'I should shut up and stick to singing'
Sydney Morning Herald
July 9, 2007
by Dylan Welch
THE office of Peter Garrett - former lead singer of Midnight Oil and current
Australian politician - has moved quickly to hose down a joke by Silverchair
frontman Daniel Johns on Sydney radio this morning, suggesting Johns, his
wife, Garrett and U2 singer Bono smoked dope together at a house in Sydney
recently.
Johns, on Triple J to discuss the band's fifth album, <i>Young Modern</i>,
released earlier this year, joked with presenters that when he played a demo
of the album to Garrett and Bono they had been all lying on a bed in a
Sydney house Bono was occupying, and smoking marijuana.
"[Bono] invited me over the house he was staying at in Sydney and asked if
I'd play the demos and it was really one of the most surreal moments of my
life," Johns said after 8am.
"It was me and [John's wife] Natalie [Imbruglia] and Peter Garrett and Bono
laying on Bono's bed smoking joints listening to the Young Modern demo."
News website Crikey said the alleged incident would have occurred in
November last year, when U2 were playing in Sydney.
However, Garrett's office began receiving calls from journalists who had
taken the comments literally, and the office quickly contacted John's
management to establish what had occurred.
His management confirmed Johns had made the comments, and Garrett's office
asked Johns to issue a retraction, which he did later in the morning.
"I made a stupid joke," the singer stated.
"It's just been brought to my attention that some people in the media have
taken my dumb joke seriously so I want to set the record straight. At no
time have I ever 'smoked a joint' with Bono or Peter Garrett.
"They are both well known to be very anti-drugs so that's why I assumed
everybody would know I was joking when I made that comment. Clearly that
wasn't the case and I feel sick that I might have caused embarrassment to
two people who I admire so much.
"I was fortunate enough to once get to play them some of my demo's but I
swear that no joints were involved. I guess I felt a bit like a namedropper
mentioning them on the radio so that's why I added a silly throwaway joke.
"I accept that drug use is no laughing matter and I apologise sincerely for
any confusion or harm I've caused."
When contacted by smh.com.au Mr Garrett's spokeswoman Kate Pasterfield
confirmed the alleged incident had not taken place.
Mr Garrett also clarified whether he had ever smoked marijuana in his life
via Ms Pasterfield.
"I tried a bit of dope in my 20s but I haven't since," Mr Garret said
through Ms Pasterfield.
Johns also said his statement that issues like this were one of the reasons
he was disinclined to participate in interviews.
"I really should just shut up and stick to singing," he wrote.
(c) Sydney Morning Herald, 2007
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The band have covered John Lennon's 'Instant Karma' for an Amnesty album drawing attention to the crisis in Darfur. Listen to a clip here.
More than 50 artists are taking part in the Amnesty International campaign which combines the music of John Lennon with new technology and human rights activism. Details and campaign news here.
Listen to U2's clip here
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* Spinner.com has listed its choices for "Best Benefit
Performances", and U2's Live Aid performance of "Bad" comes in at No.
2. You can click through to see the other choices, too.
* And finally, our @U2 staffer Dan E. has re-launched U2source.com,
an archive of U2 interviews from throughout the band's history.
Listening is easy: click to stream, no downloads, nothing. You'll love
it.
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AS the world's highest paid supermodel, Gisele Bunchen can afford to be
picky with her projects – and we hear she's in excited talks with Bono to
star in U2's next music video.
The pair reportedly hit it off when Gisele appeared in awareness-raising ads
for Bono's RED charity campaign, for which she refused payment.
The supermodel is no stranger to performing for the camera – she recently
signed up for a part in the film Angels and Demons, the sequel to The Da
Vinci Code, following her acting debut in the 2004 film Taxi - and it seems
that appearances in music videos are all part of the modelling DNA; think
Linda Evangelista's appearance in George Michael's Freedom, Christie
Brinkley as Billy Joel's Uptown Girl, Helena Christensen's sultry show for
Chris Isaak's Wicked Game and Kate Moss pole dancing for the White Stripes'
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself.
(c) Vogue UK, 2007
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he was in the ny post recently wearing a yankee hat.
supposebly he was getting alot of shit from people back up in beantown about this.
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All News Radio reports that U2 will be one of the bands shown in the
new documentary "Here Is What Is" by Producer Daniel Lanois.
The film, which will debut at the 32nd annual Toronto International Film Festival in September, captured recording sessions in a creative way, sometimes using tiny cameras planted on the instruments the band members were playing.
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Tom Jones is busy recording his new album for S-Curve Records, which
includes both covers and original songs -- one that was apparently
written by Bono and enhanced with some of The Edge's guitar magic.
No word yet on when the album will be released. Stay tuned to @U2 for
updates and follow this link to read more about the album:
July 19, 2007 -- TOM Brady wearing a Yankee cap and politely holding the door as he and his supermodel girlfriend, Gisele Bundchen, strolled into the IMG building at 54th and Seventh
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Gisele Bundchen to star in next U2 vid
19 Jul 2007
According to well-placed sources the world’s highest-paid supermodel,
Gisele Bundchen, has agreed to star in the video for the next U2 single
– whenever and whatever that is.
The Brazilian became pals with Bono when she appeared in a series of
adverts for his RED initiative.
Bundchen is no stranger to the acting game having appeared in 2004’s
Taxi, and is being mooted for the upcoming Hollywood makeover of Dan
Brown’s Angels And Demons.
Meanwhile, having eulogised about Joe Strummer in Julien Temple’s The
Future Is Unwritten, Bono has contributed to the updated DVD version of
The Life And Times Of Allen Ginsberg.
“Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member
of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist,
political activist and teacher - Allen Ginsberg's remarkable life
challenged the very soul of America,” he says alongside similarly
gushing praise from the likes of Patti Smith, Beck and Paul McCartney.
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There's probably no one left on planet earth that doesn't know that
The Simpsons Movie is opening this Friday, July 27. What folks may not
know is that our favorite frontman is referenced in a sub-plot
involving Lisa Simpson and an Irish activist she becomes interested in.
No word yet on whether or not Bono is pleased by this shout-out, but
since imitation is the highest form of flattery, and U2 did appear on
an episode of The Simpsons during its ninth season, I'm bargaining
he's okay with it.
To read more spoilers about the film, follow this link:
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The Rolling Stones and U2 will be storming movie theaters this fall in
concert films that aim to please the eye as much as the ear.
