Bono speaks on World Aids Day
Bono tells Paul Vallely of The Independent why people in rich nations can make a difference to the Aids disaster.
“Do the maths,” says Bono. “It costs about $5 a week to pay for the two pills a day it takes to keep someone with HIV alive.”
And, talking about the work the band has been doing on their new album Bono reveals, yes, here it comes, ‘The Edge is on fire’:
“World music this is not,” he says, though U2 fans will “feel the difference”. Polyrhythmic is the word he chooses with a self-deprecating laugh. “U2 in dancefloor shock. Normally when you play a U2 tune, it clears the dancefloor. And that may not be true of this. There’s some trance influences. But there’s some very hardcore guitar coming out of The Edge. Real molten metal. It’s not like anything we’ve ever done before, and we don’t think it sounds like anything anyone else has done either.”
U2log.com predicts the album will come out sounding just like U2, just the way we like it.
Read more and find out about Bono’s number one in Ghana…
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I always get so excited when Bono starts talking about how different the album’s going to be… looks like I just can’t learn my lesson haha.
I always get so excited when Bono starts talking about how different the album’s going to be… looks like I just can’t learn my lesson haha.
Well, Achtung Baby sounded like nothing they or anyone else had done before. Ditto for Zooropa. And Bono did say they can’t make HTDAAB Part II (or was it Adam?), they have to move on to something new. So this time, I believe Bono. Dunno about the “molten metal” thing though, bloody poets and their metaphors.
Well, Achtung Baby sounded like nothing they or anyone else had done before. Ditto for Zooropa. And Bono did say they can’t make HTDAAB Part II (or was it Adam?), they have to move on to something new. So this time, I believe Bono. Dunno about the “molten metal” thing though, bloody poets and their metaphors.
if, by “molten metal”, he means those chimey guitar sounds Edge has used since the 80′s and that can be found in almost every other U2 song, then I’d believe him.
if, by “molten metal”, he means those chimey guitar sounds Edge has used since the 80′s and that can be found in almost every other U2 song, then I’d believe him.
Nah, it’s Bono’s cheeky way of saying “Edge is on fire!” without saying those exact words, so we don’t take the piss out of him on U2log. But we’d never do that.
Nah, it’s Bono’s cheeky way of saying “Edge is on fire!” without saying those exact words, so we don’t take the piss out of him on U2log. But we’d never do that.