Shuttlecock IX: Romi and Miss Sil's Line Rules Disunion

[joyfulgirl]

hey guys, when in Amsterdam a very, very nice thing to do is have Middle Eastern food in a gorgeous church-turned-restaurant with our good friend Popmartijn.


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[Axver]

It's weird that they appear so reticent to add a 24th song for all the shows, yet they'll randomly include the 7+ minute Bad and not drop a song to make room for it.

I haven't timed this tour's versions of Bad, but they've seemed rather short...

 

[martha]

hey guys, when in Amsterdam a very, very nice thing to do is have Middle Eastern food in a gorgeous church-turned-restaurant with our good friend Popmartijn.

That sounds wonderful.

 

[IWasBored]

Marty is cool

(He's also the only person from this place I've actually met in real life)

 

[bono_212]

Well, Bono's got some more talking points for "Pride" now. When's the next show? I'll try and periscope that one, but I think I'll be at the Kendrick concert .

EDIT: Nope, the next show is the one I'd be going to if I'd pulled the trigger on going home for my sister's wedding shower I'll be at home...on periscope...watching. O_O

 

[u2popmofo]

(He's also the only person from this place I've actually met in real life)

Joyful, could you sense any remaining emotional scars?

 

[lazarus]

Well, Bono's got some more talking points for "Pride" now. When's the next show? I'll try and periscope that one, but I think I'll be at the Kendrick concert .

Between this and Ireland, they have to be putting together some multimedia presentation to go along with it on a nightly basis. I wouldn't call them opportunists per se, but they're empathetic and inclusive (in short: populist) on a wide range to begin with which allows them to incorporate prominent cultural events into what they're already doing, with little adjustment (post-9/11 shows, e.g.).

 

[bono_212]

Wait, and Chicago's pride parade is this weekend?

 

[iron yuppie]

It's tomorrow, I think.

 

[bono_212]

Oh good Lord. That's gonna be a thing.

 

[djerdap]

Remember that discussion about Twilight being a gay song?

U2, play Twilight!

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

it seems more like a NAMBL anthem if you ask me...

 

[DaveC]

Toronto's Pride parade is on Sunday too, this is going to add a whole extra level of celebration to the party

 

[corianderstem]

Remember that discussion about Twilight being a gay song?

U2, play Twilight!

Every time the subject comes up, I think of a certain poster in that thread about gay themes in Boy, who insisted backwards and forwards and upside down that a "gay reading" of a piece of art was decidedly NOT a thing. Because he said so.

Then he called Irvine a gay bully.

 

[No spoken words]

….can't find my knife.

 

[bono_212]

In the shadows...

 

[Popmartijn]

Joyful, could you sense any remaining emotional scars?

I believe I kept my shouting to a minimum.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Joyful, could you sense any remaining emotional scars?

I believe I kept my shouting to a minimum.

And by the time dessert arrived, the facial tic was imperceptible.

 

[Popmartijn]

And by the time dessert arrived, the facial tic was imperceptible.

Yes, thankfully. I was a bit embarrassed when everyone kept looking at me.

So, Eyewubbie... :noncontacthug:

 

[liamcool]

Putting this here because it's more relevant to here than RMT.

I still can't believe that Einsturzende Neubauten opened for U2 once - and then got kicked off the tour.

And I wish I could've been at the ZooTV gig where 3Ds supported them. That would've been amazing.

It's kind of insane to think that at one point, U2 were both mainstream enough to play stadiums, and yet avant-garde enough to have Neubauten as their opener. Totally nuts.

You're probably the person who knows the answer to this; do we know any openers for the Lovetown Tour aside from the B.B. King Band? I was reading up on Vehicle earlier, and thinking that a U2/The Clean bill on the New Zealand dates wouldn't be too far fetched. That'd be a fuckin' show and a half.

 

[djerdap]

ZooTV was amazing for support acts.

Pixies, Ramones, Pearl Jam, Velvet Underground, Neubauten... The list goes on and on.

 

[cobl04]

And now there's none and the shows are like 10 minutes longer.

 

[liamcool]

Don't complain bro, we don't need openers, it's not like eighteen songs are the same every single night of the tou-oh wait.

 

[martha]

I still say no opener is better than Damian Marley.

 

[No spoken words]

They've had some great openers and they've had some pretty fucked up ones too.

My favorite opener of theirs will lend some RMT symmetry to this shit:

PJ Harvey

 

[cobl04]

I've seen them open with Kanye West and Jay-Z. Both shows felt like double bills. Awesome.

 

[No spoken words]

Well, I guess if I'm being technical, Pearl Jam was the best opener of theirs I've seen.

PJ Harvey slides into 2nd place.

 

[BoMac]

Arcade Fire, 4 times.

After that I enjoyed PJ Harvey.

Worst openers for me would have to be Black Eyed Peas, Dashboard Confessional, and Third Eye Blind. Like WTF?

 

[PhilsFan]

Interpol was the best and worst opener I saw because they were the only one.


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[bono_212]

Institute, by far the worst.