Bands square up for chart battle
November 20, 2006
Four of the biggest-selling bands in pop music are going head-to-head
in the album charts.
The Beatles, Oasis, U2 and Westlife are all releasing albums on the
same day.
Oasis and U2 are releasing greatest hits albums Stop the Clocks and
18 Singles, alongside Westlife's The Love Album, and Love from The
Beatles.
Take That comeback track Patience is also hitting shop shelves. It
entered the charts at number four while still only available as a
download.
'Super' groups
HMV's Gennaro Castaldo said U2 - whose album features two new tracks
- were likely to be the eventual victors in sales terms.
"Christmas starts here as far as music retailers are concerned, as
it's not everyday that some of the world's biggest ever super groups
have albums out.
"It's going to be close to see who comes out on top, but we reckon
Oasis's Stop The Clocks will go to number one by the end of the week,
though U2 may look to sell more copies of 18 Singles over the next
month, or so."
Mr Castaldo added that it was possible that Take That could have more
success in the singles chart this week.
Patience reached number four from download sales alone in this week's
chart, beating former member Robbie Williams's single Lovelight,
which rose to number eight.
Take That's new album Beautiful World will be out next Monday.
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WHO would have guessed U2's spectacular Aussie tour would end in booing.
That's what happened when the band's legendary guitarist The Edge
said "Thank you, Sydney" to the 60,000 punters at the second
Melbourne gig at Telstra Dome on Sunday night.
He tried to save himself by saying: "What I meant was, thank you
Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne . . . but most of all Melbourne."
Oops!
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There is no way possible they will have an album out before the end of 2007. If Bono can actually write a decent lyric for the first time since Achtung, I'll be in shock. The last album had some good music, but the lyrics were pretty much crap, as usual.
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THOSE CAMERAS? FOR THE IMAX MOVIE...
November 20, 2006
You probably heard reports of extra cameras being used to film the
recent shows in Melbourne, and now we know what was going on. Amanda
at the Aussie U2 News Log shares first-hand reports that it was more
shooting for the IMAX 3D movie U2 began shooting earlier this year in
South America. Turns out they needed more crowd shots....
read the full post at the Aussie News Log >>
I saw that cameras in the Mexico city Shows, those cameras are huge and yes they had a 3D logo printed.
Probably they are going to record the hawaii show, probably we can see something about PJ in the movie.
I saw that cameras in the Mexico city Shows, those cameras are huge and yes they had a 3D logo printed.
Probably they are going to record the hawaii show, probably we can see something about PJ in the movie.
& that will be fucking incredible. !
Pearl Jam in 3D . :eek:
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FRIDAY, November 24, 2006
Tonight's Best TV 'RECORD'-BREAKING ARTISTS BONO AND THE EDGE
MUST WATCH OF THE WEEK
SERIES DEBUT
11PM - MIDNIGHT
Off the Record (HBO, TV-14) Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart ain't no Mike Wallace, but his new rock & roll chat show has potential, especially if he can continue to score guests as candid as U2's Bono and The Edge. The cocktails help too. Plied with margaritas, the pair dish on The Edge's trademark guitar echo, the influence of Patti Smith on Bono's political activism/savior complex, and the group's mercurial songwriting process (''It could have been a great song,'' says Bono of the mostly improvised U2 classic ''Bad''). It's like VH1's Storytellers, but with F-words...because, after all, this is HBO. B+ — Jeff Jensen
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Setlist:
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
I Will follow
New Year’s Day
Beautiful Day
One Tree Hill
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (in the Name of Love)
Where the Streets Have No Name
One
Encore1:
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
With or Without You
Encore 2
The Saints are Coming
Angel of Harlem
Kite
:eek:
One Tree Hill , Kite , and Angel Of Harlem ? :eek:
whats with all these rarities in 1 show ? :eek:
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One Tree Hill , Kite , and Angel Of Harlem ? :eek:
whats with all these rarities in 1 show ? :eek:
Well they've been playing Angel and Kite at almost every Australia show I believe, however, One Tree Hill was played in its entirety for the first time since 1989. You can see a not so well filmed, out of synch video of it on youtube. Surprisingly, Bono didnt really move around all that much.
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FRIDAY, November 24, 2006
Tonight's Best TV 'RECORD'-BREAKING ARTISTS BONO AND THE EDGE
MUST WATCH OF THE WEEK
SERIES DEBUT
11PM - MIDNIGHT
Off the Record (HBO, TV-14) Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart ain't no Mike Wallace, but his new rock & roll chat show has potential, especially if he can continue to score guests as candid as U2's Bono and The Edge. The cocktails help too. Plied with margaritas, the pair dish on The Edge's trademark guitar echo, the influence of Patti Smith on Bono's political activism/savior complex, and the group's mercurial songwriting process (''It could have been a great song,'' says Bono of the mostly improvised U2 classic ''Bad''). It's like VH1's Storytellers, but with F-words...because, after all, this is HBO. B+ — Jeff Jensen
this show was fantastic. ! Cant belive i had the opportunity to attend this recording - and missed it ! I especially enjoyed how they randomly talked about each particular song and its origins. ( ie : Bad, Bullet The Blue Sky ,.. )
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WTF ???????
