Pearl Jam European Concert History

List of Pearl Jam Concerts in Europe

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July 13, 2024 – NOS Alive Festival, Lisbon, POR

Main Set: Daughter, Dark Matter, React, Respond, Animal, Given To Fly, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Wreckage, Why Go, Jeremy, WIshlist, Waiting For Stevie, Even Flow, Upper Hand, Mind Your Manners, Once, Porch

encore 1: Imagine, Black, Do The Evolution, Alive, Rockin' In The Free World, Yellow Ledbetter

Show Notes:

The President of Portugal is in attendance for this, the last show of the European leg. It’s a late show, starting after 11 pm local time. There are steps down an extension of the stage out into the crowd, which…

Show Notes: 

The President of Portugal is in attendance for this, the last show of the European leg. It’s a late show, starting after 11 pm local time. There are steps down an extension of the stage out into the crowd, which Ed makes full use of. They open with a short Daughter, no tag, just Ed and the crowd doing the “whoa-oh” chant, and they kick right into Dark Matter, its earliest appearance in a setlist yet. No Scared of Fear tonight, React, Respond is next, followed by the long-awaited 2024 debut of Animal. During Small Town, Ed says “…it’s yours if you want it,” and lets the crowd take the vocal, motioning back to Matt to keep it going, saying “…one more, you got it!” and he joins the crowd, harmonizing at the end. He apologizes for his Portuguese, saying that it’s a hard language. Some birthday messages are shown on the screen during Wishlist, including to Tiago (possibly Tiago Pires, a well-known Portuguese surfer), and a message to Pedro, who had requested Off He Goes, with the message “Next time.” Mike shines on Waiting for Stevie, and then plays most of the Even Flow solo behind his head, with the visuals behind cascading upwards an infinite amount of Pearl Jams, and goes out on the front ramp above the crowd at the end. Ed comes out after the break and talks about how Boom’s ancestors were from Portugal and went to Hawaii by boat back in the 19th century. He plays Imagine solo, with the crowd showing their fireflies and singing along. During the Black solo, Ed walks out front and conducts the crowd, tapping his arms against his heart to the rhythm of the crowd’s clapping, and getting on his knees and doing the “we’re not worthy” motion to each side as the song ends. He gets to crowd to clap along to Mike’s Ledbetter outro, and leaves with “Thank you…goodnight. We’re very blessed.” Indifference, Not For You, and Baba O’Riley are all cut from the encore setlist.

July 11, 2024 – Mad Cool Festival, Madrid, ESP

Main Set: Lukin, Corduroy, Why Go, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Given To Fly, Scared Of Fear, React, Respond, Wreckage, Daughter/(W.M.A.), Dark Matter, Even Flow, Upper Hand, Unthought Known, Black, Running, Porch

encore 1: Better Man/(Save It For Later), Do The Evolution, Alive, Rockin' In The Free World, Yellow Ledbetter

Show Notes:

Lukin opens for the second time this year, just like at Bottlerock. In fact, the first 11 songs are exactly the same as what was played at that festival back in May. Ed leads a energetic call and response during…

Show Notes: 

Lukin opens for the second time this year, just like at Bottlerock. In fact, the first 11 songs are exactly the same as what was played at that festival back in May. Ed leads a energetic call and response during Corduroy. Before Small Town, Ed has a sheet of paper, he starts to speak in Spanish but then switches to English:

“…Welcome to a show about friends…we are all friends, you are all friends, we are friends…”

He continues in Spanish, talking about what a beautiful night it is and how magnificent the country is. Mike is pogoing throughout the beginning of React, Respond and shreds the solo, his sparkly jacket that he started the show with removed. Jeff starts the actual W.M.A. bassline as soon as Ed starts singing the Daughter tag. Ed speaks in Spanish again, a running theme throughout the show of “Y tambien…mi gran gran amigo…” (And also….my great great friend) talking about a different band member each time, Matt before Dark Matter, and Mike before Even Flow. Unthought Known makes its 2024 debut. Ed sees an issue in the crowd before Black but it’s evidently taken care of quickly. Big singalongs all night long, the crowd is loud on Black especially. Mike’s Black solo is again showstopping, this song is on an incredible run right now. Ed walks up behind him and gives him a big hug from behind as the solo ends. Prior to Porch, Ed talks about the first time they played there, at Club Revolver. He talks about his two brothers, Jason and Michael, back home in California; their birthdays were yesterday and today, one of them is 50 and he jokes that he doesn’t know how old the other one is. He asks for someone to record and has the crowd sing Happy Birthday to them. Mike starts off the Porch jam slow, almost psychedelic, but then ramps it up quickly as Ed dances beside him. Speaking of Ed, he runs way out in the middle of the T barricade during the jam, getting an up close look at the crowd. He stays down there as he comes back in vocally, urging the crowd for more. Black, Running, and Porch also closed out the Bottlerock main set. It’s all crowd favorites in the encore, starting with Better Man. Ed asks for the crowd to sing extra loud, and they oblige. He’s running all along the side stages and dancing during Alive, the band’s in a great mood all night and energy is high. As Stone is soloing during Rockin’ in the Free World, Jeff motions to Mike to switch instruments and they do, Mike taking the bass and Jeff strumming on guitar. Before Ledbetter, Ed takes a moment to shout out Motxila 21, a Spanish music group made up of people with Down’s Syndrome, saying “they are amazing people…we are proud to be on the same stage as all those incredible people…remember that we are friends.”

July 8, 2024 – Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, ESP

Main Set: Oceans, Off He Goes, Daughter/(Rise), Once, Why Go, Scared Of Fear, React, Respond, 1/2 Full, Wreckage, Even Flow, Immortality, Who Ever Said/((I Can't Get No) Satisfaction), Corduroy, Waiting For Stevie, Something Special, Do The Evolution, Rearviewmirror

encore 1: Smile, Running, State Of Love And Trust, Black, Alive, Rockin' In The Free World, Yellow Ledbetter

Show Notes:

Oceans opens night two in Barcelona, a touching nod to the 2018 show, where it was dedicated to a fan named Israel who had passed away. Off He Goes is upbeat and jangly, the crowd clapping along. The Daughter tag…

Show Notes: 

Oceans opens night two in Barcelona, a touching nod to the 2018 show, where it was dedicated to a fan named Israel who had passed away. Off He Goes is upbeat and jangly, the crowd clapping along. The Daughter tag is a Public Image Ltd. song called “Rise” (“May the road rise with you/anger is an energy”). 1/2 Full has a unique visual, as the artist Rob Sheridan explained on Instagram (@rob_sheridan):

“I brought a photo to life that [Jeff} had taken at Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia the day before, giving it surreal movement that gradually melts into abstract forms inspired by Gaudi and Dali…as my video dissolved into a haze towards the end of the song [Eddie] took over on some visuals of his own, using his guitar to reflect a beam of light out onto the crowd. It was only noon yesterday when Jeff threw out the idea of using his photo to bring some of the city’s own inspiring texture into the show, and by that evening we had created all this from it.”