When the Stones played New York's Beacon Theater last fall, Martin
Scorsese brought in a small army of Oscar-winning and nominated
cinematographers to capture the event for his film "Shine A Light."
Robert Richardson, cinematographer for Scorsese's "The Aviator,"
supervised a formidable camera team that includes John Toll
("Braveheart"), Andrew Lesnie ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy),
Stuart Dryburgh ("The Piano"), Robert Elswit ("Good Night and Good
Luck"), Emmanuel Lubezki ("Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate
Events") and Ellen Kuras ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind").
Scorsese is a seasoned hand at music documentaries, most notably for
The Band's memorable 1978 farewell, "The Last Waltz" and "No Direction
Home: Bob Dylan." Soorsese's editor on the Bob Dylan film, David
Tedeschi, will do cutting honors on "Shine a Light," which Paramount
has scheduled for a Sept. 21 release.
Audiences will be able to reach out and touch Bono's hand in "U2 3D,"
an IMAX 3-D chronicle of the band's Vertigo tour of Latin America. A
56-minute preview of the 80-minute film was shown to great acclaim at
the past Cannes Film Festival. Culled from seven different concerts in
early 2006 by directors Catherine Owen and Mark Pellington, "U2 3D"
will feature 15 songs. A firm autumn release date is pending.
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The Edge Talks About U2, Philanthropy and His Biggest Musical
Influences
By Nicholas Rozon
Back in 1976, the Edge (then known simply as David Evans) teamed up
with a few boys from Dublin to form the Larry Mullen Band. Never
heard of them? That's because the name only lasted a few seconds.
They soon re-emerged as Feedback, which spun into the Hype, but it
wasn't until the quartet decided on U2 -- a name they agreed they
hated least -- that the group solidified and began their meteoric
rise to the top of the charts.
Years later, the Edge is a guitarist and songwriter for what is
undisputedly one of the biggest rock bands in the world, and one that
has gone far beyond the world of rock to make a serious impact on
global events.
"For a growing number of rock 'n' roll fans, U2 have become the band
that matters most, maybe even the only band that matters," declared
Rolling Stone in 1985, when they were already one of the world's most
popular acts.
Punk Rock Passion
So what songs and artists does this legend listen to the most? For
the Edge, it's a variety, ranging from songs by patriarchs of rock
like Bob Dylan and the Beatles, to less mainstream acts like the
Rebirth Brass Band. But each one is connected to some time or place
in his life.
In 1975, the Edge was just 14 years old. He was a year away from
meeting his future band mates and had yet to record such hits
as "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking
For" and "With or Without You."
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, a New Jersey girl named
Patti Smith busted the world of punk rock wide open. Her debut album,
Horses, redefined the genre by fusing rock 'n' roll and punk rock
with spoken poetry. The album experienced only modest commercial
success but its impact on the rock world was tremendous.
More than 30 years later, the opening track, Smith's cover of the Van
Morrison song "Gloria," remains on the Edge's playlist -- a song he
says was one of U2's earliest muses.
"That changed everything for me at the time because we were starting
to play as a band," said the Edge. "The ideas...we're a band who
loves to mix it up with the sexual, the spiritual, whatever, the
political, and there in that song she did that so incredibly."
Rock 'n' Roll Roots
Within a few years U2 encountered international acclaim. They had
become well known for their powerful live performances and in 1983
won the BRIT Award for best live act. But four studio albums had come
and gone and the group had yet to have a No.1 record outside of the
U.K.
After the release of their fourth album, The Unforgettable Fire, in
1984, the band began exploring blues, country and gospel music. Their
relationships with rock legends such as Van Morrison, Keith Richards
and Bob Dylan had inspired them to explore the roots of rock 'n'
roll.
During the recording sessions of U2's fifth album, The Joshua Tree,
the Edge found inspiration in the form of another debut record -- the
Band's Music from Big Pink released in 1968. The album's hit
single, "The Weight," made famous by the classic film Easy Rider,
particularly stood out for the Edge.
"We were first exploring American music and hearing their work,
really delving into it -- it was mind blowing for me," he said. "And
that I will always associate with a particular summer up in the hills
in Dublin."
The Joshua Tree was a monumental hit. It was a No. 1 record around
the globe and went on to become a multiplatinum album, selling over
10 million units worldwide. Suffice to say, the record solidified
U2's position as both creative and commercial juggernauts.
Success
Success carried the Edge to nearly every point on the globe. In 20
years of traveling he has accumulated an extraordinary wealth of
stories, from nearly having the group's only set of guitars stolen
within their first few hours in New York in December 1980, to dancing
on top of the bar with Bono in pre-Katrina New Orleans.
"I'd always had amazing times there," he said of New Orleans. "And I
remember with Bono one night ending up in some tiny little club in an
area of the city I'd never been to, dancing on the bar to this little
five-piece funk outfit that didn't have any guitars. It was all
brass, drums and whatever. And we were just completely blown away --
that music which was so amazing was totally unknown to us. It was
like -- it was like discovering, you know, jazz for the first time or
something."
New Orleans definitely left its mark, and now the Edge's playlist is
peppered with many of the bands he first encountered around the town
with his band mates.
"The Dirty Dozen and the Little Rascals...Joyful music like 'Do
Whatcha Wanna' by the Rebirth Brass Band is just this killer groove
and just this amazing, joyful feeling," he said. "All these brass
bands that are playing music which has incredible sense of rhythm and
joy, all the things I look for in great rock 'n' roll."
Music Rising
Now the Edge and other heavyweights of the music industry have
started a charity effort to rebuild the musical community left
devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The primary goal of the charity,
called "Music Rising," is to get these musicians back to work.
"We're using music as a way to try and get these areas kind of to --
to give them a leg up," he said. "And music is a great way to do that
because it's really the spirit of that city and that part of
America."
The charity is not the only thing that has tied the Edge with New
Orleans. U2's performance with Green Day of "The Saints are Coming"
at the reopening of the Superdome in September 2006 is now one of the
more remarkable moments in the histories of both the band and the
city. Regardless of the performance, though, the Edge claims the song
would have earned a spot on the playlist on its own merit.
"'The Saints are Coming' was one of my favorite songs as a 16-year-
old -- maybe 17 when that came out," he said. "This was very exciting
to hear this band, the Skids, and their first album."
