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Ahead of his NI lecture, this week he tells Matthew McCreary why he holds a grudge against U2’s frontman</strong></p> <p>Monday, 8 March 2010<br /> <div id="attachment_837" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 304px"><a href="http://u2ol.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Star_qual.jpg" rel="wp-prettyPhoto[g836]"><img src="http://u2ol.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Star_qual.jpg" alt="Neil McCormick " title="Star_qual" width="294" height="441" class="size-full wp-image-837" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Neil McCormick </p></div></p> <p>Many rock pundits are more than happy to write about their successes in life, but few would be prepared to espouse their failures so enthusiastically.</p> <p>And even fewer would be lucky enough to find their efforts the subject of a best-selling book and the basis for a major new feature film.</p> <p>When self-confessed rock star failure Neil McCormick put pen to paper for his 2003 memoir Killing Bono, little did he realise how his tales of living in the U2 frontman’s shadow would click with fans of the Irish supergroup.</p> <p>As a former schoolmate of Bono — real name Paul Hewson — McCormick was perhaps better poised to recount the trials and tribulations of the singer than many rock writers.</p> <p>The pair grew up in a Dublin with a burgeoning late-70s punk scene, but while Bono went on to attain rock god status, McCormick found his efforts in bands such as Frankie Corpse and the Undertakers, and Yeah! Yeah! were to come to naught.</p> <p>“One reason that Bono made it is he was lucky,” says the chirpy and not-at-all-embittered-sounding Neil.</p> <p>“There are three things you need to have a good chance of making it. One is an abundance of talent, and Bono certainly has that. He was a charismatic character in school and he’s always been a hero to me.</p> <p>“The next is luck, in meeting the right people, in being in the right band. The public chooses who it wants, you don’t impose yourself on them, so you’ve got to be in the right place at the right time.</p> <p>“And there’s persistence — you stick with it until that combination of talent and luck pays off. I don’t know where I went wrong; maybe it was the talent, certainly I didn’t have the luck and 13 years demonstrates I had some persistence, so maybe if I had stuck it out for 14 years the world would finally have recognised my genius!”</p> <p>Bono’s legendary sense of drive and purpose — so evident in his campaigning work and his musical performances — was also a crucial factor, Neil says.</p> <p>“It comes from not a very good place,” he adds.</p> <p>“His mother died when he was 13 and it’s amazing how many of our greatest stars have that kind of maternal or paternal loss in their background; it’s quite shocking. For him, music was a way of filling himself up, and for me maybe it was just something I was doing.”</p> <p>The title of the book itself may be stark in its message (and one might think the subject of a restraining order) but for Neil it was more about laying old ghosts to rest than hitting out at his more successful childhood friend.</p> <p>“Bono came up with that title!” he laughs.</p> <p>“It was called I Was Bono’s Doppelganger, but when the book came out in the US they were perplexed by the word ‘doppelganger’. I had to come up with a new title. That was something Bono had suggested to me quite early on. I called him when I was writing the book. He read it and said “You should call it Killing Bono, like slaying your dragons”. He used to ring me up and leave messages on my phone saying “Neil, it’s Bono, you have to kill me”.</p> <p>“I was worried that someone might take me seriously, though!”</p> <p>The singer’s well-intentioned campaigns to save the world, including his very visible appearances in Northern Ireland in support of the peace process, have often made him an easy target for the sneering of others.</p> <p>Yet Neil contends that the motivation of the man who wrote I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For is absolutely genuine and only exacerbated by his big personality.</p> <p>“He’s not down-to-earth, he’s got a big head, and he’s got a big heart and he’s a big guy who is doing an amazing thing out there,” he says. “I find it quite sickening that people give him stick.</p> <p>There’s no rock star or celebrity in the world who gives more of himself to help other people, and he has made a profound difference.</p> <p>“Millions of people are alive in the Third World because of the intervention of him and others who give a hell of a lot of time. We can argue about whether that’s irritating or not, but nobody cares about ‘irritating’ when they’re dying of hunger.”</p> <p>Neil will be visiting Belfast this week for the first of the annual Northern Bank/Ulster Museum Lectures. Having seen the music industry both from within and without as a rock journalist, Neil’s subject matter for his forthcoming lecture — Is There Too Much Music? — also promises plenty of insight into the industry.</p> <p>“It’s something I think about a lot,” he says. “Because from being a musician in a series of obscure and failed bands to somehow ending up in that musician’s curse of becoming a rock critic instead, I have basically spent my entire life immersed in the world of music and have seen many changes over the decades.