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Bono may have upstaged everyone at the opening of the Leopardstown Racing Festival, but not even the U2 frontman could halt the decline in betting turnover at the famous Christmas meeting.
Fresh from Christmas dinner in Dalkey and his victory over An Taisce, who tried to stop his rooftop extension, Bono was among the first to arrive at the Dublin race meeting.
He was there enjoying a well-earned break after putting the finishing touches to U2′s latest album.
“Sure, you’re always nervous, but we’ve gone at it as if it was our first and the critics who have gotten a chance to listen to it already have all said it’s the best yet” Bono told me, referring to the album No Line On The Horizon. ” We’re going after the younger audience this time too,” he revealed.
So could he sum up the album in three words for the fans who have yet to get the pleasure? “It’s very long,” he said with a laugh.
“My favourite song is a song called Moment of Surrender, and the first track is 150 BPM, the fastest song we’ve ever recorded,” he said, beaming with a glint in his eye behind his trademark blue glasses.
Before he left he gave me a gentleman’s kiss on the back of my hand.
- By NIAMH HORAN – Independent.ie
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