Played for and Dedicated to the 3 girls that have been to almost every gig of this American tour.
Video avaliable blue verena's Instagram account. It's worth a view.

Nice gesture, but I've always hated his version of supersonic. The crowd going off when Liam does it is what makes it, can't get that acoustically.

I'm glad he played but I'm not a fan of this acoustic set, some songs shouldn't be acoustic and supersonic is definitely one.

What an ironic thing to have happen during the show, especially during this song. 

nooo,

yeah it is a festival, and he's not headlining (not even in the main stage), so the set will probably be the shortest he'll do in quite a while. He's slated for a 70-minute set (21:05-22:15) That'll be like... 12-13 songs at most?

Not even remotely close to sold out. Factually about 60% paid. He does seem to be enjoying himself more from all reports though. Hopefully those who attended enjoyed themselves as well! Interested to see what gets added/dropped along the way.

Well pretty much every show had a 'sold out' sign before it.

I'm guessing that means that it doesn't count any of the 'VIP' packages (which I do think are OTT), and there's been a few stories of promoters giving tickets away on the day? 

But overall, the majority of theatres (and these are big venues - or at least, bigger venues than he's played in the US since going solo) have been on the full side, from what people have said...

Where have I said it has been 'his greatest ever'?

From what I have seen - Noel's tour has gone well, and noticeably has more publicity than any of his previous U.S. solo tours.

Maybe that's due to his media team finally waking up to how you should market things, which they have been abysmal at in the past.

Like you say, I was concerned that the large theatres would result in empty shows, but by all accounts the shows have been close to full every time - one way or the other. No half-empty theatres, and Radio City Music Hall - a 6,000 capacity venue - was sold out. There were also two sold out nights in Los Angeles and all the gigs seem to have gone down well.

I don't like the idea of a VIP package, and it seems unfairly priced. That's a bad decision imo, but ultimately it hasn't backfired so much, but yes if they were closing off sections that casual fans would have potentially bought tickets for, it's a bad call.

That's fair enough.

But there were definitely more than two venues sold out. The pictures have clearly been online - I'll try find a few - of the venues confirming as such.

Radio City
Toronto
The Orpheum (L.A) 
Philadelphia

Most of the rest were 90% full. I'm going off posts earlier in this thread for that estimation, btw. And even so, the bigger venues means this will still be his largest capacity U.S. tour as a solo artist, and like you say he seems to be having fun and the crowd reacting well to it.

Same with this ridiculous theory that he's not selling as many tickets in the UK that he has done previously.

He's sold exactly the same amount as he has done on his previous tours, with only - I believe - Birmingham, Nottingham, Aberdeen and Newcastle still with any remaining tickets (and if you check, they're the ones up in the gods that nobody will probably want) - and there's still six weeks to go.

I fully accept that there hasn't been as much hype for this tour, and Liam's comeback has had an impact in that, but he's still doing very well.

It seems people literally heard Holy Mountain once and decided that Liam was suddenly the genius all along.