Recent content by Hollow Island

Headache, I don’t know if you actually have a problem with logic or if you’re doing some contrarian performance but it’s really very simple: U2 are four members. IF one of those members isn’t present THEN U2 isn’t present You might not have a problem with it. You might even like it. It...

I know, eh? Larry’s barely even in U2! He had to miss some shows back when he was a teenager and before they were a professional band! In fact these shows without Larry may be the most authentic shows they’ve played in decades. They’re getting back to their roots, maaaaaan. Doing things like...

:lol: you’re right and you don’t even know it! Some demos were recorded by 3/4, 2/4, and maybe even 1/4 of the band. That’s why the 1/4 who was absent was feeling insecure and unhappy. Whatever point you think you’re making - that U2 isn’t Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry? that U2 is still U2 if one...

Rick nailed it. I’d love for him to interview one of them because he’s a great interviewer. The comments to the video are just brutal. And they aren’t just sentimental: people understand how important he and drummers in general are. This move seems to have pissed off fans as much as the iTunes...

Oh nothing should be surprising about fans of a band that's said "there's no u2 without the four of us, the magic is in the combination of the four of us" countless times - including in the singer's recent book - being cynical about the motivations of a band who suddenly back track on that idea...

I think they feel the need to do this NOW is because they want the attention for opening the venue, and they want the payday. So, ego and greed. What else could make them think it's reasonable to celebrate their best album without a member being there? It's not tied to an anniversary, so they...

Use a double kick drum - one for each ball

https://twitter.com/neil_mccormick/status/1625199823593869325?cxt=HHwWmsC45Z-o740tAAAA Nice to see people push back on U2’s most shameless bootlicker.

Radiohead avoided success yet have been a consistently massive band for 25 years. Weird! It must have been an accident! You don’t care about Radiohead but the fact remains that they are a hugely popular rock band who has maintained or even surpassed the popularity that they achieved the...

Hey they have a song called Creep you’d probably like, give them a chance But seriously, there is no valid argument against them being a band that carries itself well and is a good role model on how to age while maintaining popularity and integrity.

Hello, and I agree with every word you said. Enjoy lurking. They’re my favourite band to, fwiw. They’ve held that spot for 30 years, and also wish they’d quit. Thom Yorke/Jonny Greenwood/Radiohead are also great role models for being aging band despite being roughly a decade younger than U2...

Where did I say it’s about their recorded output? That’s only part of it. And there are degrees of giving the people what they want. Full-on nostalgia fests are one end like JT30 are at one end. The Bowie show I saw in 2004, where 1/3 of the show was from his two most recent albums is somewhere...

Except that wasn’t the end of life cycle for him. He continued to make records. When an artist plays live they mostly play what people want to hear. Unless you’re Bowie in the 90s, spending years annoying the audience by not playing the hits. And remember that he stopped playing live. And the...

I’d agree if they didn’t try to pass off the acts of nostalgia as acts of relevance

but it needn't be the case. a band or artist becomes a legacy act not by age but by the way they act and by the quality and type of work that they make. being a legacy act is nothing to be proud of, either. it's a pejorative for a reason. one hoped that U2 would avoid that fate, but they've run...