Newsgroup: it.fan.musica.u2
Titolo: Presentazione PopMart Tour

Non so se vi interessa, cmq nel dubbio vi posto la conferenza stampa di
presentazione del PopMart Tour, ci sono alcune cose interessanti! :)
Bono: "If anyone wants to ask us any questions, we aim to please."
Miranda Sawyer (The Observer): "Who's gonna pay for all this? It looks quite
extravagant."
Bono: "Well, what did Imelda Marcos say about shoes? A million here, a
million there, pretty soon it's big money.
 Yeah, it's an expensive show and we're prepared to spend on it - it costs a
fortune to
look this trashy. And if people are prepared to spend to come and see it..."
Hilary Whelan (Canal 4 TV, France): I want to know, do you see your new
sound as a fresh, danceable expression of the same ideals and soul your
music has always had, or is it a radical departure?"
Bono: "We still have the same ideals, we just learned to look like we don't.
We've gotten a little smarter on that one. What about dance music? Edge can
dance to it."
The Edge: "You want to dance to the new record, you can. I like to dance
myself. But we're still
writing tunes, we have a great singer, we have a.. great lyricist, and so,
we've just taken
on some new ideas."
Annette Witheridge (Daily Mirror): "Why K Mart?"
Bono: "Why K Mart? Well, we wanna get as many people as possible. We're a
multi-outlet outfit
ourselves and, er, I can't quite remember how we got the idea of a touring
supermarket, but I remember it made a lot of sense at the time.
Edge?"
The Edge: "Ehm..well, I think we're here basically to sell our tour to the
world and I don't think there's anywhere better, basically, than K Mart to
do that."
[A loud cheer erupts , possibly from K Mart staff themselves]
The Net, BBC Radio: "Zooropa was visually amazing, how are you going to top
that?, on stage what
Are we going to see.."
The Edge: "Well, we've got some space junk, the biggest TV ever devised..."
Bono: "Bigger, better, taller, wider, the usual, more intimate, more
spectacular.
All of this is really window-dressing. People actually come along, I think,
to see us and to
hear the tunes.
I think the rest of it is trying to make fun of playing in a very large
space.
You can turn these concrete and steel mausoleums into shopping malls, for
instance, joke, that was a joke"
MTV News, Latin America: "In South America, we were told that you never
played there before
because you don't accept sponsors. With this next tour are you going to
accept sponsors, like cigarettes and alcohol?"
Bono: "No, we've no sponsor on, on this tour and it's not like we've taken a
huge high-and-mighty
position on this.If we could get someone to give us a load of money and not
have to kiss ass, we probably would take it. But unfortunately we haven't
been able to figure that out. It's a luxurious position that we can afford
to put on a show like this. It's one of the advantages of being stinko and
in U2. I'm not sure if it's in South America, but there are some small
countries that there'll be some sort of association. It's either that or not
go. We're prepared to go places and not make money, but we're not prepared
to go and lose. I think that's kinda condescending. Actually, we've got some
news in and that's that we're playing Sarajevo. We've been trying to do that
for a few years, so we're pretty happy about that. And they weren't
interested in a charity event. Y'know this is Sarajevo, this is a cultural
place, this is a smart place that was nearly wiped out of Europe and they
just want us to come and play. I think we're doing a real low ticket price,
but they don't want our charity, man. Which is cool."
WFM, Mexico City: "What can the people of Mexico expect of your tour there
in December?"
The Edge: "Well, last time we were in Mexico we had a really amazing time
and we definitely wanted to go back. It's the same production wherever we
go. I don't believe in doing A or B standard. Wherever you go, it's the same
U2 show."
Steve Morris (Boston Globe): "I wanted to know how much old material you're
going to weave into this set?"
The Edge: "We started off last time with eight new songs and I think that's
what we'll do this time as well. But obviously we'll be playing a lot of our
favourite songs from previous records. We don't want it to be just a
greatest hits tour. We would find that pretty boring and I don't think our
audience would like that either."
Neil Jotter (Eugene Standard): "What do you think of K Mart's policy of not
carrying stickered albums or albums with covers and lyrics it finds morally
offensive?"
Bono: "Well at least they're not selling guns. That helped in our choice. We
were as amazed as anyone that they let us in here and they've been very kind
to us. We didn't have to pay them or anything. Don't be such a snob.
Really!"
Loud cheers erupt.
Jane Stevenson (Toronto Sun): "Whose idea was the Village People get-up in
the video and can we expect to see the Village People on tour with you
guys?"
Bono: "As far as the video is concerned, we didn't want our audience to
think we'd gone all weird on them, we just wanted to make a video that put
our arm around people and said, 'Hey, it's OK!'"
Mark Shearer (CNN): "By holding your press conference in this setting, you
don't mean to suggest
that your music is constructed from cheap materials, is discountable and
ultimately disposable,
do you?"
(Audience: "Whooooaaaahhhh!")
Bono: "I agree with everything you say apart from discountable."
The Edge: "We believe in trash, we believe in kitsch and that's what we're
up to at the moment."
Danny O'Connor (Radio 5 Live): "You've shot in at Number One in the UK. How
do you feel, four years down the line since your last appearance? Is it
satisfying to remain at the top so much?"
Bono: "The funny thing about being away for a few years is that we weren't
meant to be away for a few years. We've done a lot of stuff. We released...
er, what was it called? 'Passengers',
that's right! That was originally gonna be a U2 record but they talked us
down. Had it been a U2 record it would only have been a year-and-a-half
since our last album. We might not have had any fans
left, but, y'know, there wouldn't have been a four-year wait. There was a
lot of soundtrack stuff. Batman was fun."
Chris Farley (CBS News): "The first time I saw you play was in '78 in Galway
and I never thought I'd see you wear a tie. Here's a two-parter: any
significance to launching
the tour on Ash Wednesday, and why Vegas?"
Bono: "Ash Wednesday? Very cool. Ash Wednesday and K Mart. That just wraps
us up. Therein lies our contradiction and we're gonna have to carry that
cross with some humour, I think."
Eileen Murphy (Irish Echo): "I was just wondering, when you're on tour, what
do you bring with you to remind you of home?"
Bono: "If I got Adam to speak would I win a prize?"
Adam: "I bring the other three with me."
Darren Davis (Southwest Radio Network): How much input did you have
personally into the show's design?"
Bono: "That's what we do. Why do you think it's taken us fuckin' nine months
to finish the record? It was madness trying to put this together and I don't
know how long we can continue to put shows like this together. Flood
(producer on new album) will tell you that it's very frustrating to work
with us on the music when we're constantly thinking about the visual
coefficient. But it's very interesting. Rock'n'roll is mutating at the
moment into all kinds of things and we're very excited about a lot of them
and we're chasing them down. Playing a football stadium doesn't have to be
like standing in the back of a muddy field in the '70s. It can be an
extraordinary event and it's very exciting for us to be allowed to do what
we want to.
(A moment of self-doubt comes over Bono)
"Is this getting boring? It might actually be boring, especially for people
listening on the radio. Or are we just swell, really funny charismatic
people and you could listen all day?"
Well, everyone has to stop shopping at some point.
Time for THE question, the question only NME thought to ask.
Why, oh why, is the squeaky nun so small?
Bono: "Because she's very large in our life."
Continuo a non capire che cacchio significa sta domanda :) ,cmq
CIAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Mirko

 coefficient. But it's very interesting.
FIGATA :) quando fanno un album stanno a perdere tempo a pensare
sull'aspetto visuale del successivo tour...visto quello che han fatto
finora, come dargli torto? :)
CIAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Mirko