It's time for more planning, scheming, logisticating, coping with PTSD (pre-ticketing stress disorder) and queuing with other fans in the sun, the rain, the snow... even the hail.
It's time, once again, for dreaming up the kind of world I want to live in. The world's loudest folk band will lead the way - and I will follow.
U2009
31 July, Gothenburg, Sweden
1 August, Gothenburg, Sweden
3 August, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
6 August, Chorzow, Poland
9 August, Zagreb, Croatia
10 August, Zagreb, Croatia
29 Sept., Washington, D.C.
U2010
12 June Denver, Colo., USA
3 Sept. Athens, Greece
6 Sept. Istanbul, Turkey
Gothenburg, Sweden, 1 August U2009
Photo: Matthew Anderson
I Will Follow
Everyone should have a rock band for a muse.
U2 took a quiet kid who graduated in a high school class of nine and fed his inner, malnourished soul and stirred his latent megalomania. (I was valedictorian, after all.)
And to think, once upon a time — in the "Dark Ages" — I thought Bono was a humorless asshole. Now I happily refer to him as my "mentor," my "sensei." And it amuses when I hear, on occasion, that so-and-so thinks I'm a humorless asshole. Those poor, misguided folks — as rare as they are — clearly haven't visited the PRM.
After a period of living the dull, gray life of an accountant, this band helped me regain my voice and I went back to my roots as a writer, as a creative-minded individual. They're the band that's provided the inspiration behind the madness that is my great life. It's all about dreaming out loud, in high volume.
U2 & Mattopia Jones:
32 concerts // 23 venues // 18 cities // 10 countries... and counting.
