Only one more week until my boy is home and I cannot wait!

Switching to scary U2 Mad Manda mode now as news of the new album is going a bit crazy at the moment. Bono leaked some tracks out his window to happy cell phones below. This is no usual stupid act on Bono’s part this time, methinks they have finally realised that there is a thing called the internet which is great for hype. Yay Bono!

Yes, I have heard these tracks, there is a lot of crackle, a lot of waves breaking against the shore, a lot of annoying Europeans talking and saying “BONE-OH” all amidst some new U2 music which lightly plays in the background. I hear some Bono oh oh ohs and some heavyish Achtung Baby sounding guitar and that’s about it.

I am however getting damn excited and I don’t even know why. After ATYCLB I was so NOT excited that I didn’t hype HTDAAB at all. I don’t think I even checked news about when it was coming. But for this album I am pretty pumped and feel like I’m reliving my first moments on the internet again. It was U2 that first brought me open eyed to the internets. I wanted to know all there was to know about the 4 Irishmen. It was then that I first discovered message forums and chat rooms. I was a big, fat U2ey chatting room nerd! I think I racked up something like 7000 posts (in about 2 years) on a rather large U2 message forum which I shall not name here.

I have made lots of U2ey friends over the years, had photographs published, been in a U2 video, got to shoot the band from the pit and met Bono all because of the internets…OK, meeting Bono is a stretch but if it weren’t for my U2 net friends, I wouldn’t have met him.

It seems to have come around again that I am super excited about all the album hype, I love hype and hysteria even if the end product is disappointing.

I still remember how awesome watching the studiocam for ATYCLB was and how excited I got at hearing the first snippet of Beautiful Day. I loves the internets and I loves a little U2.

p.s. We are seeing Goldfrapp at The Opera House!