Ed sees a fan in the audience who has a sign asking to come on stage and play guitar, and tells a story about a dream he had where he was surfing and the fan and his sign appeared in the dream, exclaiming “I dreamed about you!” He continues, teasing that the fan has to play hard to get now. Mike starts the Even Flow solo with his teeth and then goes down front, letting the front row help out. As the solo finishes, the crowd starts a “whoa, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh” chant and Ed picks up on it, interjecting “…you’re in the band, man!” The crowd continues the chant after the song and Ed joins in with a short improv. Immortality is stellar as always. Who Ever Said returns for the first time this year, a rare Gigaton appearance. Ed does a new intro to Corduroy, strummed with lots of harmonics. Waiting For Stevie returns as well for the first time in Europe. During Something Special, there’s what looks like a serious medical issue in the audience, and the song is stopped for a few minutes while the person is attended to At one point Ed asks if everything is okay and the crowd response is a resounding “no.” It was very hot in the venue as well, perhaps a contributing factor. During a fantastic RVM, everyone drops out and it’s just the crowd propelling the song with their clapping until Jeff comes back in for the finish. After the break, the entire band comes back out for Smile, with dedications shown on the screen in Ed’s calligraphy. After the dedications conclude, the last slide reads:

Dear

Barcelona,

WE

FUCKING

LOVE YOU!

Ed adds “…ain’t that the truth!” at the end for good measure. Before Black, Ed says “…every face that we can see here, it’s just like an incredible face with an incredible emotion…what have we done in our lives to deserve this, I don’t know…real fucking people, man, real emotion, real faces…you know, I meet people in the street, but they’re not as cool as you, just saying…” Black is once again an outpouring of emotion and intensity, Mike jabbing the headstock of his guitar against his amp and falling to his knees. Openers The Murder Capital join on stage for Rockin’ in the Free World, and the fan from earlier is brought up for Ledbetter, he and Mike work it out and then he plays guitar during the song! Ed thanks the crowd for “this beautiful energy….thank you for directing it our way.”

July 6, 2024 – Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, ESP

Main Set: Footsteps, Nothingman, Present Tense, Given To Fly, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Scared Of Fear, React, Respond, Wreckage, Corduroy, Even Flow, In My Tree, Dark Matter, Jeremy, Habit, Upper Hand, (Romanza)/Better Man/(Save It For Later), Porch

encore 1: Just Breathe, Wasted Reprise, Life Wasted, Do The Evolution, Setting Sun, Alive, Baba O'Riley

Show Notes:

After having to cancel the last 3 shows (night 2 in Manchester and both Berlin shows), PJ returns to the stage in Barcelona. Footsteps opens in the dark, only Jeff is seated, Ed showing none of the ill effects that…

Show Notes: 

After having to cancel the last 3 shows (night 2 in Manchester and both Berlin shows), PJ returns to the stage in Barcelona. Footsteps opens in the dark, only Jeff is seated, Ed showing none of the ill effects that forced the cancellations. The crowd is loud and helps out on Nothingman. Mike is stalking the stage during the build in Present Tense and Ed goes down on the front riser and plays to the rail. Ed speaks in Spanish, reading from a paper. Given to Fly sees the lyric change “…made it to Barcelona…” Ed steps away from the mic at the end of Small Town, letting the crowd take the vocal, then adding “one more, show us what you got!” Mike shreds on Scared of Fear, again thrashing around at the end. Ed introduces React, Respond in Spanish. Prior to Wreckage, he speaks in Spanish again, talking about how the songs on Ten only had one word, and this one on the new record does too. After Even Flow, Ed leads a chant, shouting out Mike, and then talks about how Jeff and Stone have been brothers for 40 years. He praises the crowd, calling them the most energetic they’ve had on the tour so far. In My Tree is dedicated to a woman named Celia, “it’s her favorite.” Mike goes down front for the Dark Matter solo. Ed conducts the crowd during Jeremy, pogoing and building them up for a deafening singalong at the end. He’s holding a guitar and says “not sure if you’ll know this one…” and plays Name that Tune, hitting the first note, asking “any idea? This is about having something that you wanted for a while, and then once you had it, you couldn’t get rid of it, and if you don’t get rid of it, you’ll fuckin’ die,” leading into a downtuned Habit. Ed once again is speaking Spanish before Upper Hand, reading from his paper. He asks “…am I saying that right?” and then speaks English, joking that after 4 years, once they move here in December, he’ll be more fluent. He does a short Spanish guitar “Romanza” intro to Better Man on the electric guitar, the first time it’s been played since 2005! After the break, Ed comes out solo and gets the various parts of the crowd to make noise, competing with each other. He says “…we had days off we didn’t want to have off, to come out of it and land in this kind of ocean with great people and a great wave, thank you.” The band returns for Wasted Reprise, Boom starts the chords and Ed speaks, taking a moment to collect his thoughts:

“Last week, it almost felt like a near-death experience, it was very uncomfortable and it got frightening, it was a chest, front cavity…it felt like maybe you couldn’t breathe and you might not make it through the night, like you might have to go to the hospital…you just realized how precious this life is, how lucky we are to have been living on a planet where we can go around and play to incredible people like the people in this room here tonight, so it was a poignant experience, I won’t be forgetting it anytime soon, and we won’t be forgetting tonight anytime soon…”

It’s the first Wasted Reprise since 2021, and followed by the first Life Wasted since 2022. Ed’s running around and being interactive with the crowd during Alive, Jeff goes over to Stone’s side and plays for a while before he and Stone gather around Matt for the end. Mike immediately kicks into Baba O’Riley and the celebration is on. Ed leaves with “…there’s no words to say thanks as much as we feel, but I’ll try…I’ll just bow to you, thank you…” and leads the crowd in an “olé” chant before exiting.

June 25, 2024 – Co-op Live, Manchester, ENG

Main Set: Of The Girl, Present Tense, Why Go, All Night, Given To Fly, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Scared Of Fear, React, Respond, Immortality, Even Flow, Wreckage, Daughter, Dark Matter, I Got Id, Once, Porch

encore 1: Inside Job, State Of Love And Trust, Do The Evolution, Black/(We Belong Together/Crown Of Thorns), Alive, Fuckin' Up, Yellow Ledbetter

Show Notes:

Ed says a quick “Good evening” and Of the Girl opens in the dark. Mike’s in fine form already, Ed says “…just warming up,” and the stage lights come up for Present Tense. All Night returns for the first time…

Show Notes: 

