Metallica, George Clooney, U2 All Contribute To Documentary Putting Anton Corbijn In Front Of The Lens For Once...

 

Posted: 16/09/2012 16:15 Updated: 17/09/2012 09:04

 

 

Bono probably isn't used to be asked to move out of the way.

 

But that's exactly what film-maker Klaartje Quirijns had to do to get the shot she wanted - which was of U2's longtime creative director and the subject of her documentary, Anton Corbijn.

 

"I'm sure most people would be more interested in getting the shot of these amazingly famous musicians," she laughs, "but I just wanted to make sure I had Anton."

 

 

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U2 have earned huge amounts of money through their music career but have now invested their own money in music programmes that may unearth the next U2 or Rory Gallagher.

 

 

 

While one Bono is probably as much as the world can take, the next brilliant Irish guitarist or drummer may come out of Cork thanks to the band’s generosity.

 

Music Generation Cork City is currently one of six partnerships to receive funding nationwide which will allow wider access to music tuition throughout Cork City.

 

Ireland's new national music education programme was initiated by Music Network and funded by U2 and the Ireland Funds. U2 are not the only funders however.

 

City of Cork VEC, Cork City Council, Cork City Partnership, Cork Institute of Technology, University College Cork and the HSE are co-funders according to Margaret O’Sullivan, Coordinator Music Generation Cork City, who praised their generosity and vision.

 

The amount committed by these bodies will be matched by the programme's national donors, U2. Over the course of the initial three year project, approximately €1.2million will be invested in a diverse programme of performance music education opportunities for children throughout Cork city.

 

 

Working with existing community-based education providers, Music Generation Cork City will target the city’s four RAPID (Revitalising Areas by Planning, Investment and Development) areas with a range of performance music education opportunities for children up to the age of 18.

 

“Involvement in music has been shown to have long-lasting positive effects for those who have the chance to learn and take part. With the wide range of partners supporting this programme, we hope that Music Generation Cork City will have a huge impact on the culture of Cork city, enhancing the lives of its youngest citizens,” Ms O’Sullivan added.

 

A series of new initiatives delivering music education in school and community settings throughout the city are currently in development for commencement during the academic year 2012/13.

 

Three of those programmes will have commenced by the end of September, engaging at least 500 children in music learning including learning instruments, theory classes, choirs, and the use of music technology across nine different Cork city schools.

 

Director of Music Generation, Rosaleen Molloy expressed her excitement with the partners involved. “Music Generation is now established in six areas of the country and has been made possible by a €7m donation - €5m from U2 and a further €2m which is currently being raised by the Ireland Funds, which represents the largest ever single philanthropic donation to music education in the history of the state.”

 

The launch of the programme takes place on Tuesday 25 September at 5pm at Cork Council civic offices.

 

 

Corkindependent.com

Bono to receive Mexico's Order of the Aztec Eagle

 

Mexico will bestow the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest decoration awarded to foreigners, on U2 singer Bono in recognition of his humanitarian work and close ties with the country.

 

President Felipe Calderon may deliver the medal to the Irish star during his visit to New York next week for the United Nations General Assembly, Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa told reporters on Friday.

 

But she noted that the singer has not yet confirmed the exact date for the medal ceremony, due to prior commitments.

 

Espinosa said she spoke to Bono, who founded the global anti-poverty group ONE to help fight poverty and disease in Africa, to inform him of the decision.

 

"He said that he feels very honored and very pleased with this decision, and that Mexico is a country that he loves and admires," she said.

 

Calderon, who leaves office on December 1, met with Bono at the presidential residence of Los Pinos last year to thank the singer for expressing solidarity with Mexico over the country's drug violence during a concert in the capital.

 

"Mexico needs to know you are not alone and we are with you... you are not alone in the darkness," Bono told 93,000 fans at the Azteca football stadium.

 

 

Thanks to AFP

Order of the Aztec Eagle. Brilliant! Beats an OBE hands down! :lol:

2's Bono and The Edge in Leicester for opening of Curve production of Finding Neverland#

 

 

 

 

The show premiered on Saturday night and included two unexpected star guests – U2 frontman Bono and guitarist The Edge – who had been invited by Mr Weinstein.

 

Mr Weinstein said:"We were so honoured that Bono and Edge came to see our first preview of Finding Neverland in Leicester. There was real excitement amongst the cast to meet them backstage after the show. I came to see Bono's show Spiderman in New York during previews, and he was a really good friend to come and see my first show here in Leicester."

