http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g4xQYK...pRTOU-IM2LfcA8A

 

 

U2 stars win green light for disputed Dublin hotel

 

 

DUBLIN (AFP) — U2 megastars Bono and the Edge have won a green light for a controversial Dublin hotel project designed by renowned architect Norman Foster, they said Thursday.

 

The Irish multi-millionaires have faced opposition from heritage campaigners over the proposed 150-million-euro (238-million-dollar) reconstruction project for The Clarence hotel, a protected building on the river Liffey waterfront.

 

But the Irish planning authority, the An Bord Pleanala, has now given it the go-ahead after a long consultation period, despite a planning inspector recommending the proposal be rejected.

 

"We are delighted that An Bord Pleanala has given us the green light for Norman Foster's design for The Clarence," the U2 stars, the owners of the Clarence, said in a statement put out by the hotel.

 

"We believe it's great news for Dublin and for Temple Bar in particular, where we've been working for over 20 years and where a hotel has been trading on The Clarence site for 177 years."

 

Planning inspector Kevin Moore concluded in his report that the proposed redevelopment would be "seriously injurious to the visual amenities of the area, would conflict with the policies of the current Dublin City Development Plan, and would, thereby, be contrary to the proper planning and sustainable development of the area."

 

In the report, posted on An Bord Pleanala's website, Moore wrote that the project would create "an incompatible landmark building within the terrace," and would undermine "the relatively coherent physical form and homogeneity" of the area.

 

The Clarence dates originally from 1852, but the rock stars took it over in the 1990s and extensively refurbished it as a five-star boutique hotel with 48 rooms and suites.

 

It has attracted visitors to the city such as former US president Bill Clinton and international rocks stars and supermodels.

 

Dublin City Council gave the go-ahead for the demolition of the Clarence and five neighbouring properties in the trendy Temple Bar area of Dublin that was regenerated over a decade ago as the city's "Left Bank."

 

But heritage groups appealed against the move: An Taisce, Ireland's national trust, specifically questioned the developers' justification for the demolition on the basis of "exceptional circumstance."

 

"This is the largest and most problematic development affecting protected structures in Dublin for a decade," said An Taisce's Heritage Officer Ian Lumley in December.

 

"We don't regard the demolition of the Clarence as exceptional or a national priority," he added.

 

The promised new super-luxurious Clarence will have more than 140 bedrooms, a "signature" restaurant and a rooftop "Skycatcher atrium."

 

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700244166,00.html

 

 

Movies to Musicals: Yes, both Broadway and Hollywood are equally guilty of stealing from each other. Now it's time for the classic "9 to 5" to hit the stage as a musical. Dolly Parton, an accomplished songwriter, did the music and lyrics, but she will not be in it. After a short run this fall in L.A., the show will move to the Marquis Theatre and open in April.

 

Spin Your Web: This is still in the movie to musical category ... But listen up! Julie Taymor, the brains behind the brilliant and beautiful "Lion King," is having open auditions for the three starring roles in the new musical, "Spider-Man." Bono and The Edge, from the group U2, are doing music and lyrics.

 

Open call is July 28 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 74 Leonard St., New York. So, you think you're a Peter Parker, Mary Jane or "principal woman 25-35," and you have a killer pop/rock voice, this might be your lucky break.

 

(Damn- they're looking for someone much older than me then. Otherwise I would've applied. Obviously -_- )

 

http://www.gigwise.com/news/44794/oasis-ki...ecord-new-album

 

 

Oasis 'Kicked U2 Out Of Abbey Road To Record New Album'

Noel Gallagher claims...

 

by Jason Gregory

22 July 2008

Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher has claimed that the band paid off the owners of the Abbey Road Studio in London so they could record their new album there.

 

According to the guitarist, the studio was already booked by U2 for when the band wanted it last December.

 

"U2 were booked in there with (producer) Rick Rubin. I was like, 'U2? U2 have to have a f***ing six-hour meeting (to discuss) whether to get tea or coffee in the rehearsal room! They are not coming in here any time in the next five years',” he told Mojo Magazine.

 

"The guy from Abbey Road was like, 'I've got it block-booked for the exact time you want it.'

 

"We actually went down to Abbey Road with a bag of money, and said, 'We can pay for the studio now'."

