HAHAHA! OH MY GOD BONO NOOOO SOMEONE MAKE HIM STOP OH THE HUMANITY

and will

I don't get people who'd wanna track in the control room really

i know erykah badu does for sure, and there was someone in tape op recently talking about how mick jagger does too

triumphant douchery at 13.58

Bono is one of the world’s worst war criminals and I support the international effort to arrest him.

Festival au Desert! I would love to go to that thing, but I would be so very cheesed off if Bono took the stage for fifteen minutes of bellowing.

LEAVE BONO ALONE

haha that's really the thing though isn't it...he honestly thinks it's a "special treat" for the people like they should be SO PSYCHED BONO SHOWED UP to fuck around onstage with an actual good band

why did you guys encourage me to watch this it is horrible h8 u all

Yeah totally. From what I can tell of the audience it's 80% Malians who might well have no idea who U2 are (is this a false assumption?) and 20% tourists who certainly didn't travel all that way to watch Bono ruin Tinariwen's set. xp

yeah man if you were like a mega african music fan that traveled for that god i'd be soooo pissed off

I keep on expecting everybody to break out into "viva las vegas"

Having said that, this is some of Robert Plant's set at that same festival a few years back and I think it really works...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRq91OVIIUs

xp that thought had crossed my mind too!

comments on youtube bring the laffs

transcultural douchery
dreamtransmissions 1 hour ago

Horrible!
Gerhardic 2 weeks ago

bono stoned ))
inputs11 2 weeks ago

this is ridiculous. He should have just played a tamborine or something..
ariakiss 2 weeks ago

Robert Plant is really into this stuff though I would guess & knows a good deal about it

what's he doing at 13:00 where he yells, throws his hands up then does a weird hand move, then keeps repeating this?

plant has been proven to be way cooler and have way cooler taste than bono a million times over though, i could dig seeing him

now that i think about it, it's kinda surprising and awesome that plant has kinda evolved into one of the coolest and dignified and most comfortable in his own skin down-ass brother type classic rock icons...which, given his zep image and persona, wouldn't have seemed like it would be the case

saw Plant at a festival last year and was startled by how good his set was

My uncle sat next to Robert Plant on a flight once a few years back and said he was a great guy. Talked about football the whole time cos they were both massive Wolves fans.

http://cdn.fourfourtwo.com/contentimages/interviews/Robert-Plant1.jpg

where are the wolves from?

Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.

He doesn't seem to have the Steve Bull figurine I got my dad one Christmas.

Plant's Austin City Limits performance is just fantastic

Been saying for years that Plant is THE guy when it comes to that generation of rock performers who actually want to keep exploring and doing different things old and new from around the whole damn world. Seriously an impressive figure.

after Dust it seemed like Peter Murphy was gonna be that dude from his generation, don't know what happened

Been saying for years that Plant is THE guy when it comes to that generation of rock performers who actually want to keep exploring and doing different things old and new from around the whole damn world.

gotta stand up for John Paul Jones a bit in this regard as well

after Dust it seemed like Peter Murphy was gonna be that dude from his generation, don't know what happened

Mick Jones is trying... kinda?

In retrospect, this event seems completely inevitable. The right people should've been able to put protections in place to prevent this from transpiring. At some level our collective complacency is to blame.

*jams zep*

Scott, it's 15 minutes long and it involves Bono. There is no way.

Yeah, I saw the length on this video and didn't even attempt it. It would bring nothing but misery.

20 secs brought serious LOLs but that was all I could stomach.

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/Bono2012.jpg

best! bono thing since this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQFQEJ9K77I

i've seen Tinawaren live and it was really shit. but not as shit as this.

That's "Oh Oh, Yeh Yeh" and it's the next U2 single, guys.

Bono is so fucking high

closup angle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Znwv6CMjY

Extremely LOL and incredibly close.

that song is kind of a jam tho even with bono being a doofus

i posted this vid on facebook and my fave comment was from an ilxor: "tonight, thank god its them instead of you."

Ha!

Bono's slowly turning into Ringo.

that song is kind of a jam tho even with bono being a doofus

otm

^^

now that i think about it, it's kinda surprising and awesome that plant has kinda evolved into one of the coolest and dignified and most comfortable in his own skin down-ass brother type classic rock icons...which, given his zep image and persona, wouldn't have seemed like it would be the case

jimmy page came off equally well in the it might get loud documentary (which the edge was in too, speaking of doofuses from u2).

watching the clip now, finally.

me: "why does anybody let this guy on stage, anywhere?"
andre: "he just made a billion dollars off the facebook ipo. he can do whatever he wants."

andre: "what would you do with one billion dollars?"
me: "i'd find a way to double it and then i'd pay bono to never sing again."

You might still have to muzzle the guy.

best! bono thing since this

― jed_, sábado 10 de marzo de 2012 01:42 AM

He must have been standing too close to The Edge.

- BaseballPie, top youtube comment.

I buy a jar of peanut butter, and again I call out to Hope.

omg

vivaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
the dog called hope

Just got reminded of this by a poster being upped to facebook of himself saying every time I click my fingers A few thousand Euro of taxable revenue moves offshore...
and a young Irish person has to emigrate

lol at that bono hotel story, it's like he saw caddyshack and thought the story about the dalai lama was true

important article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/23/mali-militants-declare-war-music

coincidence, or the direct sociopolitical impact of the performance which began this thread?

An official decree banning all western music was issued on 22 August by a heavily bearded Islamist spokesman in the city of Gao. "We don't want the music of Satan. Qur'anic verses must take its place. Sharia demands it," the decree says.

...

This year in January, no doubt the last festival to be held in Timbuktu for a while occurred in an atmosphere of high alert after recent kidnappings and the murder of a German tourist by al-Qaida. The event was attended by Tinariwen, a host of other Touareg and Malian musicians and Bono.

We don't want the music of Satan ... and Bono"

Sometimes she stays behind, near some other hope maybe to sniff out whatever was.

I understand nothing of what he says.

well, now i got it, he is actually imitating a french-west african accent.

SEE THE OMEGA CODE

Bonnie, not Bono but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwyiA6Uw7qU

I forget what was originally linked at the top

Bono jumped onstage in the middle of tinariwen’s set at a Bedouin music festival in mali, and, apparently uninvited, delivered freestyle magic in what he perceived as the appropriate idiom

Super fucking funny

I don't think this is as long as the OG video, but here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISme58Kbqiw

Let's hear Kareen Antonn sing in Welsh then.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSejxUSakAAEzvC.jpg

haha that's so mean

for posterity's sake

The following poem was left by U2 frontman Bono in the King David Hotel's guest book in 2012:

In Jerusalem, hope springs eternal
Hope is like a faithful dog
sometimes she runs ahead of me to check the future,
to sniff it out and then I call to her:
Hope, Hope, come here, and she comes to me.
I pet her,
she eats out of my hand and
sometimes she stays behind,
near some other hope maybe to sniff out whatever was.
Then I call her my Despair.
I call out to her.
Here, my little Despair, come here and she comes and snuggles up,
and again I call her Hope.

Pedigree Chum
Pedigree Chum
It gives my dog a smelly bum
It's not good for her sensitive tum
Pedigree Chum
Pedigree Chum

Beat that, U2 frontman Boner

That was painful

Not yours Matt, I liked yours