New U2 album media circus / Bunnymen dropped

by **Mr. Brian** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:11 am

black francis wrote:Here you go guitar player

http://u2.com/

U2 has a website? Wow. Is that new? They must have stolen that idea from the Bunnymen!

by **Frank The Bunny** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:01 am

looking at that url, I'm wondering if part of U2's success is due to the shortness of their name.

by **guitarplayer on here too** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:29 am

Nice looking website though. If a person was a dedicated U2 fan, they could spend a lot of time on there. Seems there's more to read than announcements of "U2 fanz [insert band name here] have done a covver version of I Will Folow. And we bring you a snippet to see what u fink" or "The bands new album will be owt in 2007/2008/2009 preceeded by the first sangle Get on Your Boots".

Their forum doesn't seem to be popular. Even Villiers Terrace can boast as an unofficial forum more threads and replies than the one for the supposedly biggest band in the world. I was looking for the umpteenth poll discussing U2's best album or whether Bono can sing now as good as he did it in the 80s. No female fans drooling over Bono. Have to have that, but there was nothing. Changed my mind, the U2 official website is shite.

by **fat cherry** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:02 am

no probs dave - that story was only partly autobiographical - haven't bought a house at all but had to shoehorn that joke in about the streets and the name somehow. As for your mate, I can sympathise, only was tescos night shift for me (I know, I should have seen it coming, the purple shirt, the allure of the baked bean stack, the word 'manager' even though he still spent most of his time on those beans). And though it may not be any consolation to him, it obviously wont last. at least she'll get fed up of explaining who/what steptoe is and just why two old blokes doing nothing much more than talking is much funnier than a bunch of 20-somethings saying shag and wank to each other - no matter how often they manage to say it in one half hour episode.

Chez.

ps I've been going down the gym for a couple of years now and no fit young bird has run off with me yet.

by **Mr. Brian** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:53 am

The whole site including the forum "rebooted" a few days ago for the new album.

guitarplayer on here too wrote:
Their forum doesn't seem to be popular.

by **black francis** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:56 am

They do it every now and then to hide the embarrassing fact there are so few I love Bono's beard threads

by **Mr. Brian** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:01 am

black francis wrote:They do it every now and then to hide the embarrassing fact there are so few I love Bono's beard threads

What makes you say that? The two absolutely may not be in possibly related. But I couldn't say with any certaintly.

by **black francis** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:03 am

I'm in constant contact with Bono. He has a little wish list of threads he would like me to start on the U2 forum.

by **In The Margins** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:25 am

guitarplayer on here too wrote:Their forum doesn't seem to be popular. Even Villiers Terrace can boast as an unofficial forum more threads and replies than the one for the supposedly biggest band in the world. I was looking for the umpteenth poll discussing U2's best album or whether Bono can sing now as good as he did it in the 80s. No female fans drooling over Bono. Have to have that, but there was nothing. Changed my mind, the U2 official website is shite.

So it sounds like the u2.com forum doesn't have a 40 plus page thread of eye-popping photos of its band members. Hmmmm.

How the typo quotient over there? How's their use of the apostrophe?

by **Mr.Sparkle** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:56 pm

guitarplayer on here too wrote:I don't know. For all the hatred of U2, they still write a good tune. I heard the title track from their new album today (No Line on the Horizon) and can't get the song out of my head, even the spooky guitar riff that appears later in the song. That has not happened with anything that I have heard on first listen from the Bunnymen at all. Am I beyond help?.

Yes, I'm sorry. All kidding aside, The Edge is a pretty good guitarist, I think he's without a doubt the best part of the band, but for me, as soon as Bono opens his mouth I just can't do it. The guy is a jackass, no way around it and I just can't take his stage act and his messiah-complex, it's just embarrassing to watch.

by **guitarplayer on here too** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:12 pm

But Bono is the messiah...

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/star-stories/video/series-3/episode-5/a-star-is-born

by **Dr Evil** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:35 am

Bono is O.K. but it was a bit cringe-worthy to see him in the crowd at the end of J.R's show. I doubt if even Mac could get away with that.

by **Scouser** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:53 am

Like Mac "got away" with his "performance" on the second series of Fame Academy?

My wife and kids were laughing at me as I had gathered the whole family in front of the TV to watch a "living legend" (my own words) perform. Talk about car crash TV...

by **fat cherry** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:17 am

wonder which B&Q store that Pete bloke is working in these days. Cringeworthy stuff.

by **Scouser** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:32 am

He really was shit and Mac was his inspiration.

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