Reflecting back on his time in Louisiana, the Edge said that New
Orleans music is a very unique aspect of the culture in that it
continues to help victims of Katrina "celebrate being alive after
everything that had happened."
"There's a strong case to be made that there on the streets of New
Orleans was the beginning of that integration of African and Western
music which begat jazz, begat R&B, begat rock 'n' roll," said the
Edge. "So, you know, I wouldn't be here...if it wasn't for this very
unique part of America and these little flukes of history and
circumstance. And it's still all there. That's the amazing thing."
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The 2007 MTV Video Music Awards nominations were announced last night
in Las Vegas.
U2 received a nod for "Most Earth Shattering Collaboration" for their
work with Green Day on "The Saints are Coming" and Bono was nominated
in the "Quadruple Threat of the Year" category.
Tune in September 9 to see who will go home with the moon men.
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U2 3D will be presented next month at the Giant Screen Cinema
Association conference in Vancouver next month, but what's newsworthy
is that the movie's listing on the conference Web site shows "Early
2008" as the film's release date. All previous reports about the film
indicated a Fall 2007 release, as does the original movie trailer. When
asked to confirm the delay, Jon Shapiro of 3ality Digital told us via
e-mail: "A release date is TBD, as nothing is firm as of yet. An
announcement will be forthcoming."
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Billboard reports that Queensryche will include a cover of "Bullet the
Blue Sky" on their upcoming covers album called Take Cover. It's due in
stores on November 13th.
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U2’s Next Album Is “Making Itself,” Says Daniel Lanois
In June, Rock Daily reported that acclaimed artists/producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois were starting work with U2 on the band’s next album, the follow-up to 2004’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. Here’s a status report, straight from Lanois, who has produced a handful of albums for the band, including 1984’s The Unforgettable Fire, 1987’s The Joshua Tree and 1991’s Achtung, Baby: “We’ve been invited as writers this time,” he says. “I did three writing sessions with Eno and U2 — one in Fez, Morocco; two in France. It’s going great. We’re regrouping in November.” He adds that “the record’s kind of making itself.” Lanois has included some footage of the Morocco sessions in his upcoming documentary, Here Is What Is, but the scenes are well into the film. “It just seemed to make sense there and I didn’t want to take advantage of those guys. They’re so kind to me,” says Lanois. “They’re saying, ‘Lanois, you’re going to show us recording and we haven’t even put out a record yet, c’mon.’ I said, ‘Aw, please. We’re not going to give away anything and besides we’ve got twenty-five years together, throw me a biscuit [laughs].”
-- Karen Bliss
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August 29, 2007 iPod shuffle refresh to go (RED)
By Kasper Jade
With much of the excitement lately surrounding anticipated evolutions
of Apple's video iPod and iPod nano families, little has been said
about an upcoming refresh to the company's diminutive iPod shuffle
line, an expansion of which is likely to include a new (RED) model.
People often familiar with Apple's future product plans say the
company is preparing to add a red-colored model to the line of petite
clip-on players, possibly as early as next week. Any such model would
presumably join or replace the electronics maker's existing (PRODUCT)
RED offerings that include (RED) iPod nanos and iTunes gift cards.
(PRODUCT) RED products such as the (RED) nano help benefit the (RED)
charity created by Bobby Shriver and U2 front-man Bono, which
encourages big businesses to help fight against AIDS in Africa through
donations. In addition to Apple, (RED) has so far garnered the support
of several other big names that include the Gap, Motorola, American
Express, and Converse.
A predetermined portion of the proceeds from each (RED) product sale
are donated directly to the charity. For instance, Apple currently
spares $10 from the sale of each (RED) iPod nano and 10 percent from
the sale of each $25 (RED) iTunes gift card.
Unlike the aging video iPod and iPod nano families -- which are
expected to receive the royal Mac OS treatment and hefty industrial
design overhauls -- the iPod shuffle is arguably the freshest of
Apple's digital media players. It received a completely new form
factor just last fall and there has been little to no evidence to
suggest a second evolution is in the cards for '07.
Outside of going the iPod Picano route, Apple's options for advancing
the shuffle appear limited to capacity increases, price reductions,
and new software-driven features. At the same time, the cost of the
shuffle's components -- such as the NAND flash used for media storage
-- have fallen sharply over the past year. Significant price
reductions notwithstanding, Apple should make more off the sale of
each shuffle this year than it did last.
iPod shuffle (RED)Few changes and fatter margins would also lend
support to source reports of an impending iPod shuffle (RED), given
that Apple would be in a better position this year to hand-off a
percentage of each sale to charity without significantly pinching profits.
Yesterday afternoon, Apple issued formal invitations to a special
product launch event next Wednesday at San Francisco's Moscone West
convention center. The gathering of analysts and members of the media
is an undeniable sign that new iPods are in the cards, as the company
has historically used media events in the early weeks of fall to
unveil its holiday media and music player offerings.
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You're absolutely correct. It was RFK Stadium on a Sunday in the fucking rain on the fourth song in. In front of 55, 000 on The Joshua Tree World Tour he slipped and dislocated his shoulder and the rest of the show was cancelled. Not only was I wet 11 rows back dead center, waited 3 days for those tickets I lost my binoculars my friend begged me to bring.
It was the best 4 song concert ever though.
Peace
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
that f'n sucks but that line you typed made me lol.
more on Lanois :
Billboard
August 24, 2007
By Johnathan Cohen
Lanois Dabbles in Film, Writes With U2/Eno
Daniel Lanois has helped the biggest of the big translate their music
to the masses (Bob Dylan, U2, Willie Nelson), but now he's turning the
spotlight on himself. After years of being asked by friends, fans and
media outlets to reveal his studio methods, the Canadian
producer/artist did exactly that with the self-financed film "Here Is
What Is."
The movie, which Lanois co-directed with Adam Samuels and Adam
Vollick, premieres Sept. 9 at the Toronto International Film Festival.
"At first, I thought we could at least make an educational film that
would be useful to somebody interested in this line of work-just to
see how the interactions happen between people in the studio," Lanois
tells Billboard, noting the film is not structured like a standard
documentary. "But Vollick captured some actual performances on camera,
and it's even interesting to me as he walks around and shows the
cables, the wires and the equipment."
"Here Is What Is" also features reflections from fellow U2
collaborator Brian Eno and a glimpse at studio sessions for Lanois'
next album, which will feature the Band's Garth Hudson on four songs.
