So, I'm behind on reporting in, but here I am.
We lined up around 7am for the show, and were 124 & 125. Shortly after our arrival the line started growing quickly. We were surrounded by out of town-ers in the line. The guys in front of us had driven straight through from Ottawa the night before and lined up around 2am. There was a girl behind us from Montreal. All were quite friendly, and good company for the day.
It sucked that security had us cleaning up our chairs and such at 1am. But we survived.
We didn't sprint in, but we ended up just right of center (Adam's side) on the back rail, which was an awesome view. Cept for those few times when a tall dude wandered in front of me, or this guy taking video would hold his camera *exactly* where I was looking. Overall, the GA experience (my second GA ev-ah) was good. People around us were totally chill - one dude was from Norway!- and we all saved eachother's spots when we went to the bathroom. Norway guy (who was tall) was even so nice, we would duck so us shorter people behind him could see better. Extra bonus points to him.
[I'd just like to note that when we got in there, despite being so early in the line, the rails had filled up fast and the front was already a few people deep]
The low point of the evening was probably when one dude who was plastered, after making a sorry attempt to take a washroom break came back, and
tried to pee in his beer cup, instead washing out the floor and people around him. Thanks a lot buddy. Hope you enjoyed paying the money to come, to pee, and to leave.
Security gets a thumbs up for heeding my call to bring something to throw on the floor for those stuck standing in/near it.
The show was awesome.
My comrade, who is not a huge U2 fan, admitted it was fantastic and totally impressive. We took tons of pics, will post when we get them sorted.
If anyone was on the outside rail and has pics of a tall brown dude in glasses standing next to a ginger in a white t-shirt. Please post.
Kaf, Mia and Bomac, I'll have to see if you're in any of our pics. I spotted you guys on the outside rail, a lil down from us.
I was really close, like the second row of the pit close to Bono, but was surrounded by non U2freaks. I didn't care and still went crazy (and people around me looked at me like I was a weirdo but clearly I had no shame
). There was a guy dressed as MacPhisto by where I was and the non U2freaks in front of me had noidea what he was. I had to explain it to them!
I saw that dude!
That was so amazing. I wondered what it looked and sounded like from the condos above. I saw people at their windows and on their balconies both nights. One guy was flashing his living room lights on and off through all of Sunday Bloody Sunday and another group of people were holding up lighters on their balcony during Moment Of Surrender.
I loved when he called up to them. And I can only imagine the excitement up there when they flashed their lights - the whole stadium was screaming for them.
Almost everyone on Show 2 was jumping, singing, and clapping. The atmosphere was fantastic. Show 1 is another story.
I heard that too, that show 1 was pretty quiet. Looks to me that TO2 was the place to be, cause it got LOUD
I mean, no rain in the forecast.... and the sound is normally shit with the roof closed, so WTF?! Later on that same afternoon my friends and i were talking to Brian Murphy (while waiting for Bono to arrive for the scheduled interview) and the topic of the roof came up. We shared our disappointment with him and we jokingly asked him to tell Bono to do something about it... we figured if Bono wanted the roof to be open, it was going to be open. How great it was to come to Roger's Centre the following day and see the roof opened. With the CN tower right beside it and the light show that was happening, it would have been a pitty having the roof closed. Just didn't think the guys would have to pay that amount of money to have the roof opened...