For my this is the best setlist of the tour. Amazing.
25.11.2006
Second show in New Zealand and the set list is mixed up a little more. Here's how it went.
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
Until The End of the World
Still Haven’t Found What I'm Looking For
Beautiful Day
Angel of Harlem
Walk On
Sometimes
Bad
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride in the Name of Love
Where the Streets have no Name
One
===========
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
With or Without You
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The Saints are Coming
Desire
One Tree Hill
desire, live ? :eek: and, as always- BAD-- one of the best live songs ever.
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Review: U2itude: The Ultimate Handbook for U2 Fans @U2, November 26, 2006
by Marylinn Maione
Hey U2 Fans!!! Tired of Sudoku?? Bored with the New York Times
Crossword? Can't get enough U2?? Have we got the book for you!!! Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!!
Oh no. No, no, no.
Salvatore Petronella and Christopher Sorgie, authors of U2itude: The
Ultimate Handbook for U2 Fans, have put together a book that they claim
to be a "scientific" study of U2 songs, but is actually an
autobiography of two guys who listened to U2 while growing up together
in Queens. It fails on both counts.
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U2 front man Bono made an emotional plea for One Tree Hill to be
replanted after visiting the spot that sparked one of the band's most
famous songs.
His Irish supergroup became passionate about the Auckland landmark
after their Kiwi roadie Greg Carroll took them there in the early '80s.
When the Wanganui sound engineer died in a motorbike accident, Bono
wrote the song One Tree Hill in his honour and dedicated the album on
which it appeared, The Joshua Tree, to Greg.
Bono was gutted to return more than a decade later to find the tree
gone.
The 125-year-old Monterey pine was felled in October 2000, six years
after Maori activist Mike Smith attacked it with a chainsaw.
Standing where the tree once dominated the Auckland skyline, Bono said:
"Somebody plant a tree on that beautiful hill.
"Someone take some seeds up there."
U2's return to New Zealand - for packed concerts on Friday and Saturday
at Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium - coincided with the 20th anniversary of
Greg's death.
Reminiscing about the Kiwi roadie he loved like a brother, Bono told
fans: "We spent some time here when our friend was lost in a car
accident.
"We went to the tangi - the funeral for Greg.
"It was a really important and very moving occasion to be with him and
his family.
"I've often thought that if in Ireland we had that, I'd have been there
for a few weeks when my father Bob died."
U2 played One Tree Hill at both their Mt Smart Stadium gigs.
The band's manager Paul McGuinness, whose sister Katie dated Greg, said
it would not be possible to play Auckland without the song.
"We asked Greg's family to come as our guests. We've kept in touch with
them."
Greg hooked up with U2 when they were in the country in 1984 on their
Unforgettable Fire tour.
He joined as a soundman, and became Bono's personal assistant, touring
Europe and North America.
Greg, nicknamed G-Dub, was knocked off his motorbike by a drunk driver
and killed in Dublin in 1986. He was 26.
A devastated Bono, drummer Larry Mullen and several members of the U2
entourage brought his body back to New Zealand for his tangi at Kai iwi
Marae, near Wanganui.
The three-day tangi was led by Greg's uncle, Maori music legend
Dalvanius Prime. Bono read a poem and sang.
Dalvanius' sister, Barletta Prime, said: "It was just so fabulous of
the band to bring him home."
Greg's aunt Barletta said he loved the time he spent with U2.
Greg was a devoted member of the Ratana Church, and after the tangi
Bono and Larry visited the religion's temple, Te Temepara, before
heading back to Auckland to visit One Tree Hill which Greg loved.
At the time, Bono said: "In the short time we had together Greg became
flesh and blood, he felt like my brother.
"He was one of those guys of whom you say, 'He's too good for this
world.'
"We haven't and I don't think we will ever get over his loss."
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If you thought that U2's last two greatest-hits discs had just a few
too many minor songs on them, U218 Singles is the collection for you.
Made in a land where Boy, October, Pop and Zooropa don't exist, this CD
is U2's catalog stripped down to the stadium-shaking warhorses. With no
attempt made to put them in chronological or any logical order ("Sunday
Bloody Sunday" follows "Sweetest Thing"), the only reason anyone but
the most casual U2 fan needs to check this out is the inclusion of two
new tracks produced by Rick Rubin. The first, a cover of "The Saints
Are Coming," by 1970s Scottish punk band the Skids, is an above-average
"Walk On"-style anthem that -- despite the presence of Green Day -- has
been thoroughly de-punked. The second, "Window in the Skies," sounds
like a "City of Blinding Lights" remake with Bono's trademark vocal
acrobatics. The astonishing success of The Beatles 1 proved there's a
huge market for single-disc hits collections from monster bands, so
Singles should almost certainly do well, even if it does feel a bit
perfunctory.
