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  • all the crap talk here point to one thing......u2 is still the biggest band in the world

  • 20 years of shite and counting... give us a decent album for fuck sake U2 tell bono to fuck up and get angry again... oh wait, its hard to rally against the banks when theyve made him so much money.... lets start looking for new heros lads and ladies, these cunts sold out years ago. if he was alive the great bill hicks would show these pricks up for what they really are. U2 R.I.P. ( 1977-1990)

  • @100dbjr acthung baby zooropa are not decent albums? the most important reinventation in the last 20 years!!!

  • lowe did a show in which he played "classic albums" one of these albums was Definitely Maybe -Oasis enough said me thinks.

    just a Dj who thinks he's all that.

  • U2 said the last festival they played was 85.. But I became a fan after watching them perform in the tibetan freedom festival in new york city in 96.

  • @thejthousand Thay performance in 96 was the worsed I had ever seen

  • I am an United statesian, and I once had the pleasure of traveling to the great country of Ireland. I was in a packed bar in Dublin having a merry time with the locals (Who made me feel right at home thousands of miles away!) At one point someone asked me what I thought of U2... At first I felt my truthful answer would upset many of the lads and lassies, however up until this point I had cast no falsities in my character and was accepted well. So I then said "FUCK U2!" and everyone cheered!

  • @frostytoes686 Well im Irish and clearly the pub you were in was filled with a bunch of idiots. U2 are the greatest Irish band ever so the opinion of a few knobheads in Dublin is most definitely the general opinion held by the majority Irish people

  • @offalyfan I'll take your word for it.

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  • you gotta love larry he says it straight

  • This Zane Lowe guy appears to be a dick!

  • @quietRockstars88 Ah in fairness he wasn't star struck and he made the lads laugh when he told Larry he was blessed with rhythm. I've seen some of his other interviews and he's good. To be fair everyone seemed excited after a great gig.

  • Dear BBC: I just wanted to tell you that THE AUDIO SUCKS!!! Can't you do better than this? I know you CAN so do it, and also, this is U2!!! have some respect for this Amazing band for God sake!!!

  • personally i would be a bigger u2 fan if they dropped all this charity bollocks,im not saying its wrong but it does my fucking head in

  • Why do they hire an Australian to do the interview? This Australian guy is a dickhead, he makes a real fool of himself and he is very belittling. Why not hire a Brit to do it, rather than fly someone in from Australia to do it? Australia can have this guy back. Please take him.

  • beautiful

  • @generalcustard1 i get what your saying bout lowe, hate people like that, but in '07 arctic monkeys WERE shy schoolboys??they were 19!!!!im not a fan of u2 but i respect them, i love a good frontman, but arent the songs more important than that?if  alex turner went around running around the stage you couldnt hear what he's saying, which is what am are about, and there are showmen clearly???

    matt bellamy

    tom meighan

    ricky wilson

    anthony kiedis

    julian casablancas!!!!!!!!??????

    brandon flowers

  • @dellcamwall I agree that the Arctic Monkeys were very young to be headlining Glastonbury and I am a huge fan of theirs, love how they've progressed since their debut. Julian Casablancas is awesome at looking moody and wearing leather jackets I'll concede but he doesn't interact with the crowd very much, Ricky Wilson needs to lose some weight, Brandon Flowers just shakes his hands like a spaz (although I love his music!), Matt Bellamy is decent, not many rock stars with a love of Doctor Who :)

  • Bono is so influensed by something :/

  • @dukieboy007 By Jesus

  • Bono has a journalist's mind. He's a sponge.

    Like the media he also makes a living off other people's suffering.

  • that zane lowe is one ignorant bastard

  • Wasn't a great set. Bono didn't look comfortable at Glasto and the setlist didn't gel. Not surprising as they'd just flown in, they''re rusty at gigging festivals and it comes off the back of an average album that even u2 concede lacked hits. A great band but they're so used to playing to a partisan crowd so should have prepared better.

  • @rugbypeter? i think you'll find that's not the case..In fact BONO was allegedly on an I.R.A. hitlist in the 80's because of his stance against them.

  • hey zane lowe, fuck off back to new zealand you wanker

  • jo whiley u ugly coldplay cunt . dont dare cut across bono

  • We're in Glastonbury arne'nt we ? :)

  • Zane Lowe is the biggest disgrace to my country, im glad he left NZ, fucking wanker. haha and Bono, he looks so tired

  • Taxes, protests - It doesn't matter here. The point of any concert is to go in and forget about all that serious stuff for a while. In this case, the whole thing about taxes and all that doesn't matter to me. What should matter is the fact that U2's set was heavily favoring Achtung Baby, one of the greatest rock albums ever made.

