Adam Clayton | The Tommy Tiernan Show

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  • čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
  • Tommy chats to Adam Clayton, bass guitarist of the rock band U2. Taken from Season 3, Episode 2 of "The Tommy Tiernan Show' in May 2019.
    Each episode Tommy welcomes mystery guests and interviews them without any preparation or knowledge of who will be joining him until they meet in studio. The result is conversations full of adventure and surprise, with people from all walks of life, some well-known personalities, some lesser so. With this inquisitive and articulate host, every conversation has the potential for great honesty and insight, humour and sometimes freewheeling wildness.
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Komentáře • 114

  • @raymck2115
    @raymck2115 Před 28 dny +66

    It's great to see an interviewer listen to his guests, let them talk freely, and build a great conversation. Adam is so cool and interesting. Great work, Tommy.

    • @petervarley2477
      @petervarley2477 Před 2 dny

      His style of interviewing reminds me of Dick Cavett in the 1970’s

  • @rescue3878
    @rescue3878 Před 16 dny +23

    I've been a fan of U2 for close to 40 years. This interview was excellent. It's really great to hear Adam be so personal and open. I get the feeling that he's a really good person, and I'm glad to see him doing so well.

  • @mariusd7803
    @mariusd7803 Před 16 dny +17

    What a gentle, generous, articulate soul Adam is. Even with all the trappings of wealth, the struggle is real. He’s a legend. Also, well done Tommy! 👍

  • @stevesmith581
    @stevesmith581 Před 21 dnem +34

    Such an amazing pair of kind, humorous and egoless men. No career to push, no new record to promote, just genuine heartfelt conversation about life, its battles and its victories… I’m so inspired by this…

    • @sandersson2813
      @sandersson2813 Před 15 dny

      @@stevesmith581 Egoless? Is that even a word?
      Tommy is wearing a stupid hat indoors to protect his fragile ego from his baldness.

    • @dougiemiller5030
      @dougiemiller5030 Před 8 dny

      ​@@sandersson2813I'm pretty sure he is used to his baldness! Some folk just like wearing a hat. They're wearing jackets indoors as well mate. What does that mean??

  • @jenniferyoung7775
    @jenniferyoung7775 Před 13 dny +11

    4 friends who decided to share it all and give each other space at the same time. ❤

  • @CraigEggleton
    @CraigEggleton Před 17 dny +16

    Came across U2 as a lost teenager in 1986 to say a band changed/saved my life is understatement. There are a couple of other guys in the band who get most of the air time so when Adam gives an interview it is a real treat. Thank you Adam.

  • @GrahamsYouTube
    @GrahamsYouTube Před 14 dny +11

    What a fantastic interview, Adam Clayton is so humble and not an ounce of ego

  • @CarrigansGuitarClub
    @CarrigansGuitarClub Před 15 dny +10

    We don't hear enough from Adam.....top bloke!

  • @olddogmusic1
    @olddogmusic1 Před 16 dny +9

    What a wonderful humble human he is.

  • @Rlee571
    @Rlee571 Před 26 dny +23

    How interesting to hear Adam in full conversation. He’s always been so overshadowed in interviews with the band

  • @TT_1221
    @TT_1221 Před 17 dny +13

    Alcohol is a real demon. It has destroyed so many lives. Adam is lucky and brave to have come through it.

  • @tastewithjase
    @tastewithjase Před 18 dny +11

    This is brilliant. Us Brits don't know what we're missing with this show. Love Tommy and Adam comes across so well.

  • @ronnieduignan
    @ronnieduignan Před 8 dny +4

    terrific interview, Adam is a very humble grounded fella and a pleasure to listen to

  • @slothrr776
    @slothrr776 Před 28 dny +24

    "My thinking is not always reliable." I love that.

