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  1. I have a friend with a few connections in the US touring industry. He said he had drinks with them over this weekend and they got to talking about U2 or David Bowie possibly touring soon, and they said:

    "When U2 tours next year, even if Bowie tours too, there will be one tour that overshadows both. Expect ticket prices to reach close to $1000."

    So from their perspective in the touring world, the industry seems fully prepared to take on a U2 tour next year.

    This is good news to me. Obviously they aren't going to be touring this year, so I'd rather hear that people have probably been advised to plan for a tour in 2014 than anything later.

    Also, the act in question from the above quote is certainly going to be a Led Zeppelin reunion tour which, against all odds, is happening.
  2. I don't believe that. It all seemed plausible until the last line.
  3. I better start saving my entire wages now then...
  5. UNDERWHELMING................


    http://www.newstalk.ie/player/podcasts/The_Pat_Kenny_Show/The_Pat_Kenny_Show_Highlights/31660/1/bono_talks_seamus_heaney__africa_on_the_pat_kenny_show


    "We're nearly there, I think, though this can change. There is no sense from the band of any commitment to any release, schedule, to anything. They just want really to make some great music. But I think we're nearly there and once we're there we'll know it. I'd like to think that next year there will be a U2 release. It sounds like we have been faffing around but actually what's just happened is we've just got lost in the music and went right back to why we wanted to be in a band in the first place, listening to the music of the mid 70s, punk rock, electronic. We're really sort of beginning again. I know we do this periodically but you have to. So it's very different, very fresh sound and some beautiful songs, some big hooks. Yeah. So you'll be sick of us - I hope!"
  6. That looks more like it, on the one hand a positive thing to read since the album might be really close. But on the other hand its just Bono being Bono again and saying it will sound fresh etc.

    Just wait, see and hope.
  7. I don't really care about the praising of the songs. It's the faffing around (yep, Bono, you've been faffing around, for damn God's sake!!) what bothers me. This "I'd like to think that next year there will be a U2 release." is what they said in 2009. And in 2010. And in 2011. And in 2012. I've tried to be optimistic but this words by Bono have put my hopes down so much that I'm seriously thinking of cutting my U2-news feeds and following and just enjoy their past music. New music will come when they want and if they couldn't care less about our impatience, so I will act consequently and just don't give a fuck.


    But THIS sounds specially disheartening:

    "But I think we're nearly there and once we're there we'll know it."

    My mind reads it as "We don't know a damn about which direction should our songs take and most of there are unfinished waiting for a spark or a certain 'something' that's not here yet".
  8. I don't know if this is me getting older or something, but I have more and more problems with dealing with that shit coming from Bono. Say something and just be clear about it and honest with yourself and fans.

  9. we've just got lost in the music and went right back to why we wanted to be in a band in the first place, listening to the music of the mid 70s, punk rock, electronic.



    What the hell does that sound like combined? I realize that some punk existed in the 70s like the Ramones, but when I read mid 70s, punk rock, and electronic I think of a song that combines the Allman Brothers, Blink 182, and Dead Mau5.... it just doesn't exist lol.

    Oh Bono you silly, silly man.
  10. Imagine the 4 guys standing behind a keyboard, video wall behind them, that's 70's rock electronic
  11. sounds like Roxy Music or the bowie/lou reed stuff the band have always spoken about as influences...and i'm sure the album will sound nothing like it. Everything that has been said by the band and its representatives for the last year is EXACTLY the same stuff that has always been said leading up to new U2 album for the past decade, but i'll still buy it day 1 anyway. Just nothing new here.

  12. Zeppelin not confirmed by any means but there's not a whole lot else to happen that could be bigger than a U2 (or Bowie for crying out loud) tour.

    Stones are about the only band that compete with them on a touring level and they had their run this year. Zeppelin reunion has been being talked about for awhile now, and Page & Plant seem game. JPJ was out for 2014 because he was working on an opera, but the source seemed confident that a proper bidding war would draw him out for a quick run of shows like the Stones did this year.

    Speculation, just being the messenger.
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