The goal, Lanois says, is for the film to be picked up by a
distributor and hit theaters early next year, in tandem with live
performances in select cities and the release of the aforementioned album.
Lanois is a "free agent," having most recently recorded for Anti-. But
he's open to working with that label again for the new project. "I may
ask [Anti- head] Andy [Kaulkin] if he's interested in putting out one
more record," he says. "But I'll finish the record first. Whoever is
excited about being onboard, it will be an interesting journey."
In the midst of finishing "Here Is What Is," Lanois has been writing
songs for the next U2 album with Eno and the band in France and
Morocco, a process documented in the film. Although the two producers
have worked separately with U2 for years, this is the first time both
men are collaborating with the band simultaneously.
"It feels like the 'Achtung Baby' period, when everybody was really
hungry to do something fresh," Lanois says of the material so far.
"They have everything, and they've done everything. But the thing they
should never assume they still own is the ability to be original and
invent something that's never been heard before.
"I'm not coming in with new flavors of the month or waving a magic
wand," he continues. "I don't have an abbreviated name. But my eyes
are burning a hole through their hearts, and I'm inviting them to come
to where I come from."
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Uncut reports that the new solo CD 'The Very Best Of Mick Jagger' will
include 17 tracks from the past three decades, including the
song "Joy," which was a collaboration with Bono.
The work includes rarities (such as a previously unreleased song
produced by John Lennon in 1973) and other gems that will no doubt
have Rolling Stones fans salivating.
The album will be released on October 2. To read more about it, click
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Daniel Lanois lounged on an ivory leather sofa in his loft studio in
Toronto, dressed all in black, with eight silk-covered buttons
marching up his sleeve. A few feet away, in a soft pool of light,
stood an enormous mixing board, just arrived from England. Lanois, who
has often manned such a board for Bob Dylan, U2 and many others, spoke
of his new acquisition with pleasure, but also with a sense that
anything he could tell me about it would be beside the point. He can
talk audio gear with more authority than most, but in the end the
circuits that really matter to him are the balky, surprising conduits
that lead to the heart.
"The application is just the vehicle for dragging something out of
somebody," he said. "What you want is the heart and soul of the people
in the room. The sounds and how you build the thing are only ever a
canvas, or an invitation for the soul to jump out."
Invite the soul to jump out. That's a pretty concise description of
what a good music producer does, but how does it happen in the real
world, with actual musicians trying to find the right shape for
something that maybe didn't exist before they entered the room?
The short answer is that it probably happens in a different way every
time, depending on the personalities and the moment and a million
other variables. The 90-minute answer is Here Is What Is, Lanois's
debut film about music and the art of making records, coming soon to
the Toronto International Film Festival.
It's a highly personal film, focused on Lanois and people he has
worked with ever since he began trying to coax interesting sounds from
cheap equipment in his mother's basement in Hamilton. Brian Eno, Garth
Hudson, U2 and Sinead O'Connor all appear, speaking or performing or
just groping their way toward that soul-jumping moment.
Lanois appears in every scene, as the poser of questions and the
person who enables partial answers. Sitting in a medina in Morocco, he
tells Eno he's making a film "about the source of the art, instead of
everything that surrounds the art."
That means no concert footage, no shots of screaming crowds, no clips
from million-dollar music videos. Lanois's subjects sit in functional
rooms, strum guitars with headphones clamped to their ears, or try to
figure out how to enlarge what has already been recorded.
The constant theme is that these denuded spaces contain everything
that's needed, as a matter of principle. You never see more players
being called in, or extra filters and gizmos being ordered, because
Lanois doesn't work that way and never has.
"My heroes were always the people in the room," he told me after we'd
watched the film together. "Maybe that's why I managed to pull it off
on records. At the moment, I believe in the magic of the people around
me. I never doubt them, and that's maybe where the power of belief
becomes contagious, because people feel that."
In one vivid scene, Lanois asks Brian Blade, a gifted jazz drummer
with whom he has worked on several projects, to play on top of a track
by New Orleans drummer Willie Green. Lanois explains that doubling the
drums will help him take the song to a different place harmonically.
You can see Blade trying to absorb the concept and get past the
audacity of the request, and then he dives in, laughing. It's a
touching display of trust, and of a willingness to follow the power of
belief in a totally unexpected direction.
Later in the film, Lanois gives Blade a verbal sketch of a new song,
acting out with his voice and body the way he wants the arrangement to
feel. The scene is intercut with bits of the song as it eventually
came out in the studio. For another song, Lanois sits at a board doing
a live mix, telling us what he's doing with those faders and why. His
torso bends and weaves as he makes subtle but telling changes, riding
the board as if it were a wave on a sea of sound.
The opening of the film gets close to the source in another way,
through a long keyboard-level shot of Garth Hudson's hands, as the
Band's pianist plays an improvised introduction to Lanois's song
Lovechild. The camera gets even closer to Lanois's hands as they glide
over the pedal steel guitar a few minutes later.
These sequences are shot in beautiful black and white by the young
Ontario photographer Adam Vollick, whose portrait orientation, vivid
angles and rich textures feel analogous to the way Lanois approaches
music. The graphic style of Vollick's video processing gives the
impression we're seeing an X-ray of the performers and their music,
and when he uses colour it feels like flares of emotional energy.
These effects don't ultimately tell us much about what Lanois says
he's up to, just as a musician's hands moving in close-up are not "the
source of the art," however engrossing they may be to watch. But like
most serious investigations into mysterious subjects, Here Is What Is
succeeds mainly by raising the questions in a compelling way. The
mystery remains, powerfully resisting a solution. It's no digression
when Blade, a preacher's son, says that everything he plays is a form
of praise, or when Lanois refers to his pedal steel as a "church in a
suitcase."
Blade also says he can't separate the sacred from the secular, and
that comment seems doubly apt in a film whose unstated second theme is
seduction. The gorgeous sound and imagery are custom-made to win you
over, as Lanois muses on the details that make a listener revisit a
song. A few red-hot sequences with salsa dancer Carolina Cerisola
state the theme loud and clear.
Here Is What Is will be useful as a promotional vehicle for Lanois's
next solo album, due next spring, which he coyly says "might" have the
same title. By then he'll have done a fourth session with Eno on the
next U2 album, which he said is turning out to be "very exotic" and
eastern-sounding, though not derivative of any particular tradition.
