adam interview

[madamc]

Adam Clayton, Balearic Beatmaster and U2?s Eternal Peter Pan, Proposes A Low-Alcohol Toast
Q Magazine, October 01, 2001


Hello, where are you?

In Birmingham.

It?s our round, what are you having?

These days I?d have a low alcohol Budvar. I gave up drinking quite a while ago.

What were you doing 15 years ago?

We were recording The Joshua Tree in between doing the Conspiracy Of Hope Tour in America to increase awareness of Amnesty International.

What was the worst thing about being 15?

You?re too young to get into pubs, and too old to stay in the cr?che.

Did anything good happen to you when you were 15?

I was asked to leave public school.

What do you know now that you wish you knew then?

That I?d still be smoking.

What?s your worst fashion faux pas of the last 15 years?

I had very bad haircuts until Joshua Tree.

What?s the best record of the last 15 years?

Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor, No Protection.

What music are you listening to right now?

Elbow, New Order, Travis, Baxter Dury, Shaggy.

If you weren?t a musician what would you be?

A bad photographer, or a landscape gardener.

What?s been the highlight of the last 15 years?

Being able to take the PopMart tour into Sarajevo.

Where do you see yourself in 15 years? time?

Having a facelift.

Why hold The Edge?s birthday party in Ibiza?

He said he wanted to check it out. Isn?t that the sort of place Ibiza?s become? People go there for their 40th birthday.

What questions do you hate being asked?

Questions about lyrics, they?re hard.

What?s the strangest story you?ve heard about yourself?

I?ve not really heard any strange stories.

When was the last time you listened to Achtung Baby and The Joshua Tree?

At the beginning of this tour, we had to go back and research how we recorded them. Achtung Baby is probably the most complete record. Joshua Tree is nostalgic, it seems like a different person and a different band.

Have you ever smashed up a guitar?

I?d find it hard to deliberately break an instrument I have some affinity to.

What?s your personal motto?

If it ain?t broke, don?t fix it.

What do you think of Radiohead?

They?re truly special. They?re going to be making exciting music for a long time.

What?s next?

We want to get back in there and do another record. We feel like we?re on a bit of a roll so we don?t want to chill out too much.




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[Mrs.Clayton]

Hey, is this interview in the september or october issue of Q?

 

[madamc]

yeah


btw to those who like adam's fro---even adam hates it!!!

 

[SweetOnU2]

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"Were one but we're not the same... some us like the POP LOOK!" - ME!


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[CatDubh]

Thanks madam!

What's wrong with the fro

? eh heh heh

 

[U2FReAk]

Originally posted by madamc:


What music are you listening to right now?

Shaggy.

I hope he's joking!! Cool interview tho, apart from that statement...

 

[AM]

Originally posted by madamc:
What do you know now that you wish you knew then?

That I?d still be smoking.

I read in some interview that he?s considering to give up smoking. I really hope so.


BTW - I liked the afro. Big, fluffy, soft, bushy, want-to-put-my-hands-into-it afro

But he definately had better haircuts.

thanks for the interview, madam

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"The bass player's got it. The bass player's fucking got it." Bono, Boston 6-9-01

 

[Scarlet Hawkmoon]

Originally posted by AM:
I read in some interview that he?s considering to give up smoking. I really hope so.

Yeah, right!!!!

I believe he'll die with a pack of cigarretes at his side!

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October
and the trees are stripped bare
of all they wear
What do I care?

October
and kingdoms rise
and kingdoms fall
but you go on...

And on...

 

[AM]

Believe it or not, here?s the proof. It?sd from an interview that was published in Hotpress in August:

Should we sue tobacco companies for the damage they're doing to us?

I find that a hard argument to endorse. But, I do hate the fact that I still smoke. But that's my next thing: it's how I intend to spend my time unwinding, to stop smoking.

That sounds like a contradiction in terms, there.

Well it is a contradiction in terms, but I'll be away from all the environments in which I would smoke quite naturally, like on the road or in a studio; there's a lot of hanging about, killing time. But if we do stop after the American leg, I'm just going to take two or three weeks, and that's what I'll be concentrating on.


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"The bass player's got it. The bass player's fucking got it." Bono, Boston 6-9-01

 

[mad1]

A bad photographer or landscape gardiner?????

SPARKY COME TO BEFLAST!!!!!!!!!!!!

me mums into gardenin and Im into photography!!!!!

BE OUR NEIGHBOUR
BE OUR NEIGHBOUR!!!!

we can rock out after breakfast with bass samplers in in den huney!!!!!!!