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  3. ES Devlin is the creator and stage designer at I+E tour. She gave an interview to the website The New Yorker, and gave more details about working with the band.

    "My frustration is that we have created this powerful sculpture in the arena and are barely using forty-nine per cent of its forces. This band is the ultimate in caring about and crafting a show, but today, when we could be moving it on a step, they’re not bloody here for the meeting!”

    Tour team manager: "Bono’s political rap is just too long. He was supposed to do a paragraph and he did two pages. He’s still got his TED-talk mode on, and he’s forgetting how to be a rock star.”

    "“And they’re undoing too much of the L.E.D. work that Es and the guys planned,” another said."

    "They’re all very vulnerable,” one of the workers told me. “At the production meeting yesterday, the singer turned up for ten seconds. And today he might not turn up at all. And it’s weird, because Es has flown in to help them get it right.”

    Font: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/28/es-devlins-stages-for-shakespeare-and-kanye
  5. This is actually a really fascinating read, similar to that short documentary that was released regarding the minds behind The Claw. It makes you come to appreciate a tour more thoroughly when you recognize the collaboration between a set designer and the artists using that set. Generally speaking, I agree with all of Devlin's remarks about how U2 utilized the stage this tour. However, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. Could they have utilized the bells and whistles of the stage they were given more effectively? Of course they could have. It would have been an entirely different show to experience, but we couldn't tell if it would be better or worse.
  10. That riff sounds really nice
  12. I really hope so. The clip from the Fender video has me really hyped for SOE. If the album is anything like the clip, SOI was more like a warmup to a newer era of U2.
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