 

Oasis's new studio album 'Dig Out Your Soul' is released on October 6th. It will be preceded by the first single, 'The Shock Of Lightning', which is out on September 28th.

 

As previously reported on Gigwise, the band recently unveiled the cover for the album. You can see it and leave your thoughts here.

 

Oasis Live

 

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/stor...5006013,00.html

 

Bono godparent to Pitt and Jolie

July 28, 2008 12:00am

 

U2 frontman Bono has reportedly accepted a request from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to be Godfather to their twins.

 

The world's No.1 celebrity couple - who welcomed Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline on July 12 - asked the rocker to be a permanent fixture in the lives of their tots and he agreed immediately, Britain's Daily Mirror reports.

 

"Angelina is inspired by Bono's humanitarian work and gets on with his wife Ali Hewson.

 

"Ali's given Angelina some clothes from her ethical clothing range Edun."

 

 

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:blink: look how long Angelinas fingers are in that photo

 

almost alien :blink:

Saw this on the official site today...........

 

 

 

http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2245

02.08.2008

 

Rumours (Unfounded)

 

Just a note to correct reports that tickets are becoming available for planned U2 shows.

 

The reports are mistaken, there are no tour dates for the band at the moment - so please don't buy tickets for U2 shows you see advertised.

 

You can be sure any future live announcements will be made on U2.Com as soon as they are confirmed.

 

 

 

http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=5060

 

Negotiations put U2 Tower in jeopardy

 

Sunday Business Post, August 03, 2008

 

Gavin Daly

 

 

The future of the planned U2 Tower in Dublin is uncertain, with negotiations ongoing between the backers of the €200 million project and the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA).

 

Geranger, a consortium made up of U2, Ballymore Properties, property developer Paddy McKillen, and architect Norman Foster, was named preferred bidder for the project last October. Paul Maloney, chief executive of the DDDA, said last month that he expected an agreement by the end of July, but no deal has yet been reached on the 130-metre tower.

 

‘‘Given current market conditions, the DDDA and Geranger Ltd have agreed to extend the negotiation period to allow for further analysis and for design issues relating to the Dodder bridge,” a spokeswoman for the DDDA said last Friday.

 

The DDDA has refused to comment on the timescale for the negotiations, which focus on financial, legal and technical aspects of the project.

 

The property market has suffered a dramatic slump since Geranger submitted its proposal for the tower, which would be topped with a pod-shaped recording studio for U2. In its annual report, published last month, the DDDA said the U2 Tower was due to be completed in 2011.

 

The Watchtower, the 120-metre tower that is part of Harry Crosbie’s Point Village development, is under construction, although architectural sources said that its design had been changed to allocate more floor space to offices rather than apartments.

 

 

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/u...op-1451272.html

 

 

U2 man wants to take it from the top

Adam Clayton, bassist with Ireland's rock supergroup, has lodged another change to plans for his Georgian mansion in leafy south Dublin

 

 

Sunday August 10 2008

 

U2 bassist Adam Clayton still hasn't found what he is looking for. Just last week Clayton lodged yet another change to his plans for his Danesmoate Demesne off Kellystown Road in Rathfarnham, south Dublin.

 

It is six years since he lodged his first application to change the listed Georgian pile when he planned to add a two-storey extension to the back of the protected house. Since then he has lodged almost annual requests for changes including modifications to the estate manager's lodge, sound-proofing his studio and changing the facade of the house.

 

The latest, lodged just last week while he holidayed in the south of France, includes some more internal remodeling and revisions to the external steps and terraces.

 

 

Latest photos of Bono and family on holibags

 

Here

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/artic...high-heels.html

http://www.myparkmag.co.uk/articles/entert...zon-record.html

 

 

U2's Horizon record

Friday, 15 August 2008

 

U2's new album is rumoured to be called 'No Line on the Horizon'.

 

The 'One' rockers record label, Universal, have registered a website, nolineonthehorizon.com, sparkling speculation it is to be the title of their next release.

 

The album is reportedly set for release in November this year and will be preceded by a single called 'Sexy Boots'.

 

U2 have so far refused to comment on the rumours, but recently denied they were planning to play a residency at London's O2 arena in support of the release.

