Downloaded the boot and the video earlier on, which wasn't easy, because my computer continued freezing all the time and tried to make my life tonight unnecessarily hard.
But honestly, what an amazing performance, I found it very very moving. Loved Bono's voice, the intimacy, the whole atmosphere, Edge and Bono duetting on ONE and the orchestra, which was especially lovely. Of course the two surprise tracks were truly great, but I found ONE to be moving and much much better than I had expected,simply because the arrangement was great and Bono sang it with a lot of passion. It reminded me so much of the Warchild concert with Pavarotti, I truly believe it was one of the best versions of One in a very long time.
Great they didn't play any more AB songs, that would have been an ackward way of trying to promote the upcoming release. There were interesting choices and I really think they both did a great job. The Mac Book incident was funny. I just thought: Larry, are you in there?
And yes, I found it totally irritating that Bono was going on and on about the whole "hits" issue. Maybe it was supposed to be a joke and I just don't get it, but is the man going through a depressive phase or what? That just didn't seem right and if he says something negative about No Line again I might just go to Dublin or wherever he is, sit the guy down and talk a few serious words with him. I'm good at that, I do that all the time and sometimes it helps