U2 on hiatus?

wayfarers

News reports suggesting U2 may put the music on hold for a while. Anyone heard similar? I know Bono has hinted at spending more time with his younger kids. At the moment he's in Paris checking in on Carla Bruni and the new baby.

amacachi

What is this, 1992?

4zn76tysfajdxp

Oh no. U2 on hiatus means less tax reven-oh wait.

hondasam

Heard on the news they are thinking about finishing as a band.

Temptamperu

Shouldnt they just give up. I mean they have just been releasing the same album for the past 15 years.

YEAH YEAH YEAH!


U2 suck.

sgb

Whatever Bono does is fine we all love him in AH

wayfarers

sgb wrote: »

Whatever Bono does is fine we all love him in AH

Yeah he keeps getting better and better. Anyone googled ''Bono'' and ''Carla Bruni''?

chin_grin

Can we merge this with the "news that's not really news" thread?

Kasabian

So Bono has a hernia?

Immaculate Pasta

:eek:

foxyboxer

And just one last worldwide farewell tour...kerching!!!!

GavRedKing

I can only hope so.

foxyboxer

"It's a beautiful day......"

:pac:

wayfarers

foxyboxer wrote: »

And just one last worldwide farewell tour...kerching!!!!

U2 need all the kerchings they can get. All those kids need shoes and clothes.

MetalDog

I'm fairly sure that U2 stopped making music years ago.

Jesus Wept

Load of nonsense.
Also, in before Degsy.

Kasabian

U2 are a great band, I have always liked their music.

With themselves and Westlife gone my life will be a little emptier.

wayfarers

Kasabian wrote: »

U2 are a great band, I have always liked their music.

With themselves and Westlife gone my life will be a little emptier.

*shrugs* they've gone to a better place. Bono in Paris checking in on the newborn baby.

hondasam

Westlife will be missed, don't know about U2, never liked them,Bono wrecks my head.

Dravokivich

"Its the end of the world as we know it!"

oh wait... that was someone else wasn't it?

St.Spodo

They've been arouns since the 70's and peaked about 25 years ago. They'd do right to call it a day.

I Heart Internet

How will Dave Fanning bore the face off anyone who will listen now?

God, he's so annoying (and knows Bono)

ejmaztec

I think Bono should go solo and spend as much time in a recording studio as he possibly can, 24/7 for the rest of his life would be good.

fran oconnor

I hope they split up, they suck balls as a band.

Ruu_Old

A mole, digging in a hole
Digging up my soul
Now going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, elevation

;_;

foxyboxer

Ruu wrote: »

A mole, digging in a hole
Digging up my soul
Now going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, elevation

;_;

Whooooooo-ooooooo Whooooooooo-oooooooo
Whooooooo-ooooooo Whooooooooo-oooooooo
Elevation

Whooooooo-ooooooo Whooooooooo-oooooooo

Amber Lamps

wayfarers wrote: »

I know Bono has hinted at spending more time with his younger kids. At the moment he's in Paris checking in on Carla Bruni and the new baby.

wayfarers wrote: »

Anyone googled ''Bono'' and ''Carla Bruni''?

wayfarers wrote: »

Bono in Paris checking in on the newborn baby.

What you really talkin bout willis?

UglyBolloxFace

wayfarers wrote: »

News reports suggesting U2 may put the music on hold for a while. Anyone heard similar? I know Bono has hinted at spending more time with his younger kids. At the moment he's in Paris checking in on Carla Bruni and the new baby.

I hate U2 anyway so I have just one thing to say:

FUCK YOU BONO

That is all.

UglyBolloxFace

wayfarers wrote: »

At the moment he's in Paris checking in on Carla Bruni and the new baby.

In the pic below, what the hell is that monstrosity on Bono's left?...

http://www4.pictures.fp.zimbio.com/Bono+Carla+Bruni+Sarkozy+9th+Nobel+Peace+Prize+E1UoQZ6K-qPl.jpg

Face like a melted brick of lego.

krudler

I'm fairly indifferent to U2 as a band, they have some cracking songs and some godawful ones, and lots and lots of ones that sound identical, I'll let Bill Bailey explain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8dZwXnMrRU

Yakult

Not a fan by any means, but I can definitely appreciate their older material. Wouldn't be bothered by them finishing up tho.

Alter-Ego

hondasam wrote: »

Heard on the news they are thinking about finishing as a band.

I'm having a fcuking great week so far and it just keeps getting better.

stovelid

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

FUCK YOU BONO
.

Please don't do that.

He will be devestated to the point of making a new album about it.

anto2

BONO=TURD !!!THE EDGE = BIGGER TURD !!!

dotsman

Wow, people feel the need to state they don't like U2.

Ultimately, who does it really reflect on - U2 or the people posting?

Badgermonkey

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

In the pic below, what the hell is that monstrosity on Bono's left?...

http://www4.pictures.fp.zimbio.com/Bono+Carla+Bruni+Sarkozy+9th+Nobel+Peace+Prize+E1UoQZ6K-qPl.jpg

It appears Michael & Liz Taylor got jiggy.

