I'm 99% positive that the people who bash No Line On The Horizon only heard "Get On Your Boots" once and made up their mind without listening to the whole album.
As far as the show itself went, this one was a little different...much more theatrical...it had a plotline.
Bono had some kind of medical event, that was potentially life-threatening either when the new album was being recorded or after TJT 2017 tour. I don't know the timeline. But it's something Bono hasn't addressed in detail.....so the show starts out with a massive MRI on the screen, along with the computerized "inhale....exhale" and scan sounds thru a huge PA. This is Bono reliving probably the scariest day of his life, in front of 18,000 people each night. I think he may have had a stroke, or an aneurysm..but that's just me speculating.
It's an extension of the Songs of Innocence tour, which also had a similar narrative, but without the MRI, and it comes full circle at the shows end, like Dolphin said....it just ended with Bono on the e stage with a single huge lightbulb, the same one that the I+E tour BEGAN with in 2015....Bono walks down a couple of stairs singing the refrain from Song For Someone and 'Goodnight'.....a few minutes later the house lights came on and those not in the know only then realized it was over.
This obviously wasn't a greatest hits show, and I applaud them for that. The crowd was definitely enthusiastic, if not clearly familiar with the new stuff.
They've kind of saturated Chicago since 2015, playing 9 shows, and I half expected last nights attendance to be a little weak, but nope, it was just as packed as it always is. Going in and out, I saw a LOT of young kids, so I wasn't alone in my thinking that I wanted my kid's first show to be special. All in all, I follow their tours too closely to ever really be surprised or disappointed, and I knew that last night wasn't going to be a feel good euphoric Elevation tour type show, I left kinda bummed....just by virtue of the fact that U2 have been my favorite band for over 30 years, and I've seen them now 13 times, and that they can't do this forever and I am getting old.
3.5 stars out of 4.....(Was hoping they'd play Gloria like they did on Tuesday, but they didn't).
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