ANDY GREENE
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The U2 concert-goers who caught lead singer Bono's kite after he set
it free into the 40,000-strong crowd are selling the precious
memorabilia on Trade Me with proceeds going to charity organisation
Oxfam New Zealand.
Tauranga couple Claire and Hayden Keam jumped up to catch the bird-
shaped kite at Friday night's concert as it floated above them during
the final song, "Kite."
"People were just saying 'that's the kite' and we jumped up and
caught it," 24-year-old Mrs. Keam said.
"It had these huge helium balloons on it and we had to give a couple
of them away because they were too big to fit in the car."
Mrs. Keam said people were straight away telling the couple to sell
it on the Trade Me auction site, or the international equivalent,
eBay.
She said they decided to sell the kite on Trade Me but, in honour of
Bono's own campaign to end world poverty, the Keams decided to give
proceeds to charity.
"We talked around and looked on the Internet and we did our own
research and Oxfam is one of the organisations he supports," Mrs.
Keam said.
Oxfam New Zealand executive director Barry Coates said Bono was a
passionate and tireless activist to end the injustice of poverty.
"Oxfam is deeply grateful for his support...and the inspiration he
provides to millions of people," Mr. Coates said.
"We would like to thank Claire for her outstanding generosity, and we
watch with eager anticipation as bids come through from around the
world.
"The funds raised will make a huge difference."
Mrs. Keam, a teacher at Papamoa's Taha Tai primary school, said she
learnt of Oxfam when the school donated its art auction proceeds to
the non-profit organisation three years ago.
She said she hoped Bono's kite sold for more on Trade Me than former
All Black captain Tana Umaga's handbag, which fetched a whopping
$22,750 this year after he hit a team-mate to calm him down during a
night on the town.
Top bid for the kite after two days is $525. The auction closes on
Tuesday, December 5.
Before the Auckland concerts Bono met with 32 of New Zealand's Make
Poverty History campaigners -- a coalition of over 60 organisations
from across the country.
The campaign is calling for third world debt to be dropped, more and
better aid, trade justice, and an end to child poverty in New
Zealand.
Bono set the group a challenge to collect more signatures than the
15,000 collected by their Australian sister organisation at U2's
Sydney concerts.
The group came close with over 11,000 signatures and a further 20,000
text petitions at the two concerts.
While campaigners rallied amongst fans before the band begun, Bono
did his bit from onstage calling on the crowd to text their support,
resulting in over 10,000 texts on each night.
"He told us that we needed to get 15,000 signatures to top Sydney,
where the most signatures had been collected on this leg of their
tour," campaign coordinator Chloe Powell said.
"While we didn't quite make it, I think we beat them -- they had
three concerts (and) we almost got there in two."
Make Poverty History co-chair Sharon Clair said there was no
mistaking the large group of New Zealanders who are passionate about
ending extreme poverty.
"The signatures gathered over the weekend are a great addition to
those we already have, and will make a powerful statement to our
government when we hand them over at the beginning of next year."
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THE SKINNY ON 'WINDOW IN THE SKIES'
November 28, 2006
Thanks to @U2 Forum member George for finding details of the "Window In
The Skies" CD release on the web site of UK collectibles store EIL.com.
It looks like the now standard 2-CD and DVD single release. B-sides
include "Tower of Song" from the I'm Your Man film, live versions of
"Zoo Station" and "Miss Sarajevo", and an "Extra Special Effects"
version of "The Saints Are Coming."
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U2 gave a live premiere to their new track 'Window In The Skies' as
their 'Vertigo' world tour finally hit Japan earlier today (November 29).
The band played the first of three shows at Saitama Super Arena. The
dates, originally meant to take place in Yokohama, were postponed due
to family illness earlier this year.
'Window In The Skies' appears on the band's current singles
compilation 'U218 Singles'. It's due to be released as a single in
January.
The band's current single 'The Saints Are Coming' was also performed
in the encore.
The set was:
'City Of Blinding Lights'
'Vertigo'
'Elevation'
'I Will Follow'
'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'
'Beautiful Day'
'Window In The Skies'
'Walk On'
'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own'
'Bad'
'Sunday Bloody Sunday'
'Bullet The Blue Sky'
'Miss Sarajevo'
'Pride (In The Name Of Love)'
'Where The Streets Have No Name'
'One'
'The Fly'
'Mysterious Ways'
'With Or Without You'
'The Saints Are Coming'
'Angel Of Harlem'
'One Tree Hill'
U2 play the venue again tomorrow (November 30) and again on December
4, before the Pacific leg of the tour wraps up at Honolulu's Aloha
Stadium on December 12.
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lucky japanese
lyrics and subtitles, too ! :eek:
thanks for sharing Poncier`. !
