U2 Talks to Their Fans Via Twitter

Before the special programme recorded in Paris released by  US channel HBO , the band answered numerous questions from his fans via twitter, late on Monday , 07/12 . With very good mood , many issues were discussed and some famous also decided to join in the fun .

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U2 SUE BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

A funny account of the Oscar's event by www.thestudioexec.com

HOLLYWOOD - Popular rock music group U2 have announced they are to sue Benedict Cumberbatch for photobombing them at the Oscars. 

Humorless lead singer Bono spoke EXCLUSIVELY with the Studio Exec this morning:

We'd got dressed up for the Oscars, and Adam and Edge were really, really excited. We all put on our serious faces, because we like to look quite serious and when I smile I look like a bit of a turnip. The photographers snapped away and we were really happy. I turned to Edge and said, 'That'll be a good one'. But when I got up the next morning I was horrified to see Sherlock Holmes jumping behind us like a pillock.

Edge added with a dour tone to his voice like a child trying not to cry:

As you may or may not know, myself and Bono and the rest of U2 are actually Irish. So bombing of any kind, even photobombing is in very poor taste. I'd worn my special hat so as you can imagine the whole evening was ruined.

Noted Jolly Bastard Mr. Cumberbatch laughed when told of the impending law suit, and issued a statement through his lawyers that stated simply:

I don't give a toss.

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Post Oscar Parties

Bono, Portia de Rossi, and Ellen Degeneres at Vanity Fair Oscar Party

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Bono, Edge and  Adam and their wives at Vanity Fair Oscar Party

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    Bono , his wife and daughters   at Vanity Fair Oscar Party By Getty Images/V.F

Bono and Edge's Unnoticed Visit

U2 exhibition at The Little Museum of Dublin

Apparently not everyone in Dublin recognises Bono and Edge. This is what happened at The Little Museum of Dublin: 

Rock stars usually arrive with a bang. But when Bono and The Edge decided to visit our new exhibition about the story of U2, they turned up unannounced – and we failed to recognize the stars!

Bono and The Edge – arguably the two most famous Dubliners alive today – made their way up to the third floor of the museum to visit a new exhibition that celebrates the success of the band over the last four decades. 

The exhibition has drawn record crowds to the Little Museum, and it’s thought that the stars may have been confused for particularly eager fans.

U2 at the Little Museum

Bono and the Edge visited the museum over Christmas, but it was only last week that their autographs were discovered in our visitors book. The signatures were then authenticated by Professor Scott Calhoun, an expert on the band and one of the curators of our exhibition.

“Awesome!” is Bono’s verdict on the exhibition, which features never-seen photography, a Trabant designed by Maser, many rare recordings and a life-size statue of, eh, Bono.

According to our director Trevor White, “We’d like to say everyone was too cool to acknowledge the presence of Bono and the Edge. The truth is that we didn’t recognize them. They must have come the morning after our Christmas party.”

“It wasn’t the welcome we were hoping to give them,” says museum curator Simon O’Connor, “but at least they liked the exhibition.” U2: Made in Dublin remains on view at the Little Museum of Dublin.

If you visit Dublin, this is a must-see!!!

The museum is open 9.30-5pm seven days a week, with late opening until 8pm on Thursdays.

The Little Museum is on the first floor of 15 St Stephen’s Green, on the north side of the Green, near the corner of Dawson Street,  three minute walk from Trinity College.

Update video:

http://www.littlemuseum.ie/

Larry Mullen Jr on Norwegian TV

Larry went to Oslo to talk about the premiere of the film " A thousand times goodbye", but the interview turned out to be something else. A funny twist to a TV interview!!!

The Unforgettable Hair

Adam Clayton goes back to his roots with new do

Adam, December 2012.                                                Adam, circa 1979

What`s going on, Adam? Are all hairdressers in Dublin on holidays?

U2 bassist Adam Clayton attended the band’s Christmas party last night, sporting a hair style with a lot of Elevation in the roots.