 

It was revealed yesterday that Bono snorts salt to help his voice.

 

The 'With or Without You' singer regularly sniffs salty water as it acts as an antiseptic for his throat and helps ensure he can hit high notes, according to The Script frontman Danny O'Donoghue.

 

Danny said "Snorting salts - it's actually a singing technique.

 

"Myself and Bono share a vocal coach. Whenever the high notes aren't feeling that high or in the morning you're groggy, you snort salt water up your nose.

 

"It cleans out cavities, it's a natural antiseptic for your throat."

 

© BANG Media International

 

 

(Are we sure it's salt? :unsure: :P )

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a124007/...of-u2-tour.html

 

 

Bono 'must lose weight' ahead of U2 tour

Monday, August 18 2008, 17:07 BST

 

By Simon Reynolds, Entertainment Reporter

 

 

Bono has been instructed to lose weight ahead of U2's proposed tour next year.

 

The group, whose upcoming album is rumoured to be titled No Line On The Horizon, have all been instructed to get into shape prior to starting promotional duties.

 

"U2 have an album coming out around January," a source told the New York Post. "And then the band is going on another world tour in March and April - so the boys have been told to start exercising all the summer weight off."

 

Four tracks from the LP, thought to be named 'Moment of Surrender', 'For Your Love', 'Sexy Boots' and 'No Line On The Horizon', allegedly leaked online last week.

 

http://www.waleg.com/archives/013648.html

 

Queen Rania, Sarkozy and Bono in France

Filed Under: Just News

 

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Celebrities and royalty take some time off to relax just like we do ... but they do it on a bigger scale!

Queen Rania, U2 frontman Bono and the Sarkozys enjoyed a bit of off time and dinner this week at a villa in Cap Negre, in the Var region of the French Riviera.

A helicopter picked up Queen Rania, who has been on vacation, and Bono from St Tropez to the estate, which belongs to the family of Carla Bruni.

I wonder what they discussed over dinner? Politics or humanitarian issues? Or did they just blabber casually about everyday stuff and unimportant issues?

 

I'm sure Bono and the queen congratulated Carla for the success of her latest album in the French music charts!

Oh! I wonder what King Abdullah was doing at the time? He must have sure missed out on a cool gathering!

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle4641662.ece

 

 

Bono fans fill Obama coffers

 

The presidential hopeful has found just what he's looking for in U2 devotees as they swell his campaign reserves

Colin Coyle

 

ONE is charismatic, plays to packed stadiums and wants to change the world. The other is Bono. Now a group of U2 fans, struck by the parallels between Barack Obama and the Irish rock star, have become one of the US Democratic presidential nominee’s most enthusiastic band of supporters.

 

U2 fans for Obama, a collection of 103 U2 devotees, has raised almost $18,000 (€12,200) for the presidential hopeful’s campaign and organised more than 600 events to date.

 

The group, whose website and blog are linked to the presidential candidate’s official homepage, believe that “since Bono can’t run for US president, Obama is the next best thing”. Their blog declares that members “see in Obama a progressive Christian who embodies the ideas and sentiments . . . so compelling in U2’s music”.

 

The politician is already an avowed fan of the band, recently telling Rolling Stone magazine that U2 is on his iPod play-list. Bono attended the Democratic convention in Denver last week where he heard two U2 tracks, City of Blinding Lights and Beautiful Day, bookend Obama’s acceptance speech early on Friday. Beautiful Day was also the musical backdrop a night earlier when Obama introduced Senator Joe Biden, his nominee for vice-president, to the Denver crowd.

 

The U2 fans now rank as the 10th most active group on Obama’s collection of small local fundraisers, modelled on a social networking site. Obama’s website, my.barack obama.com, was developed by Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook. It has more than 1m users and hundreds of diverse social networking groups, including Women for Obama, Veterans for Obama and Environmentalists for Obama.

 

The groups use the website to plan events, set fundraising goals and volunteer to distribute leaflets. Obama hopes to outstrip the Republican election war chest by convincing “a million or so small donors to give less than $100 each”.

 

It is no surprise that fans have drawn an analogy between Obama and U2. On their blog, U2 fans for Obama debate which songs by the band best sum up the politician and wrangle over whether Obama is “even better than the real thing — Bono”. One argues that the two men’s connection is “intellectual, political and spiritual”.

