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post 3rd February 2014, 09:45 PM
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So the album isn't even finished yet? sad.gif
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post 5th February 2014, 07:06 AM
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Bono: 'U2 are on the verge of irrelevance'

The frontman said in an interview with BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe that the band are still working on their upcoming 13th studio album, after releasing their latest song Invisible as a free download after the Super Bowl on Sunday (February 2).

When asked if it was difficult to stay relevant, Bono said: "We're on the verge of irrelevance. You have to make stuff relevant to you and where you're at, make an honest account of what you're going through. If that's relevant to other people, great. But we don't know."

The singer added that U2 should have the new record ready in two month's time, explaining: "We're here in this great nation, in this capital, in some dank basement where there were mice earlier. We call it the oil rig."

He also opened up on the inspiration on the album, saying: "We went back to why we wanted to be in a band in the first place... We were listening to The Ramones and Kraftwerk - you can hear both on Invisible. It opened up a whole valve for me writing, it was like a dam-burst of sorts."

The band raised over €1.5m for charity by donating the proceeds from the sales of Invisible to help the fight against Aids.

U2 made the new song available as a free download for 24 hours with the Bank of America giving Bono's charity Red $1, or 73c, a download.


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post 5th February 2014, 09:41 PM
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U2's Super Bowl Ad Raised Over $3 Million Via Free Downloads (Video)
12:22 PM PST 2/5/2014 by Andrew Hampp, Billboard

U2's exclusive premiere of new single "Invisible" during the Super Bowl, in partnership with (RED) and Bank of America, raised more than $3 million for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in 36 hours through free downloads on iTunes, the band announced Tuesday. The success of the campaign prompted Bank of America to exceed its initial pledge of $2 million. All proceeds from additional copies of "Invisible" sold for $1.29 beginning today, will be donated to the Global Fund as well.

Released Sunday afternoon, “Invisible” saw more than 1 million free downloads within the first hour after the commercial aired during the first quarter of the Super Bowl telecast. By the time the free downloads ended just before midnight EST Monday night, the song had generated more than 3 million free downloads. “Invisible” is also expected to preview U2’s upcoming studio album, slated for release in late spring/early summer.
Since being co-founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver in 2006, (RED) has raised more than $250 million for the Global Fund to drive corporate donations in the fight against AIDS. Bank Of America’s recent contribution is part of a two-year, $10 million commitment by the company.
"These are much-needed funds for the fight to end the AIDS pandemic in our lifetime and to get closer to the goal of eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015," Deborah Dugan, CEO of (RED) said in a statement.
Anne Finucane, global strategy and marketing officer, Bank of America added, "U2 provides the talent, (RED) brings a wealth of experience in the fight against AIDS, and we offer an immense platform to help get the message out. Together, we can produce significant results, as evidenced by the awareness we’ve been able to build and money we’ve been able to raise over the past few days."
Sunday’s Super Bowl was a record telecast in terms of halftime show viewers and music licenses, with the top three publishers reporting more than 20 major synch licenses in featured commercials.
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post 6th February 2014, 08:06 PM
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Berlin: John Carney’s ‘Sing Street’ With U2′s Bono And The Edge To Be Sold Offshore By FilmNation


After the stampede at Toronto to land domestic rights to John Carney‘s Can A Song Save Your Life?, here’s a Berlin title worth paying attention to. FilmNation Entertainment has been selected to sell international rights to Carney’s next film, which will begin production this summer in Dublin. Called Sing Street, the pic is autobiographical in tone, and Carney’s fellow Irishman pals U2′s Bono and The Edge will take part in the film’s music and in the film itself. The latter might mean some screen time, and it is a safe bet to say that after Can A Song Save Your Life?, that Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine will have a movie career if he wants one. Pic is a co-production with Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and Carney’s Distressed Films, in partnership with PalmStar’s Kevin Frakes and Merced Media Partners’ Raj Brinder Singh in the U.S. along with Paul Trijbits and Christian Grass (FilmWave) in the UK. WME are handling the US rights for the film.

car“John Carney has carved out a genre of his own — beautiful, soulful movies packed with longing, love, and music. Sing Street is his Cinema Paradiso — the musical film answer to where it all came from,” said Bregman.