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Pete the Chop (whatever happened to him?) was on the b-side of this release.
It's in the Sky and you can see through it in 2007.
What is the bonus track on the UK edition of ‘U218 Singles’.
This is the song in which Bono insists he is 'not a hopeless case'.
This 1987 single featured a b-side which, much later, became a single itself and is also featured on U21989 Singles.
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A worldwide jaunt winds down but not fans' enthusiasm -- despite a
cultural gap here and there.
Bruce Wallace
It had been eight years between U2 gigs in Japan, so perhaps it
shouldn't have been surprising that the restrained Tokyo audiences the
quartet remembers from previous tours have since morphed into a
dancing, bouncing, singalong, air-punching mob.
Then again, who in the world is going to sit through "Vertigo"?
But from the opening guitar riff and cascading piano chords of "City
of Blinding Lights" that kicked off these shows, the crowds in this
city with the most blinding lights anywhere showed a rarely exhibited
exuberance and joy. They embraced a band that until this week had
wondered whether it had ever cracked Japan the way it owns the rest of
the planet.
The Tokyo crowd's extroversion came more easily, of course, because
the four Irish musicians played with their own exuberance and joy
while wrapping up one of the most successful rock tours ever mounted.
The odyssey began 19 months ago in San Diego (after a press preview in
L.A.) and will end more than 100 shows later — with a final gig in
Honolulu on Saturday. Salting set lists with material from 2004's "How
to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," the latest studio album, and "Boy,"
their first, released 26 years ago, the band wound down this tour
extended by having to cancel 10 shows last March due to an illness in
the family of an undisclosed band member.
The "Vertigo" tour has incorporated the rock concert innovations of
the last few years: video screens that deliver intimacy to the back of
the hall; the wall of lights that can take you via video to Africa in
the middle of "Where the Streets Have No Name"; the political
sloganeering superimposed over a rumbling rhythm section.
The three Tokyo-area shows had an even greater in-your-face feeling
because the band actually squeezed its outdoor staging into the
20,000-capacity Saitama Super Arena. U2 arrived in Japan having played
nine outdoor shows in the Australian and New Zealand spring, traveling
with two long ramps that end in pods, extended like antennae from the
main stage deep into the audience.
It was from these "B" stages that Bono showcased the three maikos —
apprentice geishas — whom he had met in Kyoto on the weekend and who
ghosted across the set during "Mysterious Ways." The walkways allowed
Bono and the Edge to ramble through the audience, making it even
harder for the Japanese audience to resist the summons to dance.
It is less certain if Bono's political messages had the same
penetration with the crowd. The singer has used this tour, as always,
to proselytize for African debt relief and trade justice, spending
part of his time over eight days in Japan on a media blitz to raise
awareness of the "Hottokenai," Japan's chapter of the "Make Poverty
History/One" campaigns.
Japan is the world's second largest aid donor, and Bono chose flattery
rather than confrontation during a short meeting with Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, praising the country's international development record.
But Japan's nongovernmental organizations must operate in a culture
beset by widespread political apathy and little tradition of
individual activism.
The "Vertigo" tour has made a point of trying to inspire them. While
the set lists frequently switched songs through the first hour, the
block before the first encore was solidly political content, running
from "Sunday Bloody Sunday" through "Bullet the Blue Sky" and
culminating with the anthem "One." The band used this part of the show
to scroll the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in Japanese, on
the wall behind them.
The temperature in the arena rose little through the message moments.
Japan was one of the only stops on the tour outside Europe and the
Americas, which may account for some of the usual tricks falling
flatter than expected. Bono opened the show waving a Japanese flag, a
move that might pull roars in Australia but that sends mixed signals
in a country currently watching conservative politicians pass a law
compelling students to face the flag and sing the national anthem
every morning.
Similarly, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" has gone from its roots in the Irish
Troubles to a prayer for peace in a time of Middle East bloodshed. But
although Japan has a small contingent of troops in Iraq to show
solidarity with its U.S. ally, the Buddhist country is mostly an
observer in the combustible collision between Christians, Muslims and
Jews. The antiwar chants of "No more!" lacked the passion you'd hear
from a Western crowd.
Nor, for all its excitement, could the crowd muster much of a singing
voice when Bono offered it the mike. From Dublin to São Paulo, crowds
roar their lines back at the band.
But here, that instinctive Japanese reserve appeared to kick in. After
one lame effort, Bono sucked his thumb and laughed at them.
Yet the pleasure of a U2 gig often lies in small, unexpected moments:
the Edge's subtle altering of a well-known riff, a cover or a new song
(U2 played the first live version of its upcoming single "Window in
the Skies" in Tokyo) or Bono's signature drift from a U2 song into a
snippet from the rock archives.
