U2: Zooropa. A lyrical journey. September 22, 2005

I posted this on the U2 NewZooland forums and thought I’d reproduce it here. I just liked writing it so much, I had to share.
Someone posted a comment about what we thought the lyrics on Achtung Baby and Zooropa were all about, and I posted a bit of a spiel about U2’s writing in general [...]

Music Recommendations (speaking of Herbies) September 21, 2005

I’ve bought a few CD’s lately, but the one I just have to rave about is one we were given: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’.
Awesome!
Herbie Hancock playing with Sting, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, John Mayer… and of particular note; Joss Stone and Johnny Lang playing ‘When love comes to town’. They take a great U2 song [...]

Weekend 1 – Part 2 ish September 21, 2005

OK, so I’m getting too far behind to go through all of our weekends. But the weekend in Kent contained the following…
Herbie and Annas wedding: A day which included Herbie & Anna’s ceremony in which they sang, of course, they promised themselves to each other, of course, and then they walked out to the muppets-tune [...]