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Jacob Slater in Pistol Interviews: A series

[foxesmagazine]

DEAD PRETTIES

[vanmccannsfridge]

jacob slater, wunderhorse, at NX newcastle 🖤🤍

[highflyingwithnoel]

(Photograph by Peter Walsh)

Andy: “Who’s your favorite big rock band, Noel?” Noel: “I’d have to say U2” Jarvis: “Aw, f*** off!. You don’t like U2!” Noel: “I know U2 are naff, but they took five years off and came back with ‘Achtung Baby’ and, as far as I could tell they’d actually listened to the Mondays and the Roses and learnt. And it was good. They could have made ‘The Joshua Tree’ for the rest of their careers. But they had the guts to break their own mould”.

December 17, 1994

@bonojour, I found this quote, thought that you might enjoy.

[lochallthedoors]

OP I hope you don’t mind my adding this, from Noel’s interview in Isle of Noises (published 2013, interview conducted 2009):

[dvoeverie-stitches]

Graham Coxon x Dead Pretties

Photos by Heather Shepherd

[beforeyouijustforget]

Jacob Slater as Paul Cook Pistol (2022) dir. Danny Boyle

[requiem-vaccaro]

Jacob Slater as Paul Cook in Pistol

[beforeyouijustforget]

CONOR DEEGAN III of FONTAINES D.C. 9:30 Club, Washington, DC (April 21, 2022) — Photos by Christopher Goyette

[danielashdotcom-deactivated2025]

man u2 just fuckin sucks. i knew a girl and they were her favorite band and I truly do not understand. what are you people seeing that I'm not

[danielashdotcom-deactivated2025]

I remember reading that they were inspired by echo and the bunnymen and it made me feel so defensive for some reason

[mooseyspooky]

Me looking at my bestie @jeevey and my longtime mutual @bonos-grindcore-sideproject

[jeevey]

I think U2 is for people who aren't cynical and dont want to be. At bottom U2 are performance artists, not musicians, and the point of their art is to elicit big emotions.

U2 are the opposite of cool. They know this about themselves. They run hot, emotionally, which makes a lot of sense when you realize their spiritual roots are in revival style Christianity.

U2 attracts people who aren't turned off by unrestrained emotionality. Their fans love their sense of discipline, which includes a brutal work ethic, dedication to creative risk taking, and great personal loyalty. (A surprising number of U2 band members, staff, creative team, and band spouses have been around for forty or more years. A surprising number of U2 fans are still married to their first spouse.)

Most U2 fans love that the band genuinely loves each other. They are very, very loyal to each other, and very gentle with each other. They are also unusually bright and thoughtful for rock musicians, and three of four are intellectually adventurous autodidacts. It can be pretty hard to listen to other bands talk after being a U2 fan. You really forget that bands are often shallow and not all that bright.

U2 deliberately try to create a concert experience of spiritual elation and emotional catharsis. They deliberately point fans' attention to matters of conscience and always have. In many ways, music is the least important thing about them. As I said, their primary identity is performance art. Some people love it, some people hate it. I'm a lover, me.

A lot of people bitch about U2 being pretentious. And they are at times. But much more often, they are deadly serious and trying their level best. I think it's this exact lack of cool that enrages people so much.

U2 formed 2 years in September of 1976. So, while they might have liked Echo and the Bunnymen once they existed, they couldn't have inspired them to start a band. They usually list the Clash and Patti Smith as their formative inspiration.

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[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

Fontaines D.C. + being cute as fuck with dogs

[hawkmoon269]

Bono at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 2001. [x] [x]

[hawkmoon269]

Bono / The Fly, Los Angeles, CA, 1992.

📷 Stunning photoshoot by Lynn Goldsmith ✴ Enhancement and color edition by hawkmoon269

[hawkmoon269]

Baby U2 / Rehearsal session at Shepperton Studios, UK - 1982.

📷 Original photos: UrbanImage

💎Edits by Hawkmoon269

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[hawkmoon269]

Bono - Rattle and Hum outtakes