Samstag, 4. Dezember 2004
louisvillescene.com: For more than a year, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" has been described in the music press by U2 as a return to classic form, an album stripped clean of contrivances. Bono has gone so far as to call it the band's "first album."
Given that 2000's "All That You Can't Leave Behind" was already a spectacular return to form, the bar was set unnaturally high. That may be why "Bomb" feels as if it starts not with a bang, but a whimper. Where's the high drama of "Bad," "Pride" or "Where the Streets Have No Name," those moments where Bono turns red-faced evangelical and the band is one big heartbeat? [
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Given that 2000's "All That You Can't Leave Behind" was already a spectacular return to form, the bar was set unnaturally high. That may be why "Bomb" feels as if it starts not with a bang, but a whimper. Where's the high drama of "Bad," "Pride" or "Where the Streets Have No Name," those moments where Bono turns red-faced evangelical and the band is one big heartbeat? [
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u2.com: ‘Ireland’s biggest boy band’ performing on ‘Friday Night With Jonathan Ross’ tonight.
U2.Com sneaked into the studio audience at BBC TV Centre last night to watch the band perform ‘Vertigo’, ‘Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own’ and ‘our first single’ ‘I Will Follow’. Ross, the no-holds barred host of one of the most popular UK weekly chat shows, introduced U2 as ‘Ireland’s biggest boy band’, claiming they were not so great now that Brian McFadden had left. [ more]
U2.Com sneaked into the studio audience at BBC TV Centre last night to watch the band perform ‘Vertigo’, ‘Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own’ and ‘our first single’ ‘I Will Follow’. Ross, the no-holds barred host of one of the most popular UK weekly chat shows, introduced U2 as ‘Ireland’s biggest boy band’, claiming they were not so great now that Brian McFadden had left. [
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news.bbc.co.uk: Rock singer Bono has pledged to spend the rest of his life trying to help the impoverished around the world.
The U2 frontman told BBC One's Friday Night with Jonathan Ross he wanted the current generation to be "remembered for something other than the internet".
It should be "the first generation to eradicate extreme poverty", he said. [ more]
The U2 frontman told BBC One's Friday Night with Jonathan Ross he wanted the current generation to be "remembered for something other than the internet".
It should be "the first generation to eradicate extreme poverty", he said. [
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