But first, the film needs to be sold, which is one big reason it has
been entered at TIFF. No doubt when the lights go down, with potential
distributors nestled in their seats, Lanois will be even more than
usually ready for a sign that the power of belief and the people in
the room can carry the day.
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By then he'll have done a fourth session with Eno on the
next U2 album, which he said is turning out to be "very exotic" and
eastern-sounding, though not derivative of any particular tradition
awesome, cant wait
I've faced it, a life wasted, and I'm never going back again.
If you've been wondering how Bono measures-up as a singing anti-war activist
in Julie Taymor's new film 'Across the Universe', here's your first chance
to check-out some of his performance.
NBC's Extra program aired an interview with Bono and a clip from the film on
Friday (August 31, 2007). And you can check it out thanks to YouTube.
Thirty Beatles songs feature on the soundtrack, including Bono singing 'Lucy
in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'I am the Walrus', accompanied by The Secret
Machines.
The film is set for a limited North American release on September 14, with a
full release following on September 21.
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Pavarotti's manager Terri Robson has shared some of her memories about the
special relationship between the legendary tenor and his rock star friend
Bono.
Robson said Pavarotti, who was father to four daughters, looked on Bono 'as
a son'.
Bono and Ali were among fans and friends who attended an emotional funeral
service for the opera star in Modena, Italy yesterday.
More than 50,000 people gathered outside the cathedral and in the city's
streets to pay their respects.
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About time. Now all of U2's vid's are on DVD minus Red Rocks
Sydney Morning Herald
July 9, 2007
by Dylan Welch
THE office of Peter Garrett - former lead singer of Midnight Oil and current
Australian politician - has moved quickly to hose down a joke by Silverchair
frontman Daniel Johns on Sydney radio this morning, suggesting Johns, his
wife, Garrett and U2 singer Bono smoked dope together at a house in Sydney
recently.
Johns, on Triple J to discuss the band's fifth album, <i>Young Modern</i>,
released earlier this year, joked with presenters that when he played a demo
of the album to Garrett and Bono they had been all lying on a bed in a
Sydney house Bono was occupying, and smoking marijuana.
"[Bono] invited me over the house he was staying at in Sydney and asked if
I'd play the demos and it was really one of the most surreal moments of my
life," Johns said after 8am.
"It was me and [John's wife] Natalie [Imbruglia] and Peter Garrett and Bono
laying on Bono's bed smoking joints listening to the Young Modern demo."
News website Crikey said the alleged incident would have occurred in
November last year, when U2 were playing in Sydney.
However, Garrett's office began receiving calls from journalists who had
taken the comments literally, and the office quickly contacted John's
management to establish what had occurred.
His management confirmed Johns had made the comments, and Garrett's office
asked Johns to issue a retraction, which he did later in the morning.
"I made a stupid joke," the singer stated.
"It's just been brought to my attention that some people in the media have
taken my dumb joke seriously so I want to set the record straight. At no
time have I ever 'smoked a joint' with Bono or Peter Garrett.
"They are both well known to be very anti-drugs so that's why I assumed
everybody would know I was joking when I made that comment. Clearly that
wasn't the case and I feel sick that I might have caused embarrassment to
two people who I admire so much.
"I was fortunate enough to once get to play them some of my demo's but I
swear that no joints were involved. I guess I felt a bit like a namedropper
mentioning them on the radio so that's why I added a silly throwaway joke.
"I accept that drug use is no laughing matter and I apologise sincerely for
any confusion or harm I've caused."
When contacted by smh.com.au Mr Garrett's spokeswoman Kate Pasterfield
confirmed the alleged incident had not taken place.
Mr Garrett also clarified whether he had ever smoked marijuana in his life
via Ms Pasterfield.
"I tried a bit of dope in my 20s but I haven't since," Mr Garret said
through Ms Pasterfield.
Johns also said his statement that issues like this were one of the reasons
he was disinclined to participate in interviews.
"I really should just shut up and stick to singing," he wrote.
(c) Sydney Morning Herald, 2007
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Instant Karma, Listen In
The band have covered John Lennon's 'Instant Karma' for an Amnesty album drawing attention to the crisis in Darfur. Listen to a clip here.
More than 50 artists are taking part in the Amnesty International campaign which combines the music of John Lennon with new technology and human rights activism. Details and campaign news here.
Listen to U2's clip here
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Here's what's been happening in recent days....
* Spinner.com has listed its choices for "Best Benefit
Performances", and U2's Live Aid performance of "Bad" comes in at No.
2. You can click through to see the other choices, too.
http://www.spinner.com/2007/07/04/best-benefit-performances-no-2/
* Actor Robin Williams, who already looks like yer man, says was
channeling Bono for his role in the upcoming movie August Rush. (Thx
SB)
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=42311
* And finally, our @U2 staffer Dan E. has re-launched U2source.com,
an archive of U2 interviews from throughout the band's history.
Listening is easy: click to stream, no downloads, nothing. You'll love
it.
http://www.u2source.com/
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Vogue UK
by Leisa Barnett
AS the world's highest paid supermodel, Gisele Bunchen can afford to be
picky with her projects – and we hear she's in excited talks with Bono to
star in U2's next music video.
The pair reportedly hit it off when Gisele appeared in awareness-raising ads
for Bono's RED charity campaign, for which she refused payment.
The supermodel is no stranger to performing for the camera – she recently
signed up for a part in the film Angels and Demons, the sequel to The Da
Vinci Code, following her acting debut in the 2004 film Taxi - and it seems
that appearances in music videos are all part of the modelling DNA; think
Linda Evangelista's appearance in George Michael's Freedom, Christie
Brinkley as Billy Joel's Uptown Girl, Helena Christensen's sultry show for
Chris Isaak's Wicked Game and Kate Moss pole dancing for the White Stripes'
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself.
(c) Vogue UK, 2007
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i think not.
he was in the ny post recently wearing a yankee hat.
supposebly he was getting alot of shit from people back up in beantown about this.
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Much ado about nothing.
new documentary "Here Is What Is" by Producer Daniel Lanois.
The film, which will debut at the 32nd annual Toronto International Film Festival in September, captured recording sessions in a creative way, sometimes using tiny cameras planted on the instruments the band members were playing.
To learn more, follow this link:
http://www.680news.com/news/entertainment/article.jsp?content=e071759A
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includes both covers and original songs -- one that was apparently
written by Bono and enhanced with some of The Edge's guitar magic.
