It was just the four of them on stage but they long ago mastered the art of filling a stadium with sound. It is a massive show, built around two pillars: the album played in its entirety and original order, and a massive ultra-high-resolution LED screen measuring 61 by 14 metres. A week ago, they played the first show of the belated final leg in Auckland, and on Friday it was finally Melbourne's turn.

This tour began in 2017 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Irish band's biggest album, the 26 million-selling The Joshua Tree, but was put on ice in October of that year. It's you.' If the crowd could have spoken back, they'd have said it's you too, U2.

'It isn't chemicals, though it has been, it isn't the Holy Spirit, though the same. 'Our drug of choice tonight isn't alcohol,' frontman Bono said at one point. 'Returning to Melbourne after a nine-year absence, U2 showed they have lost none of their remarkable ability to woo and wow an audience, even one of 60,000 forced to endure a smattering of rain before the roof of Marvel Stadium was belatedly closed. What a landmark!'ДЄn extended snippet of Nick Cave's 'Into My Arms' during Bad helped set the scene for what came next. As fan site noted on Social Media :'I WILL FOLLOW makes its first appearance of #TheJoshuaTreeTour2019 вЂ¦ continues a historic trend of being performed on EVERY U2 tour since 1980. Tour debut tonight for I Will Follow, the band's first ever single release on these shores and last played almost a year ago to the day at the #u2eiTour finale in Berlin. 'I don't believe in an interventionist God

'Bad' once again a tribute to those fighting the country's fires and including a beautiful cameo of Nick Cave's 'Into My Arms'. 'Our prayer is for an epic night of rock'n'rollвЂ¦ where we let go of some things and hold on tighter to others.'ДЄnd that's what we got with the second show in Australia this evening, an epic night all the way from Sunday Bloody Sunday to One.

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