Bono & Family at Auction

[Teta040]

A U2 Theme park is nice, but having the Docklands recording studio still around would have been so much better. For anyone fortunate to have been able to be in the massive crowd sitting down on the ground outside the studio on the day HTDAAB came out, while the band piped the new album through the speakers for that first listening party, THAT is the ultimate U2 experience. Mingling with the band members and real dockhands in Dockers Pub, that's an EXPERIENCE.

Are we going to be able to repeat that intimate, yet electrifying interactive experience when U2's recording studio is on the top of a skyscraper? Of course not.

At this stage as long as Windmill Lane studio and the surrounding blocks are preserved, (with the layers of graffiti intact, as if it was as valuable as a Joyce location,) that's all I care about. But as soon as the local Powers That Be discover something of value in their midst, they have the instinctive urge to cheapen and distort it.

That said, *sigh* if we had to choose between a rock and a hard place, at least Crosbie has good intentions,and the band will remembered in a major way.

 

[blueeyedgirl]

A U2 theme park, dear God Having Beatles associated sites in Liverpool is totally different, the Beatles had well and truly broken up by the time any sites had been founded. The original Cavern Club had even been demolished. And Graceland wasn't a tourist disaster of the scale it is now until Elvis died.

I for one would vomit if anything like this is built for U2 while U2 still exist as a band. Keep Windmill Lane as it is, Dockers was great while it was still around, these 2 sites are important in the U2 history, but please, U2 statues?????