U2 Experience + Innocence Tour **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales or Requests**

Wooderson wrote: »

Redo91 wrote: »

I’m going tonight and also standing. Do you mind me asking how early you had to get there to get relatively close up even? Gates are 6:30 and was planning on arriving for 6. Heard queues were massive so don’t know will I be way back then.

Relax. If you’re there at 6 you’ll be right up the front with U2BRTHR and his weird little mates. That said, the show moves around so much you’ll miss tonnes.

If you’re there for 7.30 you’ll still find a perfect spec.

Sounds good! Thanks for the reply!

Rte reviewer has a pop at quiet audience?
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/1105/1008715-u2-looking-forward-to-a-real-homecoming/

Fantastic gig-much better atmosphere than Belfast.
Band in terrific form:-)

whiskeyman wrote: »

Rte reviewer has a pop at quiet audience?
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/1105/1008715-u2-looking-forward-to-a-real-homecoming/

Thought the crowd were quiet too, but it's a f**kin Monday gig so was hardly gonna be mental.
Enjoyed the gig, visuals are some of the best I've seen.

lc180 wrote: »

Thought the crowd were quiet too, but it's a f**kin Monday gig so was hardly gonna be mental.
Enjoyed the gig, visuals are some of the best I've seen.

The "nerdiest" U2 show ive seen. Proper fans tour, if you get me. I reckon a lot of the ole olers were shrugging and going WTF.

Had a restricted view ticket in the Upper block L, for the 40 odd euro I paid for it, was great value for money. I couldn't see the main stage only parts to the left and right but we had a big screen in front of us so could see the images that everyone else was seeing as well as the band. When the lads were inside the screen we looked directly at them. No problems with staff telling us to sit down etc.

Thought the crowd were a bit flat myself, but due to the fact as I wasn't down standing (way better atmosphere in 2015)? Thinking it was more of a mature crowd of die hard fans who travelled from abroad to see the lads in their own town, or the fact that it was a Monday night and people were straight in from work (as in hadn't time to drink beforehand)?

Either way they were on top form, great way to spend a Monday evening, would love to be going back to see them again this week!

Don’t understand the crowd comments definitely where I was standing everyone was going mad I thought crowd was very loud really was buzzing off everyone else!

Jaimz30 wrote: »

Sounds like everyone had a ball, I'm absolutely buzzing for Friday. I'm travelling from Cork and intend to use the red cow p&r, will it be full by 3pm do ye reckon? What is the journey time back after the gig? TIA

Plenty of room when I arrived after 6 last night. Got straight onto luas. Had taxi prebooked but couldn’t find me plenty of taxis waiting outside. Back at red cow 11:15

ITgirl73 wrote: »

I was sitting in block n & when people got up to dance the usher gestured to them to sit down which I thought was really strange. People waited until after intermission to stand up & dance and she didn’t stop them then.

I think Bono was looking for the front row to get a little more amped up, as opposed to the seats.

Superb show, really enjoyed it. Arrived in around 8:15, perfect timing really, no queue straight in. The crowd was very loose which was great, as it made it easy to move away from the people that decided to record whole songs, I didn't really go to see the gig through other peoples' phone screens!
There really isn't a bad standing/seat in the house, as they move around so much. I'd much rather see u2 in an arena than a stadium.

Yeah, any spot is good if standing. I went in around 7.45 to the Belfast gig and was no more than 10 people back from the b-stage.

Let's face it, it's a 14,000 capacity venue. Even if you're right on the margins, you'll have a decent view equivalent to being in or around the pit at, say, a Slane gig.

Enjoy!

On route too Dublin now

Possibly the last time i may see u2 play in 3arena or Ireland in fact

Achtung Baby to get me through this bus trip

Not liked any of their output since 97 but class to see Zoo Station in the set. Would have enjoyed that.

I was at the show in Belfast last Saturday night... Unfortunately we didn't make it in til quite late so ended up stuck well back from the side of the B stage. The crowd around us weren't that into it (yet still managed to completely block our view by trying to video the whole f**king show...). So it was a good, not great experience overall...

So I succumbed to temptation and the offer of a ticket from a workmate and went to see them again last night in the Point. We got there relatively early, started queuing around 6:20, grabbed a couple of pints and went left of the screen, straight to the little corner between the "red zone" the main stage and the runway. Standing with our backs to the red zone barrier had the added bonus of the barman in there serving bottles of beer and wine over to us up until about 45 minutes before the show

The view of the screen, the proximity to the band (who spent a lot of time at this corner of the main stage) and the lovely, completely up for it crowd in this area, along with the brilliant performance by the band, made it one of the best gigs I've been to in a long time... I was a sweaty, exhausted mess by about 20 minutes in!

So my advice is, get in fairly early, don't worry about being right up against the barriers - its important to get a decent view of the screen -and head for the little areas between the "red zones" and the stage as that's definitely where the most craic is to be had!

Gotta say, the Arena staff making people on the balcony sit down is completely out of order... In Belfast most of the people in the seats stood up from the word go and stayed standing...