Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:[..]
I don't think the death penalty exists for gay people in the US.
I don't think they order journalists to be dismembered either.
Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:[..]
I don't think the death penalty exists for gay people in the US.
I don't think they order journalists to be dismembered either.
Originally posted by popmarter:[..]
The US hasn't exactly an exemplary record in the middle east either as I'm sure you are aware.
Originally posted by miryclay:[..]
I don't think democracy will ever work in the Middle East.
Originally posted by WideAwakeBadBoy:[..]
I mean what sort of democracy let's you have an election where one candidate gets 3 million more votes than the other and still doesn't win?
Originally posted by guykirk9:[..]
Eh we’ve had the electoral college for a while
Originally posted by WideAwakeBadBoy:[..]
Just cos you've had it a while doesn't mean it isn't crap lol, it's outlived it's purpose by about 200 years I think is the polite way of putting it
Originally posted by mattfromcanada:[..]
That's tough to say because it certainly felt like that. We only filled the arena end with the stage, so probably each row on the reserved seating had maybe 150 people end to end, and like 20 rows, so that works to 3000. They did 7 takes however and they moved us around a lot. I think the first I think 4 being in the reserved seating, then 2 on the outer ellipse, and then last one in the ellipse. Where this all falls of the tracks however is that I do recall I think EVERYONE (see what I did thereBeing 15 years ago, it's likely it was near the 1000-1500 mark and they were very creative with how they moved us around. I may be wrong about whether we were all in the Ellipse, and in fact as I finish typing this, I may have been on the outside of the Ellipse. Either way, felt like a cool club gig to the All Because Of You / Vertigo / Sometimes as a treat for waiting out the day. Outside of the Hokey Pokey moment, there was no band / audience interaction as I'm sure it was all business.
Originally posted by u2wanderer1:[..]
They needed to fill up the floor for the shoot. So they needed quite a few people. I did a lot of research for U2songs when we launched the video section and we were told by the filmmakers that it was 4000.
From: https://www.u2songs.com/videos/city_of_blinding_lights
The official promo video for “City of Blinding Lights” was filmed by Alex Courtes and Martin Fougerol at GM Place in Vancouver, British Columbia over two days, April 27 and 28, 2005. Members of the public were invited to take part, and 4000 fans were allowed into GM Place for the shoot.
The video features U2 on the Vertigo stage performing “City of Blinding Lights.” It incorporates footage shot on the closed set as well as actual Vancouver concert footage shot the following night. The video shooting was announced at 1:30pm, and at 3:00pm wristbands were distributed to 4000 fans who were let into the building at 7:00pm that night.
U2 took the stage at 8:20 and ran through a number of renditions of “City of Blinding Lights”, as well as the “Hokey Pokey” and finished with a mini concert of “Vertigo,” “City of Blinding Lights,” and “Sometimes You Can’t Make it on Your Own.”
The audio for the video is an alternate version of the song, with a significant amount of crowd noise mixed into the song at the start.
The video for “City of Blinding Lights” was circulated for play on May 30, 2005. u2.com made the video available to subscribers on June 2, 2005.
What was that Hokey Pokey about though? 
Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
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Thanks a lot for your memories and research, respectively
Okay, end of tangent, I realise this is WAY of topic sorry @BigGiRL ! 
I just have a soft spot for weird, out-of-tour events like that. 