Yeah, looking at the stage height (compared with the people on stage as scale guides) I think that distance is a requirement or the first couple of rows would have seen next to nothing! :D
Closeness = Good
Being Able To Actually See Things = Better!
A million fires before your harvest comes. To burn out. Wear the mask of a heathen. For the moon's lonely eyes.
aaarrgggghhh!!!! And I did exactly that, first night downstairs, second upstairs, but then I changed my mind and changed my second night for downstairs!!!
Someone was saying they were going both nights and was in the same place both nights (I think the balcony?) and wanted to swap one night. I think it was two tickets, though. Sorry, I can't remember much else. They might have posted a very specific thread for it, if I remember correctly.