Ivan McCormick

Killing Bono is a 2011 comedy film directed by Nick Hamm, based on Neil McCormick's 2003 memoir Killing Bono: I Was Bono's Doppelgänger.. Ivan McCormick added 1 video to Favorites 7 years ago 7:06 U2 Superbowl 36 halftime performance where the streets have no name HD - Duration: 7 minutes, 6 seconds. I can't think what we played, but we did riff over various chords, with Paul singing lines from "House Of The Rising Sun" or extemporizing when he didn't know any "real" words.I was impressed by him. 17 Followers. I was 26 and, I thought, far too old to want to be a pop star -- and not 100 percent convinced that it would necessarily happen. The film stars Ben Barnes as Neil McCormick, Robert Sheehan as Ivan McCormick and Martin McCann as Irish singer Bono. Anyway, that was it. Paul was there; Dave, Adam, Larry obviously, me and I think Dave's brother, too -- Dik Evans. Maybe some T-Rex. I wanted to travel and get some of what I'd been missing through my early 20s whilst I'd been so focused on pop music success.My favorite songs are "Where The Streets Have No Name," "Even Better Than The Real Thing" and "Vertigo" for the sheer driving excitement of the music. He exuded an air of assuredness which said he was the equal of any teacher, acting more like someone in their third year at university than the sixth form of a comprehensive.

Adam no doubt had his own amp -- he was way ahead of us in knowing what was what when it came to rock music. It was as if he heard music in his head and was using Dave's fingers to try and let it out.

It is a song that is poetic, original and exciting. and then Shook Up! Ivan McCormick was just 13 years old when he heard from a fellow school friend that Larry Mullen, a pupil a year ahead of him at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in … Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. But despite such appearances at times, he was not some scary punk out to frighten the grannies. Punk rock was exploding onto the scene and there we were at the Irish vanguard, Frankie Corpse and the Undertakers, "ready to take you away," as our catchphrase went!After punk it was The Ramones all the way, closely followed by The Boomtown Rats, The Jam, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols and The Stranglers. An abiding memory I have is of Paul almost kneeling in front of Dave's guitar, gesticulating his fingers over Dave's strumming hand like a magician might over a hat hoping to draw a rabbit out of fresh air, willing him on to make the sound that was somewhere in the ether tantalizingly close by.The age gap between 13 and 16/17 is a cruel one -- a small boy in a room full of young men. Albert was firmly one of them rather than one of us, but still he loved music, and ran a very inclusive, enthusiastic choir and also helped and encouraged the young band.I feel like I had a very privileged childhood growing up in Dublin and going to Mount Temple School, which was a secular and progressive institution compared to the church-run alternatives filled with their religious prejudices and small thinkers who were more interested in spreading republican propaganda than opening up young minds to the possibilities of the world.

When I first heard it, I felt that it could never work as a piece of music. Join Facebook to connect with Ivan McCormick and others you may know. I honestly can't remember.What I do remember is both the excitement and the confusion in what we were doing. It marked the final film role of Pete Postlethwaite, who died three months before its release. I went to one of these so-called "Christian" schools before Mount Temple and experienced first-hand the bigotry and indoctrination that they offer. McCormick kindly provided indisputable evidence of the actual event on that date by giving us exclusive access to his diary entry of the time!My brother Neil was in Bono's and The Edge's year group, and our sister Stella was in Adam's, as far as I can recall. I guess the reason for this was that he had recently moved from England, where perhaps education was at a more enlightened stage of progression. The Rats were a big influence as were all the others mentioned.I could write a book (but why bother, Neil already has) on the excruciating highs and lows of Yeah! What I knew of Adam was that he was this eccentric hippy who sauntered about in an Afghan coat embroidered with flowers, openly smoking cigarettes and behaving in an overtly self-confident way. He subsequently ended up in my year in the sixth form when he retook some exams, I think.

I can't remember what we played -- probably Bay City Rollers, they were huge at the time. By holding onto this person, I felt like I was holding onto the whole audience. But somehow, through the sheer force of will that the whole group has become, they manage to pull it out of the ether, like the song Bono was always after as he grasped at the air just above the Edge's hand 40 years ago in Mr. MacKenzie's music room at Mount Temple School.Award-winning site sharing U2 news since 1995.

Despite that, Dublin was a safe and friendly place to grow up and offered young people enormous freedoms.The infamous noticeboard note never came to my attention, as Peter Martin encouraged me to go to the rehearsal, though he wasn't there himself.Larry's parents' house was a typical semi-detached in a residential neighbourhood, on Rosemount Avenue. In fact, the way he put it was that they had got a gig in a pub and I was too young to legally be admitted into a pub. A trail of kids followed behind him and he caused quite a sensation. Yeah! I love "Stuck In A Moment" for the beautiful guitar parts and rich lyrics, and my all-time favorite is "Beautiful Day," which I think represents all the best qualities about the band. Paul concentrated his efforts on Dave. 's years of knocking on the doors of success: being admitted, being chucked out, going round the back, getting in through a bathroom window, treading on some broken glass and getting chucked out again.