Oh good. Scotty can get us all tickets :yahoo: :cheer: :yahoo:

:lol: I'm sure he will be very pleased about that

If he ever comes back :(

 

 

No PC I suspect -_-

We can stay over at Scotty's too. I know where he lives ^_^ :naughty:

:lol:

 

I guess he won't mind a few unexpected visitors then

 

I bet tickets would sell out very very quickly, might have to join the official site to get them :teresa:

 

 

 

 

Yes. I couldn't get a ticket the last couple of times they played Glasgow :cry:

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2008/0918/u2.html

 

U2 stars teaming-up with Tom Jones

 

U2's Bono and The Edge are to make a guest appearance on the new album by Tom Jones.

 

The Associated Press reports that the 68-year-old will release his new album '24 Hours' in November, with the sound said to be reminiscent of Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black'.

 

The U2 duo join Jones on the song 'Sugar Daddy'.

 

U2's new album will be released early next year.

 

 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/view/5...-up-to-U2-Bono/

 

IT'S UP TO U2 BONO

17th September 2008

 

HAVING performed with Deep Purple, The Stones, Iron Maiden, AC/DC and many more, Metallica have only one remaining ambition – to play with U2.

 

Lars said: “I’ll play at one in the afternoon, in a parking lot in Ireland, I don’t give a sh*t. As long as I can do that.” Over to you, Bono.

 

 

http://www.nme.com/news/glastonbury/39853

 

 

Glastonbury headliners finalised 'pretty soon'

Coldplay and U2 are out of the running though

 

Sep 21, 2008

 

The headliners for next year's Glastonbury festival are set to be finalised "pretty soon", according to organiser Emily Eavis.

 

However, Eavis has now ruled out a number of big names who were rumoured to be performing.

 

Talking to BBC News, she said: "It's not Coldplay, it's not U2 and it's not The Rolling Stones."

 

The arrangements are being made relatively early this year, mainly beause the tickets are now available to buy earlier than before.

 

Eavis said: "Because our tickets go on sale on October 5 we've brought it forward. So we're ensconced in chat about next year and there's a lot of good feeling after such an amazing festival. We're talking to a few people at the moment and I think pretty soon we'll have some stuff sorted."

 

Radiohead are currently the bookies' favourites to headline the event, held in Pilton in Somerset.

 

:(

 

http://www.luxist.com/2008/09/20/did-bono-buy-the-cyan/

 

 

Did Bono Buy The Cyan?

Posted Sep 20th 2008 7:02PM by Deidre Woollard

 

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Several sources are reporting that Bono, the charismatic and charity-minded lead singer of U2 has picked up a new toy, the yacht Cyan. The Cyan, formerly known as the Renalo, was built in 1997 by Codecasa yachts and went through a major refit in 1997. The 140-foot yacht has six cabins with room for 12 guests. Other features include an on-deck Jacuzzi, swim platform and a garage full of water toys. The Belfast Telegraph reports that Bono, his wife Ali Hewson, and their children vacationed on the yacht last summer.

 

The Cyan charters for between €140,000 and €175,000. It was not listed as being for sale but the estimated asking price is expected to be over €15m. Reports in the Italian media say Bono has repainted the yacht in blue and put in a new stereo system. Pictures of the Cyan from her charter listing are in the gallery below.

 

(see link above for more photos of said boat ^_^ )

 

oooooooooh very nice :wub: imagine being in the middle of the ocean and putting on the stereo full blast :w00t:

at least the neighbours won't be able to complain.

 

The boat, yacht, ship, whatever looks a lot bigger inside than it does outside :blink:

That's what I thought. Those interior photos are probably from the Queen Mary 2 :lol:

http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/u2-star...me-1479868.html

 

U2 star wants to ring in the changes at home

 

By Melanie Finn

 

 

Monday September 22 2008

 

It's the building in which U2 recorded what was arguably the album that gave them megastar status in the US.

 

It subsequently became home to bassist Adam Clayton and underwent a series of renovations to increase its appeal.

 

Now the protected Georgian mansion, Danesmoate on Kellystown Road, Rathfarnham, is up for another bout of alterations.

 

The U2 musician has carried out a raft of renovations on the protected house since he first bought it for just €380,000 in 1987 after the band had used it to record The Joshua Tree.

