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Bei u2.com scheint man auch an Samstagen zu arbeiten, aber wir kommen ja auch in die heiße Phase. Auf der offiziellen Seite von U2 gibt es ein Interview mit Dave Fanning, welcher am Montag als erster die neue Single  um ca. 9.10 Uhr (MEZ) auf dem irischen Radiosender RTE 2FM spielen wird. In dem Interview geht es um die Single und das neue Album (hier gehts zum Interview)!

"[...] First impressions is that there’s eleven tracks on the album and ‘Get On Your Boots’ is the one you’d instantly say is the single. It’s the ‘Vertigo’ of the album - although a completely different kind of song.That was a new song which was an instant hit night after night on the last tour and this song will be the same on the next tour. People will be impressed, it’s very U2 and there’ s nothing wrong with that, a big song with lots of layers but not overproduced. Great track. [...]"

'A big song with lots of layers...' He'll be the first to play it on Monday, so what does Dave Fanning think of the new single ?

On Monday morning, the world finally gets to hear Get On Your Boots. As
usual, the person to premiere the track will be Irish TV and radio
presenter Dave Fanning, someone who's been championing the band since
he first started playing their demos on pirate radio more than three
decades ago. Ever since, Dave's got the first play of a new U2 single.
We tracked him down at 2FM in Dublin.


So you’ve heard the single, which the rest of the world will hear on Monday - first impressions?

First impressions is that there’s eleven tracks on the album and ‘Get
On Your Boots’ is the one you’d instantly say is the single. It’s the
‘Vertigo’ of the album - although a completely different kind of song.
That was a new song which was an instant hit night after night on the
last tour and this song will be the same on the next tour. People will
be impressed, it’s very U2 and there’ s nothing wrong with that, a big
song with lots of layers but not overproduced. Great track.


Sounds like you’ve heard the album too?

I have, just a few times though and it’s hard to give you first
impressions because I need to hear it in the car and in the bath. But
certainly you know in hearing it that they remain a great creative
force as a band, what I’m not sure of yet is whether it is the
beginning of a new sequence of albums or the third in a series that
began with All That You Can’t Leave Behind.

It’s a big record though and I was struck by the running order, that
tracks 2 (Magnificent), 3 (Moment of Surrender), and 4 (Unknown Caller)
alone are almost twenty minutes of music. Normally you find longer
songs at the end of a record, but these come before you even reach Get
On Your Boots. Some of the lyric writing seemed more personal than
usual to me, and there’s lots of buried songs on there too, songs that
will grow on you – like if you ask your average U2 fan to sing ‘A Man
and A Woman’ or ‘Crumbs Under your Table’ from How To Dismantle An
Atomic Bomb they might not be able to, but they were gems. The album
has plenty of songs like that, songs to return to.


There was a time when they let you choose the single release.

Yes, it’s hard to believe that thirty years ago they came into my show,
all four of them every night for a week, and we played three of their
songs a night and asked the audience to decide what the single should
be. Out of Control got it, with Stories for Boys as a b-side and we
threw in Boy-Girl too. I remember a thousand copies of the single were
pressed and we launched it at Windmill Lane and about 15 people turned
up.

I’d been playing their demo tapes since being on pirate stations in
1978, I just got behind them, I never even knew they would get as far
as another demo. I’m not brilliant, I couldn’t predict anything, I was
more into The Undertones at the time but U2 just seemed to be going
along the same lines as me and I liked them.


Ever since you’ve always had the world premiere of a new U2 single from a new album.

I’ve had the world exclusive ever since, Paul McGuinness always likes
to start a new campaign with me. I asked him about it this morning, he
said he thought I was a good luck charm. But my feeling on this album
is that while it’s been a really long wait, it is worth the wait. They
were the biggest band of the eighties, then they dominated the nineties
and now they’re writing a whole new chapter in another decade - not
young anymore but still looking very cool. I think of all the 17 year
olds who are going to buy this record and it will only be the third or
fourth record they have bought - they’re still right up there.


One other song that really stood out for you ?

Stand Up Comedy – the nearest thing they’ve ever done to Led Zeppelin.
But I could change my mind, wait till I’ve heard it in the bath a few
times. One - from Achtung Baby - never hit me for months.


U2.com 17.01.2009



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