I was just wondering if my recent experience in Nice is typical of this tour. I was in the FOS/Pelouse D'Or area and just before the show started the 'On Stage' punters took their seats in the balconies. At this point a large proportion of the crowd started booing and whistling......presumably jealous at seeing these people take their places. (turned out Bono and Elton were amongst them!)

Has this happened at other shows or was it just the crowd in Nice that were feeling particularly envious that night?!

they are french

In Cologne, Hannover and Stuttgart there were no reaction like this.
Actually the crowd started to get energetic when the people took their
places in the balconies. They knew the show was going to start in the following minutes. I cannot remember any booing during the shows in Germany. Maybe the result of some indifferent articles in France about privileged VIPs in the on stage balconies. Often, reactions like this are created by press articles.
But this is only a personal guess....

maybe they were booing Bono

Tell me... Sister M... Wrote:
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> they are french

What's that mean? Please explain...

it means they are from the country of France

In A'dam as well but I thought it was because someone showed the italian flag on stage

Harm Wrote:
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> In A'dam as well but I thought it was because
> someone showed the italian flag on stage

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Really? I heard nothing of that from FOS, I just heard the crowd (myself included) getting excited about it, waving to the on-stagers and cheering! I saw a fellow Norwegian with his daughter up there (left side), I had talked to them the night before at Paradiso! So that was cool.

In Munich a guy started yelling "KAPITALISTEN"!!!! (CAPITALISTS!!!) But it was a joke, and everybody started laughing.

LQ1977: There was some excitement about the Italian flag, at least where we were, halfway FOS Keefs side. It was nice, the guys with the flag were having a great time, there 15 (short) minutes of fame... It was funny, nice.

Jelle

Hahaha, looks like MicksBrain wants an argument and he's not getting one.

Oily.

Can I ask: What's wrong with the French? Many people seem not to like them... I myself love them.

JumpingKentFlash

No idea, it's not a problem that I have.

I just find it funny that MicksBrain was straight in there like some young buck (and he's probably an old codger like most of us).

Oily.

Naw, Oily, I would NEVER do that... It's just that I live there (Paris) part time and I find the French - almost all - to be very well mannered and polite (at least to me and my GF but that's cause we're always polite and friendly too) so the statement confused me. There are a small number of clueless superficial tourists that go to Paris, don't know how to behave, get a cold shoulder, and then claim the French are rude. They don't say Hello and "Good Day" when they enter a little shop and the owner's standing right there, they don't use the words "Please", "Pardon me", or "Thank you", they don't smile and act friendly and then they wonder why people that still have manners find THEM rude (it's not THAT hard to figure out). It's actually very amusing to watch. I sit in my friends hotel lobby for hours sometimes talking to him and watching these nimrods come in all confused (his hotel is VERY popular with non - French tourists). Once in a while a real "winner" comes in that really shouldn't be traveling anywhere beyond Disneyland/Las Vegas (watching all this is top entertainment that money can't buy - I always wish I had a video camera when it happens) - aw, you know, life is so complicated. One man's ceiling is another man's floor and all that.....I just didn't understand

I know exactly what you mean, and it is funny to see. I think if you travel you have to be able to express yourself to some degree in the host language, at least basic pleasantries and politeness.
I love to watch the 'winners' too - it's not any kind of smugness, but some of these people must come from another planet and have the hide of a rhino :-)

That's one great thing about the group on IORR is there's a lot of very heavy duty traveling going on which is really great (even though the last few years it seems like more and more of the fun is being taken out of international travel with all this insane terrorist crap happening. I find that aspect REALLY REALLY sad and hope something can be done about it somehow - a very complicated issue and solution) but it's nice to see places like IORR bring the world together.... ain't nothin' but a good thing IMHO....

Manofwealthandtaste Wrote:
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(turned out Bono and
> Elton were amongst them!)

Were they really onstage??

Gerda Wrote:
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> In Munich a guy started yelling "KAPITALISTEN"!!!!

...Not surprised...
Its a long way from ´"fighting in the streets" nowadays...

ThatsWhatISay Wrote:
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> Manofwealthandtaste Wrote:
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> (turned out Bono and
> > Elton were amongst them!)
>
> Were they really onstage??


There weren't on the stage but they were apparently (according to Nice Matin the next day) lurking in one of the 'onstage' boxes which of course is above the stage. Hope that clarifies things.....!

if they were in the onstage boxes, Im surprised they didnt collapse....

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> it means they are from the country of France

And YOU called ME a sarcastic so & so ????????????''

always happy to help...I'm just "doing it for the kids"...



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Gazza, are you saying Elton the Bore and the BONOSTER are fatso's ?

yea, verily, I sayeth on to you that they are. Not that I'm exactly Kate fúckin' Moss myself, mind you....

Well, I'll go with you on Elton (I think he's been wearing Liz Taylors stuff lately to hide the expansion) but BONO just seems to be "Husky" but he hasn't looked thin since LIVE AID '85...I think he likes THE BREW too much....

i didn't notice it in amsterdam, or paris, stuttgart or zurich for that matter. i did hear it in nice and thought it was funny.

what's wrong with beeing a capitalist?

i love to be one. It makes things easier and i won on stage seats in munich. never spent a thought on buying them.



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If I could afford to waste £400 on an onstage ticket, I'd probably take great pleasure on being booed, and would no doubt respond with the appropriate gesture to the poor,huddled masses!

On stage is good because when those people come there to take their spots at the balconies I'm alarmed that it's getting really close now to the show. I was thinking about on stage before the tour and I felt like I might give a try but after al FOS and one show at the bstage I would not go on stage anymore actually.

But anyway - everywhere I was everybody reacted with excitements to on stage folks, probably of the same reason as me



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Gazza Wrote:
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> If I could afford to waste £400 on an onstage
> ticket, I'd probably take great pleasure on being
> booed, and would no doubt respond with the
> appropriate gesture to the poor,huddled masses!

It couldn't be any worse than the special birthday greetings you get right? LOL