The 52-year-old was snapped going into Harry’s Bar in Dublin’s docklands, where he joined Bono and The Edge and pals of the group including artist Guggi for the annual knees up.

But fans were surprised to see Adam, who for years has sported a tight crop, with longer grey hair. And he had ditched his usual leather jacket and t-shirt for a patterned shirt and navy slacks. He wore an overcoat against the winter chill.

Fans waiting outside in the cold on Hanover Quay to meet the band as they entered the bar included husband and wife Alon and Maya Loey who had travelled from Israel to see the group for Christmas.

The evening’s entertainment was provided by comedian Katherine Lynch who told Adam, the only remaining single member of the group, that Lisa Murphy was back on the market if he was interested in hooking up with the ex of solicitor Gerald Keane.

Last year the band were entertained by Limerick’s Rubberbandits who performed at the same venue for the Principal management get together.

It has been a dramatic year for the bassist.

Last July his former personal assistant Carol Hawkins was jailed for seven years for stealing €2.8 million of Mr Clayton’s money after she was convicted on 181 counts of theft, over a four year period. Clayton attended the proceedings everyday in the Circuit Criminal Court, and gave evidence for the prosecution.

His attire in court was described to be like that of an architect, and he wore black rimmed glasses and a tight crew cut, which he has since grown out.

- Independent.ie reporters

 http://www.independent.ie

U2 Wishing Metallica Happy 30th Anniversary

U2 Wished Metallica Happy 30th Anniversary at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

You Tube user:  FunkMunkyFoo 

Happy St Patrick`s Day!!

Either Irish or with Irish spirit, 

Happy St Patrick´s Day!!!

The net reveals the most incredible things!!! And in this video there is the confirmation of something U2 fans have suspected for long: Bono is a leprechaun!!!!

Have fun!!! 

U2 Enjoyed South African Wines

Hein Koegelenberg, La Motte managing director blogged about U2`s visit to that restaurant in Cape Town last Friday. 

"Larry Mullen, drummer for U2, took time out of the band’s world tour to visit La Motte."  

Following the visit by U2 drummer Larry Mullen, U2 vocalist Bono and guitarist The Edge visited la Motte with a group of friends for lunch at the Pierneef a La Motte restaurant enjoying Cape winelands cuisine and our Shiraz Viognier, Shiraz and Sauvignon Blancs. Above are photos of myself and Hanneli with Bono and The Edge. Stunning musicians and wonderful guests..."

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Pete Postlethwaite's last film appearance in 'Killing Bono'

The British actor,Pete Postlethwaite, considered by many "the best actor in the world" died from cancer  last January 2nd. His last movie was "Killing Bono" where he plays Karl, McCormick's camp landlord, a role written  for him especially.

Killing Bono is set in Ireland and stars Ben Barnes as Telegraph music critic Neil McCormick, a young man struggling to become a rock star in 1970s Dublin.

The film, which will be released in cinemas in April next year, is based on McCormick’s memoir I Was Bono's Doppleganger. It follows Neil and Ivan, two brothers attempting to become global stars as old school friends U2 become the biggest rock band in the world.
In this scene,Postlethwait´s  last in the film - and his acting career - his words of advice have particular poignancy because Postlethwaite already knew he had cancer.

"A word for the wise from an old man before you go. Remember only this: the measure of a man is what's left when fame falls away."

www.telegraph.co.uk

U2 were up in the clouds...

Ever since anyone can remember, Irish  rock journalist and broadcaster Dave Fanning has been the first person to air the first single from a new U2 album.

Dave has been friends with the band since their earliest days even though, when he first saw them play, ‘there were 5 or 6 other bands that I much preferred’. But, he recalls, ‘they had a belief in their own ability that none of the other crowd had.’

Ever since anyone can remember, Irish  rock journalist and broadcaster Dave Fanning has been the first person to air the first single from a new U2 album.

