Interesting that the BBC uses all its publicity power to promote the fact that U2 have a new album out, even arranging it for U2 to play a “surprise” rooftop gig at the BBC, then push this out across the world media. By way of contrast, the BBC seems less keen to inform us of St Bono’s tax avodiance plans.
THE BONO BROADCASTING CORPORATION.
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Testing….one two three. Communication problems. Can’t hear my colleagues unless I talk to them first. Then their comments magically appear.
Bryan- same for me. I think.
ed,
Engine was sputtering but looks like it’s running smoothly again now. Probably a blockage in the fuel line.
Let’s face it – if the BBC were a band it would be U2.
Having said that I can’t think of one high profile band that doesn’t consist of a bunch of right-on lefties. Like the movie business, the music business is largely comprised of people who live in a plastic world of fantasy – and not surprisingly, people who live make-believe lives tend overwhelmingly to gravitate to an ideology which is based on make-believe: leftism.
Such people are prone to believing that life is about the instant gratification of whim without having to deal with the inconvenience of reality. Their minds are just clouds of emotions which aren’t tethered to any objective concretes. Why can’t we just lay down our weapons and enjoy instant peace? Why can’t we all just ‘get along’? Why can’t we feed 6 billion people using traditional organic farming methods? Why can’t we solve the problems of poverty simply by raising taxes on those greedy industrialists (as opposed to raising taxes on those ‘rich-but-not-greedy-oh-no-anything-but-greedy’ celebrities)? Why can’t we change the natural climatic cycles of the Earth simply by knocking down smokestacks and building windmills in their place? Why don’t those evil Israelis just accept rocket attacks as an everyday fact of life, like car crashes? Why can’t everyone have higher wages?
Why can’t we just ‘print more money’?
Etc. Many at the Beeb live in this same fantasy world. And they’re such hypocrites. They’re the type of people who talk about the injustice of the ‘greed’ of Western lifestyles while kids go barefoot in the third world – then they’re straight off to the deli to buy quail’s eggs, duck liver pâté and organic olive oil for their dinner party (at which they’ll talk about the evils of capitalist greed as they stuff caviar and crackers into their fat faces). Hate ’em hate ’em hate ’em.
Engine was sputtering but looks like it’s running smoothly again now. Probably a blockage in the fuel line.
Bryan | 28.02.09 – 8:53 am | #
Are you talking about Haloscan? It’s been buggered for hours. Same over at Gateway Pundit or anywhere else which uses that not-long-for-this-world comments system.
Let me get this right – i pay a tax – to have the option of some sort of choice on telly – and lo – i cant even escape to the radio without that unashamed u2 promotional guff!
Never mind that they’re not my type of band – at this stage in life – ive heard it all before – so what -i thought beeb was supposed to cater to minority and eclectic tastes as well as mainstream garbage?
If only Lenny Henry was in U2 – we could all die happy.
The Daily Mail notes that, in return for the £5m+ of free publicity, the charming Bono called a fellow musician (another right on idiot from Colplay) a wanker on air yesterday. An “apology” has been issued, of course, but the relentless driving down of standards continues.If they put such cretins on air, that’s what will happen.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1157358/U2-singer-Bono-apologises-foul-mouthed-insult-Coldplays-Chris-Martin.html
its obvious to you and me………
Jason | 28.02.09 – 9:30 am,
Yes, I was talking about Haloscan. Well, at least it lets us preview comments. The multi-billion pound BBC can’t even organise a preview function on its blogs (except Have Your Say).
“Bono called a fellow musician (another right on idiot from Colplay)”
Neither of them are musicians,they are what used to be call “three Chord Wonders”.To think that people died in two wars so these tossers could be crap.
–too right – and then they impose their wooly worldview on the rest of us in their inimitable stalinist ways….when the ballon next goes up – just where will all these windbags be/ –
From the linked BBC article:
“On a similarly high note Bono told Jonathan Ross last night…….”
Oscar Wilde’s quip about the inexcusable in pursuit of the inedible relating to foxhunters pursuing the fox (I think that was it?) might be worth paraphrasing here. How would it go?
The insufferable interviewed by the unpalatable, perhaps. Any improvements?
unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible..
Bono hits back over tax dodging claims
U2’s lead singer, Bono, has been “hurt” by claims he is a hypocrite for agreeing to move part of the band’s business to the Netherlands to avoid paying higher taxes in Ireland.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article5814498.ece
Robin Horbury: … the charming Bono called a fellow musician (another right on idiot from Colplay) a wanker on air yesterday. …
…If they put such cretins on air, that’s what will happen. …
Robin Horbury | 28.02.09 – 10:57 am | #
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Heh, heh…it seems Bono agrees with you – he also called him a cretin!
I think that was when he was apologising!! Sorry, I can’t help seeing it as funny -in an unintentional way.
THe unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.
Bono called a fellow musician (another right on idiot from Colplay) a wanker on air yesterday.
My God, I think that’s the first time I’ve ever agreed with Bono on something. Well played, sir.
