00:00OK.
00:04So you'll be speaking into camera the whole time,
00:06and if you're going to look at anyone,
00:07I'm going to look at me.
00:08I would very much enjoy keeping my eyes on you by the camera.
00:12No offence, lads.
00:17OK.
00:18Wow.
00:20The Joshua Tree, you too.
00:22Look at that top hat.
00:23And the head, the head hasn't a clue
00:25what's going to happen to it over the next 30 years.
00:28We were caught, I would say.
00:31Caught in an act of show business crime,
00:34thinking you could be authentic and real
00:36in the middle of an awards show.
00:38And I'm not sure we pulled that off.
00:42I think we ended up looking more smug.
00:45We seem to have lost our bass player.
00:47He went to the loo a couple of minutes ago
00:48and he still isn't back.
00:49When I see myself, I just go,
00:51oh, are you absent of any humility?
00:55But the truth is that's always a sign of the opposite.
00:59You know, you don't feel you should be there.
01:01Imposter syndrome, all the obvious, you know.
01:04You do disappear up your own arse at that point
01:07as the rocket is taking off.
01:09It's fair to say, look at that.
01:12But I still haven't found.
01:16This is the video for, I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
01:19Barry Devlin was the filmmaker of this video.
01:21It cost nothing.
01:23And we were running around with a shopping basket
01:25with the audio mixer in it
01:27and people are running around with a boom mic.
01:29And we're all, as we say in Ireland, over-served.
01:33I was so embarrassed after seeing it back.
01:38And we got a big slag in for it.
01:41Is there a reason you guys gravitate towards Vegas?
01:44I don't know.
01:45The obsession with Las Vegas.
01:47I love the fact that it's a town
01:50that appears to be designed by children
01:53so that adults can run around and behave like them.
01:56But I also want to say
01:58people work really hard in Las Vegas.
02:01Like, really hard.
02:02Looking after people like me
02:04who don't work as hard.
02:06Okay.
02:13He's kind of a genius, Adam Sandler, isn't he?
02:16I have been out-pallowed by more than a few.
02:20He's right up there.
02:25He's doing pallow better than me.
02:28Oh.
02:33Pope Francis.
02:34I've met him a few times.
02:35I've spent some time in his company.
02:37I've had very interesting conversations.
02:40What did you guys talk about?
02:41Have you not heard of the seal?
02:43Of the confessional.
02:44I cannot tell you of what I've confessed.
02:47He's been patient enough to hear my confession,
02:51not in the religious sense,
02:53but he's curious, you know, about musicians.
02:56He's curious about how the world works.
02:59And he's a deep passion for the fragility of the human,
03:07particularly the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet.
03:12It's a real thing for him.
03:14Oh, yes.
03:21That is the sphere.
03:23This is Beautiful Day.
03:25This is Es Devlin's Nevada Arc.
03:28Just a beautiful thing.
03:29And it's really clever because it took all the endangered species of Nevada.
03:34There's 26 in our work out of 152.
03:39She's kind of incredible as Devlin.
03:41What was the most surprising part of performing at the sphere?
03:44I don't know if I should say this, but the sphere is not actually spherical.
03:50It is indeed a dome.
03:52It's a very big dome.
03:54It can make a performer feel very small.
03:57It can shrink your head until then.
03:59It blows it up to 50 foot tall, like really big, like Hollywood sign big.
04:05Minus the Botox.
04:07But there's nowhere to hide.
04:09What's the feeling you wanted to invoke from the audience when this display came up?
04:14It's a word that you Americans have ruined.
04:17Oh.
04:18Awesome.
04:19No, everyone's ruined it, right?
04:21Irish people.
04:22We've all ruined it.
04:23Because we started with that sort of playful, underground, avant-garde,
04:28somewhat lounge lizard vibe, we just ended the show with the lights on,
04:33and just all of us, actually, audience and band, in awe.
04:39Not of each other, but of this other thing.
04:44Oh.
04:45I met my wife, Ali, the same week I joined you too.
04:50This is the stage play of my book, Stories of Surrender.
04:54It was a kind of brutal intimacy, kind of almost uncomfortable intimacy,
05:00but I'm too much of an exhibitionist to not go ahead with it.
05:04You know what I mean?
05:05The three chairs, they can represent Ali and my missus.
05:10They can represent my father.
05:12The person I talk the most about in the film is the person I talked the least to in real life.
05:21But, yeah, he's represented by a chair.
05:24It gave him a more comfortable chair.
05:26It's more cushioned.
05:28The chairs, they can represent the band.
05:31By the way, if they put out memoirs, I am in real trouble.
05:38If I wasn't on a time limit, I would sit with you for four hours.
05:41Oh, you wouldn't. I talk too much.
05:43Thank you very much.
05:44Thank you very much.
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