Dave has been friends with the band since their earliest days even though, when he first saw them play, ‘there were 5 or 6 other bands that I much preferred’. But, he recalls, ‘they had a belief in their own ability that none of the other crowd had.’

With the publication of his memoir, ‘The Thing Is…’ we tracked Dave down to ask him about the waning power of the DJ, how music has changed and some of his most memorable interviews.

Congratulations on your autobiography! Are you glad you wrote it?

I really am! Originally, I was thinking, “This is stupid. Does the world really need a book about Dave Fanning, written by Dave Fanning?” But I realised there are those who grew up in Ireland in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s who will relate to it.


But it goes wider than that. Not only did you have a ring-side seat and access to the great artists of those decades, but you played a significant part within popular culture, starting with pirate radio…

I was the biggest fish in a small pond, and that’s why I got so much of what I got. Not because I was good, or bad, but because I was ‘Ireland’ to the PR people. I could offer print, radio and TV. Robbie Williams gave half an hour to each country, and I got the half-hour here because I was able to offer all three. Don’t make me into Sir Dave Fanning. It’s just what I did.


But you were able to do something with it when you got it. You helped to introduce new bands to their audience, including U2…

No question, yes. But the world was different, then.

The power of a DJ like John Peel has completely diminished these days. If you want to find something new, you can do it instantly. You don’t need anyone guiding you through.

I think a lot has been lost. Most bands don’t get time to develop. It was only when U2 got to Unforgettable Fire - album 4! - that they really started moving, but it was to get to that point that was important, because then you get the breakthrough: suddenly it becomes The Joshua Tree.

That sort of thing doesn’t really happen any more, which I find sad. It’s all so ephemeral.


Did you ever have to play music from a play-list?

Never once in my entire life did that happen. Never. We were always meant to be the experts and we were left alone to do it.


How important does music remain within popular culture?

Good question. I do think it’s diminished… Once, if I saw someone carrying a record bag, I had to know what was in the bag, and would instantly decide on what sort of person they were! They were either an idiot or really cool…

Getting your hands on music was so difficult. Even listening to music. BBC Radio 1’s ‘Sounds of the Seventies’ was so important; even more essential than Peel. And I’d listen to the live gig between half 6pm and 7.30, even if the band was boring.

Today there are 40 channels playing music all the time, and if you go into your local supermarket, there’s a TV playing a video of the latest Black Eyed Peas cover band. Jesus Christ! What’s it become? There’s no listening to Radio Luxembourg under the covers any more, waiting to see what they’re going to play next.

Maybe I’m just too old…


Are today’s kids the Generation X-Factor?!

I’m stunned at the number of people who watch X Factor. It’s such glue for the family. Every age group, even hardened rockers… I just don’t get it.

You have Louis, who I like a lot, being pathetic every week. And then you have Simon Cowell saying, “You’re what this show’s all about.” No it’s not. It’s all about you, Simon…

These idiots have hijacked everything that was dear to me: the pop charts. And yet the amount of pleasure people get out of X Factor! So who am I, but an old fogey with my slippers and rocking chair and my Bovril?


What, for you, makes a great interview?

I’m not sure. Sometimes, you just know. The other day I interviewed Ron Wood and it didn’t work. But usually, the bigger the star, the better the interview. They have more to say, they understand the game, and they perk up if they realise you’re not just asking the normal series of questions.


Do you get star struck?

My interview with Joni Mitchell was the biggest one of all for me, because she came into the studio. I realised then that I was a little bit star-struck. For me, she was the greatest thing in the 1970s and to have her come in to do her first interview in six years – I still have no idea why she agreed to do it, to this day.

But there is always something bigger than the star: you’re consumed with having to get it right. Once I went all the way to Cincinnati to interview Peter Frampton, then straight to LA for Fleetwood Mac. It just has to work in those circumstances. And making it work is always bigger than the person I’m sitting in front of.

I usually get a bit bolder towards the end. That’s why I was so annoyed with Lou Reed. He stopped the interview 20 minutes before the end and I would love to have gone elsewhere with him.


