If it helps I bought the £30 tickets at Wembley (at all other gigs I have been to on Elevation and Vertigo tours I have been up the front, but this time I am going with friends who have suffered in the credit crunch and would like to make gifts of the tickets to them, which rules out the more expensive ones).
The only tickets which came up when I selected "Best available" were in block 504 row 18 (stage left at the side but closer to the back of the stadium and in the top tier).
I looked at £60 tickets too, which were still in the top tier, but directly next to the stage, stage right.
£85 tickets were lower rows, but still in the upper tier.
From what I could see, the £150 tickets covered not only the entire lower tier 1, but also the mid tier 2 - which surprised me as there must be loads of £150 seats.
If the £60 seats had been mid-level I might have considered them, but for double the price of what I paid and still to be in the top tier, it didn't seem worth it (although if I were going on my own I might have done it!).
I would prob have gone GA, but as the Wembley gig is on a Friday it will be tricky to get there early enough to get a good place due to my work (not much holiday left this year), and also one of my friends is disabled, and so seating was the only real option this time.
In a way I am quite looking forward to seeing an entire stadium of people out in front of me, like some of the camera angles at Popmart Mexico which took my breath away (like the pulsing lighters during NYD).
However, I am a little worried about something - on the Ticketmaster website, the diagram of the stage showed that my seats were more front on to the stage than to the side, and that the closest support arm of the Claw was not in the way. Unfortunately, after booking my tickets, I went to the U2.com diagram, which is different, and shows that the arm is pretty much directly in between me and the stage.
Do you think it will be small enough that it doesn't completely block the view?
I know Bono and other members will prob move around, but it would be good to see enough of stage centre (and the video screens) when they are not. I know it is U2360, but there still have to be supporting arms for the Claw, and I am wondering how thick they will be.
Are the U2.com diagrams accurate, as if you look at different stadium diagrams, some show the claw to be more square in shape, and others to be more rectangular - presumably they won't change the shape of it for each show?
Can anyone shed any more light on this for me?
If/when U2 come back to Europe next year I will get GAs or splash out on premium tix and get closer to the stage. I will be flying out of the country on 15 August this year, so won't be able to make Wembley 2 if they announce it.... Guess I should feel lucky that I can make the first date - still really looking forward to it. I saw U2 on the rooftop at the BBC recently and they were brilliant!
