I am 52. ...I have been debating whether I'm up to camping out in GA again, I really want to do it. I am looking forward to meeting more Interferencers! Anybody else???
I'll be 37, when the tour is running, so I'm surely not part of the "younger audience" too, that Bono & U2 came to mind.
For your question: You're up to queueing and camping out in GA again, of course! Would be great, to see also some/a lot of more mature faces like you there and to have a chat.
If, and I say, if the new 'Live Nation' orga including the FOS (Front Of Stage) system won't destroy this beautiful tradition for the first time in band history. While we were still having a chance with the indoor lottery system in 2005 to get to the FOS, now the times finally seem to have changed, when you look at other 'Live Nation' artists like Depeche Mode, Madonna or AC/DC – that in a way could set the bar for the u2 shows, too.
In these cases the special designed and officially slightly higher priced FOS tickets ("The fans should have a fair and affordable chance to get close, bla bla bla ...") came only in very few low numbers in the (pre-)sale and then were officially said to be sold out within seconds. But the FOS are far from sold out nevertheless: You find thousands of them in the Internet (to be resold for fortunes
) and even worse as part of complete official "VIP-packages", "5-star-packages", "DeLuxe-packages", "Special Fansale" etc. – where prices with more than a 100% plus price are called a "cheap offer".
This kind of Apartheid-system will have an A-class section (with a very few lucky U2 fans from the official sale: with more not so lucky U2 fans, who might have thrown themselves into costs, that will harm them after the hysteria & concerts are gone; and filled with VIP-people, who walk in shorty with their suits, drinks and the "Oh who are those U2?"-event-face, as alraedy noticed in Amsterdam & Dublin last time ...) and a B-class section with the first dozen lines filled with real fans, who might have queued up for ages, still in the desparate hope to get to the real front (which won't happen with an extra FOS section!) and the rest of the concert goers ...
This vision might not only be a shock for many, a debate ("U2 don't know anything about this, because it's only 'Live Nation' – which wouldn't be true, because U2 sold themselves with conscious for much, much money to that company, that wants the money back from us, folks...) but a kind of damage to what all this here should be about. I'm really worried about, how the system of 'Live Nation' and the fans' wishes will get along this year ...
By the way: The whole "This time we play for the younger audiences", I've never liked at all. It's a kind of Apartheid too, as if us elder fans and very often long-time-supporters of Mr. Bono & Co would have less value. Both, elder and younger audiences should be one in a concert by a band, that might dive back in their catalogue and rediscover some dust-off old tunes (which older and younger fans will be happy about) and play newer and current staff (which older and younger fans will be happy about, too).
And, yes, many of us 100years plus guys (Bono, you will celebrate your 50ieth birthday, too, young man!?) would enjoy more electronics, more multimedia, a departure to new territory – but we are not to be left behind!
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I miss seeing them when I was 14 and having people say "wow, you're young!" to me 
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