U2 weren’t stars when you first met them - and you didn’t see much in them that suggested they would be. Is that right?

Yes. There were 5 or 6 other bands that I much preferred. U2 were trying to do something new that sounded different. And in 1978, that wasn’t what I wanted to hear. The Undertones were based on decent pop music; the Rats were stealing from the Stones, and a thousand people were making short, sharp aggressive pop music. U2’s music was ethereal, up in the clouds. And it was like, “Jesus! Who do they think they are?”
It’s easier for someone like Jack White or Jimmy Page to look cool because their coolness is built on the blues, from something in the past. Edge, meanwhile, was trying to bring music into the future; and that’s a much more difficult thing to try and sell.

First part of the interview published in U2.com


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Semi-retired Gold Coast businessman scores two unlikely golf buddies from U2

UNRECOGNISABLE OFFSTAGE: U2 lead singer Bono performing on stage during their Australian tour. Source: Getty Images

GOLD Coast man got more than he bargained for this week during a game of golf at the Hope Island course.
The semi-retired businessman was on the practice green when a foreign man approached him to ask if he and his friend could join him on his round.
The local man happily agreed and soon discovered he was talking to the stage manager for Irish rockers U2.
"Oh and does your friend work for U2 as well?" he asked.
"That's Bono, the lead singer," the stage manager replied.
The man enjoyed 18 holes with Bono and the stage manager, a beer or two afterwards, and scored tickets to Wednesday night's show.

www.couriermail.com.au

Is it the President? Vice-president? Or Bono?

Funny excerpt of an episode of Grey´s Anatomy :



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Neil McCormick:The Man who wants to kill Bono

Many rock pundits are more than happy to write about their successes in life, but few would be prepared to espouse their failures so enthusiastically.

And even fewer would be lucky enough to find their efforts the subject of a best-selling book and the basis for a major new feature film.

When self-confessed rock star failure Neil McCormick put pen to paper for his 2003 memoir Killing Bono, little did he realise how his tales of living in the U2 frontman’s shadow would click with fans of the Irish supergroup.

As a former schoolmate of Bono — real name Paul Hewson — McCormick was perhaps better poised to recount the trials and tribulations of the singer than many rock writers.

The pair grew up in a Dublin with a burgeoning late-70s punk scene, but while Bono went on to attain rock god status, McCormick found his efforts in bands such as Frankie Corpse and the Undertakers, and Yeah! Yeah! were to come to naught.

“One reason that Bono made it is he was lucky,” says the chirpy and not-at-all-embittered-sounding Neil.

“There are three things you need to have a good chance of making it. One is an abundance of talent, and Bono certainly has that. He was a charismatic character in school and he's always been a hero to me.

“The next is luck, in meeting the right people, in being in the right band. The public chooses who it wants, you don't impose yourself on them, so you've got to be in the right place at the right time.

“And there's persistence — you stick with it until that combination of talent and luck pays off. I don't know where I went wrong; maybe it was the talent, certainly I didn't have the luck and 13 years demonstrates I had some persistence, so maybe if I had stuck it out for 14 years the world would finally have recognised my genius!”

Bono's legendary sense of drive and purpose — so evident in his campaigning work and his musical performances — was also a crucial factor, Neil says.

“It comes from not a very good place,” he adds.

“His mother died when he was 13 and it's amazing how many of our greatest stars have that kind of maternal or paternal loss in their background; it's quite shocking. For him, music was a way of filling himself up, and for me maybe it was just something I was doing.”

The title of the book itself may be stark in its message (and one might think the subject of a restraining order) but for Neil it was more about laying old ghosts to rest than hitting out at his more successful childhood friend.

“Bono came up with that title!” he laughs.

“It was called I Was Bono's Doppelganger, but when the book came out in the US they were perplexed by the word ‘doppelganger’. I had to come up with a new title. That was something Bono had suggested to me quite early on. I called him when I was writing the book. He read it and said “You should call it Killing Bono, like slaying your dragons”. He used to ring me up and leave messages on my phone saying “Neil, it's Bono, you have to kill me”.

