*** NOS Alive Festival Fanviews Here 7.13.24 ***

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Pearl Jam
NOS Alive Festival
Lisboa, PT
07/13/24
Set List

Walk On Music: Dark Entree
Band Onstage 11:15
Band Offstage 1:13

01. Daughter
02. Dark Matter
03. React, Respond
04. Animal
05. Given To Fly
06. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
07. Wreckage
08. Why Go
09. Jeremy
10. Wishlist
11. Waiting For Stevie
12. Even Flow
13. Upper Hand
14. Mind Your Manners
15. Once
16. Porch

Encore Break

17. Imagine-(Lennon, Ono)
18. Black
19. Do The Evolution
20. Alive
21. Rocking In The Free World-(Young)
22. Yellow Ledbetter

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Thank you, John for the set list & notes.

bazfromoz

Loved it, the only 2 shocks were animal and mind your manners. Missing scared of fear was actually disappointing. 

bazfromoz

Not sure if this should be included in fan views. But no trains leaving towards the city, people walking along the motorway overhead and towards the next station 3kms away? Was a nightmare. Horrific organisation from the festival/public transport system. Fail. 

D-Day

Details of local colorit and freak show bits can‘t be wrong.

bootlegger10

bazfromoz said:

Not sure if this should be included in fan views. But no trains leaving towards the city, people walking along the motorway overhead and towards the next station 3kms away? Was a nightmare. Horrific organisation from the festival/public transport system. Fail. 

There were 7 trains that the festival site said would run to downtown from 2:15am to 4:30am.  I took a train at 1:30am.  Headed Ledbetter from the train platform.  Did an official say there were no more trains?  It was the station closest to the festival entrance walking towards city.

that would suck to walk.  That is a long way.

bootlegger10

The crowd brought it during Daughter and the band clearly knew it.  Great crowd.  Another greatest hits set but tough to disagree with when you see the crowd reaction.  Has to be addictive for the band to see the wave of people loving it versus disengaged during a white whale.

Animal is so terribly underplayed, but when we do get to hear it is amazing.  

Mike is the MVP.  Was funny when Ed made him go do a solo on the long catwalk out of the middle of the stage.  Was neat to see Mike claim the spotlight like that.

The band clearly wanted to get through the setlist.  They barely took any breaks between songs even during a run of heavier stuff.  They were on a mission.

Oh and I just about brushed shoulders with the president of Portugal as we were walking opposite directions during PJ’s set.  I wouldn’t have known it other than an older gent in a sportcoat and people’s reaction calling him President.  Ironic that their president can walk around in a crowd and what happened today with Trump.

Visited Sintra this morning/afternoon.  PJ at night.  Don’t miss out on Spain and Portugal if they come back.

mikesbri

I had a great time exploring the beautiful city of Lisbon and Sintra/Cascais. Crowd and energy at the show was great and band seemed to really appreciate it. Looked like Ed got emotional towards the end. I think Ed still struggling with whatever he had seemed a bit winded at times. See you in NYC 2

Daron Oshay

bootlegger10 said:

The crowd brought it during Daughter and the band clearly knew it.  Great crowd.  Another greatest hits set but tough to disagree with when you see the crowd reaction.  Has to be addictive for the band to see the wave of people loving it versus disengaged during a white whale.

Animal is so terribly underplayed, but when we do get to hear it is amazing.  

Mike is the MVP.  Was funny when Ed made him go do a solo on the long catwalk out of the middle of the stage.  Was neat to see Mike claim the spotlight like that.

The band clearly wanted to get through the setlist.  They barely took any breaks between songs even during a run of heavier stuff.  They were on a mission.

Oh and I just about brushed shoulders with the president of Portugal as we were walking opposite directions during PJ’s set.  I wouldn’t have known it other than an older gent in a sportcoat and people’s reaction calling him President.  Ironic that their president can walk around in a crowd and what happened today with Trump.

Visited Sintra this morning/afternoon.  PJ at night.  Don’t miss out on Spain and Portugal if they come back.

Great review. Glad you enjoyed it so much. Proof list Monday Morning QBing is useless 

Em1983

Excellent show, loved to be at a festival where I don't feel like I was 20 years older than everyone! Loved Lisbon all the people we met very friendly, crowd had a great vibe, band always excellent loved hearing waiting for Stevie , animal, mind your manners and Imagine, obviously amongst the rest! As they say miss you already!

bazfromoz

bootlegger10 said:

bazfromoz said:

Not sure if this should be included in fan views. But no trains leaving towards the city, people walking along the motorway overhead and towards the next station 3kms away? Was a nightmare. Horrific organisation from the festival/public transport system. Fail. 

There were 7 trains that the festival site said would run to downtown from 2:15am to 4:30am.  I took a train at 1:30am.  Headed Ledbetter from the train platform.  Did an official say there were no more trains?  It was the station closest to the festival entrance walking towards city.

that would suck to walk.  That is a long way.