  • \What a rubbish interview!! Jaysus, surely it could have been better. Brown nosing, sychophantic, self-indulgent rubbish...not to mention Bono been a plonker as usual! Let Larry speak!! He's a silent leader! By not saying anything he says so much ..Cue Larry's internal dialogue" Oh Jaysus, that was a crap gig, I wish Bono would shut up. He better do a better go next time!"

  • Bono hates the English, the sound engineers know hes PRO IRA, and he was gonna RIP the english flag on the set. No... its all a lie. Hes a c*nt. End of.

  • @RugbyPeter who are u to call bono a cunt , the mans a legend and irish . ur the fuckin pathetic cunt

  • Zane Lowe. What a c**nt!

  • Bono is drunk.

  • @SuperSky1970 there is a vile racist hypocrite on here alright and thats you fuckin fool

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  • Another pathetic BBC interview. Geez, we pay their wages....!?!!

  • larry mullins owns the band..

  • @abelfastlad Never heard of him. Is he a musician?

  • @abelfastlad Or he started it at least.

  • the edge is that cool he should be a block of ice

  • Who is this Australian guy doing the interview? He comes across as a complete dick. Why can't they employ a Brit to do it, rather than some self-rightous ignorant dickhead from abroad?

  • Zane Lowe must be a twat to feel the need to call a band like U2 'brave' for playing ANYWHERE without their usual production....is he serious? Has he been under a rock the last 25 years? 5 min on youtube will show you enough footage of U2 playing 'without their usual production', acoustic, live what have you....nice of the boys to be too humble to appear to be insulted by the boy's obvious ignorance.

  • Who is that Zane Lowe dude,he is really trying his best to be a complete nob

  • Zane Lowe is a disgrace to my country!!!!!

  • @SuperSky1970 gotta agree with you on the bono point,,hes a complete joke and as a person,a total waste of space..its not all his fault though...30 years of social climbers telling him hes the greatest thing since the wheel is gonna fuck up his sense of reality .

    with regards your views on the irish,,i happen to be one of them and i hope,one day,youll see beyond religon and flags and realise that the only thing that matters is weather an individual is good or bad,not a country or a race....

  • @100dbjr jesus..

  • @SuperSky1970 I dont know where you get your facts from mate ,but i work for UNHCR Ireland and in the 2009/2010 period we processed on average 30 applicants for asylum per month, about 20% of the applications recieved were denied or they didnt qualify for refugee status because they didnt meet the criteria ie didnt come from war torn countries or had no danger to their lives,so for you to say all ireland are rasict hypocrites kinda makes you a racist hypocrite..but then again what would i know

  • i am a u2 fan so this peformance was just a normal one,nothing really stood out but it was a good performance but not great.lets all face u2 are not the band they were and that band as gone....forever.but that's down to age of all things,bono was so active,agressive in the early days so much you couldnt take your eyes of him.they are a great band with great songs so lets enjoy the one band that just seem to keep going,well done lads.

  • Hate him or love him.....bono is a legend!!!!!

  • Look what U2 did not happen to mention the fact there was protestors in the audiance reminding them of not paying their taxes

  • Well I was there and the only disappointing things about the whole performance were the pissing rain and the rather odd positioning of Where The Streets Have No Name, where for me the band shot their bolt too early. Watched it with several people who weren't U2 fans and they really enjoyed it. Great to play so much Achtung Baby.

  • never mind u2 adam clayton's a legend he know's what glasto's about

  • Why can't people just focus on the music rather than taxes, the only reason people don't like Bono is because there jealous

  • AND IF THE BBC SAY "ITS NOT MINE TO POST"...I PAY MY LICENSE FEE

  • JUAT A SHAME I GOT ALL MY VIDEOS OF THE CONCERT REMOVED FROM MY ACCOUNT...AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED IM ADVERTISING THE BBC,WHICH CANT BE BAD THING ON THIER PART...I HAVENT SOLD THE CONCERT OR IM MAKING A PROFIT FROM IT.I AM MERELY SHOWING HOW GOOD THE BBC ARE AT PUTTING ON TV CONCERTS....FOR A TV AUDIENCE

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  • Absolute rubbish. When he came out on stage, Bono looked like he needed a piss, nervous & weak. The whole set for a great deal of disappointed viewers was a big anti-climax. Elbow totally killed it, amazing set, blew u2 out of the arena.