</p> <p>“I was standing in Austin, Texas at a street intersection during the South By Southwest Festival, and there were gigs going on everywhere — in barber shops and on rooftops, thousands of bands playing in this city. I could hear the rumble of heavy metal from one side and country and western from another and hip-hop from another, all merging into this big mush.</p> <p>“I thought that is a metaphor for the world we live in now, where there has never been more music available to hear.</p> <p>“It made me wonder if there is in fact too much music. Humans evolved in a time of musical scarcity. If you wanted to hear music you had to make it yourself. Now you can’t escape music and every 14-year-old will have heard more different types of music than his grandfather will ever have in his entire life.”</p> <p>The increasing prevalence of manufactured pop shows like the X Factor is also detrimental to appreciation of quality music, Neil says. “I do believe that everybody has music in them, but that doesn’t mean that everybody has a right to be famous,” he says.</p> <p>“That is what the karaoke culture of Simon Cowell and co have exploited, that idea not that we’re all musical, that we’re all super-talented when we’re not.</p> <p>“So I don’t really like the X Factor, because I find it exploitative. It feeds into the worst of human obsessions with music and not the best.</p> <p>“It’s all ego really. The best part of music is when the ego gets put away and releases the music.”</p> <p>With music such a big part of his life, he wonders now if he has become trapped in what he calls “the obsession of my adolescence”, something which was no doubt given a surreal edge by meeting his ‘younger self’ during the filming of Killing Bono in Belfast just last month.</p> <p>“I had to shoot a scene where I got a cameo as a rather sad old Irishman in an illegal strip club watching my younger self play on stage,” he recalls.</p> <p>“The director had stationed a stripper right in front of me, so my screen moments will be me looking at some young girl’s ass while my younger self plays in the background.</p> <p>“I had a Spock-meets-Spock moment, a Star Trek paradox where I thought, ‘could I go up to my younger self, take him in hand and give him some advice and spare him the pain’?</p> <p>“It’s complicated because this isn’t a novel, it’s my life.</p> <p>“When they make a biopic it’s because the subject has done something great, like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. But nobody knows who I am, or cares, so this is a story about a loser in rock ’n’ roll.</p> <p>“On one hand I have the great victory of achieving the kind of fame I wanted when I was a kid, but on the other I am achieving it in the guise of a comedy loser played by an actor, so I’m not even going to be myself any more.</p> <p>“Now I’m about to be subsumed in the shadow of a more handsome actor!”</p> <p>Said actor is English pin-up Ben Barnes, star of Prince Caspian and Dorian Gray, and for whom Neil is fulsome in his praise.</p> <p>“However, Neil found himself particularly moved by the portrayal of Bono by rising young west Belfast actor Martin McCann.</p> <p>“He was amazing, he’s going to be a revelation to people,” says Neil. “I was never as good looking as Ben Barnes, but I would see Martin out of the corner of my eye and think “There’s Bono!”</p> <p>“He’ll be walking towards you and he does something, a little jut of the chin and a movement of the shoulder and he just turns into Bono.</p> <p>“It was very strange to see, and I had to stop myself from talking to him as if he was Bono. But he didn’t stay in character.</p> <p>“When the cameras weren’t rolling he’d approach you like a good Northern Irishman.</p> <p>“I said to Bono that the actor was doing a spookily good job and he said to me — “Just as long as he’s tall!’.”</p> <p>Neil McCormick — ‘Is There Too Much Music’, Ulster Museum, this Wednesday 7.30pm. 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The jacket offsets the tradition of the spotlight, which alienates the performer from his crowd, as Bono is able to project his own light onto thousands. It provides an interactive and personal element to the show whereby individual members of the audience are literally connected to Bono for an instant through a single laser beam. This creates an electrifying sense of the performer reaching out to his audience audibly, visually and spiritually.<br /> <a href="http://u2blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/moritz_bono_4420.jpg" rel="wp-prettyPhoto[g831]"><img src="http://u2blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/moritz_bono_4420.jpg" alt="" title="moritz_bono_4420" width="450" height="299" class="alignright size-full wp-image-964" /></a><br /> The futuristic jacket that Bono wears embodies Terminator-chic, with 240 lasers embedded along the seams of its arms and main body. This extends Bono’s silhouette outwards into the vast space of the stadium, magnifying his every movement in hundreds of scintillating beams that flicker across the audience. The performer becomes a dazzling artwork that moves in synchronisation with the music. He emits rays of light like a new-age idol and the lasers become a visual metaphor for the power of influence between performer and audience.