“It’s something to do with kissing the future and fucking the past…”

Can you guess the title?

Interview recap as posted on Twitter

U2log Bono: Thank you for the wine, it’s wasted on the rest of them.
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U2log Magnificent used to be called “French disco”. A lot of the songs were written in France.
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U2log Adam says he still cant play the bass.
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U2log Bono has written a song called I am the blues for Johnny Hallyday
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U2log Bono: From this album it would be Breathe.
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U2log .. moment. The Edge: The boys are back in town. Bono: From Passengers, Miss Sarajevo. A very haunting song.
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U2log Edge: Running to standstill. Adam: Drowning man. Larry: the reason that we continue making music, is that we haven’t found the defining
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U2log “What is the one piece of music that defines U2″
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U2log They are now doing phoned in questions.
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U2log They dont want the back seats to be a rip off.
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U2log audience and band. In the 90s we tried to do this with technology.
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U2log We always believed there should be no difference between the crowd and the performer. Always trying to break down the barrier between
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U2log Silly talk about UFO’s and U2′s screen last tour. Bono: When we were starting out we were kids in the audience at The Clash
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U2log …. and lands in the crowd. A space ship. Not a Lemon.
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U2log They are working on playing outdoors in a way that has never been seen before. It is an object that arrives from space and lands in.
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U2log Does the tour have a name? They’re about to announce it. Bono:”It’s something to do with kissing the future and fucking the past”
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U2log Bono says Eno will run off with your women folk
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U2log The Edge explains Linear. See also http://tinyurl.com/apu2k5

U2log Winter is featured in the Corbijn movie Linear
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U2log Eno says one of U2 is an asshole? Says the French DJ.
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U2log Eno really likes Winter.
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U2log Bono: Eno has made some of the greatest music. He thinks Moment of Surrender and Breathe are the two best U2 songs.
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U2log Will there be a 2nd album from this material? Bono: yes, there is another album, with a different feeling. Special. Late night. Ambient.
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U2log The Edge: It was amazing for us. We went in not knowing what would happen. Wow this is amazing, so many great ideas coming out.
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U2log Bono: the birds shitting on Larry’s drums
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U2log (We are live tweeting a French radio interview with U2)
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U2log Bono: Eno and Lanois are experimental by nature, and U2 wanted to go to a fresh, original place.
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U2log Bono: doesn’t believe in superstition, so has no problem bringing out a “13th” album after this one
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U2log Larry says he doesn’t hate travelling. Bono: Yeah, if it’s across the road.
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U2log Bono: Four songs on the album were recorded in one take.
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U2log No Line on the Horizon opens the album because they wanted a song with a lot of energy.
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U2log Larry: There was nothing else to do in Fez, but make music.
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U2log Larry: The idea of going to a place to make music, with no agenda, and learn how to be in a band again, seemed an exciting prospect.
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U2log Bono says it was his idea to go to Fez. Larry wanted to go too. The Edge says it was a ridiculous idea, therefor it was right.
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U2log U2 are live on French radio right now http://tinyurl.com/ctprm9
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Can’t remember the set list, can’t remember much about the music, to be honest. I just know that everything changed that night, and I’m sure it was not just for me.

It wasn’t so much a musical event. It was more like the Red Army had arrived, on a cold October night, to force feed a new cultural revolution, punk rock. Marching boots and the smell of sulphur.

As I sat in the box room and stared out the window the next day, it was very clear. The world is more malleable than you think; reality is what you can get away with.

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