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Originally posted by aussiemofo:This is the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen.
As if we don't all have Zooropa for f*cks sake.
I'd just prefer that they took my subscription money and slapped me across the face.
Just go back to live discs if you've got nothing to offer us. At least I use these.

Originally posted by aussiemofo:This is the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen.
As if we don't all have Zooropa for f*cks sake.
I'd just prefer that they took my subscription money and slapped me across the face.
Just go back to live discs if you've got nothing to offer us. At least I use these.

Originally posted by bobplaysthedrums:[..]

You should know by now that there's no point in the subscription. I only subscribed for fan-club tickets, because I knew that the Duels/Duets thing would be rubbish.

Originally posted by drewhiggins:The only one that truly interests me is the R&RHoF performance

Originally posted by aussiemofo:This is the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen.
As if we don't all have Zooropa for f*cks sake.
I'd just prefer that they took my subscription money and slapped me across the face.
Just go back to live discs if you've got nothing to offer us. At least I use these.

Originally posted by NoelMc:[..]

I agree 100% - have been a subscriber of u2.com from day 1 and also was with Propaganda for as long as I can remember. This CD is a pile of s**t so I won't be renewing my subscription. Very lazy indeed- who thought of this? They surely realize that it 99%of subscribers will be die-hard fans who want something worthwhile - have the shite has been released before. I'm just amazed that they haven't put that Ava Maria Remix crap from a few years ago. Would have been so much easier and less work to release CD of one of the 360 shows. Rant over

Originally posted by bobplaysthedrums:[..]

They seem to think that a lot of casual fans have subscriped. For example, they promoted the new addition of b-sides on the site as "the songs you've never heard".

I don't understand why they think that on a paying website.

Originally posted by Jerry:[..]Don't expect too much. Mick Jagger fucks up pretty much!

U2 denies racism charge ahead of South Africa gig

By Luke Byrne

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U2's Bono (right) and guitarist The Edge in concert at Croke Park, Dublin


Friday February 11 2011

U2 MANAGER Paul McGuinness last night stepped in to try to defuse a row over racism which is threatening to overshadow the band's upcoming gigs in South Africa.

U2 are playing two gigs in the former apartheid country in the next week, the first time they've played there since 1998. But in an unwelcome throwback to the past, Sunday's show in Johannesburg is in danger of being subjected to a demonstration against discrimination.

The South African Roadies Association (SARA) plans to picket the concert at the FNB Stadium, venue of last year's World Cup final, to highlight what it says is the refusal of big acts to employ black road production crew.

However, in a statement, Mr McGuinness said that in Johannesburg, 97pc of the crew were black, and in Cape Town, 100pc of the local crew were black.

SARA, which represents around 600 mainly black sound and lighting production workers across South Africa, is hoping to bring 200 members to protest at the U2 gig.

Disadvantaged

"We object to the fact that when big acts like U2 visit this country, the shows are usually put together entirely by white-owned companies," said SARA chairman Freddie Nyathela.

The group claims that big acts do not allow workers from disadvantaged areas the chance to upskill and are normally given low-ranking jobs like stage hand.

Mr McGuinness, meanwhile, said the U2 360 tour had a travelling crew of 196 from 15 countries.

"In every venue around the world, the tour recruits local labour to build and take down the enormous 360 production," the U2 manager said.

He added that they have offered to meet with representatives of SARA to discuss their concerns.

- Luke Byrne

Irish Independent