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2018-10-07 - Amsterdam
 Tour: Experience and Innocence tour
Songs played: 23
Audio recordings: 3
Videos: 1
  1. About standing. It's fine people stand on their seating, as long it is ok to others nearby. I think the golden rule is, that you can have fun as long everybody else is enjoying. However I don't quite understand, why the viewers that prefer to sit, are "worse" than the dancing ones? As is already said, people might have various reasons to sit. They have paid for the sitting. So I just can't understand the "selfnishness" of standing. It is not an absolute right. I'm glad people have a great time and I understand that the ga's are sold out in seconds, but You just can't take your standing wherever you like. To be evil: if you miss the Ga, you don,'t stand. Because if you miss the seat you can't go to GA neither. I'm quite sensitive about this 'cos my wife has medical problems with standing and my kid is only 7 years. And the answer is not that why bother to go to the gigs if you can't stand the standing ones. Because I can. I have many times tolerated the people partying infront of us, because I don't want to cause a problem or like to make some stranger to feel bad. However, I don't know if the standing people ever think about it, how are the viewers behind them.
  2. Originally posted by kevinu267:[..]

    Don't worry section 106 was probably worse.

    Band were great but probably worse "crowd" I was sitting in with for a concert.


    I agree! I was in Hamburg (2 shows) and this one in Amsterdam. While the GA was hopping I thought the crowd was quiet quiet ....so many sitting and this was a surprise as I had expected an amazing audience in Amsterdam?
  3. Originally posted by jennagirl:[..]


    I agree! I was in Hamburg (2 shows) and this one in Amsterdam. While the GA was hopping I thought the crowd was quiet quiet ....so many sitting and this was a surprise as I had expected an amazing audience in Amsterdam?
    I was the same disappointed in 2015 at 2 shows in Amsterdam.

    I started jumping during UTEOTW solo and someone told me to stop because they couldn't see (I was in GA near B-stage). Fair enough, but at the same time that made me feel like I was with elders at a theater play with music instead of a rock concert. A a lot of stiff, serious looking people.
  4. Somebody behind you could be pregnant. Somebody behind you could be younger and smaller (so if you stand and they try to stand they still cannot see). Somebody behind you could well be older and unable to stand for any length of time. There are so many reasons.

    Also it doesn't mean you love the band less or are enjoying the concert less because you stay sat down. I've seen people sat down crying at U2 gigs. They didn't need to stand up to express love for the band.

    If you want to stand get GA. If you fail to get GA then bad luck and sit down in your seat. Tough luck.

    If it was the other way around and somebody wanted seats and could only get GA tickets they would not turn up expecting to be able to sit down in the GA area!!
  5. Originally posted by James360:Somebody behind you could be pregnant. Somebody behind you could be younger and smaller (so if you stand and they try to stand they still cannot see). Somebody behind you could well be older and unable to stand for any length of time. There are so many reasons.

    Also it doesn't mean you love the band less or are enjoying the concert less because you stay sat down. I've seen people sat down crying at U2 gigs. They didn't need to stand up to express love for the band.

    If you want to stand get GA. If you fail to get GA then bad luck and sit down in your seat. Tough luck.

    If it was the other way around and somebody wanted seats and could only get GA tickets they would not turn up expecting to be able to sit down in the GA area!!
    +1.
  6. Had a real blast these past few days. Sound was amazing, crowd was into it and some amazing setlists. Real joy!
  7. From a different perspective, I thought the crowd was very wonderful with the applause. Even the "mirror monologue" before You're The Best Thing About Me" was applauded. And that was also fair because it was beautiful. Very touching and seemed to have come straight from Bono's heart. And at the same time Bono didn't linger. It was quite perfect.

    And for the rest I think it is unfair to judge a crowd from your own, limited, perspective. Of course there are sections with "serious" people. Not everyone comes to a concert to drink and party on a Monday night... And, in case you haven't noticed, the "eXPERIENCE" tour is about serious stuff. The U2 audience in general has become older and a lot of the youngster fans from the eighties now, in 2018, have come to deal with the more serious aspects of life.

    I also think that if you are in the seats, you have to mind the people around you. That too is what U2 show is all about. "We are one, but not the same," right? There is a time for sitting, and there is a time for standing and/or dancing.

    I was on the floor last night, third row mainstage (Adam side) and that was incredible. Most people were looking out for eachother and having a great time altogether. We were even so "liberal" to tolerate some Russians to show their flag to Bono once in a while - now imagine us showing a EU flag in Russia! - Ha! That too is Amsterdam for ya...!

  8. I had two great nights. What a band! What a show!

    And about the standing. I bruised my shin. The first night I was happy to have a seat. Yes, there were periods that I had to stand, but I was happy I had the possibility to sit.
    The second night I had to stand almost the whole time, because people in front of me stood. When I went home my leg felt pretty bad, but it was totally worth it
  9. Originally posted by BigGiRL:[..]
    But who said the "eXPERIENCE" tour was a rock concert?

    And from a different perspective, I thought the crowd was very wonderful with the applause. Even the "mirror monologue" before You're The Best Thing About Me" was applauded. And that was also fair because it was beautiful. Very touching and seemed to have come straight from Bono's heart. And at the same time Bono didn't linger. It was quite perfect.

    And for the rest I think it is unfair to judge a crowd from your own, limited, perspective. Of course there are sections with "serious" people. Not everyone comes to a concert to drink and party on a Monday night... And, in case you haven't noticed, the "eXPERIENCE" tour is about serious stuff. The U2 audience in general has become older and a lot of the youngster fans from the eighties now, in 2018, have come to deal with the more serious aspects of life.

    I also think that if you are in the seats, you have to mind the people around you. That too is what U2 show is all about. "We are one, but not the same," right? There is a time for sitting, and there is a time for standing and/or dancing.

    I was on the floor last night, third row mainstage (Adam side) and that was incredible. Most people were looking out for eachother and having a great time altogether. We were even so "liberal" to tolerate some Russians to show their flag to Bono once in a while - now imagine us showing a EU flag in Russia! - Ha! That too is Amsterdam for ya...!

    But........ to hear live UTEOTW and not to dance is impossible.
  11. Setlist comment: What? Did U2Gigs miss the "Ça Plane Pour Moi" snippet ????



    PS: that was right before Vertigo
  12. Yep its already submitted to U2gigs
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