* Eddie Vedder London 1, Fanviews Here 6/6/17 *

Sea · June 2017

Eddie Vedder
Hammersmith Apollo
Hammersmith, London, UK
June 06, 2017
Show One
Set List

Ed On Stage 08:58
Ed Off Stage 11:14

The Red Limo String Quartet are:
Sietse van Gorkom-violin
Camilla van der Kooij-violin
Rani Kumar-viola
Jonas Pap-Cello

Intro Music: Tuolumne

01. Walking The Cow-(Daniel Johnston)
02. Trouble-(Stevens)
03. Sometimes
04. Thumbing My Way
05. I Am Mine
06. Can’t Keep
07. Without Your
08. Ukulele Anthem-(A. Palmer) {Ed gets the “worst sounding ukulele” he has and promises to give it to a little girl he spotted earlier in the audience when he finishes the song. He comments that the song is about absolute devotion to the ukulele. Ed, of course, gives her the instrument}

The Red Limo String Quartet enters the stage
09. Here Comes The Sun-(Harrison) {Ed plays ukulele}
Quartet exits the stage

10. Far Behind
11. Setting Forth
12. Guaranteed {dedicated to Sean Penn for “inventing this job for me”.}
13. Long Nights-(with Glen Hansard playing bass) [Ed refers to Glen as hero of a friend and ox of a man and says he really is the “Ox” now because he is playing bass. This is reference to The Who bassist John Entwistle’s nickname.]
14. Rise
15. Better Man

16. I Am A Patriot-(Van Zandt)
17. Immortality
18. Lukin
19. Porch
20. Isn’t It A Pity-(Harrison) {Ed plays on pump organ}
21. Wishlist
22. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
(“this is by my favorite Nobel laureate for my great friend Dhani [Harrison]”)
23. Forever Young-(Dylan)

The Red Limo String Quartet enters the stage
24. “Heroes”-(Bowie, Eno)-with strings {Partial}
25. Just Breathe-with strings

{Ed talks about Chris. How Chris was not only a friend but like a brother. He and Glen play a very emotional version of the next song and Glen sings the last part}
26. Song Of Good Hope-(Hansard) with strings. Ed sings main vocal, Glen plays guitar and sings harmony

{This one’s for George [Harrison]. He loved the Everly’s”.}
27. Sleepless Nights-(Bryant, Bryant)-They barely get into the song before Ed says he screwed it up and stops. “I don’t feel like I should be driving right now”. so the move onto the next song promising to play it “for George” next time
28. Falling Slowly-(Hansard, Irglová) w/ strings {Glen sings lead and plays guitar. Ed sings harmony except for the bridge where he sings the lead
29. Rocking In The Free World-(Young) with Glen Hansard and Dhani Harrison
30. Hard Sun-(Peterson) with Glen Hansard and Dhani Harrison playing ac gtr and bg voc & Red Limo Sting Quartet bg voc
31. Dream A Little Dream Of Me-(Kahn, Andre, Schwandt) {Ed wanted to serenade his lovely friend Olivia Harrison}

Glen onstage: 7:30
Glen Hansard Set List
01. High Hope
02. Revelate
03. My Little Ruin
04. Bird Of Sorrow
05. Vigilante Man-Guthrie
06. Way Back
07. Devil Town-(Daniel Johnston)

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Thanks John for the set list & notes.

cp3iverson · June 2017

Gotta see that Cornell tribute. Wow

Idlewild · June 2017

That was so awesome. Thank you Eddie and Glen for a great night

Furry thing 2 · June 2017

Amazing beautiful very emotional night. The Cornell tribute was beautiful. He spoke about how 2 nights after the news he woke with a head full of big memories and could not stop thinking of them, and that he will remember all the great memories. He spoke of his love for all those affected and Chris's family and his brothers in the band and in Soundgarden.

RunIntoTheRain · June 2017

I hope a lot of attendees post here about this show. Seems like an amazing one.
He played Here Comes The Sun. I mean holy crap! Let's hear about it.

Electro_UK · June 2017

Feel immensely honoured and privileged to have been at both Ed's first show since Chris' passing and the first show he addressed it at too.