Not sure what the issue was, but no one allowed to go inside train station. Maybe it was too busy so they stopped people for a while. Don’t know exactly but was annoying. Great festival though, atmosphere very chilled 

chaslil

When Eddie came out with his acoustic for the encore, he spoke of the discord in the world and hoped the election in his home country would be a "healing election". He asked everyone to raise their phones in the air and sing along to John Lennon's "Imagine". I got out my phone and saw that my WhatsApp group with my USA siblings had 30 messages. I thought "This can only mean one thing: Biden has dropped out!" But instead, my memory of the shooting last night will be juxtaposed with ten of thousands of Portuguese singing "Imagine".

bootlegger10

bazfromoz said:

bootlegger10 said:

bazfromoz said:

Not sure if this should be included in fan views. But no trains leaving towards the city, people walking along the motorway overhead and towards the next station 3kms away? Was a nightmare. Horrific organisation from the festival/public transport system. Fail. 

There were 7 trains that the festival site said would run to downtown from 2:15am to 4:30am.  I took a train at 1:30am.  Headed Ledbetter from the train platform.  Did an official say there were no more trains?  It was the station closest to the festival entrance walking towards city.

that would suck to walk.  That is a long way.

Not sure what the issue was, but no one allowed to go inside train station. Maybe it was too busy so they stopped people for a while. Don’t know exactly but was annoying. Great festival though, atmosphere very chilled 

It was odd.  They blocked the entrance to one ramp, but there was a ramp immediately behind coming from the opposite direction we could go down. 

shetellsherself

chaslil said:

When Eddie came out with his acoustic for the encore, he spoke of the discord in the world and hoped the election in his home country would be a "healing election". He asked everyone to raise their phones in the air and sing along to John Lennon's "Imagine". I got out my phone and saw that my WhatsApp group with my USA siblings had 30 messages. I thought "This can only mean one thing: Biden has dropped out!" But instead, my memory of the shooting last night will be juxtaposed with ten of thousands of Portuguese singing "Imagine".

Wow

bootlegger10

Didn’t even do the “the shades go down” part on Daughter.  Did have the crowd do the improv a bit though.  Which I don’t like as it isn’t really improv anymore. 

tomccfc87

bootlegger10 said:

bazfromoz said:

bootlegger10 said:

bazfromoz said:

Not sure if this should be included in fan views. But no trains leaving towards the city, people walking along the motorway overhead and towards the next station 3kms away? Was a nightmare. Horrific organisation from the festival/public transport system. Fail. 

There were 7 trains that the festival site said would run to downtown from 2:15am to 4:30am.  I took a train at 1:30am.  Headed Ledbetter from the train platform.  Did an official say there were no more trains?  It was the station closest to the festival entrance walking towards city.

that would suck to walk.  That is a long way.

Not sure what the issue was, but no one allowed to go inside train station. Maybe it was too busy so they stopped people for a while. Don’t know exactly but was annoying. Great festival though, atmosphere very chilled 

It was odd.  They blocked the entrance to one ramp, but there was a ramp immediately behind coming from the opposite direction we could go down. 

It was because both sides of the ramp converged to a single point so having both sides open would have caused a massive crush in the middle. 

Getting away form the site was a bit of a pain due to the railway line meaning that fans had to walk 2-3km to reach a crossing point to access the station, and bus/taxi pick up points. It would have been better if they had built some temporary footbridges over the tracks to allow people to cross sooner, I have seen other festivals do this to get fans across roads without disrupting local traffic. However the overhead power lines for the trains may have made this difficult.

I also read some reviews that the sound quality wasn't great for the first part of PJs set but that must have just been for those further back as from where I was on the second barrier it sounded great. In fact the whole festival probably had the best sound quality I have ever heard at an outdoor concert/festival.

Other than the issues getting away from the site after PJs set Nos Alive was one of the best organised festivals I have been to. I never once had to queue for food, drink or toilets even between bands. It would have been nice to have a broader beer selection than just Heineken but that's a minor complaint tbh. There was a really happy chilled vibe to the whole festival with none of the immaturity and aggression that I have witnessed from certain elements in the crowd at most UK festivals. Great weather too and the location next to the water meant the sea breeze stopped it getting too hot during the day.

In terms of PJs set, it was the first show in Portugal in 6 years and a festival being attended by non-PJ fans so of course it's going to be a hits setlist rather than a deep cuts one. I was stood next to a girl who had specifically came to see Sum 41 but stuck around for PJ and absolutely loved their set. It was great to see Eddie back with some energy to burn. Whilst he wasn't back to 100% the difference in his stage presence between Lisbon and the previous show I attended in Manchester was obvious. Being the last night of the European tour and with a few weeks off ahead of them the whole band were clearly determined to put it all out there on the stage. They were clearly having a great time out there. The smile on Jeff's face watching Eddie in the photo I took below says it all.



Beyond the festival and PJ, Lisbon is a beautiful city with so much to see and explore. Starting a new job recently meant I was only ever going to be able to do one overseas date on this tour and having visited Lisbon before I knew I wanted to return so going there to see PJ was the perfect vacation. I met so many great people with a shared love of PJ both at the festival and at the rock bar in the Bairro Alto the night before the show. I ate great food, enjoyed the weather, after day 1 of the festival I had no interest in the day 2 bands so spent the day chilling on the beach. Definitely one of my favourite Pearl Jam trips so far.

Next up for me: Ohana