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When Bono Vox Met Trump’s Number Two Mike Pence: The CIA Tapes

As David Stubbs wheeled his son's pram past the US embassy he chanced upon a brown manilla envelope of the CIA transcripts of surveillance of top rock band U2 in advance of their singer Bono's friendly chat with President Trump's dastardly assistant Mike Pence

Songs Of Innocence: On U2, Tax & Hypocrisy

John Doran is singularly unimpressed by U2's invocation of William Blake's Songs Of Innocence. Shouldn't they stop cosying up to morally bankrupt corporations, banks, philosophers, religious leaders and politicians instead?

A World Of Dreaded Fear: Revisiting Band Aid’s Lyrical Crime Scene

Band Aid raised awareness of a disastrous famine, as well as huge sums of money to try ease it but, one year ahead of its 30th anniversary, Wyndham Wallace begs us to condemn, not celebrate, a song whose lyrics are uglier than Rupert Murdoch’s ballsack

No Cuddly Toy: Nelson Mandela Remembered

David Stubbs looks at the life of Nelson Mandela, and argues that he should remembered as one of the greatest radicals of the twentieth century

Herbert Goes ‘Banana’: Germany’s Biggest Star Takes On England

Virtually unknown in Britain, Herbert Grönemeyer is a huge star in his native Germany, having sold 18 million albums. Now his sights are set on the country he called home for over a decade. Wyndham Wallace meets him at Berlin’s Hansa Studios…

Wenderlust: This Must Be The Place Reviewed

A whimsical road movie anchored by Sean Penn's star turn and a David Byrne cameo, Paolo Sorrentino's English-language debut suggests that the acclaimed Italian director has, like Wim Wenders before him, entered the dread orbit of U2. Stephen Dalton muses on this cinematic Curse of Bono

A catholic Education: Gavin Friday Interviewed

Mature lensman Gentleman Jim Dyson talks to former Virgin Prune Gavin Friday about his new album catholic

A Wild Nobility: An Adam Ant Exclusive By Simon Price

After a 15-year period away from the music business Adam Ant is back in the spotlight once again. Simon Price meets a musical maverick and iconic star of the 80s to talk inspiration, madness and coming back fighting

Gavin Friday Of The Virgin Prunes On The Fall & Sending Postcards To MES

Thanks to Odhran Smith as your man in Ireland, for this exclusive interview with Gavin Friday of the Virgin Prunes about his time with The Fall and his friend Mark E. Smith

Give Him A Bono And He’ll Gnaw It. Mr Agreeable Reviews U2