Like his earlier films Once and Can A Song Save Your Life?, Sing Street is inspired by John’s life and love for music, and tells the story of a 14-year-old growing up in 80’s Dublin who must break free of a home strained by his parents’ relationship and money troubles, deal with his drop-out older brother’s antics, and survive a new public school where the kids are rough and the brothers are tougher. So he writes a song, forms a scrappy band with some school mates, writes more songs, and shoots some wicked music videos. How to shoot pop videos in a recession ridden country? Beg, borrow and steal. And steal. But when he realizes he can’t save his family, he must make a family of his own. What better way than to start than to run away with 15-year-old wannabe model girlfriend across the sea to London, the Emerald city, where their shared dreams might, or might not come true.


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post 8th February 2014, 04:54 PM
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Turns out rocker Bono is really just a teddy boy





Duffy Mooney-Sheppard from Dundrum pictured holding Greg's Bear[ which belonged to a deceased friend of Bono] in front of Greg's Bear portrait by Photographer Mark Nixon Teddy , and her own teddy bear called Teddy, which she found in a skip when she was 9. Both Teddy bears and many others are part of a Teddy Bear exhibition which opened in the Ark in Temple Bar last evening.



A BELOVED bear owned by U2's Bono and his wife Ali Hewson is just one of more than 100 teddies on show in a new exhibition.


The show at the children's arts and cultural venue, The Ark, was first displayed in London's Victoria and Albert museum in 2003 to mark the centenary of the teddy bear and began touring around Britain and America in 2013.

The exhibition features the Hewsons' toy, known to them as 'Greg's Bear', as it belonged to their late friend Greg Carroll.

"We have tried to give it an Irish twist," curator of The Ark Aideen Lynch explained.

"So we have a handful of bears called the Tara Bears on display that were made in Mayo and some teddy bears on loan from The Dolls Store Hospital & Museum."

"Teddy bears have a very interesting history in Ireland," said Ms Lynch. "During World War II, Ireland increased their production of teddy bears to meet demands from Britain. So we had a sort of 'teddy bear boom'."

The exhibition, which runs at The Ark till April 6, includes photographic portraits from Mark Nixon's 'Much Loved' book.

Staff members of The Ark have donated their childhood teddies to the cause.

Duffy Mooney-Sheppard (27), from Dundrum, Dublin, found her prized teddy bear in a skip.

"I loved him because he had no eyes," she said. "I was nine years old and thought if I loved him enough he would come to life," she said. Visitors to the exhibition are encouraged to bring their own teddy bears to enhance the experience.

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post 9th February 2014, 03:10 PM
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9 Biggest Revelations in Bono’s ‘BBC’ Interview About U2



New album insecurities, dingy recording studios and...Kraftwerk influence !!




Even though U2′s upcoming album isn’t finished yet – more on that in a bit – the band’s charitable opening salvo “Invisible” has allowed Bono to share nuggets of info about the album and the band’s current state of mind. The singer called into Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show for a frank discussion of the group’s past, present and future. Here’s what we learned:

1. A U2 Album Isn’t Done Until It’s Done
“Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real,” said Bono. “With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores. It’s tricky getting us four boys across the line. But we are very thrilled with ‘Invisible.’ I’m just delighted that there are still people that are interested in us. We’re at nearly two-and-a-half million downloads and there were one million downloads in one hour Sunday. You never really know. With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‘Are people interested?’ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.”

2. There’s No Official Album Title, But At Least One Working Title
When Lowe asked what the band’s “stupidest working title” was, Bono replied, “Insecurity. Somebody drew a picture of somebody in a riot with a big mullet and it just said – instead of Security on the back of the jacket – it just said Insecurity. That was our working title, but that is not the title though.”

3. They’re Incorporating Both Punk and Electronic Music on the New Album
“We listened to all this extraordinary music in the late seventies and started to think about those times and the things that made us who we were,” said the singer. “We went back to why we wanted to be in a band in the first place. It opened up a whole valve for me writing and it was a dam burst of sorts. Punk rock and electronic [music] was when it started for us. We were listening to the Ramones and Kraftwerk and you can hear both of those things on ‘Invisible.’”

