While Jack Reynor is busy promoting Irish flick Sing Street Stateside, U2’s Bono has given the film a ringing endorsement online.
The John Carney directed flick is set in 1980s Ireland and follows a teenage boy who forms a band in order to impress a girl.
Speaking about the film in a roundabout way, the frontman insisted that this year’s releases won’t touch the Irish film.
“I remember the 1980s with somewhat of a blush. No man’s hair should be bigger than his girlfriend’s. But that was the time. Dublin in Technicolor,” Bono said.
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“In reality it was monochrome and in the grip of a recession, But on video tape, you could be transported. You could wear what you liked, and the more outrageous the better.
“Anything to wind up the jackbooted skinheads on Dublin’s north side. Make-up on a boy drove rockers wild, and the teachers wilder,” he wrote on U2’s official website.
“Thank God for Bowie, who made all the black eyes okay. And allowed people to find out who they were. My brother gave me the gift of music through my first guitar.
“We formed a band. In truth, at the same stage, U2 were not as good as the kids in Sing Street. In truth most films you’ll see this year won’t touch Sing Street…”