 

Speaking to the cast on stage after the show, Bono said: “Can I just say how nauseating it is to see it go so well. That was amazing."

 

The musical, about Peter Pan author JM Barrie, received whistles and cheers as the curtain fell and the Irish superstars got to their feet with the rest of the audience to give the cast a standing ovation.

 

Joss Paine, 18, from Thurnby, had to take a second after finding himself in the same row as Bono.

 

He said: "It was a bit surreal. I spotted him quite early on and had to look twice."

 

The show is inspired by the 2004 film Finding Neverland, based on the Scottish writer JM Barrie.

 

It tells the story of his platonic relationship with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and friendship with her four young sons, who inspire the magical world of Peter Pan.

 

Maggie Friswell, 63, from Burbage, said: "It was absolutely fantastic. The singing was superb – in fact, everything was fantastic.

 

"I've been to London, to the West End to see shows, but this was just amazing – the technical bits were really impressive."

 

Stephen Smith, 61, from Stoke Golding, near Hinckley, said: "Brilliant. It was really good.

 

"For the show to premiere here in Leicester really says something about the city and the theatre."

 

Pam Hillyard, 74, from Thurmaston, was sat in front of the show's producer Harvey Weinstein but didn't know until her daughter told her.

 

She said: "I had no idea who he was, but I thought the whole show was fantastic.

 

"It really captured the essence of the story and the time in which it was set.

 

"The set and music was amazing."

 

The musical attracted audience members from all over the world.

 

American Bill Rummer had travelled from London to see the opening night of the show.

 

The 40-year-old said: "I thought it was beautiful and moving, it was fantastic.

 

"I'm originally from Los Angeles and I'm in London at the minute, but I had to come up here when I heard it was a Harvey Weinstein premiere."

 

Bill was not the only overseas admirer of the production.

 

Australian Craig Rohlf, 39, had also made his way up from London for the show.

 

He said: "It's my first time here and I am really impressed.

 

"It's not every day you see a world premiere of a big show like this."

 

British stage and screen actor Julian Ovenden plays JM Barrie, while West End actress Rosalie Craig takes the role of Sylvia.

 

The show, directed and choreographed by Olivier Award-winner Rob Ashford, runs until October 13

 

 

thisisleicestershire.co.uk

 

U2 superstars support Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical

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BONO and The Edge turned up for the opening night of the new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar on Sunday.

The new Superstar, which features Melanie C, Chris Moyles and Tim Minchin, kicked off at the o2 Arena in London before heading off around the country.

 

Tim, who plays Judas, tweeted: “So Bono & The Edge seem to love Jesus Christ Superstar.”

 

The U2 men are fans of musicals, though their first attempt to write one, for Spider Man on Broadway, was problematic.

 

A stage play using U2 classics could be great, they should see if Andrew fancies a collaboration.

 

 

 

SUN UK

 

 

Edited September 25, 201212 yr by Scorpion

Salman Rushdie speaks about his friendship with U2’s frontman Bono Salman Rushdie speaks about his friendship with U2’s frontman Bono

 

 

Controversial writer Salman Rushdie of Satanic Verses infamy has lots of A-list pals, including Bono, as his new memoir Joseph Anton makes clear. The U2 frontman and Rushdie go back many years, and Bono offered shelter and support to Rushdie while he was under a fatwa issued in 1989 by conservative Muslims angry over his portrayal of them.

 

Rushdie recalls one incident back in the 1990s when he was a houseguest at Bono and his wife Ali’s mansion in Killiney, Dublin. Bono managed to smuggle Rushdie out of the house, without telling Rushdie’s police minders, and into a local bar for some drinks.

 

The half hour of being free at last in an Irish pub was intoxicating in more ways than one, with Rushdie remembering that he was "giddy with the unexpected freedom of it and maybe thanks to the unprotected Guinness too."

 

When the pair arrived back to Bono’s home, the police were none too pleased with the secret outing. They treated Bono with "mournful accusation, but forbore to speak harsh words to their country's favorite son,” Rushdie wrote.

 

Bono and U2 wanted to publicly show support for the embattled Rushdie, and invited him onstage during a Zooropa tour stop in London in 1993. The friendship blossomed from there, and a few days after the concert Bono reached out to Rushdie again.

