" ~~~ U2 ~~~ "

Poncier

You need to smack your computer a few times, maybe with a baseball bat.

Poncier

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/204000/204467uAcy_w.jpg

Try this one

Bathgate66

'COLD CASE' FEATURES U2
January 06, 2007


Thx to dwaltman for the tip in our forum that U2's music will be
featured in an upcoming edition of the CBS-TV drama Cold Case. The Rock
on TV listing says the episode, titled "8:03 am" will air on January
28th, but the date "1/21/07" is listed with the show description. In
any case, it's not the first time CBS has featured U2 in its prime-time
lineup. Songs from How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb were featured
throughout November, 2004, in episodes of C.S.I.

http://www.vh1.com/artists/rock_on_tv/show_info.jhtml?
type=artist&motvId=1022&startdoc=6

Poncier

Bath you might enjoy this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gtf-o6T2p84&mode=related&search=

Bathgate66

Poncier wrote:

Bath you might enjoy this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gtf-o6T2p84&mode=related&search=

thanks so much !

i have heard this dozens if not 100s of times- nice to finally see it surface oon the tube.

bono in the sling is too funny- this is from his fall off the stage in nyc on that tour i believe .

thanks Poncier.

Poncier

I think the injury happened in DC if memory serves.

Here's a nugget you also might enjoy, I was at this show in your neck of the woods:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvGpWksgEI8

Bathgate66

Developer joins U2 stars in EU150m Clarence project
Frank McDonald, Environment Editor
Tue, Jan 16, 2007

Dublin's Clarence Hotel, owned by U2's Bono and the Edge, in
partnership with property developer Paddy McKillen, is to be
redeveloped at a cost of EU150 million as "one of the most spectacular
city hotels in Europe".

The scheme, designed by international architects Foster and Partners,
is to be submitted shortly to Dublin City Council. It would incorporate
the former Dollard printing works and four Georgian buildings on
Wellington Quay.

Only the quayside facades of the existing hotel and adjoining buildings
- all of which are protected structures - would be retained, although
the oak panelling from the Clarence's Octagon Bar is to be salvaged for
re-use.

The rear elevations of the hotel and adjoining buildings on East Essex
Street would be demolished in their entirety and replaced by a
undulating glazed facade, with shops and cafés at street level and
bedrooms above.

The existing hotel, which has only 34 bedrooms, has lost up to EU12
million since its refurbishment 10 years' ago. Bono (Paul Hewson) and
the Edge (David Evans) were advised to sell, but decided to bring Mr
McKillen on board.

They set up the Clarence Partnership, which is split 50-50 between the
two U2 band members on the one hand and Mr McKillen on the other. His
largest project in Dublin to date has been the Jervis Centre on Mary
Street.

A hotel for the past 140 years, the new Clarence will have 114 bedrooms
and 28 suites, if planning permission is granted for the project. It
will also have a 1,360sq m (14,640sq ft) spa - the first on this scale
in central Dublin.

Andy Bow, a senior partner in Norman Foster's practice, said the new
hotel would be organised around a "skycatcher" atrium - shaped like an
elongated hourglass - rising from a 25-metre swimming pool in the
basement to the roof.

An elliptical canopy with a reflective surface - a "white hovering
halo", as Mr Bow described it - would cover the structure, uniting its
different elements, and this would be topped by a fully-glazed
"skyroom" with panoramic views.

The development will incorporate a number of sustainability strategies,
including natural light and ventilation, to ensure that it will
function as an energy-efficient and environmentally sensitive mixed-use
hotel, spa and conference facility.

Mr Bow said the city council's planners were "hugely supportive" of the
scheme, while conservationists were also positive. "There's a sense
that people think it would be great to have a 21st century hotel like
this in Dublin."

Norman Foster described it as "an ambitious project - architecturally
and structurally [ that] presents an exciting opportunity to regenerate
Temple Bar's river frontage, while also creating a bold new addition to
Dublin's skyline."

© 2007 The Irish Times

Bathgate66

Poncier wrote:

I think the injury happened in DC if memory serves.

Here's a nugget you also might enjoy, I was at this show in your neck of the woods:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvGpWksgEI8

really ?


i coulda swore that happen in nyc somehwere- he fell off the stage . He also appears in rattle and hum with the gospel choir- in the sling.


oh well- thanks for the heads up Poncier.

Poncier

So far all I can find about it is this:

http://db.etree.org/shows_showreviews.php?shows_key=184814

Rattle and Hum Outtakes (look at list #4)

Lists Bono being driven to Hopistal with dislocated shoulder under the Foxboro 9/22/87 stuff and the NYC shows as 9/28/87 and 9/29/87.

Strictly from memory it was DC (9/20/87, RFK Stadium)he injured it in. His arm was definitely in a sling in Foxboro on 9/22(and not in the Boston Garden on 9/17 and 9/18), and that show was before NYC

Poncier

Here we go, from @u2.com:

http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=2738&Key=answer%20guy&Year=&Cat=12

The critical part:

From: Sam

In Rattle and Hum, when the band is walking through Harlem and they stop to listen to "Freedom for my People," Bono's left arm is in a contraption. Is it "tennis elbow" from lifting pints, an injury from leaving the stage or something even better?

