Love him or hate him, Bono's compulsion to share his opinions with the world remains steadfast and absolute. In Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, the memoir U2's frontman gifted the world last year which informed the Dubliners' new album, Songs Of Surrender, the singer acknowledged that his bullish self-belief and "tendency toward the preposterous" can be "very wearying", not least for his bandmates, but does that stop him tossing out ideas, theories and smug aphorisms which would have regular human beings cringing so hard it would bring on an aneurysm? Wise up, as his fellow countrymen would say. That's a 'Hell no!' for everyone else.
Right now, there's no escaping Mr Vox and his ever-patient side-kick and creative partner The Edge, as the duo have thrown themselves wholeheartedly into promoting their new album with a zeal and commitment that's frankly unbecoming of superstars of their stature. And for this, we can only applaud them.
