The pit chewed me up and spat me out. It was awesome, actually. It's bizarre how much fun it is getting thrown around and sweated on by strangers. By "Michael", the second-last song before the encore, I had been ejected into the third row. Here, Andrew continues to work his crazy magic while Nick, Paul, and Alex play on. The introductions during "The Fallen" were pretty fantastic: the entire band just got much more into the showmanship than they had in Toronto, so Alex was prancing around the stage speaking at length about each member of the band. "This boy with the angel face! -- this man who breaks hearts, with each note he plays he breaks a heart! -- this man who leaps about with so much energy!" Could have turned out cheesy in the hands of someone less awesome, but the audience was wildly into it. My favourite intro was for the drummer, Paul: "this man at the back with the beat-a! the beat-a! the beat-a! The man with the gap-a in the teeth-a!"