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Bono makes "animal noises" to warm up for U2's concerts.
The 55-year-old singer prepares his vocal cords by shouting, singing and emitting chicken-like clucks before taking to the stage on the band's current 'Innocence + Experience Tour'.
However, he will only do his warm up routine on his own as he'd be embarrassed if anyone saw him going through his pre-gig ritual.
Speaking to Chris Moyles on his Radio X breakfast show, Bono revealed: "I make animal noises before I go on stage, I've heard other singers, and people you really admire in the TV studio, doing the same thing. I could never do that, I couldn't do it in public, but I do now, I make those clucking sounds. If you happen to be in a bathroom near U2's dressing room, that might be me."
While Bono clucks like a chicken, his bandmate Adam Clayton warms up his "wrist" before taking to the stage.
Despite the rock band's four-decade spanning career, the bassist admits he still gets nervous about performing some songs and at the moment he always gets butterflies about playing 'Cedarwood Road' and 'Idris (Hold Me Close)' from their latest LP 'Songs of Innocence'.
He admitted: "There are certain songs that I have a little bit of anxiety about, for the first 10 years 'Streets' was one of those. 'Cedarwood Road' is like that at the moment and 'Iris', another 10 years and I'll probably have no anxiety around them. I genuinely feel nauseous on the day of a show, I wake up and feel a little odd."
U2 - also comprised of The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr. - were speaking on The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X which is broadcast every week day between 6.30am and 10am via the digital radio platform D1 and on 104.9FM in London and 97.7FM in Manchester.

Katy Perry joined Madonna on stage on Tuesday night (27.10.15) to toast her latest 'Rebel Heart World Tour' concert with a shot from a banana bottle.
The 'Roar' hitmaker surprised fans at the sold-out Forum in Los Angeles when she joined the Queen of Pop during her set closer 'Unapologetic Bitch' along with Diplo and Anderson Cooper.
Firstly, Katy twerked against Madonna as the legend playfully slapped her butt and then performed a series of sl*t drop dance moves around her fellow music minx.
Katy, 31, couldn't contain her excitement at getting the chance to gyrate with Madonna, 57, and grinned from ear-to-ear and giggled as finished twerking before grabbing the microphone from her idol and jokingly shouting "I love you mom".
The pair then celebrated the show by each taking a swig from the unusual fruit-shaped container, although Katy looked unsure before downing the mystery drink she shouted "It's Tuesday? See you on Friday!" and then took her gulp.
Following her impromptu appearance, Katy posted on her Instagram account: "Well, that was unrehearsed but ILY @madonna my QUEEN ... Because all popstars are code "mom" #meta @madonna #Repost @tiersz (sic)"
Madonna was just as thrilled as Katy with their dance-off and drink.
She wrote on Twitter: "Sharing a Banana with Katy Perry!! Highlight of my show at the Forum! Thanks Katherine ... Best Unapologetic bitch ever! Thank you Katy! Thank you L.A. (sic)"

Ringo Starr thinks his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was long overdue.
The 75-year-old rocker was given a place on the coveted list in April, 15 years after The Beatles were included as a band, but thinks he should have received a spot some time ago, especially as all his former bandmates were already incorporated as solo artists.
Congratulated on his inclusion by the New York Daily News newspaper's Confidenti@l column, he replied: "It was about time and thank you.
"I was in there, as we all were, as the Beatles, but I was the last one to get in as a solo artist.
"Apart from that, I thought it was great. I thought it was a great honour -- thank you, Lord! -- for something I do really well, which is drum."
Ringo - who has been on tour since February, released a new album in March and a collection of his personal photos in September - insists he has no plans to slow down, despite his advancing years.
He said: "I've always had that energy that if I'm going to do something, then I do it.
"I don't think, 'Oh, God, I don't want do it.' If I've said yes -- and I have that privilege of saying yes or no to things -- but if I say yes, then I do it."

John Legend is writing a song for his unborn child.
The 'All Of Me' crooner used to think he would never be able to replicate the level of emotion that Stevie Wonder reached in the hit 'Isn't She Lovely' - written for the birth of his daughter, Aisha - but after his wife Chrissy Teigen got pregnant, the singer felt compelled to put pen to paper for his own bundle of joy.
The Sports Illustrated model shared: "A few years ago, a lot of people were writing songs when they got pregnant and he was like, 'I just don't feel like I'm gonna be that guy, I'm not gonna write a song. I think (of) Stevie (Wonder) with 'Isn't She Lovely,' I think how can you do any better than that? I'm just not gonna be that guy.
"(Then) yesterday he texted me, like, 'Writing a song for our baby!'"
Meanwhile, the couple - who plan to raise their child in California - were recently pictured together on a couch while John, 36, rested his hand on his wife's stomach.
But Chrissy, 29, revealed the sweet photograph took a bit of "staging".
She told FABLife: "I love that photo because it looks so natural, but I'll tell you how much staging was behind that: it was a lot! There was a table in the background, I was like, 'We gotta get this table out!'"

