u2?

[The Nal]

Get On Your Boots has also been linked to an Elvis Costello song, cant remember which one.

[laid back in the sun]

Get On Your Boots has also been linked to an Elvis Costello song, cant remember which one.

Wouldn't surprise me if it's like a Dylan song - Bono and Dylan have spent a lot of time together over the years.

[Grateful Ghoul]

If Mr Bono is so passionate about making a difference and changing lives etc, isn't Glastonbury that supports many of these same causes the perfect stage in the world for just that?

As they have a new album out and still not playing, I'm left thinking maybe just maybe he's more about the money afterall, which makes me kinda sad

That said, you can always depend on Billy Bragg to inspire people and recharge my Glastonbury spirit.

He was so passionate in a speech he made to the young peeps in the crowd about how they can make a difference etc even cynical me walked away inspired.

[laid back in the sun]

he's ALL about the money and the ego!

[popcornmaster]

he's ALL about the money and the ego!

[Shanndy]

Anyone else think the last track on the album sounds like a David Brent song?

[Wooderson]

Anyone else think the last track on the album sounds like a David Brent song?

[Tugger2k]

Anyone else think the last track on the album sounds like a David Brent song?

[Martin Ashford]

The way the line up is coming together I wouldn't be at all surprised if U2 show up - any band (however big) would want to be associated with the festival this year

[paulo999]

Favourite U2 anecdote:

At a gig:

Bono, in steady clap: "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies"

Audience member: "Well stop clapping then"

[SoCalMusicLover]

Heads up for those in London:

U2 to play 'secret' gig Friday in London

February 25, 2009

Word on the street is that U2 will do a 'secret' gig this Friday in London.

The alert being spread around is as follows:

"Make sure you're around upper Regent Street, near Langham Place around 6-6:15pm, to witness an unusual outdoor performance."

If you're there, send us the setlist (admin...at...u2tours.com) and post your review and photos after the show!

[paulo999]

Heads up for those in London:

U2 to play 'secret' gig Friday in London

February 25, 2009

Word on the street is that U2 will do a 'secret' gig this Friday in London.

The alert being spread around is as follows:

"Make sure you're around upper Regent Street, near Langham Place around 6-6:15pm, to witness an unusual outdoor performance."

If you're there, send us the setlist (admin...at...u2tours.com) and post your review and photos after the show!

[Mardy]

Should you be near broadcasting house, they're playing a gig on the roof today at 18.40

[mike99]

U2 have revealed that they are planning a cut-price ticket tour for later this year - and have said that although they won't be playing Glastonbury this year they are adamant that they will one day soon.

Frontman Bono told BBC Radio 1 that the shows would be outdoor affairs, but did not reveal specific details of locations or dates.

"We've got something very special planned," he said. "Something we've been working on for many years, a whole way of trying to do shows outdoors and make them very intimate.

"We're trying to work on some cheaper ticket prices because this is the recession. We're also going to have some very expensive ticket prices, because rich people have feelings too."

Speaking about the chances of the band playing Glastonbury some time soon, he added: "I know lots of people who love music want us to play that. It's something we're working up our whole life to do. I think that we can commit [to the idea] that we really, really want to do this."

U2 release their new album, 'No Line On The Horizon', on March 2.

[Chimps in Balaclavas]

Favourite U2 anecdote:

At a gig:

Bono, in steady clap: "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies"

Audience member: "Well stop clapping then"

[HastingsBoy]

Just to reiterate what I said on the other thread - U2 are *ank and Bono is a *ock - nuff said.

[DaveMac]

Heads up for those in London:

U2 to play 'secret' gig Friday in London

February 25, 2009

Word on the street is that U2 will do a 'secret' gig this Friday in London.

The alert being spread around is as follows:

"Make sure you're around upper Regent Street, near Langham Place around 6-6:15pm, to witness an unusual outdoor performance."

If you're there, send us the setlist (admin...at...u2tours.com) and post your review and photos after the show!

Edited February 28, 2009 by DaveMac

[Ricochet]

Damn! Wish I had known. I was in London today. Would have stuck aroud to see them.

I would be very happy to see U2 at Glastonbury.

Saw them at Manchester Poly in 1980 and then 25 years later at Man City's stadium for the How to Dismantle.......... tour.

[harper11]

strange bono comes out and calls chris martin a w*nker and a "Dysfunctional character and a cretin"

[Wooderson]

strange bono comes out and calls chris martin a w*nker and a "Dysfunctional character and a cretin"

[harper11]

he was obviously joking, and trying (and succeeding) to be 'contraversial'