 

The similarity between Obama and Bono has not gone unnoticed by John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, who has targeted the Democrat’s celebrity image in a series of “attack ads”. In Fan Club, a 60-second “spot” screened earlier this month, a woman says Obama is “amazing . . . at the level of Bono”.

 

Rush Limbaugh, a US right-wing chat show host, has accused Obama of plagiarising a speech by Bono. He claimed recently that Obama’s Berlin address last month had echoes of the U2 frontman’s speech at the 2005 Live 8 concert. Both men used the phrase: “People of the world! This is our moment. This is our time.”

 

Although Obama is the most vocal political admirer of U2, he is not alone in his fandom. Hillary Clinton told the New York Post last year that Beautiful Day was one of the most frequently played songs on her MP3 player. In May 2007 she held an online poll asking supporters to choose her campaign song and included two U2 songs among her six choices, but Celine Dion’s You and I won the popular vote.

 

John Edwards, another candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, used a U2 tune, Pride (In the Name of Love), as his official campaign song and Tony Blair used Beautiful Day as his re-election anthem. In the past the band have said: “We reserve the right to fall in and out with any political party. Mind you, every piece of airplay helps.”

 

McCain has had more trouble than Obama in creating a campaign soundtrack. In February John Mellencamp asked the McCain camp to stop using his songs at rallies and Jackson Browne recently initiated legal proceedings against the McCain campaign for the unauthorised use of his 1970s hit Running on Emptye.

 

Since the lawsuit, McCain has been using Tina Turner’s Simply the Best and Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline, originally written about Caroline Kennedy, the only surviving child of John F Kennedy.

 

Political anthems

 

Things Can Only Get Better: A club hit from 1993, the D:Ream song reached new heights after being adopted by new Labour. The song’s co-writer, Londonderry-born Peter Cunnah, later admitted having mixed feelings about allowing the song to be used.

 

Your Kind of Country: Fianna Fail’s Seamus Brennan went to the US in 1976 to watch the presidential election and returned with the idea for this campaign song: “Three years of loneliness, that’s what I’ve been through/ When I left school I joined me mates and we all joined the queue.”

 

Don’t Stop: Bill Clinton, the baby-boomers’ president, chose this song by Fleetwood Mac from 1977’s Rumours as his campaign song in 1992. Clinton even succeeded in convincing the estranged band to reform and play at his inaugural ball.

 

Arise and Follow Charlie: Donie Cassidy’s idea, sung by the Wolfe Tones, raised the roof at a succession of Fianna Fail ard fheiseanna in the 1980s, with Haughey leading the rousing chorus.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ment/columnists

 

U2 is not enough to close Obama's TV deal

 

JOHN DOYLE

 

 

August 28, 2008

 

To the continuing chagrin of the newspaper racket, the majority of people here and in the United States get most of their information from TV. Television moulds their impressions and firms up their views on politics, politicians and any old issue you can name.

 

Tonight at the Democratic National Convention (multiple channels, starting at 7 p.m.; Barack Obama's speech at 10 p.m.), Barack Obama sells himself to the vast U.S. audience that needs to know more about him. The polls are indicating there's a hesitancy about supporting Obama. This is where he starts to close the sale, and he must do it emphatically.

 

Over the past few days, watching the TV coverage from Denver has been a fascinating experience, especially those long reports that attempt to answer the question, "Who is Barack Obama?" Each piece includes much coverage of his campaign, and what has struck me is that there's a distinctive soundtrack. It's U2. Always U2.

 

Early in his campaign, Obama chose U2's City of Blinding Lights as a campaign song. Later, when he'd won the nomination, and when he appeared recently with Senator Joe Biden, it was U2's Beautiful Day that boomed out at the public events.

 

Of course, all of these events are choreographed for a TV audience. The point is to get the clip, the report, on the TV news and use it as a commercial-by-proxy. Like any powerful commercial, the act of selling Obama and his message must have a catchy or uplifting musical accompaniment.