In Tokyo, the singer came out of "Beautiful Day" for a moment to sing
a verse of "Presence of the Lord" from Blind Faith, Eric Clapton's
band after Cream disbanded. Clapton was in the crowd (he has his own
set of concerts here this month), standing stoically at the back of
the hall near the mixing board, and didn't recognize the tune at first.
Then, suddenly, he did, jumping forward to tap a colleague on the
shoulder.
"That's my song," Clapton said, gesturing at the stage.
"When was the last time you played that song?" he was asked.
"I haven't even heard it for 20 years," he said. "But it's a great
idea!" Ah. Tired of U2?
Tired of life.
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November 20, 2006
Four of the biggest-selling bands in pop music are going head-to-head
in the album charts.
The Beatles, Oasis, U2 and Westlife are all releasing albums on the
same day.
Oasis and U2 are releasing greatest hits albums Stop the Clocks and
18 Singles, alongside Westlife's The Love Album, and Love from The
Beatles.
Take That comeback track Patience is also hitting shop shelves. It
entered the charts at number four while still only available as a
download.
'Super' groups
HMV's Gennaro Castaldo said U2 - whose album features two new tracks
- were likely to be the eventual victors in sales terms.
"Christmas starts here as far as music retailers are concerned, as
it's not everyday that some of the world's biggest ever super groups
have albums out.
"It's going to be close to see who comes out on top, but we reckon
Oasis's Stop The Clocks will go to number one by the end of the week,
though U2 may look to sell more copies of 18 Singles over the next
month, or so."
Mr Castaldo added that it was possible that Take That could have more
success in the singles chart this week.
Patience reached number four from download sales alone in this week's
chart, beating former member Robbie Williams's single Lovelight,
which rose to number eight.
Take That's new album Beautiful World will be out next Monday.
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WHO would have guessed U2's spectacular Aussie tour would end in booing.
That's what happened when the band's legendary guitarist The Edge
said "Thank you, Sydney" to the 60,000 punters at the second
Melbourne gig at Telstra Dome on Sunday night.
He tried to save himself by saying: "What I meant was, thank you
Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne . . . but most of all Melbourne."
Oops!
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I saw that cameras in the Mexico city Shows, those cameras are huge and yes they had a 3D logo printed.
Probably they are going to record the hawaii show, probably we can see something about PJ in the movie.
& that will be fucking incredible. !
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Again 3D?!?! Mike M in 3D?!?! I might get very dizzy if it shows him on stage doing his "aerobics".
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FRIDAY, November 24, 2006
Tonight's Best TV
'RECORD'-BREAKING ARTISTS BONO AND THE EDGE
MUST WATCH OF THE WEEK
SERIES DEBUT
11PM - MIDNIGHT
Off the Record (HBO, TV-14) Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart ain't no Mike Wallace, but his new rock & roll chat show has potential, especially if he can continue to score guests as candid as U2's Bono and The Edge. The cocktails help too. Plied with margaritas, the pair dish on The Edge's trademark guitar echo, the influence of Patti Smith on Bono's political activism/savior complex, and the group's mercurial songwriting process (''It could have been a great song,'' says Bono of the mostly improvised U2 classic ''Bad''). It's like VH1's Storytellers, but with F-words...because, after all, this is HBO. B+ — Jeff Jensen
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Maybe is one of this videos.
Eddie & U2 in toronto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO7kfM90w0k
Pearl Jam , Bono & The edge in Australia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7S67oO8EdY
Pearl Jam & Bono in toronto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wPJQ1PCmc&mode=related&search=
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Setlist:
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
I Will follow
New Year’s Day
Beautiful Day
One Tree Hill
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (in the Name of Love)
Where the Streets Have No Name
One
Encore1:
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
With or Without You
Encore 2
The Saints are Coming
Angel of Harlem
Kite
:eek:
One Tree Hill , Kite , and Angel Of Harlem ? :eek:
whats with all these rarities in 1 show ? :eek:
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Well they've been playing Angel and Kite at almost every Australia show I believe, however, One Tree Hill was played in its entirety for the first time since 1989. You can see a not so well filmed, out of synch video of it on youtube. Surprisingly, Bono didnt really move around all that much.
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this show was fantastic. ! Cant belive i had the opportunity to attend this recording - and missed it ! I especially enjoyed how they randomly talked about each particular song and its origins. ( ie : Bad, Bullet The Blue Sky ,.. )
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For my this is the best setlist of the tour. Amazing.
25.11.2006
Second show in New Zealand and the set list is mixed up a little more. Here's how it went.
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
Until The End of the World
Still Haven’t Found What I'm Looking For
Beautiful Day
Angel of Harlem
Walk On
Sometimes
Bad
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride in the Name of Love
Where the Streets have no Name
One
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The Fly
Mysterious Ways
With or Without You
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The Saints are Coming
Desire
One Tree Hill
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@U2, November 26, 2006
by Marylinn Maione
Hey U2 Fans!!! Tired of Sudoku?? Bored with the New York Times
Crossword? Can't get enough U2?? Have we got the book for you!!! Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!!
