Barcelona (Spain) .- The strength of the latest album of the band and their greatest hits, a stunning visual montage and the ability to connect Bono, captivated the public who witnessed today fully delivered, the U2 concert at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona (northeast), the first in Spain of the current tour.
The four Dublin alternated masterfully emotional moments, to claim, rock and show, over two hours, at the first concert of the four that offer the Irish in Barcelona, the only Spanish scale world tour that began last May in Canada.
“Bona nit Bono said an almighty Barcelona. We like Barcelona is a city that loves art and artists. We like so much we stayed a week. “
” But for now, we are going to take North Dublin where we grew up and where there is an important part of us, “added the singer, before starting a batch of very autobiographical songs from his latest album.
A few words in English that the band had the subtitled in Castilian detail on the huge video screens curtain located between the main stage and the secondary.
The concert began shortly before with “The Miracle”, “Electric Co.”, “Vertigo” and “I Will Follow”, a discharge of pure rock with the Irish public got in your pocket.
After this combination of songs composed in the distant eighties with songs fresh from the oven it was time trip to the innocence of speaking the title of his latest album “Songs of Innocence”.
On the screens were images of Bono’s mother when he sang “Iris”, song that bears his name, and the streets where born U2 frontman showed up with the first chords of “Cedarwood Road”.
Projections redoubled its effect when the image recorded live Bonus Set at the gateway between the two scenarios, he entered screens, with his mother or walking down the street of his childhood.
An effect that multiplied the emotion of the moment. “The world went cold and dark when my mother died. I became a musician to thank you for everything you gave me. I dedicate this song to all the mothers,” he said.
The end of innocence rushed quickly, with a number of issues related to the conflict in Ireland, which began with “Sunday Bloody Sunday”.
At this point emerged for the first time the group related causes, which reappeared in the second part of the concert, with references to the refugee crisis, wars and immigrants died in the Mediterranean.
But the gray and hopeless atmosphere spread over the Palau Sant Jordi for the interpretation of ” Bullet the Blue Sky “was only one of many moods through which passed the spectacle and spectators
There was everything. moments for communication with the public, such as when a young Venezuelan rose Bono dancing with “Mysterious Ways”; intimate moments, such as “October” played the piano; and moments of euphoria, as if all the Palau Sant Jordi choir sang “Where the Streets Have No Name”, “Pride” or “With or Without You”.
“Sou fantàstic, Màgics sou, genials sou, “Bono yelled in Catalan, before facing the bis, with” City of Blinding Lights “and” Beatiful Day “.
A few hopeful words of Bono on Europe’s ability to solve the problem refugees and science to cure AIDS allowed to finish the concert with the audience singing “One” and a smile on your face.
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