Bono on Boy (and that new album)

Boy album coverIt’s good to know that even while entertaining Big Stars in France, yer man still has time to keep an eye on what the critics are saying. Seems Bono stumbled on a Rolling Stone review of the remastered Boy album over the weekend, and was prompted to write a reply.

A 1,200-plus word reply, that is.

Here’s a bit of yer man’s memories:

For us music was a sacrament …an even more demanding and sometimes more demeaning thing than music as ART, we wanted to make a music to take you in and out of your body, out of your comfort zone, out of your self, as well as your bedroom, a music that finds you looking under your bed for God to protect your innocence…

Bono was so long-winded loquacious that RS had to reprint his reply as a separate news story. Here’s the full link.

Oh, yeah, he also mentioned what the band is doing now: trying “to finish our most complete and radical album yet.” No mention of Edge being on fire. Yet.

This is a post from the @U2 Blog.

Bono on Boy (and that new album)

U2.com: Rumours (Unfounded)

From U2.com:

Just a note to correct reports that tickets are becoming available for planned U2 shows.

The reports are mistaken, there are no tour dates for the band at the moment - so please don’t buy tickets for U2 shows you see advertised.

You can be sure any future live announcements will be made on U2.Com as soon as they are confirmed.

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U2.com: Rumours (Unfounded)

Add Clooney and Crawford to Bono’s List of Riviera Guests

According to this OSOYOU blog, U2 threw a rousing party, rich with A-list celebrities, last weekend at the French home that the Hewson and Evans’ families share.

I’m hoping this was to celebrate another ‘officially completed’ U2 album…

This is a post from the @U2 Blog.

Add Clooney and Crawford to Bono’s List of Riviera Guests

U2 warn of ‘fake’ concert tickets

Irish rock band U2 have warned fans that concert tickets currently being advertised for sale are not real, as they have not confirmed any live shows.  The group said reports claiming they are performing soon were “mistaken”. “There are no tour dates for the band at the moment, so please don’t buy tickets for U2 shows [...]