Oh no. No, no, no.
Salvatore Petronella and Christopher Sorgie, authors of U2itude: The
Ultimate Handbook for U2 Fans, have put together a book that they claim
to be a "scientific" study of U2 songs, but is actually an
autobiography of two guys who listened to U2 while growing up together
in Queens. It fails on both counts.
Full story:
http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=4493
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27 NOVEMBER 2006
By CATH BENNETT
http://www.sundaynews.co.nz
U2 front man Bono made an emotional plea for One Tree Hill to be
replanted after visiting the spot that sparked one of the band's most
famous songs.
His Irish supergroup became passionate about the Auckland landmark
after their Kiwi roadie Greg Carroll took them there in the early '80s.
When the Wanganui sound engineer died in a motorbike accident, Bono
wrote the song One Tree Hill in his honour and dedicated the album on
which it appeared, The Joshua Tree, to Greg.
Bono was gutted to return more than a decade later to find the tree
gone.
The 125-year-old Monterey pine was felled in October 2000, six years
after Maori activist Mike Smith attacked it with a chainsaw.
Standing where the tree once dominated the Auckland skyline, Bono said:
"Somebody plant a tree on that beautiful hill.
"Someone take some seeds up there."
U2's return to New Zealand - for packed concerts on Friday and Saturday
at Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium - coincided with the 20th anniversary of
Greg's death.
Reminiscing about the Kiwi roadie he loved like a brother, Bono told
fans: "We spent some time here when our friend was lost in a car
accident.
"We went to the tangi - the funeral for Greg.
"It was a really important and very moving occasion to be with him and
his family.
"I've often thought that if in Ireland we had that, I'd have been there
for a few weeks when my father Bob died."
U2 played One Tree Hill at both their Mt Smart Stadium gigs.
The band's manager Paul McGuinness, whose sister Katie dated Greg, said
it would not be possible to play Auckland without the song.
"We asked Greg's family to come as our guests. We've kept in touch with
them."
Greg hooked up with U2 when they were in the country in 1984 on their
Unforgettable Fire tour.
He joined as a soundman, and became Bono's personal assistant, touring
Europe and North America.
Greg, nicknamed G-Dub, was knocked off his motorbike by a drunk driver
and killed in Dublin in 1986. He was 26.
A devastated Bono, drummer Larry Mullen and several members of the U2
entourage brought his body back to New Zealand for his tangi at Kai iwi
Marae, near Wanganui.
The three-day tangi was led by Greg's uncle, Maori music legend
Dalvanius Prime. Bono read a poem and sang.
Dalvanius' sister, Barletta Prime, said: "It was just so fabulous of
the band to bring him home."
Greg's aunt Barletta said he loved the time he spent with U2.
Greg was a devoted member of the Ratana Church, and after the tangi
Bono and Larry visited the religion's temple, Te Temepara, before
heading back to Auckland to visit One Tree Hill which Greg loved.
At the time, Bono said: "In the short time we had together Greg became
flesh and blood, he felt like my brother.
"He was one of those guys of whom you say, 'He's too good for this
world.'
"We haven't and I don't think we will ever get over his loss."
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U218 Singles
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If you thought that U2's last two greatest-hits discs had just a few
too many minor songs on them, U218 Singles is the collection for you.
Made in a land where Boy, October, Pop and Zooropa don't exist, this CD
is U2's catalog stripped down to the stadium-shaking warhorses. With no
attempt made to put them in chronological or any logical order ("Sunday
Bloody Sunday" follows "Sweetest Thing"), the only reason anyone but
the most casual U2 fan needs to check this out is the inclusion of two
new tracks produced by Rick Rubin. The first, a cover of "The Saints
Are Coming," by 1970s Scottish punk band the Skids, is an above-average
"Walk On"-style anthem that -- despite the presence of Green Day -- has
been thoroughly de-punked. The second, "Window in the Skies," sounds
like a "City of Blinding Lights" remake with Bono's trademark vocal
acrobatics. The astonishing success of The Beatles 1 proved there's a
huge market for single-disc hits collections from monster bands, so
Singles should almost certainly do well, even if it does feel a bit
perfunctory.
ANDY GREENE
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November 29, 2006
Bono's Kite Flies High for Oxfam
By Janna Hamilton
The U2 concert-goers who caught lead singer Bono's kite after he set
it free into the 40,000-strong crowd are selling the precious
memorabilia on Trade Me with proceeds going to charity organisation
Oxfam New Zealand.
Tauranga couple Claire and Hayden Keam jumped up to catch the bird-
shaped kite at Friday night's concert as it floated above them during
the final song, "Kite."
"People were just saying 'that's the kite' and we jumped up and
caught it," 24-year-old Mrs. Keam said.
"It had these huge helium balloons on it and we had to give a couple
of them away because they were too big to fit in the car."
