F*CK!!! U2 coming out with a new album

[brando4n82]

Comes out March 3rd, Oh Christ, please keep them away from Coachella GV!!

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

won't happen because of the Live Nation contracts...

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

then again..U2 can gtd a sell out Coachella which is what it needs.

[ivankay]

U2 is one of the best live acts, period. If Live Nation and GV could cut a deal, whatever night they headline will be HUGE. i doubt it will happen as well.

[F00FIGHTER20]

Bono just annoys the shit out of me... and so does "Uno, dos, tres, catorce!"....it doesn't make any sense!!

[captncrzy]

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[nationocean]

Some Person: U2's New Album!!!!

Some Other Person: Live Nation

[shakermaker113]

Bono just annoys the shit out of me... and so does "Uno, dos, tres, catorce!"....it doesn't make any sense!!

that always annoyed the hell out of me too. I think they explained it as being a refernce to the album the song was on, which was their 14th album. it's still fucking stupid.

and brandon, does it really surprise you that they're making another album? seriously, it's like a mathematical constant. u2 will release another album. it's always true. all we can do is pray to the gods that it sucks so we don't have to endure it for as long.

unfortunately they've got so much of a calatog behind them now that they're almost at the point the rolling stones are -- they can release crap album after crap album and it won't dent their career one bit.

[BlackSwan]

Live Nation would much rather sell out Sasquatch or Pemberton than give GV U2, don't worry.

[suprefan]

U2 wont be at Coachella. GV doesnt pay enough. U2 will make more playing 1 solo show than GV would pay for Coachella.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Does Live Nation run Outsidelands?

[SFChrissy]

Does Live Nation run Outsidelands?No that's "Another Planet Entertainment" Aka APE

[tripzz]

the only thing I hate more than U2's music is Bono and his holier than thou persona which everyone know is driven by money and fame. FUCK U2 they suck giant donkey dick ! :poo and I may be a fool but at least I have good music taste. The only band I will get off my lazy ass to change the tv/radio for. stupid catchy tunes from an untalented band who gets undiserved radio play

[menikmati]

I would be all for U2 playing Coachella. I mean if there is one band who can work out a deal and play a competing festival for one night, it's gonna be U2. Anyone who wouldn't wanna hear New Years Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, With or Without You, Where the Streets Have No Name, and others at night across the polo field is a fool!

[BlackSwan]

Does Live Nation run Outsidelands?

No, no one officially runs Outside Lands at this point. It has been opened up to promoters to bid on the contract.

The Recreation and Parks Department was thrilled by the event, which brought $815,000 into their coffers and allowed the agency to showcase its crown jewel. Now, the department is looking to sign on a promoter to produce a similar event, in August, for the next three years -- with the possibility of a two-year extension. The idea? To create a new revenue stream for the city's parks; to "create an iconic event" representative of the city and its main park, that provides economic benefits for the region; and to generally call attention to the parks system, which is in dire need of cash.
...
We expect Another Planet Entertainment -- which broke new ground last year both by talking the city into letting them throw the concert and by cutting the department into a percentage of ticket sales -- to apply for the contract. It also seems likely that Live Nation -- thought to be the world's biggest promoter-- will jump at the chance.

[Chris Burke]

u2 is relivent

[Alchemy]

I don't get it. Why wouldn't Live Nation allow U2 to play Coachella? Aren't they U2's promoters? Isn't Coachella good promotion? Would it really hurt Live Nation or U2 to have them at Coachella?

And anyway, Erik is right, U2 at Coachella would be awesome. People swear that the only song they've done is that uno, dos, tres, catorce song. U2 has made some awesome music.

[BlackSwan]

I don't get it. Why wouldn't Live Nation allow U2 to play Coachella? Aren't they U2's promoters? Isn't Coachella good promotion? Would it really hurt Live Nation or U2 to have them at Coachella?


It would hurt Live Nation because it would help AEG.

[vinylmartyr]

What's the last festival U2 played?

