Setlist : 05/31/2015 The Forum - Inglewood, California, USA

05/31/2015 The Forum - Inglewood, California, USA
The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone), The Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns (snippet) / I Can See For Miles(snippet) / Break On Through (snippet), Vertigo, I Will Follow, Iris (Hold Me Close), Cedarwood Road, Song For Someone, Sunday Bloody Sunday / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet), Raised By Wolves / Psalm 23 (snippet), Until The End Of The World / Love And Peace Or Else(snippet), (Intermission), Invisible, Even Better Than The Real Thing, Mysterious Ways / Young Americans (snippet), Angel Of Harlem, When Love Comes To Town, Every Breaking Wave, Bullet The Blue Sky / 19 (snippet), The Hands That Built America (snippet) / Pride (In The Name Of Love), Beautiful Day / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet) / Yellow (snippet), All I Want Is You, With Or Without You, 
encores: City Of Blinding Lights, Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet), 40

Setlist : 05/30/2015 The Forum - Inglewood, California, USA

05/30/2015 The Forum - Inglewood, California, USA
The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone), The Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns (snippet) / I Can See For Miles(snippet) / Give It Away (snippet), Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (snippet) / Vertigo, I Will Follow, Iris (Hold Me Close), Cedarwood Road, Song For Someone, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Raised By Wolves / Psalm 23 (snippet), Until The End Of The World / Love And Peace Or Else(snippet), (Intermission), Invisible, Even Better Than The Real Thing, Mysterious Ways / Young Americans (snippet), Elevation, Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of, Every Breaking Wave, Bullet The Blue Sky / 19 (snippet), The Hands That Built America (snippet) / Pride (In The Name Of Love), Beautiful Day / I Remember You (snippet), With Or Without You, 
encores: City Of Blinding Lights, Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet), I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
comment: Tour debuts of Elevation and Stuck In A Moment.

U2.COM : 'A KIND OF FAMILY...'

A Kind of Family...'

'U2 is a kind of family. U2 is a brotherhood. Although there are a lot of sisters in it now that I think about it. The extended family are everything to us, We look after each other. Last night we lost a member of our family...'

An extraordinary and moving show at The Forum in Los Angeles as the band paid tribute to their great friend and longtime colleague.

'Dennis Sheehan was his name,' explained Bono introducing Iris, a song inspired by the loss of his own mother. 'He was U2's tour manager for 33 years and he loved, as we all do, the city of Los Angeles…he called the Sunset Marquis his home away from home, he came to this city as a young man working for Led Zeppelin. In fact he always hoped we would be the next Led Zeppelin which of course is impossible...'

Set on honouring what they knew would be Dennis' wish, the band not only played the show as scheduled, they performed with a singular passion - and the 18,000 people in the audience lifted the roof with their singing.

The set list was switched up again, with several songs dedicated to Dennis including Every Breaking Wave, a transcendent version of 'Bad' and With Or Without You.

'Goodnight Dennis Sheehan...'

Perhaps the most touching moment of all came right at the end of a poignant and powerful evening. Edge pulled on the acoustic bass, Adam switched to electric guitar and the opening chords of '40' began ringing round the arena.
Based on the biblical fortieth psalm, the song was written for the band's third studio album 'War', released in 1983, the year that their friendship with Dennis began.

'I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song
How long to sing this song
How long to sing this song
How long, how long, how long
How long to sing this song....'

Setlist : 05/27/2015 The Forum - Inglewood, California, USA

05/27/2015 The Forum - Inglewood, California, USA
The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone), Out Of Control, Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (snippet) / , Vertigo, I Will Follow, Iris (Hold Me Close), Cedarwood Road, Song For Someone, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Raised By Wolves / Psalm 23 (snippet), Until The End Of The World, (Intermission), Invisible, Even Better Than The Real Thing, Mysterious Ways / My Sweet Lord (snippet) / Young Americans (snippet), Desire / Not Fade Away (snippet), Angel Of Harlem, Every Breaking Wave, Bullet The Blue Sky / 19(snippet), The Hands That Built America (snippet) / , Pride (In The Name Of Love), Beautiful Day / I Remember You (snippet), Bad / Moment of Surrender (snippet), With Or Without You
encores: City Of Blinding Lights / Transmission (snippet), Mother And Child Reunion(snippet) / , Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love)(snippet), 40
comment: U2's longtime tour manager Dennis Sheehan passed away after the previous night's concert. The tour debut of 40, this concert, and the whole tour were dedicated to his memory; Bono spoke extensively about Sheehan before both Iris and 40. Bad's performance was spontaneous; no song was listed on the printed setlist between Beautiful Day and With Or Without You.

