Originally posted by SJKamal:I've seen the show 4 times now so I think its a good time to give my judgement. Those first 9 songs before intermission are bloody amazing, and is the best bit of U2 you'll probably ever see. Stay and Wild Horses are personal standouts. After the intermission you get the "Happy meal" section, Elevation, Vertigo and EBTTRT. This may look a bit naff on the setlist, but in person its great. Gets the arena rocking. The "Im fucking Bono" speech is awesome as well.
However after this section the show doesn't really recover. Although I like every single song they play after the "Happy meal" section, it all just seems a bit flat. Especially with the newer songs, both London shows Bono tried to get the sing along going for GOOYOW and the crowd didn't quite catch on. Love is Bigger last night too fell really flat.
13 gets a lot of stick as well for being the closer, but its bloody wonderful. Thats just my view though, Manchester 1 we were speaking to some casuals and they said "Can't believe they ended the show like that". My Mum (casual) thought it was pretty boring too. But the U2 fans I went with loved it.
Overall it is a bloody good show. Im seriously thinking about doing Berlin now. Its my favourite tour (albeit I've only seen 3, innocence, JT and Experience). This isn't a tour for casuals, that was the JT last year. And thats probably why the crowd fell a bit flat at times. I've heard songs on this tour I thought I would never hear in my lifetime. My Uncle (who's done every tour since '87) only does one show per tour. However he thought London 1 was so good, he came again with me last night. He said it's the best show he's seen.