4. Bono Channeled His Younger, Struggling Self for “Invisible”
“I was writing about leaving home with just enough rage to see it through and this feeling of arriving in London, sleeping in the station and coming out into the punk rock explosion that was happening,” recalled Bono. “There were really wild extraordinary people and then you feel deeply not extraordinary. You feel invisible and you’re screaming to be seen and you’ve got your band and this is your whole life. It’s that feeling of getting out of town.”

5. They’re Still Working on the Album
Bono said he hopes to finish the album “in a couple of months,” but cautioned that, “It’s finished when it’s finished.” The singer raised an optimistic note, though, saying that, “People are feeling very upbeat about things.”



6. More Girls, Less Overalls
Collectively, U2′s net worth is in the hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars, yet they’re still recording in dingy surroundings. “We’re here in this great nation, in this capital, in some dank basement. Where I’m calling from, as we speak, there were mice spotted earlier,” said Bono. “We call it the Oil Rig. Why is it that we always end up hanging out with men in overalls? You start a band when you’re 17 and then you get a crew if you’re lucky and they’re all in overalls and then you go to the studio and there’s more people in overalls. Not enough girls. Please, girls out there, start twiddling those knobs.”

7. They love James Mercer, Danger Mouse and Broken Bells
“We have Danger Mouse working with us,” said the singer. “He’s a great soul and beautiful dude and the [Broken Bells] album is pretty amazing. [It's got] extraordinary, melancholy melodies. As a singer, let me say: This boy [James Mercer] really knows how to be truthful in the telling of the lyrics he writes. There’s something about his voice that is very compelling. The kid’s a star! [Laughs]

8. They Want to Tour in Indoor Venues, Like the “Intimate” 20,000-Capacity O2 Arena
“We love those big outdoors shows, but for these tunes, we’re going to start indoors,” said Bono. “We played a ballroom the other night for Sean Penn. It was for 200 people and it was interesting playing on a little stage. Sometimes, we want to dye those roots.”

9. The Band Thought They Might Be Irrelevant
Asked if the group had any doubts about maintaining their success, Bono admitted, “We were trying to figure out, ‘Why would anyone want another U2 album?’ And then we said, ‘Well, why would we want one?’ There was some unfinished business. We felt like we were on the verge of irrelevance a lot in our lives. How you get through is to make stuff that’s relevant to you and you have to make an honest account of what you’re going through.
“For me, I poured what I’m going through now back through the eye of the experience I had when I first started being in a band and that’s what opened me up. If that is relevant to other people, then great; that would be a thrill. But we don’t know. I think ‘Invisible’ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is. We’ll find out if we’re irrelevant. I’m perfectly prepared for people to try and blow us off the stage. We’re just not going to make it easy.” – Rolling Stone


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post 10th February 2014, 06:34 PM
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Bono champions a new clothing line




Rocker Bono, lead singer of the band U2, stood behind his new clothing line focused on Africa at a runway show on Sunday night.
Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson, founded Edun for people who are looking for breezy designs made in Africa. Although Bono works with many charitable causes, his staff at Edun emphasized that it’s not about handouts. Designer Danielle Sherman told the Associated Press, "Its core mission is to give people work. That's really the ethos."
Edun produces clothes in Kenya and Madagascar. The clothes from Edun include texture blocking and weaving. The fashion line incorporates faux fur, and Sherman says that there’s an “art student feeling to it.” Clothing from Edun can be found in the United States and Canada and is available at Barneys in New York.
Bono, whose band U2 catapulted to stardom in the early eighties, shows no sign of narrowing his interests. The fashion line seems to fit a larger pattern of raising awareness for those who deserve better. He has recently been busy promoting his music. He raised $3 million for RED, after releasing his new single “Invisible” after the Super Bowl.

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post 11th February 2014, 07:02 PM
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Inside the Oscar Nominees Luncheon: Bono Tells a Secret, David O. Russell Makes a Deal


The U2 singer says his band will be performing on the Oscars, while Russell books a different singer for his next movie

Bono revealed that U2 will be performing on the Oscars, David O. Russell offered Merry Clayton a song in his next movie and Alfonso Cuaron got a chance to tell Spike Jonze how much he loved “Her,” which he hadn’t seen until recently.

Those were some of the things that happened inside the Oscar Nominees Luncheon on Monday, the yearly gathering at which nominees are invited to mingle, make new friends, glory in their nominee-ness and ignore the fact that in less than three weeks, the opening of 24 envelopes will cruelly separate them into winners and losers.


