Struggle songs have a place - U2

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Nom Chompsky

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When will Bono learn to shut his trap? :rolleyes: He comments on things he usually has no idea about.

Maybe U2 should be "nationalised" :erm:

Source: Times Live

Julius Malema may have found an unlikely ally in U2 frontman Bono who, on Friday, waded into the debate over the singing of the controversial Shoot The Boer song.

The Irish rocker, who has never met the ANC Youth League president, said there was nothing wrong with singing political songs - but not at public gatherings.

Bono and his three band mates spoke to the Sunday Times at Soweto's FNB Stadium on Friday night ahead of their concert today.

The band spoke on a wide range of issues, including ailing former president Nelson Mandela, their close bond to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and their eagerness to work with local artists such as HHP.

The Nobel nominee said he was aware of the furore surrounding Malema's singing of a liberation song that is now the subject of a Constitutional Court challenge by Afrikaner lobby group Afriforum.

He said: "I was a kid and I'd sing songs I remember my uncles singing ... rebel songs about the early days of the Irish Republican Army."

He sang one of them, the lyrics telling of carrying guns and getting them ready for action. "We sang this and it's fair to say it's folk music .. as this was the struggle of some people that sang it over some time. But would you want to sing that in a certain community? It's pretty dumb.

"Yet it's about where and when you sing those songs. There's a rule for that kind of music."

U2, known for their political activism around the globe, were themselves the authors of the controversial and politically anthematic Sunday Bloody Sunday, which was one of their first hits in 1983.

The song was about the massacre of 14 Irish protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972 when British troops opened fire on marchers.

The 360º Tour, with its next stop in Cape Town Stadium on Friday, features the massive four-legged stage dubbed "The Claw". It stands 27.5m tall, weighs 250tons and reportedly cost R1-billion.
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I think he has qualified it with
"Yet it's about where and when you sing those songs. There's a rule for that kind of music."
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No need for Jub Jub to get too excited...:p
 
same guy who sung "sunday bloody sunday"? would he feel the same if it went "kill the catholic?" fusking retard
 
Wait what? They don't even live here...lets sing shoot the Irish and see what he says ;)
 
Korn1 said:
Yes and he is a retard...
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What part about this don't you understand?

The Nobel nominee said he was aware of the furore surrounding Malema's singing of a liberation song that is now the subject of a Constitutional Court challenge by Afrikaner lobby group Afriforum.

He said: "I was a kid and I'd sing songs I remember my uncles singing ... rebel songs about the early days of the Irish Republican Army."

He sang one of them, the lyrics telling of carrying guns and getting them ready for action. "We sang this and it's fair to say it's folk music .. as this was the struggle of some people that sang it over some time. But would you want to sing that in a certain community? It's pretty dumb.
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Where did you learn to read English? It looks as if you got a similar result as Julie Baby in Matric....BONO SAYS IT IS DUMB TO SING THE FRIGGIN SONG IN PUBLIC....is that clear enough? Or are you simply going to keep the blinkers on and agree with the OP?? :rolleyes:
 
Bono in my eyes is a terrible musician, but he does a lot for this continent. just because we haven't been through struggles and think toi toi-ing is an inconvenience because we're lucky enough to be in a situation where we had a good family life and education, and have a computer to make snide remarks about others opinions, doesn't mean he is a retard :p

struggle songs DO have a place, because people struggled for a reason, just in the same way it brings me joy to point out God doesn't exist, but i don't do this at gatherings, like Bono said
 
smalltownsky said:
Bono in my eyes is a terrible musician, but he does a lot for this continent. just because we haven't been through struggles and think toi toi-ing is an inconvenience because we're lucky enough to be in a situation where we had a good family life and education, and have a computer to make snide remarks about others opinions, doesn't mean he is a retard :p

struggle songs DO have a place, because people struggled for a reason, just in the same way it brings me joy to point out God doesn't exist, but i don't do this at gatherings, like Bono said
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Nicely said.
 
So according to Bono, Malema hasn't done anything as he sang the songs amongst his follow not with Afrikaners?
 
Reading the actual article it doesn't show him siding with Malema. Just a journalist desperate for some attention.
 
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