“I was worried that someone might take me seriously, though!”

The singer's well-intentioned campaigns to save the world, including his very visible appearances in Northern Ireland in support of the peace process, have often made him an easy target for the sneering of others.

Yet Neil contends that the motivation of the man who wrote I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For is absolutely genuine and only exacerbated by his big personality.

“He's not down-to-earth, he's got a big head, and he's got a big heart and he's a big guy who is doing an amazing thing out there,” he says. “I find it quite sickening that people give him stick.

There's no rock star or celebrity in the world who gives more of himself to help other people, and he has made a profound difference.

“Millions of people are alive in the Third World because of the intervention of him and others who give a hell of a lot of time. We can argue about whether that's irritating or not, but nobody cares about ‘irritating’ when they're dying of hunger.”

Neil will be visiting Belfast this week for the first of the annual Northern Bank/Ulster Museum Lectures. Having seen the music industry both from within and without as a rock journalist, Neil's subject matter for his forthcoming lecture — Is There Too Much Music? — also promises plenty of insight into the industry.

“It's something I think about a lot,” he says. “Because from being a musician in a series of obscure and failed bands to somehow ending up in that musician's curse of becoming a rock critic instead, I have basically spent my entire life immersed in the world of music and have seen many changes over the decades.

“I was standing in Austin, Texas at a street intersection during the South By Southwest Festival, and there were gigs going on everywhere — in barber shops and on rooftops, thousands of bands playing in this city. I could hear the rumble of heavy metal from one side and country and western from another and hip-hop from another, all merging into this big mush.

“I thought that is a metaphor for the world we live in now, where there has never been more music available to hear.

“It made me wonder if there is in fact too much music. Humans evolved in a time of musical scarcity. If you wanted to hear music you had to make it yourself. Now you can't escape music and every 14-year-old will have heard more different types of music than his grandfather will ever have in his entire life.”

The increasing prevalence of manufactured pop shows like the X Factor is also detrimental to appreciation of quality music, Neil says. “I do believe that everybody has music in them, but that doesn't mean that everybody has a right to be famous,” he says.

“That is what the karaoke culture of Simon Cowell and co have exploited, that idea not that we're all musical, that we're all super-talented when we're not.

“So I don't really like the X Factor, because I find it exploitative. It feeds into the worst of human obsessions with music and not the best.

“It's all ego really. The best part of music is when the ego gets put away and releases the music.”

With music such a big part of his life, he wonders now if he has become trapped in what he calls “the obsession of my adolescence”, something which was no doubt given a surreal edge by meeting his ‘younger self’ during the filming of Killing Bono in Belfast just last month.

“I had to shoot a scene where I got a cameo as a rather sad old Irishman in an illegal strip club watching my younger self play on stage,” he recalls.

“The director had stationed a stripper right in front of me, so my screen moments will be me looking at some young girl's ass while my younger self plays in the background.

“I had a Spock-meets-Spock moment, a Star Trek paradox where I thought, ‘could I go up to my younger self, take him in hand and give him some advice and spare him the pain’?

“It's complicated because this isn't a novel, it's my life.

“When they make a biopic it's because the subject has done something great, like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. But nobody knows who I am, or cares, so this is a story about a loser in rock ’n’ roll.

“On one hand I have the great victory of achieving the kind of fame I wanted when I was a kid, but on the other I am achieving it in the guise of a comedy loser played by an actor, so I'm not even going to be myself any more.

“Now I'm about to be subsumed in the shadow of a more handsome actor!”

Said actor is English pin-up Ben Barnes, star of Prince Caspian and Dorian Gray, and for whom Neil is fulsome in his praise.

“However, Neil found himself particularly moved by the portrayal of Bono by rising young west Belfast actor Martin McCann.