  • @garylagstrom3864
    @garylagstrom3864 Před 5 dny +2

    MY LETTER TO U2-1987
    I saw you guys on the Joshua Tree tour in 1987 at MTSU-Middle Tennessee State University Saturday November 28th 1987. The Bodeans opened up for you. I remember at the time Larry had a crush on Wynonna Judd and she came out and sang a duo with Bono!
    I didn't have tickets to the show. A friend of mine drove us 3 hours from East Tennessee to see the show. We bought tickets at the box office for $18.50. We ended up 8th row center stage!
    I remember back then the band held back tickets for fans who were willing to make the drive and couldn't get tickets via phone or record store locations.
    Thanks again to Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr for making a special album and tour! I was 18 and had just graduated High School that year!
    All the Best!
    Gary Lagstrom

  • @U2er1972
    @U2er1972 Před 14 dny +5

    Great interview! I really enjoyed it.
    Always had huge respect for Adam (and U2) and this interview reiterate what a gentleman Adam Clayton is.

  • @Loanguymatt
    @Loanguymatt Před 5 dny +1

    Adam is so honest and his genuine personality is a service to humanity in this interview. He gives all he can. This is a reflection of the band and what they have done for us. He is real. Thank you Adam.

  • @macktravels68
    @macktravels68 Před 19 dny +8

    What an outstanding interview! It was wonderful on so many levels. Adam seems like such a wonderful soul. Special.

  • @davidfarrell8451
    @davidfarrell8451 Před 19 dny +5

    This is the best interview that Tiernan has done. Adam Clayton is a very vulnerable and interesting man.

  • @geob3963
    @geob3963 Před 16 dny +5

    Thank you Adam for sharing your music and your story. My life has benefited from your hard work and passion.

  • @stevemcmahon7676
    @stevemcmahon7676 Před 18 dny +7

    Adam by far is the coolest most genuine member of U2

  • @morisg2915
    @morisg2915 Před 18 dny +6

    Brilliant interview, very insightful and Adam’s intellect and eloquence has always been underestimated

  • @scodomac
    @scodomac Před 28 dny +17

    Tommy is a great host! His style encourages honesty and authenticity. I really enjoyed that interview.

  • @huishaai
    @huishaai Před 21 dnem +6

    Great to hear Adam opening his heart to us, dear i say it, a look into his soul. Ill be revisiting this. What a mensch.

  • @colinjamesyoung
    @colinjamesyoung Před 24 dny +9

    What a great interviewer Tommy is. Adam Clayton is a great interviewee. Good work from both.

  • @lovelyskull3483
    @lovelyskull3483 Před 26 dny +16

    Adam is a lovely man. Thank you Tommy. 🇨🇦❤️🇮🇪 U2 is now and always my religion band.

    • @user-mq3ey4he1e
      @user-mq3ey4he1e Před 22 dny

      There crap from a Dublin man

    • @Halen0224
      @Halen0224 Před 19 dny +1

      He is duel citizen of uk and Ireland , he is actually an Englishman.

  • @artprojectsnz
    @artprojectsnz Před 15 dny +4

    Such a great interview, insight into 1/4 of the band - and a lovely, compassionate interviewer. Never easy. Well done both.

  • @KPP365
    @KPP365 Před 27 dny +9

    What a great interview. Tommy actually lets his guests speak and does not try and take the interview over. He is gifted at getter the best out of his guests.

  • @joec0000
    @joec0000 Před 19 dny +6

    What an amazingly humble guy an inspiration

  • @ourfloridagarden4191
    @ourfloridagarden4191 Před 20 dny +4

    I love how Adam’s garden has taken on his personality. First all the trees and then all the plantings have made it a magical place.

  • @sovicidonji
    @sovicidonji Před 25 dny +7

    I wanted to comment how great Tommy is, you all did it. Adam is also a great and honest guest. You said it, too.
    I'll watch this again, as a journalist, recovering alcoholic, and U2 fan of many years.

  • @user-st7kb4nw7i
    @user-st7kb4nw7i Před 22 dny +15

    Best thing about this interview they didn't spend it talking about Bono.

