War was released in early 1983, but U2 didn’t wait until the album was out to take the songs out on the road. Starting on December 1, 1982, and running until December 24, 1982, the band play 20. The tour took them through Scotland, England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands and Belgium, before returning home to Ireland with a series of shows around the Republic and one show in Northern Ireland.
05/12/1982 Lyceum Ballroom, London, England
Attendance; 1,500 Sold Out
Support; Zerra 1, The Alarm
Admission; £3.50
Set; Out Of Control, Twilight, Surrender, I Threw A Brick Through A Window, A Day Without Me, An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Cry/ The Electric Co., I Fall Down, October, New Years Day, Gloria, I Will Follow, Encore Fire, A Celebration, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, I Will Follow, The Ocean.
Zerra 1 were an Irish/English band, Paul Bell & Mike Mesbur, had formerly played with a band called The Lookalikes back in Dublin. Back then U2 had supported The Lookalikes.
