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Posted by u2boy on June 11, 2005 | Via | Permanent link | Save this page to del.icio.us
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U2 kicked off the second leg of their 'Vertigo' tour in front of 60,000 enthusiastic fans at the King Baudouin stadium in the Belgian capital.

Opening and closing their set with the song 'Vertigo', Bono and his fellow Dubliners played to an ecstatic crowd for two hours.

The stadium erupted after three quarters of an hour when the band embarked on one of their biggest hits from the 1980s 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'.

Bono, as well-known these days as a high-voltage global activist, preached peace in the Middle East in front of a crowd where Muslim crescents, Stars of David and Christian crosses mingled.

U2 Vertigo tour

He also took the opportunity to repeat his call for an end to African debt, a call which he will help back up at a series of simultaneous concerts around the world next month ahead of a G8 summit in Scotland where the debt topic will be high on the agenda. "Thousands of people die each day from AIDS, which is unacceptable," he said to great applause.

Bono, U2 Vertigo tour

In the 21st century update of the old rock tradition of matches and cigarette lighters illuminating the night sky, tens of thousands of spectators held the screens of their cell phones aloft, lighting up the stadium.

Tickets for the concert had been snapped up within three hours of going on sale back in January.

On Sunday the four-piece band will be in Germany for their second European concert.

After touring many of Europe's major stadia, the group will go on to the United States in the Autumn.

Setlist:
  1. Vertigo
  2. Until the End of the World
  3. The Electric Co.
  4. Elevation
  5. New Year's Day
  6. Beautiful Day
  7. City of Blinding Lights
  8. Miracle Drug
  9. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
  10. Love and Peace or Else
  11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
  12. Bullet the Blue Sky
  13. Running to Stand Still
  14. Pride
  15. Where the Streets Have No Name
  16. One
  17. Zoo Station
  18. The Fly
  19. Mysterious Ways
  20. All Because Of You
  21. Yahweh
  22. Vertigo
And finally, some more pics of the spectacular stage:

U2 Vertigo tour

U2 Vertigo tour

U2 Vertigo tour

U2 Vertigo tour

U2 Vertigo tour

U2 Vertigo tour

U2 Vertigo tour

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