Sunday, July 26, 2009

The Day Came: U2 360 Concert in Amsterdam, 21 July 2009

They still have it!!! It was an unbelievable, absolutely amazing concert I've ever attended. The show started on time, no primadona hanky-panky like Madonna's concert (we waited for 2 hours before she finally appeared) from these bands. Snow Patrol did a fantastic 45 mins opening and the stage crew took another 45 mins to reset the stage for the main act: U2.

At 9:30pm sharp, the crowd went crazy when Larry Mullen, the first member of U2 appeared on stage and quickly followed by the rest of the members...by then the crown went ballistic including me. Bono sang a good mix of songs from their latest album 'No Line On Horizon' and some other older hits such as Bloody Sunday, With or Without You, Desire. Eventhough we'd numbered seats, most of the time, we were up on our feet, dancing and singing along to the songs.The stage was a sight to behold, a massive round stage (360 degrees, that's U2's theme for this tour) with revolving 2 bridges where the band members were freely walking on it. When Bono sang 'I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight', the whole concert ambience escalated to a frenzy - the whole stadum was then vibrating with all the screaming fans, the screen came down that looked like a thimble-shaped and the band was on their top of their performance. Absolutely smoking ;)

Everyone had a great time and it was sad that'll all good things have to come to an end...the concert ended at about 11:35pm. By then U2 had sang 3 songs after the encore. We'd arrived home at 1:30am...absolutely tired out but definitely it was an unforgetable concert...

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