 

Over the years, he has worked hard to transform it into a place fit for a king, applying to alter the estate manager's lodge, sound-proof his recording studio and change the house's frontage.

 

This time round, he wants to make more internal modifications and alterations to the external steps and terraces of the protected heritage home.

 

Despite being busy putting the final touches to the band's eagerly awaited new album, Adam has submitted another application to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown council asking to make the changes.

 

The musician fell in love with the house and its extensive grounds more than two decades ago.

 

Although it didn't seem possible that there was anything left to change after completely altering the massive property, he has just given himself another domestic project with the latest application.

 

A few months ago, Clayton split from his long-time partner and fiancee, Susie Smith, making him, once again, one of Ireland's most eligible bachelors.

 

- Melanie Finn

 

 

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/u2...is,551543.shtml

 

 

U2's Longtime Tour Manager Dennis Sheehan to Receive Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted : Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:06:39 GMT

 

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ --

The Parnelli Awards Board of Directors

announced that Dennis Sheehan will be receiving this year's Lifetime

Achievement Award honoring his four decades in the live entertainment

industry. Currently Tour Manager for U2, the venerable professional will be

honored for his work and contributions at an awards ceremony at the Rio Hotel

in Las Vegas on October 24, 2008.

 

In 1982 Sheehan began his long career with U2, thanks to U2 manager Paul

McGuinness. "The band works incredibly hard, and they go to extreme lengths to

achieve what they want," Sheehan says. "With many bands, you get to a peak,

and that's it. With U2 they are still climbing that mountain." Sheehan is

still climbing it with them. Not only does he take care of the band's tours,

he is also called on to help with various solo projects from getting Bono in

front of Congress to testify on behalf of Africa, to working with The Edge as

he supports and promotes Music Rising, a charity for the central Gulf region.

 

In addition to the sheer logistical nightmare moving a supergroup like U2

around the globe for spectacular concerts, Sheehan adds that through the years

he's done "odd little things" like getting members of the band to South Africa

for an event with Nelson Mandela to slipping inside the White House for a

private performance for President Bill Clinton.

 

So revered is he by U2 that for a recent birthday, they all dressed up as

members of Led Zeppelin in honor of the many stories he likes to tell from

that period of his life. Currently he's working with the band as they record a

new album, and he looks forward to going out with them next spring. Of his

success he says, "I think people knew I had a sense of responsibility and

always got the job done, regardless. I'm quite pleased to have been a part of

[the industry]."

 

The Parnelli Awards honor the highest achievement in concert production

technology. 18 awards are presented including lighting designer of the year

and audio mixer of the year as well as three lifetime achievement awards.

 

For more information on the Parnelli Awards go to

http://www.parnelliawards.com.

 

 

http://www.prefixmag.com/news/bono-meeting...in-new-y/21784/

 

Bono meeting with John McCain, Sarah Palin in New York this week

September 23, 2008 11:40 a.m. by Nick Neyland

 

 

Traffic around the UN building in Manhattan is grinding to a painful halt this week as various world leaders meet for the World Summit. George W. Bush is set to find himself painfully usurped as he gives his last address as president, with vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin :arrr: expected to grab most of the headlines. But Palin has another date to add to her calendar, as she meets with U2 frontman Bono on Wednesday. :blink:

 

Bono will meet with John McCain and Palin as a representative of the ONE organization, which aims to reduce global poverty and disease. A statement from ONE says the organization has also been in touch with Barack Obama about a separate meeting, but will meet this week with McCain/Palin “as part of an ongoing conversation about the importance of continued American leadership in the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty.”

 

It’s unclear why Bono wants to meet with Palin, considering the lack of stamps on her passport. Presumably it’s a publicity stunt designed to throw a focus on ONE, as no request to meet with Joe Biden has been mentioned in the proposed Bono-Obama meet. One thing is for sure: paparazzi photographers are going to have a field day in New York on Wednesday. [The Daily Swarm]

 

http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/847849/B...ial-Times-blog/

 

Bono goes online with Financial Times blog

by Staff Brand Republic 23-Sep-08, 11:45

 

NEW YORK - U2 frontman Bono will be lending his activism expertise to an exclusive blog for the Financial Times that will follow this week's United Nations Millennium Development Goals event in New York.