No word yet on when the album will be released. Stay tuned to @U2 for
updates and follow this link to read more about the album:
http://weblogs.variety.com/thesetlist/2007/07/more-tom-jones-.html
oh and poncier if you run into this
todays ny post
page six
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According to well-placed sources the world’s highest-paid supermodel,
Gisele Bundchen, has agreed to star in the video for the next U2 single
– whenever and whatever that is.
The Brazilian became pals with Bono when she appeared in a series of
adverts for his RED initiative.
Bundchen is no stranger to the acting game having appeared in 2004’s
Taxi, and is being mooted for the upcoming Hollywood makeover of Dan
Brown’s Angels And Demons.
Meanwhile, having eulogised about Joe Strummer in Julien Temple’s The
Future Is Unwritten, Bono has contributed to the updated DVD version of
The Life And Times Of Allen Ginsberg.
“Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member
of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist,
political activist and teacher - Allen Ginsberg's remarkable life
challenged the very soul of America,” he says alongside similarly
gushing praise from the likes of Patti Smith, Beck and Paul McCartney.
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There's probably no one left on planet earth that doesn't know that
The Simpsons Movie is opening this Friday, July 27. What folks may not
know is that our favorite frontman is referenced in a sub-plot
involving Lisa Simpson and an Irish activist she becomes interested in.
No word yet on whether or not Bono is pleased by this shout-out, but
since imitation is the highest form of flattery, and U2 did appear on
an episode of The Simpsons during its ninth season, I'm bargaining
he's okay with it.
To read more spoilers about the film, follow this link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070705/film_nm/simpsons_dc
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The Rolling Stones and U2 will be storming movie theaters this fall in
concert films that aim to please the eye as much as the ear.
When the Stones played New York's Beacon Theater last fall, Martin
Scorsese brought in a small army of Oscar-winning and nominated
cinematographers to capture the event for his film "Shine A Light."
Robert Richardson, cinematographer for Scorsese's "The Aviator,"
supervised a formidable camera team that includes John Toll
("Braveheart"), Andrew Lesnie ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy),
Stuart Dryburgh ("The Piano"), Robert Elswit ("Good Night and Good
Luck"), Emmanuel Lubezki ("Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate
Events") and Ellen Kuras ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind").
Scorsese is a seasoned hand at music documentaries, most notably for
The Band's memorable 1978 farewell, "The Last Waltz" and "No Direction
Home: Bob Dylan." Soorsese's editor on the Bob Dylan film, David
Tedeschi, will do cutting honors on "Shine a Light," which Paramount
has scheduled for a Sept. 21 release.
Audiences will be able to reach out and touch Bono's hand in "U2 3D,"
an IMAX 3-D chronicle of the band's Vertigo tour of Latin America. A
56-minute preview of the 80-minute film was shown to great acclaim at
the past Cannes Film Festival. Culled from seven different concerts in
early 2006 by directors Catherine Owen and Mark Pellington, "U2 3D"
will feature 15 songs. A firm autumn release date is pending.
© Newsday, 2007.
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and you are as sharp as a marble.
ABC News Nightline
August 3, 2007
The Edge Talks About U2, Philanthropy and His Biggest Musical
Influences
By Nicholas Rozon
Back in 1976, the Edge (then known simply as David Evans) teamed up
with a few boys from Dublin to form the Larry Mullen Band. Never
heard of them? That's because the name only lasted a few seconds.
They soon re-emerged as Feedback, which spun into the Hype, but it
wasn't until the quartet decided on U2 -- a name they agreed they
hated least -- that the group solidified and began their meteoric
rise to the top of the charts.
Years later, the Edge is a guitarist and songwriter for what is
undisputedly one of the biggest rock bands in the world, and one that
has gone far beyond the world of rock to make a serious impact on
global events.
"For a growing number of rock 'n' roll fans, U2 have become the band
that matters most, maybe even the only band that matters," declared
Rolling Stone in 1985, when they were already one of the world's most
popular acts.
Punk Rock Passion
So what songs and artists does this legend listen to the most? For
the Edge, it's a variety, ranging from songs by patriarchs of rock
like Bob Dylan and the Beatles, to less mainstream acts like the
Rebirth Brass Band. But each one is connected to some time or place
in his life.
In 1975, the Edge was just 14 years old. He was a year away from
meeting his future band mates and had yet to record such hits
as "Sunday Bloody Sunday," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking
For" and "With or Without You."
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, a New Jersey girl named
Patti Smith busted the world of punk rock wide open. Her debut album,
Horses, redefined the genre by fusing rock 'n' roll and punk rock
with spoken poetry. The album experienced only modest commercial
success but its impact on the rock world was tremendous.
More than 30 years later, the opening track, Smith's cover of the Van
Morrison song "Gloria," remains on the Edge's playlist -- a song he
says was one of U2's earliest muses.
"That changed everything for me at the time because we were starting
to play as a band," said the Edge. "The ideas...we're a band who
loves to mix it up with the sexual, the spiritual, whatever, the
political, and there in that song she did that so incredibly."
Rock 'n' Roll Roots
Within a few years U2 encountered international acclaim. They had
become well known for their powerful live performances and in 1983
won the BRIT Award for best live act. But four studio albums had come
and gone and the group had yet to have a No.1 record outside of the
U.K.
After the release of their fourth album, The Unforgettable Fire, in
1984, the band began exploring blues, country and gospel music. Their
relationships with rock legends such as Van Morrison, Keith Richards
and Bob Dylan had inspired them to explore the roots of rock 'n'
roll.
During the recording sessions of U2's fifth album, The Joshua Tree,
the Edge found inspiration in the form of another debut record -- the
Band's Music from Big Pink released in 1968. The album's hit
single, "The Weight," made famous by the classic film Easy Rider,
particularly stood out for the Edge.
"We were first exploring American music and hearing their work,
really delving into it -- it was mind blowing for me," he said. "And
that I will always associate with a particular summer up in the hills
in Dublin."
The Joshua Tree was a monumental hit. It was a No. 1 record around
the globe and went on to become a multiplatinum album, selling over
10 million units worldwide. Suffice to say, the record solidified
U2's position as both creative and commercial juggernauts.