[nationocean]

I don't get it. Why wouldn't Live Nation allow U2 to play Coachella? Aren't they U2's promoters? Isn't Coachella good promotion? Would it really hurt Live Nation or U2 to have them at Coachella?

And anyway, Erik is right, U2 at Coachella would be awesome. People swear that the only song they've done is that uno, dos, tres, catorce song. U2 has made some awesome music.

Also, they would just be getting a check from GV. Not a very good check. One tiny check. When they could be U2 at Pemberton and get all that backend money.

If you had one of the biggest bands in the world would you give them out to your competitor for say a couple million or would you rather have them in your own event and take ALL of the money.

[menikmati]

Again though, I think U2 is one of the few bands who could dictate what they want. I don't think they're gonna let LiveNation tell them what festivals they can play and can't play. I think if GV really wanted them, U2 could work out a one time deal to play Coachella.

[BlackSwan]

Also, they would just be getting a check from GV. Not a very good check. One tiny check. When they could be U2 at Pemberton and get all that backend money.

If you had one of the biggest bands in the world would you give them out to your competitor for say a couple million or would you rather have them in your own event and take ALL of the money.

Also, it would be a great way to take a festival like Sasquatch or Pemberton to the next level. Having U2 at one of those and not at Coachella would do that.

[menikmati]

I don't think U2 even plays festivals (of course didn't Pearl Jam once say that too?)....and if they ever did (here in the US) I would assume it would only be either Coachella or Bonnaroo someday.

[BrettShipes]

Anyone who wouldn't wanna hear New Years Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, With or Without You, Where the Streets Have No Name, and others at night across the polo field is a fool!

Then I'm a fool. I simply just don't like U2. I won't deny that they're a popular and influential band, I just don't like them. I could say the same thing about The Smiths but I think everyone here would eat my head if I said such a thing.

But hey, more for everyone else. Bring 'em on.

[menikmati]

I could actually care less about the Smiths too.

[amyzzz]

I like 80's U2, but I already got my chance to see them in 1992.

[wstsidela]

We survived Coldplay, we can survive U2.

[menikmati]

I hated U2's last album, but I thought All That You Can't Leave Behind was pretty good.

[rskapcat]

Hearing "With Or Without You" at Coachella would make me cry. In a good way.

[sbessiso]

I'm very much on the U2 bandwagon, they would be an AMAZING way to close out the weekend.

[amyzzz]

I might have to camp if U2 came. Imagine the traffic. Ugh.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

again..U2 would gtd a sell out...and that is what GV needs.

[captncrzy]

Things I'd rather do than watch U2:

Eat my own toenails
Wax my head
Get an unmedicated root canal
Wear a dress made of fish skins
Sleep with Kroqken
Watch the Killers

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Sleep with Kroqken
Watch the Killers

DAMN GINA!!!!

[paulb]

U2 would be fuckin perfect for Coachella

http://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/coachellafake3.jpg

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

I can live with that poster over what is being rumored...at least I could get Outkast and Raidohead...

[twoheadedboy]

bono can eat a dick...

ugh, i hope this is not going to happen

[westcoastpirate]

Bono hates aidz needles

[amyzzz]

And we know what happen if Bono dancing so fast....

[BlackSwan]

U2 would be fuckin perfect for Coachella

http://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/coachellafake3.jpg

That is a great fake line up except Bloodhound Gang... and Nightmares on Wax wouldn't be billed so high.

+1,000,000 points for Elbow being on there.

[MissingPerson]

Fun Fact:

After lobbying very hard to have the Irish government to divert more tax money to charitable causes, U2 promptly moved all of their financial assets to the Netherlands to avoid paying taxes here.

Heroes alright.

[amyzzz]

oh that's fucked up.

[paulb]

That is a great fake line up except Bloodhound Gang... and Nightmares on Wax wouldn't be billed so high.

+1,000,000 points for Elbow being on there.

thank you, but Bloodhoung Gang would be fun.

[MissingPerson]

DUBLIN: Bono, the rock star and campaigner against third-world debt, is asking the Irish government to contribute more to Africa. At the same time, he is reducing tax payments that could help finance that aid.

