It's obvious, based on a sketchy view of the comments here that I need to explain why it's wrong to be obnoxious at concerts.
For everyone to enjoy a show equally, we all have to exercise a bit of restraint. If everyone sang and shouted all the time, no one would hear anything. Those who interrupt the performance either visually or aurally are doing it because they are in control of their own actions and can rely on most to not interfere with their experience when they actually want to hear and see the band. I doubt they’d want to only look at people’s hands and cameras or only hear the audience singing for the entire concert. So, the whole basis for their behavior is hypocrisy; they want to do what they hope others will not. My way of enjoying myself didn't interfere with anyone else's senses. It was not based on hypocrisy, but equality. I get the sense a lot of people at concerts would like it to be this way, but are afraid or think it's rude to fight for equal rights. We all have to do our part to make concert going more civil and actually about the performance and not some jackasses chance at getting drunk or proving they're louder than everyone else.
I also wanted to add something to my political review to hammer home missed opportunities to criticize Canadian foreign policy:
U2 completely missed an opportunity to comment on the humanitarian disaster and sight of Israeli war crimes that is Gaza. While Brian Eno took a stand in denouncing Israeli actions, U2 played it safe and simply advocated a cease-fire. Well, the cease-fire came, but Gaza is still being blockaded illegally and people have been suffering without medical attention since January. More topically, PM Stephen Harper has moved to the right of the US in being the only country to fully endorse the Israeli massacre of over 1,300 Palestinian civilians without any reservations.
The US has offered to send back Canadian citizen Omar Khadr to Canada, but the Harper government has refused, despite the Canadian Supreme Court demanding that it does accept him back. Khadr has been detained since 2001 in Guantanamo Bay for allegedly killing a US soldier; what is often omitted, except in a CBC interview with the family, is that Khadr was only in Afghanistan at the urging of his fundamentalist father (who surely shaped his outlook) and that US soldiers began firing at him and his friend first, that they killed his friend, and, out of fear, he shot back. He was only 15 years old and has been tortured at Guantanamo Bay.This is unacceptable for any Canadian government to accept, as it was for the Liberal government to allow Maher Arar to be extraordinarily renditioned to Syria to be tortured.
More recently, CBC has exposed that Canada exports asbestos to countries like India where it infects and kills those who come in contact with it because working conditions are so poor. When it comes to all these kinds of behavior, Bono is wrong in stating, as he did tonight, that “the world needs more Canadas.”