U2
Marvel Stadium
Melbourne, Australia
Friday 15 November 2019

Support: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Recorded by eckythump from GA half way back facing right speaker stack
Source: Nokia Lumia 930 (called Lumia Icon in North America) w/built-in HAAC mics > Audio Recorder Pro app > 16bit/48 KHz PCM/WAV 
Encoding: iZotope RX8 advanced (declip, azimuth adjustment) -> Ozone 9 (EQ adjustment) -> Audacity 2.4.2 (tracks split, FLAC level 8) -> Foobar 1.6.2 (files tagged)

Contrast clause: There is another recording of this show made by a different taper with different equipment available here - http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=662065. This is my master recording.

Track List:

00 - Intro (The Whole Of The Moon)
01 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
02 - I Will Follow
03 - New Years Day
04 - Bad (w/ Into My Arms snippet)
05 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
06 - Where The Streets Have No Name (w/ California (There Is No End To Love) snippet)
07 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
08 - Singing In The Rain (snippet)
09 - With Or Without You
10 - Bullet The Blue Sky
11 - Running To Stand Still
12 - Red Hill Mining Town
13 - Bono Talks
14 - In God's Country
15 - Bono Talks
16 - Trip Through Your Wires
17 - Bono Talks
18 - One Tree Hill
19 - Exit
20 - Mothers Of The Disappeared
21 - Angel Of Harlem
22 - Encore Break
23 - Elevation
24 - Vertigo (w/ Devil Inside snippet)
25 - Bono talks
26 - Even Better Than The Real Thing
27 - Every Breaking Wave
28 - Beautiful Day
29 - Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
30 - Bono talks
31 - Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
32 - Bono Talks
33 - One

Bono - vocals, harmonica 
The Edge - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Adam Clayton - bass 
Larry Mullen Jr. - drums, percussion

Show Notes: An overcast night in Melbourne with the weather forecasters predicting a slight chance of a shower - that slight chance came to fruition during 'Where The Streets Have No Name', prompting Bono to sing a snippet of Singing In The Rain. Marvel Stadium has a retractable roof and it was open, so when it started to rain we all got wet standing there. Given I was recording and I had no rain protection, this was not ideal. As such I was forced to stand there with my hand over my recording device until it stopped. Finally they decided to close the roof, but it took a few songs, and it wasn't fully closed until Red Hill Mining Town. You can't really tell on the recording though. I was pretty wet, but I managed to soldier on recording.

A terrific show by U2, I saw (and recorded) one of the shows from Metlife Stadium in New Jersey in 2017 while on holiday (remember them?), and I thought this performance was better, with some great setlist choices outside of the Joshua Tree album. The band were firing on all cylinders. They clearly love playing Australia and we love them. These were U2's first Australian shows in almost 9 years. Let's hope they weren't the last.

Recording Notes: This is a decent recording, but I was annoyed by some audience chatter around me at times which is why I held off sharing my recording at the time, that and another great recording also came out. Now a year has passed, I think this recording is good enough to be heard as an alternate source to that one. It was extremely loud in the venue so I had to do some declipping and work on the audio a bit to make it sound better. I think it sounds really good now (except for the audience chatter at times, sorry can't do much about that). Samples provided so you can judge for yourself. 

A great recap of the show can be found here https://www.u2gigs.com/article1326.html