iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour 2015

Oct 13 2015
Antwerp, BE / Sportpaleis
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Opening Night in Belgium
'Remember Us? It's been a while...' First of two in Antwerp.

'Hello. Remember us? It’s been a while. We didn't intend to be away for so long. We got lost in our songs but somehow we've found our way back to Antwerp. To this small perfectly formed country of Belgium.

'We come from a small but perfectly formed country too and for the next few songs, we'd like to take you to our hometown, to the Northside of Dublin where myself and my bandmates are from because there's a part of us that's still there...'

It has been a while - almost a decade and a half since the band last played Antwerp, on the Elevation Tour in 2001. But if the temperature has fallen outside, with the journey from sunny Barcelona to chilly autumnal Antwerp, it was cooking inside the Sportpalais.

As BalazsHorvath put it, the first to post a comment on the show afterwards, 'Amazing night in Antwerp! Great set, good energies, wonderful sounds, voices, and visuals. This was my 5th U2 show and the 1st for my 17 year old son...'

The arena was packed, might have been the biggest capacity of the venues we've played this year, and the Belgians were well up for it. Technically it was a Tuesday night but as @SilRigote put it on Twitter,  'I love how it is always Friday or Saturday for Bono...'

The folks of @atu2 don't miss a trick, observing last night that 'at the start of Even Better Than The Real Thing Bono tells people to put their hands in the sky to feel the heartbeat of Innocence... ...and when the band exits the screen to the e-stage, it's feel the heartbeat of experience? Nice shift.'

More and more people online signing up for the Meerkat experience and this time Helen was up on stage (see video) to send Elevation around the world. 'Antwerp goes global' as @FabienneMartens put it.

Sweetest Thing was in the mix last night ('not bad for a two fingered piano player') before Every Breaking Wave took us into the special European sequence of tracks opening with October.

A beautiful little girl found herself centre stage for City of Blinding Lights - she knew the words and got to sit on the drum riser, the best seat in the house. 'See the world in green and blue - here's Lianna right in front of you...'

And Paul Simon's Mother and Child was dedicated to a beautiful new mother and her beautiful new daughter.
'I wanna dedicate this song to a strong, beautiful woman... who's always been our mother.. but just until the last hours she hadn't got a child.. the child's name is Grace... this is for you.... this is a Paul Simon song, we're stealing it to tell the tale...'

We were elevated in Belgium and if you were in the house, maybe you were lifted up too.  Add your own reviews and post your photos below

Live Blog #U2ieTour Social Stream Antwerp 1

Live Blog #U2ieTour Social Stream Antwerp 1
 

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pieter_vissers
11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Please play 11 O'Clock Tick Tock! It's one of my favourite songs. Or maybe Zoo Station!
jonathanhill
U2 stole my heart
Hi everyone, I wanted to write about what U2 have given me over the last 30 years. I hope you see some part of your own story in there: http://t.co/JPbda1FnLo
Heylenc
Wild horse
Amsterdam play list was best ! Same plz for Antwerp plz Gloria Bad Wild horses ( why never ?) in première in Antwerp hope so !! Belgium greatest U2 fan
patgee
"40"
as fianl song!
ElenRene
BAD
Can you please, please, please perform 'Bad' the first show in Antwerp?? This is one of my most favourite songs.. Even if I would listen to this song every day the whole day, it gives me goosebumps and always makes my cry.. The music touches me totally, completely in to my soul...
MikeU72
BAD
BAD on first SHOW !!!
YQ
The Troubles
Please, the troubles, please. Why not with a local chord (Scala).... I have a dream... oh yeah!
YQ
the troubles please
And why not to get "The Troubles' in the show! Let say with a local choir? I'm especially thinking of Scala' being on the innocence stage while the band plays the experience on the other side... what a dream!
Saraievo
For Anvers set liste Day 1 vancouver ple
Set liste 1 day Vancouver in Anvers please
danydelanois
Beautiful
Beautiful
peleken
tv zoo
tv zoo on his birhtday was beauthefull in belgium
mikolambert
Under a blood Red sky
Bloody sunday !
lecoq
Title
beautiful
glasnost
glasnost
beautiful day
kawa
Antwerpen 2015 yes
I'ts à beautiful Day for me Tanks U2 <3 Welcome in Belgiqium
Dadyco
360 tour
The very best group
clagroo
Vertigo Belgium and Amsterdam
best live act
IMPEESA
U2 Back In Belgium
Finely - There Back @ Antwerp
kcauwenbergh
vertigo
best live act
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