 

Bono is partnering with economist and fellow campaigner Jeffrey Sachs, with both of them writing a daily diary on FT.com throughout the week.

 

The two will report their thoughts, their meetings with world leaders and the progress of an event designed to give the UN a barometer of success for the MDGs at the halfway point towards the target date of 2015.

 

The MDGs are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that respond to the world's main development challenges, drawn from the actions and targets contained in the Millennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 countries in 2000.

The eight goals are:

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Achieve universal primary education

Promote gender equality and empower women

Reduce child mortality

Improve maternal health

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Ensure environmental sustainability

Develop a global partnership for development

An excerpt from the blog reads: "Part of the continued interest is the understanding that the MDGs are not fantasies but practically achievable objectives. Measles deaths have been reduced by 91 per cent in Africa since 2000 through MDG-based initiatives."

The blog also includes a Q&A with Bono about the New York event and the state of global affairs.

 

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/AL...6HtRSgGClp3mppA

 

 

U2's Bono and Bob Geldof urge more support for African farmers

19 hours ago

 

NEW YORK — Bono and Bob Geldof threw their support behind a European Commission plan Monday to give nearly $1.5 billion to African farmers.

 

The Irish rock stars-turned-activists sat by EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso as he presented a new plan to utilize the nearly $1.5 billion that Europe has set aside for its farmer subsidies and give it as aid to African farmers, helping buy fertilizer and seeds.

 

"These African farmers who are just scratching in the dirt, with no fertilizer, with no seeds to plant are in a chronic state while European farmers, who of course, have solidarity with African farmers, know that there's surplus that's there for them when the bottom falls out of the European market," Bono, U2 frontman and outspoken advocate of aid for Africa, told reporters at a news conference.

 

"They're not going to need that this year. So we believe that the European farmers like this idea," he said.

 

Bono said there are 935 million people around the world who are chronically malnourished, with 75 million of them just added this year.

 

"We don't need to spend 1 billion (euros), so perhaps for once, just once the world morally adjusts itself that the victims of this economic inequity will benefit," Geldof said. "Some countries are holding this up unbelievably."

 

The duo wouldn't name the countries that aren't willing to part with subsidies, but added that those names will most likely come up over this week.

 

Bono warned, "This is the planting season ... so we have to act fast."

 

Bono and Geldof will be around the United Nations this week, helping promote and present the proposal with Barroso. Bono also will be meeting with politicians to discuss his ONE anti-poverty campaign.

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1722672.ece

 

Tony Blair's prayer with Bono

 

By CHARLOTTE SPRATT

 

Published: Today

 

U2 star Bono and former PM Tony Blair show they are kindred spirits — by strolling to church together.

 

Mr Blair, 55, was in New York after giving a religious talk at Yale University and appearing on TV satire The Daily Show.

 

 

Bono, 48, who worked with Mr Blair to combat world poverty, was in the city for talks with Republican presidential hopeful John McCain.

 

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http://blogs.ft.com/mdg/2008/09/21/bono-qa...the-mdg-summit/

 

 

Bono Q&A on the MDG summit

Bono and Jeffrey Sachs will begin blogging for FT.com from Monday afternoon, EST. In the meantime, here’s a Q&A between Alan Beattie, the FT’s trade editor, and Bono, carried out this weekend, ahead of the meetings.

 

AB: What is this week [and the Millennium Development Goals summit] all about?

 

Bono: Most of us woke up on New Year’s Day 2000 with a hangover and a hazy memory of a night of pleasant fanfare and dumb parade. However, the new millennium was also celebrated by our commitment to eight goals that would change the planet and demonstrate to the developing world how we might, through a combination of know-how and resources, partner with them in efforts to help millions out of desperate poverty. We gave ourselves 15 years, we’re halfway there. How do we measure up?

 

AB: What are the two or three goals you want to achieve this week?

 

Bono: 1. Blogging for the FT, being your roving reporter in the canyons of Manhattan. While the world upends on Wall Street, I’ll be mostly midtown at the UN and the Clinton Global Initiative talking about the resilience of the world’s poor while the world’s rich find out how fragile life can be.

 

2. Unlock €1bn of unspent European Union Common Agricultural Policy money. This year our farmers don’t qualify for it, food prices are high. African farmers desperately need it.

