Tag: bono

  • RC 270: Pop Is Dead #5 – Moneygoround

    RC 270: Pop Is Dead #5 – Moneygoround

    Fifth instalment of the Pop Is Dead series, all about the dirty, dirty cash in the music industry, with occasional interruptions from Steve Albini and The Story of Pop. The finale will be next week. Get the money, Mr. Potato, Get the money, Pay the Eskimo… (163Mb, 2:02) Doxa Sinistra – Call Now! The Kinks…

  • Make Bono History & Sex Aid 30

    Make Bono History & Sex Aid 30

    Not original – Culturcide did this with We Are The World back in the 80’s but glad to see someone still pricking their supercilious charidee bubble. Better than ‘charity’ would these people all paying their tax – rather than Myleene Klass style moaning about tax and avoidance schemes like the entitled right-winger non-doms they are?…

  • Dub Save The Queen

    Dub Save The Queen

    It’s surprising how little kickback/KLF or Sex Pistols style piggybacking there is about HMQ’s Diamond Jubilee – I mean in Olympics year with Chillax King Cameron on the real throne it’s ripe for a little fun. Instead you get the likes of Lily Cole and Bono (yes fucking Bono) turning up to celebrate the old…

  • “analogue business model in a digital era”

    “analogue business model in a digital era”

    I love this quote from Ed O’Brien from Radiohead, about to speak at MIDEM about Filesharing: “I have a problem when people in the industry say ‘it’s killing the industry, it’s the thing that’s ripping us apart’. I don’t actually believe it is … (Pirates) might not buy an album, but they’re spending their money…

  • Make Chuggers* History

    Make Chuggers* History

    This whole Live8 thing has left me cold; Damon Albarn was right, it’s ‘too darn Anglo Saxon’ and simplistic; anybody above the age of 5 knows that Africa is a big complex place and world-wide pop concerts won’t solve it. Poverty is even larger… But like Princess Di this seems to be the uncriticisable, the…

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