 

There's nothing casual about Obama's use of U2. If you go to the Internet to sites devoted to supporters of Obama, you'll find a subgroup called U2 Fans for Obama '08. And that group's mission statement is this: "Since Bono can't run for U.S. president, Obama is the next best thing. A group for those of us who see in Obama a progressive Christian who embodies the ideas and sentiments we find so compelling in U2's music."

 

Me, I find it unnerving. The other night while watching one of those Obama profiles saturated with U2, I thought back to an evening, years ago, in Dublin. I walked out for a pint with my cronies. Along the Howth Road I passed a bus stop where two young men were waiting. One lounged against the wall, and the other, dressed in a long coat and a cap, giving him a bohemian look, paced. As I passed, the pacing fella looked at me. I looked at him. He nodded and I nodded back, in the Dublin way. I knew he was the guitar player for U2, the guy who called himself the Edge, on his way into the city centre, to the bars and clubs where bands played. He wasn't famous then. Everybody was in a band.

 

I recalled that and wondered why the music from those four lower-middle-class guys from the north side of Dublin - where I lived and learned everything I needed to know about life - had achieved such extraordinary, culture-defining impact. What possible ingredient in that place and time gave rise to the transcendent, visionary and poetic sound that could stir people, endlessly and over the decades?

 

It was partly the mood of the place, that oppressive sense of being trapped in absurd arguments about religion, Northern Ireland and an economy in shambles. Everyone of a certain age wanted to surmount that, if not to escape literally, then to escape in the mind, in the music, to reach some other place. It might have been the weather - the need to grasp and celebrate those times when the sun broke through and lit up grey, grimy Dublin. Certainly in U2's case, it was the small, non-evangelical Christian group they were part of - today there are vigorous arguments about U2 being "a Christian band" or not. They're not, really. The Christianity is too vague.

 

The thing is, the power of the music is in its vagueness. It's about yearning, not achievement. It articulates aching needs. It is simultaneously all-meaningful and meaningless. As a selling tool, it's too vague. Beautiful Day is as powerful at a World Cup soccer game as it is at an Obama rally.

 

If it is used tonight, Obama is still only selling yearning, and he's not closing the deal. Like anyone selling something, he's got to be more concrete, to deal with the stony ground. Beautiful Day opens with "The heart is a bloom/ shoots up through the stony ground" and it's on the stony ground that elections are won. I don't think U2 closes the sale.

 

 

http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2248

 

Ambassador of Conscience

 

Edge will present Peter Gabriel with Amnesty International's 'Ambassador of Conscience' award in London next week.

 

 

U2 are previous winners of the award and first teamed up with Peter Gabriel on human rights campaigning for the Conspiracy of Hope Tour in 1986. Later Gabriel founded Witness, a video community campaigning for Human Rights and more recently The Elders a private alliance of senior global figures to launch diplomatic assaults on the globe's most intractable problems.

 

"Peter has been at the vanguard of the struggle for human rights and justice around the world for nearly a quarter of a century" said Bill Shipsey of Art for Amnesty, “All of his wonderful work, not just with Amnesty, could justify his selection as an Ambassador of Conscience”.

 

The Ambassador of Conscience Award recognizes exceptional individual leadership and witness in the fight to protect and promote human rights. It was inspired by a poem written for Amnesty International by Seamus Heaney and aims to promote the work of Amnesty through the example of its 'Ambassadors' 'who have done so much to inspire and uplift'.

 

The presentation, on September 10th, will also mark the launch of Amnesty's global Small Places Tour 2008, its most ambitious global music and human rights project since the Human Rights Now! Tour in 1988.

 

Watch Peter Gabriel and Amnesty's Bill Shipsey talk about the tour on YouTube.

 

Jimmy Page, Edge and Jack White share guitar secrets in 'It Might Get Loud'

1 hour ago

 

TORONTO — Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White say they all learned a little more about the guitar when they sat down to talk about their craft in Davis Guggenheim's entertaining new documentary, "It Might Get Loud."

 

But the White Stripes frontman and U2 guitarist were clearly the ones being schooled in a memorable scene featuring Page in which the Led Zeppelin axeman plays the searing opening riff to his legendary band's "Whole Lotta Love."

 

The Edge suddenly stands up to get a better look at Page's fingers. A smile tugs at the lips of White.

