U2

[willow13]

new album is free on itunes

[Kev77]

new album is free on itunes

Is it showing up on your purchased page? I can't see it

[Cdog]

Nice! Downloading it now, thanks for the link Willow
Kev seems to be working fine for me

[Pastasauce]

I had to go into preferences and tick "show iCloud purchases" which I'd turned off. Then it appeared in my library ready for download.

I know they're not popular here but I'm excited. Predictably my favourite band.

[hamo]

I had to go into preferences and tick "show iCloud purchases" which I'd turned off. Then it appeared in my library ready for download.

I know they're not popular here but I'm excited. Predictably my favourite band.

They're plenty popular here, but also polarising - love em or hate em it seems.

[jeremyb]

I had to go into preferences and tick "show iCloud purchases" which I'd turned off. Then it appeared in my library ready for download.

I know they're not popular here but I'm excited. Predictably my favourite band.

Cheers dude, it's showing for me now too

[Cdog]

edge is a mean shredder... meeeean

[willow13]

new album is free on itunes

Is it showing up on your purchased page? I can't see it

yep, I just clicked on the cover and boom it was in my library

[snitchez]

and its sounding pretty good. haven't bought anything or opened up iTunes for awhile now. this marketing plan with apple certainly did the trick

[KentNZ]

It's got more going than the last album I reckon. More grunt too. I've been a big fan (serious understatement, really, given the years I've been into them...) but it was certainly waning in the past few years. They're were looking too rich, comfortable and same old. But this, while still very much "them" has taken them back up a couple of notches.

500 Million people though, wild.

On a slightly more guitar note - I thought, given the amount the dotted 8 gets mocked around here, and the 1-4th 1-5th note pedalling getting really predictable on almost every edge/worship band follower ever... Edge is still comfortable enough in his own skin, or so focussed on the song, that he's still doing it (a couple of times at least) on this album 35 years into his career. And it doesnt really suffer for it.

[Pastasauce]

Yeah I reckon it's a lot more consistent than their last 2 albums. Less obvious singles, but more coherent and better overall IMO.

[sizzlingbadger]

Downloaded it, listened to it, glad I didn't pay for it

[fuzziebro]

Does anyone remember when they came to NZ around 2007?

I was working in Auckland central at an Irish Pub, cooking at the time... we hosted a pre-concert party with a tour bus etc to the gig and the managment found this Irish guy a dead-ringer for Bono, so he got all dressed up, sunnies and hat, everything and made his 'appearance' by standing on top of a 3 story car-park overlooking the pub, starts to sing, ladies wander out, start to swoon, had everyone fooled for a bit, was hilarious and awesome!

[Cdog]

Does anyone remember when they came to NZ around 2007?

I was working in Auckland central at an Irish Pub, cooking at the time... we hosted a pre-concert party with a tour bus etc to the gig and the managment found this Irish guy a dead-ringer for Bono, so he got all dressed up, sunnies and hat, everything and made his 'appearance' by standing on top of a 3 story car-park overlooking the pub, starts to sing, ladies wander out, start to swoon, had everyone fooled for a bit, was hilarious and awesome!

haha gold.

I remember the missus & I wanted to go, but the $600+ it was going to cost to fly up wasn't really in the budget