U2

[1waveydavey]

So.. New album due early'ish next year, I wonder if they would want another crack at the Pyramid? I know they weren't thrilled last time, everything went against them, pulling out with a bad back firet time, terrible weather and jet lag did for them when they played.

I'm speculating, no more, would they fancy launching the new album on the Pyramid like Coldplay did so successfully the following night?

It just struck me that they might want to get a good one under their belts...

[Alcatraz]

U2 aren't a festival band like Coldplay are, who's success has been in big part thanks to their Glastonbury and other festival performances. Likelihood is they'll never play Glastonbury again.

If they want to launch an album, they'll do it very much on their own terms

Edited November 14, 2013 by Alcatraz

[frostypaw]

I don't think they'll be back - that show did not go down well and they're not festival regulars in any way

[Lubic]

I thought they were good - just terrible weather that dampened the mood a bit. Coldplay were better but had clear conditions. And Queens had a crowd who'd been lapping up the Mediterranean sun all day. But there's no way they'll play again so soon. Maybe never again.

[matt2007]

Please for the love of god NO......

They are not a festival band and I have never seen the pyramid field so empty........

Even getting the space station involved was shit, never again please

[guypjfreak]

more chance of PEARL JAM playing once than U2 play again old son

[plaskins]

Way too soon for them to return, I reckon

[LondonTom]

To soon for them to come back really beyond them maybe not wanting to do it...but with the Rolling Stones going down well, I think they will be back one year...just to prove they can get it right.

[mrtourette]

In a couple of years are we going to be getting 'is it too soon for the Stones to play again?' threads? The answer's the same for both, of course it fucking is.

[bexj]

Nooooooooooooooooooooo

They were shit last time, unlike the Stones, who also should be a one off.

For that matter I don't actually think Any band should headline more than once.

[pie_and_a_pint]

I'm a huge U2 fan but I don't think they'll play again (nor should they)

[Alcatraz]

Stevie Wonder's releasing albums next year apparently....

[The Nal]

Paul McGuinness has quit so U2 are going to be managed by Live Nation now. U2 aren't a band anymore really. Where the majority of their time and effort is put into making music. They're businessmen now.

[BlackHole2006]

Paul McGuinness has quit so U2 are going to be managed by Live Nation now. U2 aren't a band anymore really. Where the majority of their time and effort is put into making music. They're businessmen now.

Whilst I agree with that statement wholeheartedly, I'm probably in the minority here (bare in mind that I've had a few this evening) when I say that I thought U2 was absolutely great in 2011. Given the circumstances that they had to deal with (heavy rain), I think they pulled that set out of the bag. Obviously they weren't a patch on The Stones but I still thought they played a chuffing good set that night.

[When Jokers Attack]

U2 were the band of the weekend for me in 2011.

[blue6field]

U2 were the band of the weekend for me in 2011.

Me too , thought they nailed it

[Wooderson]

Weather spoiled U2. As it would have any other band on the planet.

[russycarps]

Apart from radiohead, as proven 97....

All hail Thom Yorke!

[Superscally]

The show didn't go down well? EH??? They were absolutely brilliant, great set, great singalong, great show. You couldn't move in there. The weather may have dampened it for some, but not for me or anyone who I spoke to. I for one didn't even remember it rained until I saw the re-run on iPlayer because everyone around was going so nuts. The Radiohead scenario was completely different, because it didn't rain during the gig did it? Certainly not the downpour that U2 got.

Edited November 16, 2013 by Superscally

[Wooderson]

Apart from radiohead, as proven 97....

All hail Thom Yorke!

Clearly footage can deceive but is it even raining? Just watched Karma Police and it seems positively balmy in comp to what was suffered in '11.

[Mardy]

Not a band alive who could have comprehensively triumphed in the conditions U2 found themselves in there. I wasn't there, not my bag, but from what I see and hear, they aquitted themselves as well as anybody could have done in that downpour.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Just watched the first half hour of it - and even as someone who's not a fan - it's good stuff.

However, the weather has nothing to do with the way they front-loaded the set and the anticlimactic shrug that resulted when they finished with Moment of Surrender and Out of Control. Even on the hottest day of the year that still would have gone down like a cup of cold sick.

[russycarps]

Clearly footage can deceive but is it even raining? Just watched Karma Police and it seems positively balmy in comp to what was suffered in '11.

All their equipment broke and none of the band could hear a thing! U2 didn't have to put up with anything like that sort of thing

[arcade fireman]

Not a band alive who could have comprehensively triumphed in the conditions U2 found themselves in there. I wasn't there, not my bag, but from what I see and hear, they aquitted themselves as well as anybody could have done in that downpour.

Primal scream did pretty well on the Other Stage at the same time..

[Yesiamaduck]

Didn't you learn anything from 2011?

Years of hype

The promise of stage attachments, which amounted to be nothing more than propaganda screens

A very flat performance completely devoid of atmosphere outside of the immediate centre of the pyramid stage where all the bono heads reside

I went there because I thought 'hey they'll play some 80s and early 90s choons like 'The Fly' and they delivered and for that I was grateful until I realized the songs I genuinely enjoyed by the band left me with the same cold feeling as the songs I detest (vertigo, beautiful day, etc.) they are a band that no longer have any soul and my word did that reflect in their live show. Incredibly dull and devoid of any feeling and atmosphere.

Edited November 16, 2013 by Yesiamaduck