I'm not a fan of the band, but I love the thing they did in Seattle, dedicating It's A Beautiful Day

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Realizing that I wasn't going to magically come up with the money this year, yesterday I sent out an email to my family with a one-item birthday present wish list, with a link to stubhub. For many years, I have steadfastly disney area hotels refused to provide disney area hotels birthday or christmas lists because my family had a history of not getting me a single thing on it to the point where it just pissed me off and I refused to participate any longer when they were blatantly ignoring my list. The list they kept hassling me about giving to them.
I saw them in Oct. of 09. I think it was about 2 hours. It was a very good show, they played most hits but not all of them. If you have a floor seat and get there when the gates open you can stand in the inner circle right next to the stage. They let a guy in the crowd since a verse of a song - they threw him the mic. Of course the local critic thought that was terrible but fans liked it.
I saw it in 2009 in Dublin. Alas and alack, although it was a great old show I found it somewhat lacking. Hopefully they've stopped playing that turd of a last album of theirs. Magnificent was one of the few tunes off it that worked live.
My boyfriend was amazing disney area hotels and bought tickets for us, the really expensive ones, for the first night in Dublin 2009. I couldn't get over the fact that the people sitting around us didn't seem to be U2 fans at all. The tickets were something crazy like 130 euro each and for the life of me i couldn't understand why people would come with friends or bring a family of 4 and not be interested in the show. I think i was the only person within disney area hotels a couple disney area hotels of rows actually singing disney area hotels the songs. I've never ran into this problem in the US before. One other thing that bugged me was that the support bands went on early and i missed more than half of a set that i was really excited about seeing!
Overall though i think the songs were good and they put on a decent show, the lighting disney area hotels and stage set up were awesome. Being a fan for years and years though I'm always wanting them to play more of their older tunes. They did do an encore of Ultraviolet which made my night Even with some of the crappiness of this show I'll be forever thankful to my boyfriend for spending that amount of cash to make one of my dreams come true.
Saw them...let's see...I was pregnant with my son, it was a little cool, so must have been Fall 2009 in Oklahoma City (Norman, technically). Really loved it. We had nosebleed seats, but the stage was very cool--looked like a giant spaceship. Black-eyed Peas opened, but we missed half of their set due to traffic.
70,000 of me and my closest friends had a pretty decent night. And Lenny Kravitz, as the opening act, was okay as well (I saw him six weeks ago in an intimate setting and was very disappointed; like he was just dialing disney area hotels it in).
I actually might be able to make the Pittsburgh show, as I'll be in the general region during disney area hotels my vacation. Their 1982 concert I attended, right before they broke big, was almost a religious experience for me.
My wife and I flew up to Chicago to see them in the fall of 2009. Neither one of us had ever seen them before. We were all the way up and as far back as you could be in Soldier Field, so it was kind of hard to see, but the stage was impressive, the video screen disney area hotels was pretty disney area hotels amazing, and U2 put on a good show. Snow Patrol opened for them - I had never heard of them, but they were a good opening disney area hotels act, and definitely preferable to the Black Eyed Peas.
I worked on the on-screen translations at the Helsinki gigs last August, so I saw the gigs from the FOH tower (where they run the lights and video from), but from what I saw, I was duly entertained. The video screen was really impressive once they got it to work for the second night; for the first night, something went wrong with the mechanics and it didn't do everything it was supposed to (still looked fine to me). Cyros : as the name of the tour suggests, the video screens are 360 degrees, so I think even fans behind the stage should see pretty well.
I thought the video effects were really, really impressive for the most part, and the set was massive - the roadies started pulling parts of it down already before disney area hotels the encores during the second gig because it was just so huge and took so long to set up and dismantle. The set lists were good - they played a few songs I hadn't expected them to, and I wasn't too bothered by the No Line on the Horizon songs. The band also seemed to have a really good time during the gigs and joked around quite a bit (for example, the second night started out with pouring rain so they went off into a cheerful sing-along version of Singing In The Rain with the audience).
I was at the Baltimore disney area hotels show on Wednesday. The boys took the stage at about 8:55 and we were on our way out at 11:05. My fourth time seeing them and the second disney area hotels of this tour. Awesome show, according disney area hotels to this long time dedicated but not super hardcore fan.
I was at the Baltimore show on Wednesday. The boys took the stage at about 8:55 and we were on our way out at 11:05. My fourth disney area hotels time seeing them and the second of this tour. Awesome show, according to this long time dedicated but not super hardcore fan.
My boyfriend was amazing and bought tickets disney area hotels for us, the really expensive ones, for the first night in Dublin 2009. I couldn't get over the fact that the people sitting around us didn't seem to be U2 fans at all. The tickets were something crazy like 130 euro each and for the life of me i couldn't understand why people would come with friends or bring a family of 4 and not be interested in the show. I think i was the only person disney area hotels within a couple of rows actually singing the songs.
Pre-Ticketbastard, the only way to get the good seats was by working for them by standing in line for hours. Sure, it was a hassle, but that ensured that only people willing to make the commitment were in the good seats.
Now, the good seats are either disney area hotels - people who lucked out when they purchased tickets on-line or people with a huge amount of money. So the really big fans, the ones who know all the words to all the songs, have to pay scalpers and are surrounded by a bunch of people disney area hotels there to hear a handful of hits.
While I'm not into their music, I respect Metallica for the Snake Pit they used to have, where 200 fans would get into a diamond shaped area right in the middle of the stage. You would have to get there hours early, disney area hotels and from what I understand, pass a quiz on knowledge of the band's music administered by the road manager. This gave them a totally pumped-up crowd that the band could see and react to.
Pre-Ticketbastard, the only way to get the good seats was by working disney area hotels for them by standing in line for hours. Sure, it was a hassle, but that ensured that only people willing to make the commitment were in the good seats.
Now, the good seats are either - people who lucked out when they purchased tickets on-line or people with a huge amount of money. So the really big fans, the ones who know all the words to all the songs, have to pay scalpers and are surrounded by a bunch of people there to hear a handful of hits.
While I'm not into their music, I respect Metallica for the Snake Pit they used to have, where 200 fans would get into a diamond shaped area right in the middle of the stage. You would have to get there hours early, and from what I understand, pass a quiz on knowledge of the band's music administered by the road manager. This gave them a totally pumped-up disney area hotels crowd that the band could see and react to.
This tour I was surprised disney area hotels you can actually get pretty decent standing spots by the stage even if you don't stand in line for ages. I guess because it's just such a big venue or what. The good reserved seats are just too expensive these days.
This tour I was surprised you can actually get pretty decent standing spots by the stage even if you don't stand in line for ages. I guess because it's just such a big venue or what. The good reserved seats are just too expensive these days.
That was probably the band's idea, as a way to try to get a decent crowd near the stage. If you're on a stage with a million watts of light in your eyes, it is pretty much impossible to see past the first couple of rows. A standing pit near the stage gets them people they can see, apart from the people in the $500 seats checking their iPhones waiting for the hits.
I'm not a fan of the band, but I love the thing they did in Seattle, dedicating It's A Beautiful Day to Rep. Gabriel Giffords, with a video link to her husband Mark Kelly on the International Space Station