Ashley Grant66 said:The crowd reaction felt meh to me. If we hadn't known there was going to be an encore—that it wasn't actually planned—I would've said people wouldn't have reacted like that. They might have just come up to bow, not to demand more music. Maybe it's just me, but I was at Pips last week and THAT was the kind of energy that actually calls a band back. This felt lukewarm. The whole atmosphere from the audience side... just lukewarm. At least, that's how it felt to me.
uhm, it seemed to me like the crowd was maybe a little shaken up, or at least they didn't feel ready to go wild after those scenes =| when they were leaving, I honestly thought, "there's no way the crowd is calling you back after this, 75% of them need to pull themselves together first."
The crowd was lukewarm, but I think after Meat Is Murder, the reaction was about as strong as the weaker moments during the show. If I had to guess, half-experimentally, I’d say the video was probably responsible for that.
Well, after maybe the fifth or sixth song, once some older lady who spent the whole time cursing out the setlist and the delay finally headed home, I realized the people around me were reacting pretty well after every song. Not so much at the start, and they weren't exactly in the mood for singing, but I think the front rows (I was probably around the tenth row) are what gave me the impression the atmosphere was lukewarm. Honestly, I was jumping around harder than I ever have; I felt like a football hooligan after the concert 😁 but while jumping and singing, there were moments where I felt like an idiot because nobody else around me looked like they were seeing the same thing I was—f***ing god, Morrissey... 😁