The Future Needs a
Big Kiss

And I'm gettin' puckered up.

It's time for more planning, scheming, logisticating, coping with PTSD (pre-ticketing stress disorder) and queuing with other fans in the sun, the rain, the snow... even the hail.

It's time, once again, for dreaming up the kind of world I want to live in. The world's loudest folk band will lead the way - and I will follow.

I Will Follow,
How 'bout You?

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Snow Patrol's Shut Your Eyes
Zagreb, Croatia, 9 August U2009
Snow Patrol opened each of the six European shows I saw in U2009,
and they'll be back to open the shows
in Athens and Istanbul.

U2009

31 July, Gothenburg, Sweden
1 August, Gothenburg, Sweden
3 August, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
6 August, Chorzow, Poland
9 August, Zagreb, Croatia
10 August, Zagreb, Croatia
29 Sept., Washington, D.C.

U2010

3 Sept., Athens, Greece
6 Sept., Istanbul, Turkey

U2011

21 May, Denver, Colo., USA

• A 360 Photo Tease
• Zooropean March Madness
• You CANNOT Be Serious!
• Mein Gott!
Stay tuned for more coverage...

No Line on the Horizon

The New U2 Album Is Here!
The one-word review from The Mattopia Times:
"Magnificent!"

• Limited Edition Box Set
("The Mattopian Edition")
• Vinyl (Two-LP Set)
• Standard Edition CD

• Limited Edition with
Magazine & Movie Download
• Limited Edition with
Poster & Movie Download

Ullevi Stadium

Gothenburg, Sweden, 1 August U2009
Photo: Matthew Anderson

I Will Follow

Everyone should have a rock band for a muse.

U2 took a quiet kid who graduated in a high school class of nine and fed his inner, malnourished soul and stirred his latent megalomania. (I was valedictorian, after all.)

And to think, once upon a time — in the "Dark Ages" — I thought Bono was a humorless asshole. Now I happily refer to him as my "mentor," my "sensei." And it amuses when I hear, on occasion, that so-and-so thinks I'm a humorless asshole. Those poor, misguided folks — as rare as they are — clearly haven't visited the PRM.

After a period of living the dull, gray life of an accountant, this band helped me regain my voice and I went back to my roots as a writer, as a creative-minded individual. They're the band that's provided the inspiration behind the madness that is my great life. It's all about dreaming out loud, in high volume.

U2 & Mattopia Jones:
32 concerts // 23 venues // 18 cities // 10 countries... and counting.