U2 Without Spirits
Following along the lines of Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina, the University of Minnesota has announced that the June 27, 2010 U2 show will be a dry one. Not even a drop of Guinness will be sold at the venue.
According to Joel Maturi, U of M’s Athletic Director, “Live Nation and U2 are OK with that.”
The decision follows school policy, which doesn’t allow alcohol to be sold at its sporting events.
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The show at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, VA was dry, too. But, it didn’t seem to dampen the enthusiasm of the crowd!
I felt the Raleigh show was *better* as a dry show. The crowd seemed more into the show and I didn’t have to worry about beer spilling over me or smelling of it at the end of the night. In Boston, vendors were walking around selling beer in the GA area – even inside the inner circle – and the drunkeness of people kind of took away from the show…not to mention having been baptized by some who were sloshing it around.
Back to a comment I remember reading here on @u2 during this tour– if you have to be drunk to be at a U2 show, you are truly not a REAL U2 fan !
the worst part of the chicago show was the beer vendors- they were all over the field and in your line of sight half the time. Good riddance!