After Ireland said it would scrap a break that lets musicians and artists avoid paying taxes on royalties, Bono and his fellow U2 band members this year moved their music publishing company to the Netherlands. The group, which Forbes estimates earned $110 million in 2005, will pay about a 5 percent tax on their royalties in the Netherlands, less than half the Irish rate.

"Among the wealthiest people, I suppose it's the norm," said Jill Cassidy, who was walking on South King Street near a plaque marking the site of the Dandelion market, where U2 played some of its earliest concerts. "In U2's position, it does come across as quite hypocritical."

The tax move has tainted the image in Ireland of Bono and U2. Now promoting a new DVD, book and album, the band is fighting back.David Evans, the guitarist known as The Edge, this month defended the publishing company's move as a sensible decision for a group that makes 90 percent of its money outside Ireland.

"Our business is a very complex business," Evans said Oct. 2 on the Dublin radio station Newstalk, breaking the band's silence after weeks of public criticism. "Of course we're trying to be tax-efficient. Who doesn't want to be tax-efficient?"

Rockstars.


Ireland has one of the highest rates of poverty among developed countries, ranking third highest in the 2005 United Nations Human Development Index.

Approximately 23.9% of all children in Ireland in 2003 were “at risk of poverty” – the official EU definition of income poverty

[twoheadedboy]

cute

[MarkO]

What's the last festival U2 played?

U2 don't do festivals and if they ever have in the past, it was a long, long time ago.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

maybe if those Irish Catholic mothers stopped having so many kids they wouldn't all be in poverty. On that note.. the average person in Ireland makes 50k a year so go figure...

[MarkO]

Damn, if 23.9% of kids in '03 in Ireland were in poverty or close to it, I'd love to know how they would have rated Ireland in the '80s. Those were *poor* times.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

also..those rankings are over 5 years old...

[BlackSwan]

thank you, but Bloodhoung Gang would be fun.

especially if they conflicted with Telepopmusik.

[MarkO]

also..those rankings are over 5 years old...

Also, imo, they're a load of bollocks. Ireland was so awash with money in the early part of '00s that the Govt actually started to pay down the National Debt. How many Govts do that ?

[MissingPerson]

maybe if those Irish Catholic mothers stopped having so many kids they wouldn't all be in poverty. On that note.. the average person in Ireland makes 50k a year so go figure...

Compare that to our cost of living.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Compare that to our cost of living.

Your taxes are lower then ours...in fact the true GDP per person in Ireland is 65K and even when you fact in the cost of living it drops to 45k. Slightly less then the US.

[MissingPerson]

To be honest, I'd imagine our massively high rate of child poverty comes at least to some degree from the Travelling community. Maybe that's bigotry on my part though.

I don't have new statistics, but the point stands. U2 aren't just a business when they're using their profile to promote their political or ethical agenda. But they are a business when it comes to putting their own money into circulation?

I didn't always like Bono, but up until then I did respect him at least.

[menikmati]

What's the last festival U2 played?

The US festival? I have no idea really. Something back in the 80's right? (not counting Live8 or Live Earth). Michael Eavis really wanted them to play Glastonbury in 2005 (he tried for years and years to book them). I think U2 even said they would of played Glasto in 2005 but their schedule didn't work out for it. So never say never.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

To be honest, I'd imagine our massively high rate of child poverty comes at least to some degree from the Travelling community. Maybe that's bigotry on my part though.

I don't have new statistics, but the point stands. U2 aren't just a business when they're using their profile to promote their political or ethical agenda. But they are a business when it comes to putting their own money into circulation?

I didn't always like Bono, but up until then I did respect him at least.


No, you are 1000% right. A lot of migrant workers tend to be less educated and it is a fact that less educated people have more children. However, Ireland didn't really open up its doors to foreign labour until May of 2004 when the 10 Eastern European countries entered the EU. Infact, the massive influx of people also caused the housing bubble which also inflated the cost of living. At one point a starting price on a house was around 400k Euros.

[paulb]

http://u2tours.com/

look it up fuckers.

