June 18 London, England 02 Arena
Band Onstage: 8:26
Band Offstage: 10:53
Walk On Music: Metamorphosis #2-Phillip Glass
01. Of The Girl
02. Low Light
03. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
04. Animal
(greets audience)
05. Brain Of J
(After twenty plus years being together we are getting more honest with each other. Not very presidential of us. Ed goes on to explain that he saw a voice doctor today. “He was checking me and I said I would give him £10,000 to give me a voice like Adele.” Doc replied “That is a million dollar voice but for 59 quid I can make you sound like Liam Gallagher. The audience is a bit shocked and laughs. Ed says look, I am joking. I know Liam and he is a tough guy from a tough town and he can take it. Besides it would take £100,000 to get me to look like him.” “Anyway the sad songs will sound sadder and the angry songs will sound angrier tonight. But who needs a singer when you’ve got Matt Cameron behind you? And Mike McCready, Stone Gossard, ( ? and Jeff)
06. Even Flow
07. Wishlist (Wish I was as fortunate as JP-referring to Jimmy Page who is sitting on the monitor riser watching the show)
08. Deep
(Ed talks about coming to UK for the first time when mixing Ten. It was source of all the music they liked and so much culture. He name checks The Who, Led Zeppelin and The Jam. He also says it is the first time his younger brother Mike has been to the UK or Europe. The next song is about maybe taking too many drugs. The line about the dragon was inspired by a trip Mike had where a dragon came out of the sky and he punched it.)
09. Severed Hand
(During extended intro to LBC Ed says “I would like to send this one to the guy who is in White House back in the United States. I would like him to hear it but he doesn’t listen to music or read books. Could someone tweet it to him or something. To Mom’s and Dad’s and children being separated at the borders. That isn’t the country I remember.” Ed asks Mike to get aggressive and then yells “fuck you, fuck you”)
10. Love Boat Captain
11. Can’t Deny Me
12. Do The Evolution
13. Down
(When you think about the border and think about the states and they make it seem normal I hope they remember that next time it could be them…Fuck, I am still thinking about that. This is a love song from a mother to her child(?) )
14. Daughter / WMA ( Says “police man..border man..” asks audience for help. Sings “border man stopped my brother today. tag lasts about 1:40)
(To intro the next song Ed introduces Matt “the mighty” Cameron. He then spots a shirt in the crowd and asks the camera man to show it on the screen. “I got the name wrong. It is actually ‘Matt fuckin’ Cameron’. “I know your mom Matt and she is really hard core. So thanks Matt for all of your contributions to music, whether it is the band, Soundgarden or NudeDragons or whatever. And he wrote this next song”. )
15. You Are
(It was pointed out to me that we have never played this song on this continent or anywhere near it. So this is for Paul who mentioned it.)
16. Parting Ways
17. Porch (Ed goes into the crowd. At end of song he pours wine into a Trump mask. At the very end of Porch Mike plays the opening riff of “Nobody’s Fault But Mine” -(Page & Plant) Led Zeppelin. Lasts about 3 seconds. Adapted from Blind Willie Mctell song)
Encore Break
(Ed thanks the audience for their energy and their singing. Ed is amazed at the amount of grape flavored cough syrup (wine) he is drinking. He points out some people from a self made charity called “Given To Live”. They go out and find people who need some help and the bring them to shows and other things. Because they walked 116 miles to get to the show he dedicates the next song to them. It is about traveling)
18. Off He Goes
(Ed’s brother Mike comes up on stage. “Sometimes it is your younger brother and friends that teach you everything you know. And you have to include older musicians.” He then says the next song is a true story but isn’t sad because it is on ukulele)
19. Sleeping By Myself
20. Footsteps
(“Okay, this is teachers, parents and priests…teachers and parents and priests oh my”)
21. Mind Your Manners
22. Why Go
23. Better Man
(Ed thanks the audience especially the people way up top. He asks if anybody from Tunisia is here and are they happy? (World Cup references) He points out all the flags.)
24. Last Kiss-(Cochran) (performed to the audience behind the stage)
25. Black / You’re The Best Thing About Me-(Clayton, Evans, Mullen, Hewson) U2. Tag is 1:40, five seconds of riff for “Over The Hills And Far Away”-(Page & Plant) Led Zeppelin.
26. Alive
27. Rockin' In The Free World-(Young) (Mike ends with 30 seconds of Dazed and Confused)