At the lunch, which the Academy has been throwing since the 1980s, nominees are spread out so that nobody sits with anybody in their category or anybody from their film. Among those who came to pose for the annual class photo and receive their certificates of nomination were Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, Amy Adams, Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale and Bruce Dern from the lead actor and actress categories; Jared Leto, Barkhad Abdi, Bradley Cooper, June Squibb and Lupita Nyong’o from the supporting categories; and directors Russell, Cuaron, Steve McQueen, Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese.

But few of them got as much attention as Bono, the U2 singer who was listed in the program as Paul Hewson but introduced under his stage name when the roll of nominees was called.

“This feels like recess after the oil rig I’ve been working on,” Bono joked to TheWrap about the break he took from the recording of U2’s new album. (His three bandmates stayed on the oil rig, which is to say in the recording studio.)

He also said that while the Academy has yet to announce it, U2 will perform their nominated song “Ordinary Love” on the Oscar show. “It’ll be the only band performance of the song,” he said. “After Mandela died, we didn’t think it would be right to release it as a single, because it would seem like we were trying to capitalize. So we’re going to do it this once – but it’s a pretty good place to do it.”


Bono also said he’d pitched Oscar show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and former Academy president Sid Ganis, on an idea he has for the red carpet at next year’s Oscars. 2015, he explained, will be a crucial year in the global fight to eradicate AIDS – so he’d like the beginning of the Oscar red carpet to sport a pair of parentheses, the logo of his Red program.

“We have red iPods, red clothes – why not a red carpet?” he said. “We’ll have a camera looking down on the parentheses, and then the stars can all stand in the parentheses and look up.” Ganis, who worked with U2 on the release of the movie “Rattle and Hum” 25 years ago, said he was all for the idea, and Bono said the show’s producers were supportive as well.

Elsewhere at the luncheon, Zadan gave the usual producers’ speech in which he asked the nominees to keep their speeches to 45 seconds or less, and to speak “from your heart, not from a list.”

Added the producer, “I was told not to remind you that there will be over a billion people watching” – a line that he might have been told not to use because the Academy and ABC admitted more than a decade ago that it was a lie, and that the accurate tally of Oscar viewers is the far more modest and vaguer “hundreds of millions.”

Also read: Security Workers Disrupt Oscar Nominees Luncheon, Protest Academy’s Use of ‘Irresponsible’ Non-Union Firm

When the nominees were called to the riser for the annual photo, Lupita Nyong’o, Matthew McConaughey, Martin Scorsese and cinematographer Roger Deakins were among those getting the loudest rounds of applause, while Pharrell Williams once again took the prize for the biggest hat.

Afterwards, nominees mingled and made new acquaintances – few more excitedly than “American Hustle” writer-director David O. Russell, who was so thrilled to meet singer Merry Clayton, who is featured in the nominated documentary “20 Feet From Stardom,” that he began singing some of Clayton’s lines from the Rolling Stones’ classic “Gimme Shelter.”

“It’s just a shot away, it’s just a shot away!” sang Russell, before pointing at Clayton. “I have died and gone to heaven – this is Merry Clayton!”

He then wrapped Clayton in a big hug and told her that he wanted her to sing a song in his next movie. “I hope you mean it,” she said.

“I do,” Russell insisted. “This is going to happen. I promise!”

http://www.thewrap.com/academy-awards-nomi...luncheon-photos


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And I expect they'll win the Oscar too. Bono is loved in LaLaLand.
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U2′s Bono Does His Nelson Mandela Impression (Audio)






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U2 are apparently the guests on NBC's 'The Tonight Show' tonight 17th Feb.

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A rooftop performance of "Invisible" and an acoustic rendition of "Ordinary Love"






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U2 star Bono to write charity tribute to his late father

HE penned the hit U2 song Kite about his late father; now Bono is writing about their relationship in a new book that will raise funds for charity.


The Irish Hospice Foundation charity helped take care of the singer's father, Brendan Robert Hewson, or 'Bob' as he was affectionately known, when he died of cancer in 2001.

Now Bono is contributing one of a series of essays about father-and-son relationships, which will also feature a number of high-profile figures from the world of art, music, literature and film.