  • @Daized2009 bull shit!!

  • @alicelucyrose 'Bullshit' is all one word. Which sums up u2's set.

  • @Daized2009 i'm gessing that your not a musical person because if you were you wouldn't spout all this rubbish which to be honest is totaly stupid so in future could you please keep your silly little opinions to yourself.

    nice talking to you!!!

  • @alicelucyrose

    lol, I've been going there for a vry long time ;) The set was poor. If you want an example of a good set from a truely great artist check out David Bowie's set in 2000. YouTube is here to comment etc, so I'll voice my 'silly opinion' & not give a shit what you say :-)

    'Nice talking to you'

  • @Daized2009 fair enough i still think there set was good but it is a silly argument seeing as we seem to like most of the same stuff

    soz :)

  • @alicelucyrose No probs m8, was my bad really, just a bit gutted about the set. Was really looking forward to it lol (typical) - All the best :)

  • @Daized2009 no worrys :)

  • @alicelucyrose

    Oh judging by your profile pic you probably weren't alive in 2000.

  • @Daized2009 this is my sister's account, and she was born before 2000 actually and even if she wasnt it wouldnt make any difference anyway.

  • @alicelucyrose

    look this a pointless argument, I am a u2 fan, which is why I was a bit 'hmmmm' about it all. It's an opinion. If you liked it then good, I didn't. & I don't mean to insult anyone, least of all a Glasto goer. Glad you liked it, I just found it a bit lame (I'll blame it on work, it's easier)

  • What is it with the bloated broadcasting corp? why are they pulling all glasto videos from you-tube?GET RID OF THE LICENCE FEE....IT'S NOT VALUE FOR MONEY.....

  • AH GET OUT OF HERE WILL YE!!!LOL...THE EDGE AND LARRY MULLEN ARE THE SOUNDEST IN THE BAND!!

  • Larry "The crowd are so far away at Glastonbury". To be fair, I think they still are pretty far away in the Rose Bowl as well...

  • Please, BBC, stop banning u2 from youtube, cause many can't watch them on your site, as it's "unavaliable in your fucking country".

  • Damien Hirst, U2, Zane Lowe..... Can anyone imagine a more vile collections of tossers?

  • @stretchmorgan Well there is you for a start, one more tosser.

  • Bono....Hello hello!!!!

  • And before you say shit, I am English.

  • @AlexAlcyone I'm English too and yes, we can be boring and cynical. Long may U2 do their thing. I love those guys.

  • Not easy in the pissing rain when you're 50 yards from the crowd. U2 will be pleased to go back to their tour, the most successful in the history of music, outselling even the Rolling Stones. They hold a further record for having sold out every single show they've done in over 10 years. No other band in history has done that either.

    Only the English, agreed by many bands to be the most boring rock crowd, like to whine about U2, everyone else in the world is delirious about them. Funny that.

  • @AlexAlcyone here here

  • He is such a fucking gobbbbbbbbbbbbshite!

  • Bono sounds like a shit-faced Dylan Moran!

  • I think I hate their attitude even more than their music

  • @mvandesompel; great, make yourself another cup of tea

  • @mvandesompel Can you specify what it is about their attitude that you don't like?

  • great band

  • LET THE BAND SPEAK.

  • I love U2 but Bono is just fucked in the head. He just doesn't seem to be able to talk and have a laugh like a normal person, he seems so different to everyone else in the band who are more down to earth.

  • @xIIJoshIIx

    Bono's hyperintelligent, that's the reason. Not autistic, but clearly with a superior intellect, which can sometimes be intimidating in conversation situations. But that's also, what makes him so fascinating :-)

    Love that Whiley chick, but that NZ guy, whoever he is, seems like a real clown.

  • @BlueberrySwede

    Lol Zane in getting hated xD Nice to see :)

  • @BlueberrySwede Bono Hyperintelligent?!?!? Superior intellect?!?!?!? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.....

  • Bono's a Dick!!!!

  • The wait!

