Consider U2 in 1990-1991:

1. Find themselves as everybody’s favourite band
2. Tell the world “we have to go away, and just dream it all up again“
3. Bono and The Edge write parts of the score for the stage production of A Clockwork Orange
4. Release their best album ever: the expectation defying Achtung Baby, and follow it up with a tour that is unlike anything seen at that point.

Flash forward to today:

1. Suddenly everybody’s favourite band again
2. Are heard to say “Our band has certainly reached the end of where we’ve been at for the last couple of albums … want to see what else we can do with it, take it to the next level; I think that’s what we’ve got to do” (which after the last two albums of mostly dreck, I couldn’t agree more)
3. Bono and The Edge write parts of the score for the stage production of Spiderman
4. ???

Given the neat symmetry of the first three points, I can only speculate that point 4 will deliver accordingly.

… OK, this may once again be a case of my wishful thinking, but one can dream…

Oh and if you hadn’t heard, Popmart is coming out on DVD in June. I hope they remixed the audio, but good news for us fans of their now severly underrated 90s output.