Hewson said:Well it conversely rewards fans who've stayed loyal to the band for 14 or 15 years. And it gives younger fans the opprtunity to get good, probably not great, seats without fighting during Ticketmaster on sales and hoping to get anything before the show sells out.
And if she's never been on the floor, I doubt she's been in the club as long as 7 years, while that kind of seniority won't get her right down front, it would get her decent seats, and in some cities with less fan club members attending (that means not NYC, Seattle, Boston or Philly) she would have very good seats.
She has been a fan club member for that long.
I asked her what is the closest she ever got. It was in Montreal a couple of years ago, row 22 on the floor. This Canadian tour, she saw them 3 times, never got on the floor, closest she got was 15th row on the side. And that is because of the huge influx of American fans who were coming up north with their seniority. The PJ fan club does not reward regionally b/c they allow you to buy tickets for infinite numbers of shows. Don't get me wrong, I don't think the U2.com thing is worth it at the moment, but at least restricting you to 2 shows means people are most likely to use those tickets for their home cities and get great seats there (ie. floors), rather than out of towners constantly swallowing them up.