What happened to the "AWESOME" European crowds?

What about crowd on upper tier, are all in their chairs or are they mad and sing along and standing? Which are more crazy, ppl on floor or on upper tier?

It depended on the song that was being played. For the likes of It's My Life, Keep The Faith, Prayer etc. EVERYONE seemed to be out of their seats (except the aforementioned pair on my row).

That's what I meant. Thanks for putting it in better words - my first language is not English and sometimes I can struggle with what I want to say.

Re performance...oh yeah, it has been milesssss better than recent tours, I felt "empty" when I left the show in Twickenham.

As Kathleen said in another post, this is very close to the band I fell in love with 20 years ago.

I *believe* Friday and Saturday shows could be really good given the fan club will be there.

For the 4 times Ive been in the upper tier during this O2 run, the crowd have been on their feet the whole time. Sometimes I takes until Bad Name to get them up, but theres been no one sitting from that point on, save a breather for some during the acoustic set.

I was in block 111 on saturday and not one person was sitting down all the way through. They were even standing for WGIGO and WFTW!!!!!

The crowd seemed to be insane!!

Who said that they are the same? They arent...

I gotta say I thought the crowd were much better on the Sat night than on the Thurs night. But then I was in a different position on the Thurs night with the crowd kinda behind me.

On Sat night I noticed people around in A3, just standing there. Some were singing along, but didn't jump around, or move their hands, unless like during Captain Crash Jon was asking people too. (This kinda worked out well for me though cos I could take more pics )

Whereas we went mad for Wild Is The Wind & Something To Believe In and Wild In The Streets....and basically every freaking song they played. And just sang with them and hands in the air and all that.



And I was the crazy person screaming out Richie every time he was playing a solo

Well I was at this weekend shows and the atmosphere was NUTS!! I looked around at the crowd in Lay your hands on me, no-one was going to the bar/toilet/for nachos/diet coke etc. Every tier was stood up and singing.

Dunno If I just got a good weekend crowd but Jon seemed to really react to the increased noise levels.

Sorry don't wanna open another can of worms but European crowds, for the most part are louder and more up for it than the US. I actually think it has something to do with BJ "going off the radar" from 1990-2000 over there. They dont seem to know alot of songs that were popular over here from that era. Had a blast at the Meadowlands shows but I wouldnt sit in the stands again for a concert there, would only go down on the floor. (to be fair when I sat down there for night 2 the atmosphere improved ten fold) Maybe it was just where I was sitting but around me everyone was sat down except for about 7 maybe 8 songs. Made me feel really self concious of singing/dancing along really.

I agree, was in Block 118 on Saturday and had a good view of the crowd, everybody was up and dancing all night.

Sunday I was 2nd row in the pit. Dont really know what the rest of the crowd were like (but seemed loud to me), but it was loud as hell in the pit and I got a pick from Richie!!

I couldnt see anyone sitting down on saturday at all during any song, and they were singing and dancing it was a great party atmosphere and you could see this by the smile on jons face.