 

"Bono called, talking about wanting to grow as a writer. In a rock group the writer just became a sort of conduit for the feelings in the air, the words didn't drive the work, the music did, unless you came from a folk tradition like Dylan, but he wanted to change,” Rushdie writes.

 

“Would you sit down and talk about how you work? He sounded hungry for mind food and for what he called just a good row."

 

They did collaborate on music together – Bono wrote the song “The Ground Beneath Her Feet” based on Rushdie’s novel of the same name – and they’ve kept in contact ever since. Earlier this month Bono traveled to London to present Rushdie with GQ magazine’s Inspiration of the Year award.

 

 

Irish Central.com

 

September 28, 2012 9:16 pm

 

Muse: The 2nd Law Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

 

Skrillex-style dubstep, wild passages of falsetto singing and magnificent guitar-playing fill the album from the Devon trio

 

Muse are not only U2’s successors as one of the world’s biggest bands: they’re also the anti-U2, flipping Bono and Co’s windy universalism into overblown fantasies of global apocalypse. I cannot agree

 

 

F Times

U2's Bono & The Edge in Leicester

 

 

Video :angel: What has Bono done to his hair :unsure: http://www.itv.com/news/central/update/201...e-in-leicester/

 

UK Finding Neverland Leicester Bono & The Edge from the band U2 were in Leicester at the weekend for the opening of the Curve production, Finding Neverland.

 

The show premiered on Saturday night and after the show Bono spoke to the audience on stage, "Can I just say how nauseating it is to see it go so well. That was amazing."

 

The musical attracted audience members from all over the world and the show runs until 13th October.

 

 

ITV News

Edited September 30, 201212 yr by Scorpion

All those 2 seem to do this weather is attend premieres, fund raisers, award ceremonies. Basically faff around with the luvvies... <_<

From

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/u2-goi...as-3244248.html

 

 

U2 going back to Rita's for Christmas

 

 

Sunday September 30 2012

 

How many days until Christmas? Ask Bono. He clearly has it on his mind. U2 have just booked their yuletide bash for Cafe H, the Mediterranean restaurant, in Dublin's Grand Canal Plaza, owned by Rita Crosbie, Harry's wife.

 

Well -- they did have it there last year. I bumped into lovely Rita last weekend en route to the Joan Armatrading concert in Vicar Street (which hubby Harry owns and is presently extending).

 

The gifted Bono did a large gonzo-drawing of his late father, Bob Hewson, which he gave to Rita two weeks ago to hang in Cafe H, where there are also three submarines, dedicated to Gerry Ryan, hanging above diners.

 

Harry told me the submarines are his way of remembering how he and Gerry used to watch old war movies -- invariably involving submarines -- in Crosbie's nearby house on the waterfront once a month. Crosbie, who gets his OBE from the Queen on October 18, added that, on Thursday, British Ambassador Dominick Chilcott is coming into the restaurant to unveil a large chandelier made of flowers by the esteemed Jenny Murphy, who won gold for her floral display at this year's Chelsea Flower Show.

MEET BONO'S BERLIN BUDDY GRONEMEYER

 

 

 

 

 

BONO is making a rare outing away from U2 to help out a singer who has outsold Michael Jackson.

The megastar duets with German singer Gronemeyer on his album I Walk, out next week. It also features Manic Street Preachers and Antony And The Johnsons.

Gronemeyer, 56, has sold an incredible 21million albums and headlines stadiums in Germany, where his debut album kept Jacko’s Thriller off the No1 spot.

Bono, 52, who befriended Gronemeyer via their work for Make Poverty History, duets on song Mensch.

Bono said: “Gronemeyer is a good man and a fine singer. It was an honour to sing with him.”

The pair performed Mensch on a TV special in Berlin recently and Gronemeyer said: “He was very gentle, not trying to out-sing me.

“I felt like a child singing with Bono. It was like being in a film with Robert De Niro or Marlon Brando.”

The father-of-two moved to London in 1998, shortly before his actress wife Anna died from breast cancer.

The crooner, full name Herbert Gronemeyer, said: “The biggest surprise about British people was how kind and supportive everyone was after my wife died.

“Germans talk a lot about emotions. Brits don’t do that so much but you have an amazing loyalty.”

