What is it about a maiden concert of a top performer, flying into any country of the world that makes it impervious to criticism of any sort — unless the goof-up is massive enough for the lights or sound to have gone off, entirely? It would be critic-proof. Because that has a lot to do with why we go to a concert of someone we know/love, the first time on, anyway.

We go far more to simply watch the performer live, in flesh, reassuringly transmitting to us over a couple of deeply nostalgic hours the fact that the music we heard in dorms/living-rooms, over time, exists in reailty — right there, even if a few hundred yards away! The first U2 (or any other major musician's) concert, for a true-blue U2 fan, is more about celeb-spotting, and tourism, rather than music or even the concert itself.