Each contributor will speak about their own connection with their father.

A source told the Sunday Independent: "The book will give an insight into what shaped many of the famous contributors. The essays will talk about the lessons learned, the advice received, significant moments shared and memories. "It could be in the form of an open letter to their dad or simply a general insight into the relationship they shared."

It's not the first time Bono has contributed to the Hospice Foundation.

In recent years he took part in a radical reworking of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf by his childhood friend Gavin Friday, in which he also drew on his own, sometimes painful, relationship with his father.

Bono has frequently shared the emotional journey he went through in his father's final days, with his fans.

In his father's dying days, Bono flew home night after night to visit the retired postal worker in the hospice after performing with U2 in stadia across Europe while the band was on tour.

The singer regularly dedicated Kite to his ailing father at shows during the period.

Speaking about their last few moments together, Bono said: "Actually, his last words were an expletive. I was sleeping on a little mattress right beside him in the hospital. I woke up, and he made this big sound, this kind of roar, it woke me up.

"The nurse comes in and says, 'You OK, Bob?' He kind of looks at her and whispers, 'Would you f**k off and get me out of here? This place is like a prison. I want to go home.' "Last words: 'F**k off.'"

Bono also told America's Rolling Stone magazine that they had a very different relationship to the one he has with his children today.

"He was an amazing and very funny man. I don't think I'm like him. I have a very different relationship with my kids than he had with me. He didn't really have one with me. He generally thought that no one was as smart as him in the room."

But the singer also thanked his father's constant put-downs for making him stronger and more determined to succeed.

He added: "You know that Johnny Cash song A Boy Named Sue, where he gives the kid a girl's name, and the kid is beaten up at every stage in his life by macho guys, but in the end he becomes the toughest man."

Meanwhile, the Hospice Gathering book is still for sale and is available from the Irish Hospice Foundation at a special St Patrick's Day reduced price of €10.

For more information log on www. hospicefoundation. ie/ shop/books/the-gathering-book

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I did laugh at his father's last words laugh.gif

Suspect this won't be a laugh a minute book though sad.gif
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U2 frontman Bono comforted Liam Neeson’s children after the death of their mother
By Chelsea Lewis , 2/24/2014

Bono, frontman of U2, is known for his charitable work along with his music but it appears that Bono is also a great friend in a time of need.

Liam Neeson sat down for an interview with 60 Minutes and he spoke about how Bono and his family had been close friends and that after the passing of his wife Natasha Richardson, he was a support system for himself and his children.

The Taken star opened up about a moment that Bono shared with his son. “Bono is a pal and he came ’round to dinner, and I remember he was sitting beside Micheál and just out of the blue he said, ‘What age are you Micheál?” And he said, ‘Thirteen.’ And [Bono] said. ‘Yeah, that’s the age I was when I lost my mum.’"

Neeson was overwhelmed by the words from Bono. “That was it. And I—I could’ve kissed for it,” he gushed. “He was like saying, ‘You know, I lost my mom at this age and I’m doing okay. And you will do okay too."

In Touch Weekly reported that Richardson died after a skiing accident on March 16, 2009.

Neeson has made over twenty films since the passing of his wife back in 2009, E! News reported.

He added that the past five years have been rough but he is focusing on his family and keeping busy.
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What a Guy: U2 Frontman Bono Comforted Liam Neeson’s Children While They Were Mourning Their Mother, Natasha Richardson

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U2's Bono Takes Own Bed on Tour

The U2 rocker has played hundreds of shows worldwide with his band, but as he suffers from back problems he decided on his last tour to have the bed from his home in Ireland transported to all of the locations he was visiting.

A popular tour manager from the United States, Stuart Ross, told the Sun newspaper: "I know somebody whose job it was to drive Bono's bed from hotel to hotel on the last tour. Bono wanted to sleep in his own bed every night.

"So instead of being able to fly him, I assume, back to Dublin, there was a bed that was in a Ryder (rental) truck and they loaded it into the hotel."

The 'With or Without You' hitmaker's back problems have been so serious in the past that he even had to undergo surgery in 2010 which resulted in him and his bandmates - The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. - cancelling their headline set at the Glastonbury festival in Somerset, England.

U2 will perform their Oscar nominated single 'Ordinary Love' at the Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles tomorrow (02.03.14).



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