<br /> <a href="http://u2blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/moritz_bono_5.jpg" rel="wp-prettyPhoto[g831]"><img src="http://u2blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/moritz_bono_5.jpg" alt="" title="moritz_bono_5" width="450" height="295" class="alignright size-full wp-image-965" /></a><br /> Moritz Waldemeyer is an engineer-cum-designer whose work embraces innovative applications of LED and laser lighting, bringing it into everything from fashion and furniture design to the world of music and performance. Born in East Germany, Moritz moved to London to train as an engineer at Kings College, completing his master’s degree in 2001. He has since collaborated with many of the world’s top designers and architects including Hussein Chalayan, Zaha Hadid and Philippe Stark. Waldemeyer has an equally strong body of independent projects, which illuminate the grey area between technology and creative design.</p> <p>The 360 Tour will perform 44 shows across Europe and America. Every aspect of the show is highly innovative from the costume design to the stage: on the opening night Bono announced, ‘we’ve got a stage designed by Guadi’. The tour features a spider- like construction with a circular platform in the centre of the audience designed by Willie Williams and Mark Fisher. By elevating the sound and lighting equipment, the walls that traditionally obscure the performers from their audience are removed. Waldemeyer’s costume design works impeccably with stage design to raise the bar on interactive and visually spectacular large-scale performance. As the tour progresses expect to see more exciting Waldemeyer creations which are to be developed.</p> <p>The U2 360 Tour will play in 15 cities in Europe finishing at Cardiff’s Millennium on the 22nd of August before heading to North America with 20 shows starting in Chicago on the 12th of September. 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Interpol, Kravitz, The Fray as 2010 tour openers<br /> <a href="http://u2ol.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lenny-kravitz.jpg" rel="wp-prettyPhoto[g824]"><img src="http://u2ol.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lenny-kravitz.jpg" alt="lenny-kravitz" title="lenny-kravitz" width="376" height="490" class="alignright size-full wp-image-825" /></a><br /> In addition to the giant claw and the massive red, U2’s still ongoing 360 world tour will also likely be remembered for its heavyweight openers. This trend will continue when Bono and co. embark on the second leg of the 360 tour next June, as the legendary band has chosen to followup leg #1 openers Muse, the Black Eyed Peas, and Snow Patrol with the likes of Interpol, Lenny Kravtiz, and The Fray.</p> <p>As Slicing Up Eyeballs points out, Kravitz will open the band’s initial three dates in the west coast, The Fray will handle then handle the slot for Oakland, Seattle, and Edmonton, and Interpol, who will likely be supporting a new album by then, will hit the road with U2 for six dates. An opener has not yet been announced for the final three nights in Montreal and New York City. David Byrne would be fun.</p> <p>We should also note that U2 has been rumored to be playing this year’s Ottawa Bluesfest, set to take place from July 7-18 at LeBreton Flats Park. Maybe the Imagine Music & Arts Festival as well?</p> <p>Find all of U2’s confirmed tour dates below. Tickets for N. American concerts are still available via Ticketmaster.com.</p> <p>U2 2010 Tour Dates:<br /> 06/03 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Rice Eccles Stadium *<br /> 06/06 – Anaheim, CA @ Angel Stadium *<br /> 06/12 – Denver, CO @ Invesco Field *<br /> 06/16 – Oakland, CA @ Oakland Coliseum #<br /> 06/20 – Seattle, WA @ Qwest Field #<br /> 06/23 – Edmonton, AB @ Commonwealth Stadium #<br /> 06/25 – Pilton, UK @ Glastonbury Music Festival<br /> 06/27 – Minneapolis, MN @ TCF Bank Stadium ^<br /> 06/30 – E. Lansing, MI @ Spartan Stadium ^<br /> 07/03 – Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre ^<br /> 07/06 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field ^<br /> 07/09 – Miami, FL @ Land Shark Stadium ^<br /> 07/12 – Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field ^<br /> 07/16 – Montreal, QC @ Hippodrome<br /> 07/17 – Montreal, QC @ Hippodrome<br /> 07/19 – New York, NY @ New Meadowlands Stadium<br /> 08/06 – Turin, IT @ Stadio Olimpico<br /> 08/10 – Frankfurt, DE @ Commerzbank Arena<br /> 08/12 – Hannover, DE @ AWD Stadium<br /> 08/15 – Horsens, DK @ Casa Arena<br /> 08/16 – Horsens, DK @ Casa Arena<br /> 08/20 – Helsinki, FI @ Olympic Stadium<br /> 08/21 – Helsinki, FI @ Olympic Stadium<br /> 08/25 – Moscow, RU @ Luzhniki<br /> 08/30 – Vienna, AT @ Ernst Happel Stadium<br /> 09/03 – Athens, GR @ Olypmic Stadium<br /> 09/06 – Istanbul, TR @ Ataturk Olympic Stadium<br /> 09/11 – Zurich, CH @ Letzigrund Stadium<br /> 09/12 – Zurich, CH @ Letzigrund Stadium<br /> 09/15 – Munich, DE @ Olympic Stadium<br /> 09/18 – Paris, FR @ Stade de France<br /> 09/22 – Brussels, BE @ Stade Roi Boudoin<br /> 09/23 – Brussels, BE @ Stade Roi Boudoin<br /> 09/26 – San Sebastian, ES @ Anoeta Stadium<br /> 09/29 – Seville, ES @ Olympic Stadium<br /> 10/02 – Colmbra, PT @ Stadium<br /> 10/03 – Colmbra, PT @ Stadium<br /> 10/08 – Rome, IT @ Olympic Stadium</p> <p>* = w/ Lenny Kravitz<br /> # = w/ The Fray<br /> ^ = w/ Interpol</p> <p><a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/02/20/u2-taps-interpol-kravitz-the-fray-as-2010-tour-openers/">http://consequenceofsound.net</a></p> <div style="display: none">VN:F [1.6.3_896]</div><div class="ratingblock"><div class="ratingblock "><div class="ratingheader "></div><div class="ratingstars "><div id="article_rater_824" class="ratepost gdsr-oxygen gdsr-size-24"><div class="starsbar gdsr-size-24"><div class="gdouter gdheight"><div id="gdr_vote_a824" style="width: 0px;" class="gdinner gdheight"></div><div id="gdr_stars_a824" class="gdsr_rating_as"><a 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