Official July 5th 2013 - Hyde Park, London, UK thread

Pretty similar to Slane's setlist - when they play most of the band's best songs in one encore, there really isn't anything to complain about.

How bad was it?

I heard that Jon knocked his own mic stand but laughed and picked it back up.

No sir. The 7800 sugestion was perfectly fine.

I will rip my ears off with the lame ballad section Bounce has.

What a bland set, I expected more.

I didn't actually notice jon going mad at Phil my self . . . Or knocking his mic stand over . . If its videoed id love to see .

Band are looking tired I agree but hell you can't get that kind of performance anywhere else

Exactly right.

Here's a review from a first timer:


Just experienced one of my first ever Bon Jovi concerts, and it was BRILLIANT!! must say my voice is going from screaming and singing so much, but spent it with some amazing people! Am definitely going again

Just seen a photo and the GC looked massiveee tho!!

I just came back from the show, awesome ! Jon felt like he didn't want to quit the stage!

Great 'Dry county', very special moment for me

It was my second show after Koln this tour, two great nights!

Jon said sure they will come back in Europe ...
He was realy enjoying the show, I've never seen him like this before on stage (specially during the encore)
I think he was angry at Phil a the very beginning of BTBMB, I didn't understand what happened

The atmosphere at this british summer festival is really awesome

Sadly not quite the positive review from me. I was a bit underwhelmed to be hinest. For a tour finale at a venue Jon loves (We certianly don't, its a pain in the arse) they gave us nothing new.

But then this is just my personal view, please don't paint me as ungrateful or expecting miracles. I was in General Admission and the view was shit. The lighting gantry was at the back of the GC and pretty much all of GA was obstructed. I was really hoping for TAALS but didn't get it. Or something new off WAN like Army Of One or Whats Left Of Me. Nope. I'm also very drunk and my mate was being a prick. So that's why my experience personally was pretty poor- if I was in GC or DC I probably would have loved it. My own fault for buying the tickets when they went on sale (The most expensive of the 3 dates I did). And then my fault again for not getting my arse in gear and getting a refund off TM to buy some cheaper GC tickets.

But, I was in GA in 2011 and had a fantastic time- I also got nothing new there, but enjoyed myself immensely so I don't know. Maybe my expectations were too high- but I wasn't hoping for much, just a song out of a few that had been played recently. Obviously, given Glasgow's setlist anyone complaining about that will look a wanker, but for my show 26, and the last before my little boy is born, and thus my last multi-show tour, I was just hoping they would send me off with something special. They didn't, but it was a very solid set and I'm sure 99% of people there would have had a blast- couldn't fault the performance of the band, and the setlist for anyone else would have been amazing. Just combined with all the other reasons, my personal experience fell short, and whilst most of that isn't the bands fault, I preferred both Manchester & Birmingham this tour.

The Phil X moment was possibly at the start of BTBMB as he seemed to be playing a totally different song.

This ^ and it seems the audiences have been very happy.