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.
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