U2 tour

U2 and I have a love/hate relationship. I honestly believe they should've broken up around 1988 with the Rattle and Hum album (with the exception of the 90's song Miss Sarajevo... classic). I also hate Bono so much that I want to punch him in the glasses. See:


That list is actually on my fridge. And I rate him higher than Kochie. You know that's bad.

Anyway, U2 are bringing their 360 degree arena spectacular to Brisbane, which will be their first time in our city for over 4 years. Yay, I guess. They will be playing Suncorp Stadium on December 8. I'm sure you've seen it plastered all over the TV now that the election ads have stopped.

Apparently they will be offering seats from as low as $40, which probably means you will be in the top most corner of Suncorp looking at their backs the whole time. As the concert is "360" they will be performing the whole show on a circular stage in the middle of the stadium. Probably so they could pack more people in and make more obscene amounts of money.

The part of this that pisses me off the most (apart from Bono, and his green ways which are thrown straight out the window with the energy and pollution and destruction of the environment that comes with a show like this and flying over 130 stage crew and an entire fuck-off massive stage to our country and between cities/hypocrisy) is that their opening act is Jay-Z. Yes, Mr H-to-the-Izzo, who's married to Beyonce, and one of the best rap producers there is.

I can just imagine it now, Mr and Mrs Joe Average-Bogan, sitting in the stadium, talking about the last Broncos game they saw here (or comparing it to how it looks on TV during Origin games), probably wearing a horribly made black U2 tour shirt they payed $60 for, which features a badly drawn picture of Bono on the front (or maybe a wolf), pulling faces and wondering what this "rap-crap" (to steal their favourite radio station Triple M's words) is they have to suffer through. They'll probably make a lot of noise and ignore it, drink a few overprice beers, read the program (only giant concerts like this have a program... why the fuck, I still don't understand) and complain how they didn't pay to see this shit music (and maybe even make a racist comment or two).

Reminds me of my first concert. Ozzy Osbourne was the headliner, but the old farts had to sit through Mudvayne and Rob Zombie first, and they just looked disgusted.

Meanwhile, I'd love to see Jay-Z and not U2. Hopefully there will be a few sideshows.

Edit. It's also apparently the same day as a Brisbane Roar game at the same stadium. Possibly the same time. That could be interesting, trying to play a soccer game around the crowd.

The Ocarina of Rhyme

I'm generally not a fan of mash ups, that genre of music were different songs are mixed together. Artists like Girl Talk are one of the few exceptions, his amazing ability to form a new song out of so many pieces of other songs is mind boggling. Another one of the few I really like is Illionoize, where producer Tor has mashed up hip-hop songs with Sufjan Stevens. The indie and the hip-hop reallly mixes well together and you can get that album for free at this website.

But now there's a new one I like. And it mixes hip-hop with the music from one of my all time favourite video games: The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time.


It's put together by Team Teamwork, a group of guys that do mash ups, some video game related. I've been trying to buy a Nintendo-64 lately purely so I could play this game again and it was just blind luck that someone linked me to this mash up based off of the game. It features Spank Rock, Jay Z, Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg, Clipse, Aesop Rock, Busta Rhymes and Common amongst others. All set to my favourite songs and sounds from the game.

They put all of their mash ups out for free, so download the whole album here.