  • I was there, I got there at the end biffy, watched morrisey who was awesome, then U2! Well worth tjecwai

  • what does he 2.07

  • its a shame the two most intelligent members of U2 dont say alot. Adam and Larry. I thought Larry was rudely interrupted by Zane at the end

  • Zane Lowe is such a self-important twat, his mutterings after the performance were just an attempt to keep his indie credibility, he's entitled not to like U2 but I can't stand this 'too cool for school' attitude that a lot of English indie music fans have ... just because a band is playing stadiums doesn't make them sellouts, at least U2 have the confidence and charisma to play to a large crowd, the Arctic Monkeys in '07 looked like shy schoolboys, there's no showmen in rock music these days

  • @generalcustard1 What are you on about? I'm a massive fan and I can tell from interviews and broadcasts that Zane loves U2 as well. Watch 'Zane meets U2'. Yes he can be annoying but if anything, he agrees with us about the indie attitude in this country.

  • @generalcustard1

    Zane Lowe is ok, he has to put on the 'loud mouth' to entertain the hyped up listeners/viewers. But he's like Westwood, Marmite. Love it or hate it. I'm not going to express my opinion lol. I Don't like Marmite though. ;)

  • @generalcustard1 you were right about the Arctic monkeys back in 2007 - they were terrible! If I remember at the first encore a large chunk of the ausdience left hoping that was the end and they were'nt coming back on!

  • @generalcustard1 Good God, never a truer words was spoken. Well, perhaps a truer word has been spoken, but man do I agree.

  • @elifantbloke the what, sorry?

  • Bono take your head out of your arse , Dún do bhéal you daft prat !

  • @skywardism fabulous my arse!!! fuck that im off to watch rebecca black!

  • Ireland was a tax haven for artists from all over the world up until 2005/06. I see nothing wrong with them moving their money out in 2005/06 a lot of other people did too. There was no recession in sight back then. The big horse breeders in Ireland still live in Ireland and pay no tax while earning millions every year. Anyway what a show.

  • I love that Bono knows the history of Glastonbury and the legend of Joseph of Arimathea travelling to England and planting his staff on Wearyall Hill. When he sang Jerusalem I was like "I wonder if he knows". And he does.

  • I love this interview, Bono doesn't come across as a twat at all, in fact he seems genuinely excited about whats just happened, I love the way he's analysing everything and the Edge is just dead calm, brilliant.

  • I was disappointed with U2. Their performance lacked energy and Bono sounded out of tune 90% of the time

  • i agree with this comment. the edge says here 'we were a bit all over the shop'. larry apperars unhappy with how it went and indeed this was the case in my view. if you were there, this was a disappointing show, the band were tired, they cited jetlag during the show. it weas clear they were out of their depth at a festival.

  • @belturbet4 You weeeereeeen't there! That's what every loser who tries to justify their hatred for U2 say. My cousins were there and they said, despite the rain (which was a factor), that they were incredible. Only two of five of them were big U2 fans.

  • i agree with larry the stage is way to off in the distance ,they should play no place like the dome best buzz total freedom and upclose and personnel only thing all bands must play free of charge but if they did this venue the experience of the irish version of the burningman would find something fresh into themselfs to give us the raw live u2 from the past which most agree needs a rebirth ,nomore big screens ,nomore 360 stuff back to basics boys, thin lizzy ,rory gallagher just the music

  • It's funny because Bono is a turd :D

  • To be honest, what do taxes do? Feed corporations, what does the equivalent of their taxes do? Get donated to charity? The answer to that is yes. Anyway the crowd isn't allowed very close at glasto... Larry has a point!

  • EVERYONE WHO SAYS THAT THEY WONT PAY TAXES SCREW YOU GUYS HAVE THEY NOT DONE THEIR PART WITH CHARITY!! PRODUCT RED AND THE MILLIONS GONE TO AIDS!!!???

  • Bono looks surprisingly humble on this.

  • @elifantbloke they've been friends since they were 15

  • British media should first find a decent reason to criitisise u2. All that stupid tax thing sounds just pathetic.

  • they are amazing, they were clearly nervous about playing to not their normal 'fans' an they nailed it, it's great that they still care about giving a great performance, it just a shame the interviewers are so terrible x they are the greatest live act as glastonbury, ever!!!

  • Bono comes across really well in this and they were the best of the headliners just on volume of great tunes they have.

  • Bono comes across really well in this and they were the best of the headliners just on volume of great tune sthey have.

  • I'M READING THE COMMENTS HERE, IS VERY FUNNY SOMEONE WRITE SOME CRITICS, THE SAME FUCK'N PEOPLES WHO MEDE THE SAME THINGS. IDIOTS U2 ARE A ROCK 'N ROLL BAND AND THE GET A LOT OF PEOPLES WORKING WHITH THAN, THEY MAKE A LOT OF TEMPORARY JOBS WHEN THEY GONE FOR ANY COUNTRY OR CITY WHITH 360 TOUR OR AYOTHER TOUR, IF WE LOOK FOR ANY BUSINESS IN THE WORLD THAT GET MUCH MORE MONEY THAN THE BUSINESS OF U2, WE GONA SEE THE SAME THING, YOU WHITH MONEY IN THE BANK DO THE SAME THING, LET THEN IN PEACE.

