Bono on Paris attacks: Nothing's stopping us from going back

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Bono on Paris attacks: Nothing's stopping us from going back
By MESFIN FEKADU

NEW YORK (AP) — Bono says despite the deadly attacks in Paris last month he believes Paris will remain strong and he is hoping U2's concert there this week moves the audience.

U2 was set to perform in Paris on Nov. 14 and was in a middle of rehearsing when 130 people were killed in suicide bombings and shootings the day before in what has become the worst attack on French soil in more than a half-century.

"Well, knowing our French audience and having a sense of them by now, I would say joy as an act of defiance," he said of what concertgoers can expect when U2 performs at the Accor Hotels Arena in Paris Dec. 6-7. "That's what U2 does, that's what French people want from us and that's it."

"They took a lot of lives we're not going to get back, but they're not going to change the character of the city of Paris," he continued in an interview with The Associated Press.

Bono also praised the U.S. rock band Eagles of Death Metal, who were performing at the concert theater Bataclan in Paris where some were taken hostage and killed.

"We're very, very of course moved by the fact that our fellow troubadours, the Eagles of Death Metal, had such a hard time; they're an extraordinary talented band, they've been through the most ugly nightmare and they have been very graceful about it," Bono said.

Of the audience, he said, "These are our people and they're very familiar faces, the people in the audience, they're our people.

"They're like my daughter, my son, they're like (U2 members) Edge, they're like Larry (Mullen, Jr.) ... so we took it very badly," Bono said. "But we're going back, you bet. Nothing will stop us from going back."

Bono made the comments when discussing a new campaign for his (RED) organization, which is launching Tuesday to coincide with World AIDS Day.

U2's Dec. 7 show will broadcast on HBO. Bono said to those frightened by the Paris attacks and fearful of attending concerts: "Be vigilant, but be unafraid."


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-12-01

[baboon]

Have the poor French not suffered enough without that smug (tax exile) git making his usual emotional capital from the stage?

Edited December 1, 2015 by baboon

[Wilsonandson]

We love you Bono and U2. Your a great band and great supporters of human rights and care about people. We all are just getting over the terrible events in Paris last month. We will never forget and your support to those effected and to help people move on is wonderful. Keep rocking! Cheers! Support Paris!

[jaidam]

For a second i thought sanity had prevailed. Nothing is stopping us from going back( to being a proud and harmonious European nation filled with real French people, speaking French and dressed in breton shirts with strings of shallots drooped over a shoulder, smoking gitanes, like i remember from the 70s). Alas, bono is delivering the message so it could only be self centered leftism.

[MAJIC]

For a second i thought sanity had prevailed. Nothing is stopping us from going back( to being a proud and harmonious European nation filled with real French people, speaking French and dressed in breton shirts with strings of shallots drooped over a shoulder, smoking gitanes, like i remember from the 70s). Alas, bono is delivering the message so it could only be self centered leftism.

Bono doesn't know his *** from his elbow,ask him is he a European or Irish and guess what he will say?

[brain150]

The so called "attacks" were a pretty badly staged event with quite many known "crisis actors" involved !

Get the info by yourself and see what is really going on !!!

btw ... Bono is in bed with all the elites that are doing all this BS !!!

[DM07]

The so called "attacks" were a pretty badly staged event with quite many known "crisis actors" involved !

Get the info by yourself and see what is really going on !!!

btw ... Bono is in bed with all the elites that are doing all this BS !!!

I have some tinfoil left over from the Sandy Hook- shooting!

...want some?

[nahkit]

It's Bono

Warning, contains strong language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA9TT3c2C-Q