[MissingPerson]

No, you are 1000% right. A lot of migrant workers tend to be less educated and it is a fact that less educated people have more children. However, Ireland didn't really open up its doors to foreign labour until May of 2004 when the 10 Eastern European countries entered the EU. Infact, the massive influx of people also caused the housing bubble which also inflated the cost of living. At one point a starting price on a house was around 400k Euros.

I'm referring more to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Traveller

Irish, rather than Roma, gypsies.

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

I'm referring more to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Traveller

Irish, rather than Roma, gypsies.

And I was referring to those Polish plumbers that the French hate so much...25k is really small even for a countrt like Ireland..so I doubt they have much of a effect...then again...

[MissingPerson]

Do I take the "Pole" pun or not?

Dilemmas, dilemmas...

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Please do!

[sydaud]

Hearing "With Or Without You" at Coachella would make me cry. In a good way.

Reading this while dj'ing...so I totally threw it on. People are yelling at me. Good times.

[rskapcat]

That is awesome, sydaud.

[talkinginmaths]

U2 don't play festivals.

[fiopadp7791]

U2 would be fuckin perfect for Coachella

http://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/coachellafake3.jpg

That fake lineup... if it were even in the ballpark I'd be soooo happy.

My issue with U2 headlining would be all the U2 fans that would just be there to see them and no one else. They'd just camp at the main stage all day Sunday, and ruin the atmosphere for anyone before them. Although those would be some very sunburnt U2 fans lol. I like u2, but I think there would be so many die-hard fans out there that they wouldn't care about anyone else.

[menikmati]

Isn't that always the case with the big headliners? I mean I hear it every year...Madonna is gonna ruin the festival cuz her fans are gonna camp out just for her, or the same with Tool fans and Rage fans....in the end it's always a good time...I don't worry about the type of crowd a headliner would bring it.

[cubrocker]

I could settle for that fake lineup.

[MarkO]

I'm referring more to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Traveller

Irish, rather than Roma, gypsies.

Just call them knackers. I do.

[MissingPerson]

If they're not cool with it, I'm not cool with it.

I come from near Mullingar, so I intend to stay on good terms with the 'Community...

[brando4n82]

and brandon, does it really surprise you that they're making another album? seriously, it's like a mathematical constant. u2 will release another album. it's always true. all we can do is pray to the gods that it sucks so we don't have to endure it for as long.

oh no not at all.

It just scares me that it is coming out right around Coachella.

But this is great news abotu Live NAtion. totally forgot abotu all that BS. I feel a lot better now

ps it definitely is a mathematical constant lol

[Drewski27]

please keep the king of ireland away from the polo fields.
not that i think that they have a chance being that they are with live nation. . . but please.
no douches with wrap arounds. we have enough of them walking the grounds as it is.

[MarkO]

If they're not cool with it, I'm not cool with it.

I come from near Mullingar, so I intend to stay on good terms with the 'Community...

Well, the 'settled' community isn't cool with their shenanigans like setting up camp in the middle of roundabouts and turning the area into a dump yet they don't seem to care. So they can go to hell.

[MissingPerson]

Same as any community, man. They've got good guys and bad guys, and I'm not going to tar them all with the same brush.

Although Mullingar is still sore from that little molotov cocktail riot a while back.

[jammig1]

I saw U2's last concert in Hawaii and it was one of the best shows I have ever seen. I would love to see them again. You would only be so lucky!

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Isn't that always the case with the big headliners? I mean I hear it every year...Madonna is gonna ruin the festival cuz her fans are gonna camp out just for her, or the same with Tool fans and Rage fans....in the end it's always a good time...I don't worry about the type of crowd a headliner would bring it.

Oddly enough...2008 had no legion of douche bag fans...Prince, JJ, Roger Waters and Portishead all had fantastic crowds who actually respected each others space...I was shocked...

[MissingPerson]

How interesting:

http://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/mhsnkfkfgbkf/

[TeamCoachellaHellYeah]

Yeah that article was listed in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago...the Live Nation stock crashed...so U2 sold..no big deal.