Topic: News
Sonntag, 28. November 2004
bbc.co.uk: Tonight Jonathan chats to Little Britain comedy heroes, Matt Lucas and David Walliams; Jessica Stevenson from Space and the Royle Family; and U2, who also perform two tracks from their new album. [
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scotsman.com: IT COULD be one of the most glamorous partnerships in the world of entertainment: Bono, lead singer of U2, is sizing up the owner of Lara Croft, the busty computer games heroine.
Troubled computer games publisher Eidos, which owns the Tomb Raider title, put itself on the block last summer after a series of profit warnings and delayed games launches.
Sources say chief executive Mike McGarvey is keen to stage a management buyout, and has been talking to two venture capital funds. [ more]
Troubled computer games publisher Eidos, which owns the Tomb Raider title, put itself on the block last summer after a series of profit warnings and delayed games launches.
Sources say chief executive Mike McGarvey is keen to stage a management buyout, and has been talking to two venture capital funds. [
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Samstag, 27. November 2004
omaha.com: The new U2 album has an Omaha connection.
Lead singer Bono thanks Susan T. Buffett, the late wife of Omaha investor Warren Buffett, in the liner notes of the new CD, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." The CD hit stores Tuesday.
The Buffetts and Bono have become close in recent years as they have worked on similar causes. The rock singer was in Omaha in August to sing at Susan Buffett's funeral.
In the liner notes at the back of the CD booklet, Bono thanks "all on the DATA campaign." DATA - an acronym standing for Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa - is Bono's nonprofit foundation. The Buffett's daughter, Susan A. Buffett, serves on the board.
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Lead singer Bono thanks Susan T. Buffett, the late wife of Omaha investor Warren Buffett, in the liner notes of the new CD, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." The CD hit stores Tuesday.
The Buffetts and Bono have become close in recent years as they have worked on similar causes. The rock singer was in Omaha in August to sing at Susan Buffett's funeral.
In the liner notes at the back of the CD booklet, Bono thanks "all on the DATA campaign." DATA - an acronym standing for Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa - is Bono's nonprofit foundation. The Buffett's daughter, Susan A. Buffett, serves on the board.
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mercurynews.com: Frankly, it's been a while since U2 made a great album. The band rolled out a series of iconic records in the '80s, including ``The Joshua Tree,'' which was the final word on spiritual, conscience-driven music at the time. But in the '90s, the group tried to outpace its own fame with a baffling array of self-absorbed discs, pursuing a postmodern, dance-club hipster path that was trendy but smacked of dilettante interlopers sacrificing their soul to stay ahead of an impossibly commercial curve.
Those days seem to be over. The new U2 album, ``How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb,'' which came out Tuesday, is the band's most personal record since ``The Joshua Tree.'' It's not only a joy to see the group rekindle its shimmering '80s guitar-pop sound (with original producer Steve Lillywhite back for many tracks), it's also encouraging to know that the music comes so strongly from the gut once again, without the latest techno-experimental production techniques. [ more]
Those days seem to be over. The new U2 album, ``How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb,'' which came out Tuesday, is the band's most personal record since ``The Joshua Tree.'' It's not only a joy to see the group rekindle its shimmering '80s guitar-pop sound (with original producer Steve Lillywhite back for many tracks), it's also encouraging to know that the music comes so strongly from the gut once again, without the latest techno-experimental production techniques. [
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dailysouthtown.com: Several hundred people showed up Wednesday for an impromptu U2 concert outside U.S. Cellular Field. Too bad it was just a tribute band.
The hoax was organized by Erich "Mancow" Muller and the gang at Q101's "Mancow's Morning Madhouse" (WXQX-FM, 101.1). At the start of Wednesday's radio show, they advised listeners to stay tuned for "a U2 surprise."
Fans flocked to a parking lot near Sox park when Mancow said the legendary Irish band would kick off a set at 8 a.m.
The event was believable because U2 played a surprise outdoor concert Monday near the Brooklyn Bridge. The 45-minute set in New York was part of a media blitz to promote their new album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," which was released Tuesday. [ more]
The hoax was organized by Erich "Mancow" Muller and the gang at Q101's "Mancow's Morning Madhouse" (WXQX-FM, 101.1). At the start of Wednesday's radio show, they advised listeners to stay tuned for "a U2 surprise."
Fans flocked to a parking lot near Sox park when Mancow said the legendary Irish band would kick off a set at 8 a.m.
The event was believable because U2 played a surprise outdoor concert Monday near the Brooklyn Bridge. The 45-minute set in New York was part of a media blitz to promote their new album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," which was released Tuesday. [
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Donnerstag, 25. November 2004
fmqb.com: It was an impressive opening day of sales for U2's new CD, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. One day reports from retailers showed the CD could be trending towards 900,000 sold for the week. Here is the number of units sold as reported by various retailers: Best Buy - 100,000; Target - 61,000; Circuit City - 32,000; Andersons - 20,000; Tower Records - 13,000. [ more]
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bergen.com: "A feeling is so much stronger than a thought," Bono declares in "Vertigo," the deliciously dizzy opening track on U2's triumphant new album, and the song is, indeed, pure feeling - an adrenaline rush that, like a classic Bruce Springsteen road anthem, makes you want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. [ more]
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Mittwoch, 24. November 2004
canada.com: For more than two decades, Irish rockers U2 have made a ritual of mapping out different musical trails for themselves with each new album, sometimes with mixed success, but always sounding fresh and reinvigorated by the journey.
That's no small task for a band formed in the late 1970s, its members now in their mid-40s, most with families in tow, and with years of commercial and critical success having already assured them a perch in rock 'n roll history. [ more]
That's no small task for a band formed in the late 1970s, its members now in their mid-40s, most with families in tow, and with years of commercial and critical success having already assured them a perch in rock 'n roll history. [
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washingtonpost.com: Almost everything you may have heard is true. Already much discussed, downloaded, advertised and mythologized, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" isn't the best album of U2's career -- a distinction that still belongs to "The Joshua Tree" -- but it's the band's finest work in more than a decade. [ more]
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undercover.com.au: Next week's Australian chart is shaping up for a battle between U2 and Kylie Minogue from the number one position.
U2 has the edge midweek with 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' in front of 'The Ultimate Kylie' but Gwen Stefani is also showing good form with her 'Love Angel Music Baby' album looking like it will have the third highest debut of next week. [ more]
U2 has the edge midweek with 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' in front of 'The Ultimate Kylie' but Gwen Stefani is also showing good form with her 'Love Angel Music Baby' album looking like it will have the third highest debut of next week. [
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