The predominantly British audience seems to have lost some of the reservation on show 16 days ago.

When the pre-show started, the cheers were loud and required very little prompting. They are happy to "clap, cheer and wave" as instructed. The Wave also worked its way around the arena spontaneously a few times.

— Fergus Bell — Twitter http://twitter.com/fergb

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