Venues rarely have sound systems, blame the band for that or rather their choice of sound engineer, he designs the rig and there aren't that many arenas in the country, if the sound engineer is used to arena circuit, he'll know what he'll need and how to compensate for each venues accoustics, If the sound isn't right by the third song, he's shit and thats in a normal venue, in an arena it should be right from the off because he should just know how to compensate straight away during the first number.
Simple Minds - Everything after New Gold Dream was crap. Really liked them before that