Ed says a quick “Good evening” and Of the Girl opens in the dark. Mike’s in fine form already, Ed says “…just warming up,” and the stage lights come up for Present Tense. All Night returns for the first time since 2022. Ed’s not at 100%, giving more lyrics to the crowd and doing the best he can, explaining that he caught a bug in Dublin. Despite that, the band sounds great, tearing through Scared of Fear and React, Respond before Ed calls an audible, moving Wreckage back, needing the long instrumental sections of Immortality and Even Flow. Mike plays the first part of the Even Flow solo with his teeth. Ed acknowledges the vocal issues, saying “I feel like I’m doing damage to myself…” He mumbles something at the end of Daughter, but it never turns into a tag. Ed plays a slow, pretty intro to I Got Id and has the spotlight on him during the first verse until the band kicks him. He changes the lyric to “…where I’m not hurting and you’re looking at me…” The vocal issues creep up again during Once. Mike solos for nearly 3 minutes during Porch, at one point grinding his guitar neck against his mic stand, while Jeff and Stone lock down the rhythm face to face in front of Matt. Stone takes over soloing duties, and then Mike jumps back in and they go into co-op mode (in the Co-Op Live Arena), before throwing up his hands and going back to his side while Stone finishes off the solo. No Ed solo acoustic song after the break tonight, they come out with Inside Job, giving Ed an extra minute or two. State of Love and Trust is rough, Ed showing the effects of the sickness and fatigue, but they push through it. Before Black, he sees an issue in the crowd and has the lights brought up, and he gives them some water, joking “…I can turn wine into water…I can’t do it the other way.” Mike once again brings the house down with his Black solo, an unbelievable display of emotion. Ed does a subdued We Belong Together tag, then adds some lyrics (“…all the things you gave to me…I kept them in my pocket…”) before going into a short Crown of Thorns tag (“…Mr. crown of thorns…Mr. faded glory is once again doing time…”). Stone takes over Fuckin’ Up. Ed gets down on his knees and does the “we’re not worthy” arms up and down for Mike after Ledbetter. Upper Hand, Setting Sun, MFC, and Sonic Reducer were all on the setlist but not played.

June 22, 2024 – Marlay Park, Dublin, IRE

Main Set: Release, Low Light, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Corduroy, Given To Fly, Scared Of Fear, Eruption, React, Respond, Wreckage, Wishlist, Even Flow, Dark Matter, Daughter/(Give Me The Cure/Suggestion), Jeremy, Upper Hand, Better Man/(Save It For Later), Black/(We Belong Together), Porch

encore 1: Keep Me In Your Heart, Not For You/(Modern Girl), Why Go, Do The Evolution, Setting Sun, Alive, Rockin' In The Free World

Show Notes:

The curtains open and Release starts, with a stark black-and-white visual on the screens behind. Delicate vocals from Ed on the verses, and he changes the line to “Oh, dear Glen…” He also ad-libs during Low Light, adding “…not alone”…

Show Notes: 

The curtains open and Release starts, with a stark black-and-white visual on the screens behind. Delicate vocals from Ed on the verses, and he changes the line to “Oh, dear Glen…” He also ad-libs during Low Light, adding “…not alone” quickly after the “…can I be here all alone?” line. After Small Town, he says “…it’s been a while! We missed you!” [the last show in Ireland was in 2010], adding that they’re “humbled” that everyone came. Ed loses it early on Given to Fly, saying he’s out of breath, but continues. Plenty of singalongs in the set tonight. Eruption is added to the set after Scared of Fear, Jeff runs off stage and Ed takes a breather. Before Wreckage, Ed says “…when recording this last record, we shot for the clouds…and we might have gotten lucky.” He points out a kid up front, Alex, who’s celebrating his 11th birthday, and says the theme of the night is “young men growing up to be good men, so Alex, when you grow up, don’t be a fucking…[Ed pauses, realizing he’s cursed in front of a kid]…knucklehead.” Matt shines on all the new songs, and Dark Matter especially. Afterwards, Ed mentions that he wrote a poem on a cloth on the trip over, and reads it to the crowd:

“Oh to land in Dublin, with Eddie Burns on the aisle,
I don’t have to drink tonight, knowing tomorrow I’ll be doing the drinking for a while,
There’s a full moon flying over Ireland, and briefly all seems right in this world,
These are the moments you’d like for to last, like a first date with your forever girl,
And the winds ain’t even blowing, and the rains are somehow far away,
The face of this city is glowing, in awareness of the rareness of the day,
Wherever I am, if I am with you, I’ve always got a room with a view.”

2 Fugazi songs are tagged onto Daughter, “Give Me The Cure” (“Give me the shot/Give me the cure/Give me the shot/Now what you’ve done to our world”) and then “Suggestion”, which had only been tagged once since 1998, in 2018. Ed bangs on a tambourine during the end of Upper Hand then sends it flying into the crowd. Prior to Better Man, he talks about the Natasha O’Brien protests and women’s rights, concluding with “…it might be a good idea to have a few more female judges as well, when you think about it…” The crowd takes the intro, and Ed says “sounds great” before joining back in. Black is dedicated to Amelia Ferguson, who had tragically passed at the young age of 14, and her family and friends, Ed gets emotional talking about her struggle with health issues and their grief. The song stretches out past 8 minutes, Mike’s solo is stellar, eliciting so much out of his instrument, and Ed has both hands on the microphone during the short but powerful We Belong Together tag. Coming back out solo after the break, he says “…this was a great wave tonight, and we’re very grateful…” He dedicates Keep Me In Your Heart to Sinead O’Connor and Shane MacGowan, and talks about how Shane stole the beers out of their dressing room at the Slane Castle show in 1993. Stone has a very staccato solo in the middle of Not For You. Ed shouts “Stone!” before the Evolution solo, and then changes the lyric to “…admire my Stone…” He gets emotional during the Modern Girl tag and barely gets through it. Setting Sun is not the closer tonight, we’ll see if they change that up for the rest of Europe. Ed goes down front (there’s a large distance between the stage and the front row) and gives high fives during the Alive solo. Ed tries to get a call and response going during RITFW, but the crowd just sings along with him. Before the band kicks back in, he exclaims “Thank you for bringing it! Thank you for giving it!” and before the solo, adds “…fuckin’ beautiful!” He takes the mic one last time before leaving, saying “…sorry, getting emotional up here…can’t tell you what it means, thanks so much…be safe now, love each other. Thank you.”

 

 

July 25, 2022 – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, NED

Main Set: Nothing As It Seems, Off He Goes, Footsteps, Alright, W.M.A., Why Go, Even Flow, Pilate, Corduroy, Mankind, Wishlist/(Waiting On A Friend), Hard To Imagine, Better Man/(Beast Of Burden/Save It For Later), Black Diamond, Given To Fly, Improv/Porch

encore 1: Do The Evolution, Purple Rain, Alive, Indifference, Rockin' In The Free World

Show Notes:

After 3 show cancellations (Vienna, Prague, and Amsterdam 1) due to Ed’s vocal trouble after the Paris show, Pearl Jam returns to the stage to finish the European leg of the tour. The front row has balloons to welcome the…

Show Notes: 

After 3 show cancellations (Vienna, Prague, and Amsterdam 1) due to Ed’s vocal trouble after the Paris show, Pearl Jam returns to the stage to finish the European leg of the tour. The front row has balloons to welcome the band back, and the crowd starts the “Ed-die” chant as they take the stage. The band is seated for the first few songs, Ed says they’ve had a lot of different shows but “this show will be different.” Nothing As It Seems opens for the first time since 2000 and there’s a loud cheer when Ed starts to sing. Afterward, he greets the audience:

“Good evening…it sure is nice to be able to say those words…we were not gonna leave this part of the world without playing one more show.”