Mrs. Keam said people were straight away telling the couple to sell
it on the Trade Me auction site, or the international equivalent,
eBay.
She said they decided to sell the kite on Trade Me but, in honour of
Bono's own campaign to end world poverty, the Keams decided to give
proceeds to charity.
"We talked around and looked on the Internet and we did our own
research and Oxfam is one of the organisations he supports," Mrs.
Keam said.
Oxfam New Zealand executive director Barry Coates said Bono was a
passionate and tireless activist to end the injustice of poverty.
"Oxfam is deeply grateful for his support...and the inspiration he
provides to millions of people," Mr. Coates said.
"We would like to thank Claire for her outstanding generosity, and we
watch with eager anticipation as bids come through from around the
world.
"The funds raised will make a huge difference."
Mrs. Keam, a teacher at Papamoa's Taha Tai primary school, said she
learnt of Oxfam when the school donated its art auction proceeds to
the non-profit organisation three years ago.
She said she hoped Bono's kite sold for more on Trade Me than former
All Black captain Tana Umaga's handbag, which fetched a whopping
$22,750 this year after he hit a team-mate to calm him down during a
night on the town.
Top bid for the kite after two days is $525. The auction closes on
Tuesday, December 5.
Before the Auckland concerts Bono met with 32 of New Zealand's Make
Poverty History campaigners -- a coalition of over 60 organisations
from across the country.
The campaign is calling for third world debt to be dropped, more and
better aid, trade justice, and an end to child poverty in New
Zealand.
Bono set the group a challenge to collect more signatures than the
15,000 collected by their Australian sister organisation at U2's
Sydney concerts.
The group came close with over 11,000 signatures and a further 20,000
text petitions at the two concerts.
While campaigners rallied amongst fans before the band begun, Bono
did his bit from onstage calling on the crowd to text their support,
resulting in over 10,000 texts on each night.
"He told us that we needed to get 15,000 signatures to top Sydney,
where the most signatures had been collected on this leg of their
tour," campaign coordinator Chloe Powell said.
"While we didn't quite make it, I think we beat them -- they had
three concerts (and) we almost got there in two."
Make Poverty History co-chair Sharon Clair said there was no
mistaking the large group of New Zealanders who are passionate about
ending extreme poverty.
"The signatures gathered over the weekend are a great addition to
those we already have, and will make a powerful statement to our
government when we hand them over at the beginning of next year."
© Stuff, 2006.
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November 28, 2006
Thanks to @U2 Forum member George for finding details of the "Window In
The Skies" CD release on the web site of UK collectibles store EIL.com.
It looks like the now standard 2-CD and DVD single release. B-sides
include "Tower of Song" from the I'm Your Man film, live versions of
"Zoo Station" and "Miss Sarajevo", and an "Extra Special Effects"
version of "The Saints Are Coming."
EIL.com: 2-CD single set and DVD single
http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=382187
http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=382188
see all U2 items at EIL.com >>
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U2 gave a live premiere to their new track 'Window In The Skies' as
their 'Vertigo' world tour finally hit Japan earlier today (November 29).
The band played the first of three shows at Saitama Super Arena. The
dates, originally meant to take place in Yokohama, were postponed due
to family illness earlier this year.
'Window In The Skies' appears on the band's current singles
compilation 'U218 Singles'. It's due to be released as a single in
January.
The band's current single 'The Saints Are Coming' was also performed
in the encore.
The set was:
'City Of Blinding Lights'
'Vertigo'
'Elevation'
'I Will Follow'
'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'
'Beautiful Day'
'Window In The Skies'
'Walk On'
'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own'
'Bad'
'Sunday Bloody Sunday'
'Bullet The Blue Sky'
'Miss Sarajevo'
'Pride (In The Name Of Love)'
'Where The Streets Have No Name'
'One'
'The Fly'
'Mysterious Ways'
'With Or Without You'
'The Saints Are Coming'
'Angel Of Harlem'
'One Tree Hill'
U2 play the venue again tomorrow (November 30) and again on December
4, before the Pacific leg of the tour wraps up at Honolulu's Aloha
Stadium on December 12.
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lucky japanese
lyrics and subtitles, too ! :eek:
thanks for sharing Poncier`. !
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My first impression was that this son was bad, but this video totally change my mind.
Thanks for the link
for the deluxe new album
Pete the Chop (whatever happened to him?) was on the b-side of this release.
It's in the Sky and you can see through it in 2007.
What is the bonus track on the UK edition of ‘U218 Singles’.
This is the song in which Bono insists he is 'not a hopeless case'.
This 1987 single featured a b-side which, much later, became a single itself and is also featured on U21989 Singles.
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1. New Year's Day
2. Window
3. I Will Follow (not certain if thats the UK Bonus)
4. Beautiful Day
5. Streets (Sweetest Thing being the B Side)
backstage with Clapton :
http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2071
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cultural gap here and there.
