Sonntag, 9. Mai 2004
atu2.com: Paul McGuinness is quoted in a Los Angeles Times article today which discusses the decline of stadium rock tours in recent years. Writer Randy Lewis says U2 is one of the few acts still capable of doing stadium tours, and poses the question to McGuinness which way the band will go next time out -- to stadiums or indoor?"It's a little hard to predict," U2's manager, Paul McGuinness, says."They haven't finished the new album yet, and the character of the new album and the new production will be the determining factors.
"Quite honestly," he says, "in the case of U2, it's more a function of what kind of music they want to do, rather than what kind of box-office gross they want to achieve.
"Certainly playing indoors is much easier, and the logistics are much more controlled," McGuinness says. "Now that high ticket prices indoors are accepted, if you're going to take the audience to a big outdoor event, you'd really have to be doing something very, very good, and we would take that responsibility very seriously. If we decide to go outdoors, it will be because it's worth doing something on a grand scale."
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kentucky.com: Earlier this year, Christian musicians rallied behind U2 front man Bono's charge for the church to fight the AIDS crisis in Africa.
They put together a 13-song CD of covers of U2 classics such as Sunday Bloody Sunday and Beautiful Day, with proceeds going to World-Vision's efforts to combat AIDS. For someone who's followed contemporary Christian music and U2 for two decades, it was so cool to finally see the faith community embrace a band and a man who has walked the walk outside the mainstream church for most of his career. It was even cooler to see it happen in the name of doing the work Jesus called us to do: reaching out to help the sick and the poor..
They put together a 13-song CD of covers of U2 classics such as Sunday Bloody Sunday and Beautiful Day, with proceeds going to World-Vision's efforts to combat AIDS. For someone who's followed contemporary Christian music and U2 for two decades, it was so cool to finally see the faith community embrace a band and a man who has walked the walk outside the mainstream church for most of his career. It was even cooler to see it happen in the name of doing the work Jesus called us to do: reaching out to help the sick and the poor..
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