    • @MOOBOOSE
      @MOOBOOSE Před 9 dny

      They didn’t mention him at all

  • @paulcochrane1028
    @paulcochrane1028 Před 13 dny +4

    16 mins in….his comments on childhood trauma resonates. Tiernan planted seeds, Clayton grew narratives.

  • @johntooher987
    @johntooher987 Před 23 dny +7

    What a great open and honest conversation.

  • @jmillz713
    @jmillz713 Před 10 dny +1

    This is incredible. I don't think I've heard Adam speak this much ever. And to open up about drinking problems. I have a new favorite member of U2 now.

  • @maynoldmoreno7888
    @maynoldmoreno7888 Před 16 dny +4

    We still love you Adam!
    👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @michaelbarton8379
    @michaelbarton8379 Před 21 dnem +10

    Brilliant. Two top blokes..

  • @Jietche
    @Jietche Před 17 dny +3

    Grande Adam !!!! Tks for the music

  • @OnlyElshafto
    @OnlyElshafto Před 26 dny +5

    Always loved U2..its ups and downs.cant be any other way with commercial music.good interview

  • @garylagstrom3864
    @garylagstrom3864 Před 5 dny +3

    U2-WAR album: Drowning Man:
    Drowning Man is really a love letter to Adam Clayton from the band. He was not religious and was using drugs and drinking sporadically that became a problem when he missed a U2 show because he was drunk and couldn’t be found. In every U2 interview when each band member asks what’s their favorite U2 song without fail Adam always says: Drowning Man. Bono, Edge, and Larry were Christians and wanted to help Adam see there was a better way to live life and the power of a higher being! Boy, October, and War definitely show the band as a whole minus Clayton as believers in God and Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. So at its heart it’s about three guys wanting to see their band mate and friend stop drowning and this song is their life preserver to Adam.

  • @Alunticstalkedme4072
    @Alunticstalkedme4072 Před 9 dny +1

    He missed the gig the night before they filmed. The 2nd night gig went live around the world and became the live in Sydney VHS. I was lucky enough to be at both concerts in my youth.

  • @claudineharvey8738
    @claudineharvey8738 Před 5 dny +1

    Adorable Adam ❤️. Such a wonderful 1:1 - a biography would be a great read ..🤔. Nice to hear from the quiet ones, for a change 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @freddyrivera
    @freddyrivera Před 6 dny +1

    Wow! Simply put, what a GREAT interview.

  • @nicennice
    @nicennice Před 17 dny +3

    Great interview.

  • @JamieFear-w7q
    @JamieFear-w7q Před 7 dny

    Adam Thank-you, at the beginning of the recovery journey myself, hearing you speak and how you have carried on so successfully is inspiring, thanks Mate - PS I saw you in CHCH New Zealand a few days after the Sydney thing and you rocked it!!

  • @peruseperusing5027
    @peruseperusing5027 Před 19 dny +3

    What a great interview!! :)

  • @andrewdale9246
    @andrewdale9246 Před 18 dny +2

    Wow , never knew about any of his problems . Loved Adam before but love him even more for talking about his problems which I can relate too . Plus his hair is Fxxkin Mint 😁😁😁

  • @toomylight2311
    @toomylight2311 Před 12 dny +2

    Lovely lovely guy. ❤

  • @JaneKellie-i9y
    @JaneKellie-i9y Před 11 dny

    Such a Down to earth interview. The Interviewer always has a balance of asking questions & letting the guest answer freely.
    The Tommy Tiernan Show is a real possession for Dublin City , for Ireland , aswell as a real sense of Connection to the world and Beyond.

  • @roycarder6179
    @roycarder6179 Před 23 dny +2

    That could have gone on for another two hours and I’d have stuck with it…Fantastic interview ..Tommy is a class act in respect to his interviewing skills and Adam he instantly grabs your attention with his insight into his world …was lucky to see U2…ZOOROPA Tour back in the 90s Roundhey Park Leeds ..they where Sublime

  • @eviemc
    @eviemc Před 2 dny

    Omg, amazing interview ❤, great to see. U2 are amazing. I grew up on Joshua tree ❤

  • @Mujcanal
    @Mujcanal Před 21 dnem +3

    Great interview, well done !

  • @JCdoulos74
    @JCdoulos74 Před 3 dny

    That’s a man who has a lot a character! Adam Sr salute you 🫡 AND WHAT A BADASS BASS PLAYER

  • @guyrose2239
    @guyrose2239 Před dnem

    Wonderful …. Thank you Adam 🤗

  • @jw_au
    @jw_au Před 20 dny +2

    Amazing interview, super insightful questions…

  • @rangerwhite5165
    @rangerwhite5165 Před 5 dny +1

    Been a fan since buying Under A Blood Red Sky in the early 80s. He looks great. Very much maligned as a bassist. Him and Larry are the backbone of U2.

  • @spaceape9606
    @spaceape9606 Před 17 dny +2

    That's a good interview.

  • @tastas8554
    @tastas8554 Před 18 dny +3

    Music seems to water the spiritual side of ourselves

  • @BrookoOT1878
    @BrookoOT1878 Před 15 dny +3

    Top guy

  • @paulbrown7681
    @paulbrown7681 Před 2 dny

    Incredible honesty.

  • @scorpius1672
    @scorpius1672 Před 7 dny +1

    Adam is a legend

  • @jasonfallon4968
    @jasonfallon4968 Před 22 dny +2

    Great to be here on my own 😂

  • @maxbialystock254
    @maxbialystock254 Před 27 dny +8

    What a thing it would be for Tommy to be on Joe Rogan. Shake the world

  • @dustykeleher
    @dustykeleher Před 15 dny +1

    Wow. great interview.

  • @user-ju1os1bm8d
    @user-ju1os1bm8d Před dnem

    Amo este.tipo.y u2...la humildad de los grandes ese es mi adam!!
    ..

  • @Timpriestley
    @Timpriestley Před 23 dny +2

    I love listening to Adam (in the few occasions he gets to talk...) He should do more stuff by himself.

  • @terribrown4178
    @terribrown4178 Před 4 dny +1

    Loved it💕

  • @willielarsson9651
    @willielarsson9651 Před 10 dny

    First time viewer, really great show. Powerful. You interview approach brings out the best in your guests. I'm going to check out more. Thanks

  • @samirbhavsar4916
    @samirbhavsar4916 Před 7 hodinami

    Love Adam!! ❤

  • @jamesmorris5537
    @jamesmorris5537 Před 4 dny +1

    Nice HUMBLE Chap

  • @Saywhatnow-o3w
    @Saywhatnow-o3w Před 3 dny

    Adam’s a good lad☘️

  • @benking8610
    @benking8610 Před 13 dny

    Fantastic interview!

  • @markbrooks5781
    @markbrooks5781 Před 14 dny

    Lovely stuff this is , absolutely fascinating. 👏

  • @ozzie-sk9dh
    @ozzie-sk9dh Před 27 dny +3

    It’s interesting that Adam was only five when he moved to Dublin but he still has a full on English accent. 😀

    • @alanoconnor7417
      @alanoconnor7417 Před 21 dnem +1

      You won't lose a posh accent living in Malahide!

    • @jaysterling26
      @jaysterling26 Před 15 dny +1

      I think his first school had the English/ Welsh curriculum - therefore, British teachers plus his family had the same accent?
      The Edge apparently had a Welsh accent with his family but a Dublin one with others. Incidentally, I was probably born in the same room ( well, same hospital) as The Edge, then again, Billy Bragg may have been born there as well.. oh, well..

    • @whynotbekind
      @whynotbekind Před 13 dny

      no disrespect to dave but i'd be, er, bragging more about the bard of barking part of this story.

  • @MrCryian
    @MrCryian Před 2 dny

    Nice to see Roy Keane interviewing Adam..

  • @samueljwarner
    @samueljwarner Před 16 dny +1

    40 years? Closer to 50 years really.

  • @natmanprime4295
    @natmanprime4295 Před 25 dny

    wow i thought he disliked the album unforgettable fire! i remember him saying Pride was he only track he liked on it or something. i'm glad about that

  • @michaelthomas-pi2dt
    @michaelthomas-pi2dt Před 2 dny

    Nice guy.

  • @Dignity4allhumanity
    @Dignity4allhumanity Před 3 dny

    Heard a whisper bono is organising a gig in the humanitarian tunnels of Gaza

  • @edwardkelly9584
    @edwardkelly9584 Před 20 dny +1

    Sit up straight Tommy.

  • @schizophrenicfrank7

    All seeing Eye.👀

  • @stevesmith581
    @stevesmith581 Před 15 dny

    Probably not a word but I was referring to Mr. Clayton not the guy in the silly hat

  • @Rob1nson
    @Rob1nson Před 21 dnem +1

    Terrible start from interviewer, but a lovely ending.

  • @ReggieDunlop100
    @ReggieDunlop100 Před 26 dny +5

    Tommy nails it at 7:50….U2 blew it chasing commerce over art.
    For example, No Line on the Horizon could have been another great album. Instead they obsessed over sales by putting too many cr@p pop songs on it. They have lost their way since

    • @johncoltrane7899
      @johncoltrane7899 Před 24 dny +3

      Agree. They started writing songs for stadiums. Wish they'd go back to experimentation as that's where they're exciting.

    • @thedudeabides3138
      @thedudeabides3138 Před 17 dny

      There’s a massive drop off in quality from when their longtime collaborator and producer Steve Lillywhite left them.
      Their work with Brian Eno was when they were at their zenith, that “sound” that they morphed into post Rattle and Hum which made them sound so bravely different just disappeared when he no longer worked with them. Now all their work just sounds flat and uninteresting….and that is something you could never say about their earlier work right up to Zooropa.

    • @whynotbekind
      @whynotbekind Před 13 dny

      completely agree. am i the only one in the world who thinks thaf 'passengers' is their masterpiece? imagine if they had carried on down that road with brian ... it would have been a much more interesting radiohead-type musical journey and would probably still have had stadiums on the way ...

  • @kennethabbott4866
    @kennethabbott4866 Před 10 dny

    They ruined their legacy by being never Trumpers, he is a perfect example of what they sing about, that put them in flake category!

    • @Saywhatnow-o3w
      @Saywhatnow-o3w Před 3 dny

      What was Trump doing dancing with Jeffrey Epstein?

  • @katoness
    @katoness Před 4 dny

    Not a big fan of U2, always thought Clayton was up his own arse, age seems to be a good thing for him.

  • @jude999
    @jude999 Před 18 dny

    The only guy who looks better now than he did 40 years ago. The interviewer is a bore.

  • @mrdeafa25
    @mrdeafa25 Před 26 dny

    His hairdresser has worked miracles covering a receding hairline with that quiff that just hangs in mid-air.

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 Před 25 dny +4

      You are mad with jealousy, how's your hair today

    • @DonHalli
      @DonHalli Před 25 dny +13

      Thats a full head of hair. He's looking great. Good on him.

  • @gargdallas5564
    @gargdallas5564 Před 21 dnem +3

    What a horrible interviewer kept the atmosphere grim quiet hospital waiting room like or was it my boy Adam Clayton in his style of long answers idk Sure cover his downs in life, but what about his base playing???

  • @rocketboy9127
    @rocketboy9127 Před 21 dnem

    F.hell...😮 didn't know all this shit.... l alway tought tha he Was ok 👀

  • @user-re9fu2ov6u
    @user-re9fu2ov6u Před 9 dny

    Wake up Ireland 📢 these are pathetic scripted interviews the pay the guests a fortune . Tell everyone how too pronounce wordssss . Embarrassing . .