I Walk, which was recorded in English, is a lovely, gentle album that may make him a star here too

 

 

The Daily Star

Edited October 8, 201212 yr by Sydney

The Hoff is also very successful in Germany. Just thought I'd mention that :P

Nick Clegg meets Bono to discuss poverty not pop[/b

 

 

The Deputy Prime Minister holds talks with the U2 frontman to discuss cleaning up payments to poor countries

The government will push for more transparency over money paid for energy and minerals

Both men have had chart success, although Mr Clegg only reached 143 with his remixed apology song :lol:

 

U2 frontman Bono is used to meeting politicians not normally one who has also hit the charts with a song of their own.

 

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Today he sat down just long enough for a photograph with deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who last month saw a remix of his tuition fees apology released as a single.

What is unlikely to have been on the agenda are the growing calls from within the coalition to curb spending on international development, or accusations from some poverty campaigners that Bono does not pay enough tax.

 

U2 frontman Bono and deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg share a joke while discussing global poverty

Instead of comparing notes on their chart success, the duo held talks on how to stop people in poor countries being ripped off when governments sell their power and minerals.

 

After the meeting Mr Clegg said the UK government will put pressure on Europe to clean up payments made to developing countries for energy and mining resources.

 

The Deputy PM said the EU should follow the lead of the United States in imposing new rules on recording where payments for gas, electricity and minerals go.

 

The changes were needed to allow people living in developing countries to hold their governments to account.

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Bono praised the Liberal Democrat leader for his backing of the issue.

Mr Clegg said: ‘For far too long the world’s poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards.

 

‘It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries’ assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.

 

‘There need to be strict new rules about how payments to developing countries from the oil, gas and mining industries are recorded. Shining a light on where this money is actually going will help people hold their governments to account over how this money is actually spent.”

 

The two men have tried their hands at both politics and pop, with mixed results

Mr Clegg, who was joined by Lib Dem business minister Jo Swinson, paid tribute to the ONE International campaign, of which Bono is a co-founder’

 

It campaigns against extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.

 

Bono said today: ‘Sometimes great things happen when nobody’s looking. That’s what happened today. Nick Clegg and Jo Swinson have thrown Britain’s weight behind strong EU transparency laws, at least matching the new US legislation.

 

‘This legislation says ‘let the daylight in’. Transparency is the best vaccine against corruption.’

 

Last year campaigners targetted a perforamnce by U2 at the Glastonbury festival over allegations the band moved their multi-million-pound music and publishing business away from Ireland to avoid taxes on record sales.

 

Art Uncut argued 'tax avoidance is crippling poor nations'.

Nick Clegg Says I'm Sorry (the Autotune remix)' reached 33 in the iTunes chart when it was released three weeks ago.

 

In the official chart it manged only number 143, some way short of the 150million records sold worldwide by U2. stormed up the charts today faster than the Lib Dem poll ratings plummeted after joining the coalition with the Tories.

 

 

Daily Mail

Edited October 11, 201212 yr by Sydney

The way this country is going, Bono will soon be organising fundraising concerts for us <_<

Don't all rush at once now....

 

 

From

http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-...ad-3264018.html

 

U2's Adam wants €6m for NY pad

 

By Eimear Rabbitte

Thursday October 18 2012

 

ADAM Clayton has put his luxurious New York apartment on the market for €6.6m.

 

The fourth-floor, three-bedroom property boasts a 38ft gallery, formal dining room and looks out on to Central Park.

 

Clayton (52) has put a lot of work into the property, which he bought in the early 1990s.

 

He initially bought two apartments in the building and then combined them. The Eldorado building, on Central Park West, is also home to band-mate Bono.

 

 

Oooooh a photo :w00t:

 

 

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Bono's 'Humbling' Realizations About Aid, Capitalism And Nerds

 

Bono has learned much about music over more than three decades with U2. But alongside that has been a lifelong lesson in campaigning — the activist for poverty reduction in Africa spoke frankly on Friday about how his views about philanthropy had now stretched to include an appreciation for capitalism.

 

 

FULL STORY HERE

Neil Young: 'Who is Bono?' The rocker made the comment about the U2 frontman during a Twitter Q&A

 

 

 

Neil Young took part in a Twitter Q&A session earlier today (October 24), in which he asked his fans "who is Bono?".

 

The legendary rocker made the dismissive comment about the U2 frontman after he was asked what his opinion was of the band Foster The People. Young was asked by @akemi99 "what do you like about foster the people? #askneil btw, bono said he likes them, too... it is surprising two super stars like them..". Young replied: "who is Bono?".

 

 

 

 

:huh:

 

 

 

Was he being serious? Tell me he was joking... :wacko: