U2 is going around NYC on a flatbed truck, blasting their new album!

[wicket]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=762&e=2&u=/nm/20041122/en_nm/people_u2_dc

Irish rockstar Bono brought traffic to a standstill at the heart of New York on Monday, blasting out songs from U2's latest album as the band cruised down Broadway on a flatbed truck.

Office workers on their lunch-breaks whipped out their camera phones to catch the surprise appearance by the band whose album "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" is released in Britain on Monday and in the United States on Tuesday.

"I can't believe it. I have to call my mom right now," said one tourist in a crowd of hundreds as Bono sang Christmas favorite "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" in Times Square.

The stunt was filmed for the video of the forthcoming single "All Because of You" and the band was due to make another free appearance in Brooklyn later in the day.



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WAHHHHH!!! I wish I were there!!!!!!!

[cabbage08]

1. Cool

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. I don't care what anyone else thinks...

Bono is the coolest, period!

[WindRavenX]

3. damn skippy

I wish I was there :cry: :cry:

[underpants]

6. Yep

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020304/#

[wicket]

13. Amen to that!!!!

:thumbsup:

[DS1]

4. Nice lifts

:-)

[Placebo]

17. My thoughts exactly.

[TwentyFive]

5. Bono - You define cool :)

[StopTheMorans]

7. TRYING. TOO. HARD.

shouldn't have to sell yourself this damn much IMHO (btw, not a huge U2 fan, but am a fan of the new album)...

[Reverend_Smitty]

10. It's alot like that impromptu concert

they gave about 20 years ago on a rooftop...I forget what city they were in but the cops eventually shut it down because they were causing major traffic problems

[wicket]

14. Yeah- this is under the same circumstances

They were shooting a music video then and are shooting one as they do this today :)

[cheezus]

8. mmmm... flatbread

[obreaslan]

11. I don't get it, Why would they travel on a flatbread truck?

I wouldn't think that would be the easiest way to promote an album.

[wicket]

15. they are shooting a music video

n/t

[obreaslan]

24. I know. Notice the title before edit was "Flatbread truck"

:hi:

[wicket]

27. hehehehehe! :)

I'm baking bread right now so I have an excuse for the embarassing misspelling, I swear I'm not the Shrub! ;)

[Dora]

9. What KIND of flatbread? Tortilla?

[obreaslan]

12. Perhaps Pita?

[wicket]

22. Fallafel - in honor of Bill O'Reilly

:evilgrin:

[Dora]

26. Uhm, falafel isn't bread... but you can eat it in a pita!

And a good falafel sandwich hits the spot.

[wicket]

28. yeah, that's what I meant hehehee

Man, all this talk of food is making me HUNGRY! I can't eat a falafel without thinking of O'Reilly though heh ;)

[bunkerbuster1]

16. First (and last) time I saw U2

was in 1980, at the Bayou in Washington, DC. Might've paid five bucks on a weeknight. Couple hundred people there at most. "I Will Follow" was getting a decent amount of FM play at the time.

Wanna know my reaction? Honest to God, I thought, "one-hit wonders."

[realisticphish]

18. flatbread truck, eh?

nothing like a Ford F-450 "Unleavened" to get your message out :p


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[wicket]

21. OOPS! Fixed hehehe

I am baking bread right now so that's what I have on my mind hehehehe :)

[Atlas Mugged]

19. The Rolling Stones did this in 1975 n/t

[candy]

20. Now? In the rush hour? He's an idiot then! n/t

[tjdee]

23. No one talk about this to me.

I wish I could have been there so much I MAY EXPLODE!

:cry:

[wicket]

25. Me too!

I feel your pain :( Damn, I wish I was there!!!!