• U2 – Songs of Experience

    December 5, 2017 - By 

    When was the last time you were really excited by anything U2 did? You could say The Joshua Tree tour, but really that was just multimillionaires hawking nostalgia at exorbitant prices. Musically, U2 haven’t crafted anything of real weight in over a decade. The last album that most people seem to unambiguously like is All That You Can’t Leave Behind, but all that should be cited as is the ultimate example of playing it safe. Consider their previous LP, Songs of Innocence. What do you remember? Odds are the only thing that comes to mind from that fustercluck of a…

  • Where to find The Thin Air magazine: an Illustrative Guide

    October 6, 2014 - By 

    It’s finally here! Our first ever print issue of The Thin Air magazine. “Where can I find it?” we hear you cry. Well, fear not, as we asked Aoife Dooley to kindly illustrate two handy maps on where you can pick up your very own copy. It was very important to us at TTA towers (ahem) that U2 and Van Morrison – our biggest supporters – were included on these maps. Belfast: Sick Records, Voodoo, Oh Yeah Centre, QUBSU, Boojum, Black Box Derry: Abbazappa Records Dublin: Tower Records, Twisted Pepper, Boojum, Kaph, Bernard Shaw, Fumbally, Roasted Brown, 3FE Cork: Triskel Arts Centre All…

  • U2 – Songs of Innocence

    September 10, 2014 - By 

    So, straight off the bat – let’s forget about Apple, iTunes, hypocrisy, commerce, and even U2 themselves. Daunting though that may be, it doesn’t really help us when it comes to looking at Songs of Innocence, the thirteenth studio album by U2, arguably the biggest band in the world. Like looking at someone like Roman Polanski, or Woody Allen, or whomever, there comes a time when you have to separate the art from the artist, and attempt to consider that in isolation. And this time round, that’s never been more pertinent for U2.Songs of Innocence is eleven tracks of new material from…