![]() ![]() If the audience are the centrepiece - and that was the idea behind 360 - then you have to have tunes to sing. "But to be a proper communal experience you have to have the song lines, you have to have the folk songs. "360 was a communal experience at its best," he says. For a band who had been forged in the white heat of punk/New Wave music in the late 1970s, there was a realisation upon seeing the enormodome scale of 360° that the next tour would have to go indoors and pull the audience in tight. The concept for the Innocence + Experience tour began on the opening night of the 360° tour in Barcelona in 2009. There were some hip rhythms in there – it’s the pelvis”. It’s when you’re confident enough to be able to relax, it becomes even more powerful. “I thought last night’s gig was great and it was really ‘there’ because the script was there and the feelings were there. The music is still playing as the police escort guides us out of the venue. He harmonises with himself as the album continues and gives every song an introduction: "On this one we were going after a broken cassette recorder type of sound" "This has got a really crunchy beat" "You have to hear Edge's guitar work on this" "Just wait until you hear the drum break on this one." He's lost in his music, staring out the window as he sings along.Īfter the final encore in Turin that night, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Bono improvises a bit of Patti Smith's People Have The Power, walks off stage and directly into an already revving car in which I'm waiting for him. ![]() His voice comes through his phone singing about "the dying of the light". We pull into a lay-by so he can play tracks from the next album, Songs of Experience. U2 on their “iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE” tour, September 2015. “But I’ve always had this big thing which is: What is the point of being in U2 if we can’t take on subject matter that others would find uncool?” He raises his voice. “It’s hard, of course it’s hard singing that song,” he says. When he performs Iris live earlier tonight, he sinks to his knees, weeps and then makes the sign of the cross. He has sung about his father in the past he is now singing about his mother. He said, 'You, Bono, are a baritone who thinks he's a tenor.' And that is the story of my life right there." Late at night, in a fast car on the motorway between Turin and Milan, en route to meet the Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, Bono goes quiet before saying: "The greatest line ever said about me and also the most accurate line ever said about me was most definitely by my father. ![]()
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