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  1. Oiler Brule gave lift to hitchhiking Bono


    By Ben Gelinas, edmontonjournal.comJune 2, 2011



    Kelsey Nichols, right, Gilbert Brule and Brule’s mom Lori Johnson at Wednesday’s U2 concert in Commonwealth.
    Photograph by: Ben Gelinas, edmontonjournal.com

    EDMONTON - Edmonton Oiler Gilbert Brule and his girlfriend picked up an unusual hitchhiker in West Vancouver on Tuesday — U2 frontman Bono.

    Brule and girlfriend Kelsey Nichols were driving to a park to walk Bella, their German shepherd, on Tuesday afternoon near the West Vancouver Yacht club when they spotted a couple of hitchhikers on the side of the road.

    Brule, watching out the window, was sure one of them was Bono.

    Nichols, who was driving, didn’t believe him, because, really, why would Bono be hitchhiking in West Van?

    “I didn’t want to stop, but they waved and G yelled ‘that’s Bono’,” Nichols said Wednesday night at Commonwealth Stadium. “I didn’t believe him so I kept driving.”

    The couple went on, a short distance anyway, all the while Brule trying to convince Nichols to turn around. Eventually, she agreed.

    The hitchhikers were still there when they drove up, so they yelled out: “Bono!”

    He waved and walked over to their truck.

    The Irishman, who indeed was Bono, asked if they could give him and his assistant a lift to Horseshoe Bay. Of course, Brule and Nichols obliged.

    Turns out, he and his assistant had gone out for a walk when it started to rain, just before Brule and Nichols happened upon them.

    On the drive to Horseshoe Bay, Bono and his assistant sat in the back with the couple’s dog. The four chatted about Brule’s hockey career, about Dublin and Bono’s apparent love for Vancouver.

    Bono mentioned that his band was playing a show in Edmonton on Wednesday and asked if they’d like to go.

    So Brule and Nichols sold their tickets for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals, bought plane tickets (three, so Brule’s mom could come too) and flew back to Edmonton, where Brule is a forward for the Oilers.

    Bono got them backstage passes to say thanks for the ride.

    On Nichols’s pass, he wrote: “Thanks for the ride.”

    On Brule’s pass, he wrote: “My hero Gilbert.”

    It was the strangest thing.

    “We go to walk our dog and Bono ends up in our car,” Brule said.

    Bono paid tribute to the favour onstage during Wednesday’s concert.

    “I like ice hockey because people who play ice hockey are the kind of people who pick up hitchhikers,” Bono told the crowd.

    “I’m ever so grateful. I’ve decided that I want to be Gilbert Brule.”
  2. That's pretty cool

    Even better if Bono had paid for the flights too


  3. Well the guy is a hockey player, don't think he's hurting for a $.
  4. cool story next time U2 is in adelaide i'll be driving round looking for hitchhikers
  5. The U2 hating used to annoy me but now I find it amusing. Glasto is prime example of it - spoke to a few people and the following has happened each time:

    "U2 are shite and Bono is a dick"
    "So you'll be avoiding them like the plague on the Friday night then?"
    "Eh...no - I'll go along to see what all the fuss is about"
    "Oh really...thought you hated them?"
    "Aye but it's Glastonbury. It's U2"



  6. Hahaha will do the same next time they are in Rotterdam. Will be searching round the Euromast for weeks

  7. You look around the city, I'll go out further into the 'burbs.


  8. deal, whoever finds him first has to hold him down until the other one of us gets there
  9. Originally posted by PEDRO67:The U2 hating used to annoy me but now I find it amusing. Glasto is prime example of it - spoke to a few people and the following has happened each time:

    "U2 are shite and Bono is a dick"
    "So you'll be avoiding them like the plague on the Friday night then?"
    "Eh...no - I'll go along to see what all the fuss is about"
    "Oh really...thought you hated them?"
    "Aye but it's Glastonbury. It's U2"


    one of examples of dummy arguement i spoke about
  10. Damn, that history is awesome. I wouldn't believe my eyes if by any chance Bono or anything U2-related asked me for a ride
  11. I don't know if this is the right topic to (Forgive me)

    But does anyone know who sings the line

    "No stranger to devils or angels to tell
    A friend of a friend of a friend to you"

    The first second it sounds to me like Mick Jagger(I know it isn't him) and later a bit like Bono

    And is it Bono's voice in Drunk Chicken/America??

    I always feel to embarrast to ask but I just ask now XD


    tnx
  12. Drunk chicken/America is the voice of Allen Grinsberg.
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