Success
Success carried the Edge to nearly every point on the globe. In 20
years of traveling he has accumulated an extraordinary wealth of
stories, from nearly having the group's only set of guitars stolen
within their first few hours in New York in December 1980, to dancing
on top of the bar with Bono in pre-Katrina New Orleans.
"I'd always had amazing times there," he said of New Orleans. "And I
remember with Bono one night ending up in some tiny little club in an
area of the city I'd never been to, dancing on the bar to this little
five-piece funk outfit that didn't have any guitars. It was all
brass, drums and whatever. And we were just completely blown away --
that music which was so amazing was totally unknown to us. It was
like -- it was like discovering, you know, jazz for the first time or
something."
New Orleans definitely left its mark, and now the Edge's playlist is
peppered with many of the bands he first encountered around the town
with his band mates.
"The Dirty Dozen and the Little Rascals...Joyful music like 'Do
Whatcha Wanna' by the Rebirth Brass Band is just this killer groove
and just this amazing, joyful feeling," he said. "All these brass
bands that are playing music which has incredible sense of rhythm and
joy, all the things I look for in great rock 'n' roll."
Music Rising
Now the Edge and other heavyweights of the music industry have
started a charity effort to rebuild the musical community left
devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The primary goal of the charity,
called "Music Rising," is to get these musicians back to work.
"We're using music as a way to try and get these areas kind of to --
to give them a leg up," he said. "And music is a great way to do that
because it's really the spirit of that city and that part of
America."
The charity is not the only thing that has tied the Edge with New
Orleans. U2's performance with Green Day of "The Saints are Coming"
at the reopening of the Superdome in September 2006 is now one of the
more remarkable moments in the histories of both the band and the
city. Regardless of the performance, though, the Edge claims the song
would have earned a spot on the playlist on its own merit.
"'The Saints are Coming' was one of my favorite songs as a 16-year-
old -- maybe 17 when that came out," he said. "This was very exciting
to hear this band, the Skids, and their first album."
Reflecting back on his time in Louisiana, the Edge said that New
Orleans music is a very unique aspect of the culture in that it
continues to help victims of Katrina "celebrate being alive after
everything that had happened."
"There's a strong case to be made that there on the streets of New
Orleans was the beginning of that integration of African and Western
music which begat jazz, begat R&B, begat rock 'n' roll," said the
Edge. "So, you know, I wouldn't be here...if it wasn't for this very
unique part of America and these little flukes of history and
circumstance. And it's still all there. That's the amazing thing."
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The 2007 MTV Video Music Awards nominations were announced last night
in Las Vegas.
U2 received a nod for "Most Earth Shattering Collaboration" for their
work with Green Day on "The Saints are Coming" and Bono was nominated
in the "Quadruple Threat of the Year" category.
Tune in September 9 to see who will go home with the moon men.
To read the full list of nominees, click here:
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Good Magazine, a publication literally dedicated to the greater good,
has posted the video "Bono: A Brief History From Rock Star to
Philanthropist."
There's nothing new about the content, but it is a fun, creative look
at his life. (Thx Robyn)
To watch the video, click here:
http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Features/bono_a_brief_history
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U2 3D will be presented next month at the Giant Screen Cinema
Association conference in Vancouver next month, but what's newsworthy
is that the movie's listing on the conference Web site shows "Early
2008" as the film's release date. All previous reports about the film
indicated a Fall 2007 release, as does the original movie trailer. When
asked to confirm the delay, Jon Shapiro of 3ality Digital told us via
e-mail: "A release date is TBD, as nothing is firm as of yet. An
announcement will be forthcoming."
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Billboard reports that Queensryche will include a cover of "Bullet the
Blue Sky" on their upcoming covers album called Take Cover. It's due in
stores on November 13th.
read the full article at Billboard.com >>
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You're absolutely correct. It was RFK Stadium on a Sunday in the fucking rain on the fourth song in. In front of 55, 000 on The Joshua Tree World Tour he slipped and dislocated his shoulder and the rest of the show was cancelled. Not only was I wet 11 rows back dead center, waited 3 days for those tickets I lost my binoculars my friend begged me to bring.
It was the best 4 song concert ever though.
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that f'n sucks but that line you typed made me lol.
more on Lanois :
Billboard
August 24, 2007
By Johnathan Cohen
Lanois Dabbles in Film, Writes With U2/Eno
Daniel Lanois has helped the biggest of the big translate their music
to the masses (Bob Dylan, U2, Willie Nelson), but now he's turning the
spotlight on himself. After years of being asked by friends, fans and
media outlets to reveal his studio methods, the Canadian
producer/artist did exactly that with the self-financed film "Here Is
What Is."
The movie, which Lanois co-directed with Adam Samuels and Adam
Vollick, premieres Sept. 9 at the Toronto International Film Festival.
"At first, I thought we could at least make an educational film that
would be useful to somebody interested in this line of work-just to
see how the interactions happen between people in the studio," Lanois
tells Billboard, noting the film is not structured like a standard
documentary. "But Vollick captured some actual performances on camera,
and it's even interesting to me as he walks around and shows the
cables, the wires and the equipment."
"Here Is What Is" also features reflections from fellow U2
collaborator Brian Eno and a glimpse at studio sessions for Lanois'
next album, which will feature the Band's Garth Hudson on four songs.
The goal, Lanois says, is for the film to be picked up by a
distributor and hit theaters early next year, in tandem with live
performances in select cities and the release of the aforementioned album.
Lanois is a "free agent," having most recently recorded for Anti-. But
he's open to working with that label again for the new project. "I may
ask [Anti- head] Andy [Kaulkin] if he's interested in putting out one
more record," he says. "But I'll finish the record first. Whoever is
excited about being onboard, it will be an interesting journey."
In the midst of finishing "Here Is What Is," Lanois has been writing
songs for the next U2 album with Eno and the band in France and
Morocco, a process documented in the film. Although the two producers
have worked separately with U2 for years, this is the first time both
men are collaborating with the band simultaneously.
"It feels like the 'Achtung Baby' period, when everybody was really
hungry to do something fresh," Lanois says of the material so far.
"They have everything, and they've done everything. But the thing they
should never assume they still own is the ability to be original and
invent something that's never been heard before.
"I'm not coming in with new flavors of the month or waving a magic
wand," he continues. "I don't have an abbreviated name. But my eyes
are burning a hole through their hearts, and I'm inviting them to come
to where I come from."
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include 17 tracks from the past three decades, including the
song "Joy," which was a collaboration with Bono.
