Topic: News
Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004
u2log.com: U2 are reportedly agonizing over the title of their much-anticipated new album. Bono told the Sunday Mirror that he “doesn’t have a clue” what to name the album.
“I still don’t know if it is a boy, or a girl, or an elephant, which is always a difficult birth,” he told the tabloid. [
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“I still don’t know if it is a boy, or a girl, or an elephant, which is always a difficult birth,” he told the tabloid. [
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Montag, 14. Juni 2004
nydailynews.com: Bono went unrecognized at first when he arrived with five friends at The Prime Grill at around 3:30 p.m. When the rock star asked for coffee, the maitre d' pointed him toward the Starbucks down the street. Once another employee recognized him, the U2 front man got the java he was looking for. He and his crew, who stuck around for dinner, ended up staying for seven hours...
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Freitag, 11. Juni 2004
u2tour.de: Shane, ein irischer Freund von U2tour.de, hatte die Gelegenheit, Bono im Studio in Dublin zu treffen. Er hat nun für U2tour.de zwei exklusive Photos aus dem Innern des Studios zur Verfügung gestellt. [ more]
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Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2004
news.bbc.co.uk: Bob Geldof recently found pirate Live Aid DVDs being sold at £110 on the Internet. He spotted the DVDs on sale at the end of last year and told his lawyers to alert authorities, who launched an investigation.
Police carried out a raid in Skelmersdale and found a small quantity of Live Aid DVDs and other concerts by bands like Pink Floyd and U2.
The concert, split between London and Philadelphia, brought together stars including U2, Queen and Madonna - but has never come out on CD, video or DVD. Organisers now hope to auction the rights to release a DVD very soon. [ more]
Police carried out a raid in Skelmersdale and found a small quantity of Live Aid DVDs and other concerts by bands like Pink Floyd and U2.
The concert, split between London and Philadelphia, brought together stars including U2, Queen and Madonna - but has never come out on CD, video or DVD. Organisers now hope to auction the rights to release a DVD very soon. [
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interference.com: An Interference reader was lucky enough to meet Bono and Edge at the U2 studio in Dublin yesterday and got a taste of the upcoming U2 album, tentatively due in October/November 2004. The fan was "very excited" by what he heard. [ more]
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dotmusic: U2's new album will be released before the end of the year, according to comments from their manager Paul McGuiness.
The band have been working on the long-awaited follow-up to 2000's "All That You Can't Leave Behind", for some months.
However, the record is finally said to be nearing completion, McGuiness recently commented, hinting that the album should be out by November.
The currently untitled record is believed to have been produced by Chris Thomas and Steve Lillywhite, with Universal Records big-shout Jimmy Lovine now said to be overseeing final recordings with the band in France.
Details have already emerged of numerous tracks, including "Full Metal Jacket" – described by Bono as "the mother of all rock tunes" – and there is also understood to be a track called "Tough" on the album, which is a tribute to Bono's father, who died in 2001.
A single is expected from the album in September, with the band said to be kicking-off a world tour in Miami in March 2005.
The band have been working on the long-awaited follow-up to 2000's "All That You Can't Leave Behind", for some months.
However, the record is finally said to be nearing completion, McGuiness recently commented, hinting that the album should be out by November.
The currently untitled record is believed to have been produced by Chris Thomas and Steve Lillywhite, with Universal Records big-shout Jimmy Lovine now said to be overseeing final recordings with the band in France.
Details have already emerged of numerous tracks, including "Full Metal Jacket" – described by Bono as "the mother of all rock tunes" – and there is also understood to be a track called "Tough" on the album, which is a tribute to Bono's father, who died in 2001.
A single is expected from the album in September, with the band said to be kicking-off a world tour in Miami in March 2005.
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Dienstag, 8. Juni 2004
irishabroad.com: The next U2 album will be released this year, according to the band’s manager Paul McGuinness. He said the eagerly-awaited follow-up to All That You Can’t Leave Behind will hit the shops in November.
But he played down speculation that the band would embark on another huge stadium world tour. He said: “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.
“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.”
But he played down speculation that the band would embark on another huge stadium world tour. He said: “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.
“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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Montag, 7. Juni 2004
u2swisshome.com: Am 23. und 24. Juli 2001 gaben U2 nach achtjähriger Abszenz endlich wieder zwei Konzerte in der Schweiz. Diese zwei Konzerte bleiben für Schweizer U2 Fans in bester Erinnerung, wurden aber auch weltweit verewigt.
Das Photo, das auf dem Frontcover der U2 DVD "Elevation 2001 - U2 Live from Boston" zu sehen ist, stammt nämlich vom ersten dieser beiden Konzerte im Zürcher Hallenstadion. Dieses Photo hat Siggi Bucher für Reuters Schweiz geschossen.
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interference.com: Frequent U2 photographer Anton Corbijn has updated his online journal to include the following musings about his recent photo shoot with U2:
a quick update of the last 4 weeks in my life - life indeed flies by so i am trying to make the most of it by looking at many people and sights with one eye closed and then looking later again, once that vision is printed, with both eyes. do try this at home kids! with this method in mind, i visited portugal for a good few days at the end of april, early may, to see how that would work as a background for the new U2 photographs and i was pleasantly surprised.
a quick update of the last 4 weeks in my life - life indeed flies by so i am trying to make the most of it by looking at many people and sights with one eye closed and then looking later again, once that vision is printed, with both eyes. do try this at home kids! with this method in mind, i visited portugal for a good few days at the end of april, early may, to see how that would work as a background for the new U2 photographs and i was pleasantly surprised.
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Sonntag, 6. Juni 2004
metrowestdailynews.com: The international rock community was all atwitter for a time this week when rumors were flying around that U2 frontman and noted humanitarian Bono was going to announce plans for a second Live Aid concert -- a sequel to the massive, continent-spanning rock concert that raised money and awareness for the starving people of Ethiopia in 1985.
This time around, according to reports, funds raised would go toward one of Bono's most ardently-supported causing, the forgiveness of Third World debt.
Alas, Bono quickly scuttled the rumors, saying that even another mega-successful event like the first Live Aid would barely make a dent in the massive debt owed by underdeveloped countries. But with the 20th anniversary of the landmark charitable effort looming, the thought of a second Live Aid briefly seemed like a viable and exciting proposition. [ more]
This time around, according to reports, funds raised would go toward one of Bono's most ardently-supported causing, the forgiveness of Third World debt.
Alas, Bono quickly scuttled the rumors, saying that even another mega-successful event like the first Live Aid would barely make a dent in the massive debt owed by underdeveloped countries. But with the 20th anniversary of the landmark charitable effort looming, the thought of a second Live Aid briefly seemed like a viable and exciting proposition. [
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