Of course it isn’t Bono’s fault that Neil is such a crap pop star – it’s simply that Neil is ‘a genius at making shite decisions’, as his brother Ivan (Robert Sheehan) puts it. Even when Neil manages to get off with one of the few groupies of his tiny, flailing band Shook Up!, she turns out to be a U2 fan: a black-and-white poster of Bono, looking all serious and self-satisfied, peers at Neil as tries to get his end away. ‘A million people – it’s like having the population of a small country jumping up and down to your music’, says a bitter Neil (Ben Barnes). Every time he gets thrown out of a record company office he seems to come face to face with a billboard or bus advert for ‘U2’s new million-selling album The Unforgettable Fire‘. Neil starts to blame Bono for his own spectacular failings. It tells the true-ish story of Dublin-born Neil and his brother Ivan trying to make it in pop and/or rock while continually being overshadowed by their former schoolfriends Paul Hewson and Dave Evans – otherwise known as Bono and The Edge, whose band The Hype later becomes U2 and conquers the world, while Neil and Ivan scrape by in a dingy flat in London where their numerous record company rejection letters are pinned to the wall in the shape of the word ‘WANKERS’. The film is based on rock critic Neil McCormick’s book, I Was Bono’s Doppelgänger.
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