ZOO TV On DVD

Finally its here. Zooropa is one of my favourite U2 albums. For a band to make an album like Joshua Tree and follow it up with Achtung Baby and Zooropa was a clear 'please-take-my-in-between-finger' to conventional wisdom. Widely regarded as a bizarre tour, fans can see to what extent U2 actually went to kill their God-like fame. Zooropa is to U2 what Sgt Peppers was to the Beatles. And for the fan, this tour DVD will be a great link between the Rattle and Hum and Elevation experiences.

From U2.com

‘Zoo TV Live From Sydney’ is set for DVD release in September. As well as the legendary live show, now digitally remastered, the new release comes with a bonus DVD of live tracks, mini-documentaries and the inimitable ‘Video Confessional’.

Details here.

Filmed at the Football Stadium in Sydney, Australia, in November 1993 - and now only available on something called VHS – the film is directed by David Mallet and produced by Ned O’Hanlon and Rocky Oldham. More on the background to the DVD release in the next few days, meantime, here’s the running order.

Disc One

Show Opening
Zoo Station
The Fly
Even Better Than The Real Thing
Mysterious Ways
One
Unchained Melody
Until The End Of The World
New Year’s Day
Numb
Angel Of Harlem
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Satellite Of Love
Dirty Day
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running To Stand Still
Where The Streets Have No Name
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
Lemon
With Or Without You
Love Is Blindness
Can’t Help Falling In Love

Disc Two

1. Bonus Tracks

1. Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around the World
2. Desire
(both taken live from the Zoo TV Special, Yankee Stadium, New York, 29th and 30th August 1992)
3. The Fly
4. Even Better than the Real Thing
(both taken live from the Stop Sellafield Concert, G-Mex Centre, Manchester, 19th June 1992)

2. DocumentariesA Fistful of Zoo TVZoo TV - The Inside StoryTrabantland

3. ExtrasVideo ConfessionalNumb Karaoke