“We’ll Miss You. Goodnight!” — JUL 30 2011

Montreal’s Arcade Fire opened for U2 on the final date of the highest-grossing rock and roll tour of all time; the 360 Tour. The show was, in a word, superlative.

Arcade Fire Set-List

(Entrance Music) Beautiful Day - U2

1. Ready to Start

2. Keep the Car Running

3. No Cars Go

4. Haiti

5. The Suburbs

6. The Suburbs (Cont.)

7. Month of May

8. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

9. We Used to Wait

10. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)

11. Rebellion (Lies)

12. Wake Up

13. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

As Arcade Fire concluded their set and U2 prepared to take the 360 stage for the final time, thematically linked songs began to play over the PA system; It’s The End of the World (As We Know It) by R.E.M., The Stones’ The Last Time, The Beatles’ Hello Goodbye, Elton’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, etc. It was obvious U2 were doing their best to pluck at the heart strings, and it worked. It was difficult to deny the power of hearing I’m Leaving on a Jet Plane as two Canadian Airforce fighter jets flew repeatedly over the festival grounds. And then, The Final Countdown to…

U2 Set-List

(Entrance Music) Space Oddity - David Bowie

1. Even Better Than the Real Thing

2. The Fly

3. Mysterious Ways

4. Until the End of The World

5. I Will Follow

6. Get on Your Boots

7. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For / The Ballad of Springhill

8. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)

9. Beautiful Day

10. Elevation

11. Pride (In The Name of Love)

12. Miss Sarajevo

13. Zooropa

14. City of Blinding Lights

15. Vertigo

16. I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight / Discothèque

17. Sunday Bloody Sunday

18. Scarlet

19. Walk On

Encore: 

20. One

21. Hallelujah / Where The Streets Have No Name

Encore 2: 

22. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

23. With or Without You

24. Moment of Surrender

25. Out Of Control

26. 40