Aloha !

Like Thierry said, it was a pretty bad show. The Edge is a wank guitar player, all he can do is strum a bit here and there and do guitar solo's that make Noel Gallagher sound like Jimi Hendrix. Bono was often out of key or either too slow or too fast. The remix of I'll Go Crazy was an embarassment (though Bono sang it like his life depended on it) and the structure of the set was completely lost.


That's a good example of the disaster that is Bono nowadays. And another thing; imagine Jon needing a lyric sheet for Bad Medicine. Because Bono needed one for One. All the improvising from Bono wasn't that great either, the Michael Jackson "medley" included just "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" and of the one line Bono sang he messed up the words repeatedly, so he's pretty convinced he's doing it right. He did the same for Man In The Mirror on other nights as well. Bono also did a part of The Beatles' Blackbird at the end of Beautiful Day which made absolutely no sense and I think he did a few others as well that made even less sense. I can't remember which ones though, he just blurred out a few words every now and then when he was out of breath so at times he was hard to understand, but I guess he thinks that his "I am God" look and pose makes up for it.

The encore was shit as well, and when With Or Without you started Bono started in the wrong key (again!), skipping from a high octave to a lower octave about 4 times in 2 verses, and then not singing the chorus like it's supposed to be sung, but singing it like you sing it when you just can't be bothered to do it anymore. And every time as soon as the audience joined in he stopped singing. He just stopped, pretending to do it because "he loved it when the audience sang it" but surprisingly it happened every time when there were the higher parts in the song.

We've got Jon not singing the chorus to Prayer properly anymore, U2 fans have got Bono not singing the chorusses to, erm, now let me see...Beautiful Day, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, The Unforgettable Fire, Pride, Where The Streets Have No Name...the list just goes on and on.

This band is being rated as one of the best live bands out there but they're far from it. Bon Jovi are miles better, even on a bad night. Tossers.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan