Version: Backgrounder First Appears On: U2: Go Home Video, 2003
Written By: N/A Performed By: N/A

Elevation:

Elevation
Jubilation
Jubilation

Probably a reference to the campaign for third world debt relief, a cause which was spearheaded by Jubilee 2000.

New Year's Day:

(Maybe just once, just once)
(Close your eyes and imagine, it's Jason Mcateer)

Jason McAteer scored the game winning goal in the qualifier match against Holland which sent Ireland to the World Cup. Footage of the second half was shown on the stage's monitors just hours before U2 took the stage.

Out of Control:

On the bass, from Malahide, Adam Clayton
On the drums, from the Artane Boys Band, Larry Mullen Junior

Adam moved to Malahide with his family at the age of 5. As the then manager and "leader" of the band, Adam's hometown was listed as the bands when they won the Harp-Lager Talent Competition in 1978. Larry was a member of the Artane Boys Band and supposedly left due to his refusal to confirm to hair length standards.
[Thanks to Familia Arámbula for the picture.]

Sunday Bloody Sunday:

No Paratroops
No petrol bomb
No Saracens
No UDA
No IRA

In 1972 British paratroopers fired live ammunition into a crowd of demontrators and killed 13 civilians on what would be remembered as "Bloody Sunday." Petrol bombs are, as far as I can tell, similar to Molotov Cocktails and are a common weapon as they can easily made. Saracens are armoured personnel carriers, made in the UK and exported around the world. They were a fairly common sight in Belfast and other areas in the past, and the new APCs (Saxons), are often still referred to as Saracens. The UDA (Ulster Defence Association) is the largest loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. The IRA (Irish Republican Army) is a major radical separatist movement.
[Thanks to Steve for explaining what 'Saracens' are!]

Three years after Omagh
Turn this song into a prayer
Three years after Omagh

[....]

Breda, Sean, Julia / Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Gareth, Oran, Geraldine / Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Brenda Logue, Philomena Skelton, Gareth Conway, Brenda Devine
Lorraine Wilson, Samantha McFarland, Julia Hughes, Elizabeth Rush
Ricio Abad Ramos, Fernando Blasco Baselga, Esther Gibson
Anne McCombe, Veda Short, Aiden Gallagher, Alan Radford
Fred White, his son Brien White, Brian McCrory, Sean McGrath

Names of victims of the Omagh bombing in 1997. After the bombing the victims names were read out over public radio. Some of these names may sound familiar as they appear in the song "Peace on Earth" which was written shortly after the attack.

Stuck in a Moment:

My father was a tenor in the Coolock Musical Society

I've been unable to find a website for the group, but here is something about the Coolock area.
[Thanks Caroline Von B. for the correct spelling of Coolock.]

Stuck in a Moment:

Oh look Edge, a beachball
Can I just have that?
Now there's faith...

Was a bit GAA was it?
That was a bit GAA

Bono picks up the beachball and carefully places it on the catwalk of the heart, then takes a running start and kicks it into the crowd (see NYD for his reason why). The GAA is the Gaelic Atheltic Association, a huge organization in Ireland that focuses on football and hurling, but among other things hosts the Artane Boys Band.
[Thanks to Kev for pointing out the GAA and what it was.]

Bullet the Blue Sky

Outside... is America
Outside... UK
Outside... France
EU, EU, EU, EU
I can see you
EU, UDA, IRA, British Army
UDA, IRA, Real IRA
UDA, Real IRA, Real IRA, Real IRA

America, UK, and France are members of the United Nations Security Council, which probably refers to the 'arms traders' text at the beginning of the song. EU stands for the European Union. UDA, IRA, and British Army are explained in the SBS entry. The Real IRA, or RIRA is a radical splinter group of the IRA formed in 1997.