“He was amazing, he's going to be a revelation to people,” says Neil. “I was never as good looking as Ben Barnes, but I would see Martin out of the corner of my eye and think “There's Bono!”

“He’ll be walking towards you and he does something, a little jut of the chin and a movement of the shoulder and he just turns into Bono.

“It was very strange to see, and I had to stop myself from talking to him as if he was Bono. But he didn't stay in character.

“When the cameras weren't rolling he'd approach you like a good Northern Irishman.

“I said to Bono that the actor was doing a spookily good job and he said to me — “Just as long as he's tall!’.”

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Larry Mullen Jnr in Cartoon

Kanye West, Black Eyed Peas's will.i.am and U2's Larry Mullen Jnr are just some of the stars lending their voices to new Family Guy cartoon spin-off The Cleveland Show.

The series, showing on E4 in the UK, and created by Family Guy boss Seth MacFarlane follows the adventures of Cleveland Brown and his family.

Mike Henry, who voices the main character said: "Kanye could not be a cooler guy at our show - we do definitely have some jokes where he makes light of himself."

Other music stars lined up to take part in season two of The Cleveland Show are Black Eyed Pea's will.i.am and rapper T Pain - who'll play sidekicks for Cleveland Jnr.

U2's drummer Larry Mullen Jnr also got in touch with the programme's creators through a mutual friend and asked to be involved.
Will.i.am Black Eyed Pea's will.i.am voices a character in season two

"He came in and we hung out for a couple of hours. We just recorded him doing a couple of different parts and he was very funny.

"It's a thrill for me to do all this. U2 is my favourite band of all time and David Lynch the film director plays a part on our show.

"He [Mullen Jnr] plays a mobster in one episode; he plays a bad Elvis impersonator by design in another episode.

"He's got his own studio so we just record it from Dublin. You don't have to record at a certain time. It's an easy gig and one that people like to do.

"It's very cool to have all these people from different walks of entertainment participating in what we're doing."

source:www.news.bbc.co.uk

What Rock'N'Roll Has Taught Us By U2

NME has posted an interesting and funny interview to Edge and Bono(although it doesn´t look new). Enjoy it!

Being successful doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve compromised your credibility

The Edge: Looking back, there are so many bands that, at different times, were considered to be the zenith of what was important and relevant and resonant but who are now gone. Having lived though the whole rock Vs disco thing, it’s a shock to realise that disco was better than most rock. Bands like the Bee Gees, OK, they had terrible dress sense and not everything they did was great, but their best work is genius.

continued...

So that’s kind of our challenge, we’re not surprised that at times we’re written off as being on the wrong side of artistic credibility. There have been so many groups that have tried desperately to hold on to their status of cool and just ended up becoming so bloody safe and repetitive. They end up in a ghetto of their own making artistically.

Morrissey is up there with Bob Dylan.

Bono: I laugh out loud listening to Morrissey albums. Only Bob Dylan and Morrissey make me laugh. Sometimes, I’ll be listening to the music and doing some press-ups and I’ll fall over.

Bono might seem like a saint but he can be a devil when it comes to driving.

The Edge: Bono’s a ‘creative’ driver who sees the rules of the road as helpful suggestions. He’s fine as long as he’s not trying to play you music at the same time, because male brains are more mono-orientated. Female brains have more connections between the two sides – that’s an actual fact.

Men tend to be great focusing on details of things as a result. Bono’s incredible at keeping the wide-angle view, but when he’s driving he really can’t. He has terrified people at different times trying to play our work in his car while he’s driving.

Musicians and politicians can work together – if only because they’re all human beings.

The Edge: I know Bono gets stick for meeting with politicians, but he cares deeply. That’s not so unique – a lot of people out there care deeply – but what probably is unique is that he has opportunities that very few other people have. I think if you were to ask him he would admit to being amazed how successful his initiatives have become, how many of the doors of power have actually swung open and the influence he’s been able to have.

