~~~***U2 line up New Album***~~~

Bathgate66

SEEN AND HEARD...
July 05, 2006
posted by: m2

Couple bits worth passing along....

1) Bono's hinted about the band working on new material over the
summer, and now there's confirmation from the latest U2.com member
email which was sent out Tuesday: "U2 are off the road and spending
some time working on new songs in the recording studio, so it's a
chance for us to mail you one of our occasional U2.Com updates."

2) The current issue of Rolling Stone hints that a "Certain Band from
Ireland" will be doing a "year-end blowout" in Hawaii with Pearl Jam
and Kings of Leon. From what we're hearing on the street, this one has
legs. Stay tuned....

Obscured1

oh boy, i can't wait for another pop rock album...

soulsinging

Bathgate66 wrote:

2) The current issue of Rolling Stone hints that a "Certain Band from
Ireland" will be doing a "year-end blowout" in Hawaii with Pearl Jam
and Kings of Leon. From what we're hearing on the street, this one has
legs. Stay tuned....

oh my god... i just messed my pants.

how much is a ticket to hawaii?

neartodeath

soulsinging wrote:

oh my god... i just messed my pants.

how much is a ticket to hawaii?

u mean after u pay $200 list price for a gold circle ticket :(

u2 is all about money. nothing else

Bathgate66

neartodeath wrote:

u mean after u pay $200 list price for a gold circle ticket :(

u2 is all about money. nothing else

10 C presale:

60 bucks

soulsinging

neartodeath wrote:

u mean after u pay $200 list price for a gold circle ticket :(

u2 is all about money. nothing else

to see u2 and pearl jam? id pay it.

neartodeath

soulsinging wrote:

to see u2 and pearl jam? id pay it.

then u r freakin crazy...or, rich

u2 isn't worth $100...neither is pearl jam

soulsinging

neartodeath wrote:

then u r freakin crazy...or, rich

u2 isn't worth $100...neither is pearl jam

i might be crazy, but far from rich. no, either one by themselves in cleveland or detroit is not worth $100. but both of them together in one show in hawaii... that's quite an experience.

Poncier

neartodeath wrote:

u mean after u pay $200 list price for a gold circle ticket :(

u2 is all about money. nothing else

Before the April Honoloulu show got postponed, $49.50 GA field tix were readily available on Ticketmaster.
So the biggest obstacle for this show will be travel costs.

Chris

Love U2 but surely about time they produced another half decent album. Since Zooropa albums have been frankly shite, but maybe that's just me.

HTDAAB was the worst of the lot - at least POP and All That You Can't Leave Behin was interesting (even if you didn't like it). The last one was just boring.

Bathgate66

from atU2.com

podcast coincides with the edges birthday.


WE WANT YOU FOR THE NEXT PODCAST
July 25, 2006
posted by: m2

We want you for our next podcast! Podcast #19 will be available right
before The Edge's birthday, and so our theme for that podcast will
be...The Edge, of course! As you may know, we've done special "birthday
edition" podcasts already this year for both Adam and Bono, and now
it's Edge's turn.

You can be part of the podcast by sending birthday wishes for Edge --
write something brief and email it to us, or better yet, record your
message and email us the audio file! (Please keep it to about 30
seconds or less.) Deadline for submissions is August 6th. Send your
email to podcast [at] atu2.com and please put BIRTHDAY in the subject
line.

___________________
@U2
http://www.atu2.com

Bathgate66

nice piece on tonights 60 Minutes spotlighting U2 .
It is a repeat,..& from the previous tour,...

7PM / Eastern CBS

SVRDhand13

u2s last album sucked. i wish theyd just give it up or only play their older stuff. vertigo was embarrasing to hear when it first came out on those itunes commercials.

Bathgate66

U2 DOES A JACKNIFE (LEE)
August 18, 2006
posted by: m2
Hot Press are reporting the following today:

Garrett ‘Jacknife’ Lee’s management company, Big Life, have confirmed
that the producer is about to start work on the follow-up to How To
Dismantle An Atomic Bomb with U2.
Lee has production credit on seven tracks from How To Dismantle an
Atomic Bomb. According to the Big Life web site, Lee "will rejoin U2
for a month in September for what is sure to be another highly
creative recording session." September is also when recent reports
have producers Rick Rubin and Greg Fidelman headed to Abbey Road
Studios to work with U2.



Hot Press article:

http://www.hotpress.com/music/news/2879729.html



Big Life web site:



http://www.biglifeproducers.com/producers2.php?fproducer_id=9

Bathgate66

BONO: NEW ALBUM IN 2007
August 22, 2006
posted by: m2

While in Sarajevo this week (see item below), Bono announced to
Bosnian TV that the band plans to release a new album next year. He
also put the cliché police on red alert with the standard comments
about what Edge is doing these days.

"I would like to think that we're doing our best work now. We're
about to make a new album for next year, and it's the most important
thing. We like being in a room with each other. We like playing.
Something happens when we play, we have some sort of chemistry. And
Edge, right now, is on fire. He's really rockin'. He's playing guitar
like I've never seen him playing guitar. So, I like to think that the
best is yet to come."

Use the link to watch the interview in Real Video. The new album
comments start at the 13:40 mark, but the interview as a whole is
good -- especially his comments about the PopMart Sarajevo show.

