very good show, and the crowd was terrific. i was way up in the nosebleeds and the sound gets a bit muffled up there, very hard to hear bono's comments all that clearly. i've seen U2 in NYC, Boston, Montreal and Paris -- Philly was, far and away, the best, most energetic crowd i've experienced.
it's interesting ... i think they actually need to use the light curtain more, and occasionally slow things down. this show is pretty much 2 hours of loud rock songs, and i simply prefer songs like "stay" "aiwiy" etc. was great to hear the early "boy" stuff, and for some reason, people around me knew the words to "an cat dubh" as well as to most of HTDAAB-- wow. again, props to the philly crwd.
they sounded tight and bono's voice was good i'm now exhausted, hung over, and hoarse. am very much looking forward to DC in october where i won't be in the nosebleeds.
no NYD played -- the show did seem a little short. they can easily play 2.5 hours, and i see no reason why they can't play a little longer with such expensive tickets (though my cheap seats were only $50). i was also hoping that they'd close with "bad/40" ... sadly, no.