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WASHINGTON — It was a night of innocence lost and experiences had, as U2 rocked Capital One Arena on Sunday for the D.C. leg of its "eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE" tour, named after the band'due south two latest albums: "Songs of Innocence" (2014) and "Songs of Feel" (2017).

If you missed Sun night'due south prove, don't worry. The Irish rockers return on Monday night.

Here's what went down in the first concert and so that you have an idea of what to wait:

The band's entrance was electric, appearing inside a giant, rectangular screen floating in the centre of the arena. The double-sided construction flashed with on-screen images before becoming transparent so nosotros could see the band suspended in mid-air over the crowd.

After a trio of brand new jams — "Love is All Nosotros Have Left," "The Coma" and "Lights of Home" — the band took the main stage for a pair of old-school tracks with "I Will Follow" off their debut album "Boy" (1980) and "Gloria" off their sophomore album "Oct" (1981).

Afterwards these 5 bottom-known numbers from past and nowadays, the ring unleashed arguably its nearly mainstream hitting, "Beautiful 24-hour interval," off their tenth anthology "All That You Can't Leave Behind" (2000). The album won vii Grammys and became the simply album in history to feature ii Tape of the Twelvemonth winners with "Beautiful Day" in 2001 and "Walk On" in 2002.

Adjacent came a deep cut with "The Ocean" off their debut anthology, followed past two new tracks, "Iris (Concord Me Close)" and "Cedarwood Rood," the onetime written about Bono's mother who died from a cerebral aneurysm at her father's funeral when Bono was just fourteen years old.

As images of violence filled the screen, U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. methodically marched with a snare drum to point the drumbeat of war with "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (1983).

From there, the band dipped back to "Achtung Baby" (1991) for the highly underrated "Until the End of the Globe," sang in the first person perspective of Judas Iscariot betraying Jesus Christ. During the song, Bono's giant hologram held the real-life Border in the palm of his mitt.

The slick visuals continued for a comic-book display of "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" (1995), a reference to the song's place on the superhero soundtrack "Batman Forever" (1995).

This allowed the band members a suspension before their on-screen shadows transitioned into their real-life selves, taking a side stage on the opposite terminate of the arena. They immediately erupted into their Grammy-winning hit "Elevation" with its signature refrain "wooooooo!"

Immediately later, Bono counted downwards the Castilian intro of "Vertigo" — "Uno, dos, tres, catorce!" — as Edge shredded to spiraling imagery, recalling Alfred Hitchcock'due south 1958 movie masterpiece. Fans will too recall the 2004 song from Steve Jobs' original iPod commercial, in which U2 wore white earbuds over Saul Bass-style black paper cutout bodies.

Next upwardly, Bono belted "Desire" from the band'southward 6th album "Rattle and Hum" (1988), followed by the lesser-known "Acrobat," "Y'all're the All-time Thing Near Me" and "Staring at the Sun."

The crowd became visibly uneasy upon footage of the 2017 white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, including neo-Nazi salutes and Amalgamated flags. All of a sudden, these images of hate were washed abroad by images of peace, as U2 performed "Pride (In the Proper name of Love)" with images of Dr. Martin Luther Male monarch Jr. marching through the streets of the nation's upper-case letter.

Bono grabbed the mic to say, "This is a great country that gave us Elvis Presley and Miles Davis," earlier singing the new single "Leave of Your Own Way," a symbolic suggestion to America. This was fittingly followed by "American Soul" and "City of Blinding Lights," which was played every bit the soundtrack to then-candidate Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential rallies.

Notably absent-minded were "With or Without Yous," "Mysterious Ways," "I Still Haven't Found What I'one thousand Looking For," "New year'south Mean solar day," "Walk On," "Stuck in a Moment Y'all Can't Get Out Of" and "Where the Streets Have No Name," which should be played at every U2 concert like Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." Oh well, after iv decades of hits, yous tin can't play everything.

In the end, the crowd was treated to a trio of encores, including a touching rendition of "One," followed by new singles "Love is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way" and "13 (At that place is a Lite)."

Every bit Bono introduced "1," he spoke of female person empowerment and bipartisan cooperation: "Nosotros're non going to solve the world's problems with only half of the earth'southward brainpower. We too need left and correct. There's too much at pale: the idea of America. The most important word in English language language is 'compromise.' There is no united states and them. This is 'One.'"

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for "his savantlike ability to name every Best Motion-picture show winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Amusement Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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