What a crappy way to remember such an event.
Not happy about the internet age of rip-off.

The fact I had to pay $950 (over double the amount ticket price)on ebay for tickets to a person in Melbourne (yeh right he was really comin to Brisbane) due to fact we spent ages unsucessfully trying to access ticket sales to buy something for us to actually want to go and see.
Then to wait months wondering if the concert would ever go ahead knowing thinking all the while the $950 I spent was gone forever.

The day the announcement of the concert going ahead sent some relief, but Melbourne Cup day!
What are the odds?
Its like April fools day!

Then the actual day arrived, were travelling an hour away from the Sunshine Coast, park in Brisbane, join the cattle queue in Adelaide St for the Bus.
We wait in line for one and half hours, finally get a bus and its 8pm at the venue.
The venue is not packed, the show will be held up, thats nice considering there were at least the same amount of people back in queue at Adelaide St waiting for a Bus! And how many of them had "ebay tickets" imagine what they were thinking at 8pm in Adelaide St.

The concert itself was spoilt by a number of things including what appeared to be Bono losing words to songs particulurly the first part of the set, sound issues throughout also appeared to frustrate Bono, his comments between songs were generally difficult to understand and therefore the overall "set" appeared to lose its feel, but the real spoil came from political comment about Hicks which for myself and clearly obvious by comments made by a lot of people at that momment and later on the way out was a downer on the "Concert".
A lot of people paid money to go to a "Concert" not a political rally.

"Bloody Sunday" is to describe an incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, on 30 January 1972 in which 26 Irish Civil Rights protestors were shot by members of 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment, during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march.
It was about people in the Streets of THEIR home. Bono's comment stuffed the meaning of the song, and I found it difficult to really get back into fully enjoying the rest of the concert.

If anything Bono should see to the fact a lot of people for all his concerts had been "ripped off" before they go on stage. Make a statement about that!
The money paid was for entertainment lets leave it at that.
Tonight also showed Bono is definately aging, sad but its natural!

Was the $950 plus the arrangements to actually get to the tickets, to the event entirely worth it?
The answer from the 3 others with and me, definately not - what could have been is the one that got away!

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