Bunnymen echo through the years

Ian McCulloch tells Ed Power about his dislike of U2, and how music has helped him through some dark days

IT’S late to do so, but Echo and the Bunnymen’s singer, Ian McCulloch, is determined to have his say about U2’s controversial album ‘giveaway’ last year.

“It was a case of ‘you’re having us, even if you don’t want us’ — that’s like some kind of rape or something,” says McCulloch, referring to the deal with Apple whereby U2’s LP, Songs of Innocence, was crowbarred without consent into the inboxes of 300m iTunes customers.