April 17, 2015
The old punk rivals of U2 have re-ignited their feud after legal busy-bodies had one of their videos taken down off Youtube.
Now Paranoid Visions say they are going to spam Bono's band with their album on repeat to teach them a lesson for infiltrating people's iTunes with their latest dirges.
A fan-made video of Paranoid Visions's latest Two Black Eyes single mashed them up with a U2 vid and it went viral with 10,543 views in three hours. But then it was removed by Youtube-trawling legal eagles.
The track features lyrics that address the historical problems of Northern Ireland and bigotry on both sides.
U2's latest video addresses similar issues but according to Paranoid Visions, "being a bunch of utter w*****s with nothing but watered down politics and populist statements they fail dismally to make any positive or blatant points in this regard."
So a fan decided to mash the two together, knowing the two Dublin bands have been at loggerheads for 30 years.
In 1987, the band started the FOAD2U2 (f*** and die U2) campaign aimed at Bono, Edge and co, and these letters could be seen sprayed all over Dublin at the time.
The band said: "Paranoid Visions offer no apologies for a video they didn't create, and offer nothing but utter contempt for a band who believe they can infiltrate punk rock fringes with imagery and songs about Joey Ramone."
Band member Peter Jones told Mirror Celeb: "We found it amusing that a mischievous fan who knew our stance on U2 from the eighties saw our proposed new video on YouTube, and also saw their video, and decided to change the soundtracks around for the buzz, as he reckoned our band had more in common with the punks/skins in the video than U2, and he sent us the video.
"The band intend on sending a CD player with a copy of our upcoming Cryptic Cross Words album playing on repeat to U2 to pay the f***ers back for poisoning our iPods with their godawful s**** last album."
In August Paranoid Visions are joining Bob Geldof's Boomtown Rats and 200 other punk bands playing the Rebellion Punk Festival in Blackpool.
Bono of U2 apologises to angry Facebook fan for releasing free album on iTunes which downloaded automatically
Bono personally apologised for doing a deal with Apple that meant that U2's new album - Songs of Innocence - was automatically downloaded to people's iTunes accounts.
Many users were annoyed that the 11-track soft rock album appeared in their accounts without permission or any warning.
In a video Q&A posted on Facebook members of the band responded to questions and comments from fans.
One of the comments came from Harriet Jobson, who said: "Can you please never release an album on iTunes that automatically downloads to people's playlists ever again? It's really rude."
Bono replied: "Oops. I'm sorry about that. I had this beautiful idea. Might have got carried away with ourselves. Artists are prone to that thing."
"A drop of megalomania, a touch of generosity, a dash of self-promotion, and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years might not be heard. There's a lot of noise out there. I guess, we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it."
The gifted album was announced at the launch of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. But after a backlash from Apple customers, the tech company created a one-click tool to let people delete the album.
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