 

"You kind of put everything else aside for a second and say: 'Look can we just enjoy the moment?"' White says as he looks back on the experience at a news conference over the weekend.

 

"I was looking at myself thinking, 'Oh my God, stop smiling,"' adds the Edge, seated alongside his guitar colleagues and wearing his trademark tuque. "(I have a) stupid grin as I'm staring at Jimmy's hands, thinking: 'Oh, that's how it's done."'

 

The documentary, which is screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, is filled with such moments of musical inspiration as the three guitar gurus discuss their creative processes and their continuing fascination with the instrument.

 

The film's creators say they wanted to approach three musicians of different generations and styles. They were thrilled to get who they wanted. Page says he was intrigued by the chance to share stories with a new generation of players.

 

"It was a fascinating prospect," said Page, his long white hair hanging loose around his shoulders. "But when I heard that Jack and the Edge were coming in (to the do movie), I thought this is going to be even more fascinating to see how this unravels."

 

The film unravels in layers. Guggenheim, a director who won an Academy Award for the Al Gore climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," brings the three musicians together to jam and trade stories. That interplay is interspersed with the threads of personal journeys. The Edge goes back to the Dublin high school where he first got together with Bono, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. to form U2.

 

Page, in London, pulls out the albums that inspired him as a session musician before joining his revered rock band. And White recalls his days growing up in Detroit in the hip-hop-crazed 1980s, when playing guitar was anything but cool.

 

The Edge says he's counted the guitar out many times, but that it keeps resurrecting itself.

 

"It is an instrument that seems to be so versatile and it seems to be able to make the jump to the next generation and where music needs to go to," he says.

 

"I think it's fair to say that hip-hop and that movement has kicked rock 'n' roll's ass for many years in terms of innovation and in terms of the quality of records that are being made."

 

"It's so great when you see a resurgence happening and a guitar player comes through that's saying something with the instrument that you've never heard before."

 

 

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From left, musicians Jack White, The Edge and Jimmy Page pose together after a press conference for the film "It Might Get Loud" during the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008 in Toronto. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Evan Agostini

 

http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2251

 

 

'It Might Get Loud'

 

Edge has been in Toronto this weekend, appearing with Jimmy Page and Jack White at the premiere of a new documentary It Might Get Loud.

 

Billed as a 'documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three rock legends', the film is seen 'through the eyes of three virtuosos from three different generations.

 

'Audiences get up close and personal, discovering how a furniture upholsterer from Detroit, a studio musician and painter from London and a seventeen-year-old Dublin schoolboy, each used the electric guitar to develop their unique sound and rise to the pantheon of superstar ...'

 

"It's not just about the technical side or the music,' Edge told reporters at the Toronto Film Festival, 'But the personal journeys that have brought the three of us to doing what we do.'

 

We'll have more from Edge as we get it - meantime, the lowdown on the film is at the official site here.

 

http://itmightgetloud.com/

http://www.chartattack.com/news/60087/dani...releases-acadie

 

 

Daniel Lanois Re-Releases Acadie

09/09/08 12:57pm

 

 

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

 

Nearly 20 years after it first came out, Daniel Lanois' Acadie debut album will be reissued with bonus tracks on Sept. 30 through Red Floor Records.

 

The "Gold Top Edition" of Acadie will feature the original album in its entirety, plus six previously unreleased tracks. Among them are two versions of "The Maker," a rendition of "Still Water" recorded at Brian Eno's house, a version of "Jolie Louise" which was recorded before a show in Dublin, and the "source" of "Fisherman's Daughter." The disc also comes with a special set of photographs from Karen Kuehn.

 

"As I hear it now I believe the naive tones of Acadie carry it comfortably into the future," Lanois says. "Acadie follows me wherever I go, in performance the songs communicate just fine."

 

Acadie was originally released in 1989. It features Lanois singing in English and French and guest appearances from Eno, three members of The Neville Brothers and U2's Larry Mullen, Jr. and Adam Clayton.

 

Lanois is also a well-known producer who has worked on records by U2, Bob Dylan, Ron Sexsmith and others.