Off He Goes is a request, with the lyric changed to “…riding on a motorbike in Amsterdam…” Ed thanks his doctor, Dr. Marco Franken, telling the crowd he had no voice even as of the day before, and pictures of him in the doctor’s office are shown on the screens. Alright makes its European debut, only the 3rd performance. Ed says they’re going to play another request, from 4 years ago, that they’ve never done in Europe before (it had been played there only once in full, in Rotterdam in 1993), and the drums kick in for W.M.A. Mike thrashes around the stage, focused and intense, and Josh and Matt combine for a rhythmic pummeling. The crowd sings along to every word of Why Go and Even Flow, doing their best to help Ed. The line in Corduroy is “…absolutely everything’s changed…” No vocals on the Waiting on a Friend tag this time. Hard To Imagine is another request, with Josh and Ed making it a four-guitar attack. Ed keeps playing for a minute right before the band usually kicks in on Better Man, stepping to the microphone and saying

…after tonight I don’t have to sing for a whole fucking month…so I can do as much damage as I want” [laughs]

Mike sings the first verse of Black Diamond before Matt takes over. The improv before Porch is Ed solo, and has the lines “I love this life” repeated over and over, then he switches to “I love your life” a couple of times before going back to “I love this life” and then transitioning right into Porch. Mike and Ed kneel at the front of the stage for a minute during the jam, Mike wailing away and Ed building up the crowd. After the break, he has the shiny jacket on and talks about how Jeff heard him warming up in the hotel and thought “oh no, we’re fucked,” but it looks like they’re going to make it. He thanks the crowd, saying that part of the voice problem was climate change, France and Spain on fire, and says

“I really hope that we meet the challenge of climate change a lot better than we met the challenge of COVID, I tell you that…we have the power to come together as human beings to save our planet, which is a selfish endeavor, but we can do it. But I think we just can’t wait for fucking politicians to do it, because they’re just going to do what the businessmen ask them to, pay them to…there’s more of us than them, and nights when you see people gathered like this…and sing as one, and be as one, and agree on one thing, it gives you faith…and we’re so fortunate we get to travel the world and give faith in humanity, and we thank YOU for that.”

He continues, thanking the entire crew and bringing them all out on stage. Josh comes to the front of the stage and starts Purple Rain, Mike nails the long solo as the crowd sings the background vocal part. Ed has a Ukrainian flag as Indifference starts and puts it on the monitor, then changes his mind and picks it back up. Mike smashes his guitar during RITFW, slamming it into his amp, then jokingly attempting to strum the pieces one last time before tossing it aside, while on the other side of the stage some kids are playing tambourines. Ed leaves the crowd with “…going home…gonna miss you…”

July 17, 2022 – Lollapalooza, Longchamp Racecourse, Paris, FRA

Main Set: Why Go, Mind Your Manners, (Interstellar Overdrive)/Corduroy, Daughter, Satan's Bed, Even Flow, Dance Of The Clairvoyants, Who Ever Said, Wishlist/(Waiting On A Friend), Not For You, Given To Fly, Untitled, MFC, Amongst The Waves, Jeremy, Do The Evolution, Black, Go, Porch

encore 1: Alive, Baba O'Riley

Show Notes:

Why Go kicks off a blistering start, a tag-less Daughter indicating that they’re going to try and keep things tight. Lots of little changes tonight, Ed adds the “…absolutely everything’s changed” line in Corduroy, and changes the line to “…can’t…

Show Notes: 

Why Go kicks off a blistering start, a tag-less Daughter indicating that they’re going to try and keep things tight. Lots of little changes tonight, Ed adds the “…absolutely everything’s changed” line in Corduroy, and changes the line to “…can’t buy what I want because it’s clean air, man…” Lots of call and response during the bridge, with mixed participation from the crowd. Continuing the let’s-play-a-super-rare-one streak, Satan’s Bed appears for only the 39th time in 28 years! Ed is being very emotive, it sounds great and well-rehearsed. As Mike starts the Even Flow solo, Ed exhorts “Red rover, Mister McCready take over!” After the line “…every tomorrow is the same as before…” in Dance of the Clairvoyants, he yells “…fuck you COVID!” Wishlist line is changed to the geographically dubious “…wish I lived in a country as fortunate as…Paris” (pronounced Par-EE). Not For You is a standout performance, Stone has an outstanding night at this show, stabbing the air with his guitar during Jeremy and dancing and strutting around the stage during Evolution. Go finally returns to the set for the first time since 2018. Long main set means a short encore, only 2 songs. Mike’s Alive solo is loose and relaxed, Jeff and Stone have a moment jamming together and then Jeff goes to the side of the stage with Ed and plays for the crowd there. The crowd is projected on the screen behind the band live during Baba, people with flags from Mexico, Chile, and Portugal are seen.

July 14, 2022 – Tauron Arena, Kraków, POL

Main Set: Sometimes, Porch, Do The Evolution, Quick Escape, Dissident, Buckle Up, Even Flow, Seven O’Clock, Immortality, Corduroy, Jeremy, Unthought Known, Once, Who Ever Said/((I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction), Hard To Imagine, Rearviewmirror

encore 1: Better Man/(Save It For Later), Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Smile, River Cross, Alive, Rockin’ In The Free World

Show Notes:

This show, only a few hundred miles away from the Ukrainian border, is heavily tinged with the shadow of that war. Mike is once again masked up for the entire show. Ed gets into Sometimes, nearly screaming the final lines.…

Show Notes: 

This show, only a few hundred miles away from the Ukrainian border, is heavily tinged with the shadow of that war. Mike is once again masked up for the entire show. Ed gets into Sometimes, nearly screaming the final lines. Porch is a surprise early, away from its usual main set-ending slot. Ed takes a moment after to speak about what’s on his mind:

We will not play a place as important on the world stage as the place that we play tonight…to be invited to play a place, you know, the proximity to this conflict, it’s difficult to find words, except for the war in Ukraine is a gigantic fucking tragedy for the entire planet. 