Dear Sam:

He dislocated his shoulder during a concert at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC on September 20, 1987. The accident happened when Bono slipped on the wet stage during "Exit." He was taken to a hospital immediately after the show and ended up performing with his arm in a sling for the next 12 concerts -- though he ignored doctor's orders by playing guitar on several occasions when he wasn't supposed to!

Bathgate66

ah okay.

i shouldve known better then to " test " the great Poncier !

Poncier

I just remember the timeline well as they played here just before and after the accident. I was at the 2 Garden shows on the 17th and 18th...strangely I didn't attend the Foxboro show (silly me I didn't want to do a stadium show after 2 arena shows, I hate football stadia for concerts, but in hindsight I wish I'd have gone), but my brother did. Since the injury had just happened it was kind of big news among U2 fans.

Bathgate66

U2.Com has posted a story today cautioning U2 fans not to buy tickets
that have popped up on some ticketing sites for supposed U2 shows in
London and Paris during 2007. According to the site, there are no live
plans for the current year, and any ticket offers you see are "a
scam". Just a heads up to fans out there that might have seen these
offers.

Bathgate66

January 19, 2007

Bono will be heading to Switzerland next week to once again
participate in The World Economic Forum at Davos. The WEF issued a
statement yesterday announcing the theme for this year's meeting,
which will be "Shaping the Global Agenda, The Shifting Power
Equation." The meeting attracts over 2,400 participants from 90
countries, including 24 heads of state or government, 85 cabinet
ministers, and one very vocal rock star. (Actually two, if you count
Peter Gabriel, who will also attend.) Key segments of the discussions
will once again be offered via webcast at the WEF website, and will be
available beginning January 24.

More info on the WEF:
http://www.weforum.org

Bathgate66

Thx to U2tour.de

25 of the greatest gigs ever

For Bono it's the Clash. For Irvine Welsh it's Roxy Music. For Amy
Winehouse it's Erykah Badu. Our star-studded panel of artists and
writers relive the concerts that changed their lives. (And yes, someone
really should have chosen Iggy ... )

Sunday January 21, 2007
Observer Music Monthly

<snip>

The Clash
Trinity College
Dublin, 1977

Bono

Can't remember the set list, can't remember much about the music, to be
honest. I just know that everything changed that night, and I'm sure it
was not just for me. Year zero. The shock of the new, where everything
reconfigured. The venue was the exam hall of Trinity College, founded
by Bishop Berkeley 300 odd years previously ... the man who spent his
entire existence trying to prove the existence of existence. I'm not
kidding. He also had a corner of San Francisco named after him. Other
reconfigurations, other revolts.

It wasn't so much a musical event. It was more like the Red Army had
arrived, on a cold October night, to force feed a new cultural
revolution, punk rock. Marching boots and the smell of sulphur. Not
weed or speed but fear, fear of the future, no future. And the delight,
so much delight. All kinds of symbols pinned on jackets, some
ridiculous swastikas, Red Brigade t-shirts, hand made knock-offs of
extremely expensive Seditionaries threads fromLondon. But as there was
a war going on 100 miles from here, in a strange way, the Clash made
more sense in Dublin than anywhere.

As I sat in the box room and stared out the window the next day, it was
very clear. The world is more malleable than you think; reality is what
you can get away with.

</snip>

Bathgate66

SLEEP...SLEEP TONIGHT


Just when you thought U2 fans couldn't get any younger, Baby Rock Records is
releasing a CD filled with U2 favorites done as baby lullabies called
Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of U2. They've already put out CDs with
renditions of Coldplay, Nirvana, Metallica, Led Zeppelin and others. Amazon.com is
taking pre-orders if there are any parents interested. The CD track list is:
Sunday Bloody Sunday / All I Want is You / Beautiful Day / One / With or Without
You / I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Angel of Harlem / Where
the Streets Have No Name / New Year's Day / Desire / The Sweetest Thing.

Bathgate66

United Press International®

BEIJING, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Chinese singer Zhang Liangying is among the international
performers asked to record "Give Your Love" as part of World Peace One's call for world
peace.

Other singers and bands invited to travel to the United States to record "Give Your Love"
include U2, Madonna, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Green Day, Chinese Radio
International said. Zhang, third place in China's 2005 "Super Girl" singing contest, is the lone
Asian female singer invited to participate so far.

World Peace One is a non-profit charitable organization that stresses a world community in a
peaceful existence.

After the recording session, some performers are scheduled to participate in "A Call for an
End to War" concert Aug. 15. Organizers said the event should reach an audience of 3.5
billion worldwide through television, radio, the Internet and cell phones.

© United Press International, 2007.

Bathgate66

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE SNEAK PEEK
February 04, 2007


Thanks to Rhianna for letting us know that the movie trailer for Across
the Universe is now available on Yahoo. Bono makes a guest appearance
in the film, and can be spotted ever so briefly in the trailer, about
1/3rd of the way in. You can also click the image on our home page for
a larger version if you miss yer man's appearance.
http://www.atu2.com
___________________

Bathgate66

February 7, 2007
Posted by: Tassoula

To benefit Music Rising, The Edge has autographed ten Epiphone Les Paul Guitars, which are
now available for purchase. All proceeds benefit the charity, which was co-founded by The
Edge to replace musical instruments lost or damaged in Hurricane Katrina.

To learn more, follow the link on @ http://www.atU2.com

Androgynous Mind

Electrial Storm is fuckin' awesome.