 

You can see Lanois here:

 

Sept. 25 St. Catharines, ON @ Montebello Park

Oct. 16 St. John's, NL @ Club One

Oct. 17 Moncton, NB @ Capitol Theatre

Oct. 18 Halifax, NS @ The Marquee Club

Oct. 24 Ottawa, ON @ Centrepointe Theatre

Oct. 25 Belleville, ON @ The Empire Theatre & Centre For The Performing Arts

Nov. 6 London, ON @ The Aeolian Hall

Nov. 7 Mount Forest, ON @ Old Roxy Theatre

Nov. 8 Parry Sound, ON @ Charles W. Stockey Centre For The Performing Arts

Nov. 14 Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall

 

Here are the tracks on the Gold Top Edition of Acadie:

 

"Still Water"

"The Maker"

"O Marie"

"Jolie Louise"

"Fisherman's Daughter"

"White Mustang II"

"Under A Stormy Sky"

"Where The Hawkwind Kills"

"Silium's Hill"

"Ice"

"St. Ann's Gold"

"Amazing Grace"

"The Maker" (early bass and lyrics demo)

"The Maker" (calypso demo)

"Still Water"

"Jolie Louise"

"Early Dourado Sketch"

The source of "Fisherman's Daughter"

 

http://musicnews.virginmedia.com/news/?news_id=86327

 

 

The Edge surprised about cast bonding

PA Entertainment

 

 

 

U2 guitarist The Edge has revealed he never thought the cast of music documentary It Might Get Loud would get on so well.

 

 

 

The 47-year-old shot the movie, which follows his love of the electric guitar through the years, along with fellow guitar players Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin, Jack White of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs.

 

 

 

"I didn't think we would hit it off as easily," he said at the film's press conference in Toronto.

 

 

 

"That was a real surprise and a real pleasure. Even though our influences are so different, in some ways, it all boils down to the same thing - it's about what's great and the passion that goes into making great music.

 

 

 

"What you see in the course of watching the film is three individuals who share a passion for music actually getting to know one another, and at the end of the film, there's genuine affection and what I think, beginning of a friendship between the three of us."

 

 

 

The Edge added: "It was a relief that I didn't hate myself totally when we finished. I learnt a lot, especially from Jimmy. He made me want to pick up a guitar in the first place."

 

 

http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=5088

 

U2 to Rock Croke Next Year - Exclusive

 

Bono and co line up 3 nights at stadium

 

The Mirror, September 11, 2008

 

Paul Martin and Stephen Dunne

 

 

U2 have secretly booked Croke Park for three huge summer concerts next year, the Daily Mirror can reveal.

 

The Dublin rockers will salute their comeback after four years with the huge shows to crowds of 80,000 each night.

 

Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jnr have already been in contact with bosses of the GAA headquarters to provisionally book their dates.

 

Last night a source close to the group revealed: "They want to rock Croker for three nights.

 

"They have been planning this comeback for a long time and the ultimate way to mark their homecoming is with a string of live shows in Ireland's most spectacular venue. They will have no problem selling all the nights out and there's even rumours that they could end up playing for four or even five evenings - if they can get permission for the extra nights."

 

The stars will kick off their world tour early next year in America and hit the road on an 18-month trek.

 

The tour will accompany the release of a new album in January - three months later than they had originally planned.

 

Frontman Bono, 48, said the band are on a creative roll and don't want to stop prematurely. He added: "We've hit a rich song writing vein. It gets a bit dark down here but looks like we've found diamonds not coal. I thought a while back we might have the album wrapped by now but why come up above ground now if there's more priceless stuff to be found? It's been maddening... there have been injuries and recoveries, no babies born that I know of, but this one is nearly ready for the new year of 2009."

 

The band said they are choosing from 50 to 60 tracks they've written during sessions in Morocco, Dublin and France and they believe the new album will be a departure for the band.

 

Bono added: "It's a brand new chapter for us and everyone we've played the tracks to has said that musically it feels like another departure. The last two records were very personal, with a kind of three-piece at their heart, the primary colours of rock - bass, guitars and drum. But what we're about now is of the same order as the transition that took us from The Joshua Tree to Achtung Baby. We want 2009 to be our year so we're going to start making an impression very early on."

 

U2 last performed three years ago when they staged three shows at Croke Park as part of their Vertigo tour.

 

A source added: "This is going to be their biggest tour ever and the Irish dates will be a high point."