U2.COM : DENNIS SHEEHAN 1946-2015

- "We've lost a family member, we're still taking it in. He wasn't just a legend in the music business, he was a legend in our band. He is irreplaceable." Bono

- "With profound sadness we confirm that Dennis Sheehan, U2's longstanding tour manager and dear friend to us all, has passed away overnight. Our heartfelt sympathy is with his wonderful family." Arthur Fogel, CEO Global Touring, Chairman Global Music Live Nation Global Touring

Setlist : 05/26/2015 The Forum - Inglewood, California, USA

05/26/2015 The Forum - Inglewood, California, USA
The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone), The Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns (snippet) / I Can See For Miles (snippet), Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (snippet) / , Vertigo, I Will Follow, Iris (Hold Me Close), Cedarwood Road, Song For Someone, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Raised By Wolves / Psalm 23 (snippet), Until The End Of The World, (Intermission), Invisible, Even Better Than The Real Thing, Mysterious Ways / Burning Down The House (snippet) / Young Americans (snippet), California (There Is No End To Love) / God Only Knows (snippet), Sweetest Thing, Every Breaking Wave, Bullet The Blue Sky / 19 (snippet), The Hands That Built America (snippet) / , Pride (In The Name Of Love), Beautiful Day / I Remember You (snippet), With Or Without You
encores: City Of Blinding Lights, Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / , Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet), One / Invisible(snippet)

U2.COM : 'THE LION-TAMERS ARE OVER THERE...'

In Vancouver, as the tour opens, the band talked with Anthony Mason for CBS Sunday Morning.  

Setlist : 05/23/2015 US Airways Center - Phoenix, Arizona, USA

05/23/2015 US Airways Center - Phoenix, Arizona, USA
The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone), Vertigo (snippet) / , Out Of Control, Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (snippet) / , Vertigo, I Will Follow, Iris (Hold Me Close), Cedarwood Road, Song For Someone, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Raised By Wolves / Psalm 23(snippet), Until The End Of The World / Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1 (snippet), (Intermission), Invisible, Even Better Than The Real Thing, Mysterious Ways / Young Americans(snippet), Angel Of Harlem, When Love Comes To Town, Every Breaking Wave, Bullet The Blue Sky / Whole Lotta Love (snippet) / 19 (snippet), The Hands That Built America(snippet) / , Pride (In The Name Of Love), Beautiful Day / One (snippet), With Or Without You
encores: Miracle Drug, Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / , Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet), One
comment: Larry accidentally started Vertigo a song early and played its drum intro while the rest of the band launched into Out Of Control. During Pride, Bono acknowledged Ireland's vote in favour of marriage equality with a passionate and enthusiastic mid-song speech and altered one lyric to "they cannot take your gay pride".

Setlist : 05/22/2015 US Airways Center - Phoenix, Arizona, USA

05/22/2015 US Airways Center - Phoenix, Arizona, USA
The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone), The Electric Co. / Send In The Clowns (snippet) / I Can See For Miles (snippet), Vertigo / God Save The Queen (Sex Pistols) (snippet), I Will Follow, Iris (Hold Me Close), Cedarwood Road, Song For Someone, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Raised By Wolves / Psalm 23 (snippet), Until The End Of The World, (Intermission), Invisible, Even Better Than The Real Thing, Mysterious Ways / Young Americans (snippet), Desire, In God's Country, Sweetest Thing, Every Breaking Wave, Bullet The Blue Sky / America (snippet) / 19 (snippet), The Hands That Built America(snippet) / , Pride (In The Name Of Love), Beautiful Day / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (snippet), Bad / Moment of Surrender (snippet), With Or Without You
encores: City Of Blinding Lights, Mother And Child Reunion (snippet) / , Where The Streets Have No Name / California (There Is No End To Love) (snippet), I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
comment: First performance of In God's Country since 2 December 2001. It was not on the printed setlist, and was performed with an audience member on rhythm guitar. During Mysterious Ways and Desire, Bono brought three sisters on stage to dance.

U2.COM : GAME CHANGER

Noel Gallagher, currently touring the US with his High Flying Birds, was at the second show in San Jose last night.

Afterwards he spoke to U2.com. Here's what he thought of the show.

'I thought it was as great a leap forward as it was when I saw ZOOTV the first time, which itself was a great leap forward from Rattle and Hum. If it's at all possible to get a great leap forward from that, then tonight was it.

It was theatre.

It starts off as a punk rock gig but then it gets intimate, there's a lot of truth in it about where they come from and the people that they are.

At points it's quite touching when you see footage of people like Bono's mum and his kids, stuff like that, walking up the street they grew up on.

Visually the band were explaining it to me for a good six months but I still had no idea about this screen they were talking about, it didn't make much sense to me at all - most things don't with Bono at four o clock in the morning. But tonight, I don't like to use the phrase, but this is a game changer, not only for them but for shows in general. It is something competely different.

You don't expect to have that screen in that position and doing that thing... and the beauty of it all is that it still does not take away from what a great band they are.

It was always going to be a contentious thing what they did with the album release but I think it paid off tonight because the stories of the songs have been told visually and it works, I really do think it works in a visual sense.

For people who haven't seen it, they play inside of a video screen and it's something else, it's like watching a television but you kind of forget sometimes that they are actually there on stage and they are playing live. It's a psychedelic experience.

I've been a fan since hearing 'New Year's Day' in 1983 and I've seen them loads of time. With the greatest respect in the world when I saw the 360° Tour I thought that was the end of something, and not in a bad way. I thought, this is so staggering and huge and tall, so amazing, I thought this was the end of something and I wondered what the beginning of the next thing will be - and here it is.

It was staggering - and only the fourth show. I can't wait to see it again.'