Land of Hope And Dreams Tour, 2025 San Siro + Wrap Up

I hadn’t planned on watching any unofficial live streams from Thursday’s final show from San Siro, but I had finished an assignment earlier than expected and had a couple of extra hours. I don’t like watching bootleg streams, I prefer the U2 fan community’s practice of just streaming audio via the mixlr app (it’s also less resource intensive, you won’t use up your entire battery) but I thought maybe I could look for friends who were there on the big screen and so I decided I’d tune in. And then once I was in, and had the audio streaming through the big speakers, and then before I knew it I was writing down the setlist in real time. 

The setlist has not changed that much since Manchester. That’s a statement of fact, not a criticism. I feel bad for the fans who thought that Bruce would get to Europe and break out the entirety of Tracks disc 2 (or something similarly improbable), even before he made the political statements that became part of the show. Before that happened, these were rescheduled shows to replace shows on the tour that was ostensibly in support of Only The Strong Survive. I say that recognizing what happened to the tour that was ostensibly in support of the River anniversary box set, or the tours where the band was suddenly playing entire albums in full. I know it can change. It just wasn’t going to change the way anyone was fantasizing it would.