He continues, telling Putin to fuck off, before continuing on an incredible run of songs, some of their most powerful and impactful songs in the catalog, including Quick Escape, which keeps getting better and better. The breakdown at the end rivals anything they’ve done in the past, it’s mesmerizing. Paired with Dissident, they make for an “escape” themed duo, no doubt with Ukrainian refugees in mind. Ed asks the crowd to step back after Buckle Up, as there is no barricade in front of the crowd. Mike is searing on Even Flow, letting note after note wail as Ed walks behind the stage and greets the crowd there. Unthought Known transitions right into Once. Who Ever Said returns, for the first time in Europe, along with the Devo-style “Satisfaction” tag. Ed says they’re going to take a request, and they play a stellar version of Hard To Imagine, the first time it’s been played since the Third Man Records show in 2016! To end the main set, Rearviewmirror finally returns, the first time in 13 shows! Ed drops out on the “…once you…” lines, letting the crowd take the big scream, picking it back up in the middle of the last verse. After the break, Ed thanks the crowd, saying:

…especially, the last couple of years, we couldn’t even, you know, the dream that had been a reality for us for decades was no longer a reality, and we didn’t get to commune with other people, we didn’t get to gather in large groups, and as much as I thought I wouldn’t miss it, or we wouldn’t miss it…we’ve been so fortunate already, I wouldn’t want to be greedy about it, but man, as soon as we weren’t allowed to do it, it seemed like something so very important, and we’re so grateful to be in a room like this, in a place like this, country like this, all together…

He goes on to thank numerous local organizations and people who’ve been on the front lines in the Ukrainian relief effort, pointing out while reading names that they’re all women, and Better Man is introduced with the line “…can’t find a better woman.” Ed improvs some lines during the tag, “if you need me…if you need me…I will be there for you, I promise you…because someday I might need you too…” Small Town is played to the back of the arena. Prior to River Cross, Ed says “this is a song about borders…wishing there weren’t borders.” A Ukrainian flag makes its way on stage before RITFW and Ed drapes himself in it. The longest encore of the tour so far. After introducing the band (including himself as “the guy who drank the most wine on stage tonight”), Ed adds:

…alright, look…hopefully we’ll get to do this again very soon, but in the in-between, every day is critical, we’ll be thinking about you…this part of the country, this part of the planet, of course with this kind of memory in our hearts, in our minds, we’re gonna be thinking positive things, you’ll have our support as well…the planet is grateful. We love you.”

He lingers on stage for a few extra moments after the band leaves, waving and acknowledging people in the crowd, as a chant of “Ed-die, Ed-die…” begins, bringing the show to a close.

July 12, 2022 – Budapest Arena, Budapest, HUN

Main Set: Wash, Why Go, Brain Of J., Corduroy, ½ Full, Even Flow, Dance Of The Clairvoyants, Nothingman, I’m Open, I Am Mine, Given To Fly, Superblood Wolfmoon, Quick Escape, Black/(We Belong Together/MacArthur Park), Do The Evolution, Lukin, Porch

encore 1: Better Man/(Save It For Later), Crazy Mary/(Paint It Black), State Of Love And Trust, Alive/(Voodoo Child (Slight Return)), All Along The Watchtower

Show Notes:

An atmospheric Wash opens, with a very nice build to Ed screaming at the end. The first few alternate between deep cuts and fan favorites, Brain of J. rips, Ed leads the crowd clapping during the bridge and Stone is…

Show Notes: 

An atmospheric Wash opens, with a very nice build to Ed screaming at the end. The first few alternate between deep cuts and fan favorites, Brain of J. rips, Ed leads the crowd clapping during the bridge and Stone is spotlighted on stage during the solo. Ed has the mirrored guitar out for ½ Full and reflects the spotlight into the crowd. Mike has a mask on and plays the whole show with it, hopefully just a precautionary measure. Before Nothingman, Ed sees someone with a sign hoping to hear Sad for their birthday and says “I think that’s so sad, we should play something happy…well, this is a bit of a sad one,” and during the song, acknowledging the crowd reaction, adds “…we sing it together, it’s not so sad!” Following Quick Escape, he thanks the crowd, saying “after all these years, we are deeply honored to be in this room with y’all tonight.” Black includes a line from “MacArthur Park” repeated in the tag, “…we’ll never have that recipe again…” Ed surprises everyone by playing through Lukin slow, accompanied only minimally by Matt, before kicking in to the fast version, one of the few times that’s ever been done and the first in a long time! Ed growls the “…into the house…of Mary…” line in Crazy Mary, and Boom solos for nearly 3 minutes without any competition from Mike. Someone in the crowd hands Ed a rainbow “BUDA FCKN PEST” shirt. No songs from Vs. are played, the first time that’s happened at a full Pearl Jam show since June 26, 2003!

July 9, 2022 – BST Hyde Park, London, ENG

Main Set: Corduroy, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Why Go, Deep, Wishlist/(Waiting On A Friend), Garden, Throw Your Hatred Down, Do The Evolution, Animal, Dance Of The Clairvoyants, Not For You, Rats, Faithfull, State Of Love And Trust, Eruption, Black/(We Belong Together), Porch

encore 1: River Cross, Leash, Alive, Yellow Ledbetter, Baba O’Riley

Show Notes:

After Small Town, Ed says that they’ll try to play everything that they didn’t play last night. Someone passes out in the crowd due to the heat after Deep and there’s a short break while they are attended to. The…

Show Notes: 

After Small Town, Ed says that they’ll try to play everything that they didn’t play last night. Someone passes out in the crowd due to the heat after Deep and there’s a short break while they are attended to. The Waiting On A Friend tag is extended, with lyrics. Following Garden, Ed gets very passionate talking about the recent active shooter alert incident with his wife and daughter in New York:

…it was a firework that went off in the crowd. And for other people to have these ‘freedoms’, of having a fuckin’ firearm…we’re giving up the freedom to walk out in the streets, to send our kids to school, to go to the movies, the library, the grocery store…

and continues, referencing the Highland Park shooting where a girl saw her mother get shot and had to run away to safety, pleading to address gun violence, adding

…if anyone doesn’t have empathy, or respect for the sanctity of life, their own and others, even their own…if they don’t have that, then that’s exactly the person that we DON’T want to have with a firearm in their possession…

Johnny Marr is brought on stage and takes the solo on an extended, epic version of Throw Your Hatred Down. Ed gives a nod to Josh after Dance of the Clairvoyants, saying he’s “elevated the intellect of the band.” During the songs when Josh isn’t playing, he has a camera and is taking pictures. Ed lets the crowd vote on whether Whipping or Not For You should be played next, and Not For You wins. Rats is another total surprise. Black has to be restarted, Stone had the wrong guitar. The first 16 songs of the set were not played the previous night, Porch ends the set and breaks the streak, still no sign of RVM anywhere. After the break, Ed dedicates River Cross to the people fighting for Ukraine. Johnny Marr returns for Baba, along with Andrew Watt, to close the show. Baba is extended, everyone on stage having a great time. The show closes with the crowd chanting “one more song, one more song…”

July 8, 2022 – BST Hyde Park, London, ENG

Main Set: Better Man/(Save It For Later), Low Light, Breath, Mind Your Manners, Save You, Quick Escape/(God Save The Queen), In Hiding, Retrograde, Light Years, Even Flow, Unthought Known, Daughter/(Good Woman/W.M.A.), Superblood Wolfmoon, Given To Fly, Public Image, Once, Porch

encore 1: I Am The Answer, Jeremy, Indifference, Alive, Rockin' In The Free World

Show Notes:

As the crowd sings along to the walk out music, the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love”, the band takes the stage and Ed conducts the singalong for a minute before starting Better Man, the first time it’s opened a…

