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London 2022

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The Curious Orange:
Interesting lack of reviews for this on here - London show threads are often full of forumites sharing their experiences, I know a lot of people (myself included) were giving this a miss this time round, but the silence speaks volumes.

Chino:
Was the setlist the same as the US tour?

Deadeye21:
Yes

genome:

--- Quote from: The Curious Orange on April 26, 2022, 03:08:30 AM ---Interesting lack of reviews for this on here - London show threads are often full of forumites sharing their experiences, I know a lot of people (myself included) were giving this a miss this time round, but the silence speaks volumes.

--- End quote ---

Yeah, I gave it a miss this time. I don't like Wembley Arena, the new album is a bit average for me and the setlist wasn't great, it would've cost a ton, and the travel would've been chaos because of the boxing.

jbrum77634:
I went, I saw the NYC show in March and loved the setlist, have 2 more shows to do on this tour.    I love the latest album, wish they'd done Answering The Call though.   Endless Sacrifice was tremendous and it was nice to see/hear The Count of Tuscany again.   Sound quality was so-so but it's an old swimming pool and has never been renown for great acoustics even after recent refits.

Wembley is an awful place but with it being the only Saturday show I bought the ticket as soon as they were on sale.   I wasn't best pleased when the Fury/Whyte event was announced but what can you do except cut off your nose to spite your face.

I got there around 5pm and the stewards had cordoned off square at the front of the main building to keep the Stadium attendees out.

I haven't seen Tesseract before and in a way I still haven't seen them thanks to their odd stage lighting which from my viewpoint left them mostly in the dark.

Lots of empty seats inside the Arena, it's hard to gauge the attendance, the top tier was curtained off and the floor was seated back to front, oddly there were clusters of filled seats at the very back then large spaces further forward, guess the rear seats were cheaper.      I've seen Ghost twice in the last few weeks and their shows were better attended but still way way off being sold out.

I'll admit at the end of the main set at 10.20pm I looked at the BBC Sport website to see the boxing was in Round 3 and wrestled with a quick exit.   I stayed and when I left at 10.40 I've never seen so many people in my life streaming down the steps from the stadium.    That said I walked straight to Wembley Park and only broke stride in the ticket hall at the barriers and was on my tube after an 8 minute wait in which time the other branches of the Metropolitan Line came and went.   Most people were getting the tube back into London and for me it was no different to any other time I've been to Wembley - easy.

There was a significant police presence around Wembley and they clamped down on anyone drinking outside the stadium, I don't doubt that improved the overall travel issues.

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