U2 Pre War Your

U2 begin a brief Pre War Tour in December 1982 (by their standards) one month long tour of the UK & Europe. The pre War Christmas tour ends in Dublin with 3 Christmas dates at the SFX Centre.

01/12/1982 Tiffany’s, Glasgow, UK

Support; unknown
Attendance; unknown
Admission; unknown
Set List; 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, Gloria, I Will Follow, encore Fire, A Celebration, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, The Ocean, I Will Follow.

02/12/1982 Apollo Theatre, Manchester, UK

Support; The Alarm
Attendance; unknown
Admission; unknown
Set List; 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, Gloria, I Will Follow, encore Fire, A Celebration,
11 O’clock Tick Tock, The Ocean, I Will Follow

03/12/1982 De Montfort Hall, Leicester, UK

Support; The Set
Attendance; unknown
Admission; unknown
Set List; 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 Year’s Day, Gloria, I Will Follow, encore
Fire, A Celebration, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, The Ocean

04/12/1982 Odeon, Birmingham, UK

Support; The Alarm
Attendance; unknown
Admission; unknown
Set List; 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 Year’s Day, Gloria, I Will Follow, encore
Fire, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, The Ocean, A Celebration, Sunday Bloody Sunday

05/12/1982 Lyceum Ballroom, London, UK

Lyceum Ballroom concert tick

Paul Bell & Mike Mesbar of Zerra I, both had formally been in The Lookalikes playing the same Dublin venues as U2.

05/12/1982 Lyceum Ballroom, London, UK
Support; Zerra I,
Attendance; Sold Out
Admission; £3.50
Set List; 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 Year’s Day, Gloria, I Will Follow, encore
Fire, A Celebration, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, The Ocean

06/12/1982 Hammersmith Palais, London, UK

06/12/1982 Hammersmith Palais, London, UK
Support; The Alarm
Attendance; Sold Out
Admission; unknown
Set List; 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 Year’s Day, Gloria, I Will Follow, encore
Fire, A Celebration, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, The Ocean

Ticket Stub

Into Europe

08/12/1982 Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Holland

Support; Zerra I
Attendance; unknown
Admission; unknown
Set List; 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 Year’s Day, Gloria, I Will Follow, encore
Fire, A Celebration, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, The Ocean

09/12/1982 Martinihal, Groningen, Holland

Support; unknown
Attendance; 1,500
Admission; unknown
Set List; 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 Year’s Day, Gloria, I Will Follow, encore
Fire, A Celebration, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, The Ocean

10/12/1982 Volkselang, Mechelen, Belgium

Concert ticket

Support; Angry Voices
Attendance; unknown
Admission; 320 Fr
Set List; unknown

11/12/1982 Brielport, Deinze, Belgium

Support; unknown
Attendance; unknown
Admission; unknown
Set List; unknown

12/12/1982 Limburghal, Genk, Belgium

Support; unknown
Attendance; unknown
Admission; unknown
Set List; 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 Year’s Day, I Will Follow, Gloria, encore
Fire, A Celebration, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, The Ocean

14/12/1982 Falkoner Teatret, Copenhagen, Denmark

Support; unknown
Attendance; unknown
Admission; unknown
Set List; Out of Control, Twilight, Surrender, I Threw a Brick Through a Window, A Day Without Me, An Cat Dubh/Into the Heart (with Steve Wickham) Sunday Bloody Sunday (with Steve Wickham), The Cry/The Electric Co., I Fall Down, October, New Year’s Day, I Will Follow, Gloria encore Fire, A Celebration, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, The Ocean

15/12/1982 Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden

Support; unknown
Attendance; unknown
Admission; unknown
Set List; 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 Year’s Day, Gloria, I Will Follow, encore Fire, A Celebration, 11 O’clock Tick Tock, The Ocean

16/12/1982 Unknown, Oslo, Norway

Support; unknown
Attendance; unknown
Admission; unknown
Set List; unknown
U2’s first show in Norway

This is U2;s first concert in Norway

Returning To Ireland

18/12/1982 City Hall, Cork, Ireland

Support; The Sussed
Attendance; unknown
Admission; £5.00
Set List; unknown

This show is broadcast on RTE 2’s Dave fanning Rock Show.

19/12/1982 Leisureland, Galway, Ireland

Support; Blue In Heaven
Attendance; unknown
Admission; £4.00
Set List; Out of Control, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Cry/The Electric Co., New Year’s Day, Gloria, I Will Follow, encore, Fire, A Celebration, 11 O’clock Tick Tock

At the present time I’m not sure if this is a typo on the ticket or not. The ticket has a date of 23rd Jan. These concerts have been hard to nail down. As the Irish press of the time has conflicking dates and venues for this tour of Ireland.

Concert ticket stub

22/12/1982 SFX Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Support; Big Self
Attendance; Sold Out
Admission; £5.00
Set List; included Out Of Control, Sunday Bloody Sunday

The tickets had U2 playing the TV Club in Dublin. At some point the venue was moved to the S.F.X. as the TV Club was not big enough to hold the crowd. This lead to some fans turning up at the wrong venue on the night and then having to travel across town to get to the correct venue. Some Irish newspapers also have the venue listed as the Francis Xavier Hall for the Dublin concerts.

23/12/1982 SFX Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Support; Zerra I
Attendance; Sold Out
Admission; £5.00
Set List; unknown

CBS Records Ireland released the now famous 4 x 7″ single packs to coincide with the Dublin dates.

24/12/1982 SFX Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Support; Blue In Heaven
Attendance; approx 200 – 300
Admission; £5,00
Set List; Out Of Control, Surrender, Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Years Day.
New Years Day had Styrofoam “snow” with a wind machine for snow effects and they popped a bottle of sparkling wine for “We wish you a merry Christmas”. Unlike the 2 previous 2 nights which were fairly full this was two thirds empty and they came on stage at 8pm to finish by 945pm as the buses stopped at 10pm on Christmas Eve….