Show Notes: 

As the crowd sings along to the walk out music, the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love”, the band takes the stage and Ed conducts the singalong for a minute before starting Better Man, the first time it’s opened a proper Pearl Jam show since 2007! He takes a moment to speak after, saying “Fuck! It’s beautiful here…love what you’ve done with the place,” and thanking White Reaper, Cat Power, and the Pixies, adding that when he and Jeff were in England while mixing Ten, they had gone to a record store in Camden and bought bootlegs, including the Pixies live at Brixton. There are 3 huge screens behind the band, leading to some incredible visuals during the show. Breath is a total surprise early in the set, making its 2022 debut. Ed says that the person who Save You was written for has not been saved yet, and that he thinks about them every time they play the song. Quick Escape returns to the set for the first time since Werchter, and as the song is winding down they pick up the pace and kick in to a little of the Sex Pistols’ “God Save The Queen”, with Ed repeating “no future…no future…” In Hiding is played by request. Light Years is played for a fan named Donna, who had recently passed away at a young age, and her picture is shown on the screens at the end of the song. Ed talks about lies after Even Flow, mentioning Trump, COVID, and social media. He forgets some lyrics to Unthought Known. The crowd is very into the Ten songs, and after the first performance of Public Image since 2014, Once and Porch end the main set on a high note. After the break, Ed brings out Simon Townshend and they play Simon’s “I’m the Answer” acoustic. Jeff comes back wearing the hybrid Pixies/stickman shirt. Tennis legend John McEnroe joins to play guitar on Rockin’ in the Free World. A memorable show, with 9 of the 11 albums represented.

July 5, 2022 – Royal Arena, Copenhagen, DNK

Main Set: Release, Animal, Last Exit, Lukin, Corduroy, Retrograde, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Garden, Dance Of The Clairvoyants, Even Flow, Daughter/(W.M.A.), Never Destination, Jeremy, Inside Job, Do The Evolution, Black/(We Belong Together), Love Boat Captain, Porch

encore 1: (Don't Dream It's Over)/Better Man, Alive, Rockin' In The Free World

Show Notes:

Release opens in the dark, the stage bathed in blue light. Ed lets the crowd take it during Animal. Retrograde pops up again for the first time since Berlin. Another intense W.M.A. tag, Jeff is playing the actual W.M.A. bassline,…

Show Notes: 

Release opens in the dark, the stage bathed in blue light. Ed lets the crowd take it during Animal. Retrograde pops up again for the first time since Berlin. Another intense W.M.A. tag, Jeff is playing the actual W.M.A. bassline, Josh is helping out on extra percussion, and the guitars have a little extra bite to them. As it seems to be winding down, Ed goes on a rant:

If a parent makes a mistake, that’s okay…a man makes a mistake and it’s okay, a white American man makes a mistake and it’s okay, he’ll live his life the way he wants anyway, white man American, yea, it’s okay. Personally…since they make up half of our country, I say the women need their power, the women need their power too, ‘cause we should all be able to make a FUCKING MISTAKE…government get your hands off the women’s bodies, government get your hands out of their fuckin’ vaginas, let them have the power to make their own decisions about their own bodies and their own futures and their own minds, because we need them on the planet to make this a fuckin’ better world…

Never Destination is very energetic, Jeff and Matt especially; a great, driving rhythm. Ed thanks the crew and says longtime crew member George Webb is out with COVID, one of the first shows he’s missed since the band started. Someone in the front row has a sign for Inside Job, and Ed sees it and takes the request. Following DTE, a girl has a sign for Black which is also then acknowledged and played. Afterwards, Ed is strumming a guitar at the front of the stage and asks for a bright spotlight on him to be turned off, then asks for all the lights to be turned off and the crowd to bring up their lights, and takes a deep breath before continuing:

Jeff went out to the memorial at Roskilde today and saw the trees, and you know that was a day that changed so many people’s lives, and we kind of remember…there’s like our lives before that, and then there’s our lives after, and that day, in so many ways, colored our humanity, our compassion, our empathy, our sadness, and since that time a lot of us have gone on to have children, so now, even more than back then, we understand the depth of loss [Ed starts to break down in tears] and we’ll always be so sorry for the tragic events that took place…and we just want to say how grateful we’ve been to some of the families that we’ve been able to be in contact with and to share our lives with, and share their futures, and we’ve become friends and we’ve witnessed grandchildren in their lives, and their accepting of us as people has meant as much as anything in our whole lives, [Ed starts to break down again] because for everyone involved, it was just the most traumatic day, so we’re thinking about ‘em, which is not unusual, but thank you…for still being here when we come back, and again, it never stops, but I don’t get the chance to say it, on behalf of all of us, and all of our crew, I just want to send all of our love, and appreciation, and gratitude, and sorrow, to all those families…

Which leads right into a powerful performance of Love Boat Captain, Ed is visibly emotional during the entire song. After the break, he comes back out holding a guitar again and thanks the crowd, adding:

I’m fortunate that we get to play, you know, there was a chance that, out of respect…because there was a tragic occurrence that happened not far from here two days ago, and there’s just one quick thing I want to say, you are so doing the right thing here, it’s impossible to, you know… there’s somebody back home, there was someone who said one of the most ignorant things I’ve ever heard, and they said ‘you know, you see what happened in Denmark, that even when you have the strictest gun laws possible, it still happens’ but you know what, the fact that they can say that when you’ve had 2 incidents in HISTORY, in your history, of what they call mass shootings, so obviously it’s the right thing to do, compared to say, back in our country, where we’ve had 300 THIS YEAR, and it’s early July…so the fact that someone could be so ignorant and idiotic to say such a thing…and not only that, this person is somebody in US government, that is fucking reprehensible.

Ed does a short “Don’t Dream It’s Over” intro to Better Man. During Alive, Ed kneels on the stage and lets the crowd sing the chorus at him, and the song ends with Ed balancing the mic stand upside down in his hand before slamming it down on the stage. Someone from IDLES is brought on stage during RITFW to play tambourine and sing backups.

Special thanks to Kevin Deutsch for relaying the setlist live!