 

3. Show what’s working as well as what’s not. Bad news about Africa travels much farther than good news. There will be a historic and innovative announcement on malaria on Thursday – watch out for it. Thanks to debt relief, aid and African leadership, 29m more children are going to school.

 

AB: What will you actually be doing in the days ahead?

 

Bono: A sleepless cocktail of rabble-rousing, meetings with politicians, chief executives, faith leaders and NGOs. People such as Nicolas Sarkozy, President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania and Gordon Brown.

 

AB: What exactly happens in the meetings you have with these world leaders?

 

Bono: Judo in a suit.

 

AB: Will people care about development amid an apparent collapse in the global financial system?

 

Bono: Lots of people will be focused elsewhere – understandably so. But it would be a huge mistake for us to ignore the strategic importance of the continent of Africa. China gets it, India gets it. The private sector too – it’s where the growth is. A partnership on development is not just heart, it’s smart.

 

AB: Many promises have been made and broken at summits over the years. Why is this one different?

 

Bono: Progress happens much more slowly than we’d like, but these summits are an opportunity to climb that bit higher and hold countries accountable for what they said they’d do. Certainly It’s not all doom and gloom.

 

AB: A lot of the emphasis at these summits is on the rich donor countries. Are developing countries also doing enough?

 

Bono: Some are, others are not. Those that are should get as much money as they can absorb, for example Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda, Senegal, Mozambique. We’ve done a lot of work on the Millennium Challenge Account, a US programme that offers a big pot of money for governments that are stamping out corruption, making it easier to do business, investing in human capital.

 

AB: Are you concerned that the development debate is being reduced to a narrow focus on aid?

 

Bono: I hate talking about aid and, in my experience, so do Africans – they’re entrepreneurial by nature and want our trade more than our aid. But they need seed capital and some start-up infrastructure to get going. Needless to say, it’s hard to do business if you’re dead or dying. As things stand, aid when well spent is a critical source of investment.

 

AB: Is being a celebrity rock star a disadvantage when it comes to being taken seriously?

 

Bono: I get the absurdity. Taking yourself too seriously is the bigger mistake. Celebrity may open the door to the White House, Downing Street or the Elysée palace, but once we’re in the office they soon regret the invite if they’re just looking for a photo. We’re time-consuming and expensive to do business with.

 

AB: And finally – how much money have you personally lost so far in the Wall Street turmoil?

 

Bono: I’m OK. I’m not super careful, but I’ve always tried not to be stupid about money. It’s a serious business – especially if you don’t have any.

 

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews...445136720080924

 

Crisis no excuse to ignore poverty - Clinton, Bono

Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:03pm

 

NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. financial crisis making global waves is no excuse for governments and companies to walk away from helping the world's poor, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and rocker Bono said on Wednesday.

 

As Congress debates a White House-proposed $700 billion bailout for the worst financial crisis since the Depression of the 1930s, Bono questioned why wealthy countries had not been able to come up with enough aid for the world's problems.

 

"It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable treatable disease and hunger," the U2 lead singer told Clinton's fourth annual philanthropic summit in New York. "That's mad, that is mad."

 

"This crisis is not an excuse to walk away from the world's challenges, but a compelling reason to intensify our efforts to meet them, around the corner and around the world," said Clinton, who has focused on humanitarian work since leaving the White House in 2001.

 

The Group of Eight wealthy nations vowed in 2005 to raise annual aid levels $50 billion by 2010, $25 billion of which was to go to Africa. But under current spending plans, the G8 will fall $40 billion short, according to a June report by the Africa Progress Panel set up to monitor implementation.

 

"Bankruptcy is a serious business and we all know people who have lost their jobs," Bono said, referring to the bankruptcy declared by Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (LEHMQ.PK: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz). "But this is moral bankruptcy."

 

More than 130 chief executives are mixing with world leaders, humanitarians and celebrities such as performer Barbra Streisand and singer Bob Geldof at the three-day Clinton Global Initiative, which started on Wednesday.

 

The summit seeks to address global problems in education, energy and climate change, health care and poverty. Experts have warned the financial crisis would likely hurt charitable efforts by individuals and corporations. (Editing by Daniel Trotta and Peter Cooney)