Your degree of devotion to an artist or band, in this case U2, whose concert or festival you are queuing to buy tickets for, determines the level of agitation you will feel towards a queue jumper. Even queue jumpers who attempt to barge into the line behind you. At four U2 concerts in Philadelphia and Atlanta, Helweg-Larsen and LoMonaco asked about 500 queuers how they felt about a series ... Read full entry

Very long, but very absorbing, transcript of U2 manager Paul McGuiness' keynote speech at the Music Matters conference in Hong Kong last week, during which he made it crystal clear that ISPs are responsible for curbing illegal music downloads. And it's been argued that the ISPs don't have the means to help. I don't believe that argument stands up any longer. The modern history of ... Read full entry

The Joshua Tree: 20th Anniversary Box Set. It's been 20 years since U2 unleashed this Rock/Pop classic upon us. Virtually every track, from the building grandeur of Where The Streets Have No Name and the muscular gospel of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For to the hoarse latitudes of Red Hill Mining Town and the "see, we're very very sombre" Mothers Of The Disappeared, would be immediately familiar ... Read full entry