July 3, 2022 – Lollapalooza, Gardet, Stockholm, SWE

Main Set: Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Low Light, Daughter, Corduroy, Hail, Hail, Even Flow, Glorified G, Dance Of The Clairvoyants, Superblood Wolfmoon, Present Tense, Take The Long Way, Why Go, Wishlist, Do The Evolution, Not For You, Eruption, Porch

encore 1: Black/(We Belong Together), Given To Fly, Alive, Yellow Ledbetter, Rockin’ In The Free World

Show Notes:

Ed asks the crowd to “fill the sky with your voice!” during Small Town. No tag on Daughter this early in the set. Mike starts the Even Flow solo behind his head, it’s playful and loose, then dissonant at the…

Show Notes: 

Ed asks the crowd to “fill the sky with your voice!” during Small Town. No tag on Daughter this early in the set. Mike starts the Even Flow solo behind his head, it’s playful and loose, then dissonant at the very end. There was a shooting in Copenhagen (the next stop on the tour) in the afternoon, no doubt leading to Glorified G here. After the “…do you see the way that tree bends…” line in Present Tense, Ed points to his left and adds “that way”. Take The Long Way returns to the set for the first time in Europe. Mike has a very good, searing solo in Why Go. The Eruption solo leads right into Porch. Following a short We Belong Together tag on Black, Ed improvs “n-n-n-n-n-no, no, no” a few times, then adds “…should have known, should have known…” Given to Fly is a nice addition to the encore. There’s a video screen behind the band, and during Ledbetter the band is projected on multiple levels going up like a pyramid, a very cool effect. Afterwards, they say their goodbyes and take the collective bow, then Ed gives the “one more” sign and they put the guitars back on for Rockin’. Ed closes out the evening with “take care of each other, take care of yourselves, until next time…”

June 30, 2022 – Rock Werchter Festival, Werchter Festival Park, Werchter, BEL

Main Set: Rain, I Believe In Miracles, Even Flow, Why Go, Corduroy, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Quick Escape, Dance Of The Clairvoyants, Whipping, Daughter/(Another Brick In The Wall (Pt. 2)), Unthought Known, Do The Evolution, Given To Fly, Nothingman, Jeremy, Long Road, Porch

encore 1: Black/(We Belong Together), Alive, Rockin' In The Free World

June 28, 2022 – Festhalle, Frankfurt, DEU

Main Set: Inside Job, Animal, Last Exit, Why Go, Mind Your Manners, (Interstellar Overdrive)/Corduroy, Fatal, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Dance Of The Clairvoyants, In My Tree, Given To Fly, Garden, Never Destination, Do The Evolution, Jeremy, Buckle Up, Better Man/(Save It For Later), Porch

encore 1: River Cross, State Of Love And Trust, Alive, Indifference

Show Notes:

The band takes the stage without Ed and starts Inside Job, the first time it’s opened a show since 2006. Ed enters just before the vocals start to huge applause. No double guitar for Mike, Stone actually takes a lot…

Show Notes: 

The band takes the stage without Ed and starts Inside Job, the first time it’s opened a show since 2006. Ed enters just before the vocals start to huge applause. No double guitar for Mike, Stone actually takes a lot of the early leads. After Last Exit, Ed jokes with the crowd in German. Fatal is a MASSIVE surprise, played by request for Regina. It’s an electric, not acoustic, version, sparse, with a little staccato rhythm. Ed has a “Free Ukraine” sign that he holds up after Garden. Buckle Up transitions nicely into Better Man. Ed has the mirrored guitar for Porch and reflects light all across the upper level of the arena. After the break, Ed sits at the pump organ:

I wonder, if we didn’t read the news in the morning…I wonder if we’d live better lives, I wonder if we wouldn’t get so upset to read about what just happened back home in the United States, where they’ve just taken women’s rights and the ability to plan for their future [mixed crowd reactions], I wonder if we wouldn’t be…disgusted by the gun violence that happens every day back home in our country, it’s so frustrating, harrowing, sad, sickening to be honest…if we just woke up and came and did this and was around you people like tonight, it would be the greatest life in the world, but if we did that, or if we were even tempted to do that, we would be ignoring some of the issues that our fellow humans are going through, and it’s very important to be aware and it’s very important to be active and it’s very important to send your energies to the people who need them, because you never know when you’re going to be the one who needs other people’s energies…

The crowd is nearly completely silent during the beginning of River Cross, seemingly transfixed by the performance. During the last verse, the guitars start to take over and get heavier, and Ed gets up from the organ and goes to the microphone, encouraging the crowd to get involved. The lights go down and everyone has their phone lights on. During Alive, someone in the crowd has a sunflower and hands it to Ed. Mike starts his solo and then halfway through, takes off his guitar and hands it to Josh, who finishes the solo in fine fashion while Mike walks around the stage, thanking the crowd and throwing out picks. Indifference closes the show for the first time since LA II. Jeff is draped in a Ukrainian flag after the show. A great setlist in a beautiful arena.

June 25, 2022 – Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, IT

Main Set: Corduroy, Even Flow, Why Go, Elderly Woman Behind a Counter in a Small Town, Dance of the Clairvoyants, Quick Escape, MFC, Jeremy, Come Back, Save You, Wishlist, Do The Evolution, Seven O'Clock, Daughter/(W.M.A./People Have The Power), Given To Fly, Superblood Wolfmoon, Lukin, Porch

encore 1: State Of Love And Trust, Black/(We Belong Together), Better Man/(American Girl/Beast of Burden/Save It For Later), Alive, Yellow Ledbetter

Show Notes:

This is a Mike McCready show from the jump as Corduroy, Even Flow and Why Go all have mind blowing solos, but Mike shreds with his teeth during Even Flow. Ed addresses the crowd in his broken Italian dialect, and…

Show Notes: 

This is a Mike McCready show from the jump as Corduroy, Even Flow and Why Go all have mind blowing solos, but Mike shreds with his teeth during Even Flow. Ed addresses the crowd in his broken Italian dialect, and has a little fun with them by changing up his accent. Dance of the Clairvoyants is an infectious groove, Stone’s bass is loud and prominent in the beginning. MFC is played back in the country where its origin story began. Crowd is active during Jeremy as Ed has them take the outro for themselves. Come Back is a dedication to Luca, who wrote a letter to Ed sharing that he had recently lost his hero, his brother. It’s the first appearance of a song from the Pearl Jam record in 2022. Another album that makes its debut on this tour is Riot Act as Save You is a welcome surprise. Ed addresses the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade prior to Wishlist, and the theme will get brought up again shortly after. Ed notices some trouble in the crowd prior to Seven O’Clock, and has a young girl pulled out and brought to safety. The song needs to be paused early on due to a commotion in the crowd. When the song breaks back in, Ed channels some anger and animosity while delivering the ‘sitting bullshit’ line, perhaps channeling his frustration with the Roe v. Wade decision. He mentioned it again before Daughter, stating that there are 55 countries that allow women to control their own bodies, today the United States is not one of them. Having a child is wonderful, but it needs to be loved and wanted. In 100% of unwanted pregnancies, the man is responsible. Think about that. Daughter includes a haunting W.M.A. tag where the lyrics are changed to fit the current situation:

She won the lottery… when she was born… 

politicians got my daughter again…

Following the W.M.A. tag, we get a quick snippet of People Have The Power. After the chilling performance, Ed lightens the mood and talks about driving a Ferrari back in San Diego when he was working as a security guard. Mike ends off the main set in a big way pulling out another insane performance during Porch. When they return for the encore break, Ed spots another situation in the crowd and holds off until it gets resolved. Black is a powerful performance where the spotlight once again shines on Mike. Towards the end of the song, he attempts to get one of his guitar pedals to work. After a few tries, he starts smashing the body of his guitar into his pedal board creating a remarkably artful sound. He walks away visibly frustrated, dragging his guitar by his side. Better Man is followed by a trio of tags, beginning with Tom Petty’s American Girl which had never been used at a Pearl Jam show before. Ed recites a few lyrics of Beast of Burden which hadn’t been tagged since 2006. Save It For Later caps off the trio. Excluding pre-sets, this is the first show in 2022 without a cover since Phoenix.

