As no less a dignitary than Helen Bach noted recently, U2 are back with a new album on the way soon and I couldn’t be more excited at the return of the Messiah of Rock ! Bono’s very image makes me snigger, he is the smug antithesis of bad ass rockers, a smug self-satisfied plank who wanders around the word like the apostle of self-righteousness.
Sometimes, when I take a swipe at a musician, I can feel guilty about it. Like Dave Grohl, Grohl may well be a one man VIP section but rumor has it he is a very nice fellow. And Carrie Underwood. Carrie and I share a mutual friend who swears I’d feel like pond scum for all the nasty things I’ve written about her. But Bono?
Bono is like Chris Martin: they are such complete tits and so rich and so cocky, smacking em about from time to time is a duty if only, in Bono’s case, for the despicable Spiderman On Broadway.
Only Bono could make a band dinner at a Harlem cause for worldwide sniggering. As reported by Page Six: “Jaws dropped onto tables when the entire band of U2 came trooping into Red Rooster in Harlem for dinner. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. arrived together at Marcus Samuelsson’s restaurant Tuesday night. Sources tell us the bandmates rarely go out or dine together, and Bono was overheard telling astonished customers, “This is like the Last Supper.”
NOW… hold on, is it even worth detailing the differences between the Last Supper and U2 going to dinner? The only thing they have in common is the son of God. One was there, the other sometimes mistakes himself for the same.
By the way, I’ve heard from many people who’ve worked with him that Bono is a really great guy but I don’t care how nice he is, the man is the biggest egomaniac in the world not running North Korea. At his essence, Bono is like Gates, he has so much that everything he does dpoesn’t touch him and so it is just a form of advertising. Let the Bono bashing begin!!!!