  • It's obvious Zane lowe wants to fuck Larry mullin jr.

  • zane lowe = prick

  • bono is such a asshole

  • I thought the Larry was spot on about the crowd being too far away, they are a full 30-40 feet from the stage, way too far away..

  • Oh my god, I hope I am still in glastonbury mode and i'm imagining, but Peter Aundrey lookalike springs to mind in those glasses - forgive me U2.

  • Oh my god, I hope I am still in glastonbury mode and i'm imagining, but Peter Aundrey lookalike springs to mind in those glasses - forgive me U2.

  • @chairmanmeow1973 He's a fucking millionaire.

  • @chairmanmeow1973 his eyes arent the best when it comes to bright lights

  • @chairmanmeow1973 do u spend most of your time makin comments on youtube about people u dont like, if u du your sad

  • 4 guys who sings songs and play instruments and 2 clowns blowing smoke up their backsides like they were coming up with a cure for cancer or something. Sad.

  • If u guys say U2 sucks I want to see you make music and have the highest grossing tour ever

  • haha Larry - love it!

  • Also check the beige muppet.... dickheads.

  • Wow Bona trying to be cool, When will he grow out of the tacky sunglasses.

  • @beatmakermike He is cool.

  • @beatmakermike hes a rock star

  • U2 :)

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  • eff the haters, you should all be reserving your hate for the BBC nazis for removing all clips of U2 and others. shove your licence fee up your arse!

  • Ireland has a corporation tax (12.5%) which undermines the rest of Europe, I'm not complaining I'm Irish and I wouldn't begrudge anyone else to use the system in their favour, including U2. Anyway, they had a great performance, still one of the best live acts on the planet!!!

  • F@ck U2 little pussies. They pay no tax in Ireland, the have a sweet deal here in the Netherlands witch they only pay 2.1%. And the idiot Bono with his life add!! F@ck that to , leave those people in Africa alone!! Musically the band is good but politically shut the f@ck up bone. Going on his knees for the queen from England for a awarded. The people of Ireland shout hang him for threesome. And for all the u2 lovers don’t begin, without the Dutch you wood never had heart of U2

  • U2 PLC. the Goldman Sachs of Music.

  • I'm Bono and the world should be grateful that God gave me to you.

  • What's the difference between God and Bono ???? God doesn't walk around pretending to be Bono

  • @smudge5975 is that the best you can come up with? A joke about 20 years old... pathetic

  • What are Bono's silly hand-gestures all about? Is he trying to be Tony Blair?

  • What the fuck is Bono  on? U2 r crap

  • U2 are boreing dweebs

  • Zane Lowe, Jo Whiley and U2, the four biggest cunts in music all in one place, where is a fucking bomber when you need them.

  • Larry is the king

  • It's so obvious Larry can't stand Bono, after 30 years of listening to that kind of garbage who can blame him.

  • CUNTS

  • what a sh:te interview. Was there one point made during the interview. What was he on about, about the flag? Great music! Keep singing.

  • Voice has gone big time, oh and they don't pay tax and tell us to feed the poor while reading the FT for the portfolio's in the south of France. So yeah fuck em.

    Glastonbury is a fucking joke anyway.

  • Tax Cheats

  • @vrossino46 u shud of joined the rest of the jobless bums and tried ur patheric little protest bordered on jealousy to the greatest

  • @90alexcatalan ,Your from Romania and you call me a jobless bum lol,U2 have nothing to do with Romania so its none of your buisness,its an irish problem so it concerns me,you dirty Romanian.

  • lol, they look so ridiculous.

  • @fishcomputer33 theyre a far better lookin bunch then coldplay and their 20 years older . coldplay look fuckin ridicoulous or are u blind or another jealous limey

  • @90alexcatalan Lol where does Coldplay come into it? do you have a personal vendetta against them or something?

  • @90alexcatalan ... I never even mentioned Cold Play. Im just stating the fact that they look funny >_>

  • Nath909 you are a rent boy - if you hate u2 why look at their videos? Get a life

  • @NorthernEastDub something good can work - Two door cinema club