I suppose it says that, in the end, no matter whether you’re the Prime Minister of Britain or the President of the United States or the Chancellor of Germany, you’re a human being and it’s about relationships and it’s about everyone wanting to do the right thing in the end. Whether you want to admit it or not, I don’t think there’s a politician in the world that’s ever got into politics who didn’t want to do the right thing.

If you’re gonna get into politics, one of the great calling cards if you’re doing what Bono is doing is to be bipartisan; this is not about supporting one side or the other in political terms, it’s about just getting the job done with whoever he has to work with.

Don’t underestimate the business side of things.

Bono: The Grateful Dead’s music didn’t connect with me, but as a phenomenon, they’re doing something similar to us. They invest, they were into business – bunch of hippies, but into business. They were early investors in the internet. I think you can be creative in business and if you’re not creative in business, it gets you by the throat.

That’s the other thing that screws bands, you get a few albums and then they’re looking around wondering whether the money went up your nose or on some accountant’s new nose. We’re spending fortunes trying to turn stadiums – which can be ugly, brutal pieces of architecture – into extraordinary places of imagination and soul. And we’re spending fortunes, nearly bankrupting ourselves. But we’ve learned to be savvy about business.

You’d be surprised how far back fans can remember.

The Edge: There was one gig we played at The Lyceum in London – it must have been the early-’80s, because Echo & The Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes were on the same bill I think. Every other act on the bill was sort of shoe-staring, totally cool, 25 minutes getting their hair right, all the rest.

U2 came out, looking like a complete mess and proceeded to just go at our thing with total energy and commitment but in a totally haphazard and uncool way. Bono ended up ripping his pants and freaking out, berating the crowd. There are still people who hate us vehemently for that one performance!

If you’re into playing the guitar, Rory Gallagher is someone you need to know about.

The Edge: Very early on, Rory Gallagher was the first guitar player I really had a connection with, probably because he was Irish. His early albums were really raw and really inspiring and he always had something very interesting on them.

Living in Dublin keeps you grounded.

The Edge: In Ireland, people love us and they hate us. They don’t hate us really, but there’s a kind of healthy disrespect, put it that way. Everyone really wants to bring you back down to earth.

I remember Bono did a guest slot with Bob Dylan early on at Slane Castle, which was a big, big deal for Bono. He did a song with Bob called ‘Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat’ and he had no idea what the lyrics were. But he didn’t wanna say that to Bob, so he did the song and totally made up all the lyrics on the spot – went into a stream of consciousness moment.

After the gig, some guy was at a set of traffic lights in his car and Bono was crossing over the road and he said, ‘I saw you with Bob Dylan there tonight, what the fuck were you talking about there?’ That’s Dublin.

source:/www.nme.com

An Oldie But Goldie

OK, our favourite musicians have given us a break and they have NOT appeared live in any TV show,radio show, no mag or paper interview for the last week...so let´s grab some old jokes...
Larry is one of the most personal and low profile of the four members of U2, so enigmatic and thought to be moody and at times sullen,he has been the object of the "Chuck-Norris style facts" jokes...

Larry Mullen Jr Facts

• Larry Mullen Jr does not play drums, he beats them.

• The real reason Larry couldn't be the leader of the band was his 17 different kinds of awesome caused fans' heads to explode during concerts. To balance out the situation the lamest was selected.

• Larry Mullen Jr's body naturally produces his own styling gel.

• Once at a press conference, Larry Mullen Jr. was asked what he thought about drum machines. There were no survivors.

• Larry Mullen Jr does not run. Instead the ground beneath his feet rotates faster.

• Larry Mullen Jr's rhythm keeps the rotation of the Solar System in balance.

• Larry Mullen Jr does not need to adjust for tempo. Time adjusts itself out of fear.

• Larry Mullen Jr owns Norway

• When asked why he never gets to solo Larry Mullen Jr replied "I don't want to shatter your perception of reality."

• When Larry Mullen Jr gets drunk he actually gains braincells. (LOL!!)

