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  1. the whole campaigning for globes and oscars thing is cringey.
  3. I think what he's been saying is they did some kind of anti-Apartheid gig in 79. Do we really know they didn't do some smaller, perhaps a bit underground anti-Apartheid thing in Dublin or somethingr? We don't know too much about those early concerts.
  4. No, but we know Bono likes to exaggerate and often makes mistakes regarding the band's history. There was a great moment when Seacrest was interviewing them and Bono was talking about that and the Edge just had one of these looks on his face:
  6. and the Billboard's 2014 Industry Icon award goes to ...
    Paul McGuinness
    link

  7. quote from the article:

    "...Yeah, they love performing. You’ll be amazed and impressed by the new tour, which they’ve been working on the design and concept throughout this record project. It will blow everyone away yet again. They’re on fire..........." (unquote).


    Interesting! Thinking about design and concept of the tour during recording?? so some kind of integral concept-approach?
  8. That DOES sound interesting, I don't think they've done that before.
    Is McGuinness known to exaggerate a la Bono and punk rock from venus?
  9. Originally posted by Ali709:That DOES sound interesting, I don't think they've done that before.
    Is McGuinness known to exaggerate a la Bono and punk rock from venus?

    admittedly........ the phrase "They're on fire" is not very original..... :-)
  10. Bono and McG have traditionally been the ones that exaggerate the most

    I posted that article at the McGuiness Out as U2 Manager topic. Very interesting points.
  12. Originally posted by u2joost:[..]

    quote from the article:

    "...Yeah, they love performing. You’ll be amazed and impressed by the new tour, which they’ve been working on the design and concept throughout this record project. It will blow everyone away yet again. They’re on fire..........." (unquote).


    Interesting! Thinking about design and concept of the tour during recording?? so some kind of integral concept-approach?

    They've often thought about tour designs etc years before the album has been done
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