On Saturday night, Lisbon, Portugal’s NOS Alive festival came to a close with performances by Pearl Jam, Jack White, Franz Ferdinand, MGMT, and more.
Pearl Jam hit the festival’s main stage following White’s performance, working through a set of fan-favorite originals and classic rock covers. For their five-song encore, the band went heavy on the cover sing-alongs. John Lennon‘s peace anthem “Imagine” was up first, followed by Pink Floyd‘s “Comfortably Numb”, the second Floyd tune of the evening after their mid-set “Interstellar Overdrive”.
Two classic tracks from Pearl Jam’s debut album, Ten, came next with “Porch” and “Alive”, the former of which featured some riffing on Jack White’s iconic “Seven Nation Army”, still reverberating in the heads of the crowd and the band alike after closing out White’s set.
Finally, Eddie Vedder sent the crowd into hysterics when he welcomed Jack White himself to join the band for their final song, a cover of Neil Young‘s “Rockin’ In The Free World”, Vedder running around the stage and tossing his tambourines to the crowd as White soloed. You can watch crowd-shot footage of Pearl Jam’s set-closing Neil Young cover with Jack White below:
Pearl Jam w/ Jack White – “Rockin’ In The Free World” [Neil Young cover]
[Video: XTV Podcast]
Pearl Jam will wrap up the European leg of their summer tour on Tuesday, July 17th with a performance at London’s O2 Arena. From there, the band will return to the States for their “Home” and “Away” shows in Seattle, Missoula, Chicago, and Boston. For more information, head to Pearl Jam’s website.
Setlist: Pearl Jam | NOS Alive Festival | Lisbon, Portugal | 7/14/18
Set: Low Light, Better Man, Go, Mind Your Manners, Do The Evolution, Given To Fly, Interstellar Overdrive, Corduroy, Rats, Even Flow, Daughter*, Unthought Known, Down, Jeremy, Can’t Deny Me, In My Tree, Black, Lukin, Rearviewmirror
Encore: Imagine, Comfortably Numb, Porch, Alive, Rockin’ In The Free World
*with W.M.A. and Está Tudo Bem
^with Jack White
[H/T Spin]