That mental image is actually more disturbing than the photo.

anto2

dotsman wrote: »

Wow, people feel the need to state they don't like U2.

Ultimately, who does it really reflect on - U2 or the people posting?

U2 of course .:D..i mean you too !!!

super_furry

Do you ever think that when The Edge's wife if having sex with, she start's singing The Edge of Glory? I think if I was her I would.

It'd be great for her to be sitting up there bouncing around the place singing "I'm on the Edge, the Edge, the Edge, the Edge, the Edge, the Edge!"

I'd say he'd get a nice little boost out of it too.

Dyr

hondasam wrote: »

Heard on the news they are thinking about finishing as a band.

They finished as a band some time in the 80's

oh yes I did.

Placebo Effect

dotsman wrote: »

Wow, people feel the need to state they don't like U2.

Ultimately, who does it really reflect on - U2 or the people posting?

Well in Ireland,it's very hard to get away from them, just a Media wankfest as no one dares slag them off.

Wish they'd go away personally.

opinion guy

I guess Bono wants to do more charity work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2OQxma_1ps

super_furry

dotsman wrote: »

Wow, people feel the need to state they don't like U2.

Ultimately, who does it really reflect on - U2 or the people posting?

U2.

Because they're ****e you see.

Gee Bag

If this gaggle of fvcktards split up then they wont be away touring the world......

If they aren't away touring the world then they'll be at home in Ireland....

If they are at home in Ireland then they will be on TV, in newspapers more often.....

In order to fill these interviews with meaning Bonocúnt will have to talk even more political guff....

Therefore, I hope U2 don't break up. (I feel dirty after saying that)

opinion guy

Gee Bag wrote: »

If this gaggle of fvcktards split up then they wont be away touring the world......

If they aren't away touring the world then they'll be at home in Ireland Tax Haven Land....

If they are at home in Ireland then they will be on TV, in newspapers more often.....

In order to fill these interviews with meaning Bonocúnt will have to talk even more political guff....

Therefore, I hope U2 don't break up. (I feel dirty after saying that)

Fixed that for you

lee_baby_simms

U2 are like The Simpsons. Forgotten but not gone. They should stop making records and just tour every few years.

They've been knocking out, by their own standards, below par records for a good 15 years now. The world doesn't need any more U2 albums.

Wibbs

I have to say I liked a lot of their earlier material and were serious contenders for best live band. If they'd called it a day after Achtung Baby they would have gone out on a high. They might have stretched to All That You Can't Leave Behind and they would be fine, but now I think it's really pushing it. Now they are still producing the odd good song(IMHO magnificent being one), but the ship has largely sailed. Now they're much more a cabaret band creaking on the spot on past glories and fancy stages.

It's one reason I always had a soft spot for the Beatles. Above and beyond their actual output, they quit while they were young, while they were well ahead and on top of the game, leaving people to wonder what if*. As a band they never became a cabaret band churning out the hits on more and more tours with more and more production to cover up the cracks of age. The Stones who I love sadly didn't follow that curve. I reckon if U2 had split in 2000, you'd have a lot less anti U2 rhetoric, especially in Ireland and they would be appreciated a lot more for what they did for music and indeed the view of Ireland abroad and the confidence that instilled in the 80's.




*I don't. I reckon they might have one good album left as a band, if they'd given Harrison more tracks(All things must pass, his first after the split is a cracking album)

kippy

Placebo Effect wrote: »

Well in Ireland,it's very hard to get away from them, just a Media wankfest as no one dares slag them off.

Wish they'd go away personally.

Lots of people slag them off - I'd say 90% of posts on this thread (and in most U2 threads on this site) are them being slagged off.......

I couldnt care less if they finish, love their early stuff, and can listen to their newer stuff but wouldnt be the end of the world for anyone, as with any band splitting up.
They'd be back in a few years anyhow for a reunion tour, its the thing to do nowadays since revenue from record sales dried up.

hatrickpatrick

U2 pretty much go on hiatus after EVERY album/tour these days. I mean there was a 5 year gap between HtDaAB and NLotH, when you think about it.

What I want to know is, what the hell happened to Songs of Ascent? I was really looking forward to that, why did they shelve it?

rolexeagle1

It wont happen they signed another 10 year deal with Live Nation for 3 new albums and 2 tours worth a billion 2 years ago, no way they will go back on it, simple as!

Dyr

Wibbs wrote: »

It's one reason I always had a soft spot for the Beatles. Above and beyond their actual output, they quit while they were young, while they were well ahead and on top of the game, leaving people to wonder what if*. As a band they never became a cabaret band churning out the hits on more and more tours with more and more production to cover up the cracks

Most bands only have 4-5 albums or 10 years in them.... tops. U2 had less :pac:

hatrickpatrick

Bambi wrote: »

Most bands only have 4-5 albums or 10 years in them.... tops. U2 had less :pac:

O_o
Did you go to a 360 show? They were epic.

Unless you're implying that U2 only started being good in 1999, they've had a LOT more than 10 years.