watch the interview in Real Video >>

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you will need the most current realplayer


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rebornFixer

Bathgate66 wrote:

BONO: NEW ALBUM IN 2007
August 22, 2006
posted by: m2

While in Sarajevo this week (see item below), Bono announced to
Bosnian TV that the band plans to release a new album next year. He
also put the cliché police on red alert with the standard comments
about what Edge is doing these days.

"I would like to think that we're doing our best work now. We're
about to make a new album for next year, and it's the most important
thing. We like being in a room with each other. We like playing.
Something happens when we play, we have some sort of chemistry. And
Edge, right now, is on fire. He's really rockin'. He's playing guitar
like I've never seen him playing guitar. So, I like to think that the
best is yet to come."

Use the link to watch the interview in Real Video. The new album
comments start at the 13:40 mark, but the interview as a whole is
good -- especially his comments about the PopMart Sarajevo show.

watch the interview in Real Video >>

[url=rtsp://195.222.58.181:7070/ftv/sff0821.rm]rtsp://195.222.58.181:7070/ftv/sff0821.rm[/url]

The cliche police remark is funny ... Ever since the Zooropa days, Bono has been commenting pre-album release on Edge "rediscovering" his guitar prowess.

Clifwith1f

Bathgate66 wrote:

U2 DOES A JACKNIFE (LEE)
August 18, 2006
posted by: m2
Hot Press are reporting the following today:

Garrett ‘Jacknife’ Lee’s management company, Big Life, have confirmed
that the producer is about to start work on the follow-up to How To
Dismantle An Atomic Bomb with U2.
Lee has production credit on seven tracks from How To Dismantle an
Atomic Bomb. According to the Big Life web site, Lee "will rejoin U2
for a month in September for what is sure to be another highly
creative recording session." September is also when recent reports
have producers Rick Rubin and Greg Fidelman headed to Abbey Road
Studios to work with U2.

I'm not sure this is good news. I think even people who loved the last two albums would agree that it's time for a new direction. Hiring the same producer doesn't bode well for that happening.

Bathgate66

WILLIE GETS TIME
August 27, 2006
posted by: m2

Willie Williams, U2's longtime Show Designer, scores a short feature in
the new issue of TIME magazine, which is coming out this week. He's
profiled in a feature called "Innovators: Forging The Future" about
visual and aural artists who are "showing us new ways to see and hear."

---

Williams, 46, has moved with U2 from clubs to arenas to stadiums,
revolutionizing concert visuals at every step. From the seven Trabants
(compact cars built in East Germany) he hung from the rafters of U2's
early '90s Zoo TV tour to the giant beaded LED curtains of the recent
Vertigo shows, he has turned concrete caverns into spaces that drip
with mood. And when the music starts, Williams, who pioneered the
integration of video and light into a single element, turns the sets
into an extravaganza that enhances but never competes with the sound.

---

read the full article at Time.com >>

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1376241,00.html


Food for the Eyes and Ears
Whether illuminating rock concerts or lighting up Scottish highlands,
they are showing us new ways to see and hear

Posted Sunday, Aug. 27, 2006

A PLACE CALLED VERTIGO

Willie Williams never intended to change the way people watch rock
concerts. Growing up in the late '70s, all he really wanted was to get
out of Sheffield, England. "So I ran away to London to join the
circus," says Williams, "and the circus at that time was punk rock."
Punk rock had a visual aesthetic, but it started and ended with the
pierceable parts of its players' bodies. At 19, Williams, whose love of
music trumped his aptitude for it, cozied up to his favorite band,
Stiff Little Fingers, and talked the group into letting him design its
stage show. When the Fingers broke up in 1982, he called his new
favorite band. "They happened to be named U2."

Ever since, Williams, 46, has moved with U2 from clubs to arenas to
stadiums, revolutionizing concert visuals at every step. From the seven
Trabants (compact cars built in East Germany) he hung from the rafters
of U2's early '90s Zoo TV tour to the giant beaded LED curtains of the
recent Vertigo shows, he has turned concrete caverns into spaces that
drip with mood. And when the music starts, Williams, who pioneered the
integration of video and light into a single element, turns the sets
into an extravaganza that enhances but never competes with the sound.

In addition to his rock work, Williams has taken on the Kronos Quartet
("The equipment can't be merely quiet, it has to be silent") and is
brainstorming ways to light the revitalized South Bank Centre on the
Thames. But he still gets his greatest thrill watching people watch his
work. When Williams went to a Vertigo concert with artist Julian Opie,
whose minimalist figures were incorporated into the show's visuals,
Opie couldn't disguise his envy. "No one," he said, "ever applauds at
an art gallery."

--By Josh Tyrangiel


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theboxerorthebag

When they went in a new direction we got Pop. I love U2 and think they should keep doing what they do best.

Clifwith1f wrote:

I'm not sure this is good news. I think even people who loved the last two albums would agree that it's time for a new direction. Hiring the same producer doesn't bode well for that happening.

LikeAnOcean

StrangestTribe wrote:

*sigh*

another band that just dosn't know when enough is enough.

Wouldn't we all be happier if U2, Metallica, Aerosmith and The Rolling Stones
stoped making music?

Unlike pearl jam, some bands can not keep up with the quality of music they made when they were younger.

Oh god, grouping Aerosmith with the others on that list just totally disqualifies you from having any valid opinion..


From what I've heard of the new Rolling Stones, they're still writing some really good songs. The latest U2 is kind of boring but ok. Definately worth putting out.