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  1. Originally posted by germcevoy:So is anybody gonna try and stay bootleg free until they see their chosen gig? I might give it a whirl seeeing as they are hitting Europe first. Would be great not knowing what to expect. I'd only download a show if it was a stunner


    Not decided on that. I like to think I'd stay info free, but it would essentially mean not coming on here until August
  2. Based on the last 2 tours I have concluded It's impossible to resist the urge to look at setlists and bootlegs.

    I have always wanted to be really surprised at a U2 show so will for certain be going to the first concert whereever it is!

  3. Originally posted by germcevoy:So is anybody gonna try and stay bootleg free until they see their chosen gig? I might give it a whirl seeeing as they are hitting Europe first. Would be great not knowing what to expect. I'd only download a show if it was a stunner
    Me

    (Not a big deal since the tour is starting in Spain hahahahaa )
  4. Well enjoy the first leg guys....I be waiting and dreaming. I'm gonna look and listen though.
  5. Originally posted by germcevoy:So is anybody gonna try and stay bootleg free until they see their chosen gig? I might give it a whirl seeeing as they are hitting Europe first. Would be great not knowing what to expect. I'd only download a show if it was a stunner


    That's not necessary this tour. They'll shake up the setlist every night, so you'll never know what they're gonna play. Really... I mean... Bono promised it...

    Besides, I most definitely will be at the opening gig anyway.
  6. I don't where to post it but something leaked here

    Belgian radio said it is sure that U2 will play in Brussels (Belgium) on 28 july
  7. Originally posted by yeah:That's not necessary this tour. They'll shake up the setlist every night, so you'll never know what they're gonna play. Really... I mean... Bono promised it...

    Besides, I most definitely will be at the opening gig anyway.
    Hahahaha

    I wanna be at the opening show too.... But I don't know if I will bea ble. I hope so...
  8. Guys I'm really fucked up. Chances are big that I'm on holiday when they come around here
    I'll be on holiday in Switzerland, so please let them come to Zurich or Basel then...
  9. Originally posted by germcevoy:So is anybody gonna try and stay bootleg free until they see their chosen gig? I might give it a whirl seeeing as they are hitting Europe first. Would be great not knowing what to expect. I'd only download a show if it was a stunner

    I probably won't, unless they decide not to come here
  10. New U2 album 'within months' as Bono reveals new rock persona

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    You wait five years for a U2 album, then two come along at once.

    Their latest offering is still fresh on the shelves, but U2 yesterday revealed that their next effort could be in the shops within months.

    Frontman Bono also said he knows what the first single from the next album, which would be a quick-fire follow-up to 'No Line On The Horizon', will be.

    The new album will be called 'Songs of Ascent' and will be a sister album to their latest release -- a trick U2 already pulled with 'Achtung Baby' and 'Zooropa' and in the early 1990s.

    Bono said that it would be a quieter album than the current effort, and the lead single will be called 'Every Breaking Wave', a track pulled from 'No Line On the Horizon' at the last minute.

    "We're making a kind of heartbreaker, a meditative, reflective piece of work, but not indulgent," he said, hinting it could arrive in the next year.

    "It will have a clear mood, like [Miles Davis'] Kind of Blue. Or [John Coltrane's] A Love Supreme would be a point of reference, for the space it occupies in people's lives, which is to say, with that album, I almost take my shoes off to listen to it."

    The quick follow-up would be in stark contrast to 'No Line On the Horizon' which saw recording sessions scattered over two years in five different countries, with four different producers.

    "It is now easier and more affordable to record a song than at any other time in the history of recorded music," bassist Adam Clayton told the new edition of 'Rolling Stone' magazine. "Unless you're U2".

    Bono and the Edge are also working on music for Julie Taymor's forthcoming Broadway musical 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark'. The singer told the magazine that he is also hopeful of getting an album's worth of material out of the "spider songs".

    "If we do, it'll be a monster, cause it's the most accessible music we've probably ever written."

    He is also working on a new character 'Jesse' in the style of his 'Fly' and 'Mephisto' personas, which explains his recent appearance in eyeliner.

    Revealing that the glam look was actually influenced by Elvis, he added: "It's still in development! I started just messing with it a few weeks ago."

    Bono's desire to move on with future projects may be a direct response to the lukewarm reception for the band's current single 'Get On Your Boots'.

    "I was going off the song myself for a minute," said Bono of the album's lead single. "And then the Grammys really put me back on it. I really enjoyed performing it. It's gonna take a little longer to stick.

    "It was never an obvious first single . . . it's an earnest love song. That's what's beautiful about it."


    So....
  11. Jesse? Hmm...
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