The work includes rarities (such as a previously unreleased song
produced by John Lennon in 1973) and other gems that will no doubt
have Rolling Stones fans salivating.
The album will be released on October 2. To read more about it, click
here:
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Daniel Lanois lounged on an ivory leather sofa in his loft studio in
Toronto, dressed all in black, with eight silk-covered buttons
marching up his sleeve. A few feet away, in a soft pool of light,
stood an enormous mixing board, just arrived from England. Lanois, who
has often manned such a board for Bob Dylan, U2 and many others, spoke
of his new acquisition with pleasure, but also with a sense that
anything he could tell me about it would be beside the point. He can
talk audio gear with more authority than most, but in the end the
circuits that really matter to him are the balky, surprising conduits
that lead to the heart.
"The application is just the vehicle for dragging something out of
somebody," he said. "What you want is the heart and soul of the people
in the room. The sounds and how you build the thing are only ever a
canvas, or an invitation for the soul to jump out."
Invite the soul to jump out. That's a pretty concise description of
what a good music producer does, but how does it happen in the real
world, with actual musicians trying to find the right shape for
something that maybe didn't exist before they entered the room?
The short answer is that it probably happens in a different way every
time, depending on the personalities and the moment and a million
other variables. The 90-minute answer is Here Is What Is, Lanois's
debut film about music and the art of making records, coming soon to
the Toronto International Film Festival.
It's a highly personal film, focused on Lanois and people he has
worked with ever since he began trying to coax interesting sounds from
cheap equipment in his mother's basement in Hamilton. Brian Eno, Garth
Hudson, U2 and Sinead O'Connor all appear, speaking or performing or
just groping their way toward that soul-jumping moment.
Lanois appears in every scene, as the poser of questions and the
person who enables partial answers. Sitting in a medina in Morocco, he
tells Eno he's making a film "about the source of the art, instead of
everything that surrounds the art."
That means no concert footage, no shots of screaming crowds, no clips
from million-dollar music videos. Lanois's subjects sit in functional
rooms, strum guitars with headphones clamped to their ears, or try to
figure out how to enlarge what has already been recorded.
The constant theme is that these denuded spaces contain everything
that's needed, as a matter of principle. You never see more players
being called in, or extra filters and gizmos being ordered, because
Lanois doesn't work that way and never has.
"My heroes were always the people in the room," he told me after we'd
watched the film together. "Maybe that's why I managed to pull it off
on records. At the moment, I believe in the magic of the people around
me. I never doubt them, and that's maybe where the power of belief
becomes contagious, because people feel that."
In one vivid scene, Lanois asks Brian Blade, a gifted jazz drummer
with whom he has worked on several projects, to play on top of a track
by New Orleans drummer Willie Green. Lanois explains that doubling the
drums will help him take the song to a different place harmonically.
You can see Blade trying to absorb the concept and get past the
audacity of the request, and then he dives in, laughing. It's a
touching display of trust, and of a willingness to follow the power of
belief in a totally unexpected direction.
Later in the film, Lanois gives Blade a verbal sketch of a new song,
acting out with his voice and body the way he wants the arrangement to
feel. The scene is intercut with bits of the song as it eventually
came out in the studio. For another song, Lanois sits at a board doing
a live mix, telling us what he's doing with those faders and why. His
torso bends and weaves as he makes subtle but telling changes, riding
the board as if it were a wave on a sea of sound.
The opening of the film gets close to the source in another way,
through a long keyboard-level shot of Garth Hudson's hands, as the
Band's pianist plays an improvised introduction to Lanois's song
Lovechild. The camera gets even closer to Lanois's hands as they glide
over the pedal steel guitar a few minutes later.
These sequences are shot in beautiful black and white by the young
Ontario photographer Adam Vollick, whose portrait orientation, vivid
angles and rich textures feel analogous to the way Lanois approaches
music. The graphic style of Vollick's video processing gives the
impression we're seeing an X-ray of the performers and their music,
and when he uses colour it feels like flares of emotional energy.
These effects don't ultimately tell us much about what Lanois says
he's up to, just as a musician's hands moving in close-up are not "the
source of the art," however engrossing they may be to watch. But like
most serious investigations into mysterious subjects, Here Is What Is
succeeds mainly by raising the questions in a compelling way. The
mystery remains, powerfully resisting a solution. It's no digression
when Blade, a preacher's son, says that everything he plays is a form
of praise, or when Lanois refers to his pedal steel as a "church in a
suitcase."
Blade also says he can't separate the sacred from the secular, and
that comment seems doubly apt in a film whose unstated second theme is
seduction. The gorgeous sound and imagery are custom-made to win you
over, as Lanois muses on the details that make a listener revisit a
song. A few red-hot sequences with salsa dancer Carolina Cerisola
state the theme loud and clear.
Here Is What Is will be useful as a promotional vehicle for Lanois's
next solo album, due next spring, which he coyly says "might" have the
same title. By then he'll have done a fourth session with Eno on the
next U2 album, which he said is turning out to be "very exotic" and
eastern-sounding, though not derivative of any particular tradition.
But first, the film needs to be sold, which is one big reason it has
been entered at TIFF. No doubt when the lights go down, with potential
distributors nestled in their seats, Lanois will be even more than
usually ready for a sign that the power of belief and the people in
the room can carry the day.
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next U2 album, which he said is turning out to be "very exotic" and
eastern-sounding, though not derivative of any particular tradition
awesome, cant wait
Some die just to live.
If you've been wondering how Bono measures-up as a singing anti-war activist
in Julie Taymor's new film 'Across the Universe', here's your first chance
to check-out some of his performance.
NBC's Extra program aired an interview with Bono and a clip from the film on
Friday (August 31, 2007). And you can check it out thanks to YouTube.
Thirty Beatles songs feature on the soundtrack, including Bono singing 'Lucy
in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'I am the Walrus', accompanied by The Secret
Machines.
The film is set for a limited North American release on September 14, with a
full release following on September 21.
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Pavarotti's manager Terri Robson has shared some of her memories about the
special relationship between the legendary tenor and his rock star friend
Bono.
Robson said Pavarotti, who was father to four daughters, looked on Bono 'as
a son'.
Bono and Ali were among fans and friends who attended an emotional funeral
service for the opera star in Modena, Italy yesterday.
More than 50,000 people gathered outside the cathedral and in the city's
streets to pay their respects.
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