbury.

BB King Glastonbury 2011 Set List

2011-06-24T23:31:00.001+03:00

King of the Blues BB King took a 'living legend' slot at Glastonbury 2011 and delivered a polished set list.

BB King Set List Glasto:

Want more? Check out U2's Glastonbury Set List. It was pretty Epic!

Beyonce Glastonbury Set List

2011-06-24T23:20:00.001+03:00

Glastonbury, put a ring on it...

Beyonce seems an unlikely choice to headline Glastonbury, but she's a strong performer and hugely popular - with the success of her husband Jay Z a couple of years ago, maybe the organisers of Glasto are keen for a repeat!

Beyonce Glastonbury Set List 2011

Crazy In Love

Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Naughty Girl
Baby Boy performed with Tricky
Happy Birthday dedicated to Steve Stoute
Best Thing I Never Had
End Of Time
If I Were A Boy
Sweet Dreams
Why Don't You Love Me
The Beautiful Ones (Prince cover)
Sex On Fire
(Kings of Leon cover)
1+1
Irreplaceable
Independent Women / Bootylicious / Bug a boo / Telephone / Say My Name / Jumpin' Jumpin' (All songs from Destiny’s Child)
At Last (Etta James cover)
Run The World (Girls)
Halo

Radiohead Glastonbury Set List Secret Gig

2011-06-24T23:14:00.002+03:00

Radiohead played a not so secret gig at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival, here's the songs they played.

Set List

01 - Lotus Flower
02 - 15 Step
03 - Morning Mr Magpie
04 - Little By Little
05 - All I Need
06 - Separator
07 - Give Up The Ghost
08 - Arpeggi
09 - Staircase
10 - I Might Be Wrong
11 - Bloom
12 - Reckoner
13 - Daily Mail
Set List encore:
14 - Street Spirit [fade out]

Check out U2's Glasto set list

System of a Down Set List Reunion Tour Berlin

2011-06-21T13:53:00.000+03:00

System of a Down Set List from Kindl Bühne Wuhlheide, Berlin, Germany Setlist on June 15, 2011

Like Slipknot, System of a Down have sorted their shit out and are a touring group again. This time they put in some hard yards in Berlin as part of the Reunion Tour.

Set List from System of a Down:

Prison Song

Soldier Side - Intro

B.Y.O.B.

I-E-A-I-A-I-O

Needles

Deer Dance

Radio/Video

Hypnotize

Question!

Suggestions

Psycho

Chop Suey!

Lonely Day

Bounce

Kill Rock 'n Roll

Lost in Hollywood

Forest

Science

Holy Mountains

Aerials

Tentative

Cigaro

Suite-Pee

War?

P.L.U.C.K.

Sartarabad

Toxicity

Sugar

And for something completely non related to SOAD, check out the lyrics to Mistress Dread by Metallica.

Slipknot List Sonisphere Festival, Athens, Greece Setlist

2011-06-21T13:44:00.000+03:00

Slipknot List from their performance at the Sonisphere Festival, Athens, Greece Setlist

Slipknot have sorted their shit out at are going fucking hard on the Memorial World Tour Tour

Set List from June 17, 2011

Intro: 742617000027

(sic)

Eyeless

Wait and Bleed

The Blister Exists

Liberate

Before I Forget

Pulse Of The Maggots

Disasterpiece

Psychosocial

The Heretic Anthem

Duality

Spit It Out

People = Shit

Surfacing

'Til We Die

Been a while since The Spaghetti Incident covered a Slipknot set list....

Foo Fighters Set List Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, Netherlands

2011-06-21T13:34:00.000+03:00

Foo Fighters Set List Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, Netherlands

Foos Setlist June 13, 2011

Bridge Burning
Rope
The Pretender
My Hero
Learn to Fly
White Limo
Arlandria
Breakout
Cold Day in the Sun
Stacked Actors
Walk
Monkey Wrench
Let It Die
Generator
Times Like These
Young Man Blues
(Mose Allison cover)
Best of You
This is a Call
All My Life
Skin and Bones
Tie Your Mother Down
(Queen cover)
Everlong

U2 California Set List 2011

2011-06-20T00:28:00.000+03:00

U2 California Set List

June 18, 2011 at Anaheim, CA

Venue: Angel Stadium

Comments from U2tours.com: Bono dedicates I Still Haven't Found to Quincy Jones, who's at the show. Other celebrities in attendance include Rick Rubin, Tom Morello, and Cindy Crawford. Before Moment of Surrender, Bono pays tribute to E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons, who died earlier today: 'Think about one man's saxophone. Think about Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Think of Clarence Clemons. This man just carried music, and music carried him until this day.' He then sings/recites some of Jungleland at the end of the concert.

Opening Act was Mr Lenny 'Are you Gonna go My Way?' Kravitz. Lucky concert goers were treated to The Fly.

Se List: Even Better Than The Real Thing, The Fly, Mysterious Ways, Until the End of the World, One, Amazing Grace - Where the Streets Have No Name - All You Need Is Love, I Will Follow, Get On Your Boots - She Loves You, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Stuck In a Moment, Beautiful Day - Space Oddity, Elevation, Pride, Miss Sarajevo, Zooropa, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo - It's Only Rock and Roll, I'll Go Crazy (remix) - Discotheque - Please, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Scarlet, Walk On - Never Walk

Encore(s): Ultraviolet, With or Without You, Moment of Surrender - Jungleland

Check out U2's Seattle Set List.

Seattle Set List U2 2011

2011-06-05T12:28:00.000+03:00

So U2 decided to turn up in the city that gave birth to Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden to play a few songs from albums that outsold all those bands... ;)

U2 played their set Qwest Field just after Lenny Kravitz played a pretty decent set. He's a dude I'd be keen to see play. Hey Lenny! Come to Wellington! You can stay at my place. I have new curtains.

U2's Seattle set list:

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, Beautiful Day - Space Oddity, Pride, Miss Sarajevo, Zooropa, City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, I'll Go Crazy (remix) - Discotheque - Life During Wartime - Psycho Killer, Sunday Bloody Sunday (lyrics), Scarlet, Walk On - You'll Never Walk Alone

Set encores:

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

Comments from U2 Tours: A new video debuts before Beautiful Day. It features astronaut Mark Kelly (Gabby Giffords husband, who is still on board the Space Shuttle) holding up a series of word parts that leads into the song, and then saying 'tell my wife I love her … she knows.' Kelly then reappears again throughout the song on the video screen, and recites the bridge lyrics ('See the world in green and blue,' etc.)

Members of Pearl Jam, R.E.M (hence the song snippet) and Heart are at the show. Also at the show is one of Aung San Suu Kyi's sons - for those that do not know about this remarkable lady, read the link at her name.