September 13, 200717 yr If you watch Ab Fab, I always compare Mother Jupiter to Edina and me to Saffy. :lol:
September 14, 200717 yr :o :o :o Mother Jupiter adores Robbie. She's an old slapper though with an eye for a handsome young man. :P :lol: :lol:
September 14, 200717 yr my mum likes Robbie :wub: Didnt like him back then when I skipped school and chased TT around Helsinki :lol: Edited September 14, 200717 yr by Bono4Jeni
September 14, 200717 yr A review- http://www.inthenews.co.uk/infocus/enterta...036;1134510.htm U2's PopMart touches down Friday, 14 Sep 2007 14:20 A giant golden arch, the largest video screen on the planet, a 100-foot tall cocktail stick complete with giant olive that looks like the martini accessory of the gods, and a 40-foot high mirror ball in the shape of a lemon. U2's PopMart tour was never going to be easy on its road crew. In 1997, U2's career had undergone another drastic reinvention with the release of dance-inspired album Pop. For the accompanying tour, the band created an on-stage "sci-fi disco supermarket" that was camp, kitschy and blaring with cartoon-like visuals. Ten years on, the glorious insanity of the tour is captured in all its neon and glitter on the new DVD PopMart Live from Mexico City. U2 have always enjoyed a reputation as an impressive live act, even in the early days in Dublin when even the most charitable critic would have to admit that musically, they weren't actually very good. More than making up in enthusiasm his early lack of technical proficiency as a singer, frontman Bono frequently threw himself into the audience with banzai-like abandon. Desperate to connect with audiences on an emotional level, the singer became famed for literally scaling the heights of stagecraft, clambering over equipment and up scaffolding. Their 1983 War Tour saw the development of an iconic image of 80s rock. As the band struck up the anthemic "Sunday Bloody Sunday", Bono would march on stage carrying a white flag in a call for peace. Their impassioned performance at Live Aid, in which Bono slow-danced with a female audience member, cemented their reputation as one of the decade's most exciting live bands. Two years later, their Joshua Tree album would send them to the very top of the rock aristocracy, but perhaps inevitably for a band that has always sought to find a new path for itself, boredom set in. With generally poor reviews for their 1988 tour film "Rattle and Hum", they felt a reinvention was needed. After sometimes tortuous recording sessions in Berlin, the band released the dark and industrial "Achtung Baby" album, regarded by many critics as their best work. Its accompanying tour, Zoo TV, was a spectacular multimedia presentation. With giant television screens spewing everything from cricket matches to subliminal slogans, along with a resident bellydancer and a nightly prank call to the White House or the UN switchboard, Zoo TV reinvented the stadium show for the 90s. The band's last two tours have seen U2 revert to a more simple show that returns to their rock roots – a dramatic change from the Technicolor madness in the new PopMart DVD. Previously available only on VHS, the visuals have been regraded and enhanced, bringing to glorious life the bright colours of the stage set and animations on the giant video screen. Particularly stunning are the Roy Lichtenstein backdrops during Bullet The Blue Sky. Highlights include the uplifting Where The Streets Have No Name and the spirited rendition of their first single I Will Follow. The concert's most spectacular moment is the infamous encore, where the mirror ball lemon travels across the stadium and opens to reveal the band. It's the kind of moment Spinal Tap would have rejected as being too theatrical. Once the band launches into a bass-heavy version of Pop's lead single Discotheque, though, you have no choice other than to surrender to the fabulous silliness of it all, and party. Rebecca Malings
September 14, 200717 yr It's a fantastic show. All colours and effects. But I'd forgotten how dodgy Bono's voice was around that time. It was really quite shot. :blink: He had his throat nodules problem. He did amazingly well to sing at all. Bless. :wub: The Edge and the crowd did all the high notes (a bit like a Robbie concert in fact :lol:. Except for The Edge of course -_- )
September 14, 200717 yr :lol: :lol: ....I must admit it's not one of my favourite U2 dvd's :cry: I like it though :heart: ....I just don't love it :unsure:
September 14, 200717 yr Just watching The Edge doing a solo of Sunday Bloody Sunday. I don't even remember that from the VHS. :blink: :lol:
September 14, 200717 yr I can't remember much about this concert tbh. Hadn't watched the video in years. :o
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