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Audience microphone

Origins: Audience microphone
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Audience microphone

Origins: Audience microphone
Credits: heartland (Audio Taper)
Equipment: Church Audio CA-11 (Microphone), iRiver iHP-120 (Audio recording device)
Lineage: CA-11 => Iriver iHP-120 running Rockbox (WAV, 44,1kHz) => USB => DSP-Quattro (cut, mix, tracks) => FLAC
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review by u2fancat

8 years ago

Performance

On form, and enjoying the energy of Glasgow!

Sound

This part is only rated, not commented on

Audience

Noisiest audience yet.. fantastic to be so close to the floor.

Overall

After much organisation, the day finally arrived to head to Glasgow to see U2! I even got ready early enough that I had time for a decent breakfast. Took the Tube to Heathrow - much less crowded than at my usual time, of course. Made security with 10 minutes to spare, and headed to the gate.. where there was no hurry at all. Typical BA.

Good job I brought my book - we were about an hour late taking off. Seems there was a tug that they couldn't detach from the front of the plane. In Glasgow, it was a damp day - not actually raining, but had been. A huge grey cloud lowered over the city - with brilliant sunshine coming from where the sun managed to crack through, illuminating the sandstone. Quite lovely, really.

An apparently friendly hotel receptionist wasn't really engaged at all with what she was doing. I mean honestly - she was telling me that the restaurant would be busy tonight, and if I wanted it I'd need to book, "because U2 is playing across the road". Now, this was said to someone wearing a U2 t-shirt. I ask you. As if I needed to be told.

I didn't bother with the restaurant in the end - just headed straight to the venue, figuring I'd find something to eat there. I can see it from my window, actually. There's no direct pedestrian route to the venue, which is awkward - I, and the many walking along with me, ended up doing a lot of jay-walking, and tramping across muddy grass patches. Anyway, with the venue constantly in sight, we didn't get lost. As we approached, I saw a long queue snaking to the side, where a sign indicated that this was for people with standing tickets. Crikey, they were only letting them in now?! I was pretty early, but it was about 6:20..

Inside, I had a delicious chicken burger. When I'd finished, I headed for the entrance door to the arena, and soon understood the usher's surprise to hear I was seated. I was entering at one of the floor entrances! O my, wouldn't I have loved to be standing near the stage. Those tickets are like gold dust, though. Instead, I turned to the side, where another usher directed me up the steps of the seating - I was second row from the back of that block. But you know, it's a more intimate venue than the O2 in London - capacity of only 13,000, it seems - and it looks it. DO YOU KNOW.. that makes it the smallest venue where I've seen U2.. since 1989!! Omigod. And I was practically at floor level. So, the band members were the biggest, relative to my seat, that I'll probably see them this tour.

The girl who danced with Bono during Mysterious Ways was familiar to him - she hadn't been on stage before, but he'd seen her at several concerts. She was coy about saying exactly how many she'd been to though! Her name was Jackie, she was from Fife, and she did a sterling job of camerawork during Elevation. During Sweetest Thing, Bono tried the piano again - briefly - and told us that his wife once asked him whether the song was really hers. "Yes," he said, "it was written for you." "No," she replied, "are the publishing rights mine?" "What would you do with them?" Well, now the rights are hers, and she puts them to good use helping the Children of Chernobyl, with whose charity she's deeply involved.

Tonight was a special night - best yet of the tour. The sense of camaraderie was helped - for me - by the fact that all I could see was a sea of people, no division between seats and floor. The man in front of me turned around during Where the Streets Have No Name, just to say "awesome"! Quite. I was still singing when I got back to my room - that doesn't often happen.