Bono And Bob - Twats?

[Sam Slater]

[quote]Noel G. has written at least three good songs but lacks the charm of the other two.[/quote]

I dunno. I always feel that with Bono and Bob, they're pandering to the masses when they open their mouth, while Noel, though rude, is more honest.

Maybe it's just a northern thing, but we prefer rudeness with honesty, rather than politeness, with bullshit.

[andy at handiwork]

The Geldofs used to have a rather nice manor house in Faversham

[Officer Dibble]

The way I see it, politics, particularly progressive politics, and Rock & Roll are not comfortable bedfellows. Real rock music (the blues based music of the 60?s and 70?s) is romantic, poetic, hedonistic, and macho. It is of an age when men were men and women were women. It was inspiring, enlivening, and for a few minutes it took us out of ourselves to a magical place very different to our humdrum lives. One minute you could be ?chopping down mountain with the edge of your hand? and next you could lie dying of an overdose, praying for ?Sister Morphine? to ?come on round again?.

But progressive politics is very dour and earnest. It turns it?s nose up at what made rock & roll, well, ROCK & ROLL! - The untrammelled excess, the money, the glamour, the drugs, freedom and sexism. While progressive politics preaches a life of dull, socially aware, piety. So the two things are incompatible. I think this is what Noel was getting at. Bono and Sir Bob are not rock & rollers, they are socially concerned middleclass folk with guitars.

Actually, I do have time for Sir Bob. He doesn?t follow any party line or any particular political dogma. He?s a free thinker who doesn?t mind saying exactly what he is thinking. As well as campaigning for debt relief he also gets up the nose of Labour ?wimmin? and PC metrosexuals by drawing vocal attention to the iniquities of the Family Courts and the hearings that are held ?in camera? ? an abomination in a supposed western democracy where, in order for justice to be done, it must be SEEN to be done.




Officer Dibble

[Flat_Eric]

WZRwrote:
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Eric replies:
You "think" it was a scheduled flight? That's the first I've heard of it being scheduled. You're giving Bono the benefit of the doubt there, methinks.



WZRwrote:
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Eric replies:
So the "carefully dishevelled one" is down to his last few million then?

True, he's probably not as rich as some other rock stars. But I'm sure he still has a fair few "bob" (!laugh!) salted away. In any case I doubt he'll ever be found outside Euston Station sitting on a mucky tartan rug with just a dog and a bottle of cider for company.

I suppose it depends what you class as being "all that rich", Warren.


WZRwrote:
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Eric replies:
If you're saying that Noel Gallagher is an obnoxious little twat, I'd be the first to agree with you.

But Bono is a pretentious, arrogant, egotistical wanker of the highest order. Every bit as obnoxious as the Gallaghers - only in a different way.

And frankly I'm sceptical about all these claims of "carbon neutrality" by sermonising rock stars such as Bono, which to me come across as nothing more than feel-good excuses for their own environmentally unsound lifestyles.

I think that serious scepticism needs to be directed at environmentally outspoken rock groups such as U2, who regularly globe-trot in fuel-guzzling private jets while extolling environmental consciousness (no "scheduled flights" with the plebs for them, Wazza). And just how many megawatts do those grandiose, overblown stage shows burn up?

- Eric