Yep, that was it. The ‘unspeakable’ in pursuit of the uneatable. A wordsmith like Wilde would have a turkey-shoot with the opportunities that the left offer. Wouldn’t get broadcast on the BBC though.
Simply impossible to believe this man would seek to avoid paying taxes. That would make him a selfish hypocritical liar instead of a selfless model being. Never never never.
Also, it says he claims they pay millions of dollars in taxes. Since when has the Republic of Ireland gone over to dollars?
Big article in the Telegraph today, P.10, headline:
“Bono: when I hear a U2 song, I wince”
Last paragraph “The thing about U2 that nobody seems to get,” says Bonio, “is that the very things people think about us – which is the megalomania and the immodesty – are so far from the truth…………”
Who thinks about U2? Not me.
Never liked U2…too dramatic
U2’s lead singer, Bono, has been “hurt” by claims he is a hypocrite for agreeing to move part of the band’s business to the Netherlands to avoid paying higher taxes in Ireland.
http:// entertainment.timesonline…icle5814498.ece
Anonymous | 28.02.09 – 2:41 pm | #
What part of the band’s business did they move to the Netherlands? I’m guessing its the part that purchases the band’s drug supply.
The ineducable in pursuit of the unpublishable.
(That would be yet another BBC journalist hunting down yet another “good Muslim terrorist” story.)
To Bono’s credit, he and other U2 members where on Chris Evans’ show the other evening and Evans, in typical Beeboid style, asked Bono if he was “glad to see the back of him?” (George W. Bush), to which Bono replied “regardless of what you think of him he’s been good for us” – or something similar – in reference to the stuff Bush has done for Africa. The conversation abruptly changed direction.
Very satisfying to hear the fucker stopped in his tracks.
The unsackable interviewing the unmusicaL.
The unsackable interviewing the unmusicaL.
Garden Trash | 28.02.09 – 10:09 pm |
Not really a fan of U2 but to say they are unmusical or 3 chord wonders
is a bit daft.
Jack:
Never liked U2…too dramatic
Jack | 28.02.09 – 5:03 pm | #
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never liked U2… boring pompous w***k.
Can’t be doing with The Edge and his “smother my guitar sound in swathes of reverb” technique, a sure fire way to hide rubbish guitar technique. I’ve done it myself…
its all prancing bollocks anyway…..
“Not really a fan of U2 but to say they are unmusical or 3 chord wonders
is a bit daft.
vicky | 01.03.09 – 9:06 am | #
Not at all,that is just what they are.How many chord have you counted?
Garden Trash | 01.03.09 – 3:44 pm |
at least 5.
Yes,A D E G and C with Ami,move one fonger,Dmi,move one finger.Emi,take one finger off,throw in a B7 for good luck and you have enough chords for the “Three Chord Trick” in two keys and a relative minor sequence.
Moving the same shape around doesn’t count.
That is the definition of a “Three Chord Wonder”.
The harmonic subtlety of a brick.
Brian Eno produced records for both Coldplay and U2. The loathsome producing the tiresome.
at least 5.
vicky | 01.03.09 – 4:09 pm |
that was a joke by the way,i really have no idea how many chords edge can play,and i suspect neither have you,as far as being unmusical well thats just a matter of personal taste,and with something like 140 million albums sold i’d say there are a lot of people who would disagree with you.
No cherub,it’s my professional opinion.Nobody went bust underestimating public taste.Simply because there are 140 million with tin ears who buy this shite does not make it good.
Garden Trash | 01.03.09 – 7:00 pm |
and it only makes it bad in your professional or should that read deluded opinion.
vicky | 01.03.09 – 6:21 pm |
“The Edge” doesn’t even play chords, mostly. It’s the 340-350ms delay effect on the one note he does play that makes it sound like more than it is. Adam Clayton is the only decent musician in the band. He’s the one who really plays the changes and drives the tunes. The rest is window dressing for the guy in the stupid hat.
David Preiser (USA) | 01.03.09 – 7:36 pm |
No arguments from me david i really dont like u2 at all,I just said to call them 3 chord wonders and unmusical was a bit daft,but of course its only in my professional opinion.
Vicky,
Everybody is entitled to pontificate,endlessly,on subjects of which they know nothing.They are not entitled to have anyone take them seriously.
The general public do not know Ab from a bulls foot,but insist that they are arbiters of taste.
Because you like something does not make it good.Take for example this government of incompetent shysters,a small majority voted them in.Does that make them good?
Far more than 140 million people take class A drugs,does that endow drugs with virtue?
Do you have a professional opinion in this Vicky? Strikes me you were just being a smart arse and looking for an argument.
Everybody is entitled to pontificate,endlessly,on subjects of which they know nothing.They are not entitled to have anyone take them seriously.
you’ve no worrys there cherub.
Has Obama gone out of fashion at the BBC this week, Bono and U2 for the next few days ?
“you’ve no worrys there cherub.”
No but you have sweetlips,
I see Radio 5 did a review of U2’s new album today. I didn’t hang around to hear it but I’m sure they didn’t slag it off.
See U2 are on the culture show too
To appropriate one of Bono’s reported insults, “Garden Trash, you appear to be a wanker”.