Special thanks to Luke Dalley for relaying this setlist!

June 23, 2022 – Hallenstadion, Zurich, SUI

Main Set: Release, Even Flow, Corduroy, Immortality, Dance Of The Clairvoyants, Quick Escape, Daughter/(W.M.A./Leash/Glorified G), Given To Fly, Seven O'Clock, Do The Evolution, Animal, Present Tense, In Hiding, Jeremy, Why Go, Crazy Mary, Porch

encore 1: Smile, Black, Alive

Show Notes:

Release opens, ending the streak of unique openers at 15. Before the show, pen and paper was passed around the front row looking for requests, just like in LA on the west coast leg. Matt destroys the ending of Immortality,…

Show Notes: 

Release opens, ending the streak of unique openers at 15. Before the show, pen and paper was passed around the front row looking for requests, just like in LA on the west coast leg. Matt destroys the ending of Immortality, prompting Ed to talk about all the drummers that we’ve lost, including Charlie Watts and Taylor Hawkins, and says they love Matt so much and they’re glad he’s back. Band is tight and Ed sounds great, much improved over Berlin. Ed holds the mic out to the crowd during Quick Escape, which has a long, extended ending with Mike going absolutely out of this world on the solo. Ed talks about how they played Zurich exactly 22 years ago, and he met his wife the night before that show, in Milan, and now there’s “a lot of daughters…women of the world are gonna take over,” leading into…Daughter. After the W.M.A. tag, the guitars get a little funkier and crunchier, and Ed starts into Leash, getting into it, almost screaming the lyrics, and then the tag ends with “…glorified version of a pellet gun…” repeated quietly. Near the end of Animal, Ed stops the song and calls out a woman in the crowd who he saw hit the person in front of them in the back of the head, saying “violence is not allowed…you’re outta here…” and the song is resumed. In Hiding is brought back for the first time since 2018, a welcome surprise. The crowd continues singing during Jeff’s bass outro on Jeremy, Ed joins in and they keep it going until the song finishes. After Smile, Ed says they’ve seen a lot of people traveling between shows and wanted to thank them somehow, he takes the sheet of paper with the requests, looks it over, says “we aren’t going to play any of these tonight,” but hints that they’ll see what they can do over the next few shows. Mike’s Black solo is stellar, Ed acknowledges him afterwards and adds a short improv with the lyrics “…all the pain, and misery, hopelessness, darkest paths…” A Ten-heavy night, with Superblood Wolfmoon, River Cross, State of Love and Trust, Better Man, and Yellow Ledbetter/Indifference all cut from the original list.

June 21, 2022 – Waldbühne, Berlin, DEU

Main Set: Why Go, Hail, Hail, Deep, Untitled, MFC, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Low Light, Do The Evolution, Retrograde, Dance Of The Clairvoyants, Even Flow, Quick Escape, Superblood Wolfmoon, Amongst The Waves, Corduroy, Not For You/(Modern Girl), Nothingman, I Believe In Miracles, Porch

encore 1: Footsteps, Street Fighting Man, Yellow, Ledbetter, Alive

Show Notes:

The streak of different openers extends to 15 with Why Go. Deep is an early surprise, and a long version of Untitled prefaces MFC. Ed’s pump organ is on stage, but goes unused. Low Light appears again, on this, the…

Show Notes: 

The streak of different openers extends to 15 with Why Go. Deep is an early surprise, and a long version of Untitled prefaces MFC. Ed’s pump organ is on stage, but goes unused. Low Light appears again, on this, the summer solstice. Retrograde has a stellar ending. Mike finishes the Even Flow solo down in the front row of the crowd. Amongst the Waves is played by request for a couple who’s been together for 25 years, they met when they were 12, and Ed points out that Jeff and Stone have been playing music together for 39 years, Stone was 12 and Jeff was 15 when they met, that’s why Jeff plays bass because he had the balls, joking that he’s never seen Jeff’s balls but Stone probably has. Corduroy has the new intro again, and transitions seamlessly into Not For You. There’s a crowd surfer as Nothingman starts, and Ed admonishes him, saying “it’s not the right song” and imploring everyone to be safe and to jump up and down instead, “or at least go that way,” pointing to the back of the crowd. Prior to Porch, a fan named Roland is brought on stage with his wife and daughter, he had contracted ALS since he got tickets for the show back in 2020 and there was a fan campaign to get him connected with the band. Street Fighting Man returns for an encore performance, and there’s some confusion during Ledbetter, Ed tells Mike to cut it short and after only a minute and a half, instead of going into the chorus of Ledbetter, Mike starts the Alive riff.

June 18, 2022 – Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, NED

Main Set: Even Flow, Why Go, Low Light, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Dance Of The Clairvoyants, Superblood Wolfmoon, Wishlist/(Waiting On A Friend), Throw Your Hatred Down, Lukin, Corduroy, Quick Escape, Sleeping By Myself, Given To Fly, Daughter/(Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)), Jeremy, (Don’t Dream It’s Over)/Better Man/(Save It For Later), Porch

encore 1: Comfortably Numb, Street Fighting Man, Alive

Show Notes:

Pearl Jam returns to the stage as a complete unit to kick off the European leg of the tour, Matt and Jeff having both recovered from the COVID diagnosis that forced the cancellation of the final two dates of the…

Show Notes: 

Pearl Jam returns to the stage as a complete unit to kick off the European leg of the tour, Matt and Jeff having both recovered from the COVID diagnosis that forced the cancellation of the final two dates of the west coast leg. Even Flow opens a show for the first time since 2000, the 14th different opener in the last 14 shows! Ed mentions that it’s the 30 year (and 10 day) anniversary of their iconic 1992 performance there, and Why Go follows, just like it did back then. Josh and Boom join for Low Light, the piano taking a prominent role during the quiet part. Ed fumbles the lyrics to Wishlist, adding “…I wish I was in Amsterdam and was able to find a rhyme…” Given To Fly soars in all the right places. Ed plays a little bit of Crowded House’s hit “Don’t Dream It’s Over” as an intro to Better Man, they had played earlier in the day. He mentions that they had to leave their families at home this time because of “the bubble,” keeping COVID risk to a minimum. He then tells the story of the camera operator, Rob, from 1992 and his stagedive while footage of it plays on the screens behind him. Rob is brought out on stage and speaks to the crowd, saying “Eddie Vedder is the nicest artist I know.” Porch is slower than usual, the bridge has a spacey, effects-heavy feel to it. Comfortably Numb is the 2nd Pink Floyd reference of the night, fitting for the festival, and the Rolling Stones’ “Street Fighting Man” is dusted off for the first time since Memphis 1994, a whopping 737 show absence! Seven O’Clock and Not For You are on the setlist but not played.

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