U2 Unveils New Songs and Much More in Turin

U2 delivered a lot more than pizza to their fans Friday night in Turin, Italy.

After a protracted absence from the stage – lengthened by the untimely postponement of the band’s Summer U.S. leg – the 360 Degrees tour finally got rolling again with a 24-song set that, as had been hoped for by fans in the days leading up to show, featured the debut of two brand-new songs.

“North Star” – a slow, acoustic guitar-driven number with a romantic chorus – and “Glastonbury”, an up-tempo rocker, marked the first time since a show in Antwerp on August 6th, 2001, that the band had debuted an unreleased song at a live show.

Tweets from the venue seemed to indicate that Bono was in fine form and fully recovered from the back injury that sidelined U.S. dates for areas missed by the band in ’09; those fans will still have to wait another year to catch a glimpse of 360, but for tonight, the glory was all Turin’s.

In addition to the new songs, the set featured tour debuts for “Miss Sarajevo” (last performed on the Vertigo tour), and “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me”, last performed way back on March 21st, 1998, during the final show of the PopMart tour in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Perhaps as a nod to that, the band also threw in a snippet of “Discotheque”, its first appearance in a setlist since Vertigo, and its first appearance ever in snippet form.

Oh, you’d like more?  There was also a brand-new guitar intro – currently christened as the “Return of the Stingray Guitar” intro – and a new screen video featuring fans with messages written on their hands, culled from thousands of entries sent to U2.com.

The tour continues Tuesday in Frankfurt, Germany.

Thanks to www.u2gigs.com for the setlist links, and for their impeccable live coverage as the tour unfolds.  Photos courtesy the Interference boards.

Setlist:

Return Of The Stingray Guitar Intro (new live intro)

Beautiful Day

Magnificent

Get On Your Boots

Mysterious Ways / My Sweet Lord (snippet)

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

North Star (new song)

Glastonbury (new song)

Elevation

In A Little While

Miss Sarajevo (tour debut)

Until The End Of The World

The Unforgettable Fire

City Of Blinding Lights

Vertigo

Crazy Tonight / Discothèque (snippet)

Sunday Bloody Sunday

MLK

Walk On / You’ll Never Walk Alone (snippet)

Encore(s):

One

Amazing Grace (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (tour debut)

With Or Without You

Moment of Surrender