elviscostrummer said:One thing I'd like to add to this discussion is that I think there is a bit of a difference in DM's audience then U2's audience in concert, and alot of that has to do with ticket prices. U2's top face value price is $165 and DM's top face value price is $85, even the best seats at the DM show are cheaper then alot of balcony seats at the U2 show. I really feel that high ticket prices are making the audience at the U2 shows more boring because a bunch of rich yuppies who are only fans of the hits go to impress their friends that they have executive U2 tickets, these are the people who are sitters in the lower loge sections at all the shows. I'm 24 years old and I know alot of people my age who would love to go see U2 but simply can't afford it and I personally would rather go to a show that was packed with an excited younger generation of kids who had never seen the band before. This is what I saw at the Depeche Mode show, tons of kids in their 20's who have assimilated DM's music into their generation and not only sang along to the hits but also sang along to album cuts. At the DM show I was at I didn't see anyone sitting the whole show, and it was a seated floor, it just felt like it was a hipper show in terms of the crowd and that's because of ticket prices. The one reason I hope U2 does a large stadium tour next year is so that they can do shows that are cheaper to get into because the demand won't be so easily satisfied.
I've been to a lot of shows including DM, but I've never seen a more vocal and energized crowd than a U2 crowd on average. The four shows I saw this year everyone was standing the entire show.