Bruce Wallace
It had been eight years between U2 gigs in Japan, so perhaps it
shouldn't have been surprising that the restrained Tokyo audiences the
quartet remembers from previous tours have since morphed into a
dancing, bouncing, singalong, air-punching mob.
Then again, who in the world is going to sit through "Vertigo"?
But from the opening guitar riff and cascading piano chords of "City
of Blinding Lights" that kicked off these shows, the crowds in this
city with the most blinding lights anywhere showed a rarely exhibited
exuberance and joy. They embraced a band that until this week had
wondered whether it had ever cracked Japan the way it owns the rest of
the planet.
The Tokyo crowd's extroversion came more easily, of course, because
the four Irish musicians played with their own exuberance and joy
while wrapping up one of the most successful rock tours ever mounted.
The odyssey began 19 months ago in San Diego (after a press preview in
L.A.) and will end more than 100 shows later — with a final gig in
Honolulu on Saturday. Salting set lists with material from 2004's "How
to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," the latest studio album, and "Boy,"
their first, released 26 years ago, the band wound down this tour
extended by having to cancel 10 shows last March due to an illness in
the family of an undisclosed band member.
The "Vertigo" tour has incorporated the rock concert innovations of
the last few years: video screens that deliver intimacy to the back of
the hall; the wall of lights that can take you via video to Africa in
the middle of "Where the Streets Have No Name"; the political
sloganeering superimposed over a rumbling rhythm section.
The three Tokyo-area shows had an even greater in-your-face feeling
because the band actually squeezed its outdoor staging into the
20,000-capacity Saitama Super Arena. U2 arrived in Japan having played
nine outdoor shows in the Australian and New Zealand spring, traveling
with two long ramps that end in pods, extended like antennae from the
main stage deep into the audience.
It was from these "B" stages that Bono showcased the three maikos —
apprentice geishas — whom he had met in Kyoto on the weekend and who
ghosted across the set during "Mysterious Ways." The walkways allowed
Bono and the Edge to ramble through the audience, making it even
harder for the Japanese audience to resist the summons to dance.
It is less certain if Bono's political messages had the same
penetration with the crowd. The singer has used this tour, as always,
to proselytize for African debt relief and trade justice, spending
part of his time over eight days in Japan on a media blitz to raise
awareness of the "Hottokenai," Japan's chapter of the "Make Poverty
History/One" campaigns.
Japan is the world's second largest aid donor, and Bono chose flattery
rather than confrontation during a short meeting with Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, praising the country's international development record.
But Japan's nongovernmental organizations must operate in a culture
beset by widespread political apathy and little tradition of
individual activism.
The "Vertigo" tour has made a point of trying to inspire them. While
the set lists frequently switched songs through the first hour, the
block before the first encore was solidly political content, running
from "Sunday Bloody Sunday" through "Bullet the Blue Sky" and
culminating with the anthem "One." The band used this part of the show
to scroll the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in Japanese, on
the wall behind them.
The temperature in the arena rose little through the message moments.
Japan was one of the only stops on the tour outside Europe and the
Americas, which may account for some of the usual tricks falling
flatter than expected. Bono opened the show waving a Japanese flag, a
move that might pull roars in Australia but that sends mixed signals
in a country currently watching conservative politicians pass a law
compelling students to face the flag and sing the national anthem
every morning.
Similarly, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" has gone from its roots in the Irish
Troubles to a prayer for peace in a time of Middle East bloodshed. But
although Japan has a small contingent of troops in Iraq to show
solidarity with its U.S. ally, the Buddhist country is mostly an
observer in the combustible collision between Christians, Muslims and
Jews. The antiwar chants of "No more!" lacked the passion you'd hear
from a Western crowd.
Nor, for all its excitement, could the crowd muster much of a singing
voice when Bono offered it the mike. From Dublin to São Paulo, crowds
roar their lines back at the band.
But here, that instinctive Japanese reserve appeared to kick in. After
one lame effort, Bono sucked his thumb and laughed at them.
Yet the pleasure of a U2 gig often lies in small, unexpected moments:
the Edge's subtle altering of a well-known riff, a cover or a new song
(U2 played the first live version of its upcoming single "Window in
the Skies" in Tokyo) or Bono's signature drift from a U2 song into a
snippet from the rock archives.
In Tokyo, the singer came out of "Beautiful Day" for a moment to sing
a verse of "Presence of the Lord" from Blind Faith, Eric Clapton's
band after Cream disbanded. Clapton was in the crowd (he has his own
set of concerts here this month), standing stoically at the back of
the hall near the mixing board, and didn't recognize the tune at first.
Then, suddenly, he did, jumping forward to tap a colleague on the
shoulder.
"That's my song," Clapton said, gesturing at the stage.
"When was the last time you played that song?" he was asked.
"I haven't even heard it for 20 years," he said. "But it's a great
idea!" Ah. Tired of U2?
Tired of life.
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