Justin Bieber has compared his musical transition to Justin Timberlake.
The 21-year-old singer has returned to music with a more grown up sound and says it is similar to when Timberlake ditched his boy band roots for his 2006 record ' FutureSex/LoveSounds'.
He told BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Nick Grimshaw: "Look at Justin Timberlake. You know, he was in NSYNC and of course they had an amazing sound but it was also, it was young. It was for teenagers.
"And I feel when he transitioned and started making 'Sexy Back' and stuff, he really found something that was unique to what he was feeling and what he wanted to do. So I think it takes time as an artist to develop your style and develop what you like and what you don't like."
Justin will release his new LP 'Purpose' on November 13 and chose that name as he wants to inspire people.
He explained: "You know, I named the album 'Purpose'. And the reason why I named it 'Purpose' was because for a while there I feel like I lost my purpose/ And I feel like I found my purpose again. So just maybe that message to say, no matter how far you feel like you're away from yourself or you feel like you don't have your purpose or you don't know what your purpose is or you feel like you lost your purpose, there's always room to find that purpose again."

50 Cent chilled with DJ Skitz over a £28 cup of tea.
The 'P.I.M.P' hitmaker hung out with the 'Where My Mind Is At' producer, who also claimed the rapper's entire hotel floor "stunk of weed" when he visited the UK.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, Skitz said: "I've got to say, when we were in the hotel room waiting for 50 Cent to come and do the interview, we were looking at the breakfast menu and it was £28 for a cup of tea. We interviewed a lot of Roc-A-Fella artists ... that was really amusing. Because we went to the top, he hired out the whole of the floor.
"Literally you got to his floor, the lift opened and there was people smoking weed, there was a butler there giving everyone champagne, the whole hotel stunk of weed but just on that one floor. It was a family vibe, and there was extended family just running around in the corridor."
Meanwhile, Skitz thinks American rappers have been heavily influenced by the UK hip hop scene.
He added: "I've shared a lot of stages, I've supported Jay Z, and I've supported Kanye West. But hanging out with The Roots, when The Roots came and lived in London for a bit - and they had a house in London - I used to take them their weed. Seeing them soak up the English scene and embrace the culture and really get totally inspired - and then go back to America and completely blow up - that is interesting for me and inspiring. It kind of makes me feel that the English scene is amazing."
DJ Skitz is set to perform with his long-term collaborator Rodney P at the Beat Box Championships supported by Relentless Energy Drink on November 7 - in London's iconic Clapham Grand.

Les McKeown thinks people in bands need "counselling".
The Bay City Rollers crooner - who's admitted to taking class A drugs and viagra, which resulted in a stint in rehab in 2008 - revealed life on the road can take its toll on musicians and end in "destructive" behaviour.
Les shared: "All joking aside, I think when you are in a band it is sensible to have counselling. When you're in a band, little things niggle you, you don't like the way that guy snores, it builds up and you think, 'I want to kill him'. It could blow up into a destructive thing."
Despite insisting musicians need help, the 'Bye Bye Baby' singer - who's set to release track 'Boomerang' at Christmas with the band, now comprised of Stuart 'Woody' Wood and bassist Alan Longmuir - admits his band mates "suffered in silence".
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "For six years from 2002 I was falling down a couple of bottles of whisky a day. I was cajoled into rehab, I went to satisfy them (his family). When I arrived I thought, 'What the f**k do these hippies know?' ... Woody and Alan have sometimes suffered in silence. They have been through as much and more than I've been through, but they didn't need counselling."

Pixie Lott says lying about her age to become a singer was a "good" move.
The 'Turn It Up' hitmaker was 14 when she deliberately told music bosses she was two-years-older so she could audition to be the next "pop diva" - but she's glad she did, because it was the first stepping stone to her success.
The blonde beauty confessed: "They said they were looking for the next pop diva, but you had to be 16 and I wasn't 16 at the time, so when I went for the audition I pretended I was 16 so that I could audition.
"When they said they wanted to work with me I had to spill the beans but they weren't too angry; they were actually happy, because I guess it gave them more time. That was the first step to meeting the right people, so it was a good milestone."
And the stunner - who's promoting her first podcast series 'Small Moments' - revealed she's had the "performing" bug ever since.
Pixie, 24, added: "Still to this day my favourite thing is performing. I remember the first proper gig I did was Radio 2 Introducing, at Maida Vale with Dermot O'Leary.
"I sort of felt like I'd been thrown in at the deep end. But I just thrived on it, absolutely loved it, and I just thought that if it's going to be like this I can't wait to do more."
Pixie Lott's podcast series, Small Moments, is available to download now from audioBoom: www.audioboom.com/channel/smallmoments

Take That "miss" Jason Orange.
Mark Owen has admitted that whilst the three-piece group - which now features him and his pals Gary Barlow and Howard Donald - feel "normal" now, they still think of their old band-mate from time to time and are missing having him around.
Mark, 43, revealed: "It feels normal now but we still miss Jason. But we know he's happy and he sent us an email the other week wishing us luck."
Jason announced he was leaving Take That in September last year after he realised he had no "wish" to continue with the music.
Speaking in a statement at the time, they said: "Jason's energy and belief in what this band could achieve has made it what it is today, and we'll forever be grateful for his enthusiasm, dedication and inspiration over the years."
But Mark insisted they've "settled" into their new format and are excited for their brand new single 'Hey Boy', which is the first new track to be taken from the 2015 edition of their hit album 'III', out on November 20.
He told The Sun newspaper: "We've settled into it now. We feel very ambitious as a band, the most we have in years."