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

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

7PM / Eastern CBS

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

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."

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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.

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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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