The song was performed at every date of the band's Zoo TV and PopMart Tours, and was played sporadically on the Elevation Tour.
The song was performed in full during the first two legs and the first show of the third leg during the Zoo TV Tour in 1992.
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The B-stage was originally used in the early 1990s by U2 on their Zoo TV Tour.
On the Zoo TV Tour, it was about Nazism; on the Elevation Tour, it became an indictment against handgun violence, illustrated by references to John Lennon's assassination and an ironic intro video clip featuring Charlton Heston, who was at that time the president of the National Rifle Association.
"Dirty Day" made its Zoo TV Tour debut on November 12, 1993, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and it became part of the main setlist of the Zoomerang/New Zooland tour leg.