4Tour World Tour 2007 - 08
March 6th, 2008 - Madrid,
Spain (Palacio de Deportes)
Plainsong, Prayers For Rain, A Strange Day, alt.end, The
Blood, The End of the World, Lovesong, To Wish Impossible Things, Pictures
of You, Lullaby, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Hot Hot Hot, Please
Project, Push, Friday I'm In Love, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary,
A Boy I Never Knew, Never Enough, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, Disintegration
1st encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
2nd encore: Three Imaginary Boys, Fire in Cairo, Boys Don't Cry, Jumping
Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing an Arab
3rd encore: Why Can't I Be You?
Show was 2 hours and 54 minutes.
(Thanks to Olivier for the setlist and ticket
scan)
Good concert but not far away from my band´s
favorite (Madrid 1989 at Ventas). Quite predictable selection, not a single
surprise but the novelties. Real sold out with no empty spaces at Palacio
de los Deportes. No much chance of dancing for the standing crowd.
Very nice how samplers of ‘Plain song’ last for more than a minute
so people get anxious to heard the strong beginning.
Also recorded (?) samplers on ‘Plain song’, ‘Pictures of you’ and probably
‘A hundred years’ but we still miss proper keyboards on mentioned and others
like ‘Why can’t i be you’, ‘Just like heaven’, or ‘In between days” and of
course ‘A strange day’.
Very funny version of 'Hot, hot, hot'. Speed-up versions of ‘Prayers
for rain’ and ‘A forest’ (very nice ending of Robert at guitar riff and Simon
punishing bass at the very end).
Outstanding lightning and good proyections: on ‘A hundred years’ black and
white pictures of the II World War (including picture used by Joy
Division as a cover of 'An Ideal of Living' showing a little boy on the
getto with his hands up), a bullring on “The blood’, very good recall of
entire video on ‘Jumping someelse’s train’.
Perfect performing of ‘Pictures of you’, ' A hundred years', ‘Love song’,
but lazy and dispassionate of ‘Disintegration’. Could not see Roberts face
as we were seated but he kept moving, much more that other times I saw him.
He seamed having fun as Simon and Porl. both in a real good moment and real
into the show right from the start. Did anyone undertood what Robert said
about spanish audience?
Prescindible ‘never enough’ as always, very interesting and beautiful ‘Please
proyect’. Don’t understand why always Robert destroys 'alt.end'
singing on chorus witch is so strong on the album version, that’s a tradition
with ‘Why can’t I be you’ not the very best for closing such a long time playing.
- Paco
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