Echo & The Bunnymen Frontman Disses U2... Again

11/25/09 5:21pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Here's something that probably won't be surprising to Echo & The Bunnymen fans: Frontman Ian McCulloch still hates U2.

McCulloch recently told New York magazine he thinks U2's music is "immature."

"Bands all say they want to be as big as U2, but weirdly no one ever says they're influenced by them," McCulloch told the magazine. "That's because there's nothing there, really.

"They've got good tunes, and you can see that it works on 14-year-olds. But I can't see mature people or kids, who are looking for something, something deep — something that you just know it's art and it's going to change your life — caring. For U2, it's always flag-waving and 'Yippie.'"

I'm now wondering how to explain all the older people at U2's show at Toronto's Rogers Centre in September....

McCulloch also didn't have very good things to say about Bruce Springsteen.

"I saw him at Glastonbury and it's like, 'What are you doing, climbing into the crowd?'" he told New York.

"It's not a football match, it's about making someone see the light — a proper inside light," he said.

Last year, McCulloch called U2 "spud peelers" and said U2 want to be like "all them cunts who no one really likes," such as Bob Geldof and Sting.

You can see Echo & The Bunnymen here:

Dec. 3 New York, NY @ Other Music
Dec. 12 Oxford, England @ O2 Academy Oxford
Dec. 14 Newcastle Upon Tyne, England @ O2 Academy Newcastle
Dec. 15 Leeds, England @ O2 Academy Leeds
Dec. 17-19 Liverpool, England @ O2 Academy Liverpool
Jan. 27 Sydney, Australia @ Enmore Theatre
Jan. 29 Brisbane, Australia @ Laneway Festival
Jan. 30 Melbourne, Australia @ Laneway Festival
Jan. 31 Sydney, Australia @ Laneway Festival
Feb. 1 Auckland, New Zealand @ Laneway Festival
Feb. 4 Melbourne, Australia @ Palais Theatre
Feb. 5 Adelaide, Australia @ Laneway Festival
Feb. 6 Perth, Australia @ Laneway Festival
Feb. 7 Singapore, Singapore @ Laneway Festival

U2 will play these dates:

June 6-7 Anaheim, CA @ Angel Stadium
June 12 Denver, CO @ Invesco Field
June 16 Oakland, CA @ Oakland Coliseum
June 20 Seattle, WA @ Qwest Field
June 23 Edmonton, AB @ Commonwealth Stadium
June 25 Picton, England @ Worthy Farm (Glastonbury Festival)
June 27 Minneapolis, MN @ TCF Bank Stadium
June 30 East Lansing, MI @ Spartan Stadium
July 3 Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre
July 6 Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
July 9 Miami, FL @ Land Shark Stadium
July 12 Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field
July 16-17 Montreal, QC @ Montreal Hippodrome
July 19 New York, NY @ New Meadowlands Stadium
Aug. 10 Frankfurt, Germany @ Commerzbank Arena
Aug. 12 Hannover, Germany @ AWD Stadium
Aug. 15-16 Horsens, Denmark @ Casa Arena
Aug. 20-21 Helsinki, Finland @ Olympic Stadium
Aug. 25 Moscow, Russia @ Luzhniki
Aug. 30 Vienna, Austria @ Ernst Happel Stadium
Sept. 3 Athens, GA @ Olympic Stadium
Sept. 6 Istanbul, Turkey @ Ataturk Olympic Stadium
Sept. 15 Munich, Germany @ Olympic Stadium
Sept. 18 Paris, France @ Stade De France
Sept. 22-23 Brussels, Belgium @ Stade Roi Boudoin
Sept. 29 Seville, Spain @ Olympic Stadium
Oct. 2 Coimbra, Portugal @ Estadio Cidade Coimbra