Glen came on stage an Ed joked about fucking up a bit on Just Breathe. He then started playing with his thumbs, looked at the floor and started to talk about how he hadn't been addressing something. He said he lost one of his brothers two years ago in the click of a finger and that he's not good at accepting death.

"I did lose a friend," he said or something very close.

He then spoke about two nights after Chris' passing he was at a cabin near a lake. He woke up around 1:30am with intense memories of Chris. These memories would only last a minute, but the flood of them was enough to last hours. He said he had really looked up to his friend and in many ways he was an older brother to him.

Glen comforted him and the audience -- which had mostly been dead quiet -- gave him a standing ovation. It was deeply moving and I'm glad it sounds like Ed is starting to process the tragedy.

eloviate · June 2017

By the water, memories started arriving first like the big muscles, then as the late night went on, the little memories kept coming. And he was eventually grateful for having these thoughts, instead of sad.

He really seems like the process is under way...

a powerful, cathartic evening.

A lot of tears around me

vedder_soup · June 2017

Sea, the Hammersmith Apollo is in Hammersmith... Not Shepherds Bush...

wishlisa76 · June 2017

When Eddie started talking about Chris, the crowd became so silent, like everyone stopped breathing for a while. It was beautiful and it felt like an honour to hear him talk about his friend. "And I will love him forever" he ended it, and that's something I will remember forever.

What a good night! Eddie sounded better than ever. Really beautiful and breathtaking show. Emotions raw and honest and powerful. A real work of art. I feel cleansed and speechless, yet I have so much to say. Thank god we still have music in this fucked up world. We need it more than ever and tonight was proof of that.

dimitrispearljam · June 2017

Eddie About Chris in London 1 show tonight...:

: " I will love him forever"

Sometimes it's hard to concentrate these days. I was thinking about the history of this building and the Bowie history. So I started to think about that and my mind began to wander. It's not a good...

So I haven't really been talking about some things and I kind of... now it feels like it's conspicuous because I lost a really close friend of mine, somebody who...(applause)

I'll say this too, I grew up as 4 boys, 4 brothers and I lost my brother 2 years ago tragically like that in an accident and after that and losing a few other people, I'm not good at it, meaning I'm not...I have not been willing to accept the reality and that's just how I'm dealing with it (applause starts)

no, no, no, no

So I want to be there for the family, be there for the community, be there for my brothers in my band, certainly the brothers in his band. But these things will take time but my friend is going to be gone forever and I will just have to...

These things take time and I just want to send this out to everyone who was affected by it and they all back home and here appreciate it so deeply the support and the good thoughts of a man who was a ... you know he wasn't just a friend he was someone I looked up to like my older brother.

About two days after the news, I think it was the second night we were sleeping in this little cabin near the water, a place he would've loved. And all these memories started coming in about 1:30am like woke me up. Like big memories, memories I would think about all the time. Like the memories were big muscles.

And then I couldn't stop the memories. And trying to sleep it was like if the neighbours had the music playing and you couldn't stop it. But then it was fine because then it got into little memories. It just kept going and going and going. And I realised how lucky I was to have hours worth of...you know if each of these memories was quick and I had hours of them. How fortunate was I?! And I didn't want to be sad, wanted to be grateful not sad. I'm still thinking about those memories and I will live with those memories in my heart and I will...love him forever

(Applause and standing ovation)

BIGDaddyWil · June 2017

^^^^^^ WOW! Thanks D!

dancinacrossthewater · June 2017

Guys, as someone who was at a lot of the Temple shows last year and who actually was in Detroit too, hearing Eddie talk this way really helps. No pressure on him - he should feel free to express himself how and when he feels - but he's an eloquently guy and the loss here really hurts.

Memories as muscles is a powerful idea. Thank you

eyecanwalk · June 2017

fuck that made me ........

mcgruff10 · June 2017

That speech....wow. Just wow. Perfection ed.

CantKeepmedown · June 2017

I was feeling guilty for wanting to see video/hear audio of that. Thanks, D, for transcribing that. Just about as perfect a response as you could ask for. And not the least bit surprised.