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
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
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
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.
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….