• Larry Mullen Jr once met Chuck Norris and it was declared a "draw."

• When the Grim Reaper dies Larry Mullen Jr. will come to collect him.
  

• Larry Mullen Jr has two settings: Drum, and be annoyed at Bono.

• NATO made Larry Mullen Jr grow his hair to produce air drag to slow him down. Be glad it does.

• Larry Mullen Jr's *glare* cannot be photographed by man-made cameras.

• The British retain possession of Northern Ireland only because Larry Mullen Jr. lets them. (This is the BEST one, LOL!!)

• Larry Mullen Jr's heart is a smallblock V8 engine.

• Larry Mullen Jr. will never die. The only way he can die is if you kill him. Larry Mullen Jr. would like to see you try.

• Larry Mullen Jr challenges statues to staring contests. The score so far?

LARRY MULLEN JR - 1,345,147
STATUES – 0

• Larry Mullen Jr did the entire War album in one 32 minute session using only a garbage can, a bucket and some chopsticks he stole from a Sushi bar.

• Larry Mullen Jr pierced his ear with his finger.

• Larry Mullen Jr breaks wood with his hands and the splinters that get stuck in his hands are later used as some drumsticks. Sometimes he doesn't even remove them from his hands.

• Larry Mullen Jr CHOOSES when to grow wrinkles.

source: www.atu2blog.com

Having fun with U2 (part 3)

What's the difference between God and Bono? God doesn't walk around Dublin thinking he is Bono.

What kind of lawyers praise U2? Pro Bono lawyers.

Q: What's the best thing about you?

BONO: My nose.

ADAM: The way I might look at you.

LARRY: My dog.

EDGE: I don't snore.

Q:And what's the worst thing about you?

BONO: My nose.

LARRY: I'm black and white.

EDGE: I'm so single-minded on some things that I find it hard to keep other things together. When I'm really concentrating on an album or tour or something, a lot of other things in my life get shelved.

ADAM: I'm very bad in the mornings, grumpy. I don't say very much.

Q:: And how long does it take you to come to?

ADAM: About a litre of coffee and two hours.

If you were an animal, which animal would you be?

ADAM: A giraffe. Why? 'Cos then you'd meet other giraffes.

EDGE: One of the big cats, so I could just s-t-r-e-t-c-h out in the sun, a panther or a cheetah.

BONO: A wildebeest. You'd have to have a sense of humour with a name like that.

LARRY: Aaah! A fly. Because Bono wrote about a fly and what's good enough for Bono is good enough for me.

"If you are really good friends with The Edge, you can just call him The"- Adam

"Sara Palin" and the King of Ireland

Hillarious American TV program, Saturday Night Live,pulls the candidate´s legs and introduces us to the new sovereign of Ireland!!!

Having fun with U2 (part 2): Meet the Daltons!!!!

Third leg of the Joshua tree tour, 1987.

The Dalton Brothers made their appearance as country and western band, as an opening act on three dates of the U2 concerts (November 1, 1987 - Indianapolis, November 18, 1987 - Los Angeles and December 12, 1987 - Hampton).

While some people didn´t have a clue who they were, some others (especially die-hard fans) realised that behind those wigs, big sunglasses and cowboy costumes were the members of U2!!!!

Introducing themselves as the Dalton brothers : Alton Dalton (Bono), Luke Dalton (Edge), Betty Dalton (Adam) and Duke Dalton (Larry).In Los Angeles, Bono introduced the band saying: "We play two kinds of music: country and western"(see video) after which they performed two songs: U2's own composition "Lucille" and a rendition of Hank Williams´'"Lost Highway".

Performed in an exaggeratedly dragged-out country ad western style, and with heavy Western-American accents from Bono and The Edge, respectively singing lead vocals.The result is one of the funniest pranks of the band. Adam,especialy, looked as if he were going to burst out laughing from the beginning.Who wouldn´t if you have to appear in drag and with a "don´t -mess-up-with -me" look? but Betty has nice legs, though!!!