Tuesday, May 29, 1990
Sinéad O'Connor
With Hugh Harris
- Date
- Tuesday, May 29, 1990
- Show time
- 8:00 PM
- Venue
- SDSU Open Air Theatre
- City
- San Diego, CA
- Seating
- Terrace
- Face value
- $20.00
- Promoter
- Avalon / Coca-Cola
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
Also on the bill, recovered from setlist.fm's record of who played this room that night. setlist.fm stores no running order, so the slot each act played is unknown. Hugh Harris opened; setlist.fm logs him at the Open Air Theatre that night. John first recalled Steel Pulse, then thought better of it — Steel Pulse opened for Sting in San Diego in 1988, a show he also saw.
What they played
- Feel So Different
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- I Want Your (Hands on Me)
- You Cause as Much Sorrow
- Three Babies
- Black Boys on Mopeds
- Jackie
- I Am Stretched on Your Grave Scullion cover
- The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
- Jump in the River
- Jerusalem
- Nothing Compares 2 U Prince cover
- Mandinka
Encore
- I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
- Troy
15 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
The moment
For a few months in 1990, Sinéad O'Connor was the biggest star on the planet — 'Nothing Compares 2 U' had just finished four weeks at #1, the album held the top of the charts most of the spring, and the shaved head and the tear in the video were the images of the year. She was 23. The SNL protest and the pile-on that unmade her public life were still two years away; this was the brief, total ascendancy, outdoors at the Open Air Theatre.
From the time
- I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
“The 1990 album that made her the most famous singer in the world — for exactly as long as the world could stand what she had to say.”
The stub
