impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
GLASTONBURY, England (AFP) – Veteran rockers U2 will face a protest during their long-awaited Glastonbury gig on Friday from campaigners angry at alleged tax dodging by the group. Direct action group Art Uncut is planning to unfurl a giant inflatable before the cameras as anti-poverty lobbyist Bono and his band take to the Pyramid Stage. [...]
It has been a while since I had anything bono related but here is something: spinner.com: Those pesky Wikileaks cables are continuing to reveal how rock impinges on the crazy world we call politics. After missives from South Korea showed how Eric Clapton became a pawn in relations with its fractious northern neighbour, the latest [...]
I came across a wall in the docklands which U2 fans have mistaken for the ‘tributes’ at windmill lane. Some of the visitors dont like bono that much:
September 1913 , WB Yeats. What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save; Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, It’s with O’Leary [...]
U2 Ditch Hype After First TV Appearance On 2 March 1978, a band called The Hype appeared on” Youngline”. By the time they won a talent competition in Limerick on 17 March, The Hype had changed their name to U2. This clip is taken from the best of “Youngline”, shown on the last programme in [...]
Somebody was searcing for “www.u2 vrgin mary.com” and came here. I looked to see what other answers they would have found. More recently Bono announced that the mayor of new york (Jay-Z) was about to come on stage to sing a mix of Sunday Bloody Sunday and Bob Marleys get up stand up. Clearly nothing [...]
As Bruno says, a nicht nicht or a no-no. I am glad I was able to find at least one other person who thought the same. the voluntary participation of, Bono, Sting, Elton John and rocker, Slash, in “Bruno,” that has left many scratching their heads, wondering,” why’d they do it?” Bono was a parody [...]
I have been thinking about the concept of exclusivity when it comes to club membership in Ireland. This is following where the streets have no name. dictionary.reference.com defines exclusivity as some of the following: incompatible shutting out all others from a part or share noting that in which no others have a share disposed to [...]
This was in the Morgan Hotel the day after Wacko died: Though it may not sound like it today, Billie Jean is one of the most revolutionary songs in the history of popular music. This is not, however, because its lyrics tell the story of a well-meaning paranoid being stalked by a woman who claims [...]
U2′s much-showcased ‘Claw’ stage at Croke Park won’t be 360? and won’t be in the centre of the pitch, writes Jennifer Bray. Planning documents for the concert as submitted to Dublin City Council show the stage backed up against Hill 16, which is marked as ‘backstage area’. U2′s ‘Claw’ – hailed as the latest in [...]
