~U2 line up New Album~

Poncier · October 2006

bostonlou wrote:

they still sell t-shirts at shows for 75 or 97 bucks... whatever it is

i enjoy a nice U2 show but they're sellouts and no where near Pearl Jam

C'mon Lou, you of all people...the T-shirt issue was covered 18 months ago, they were vintage shirts made by a designer boutique (from Beverly Hills I think) with a small specific target audience. Not representative of the general merchandise they sold. They had plenty of $30-35 T-shirts for sale as well. And why not rag on the Stones for selling $450 tour jackets at their shows.

How much were limited edition PJ Hoodies? Similar idea to the U2 vintage boutique shirts.

Bathgate66 · October 2006

Bleakest Harvest wrote:

Still whores.

:rolleyes:

nice retort

Bleakest Harvest · October 2006

Bathgate66 wrote:

:rolleyes:

nice retort

It wasn't a retort, I was quoting Bono when he was talking about Bob Geldof's daughters.

Bathgate66 · October 2006

Bleakest Harvest wrote:

It wasn't a retort, I was quoting Bono when he was talking about Bob Geldof's daughters.

in reference to what exactly ?

arent you the one who said there were 256 U2 greatest hits CDs , also ?

this is only the 3rd one , sorry you were off by 253 counts .

:rolleyes:

Bleakest Harvest · October 2006

Bathgate66 wrote:

in reference to what exactly ?

arent you the one who said there were 256 U2 greatest hits CDs , also ?

this is only the 3rd one , sorry you were off by 253 counts .

:rolleyes:

Oh come on, are you incapable of detecting sarcasm or something? Next thing you'll be saying my spollign is al wrogn!

Bathgate66 · October 2006

Bleakest Harvest wrote:

Oh come on, are you incapable of detecting sarcasm or something? Next thing you'll be saying my spollign is al wrogn!

ahjvuebf fkso hbenv !

at least we agree on pearl jam .

Bleakest Harvest · October 2006

Bathgate66 wrote:

at least we agree on pearl jam .

"At the end of the day, it doesn't matter where we come from...as long as we're all the same religion"

Bathgate66 · October 2006

TMZ.com
October 6th, 2006

U2's Irish Tower

Bono and the boys are finally getting the ivory tower they deserve.
The Irish rock band is teaming up with Dublin, Ireland's Docklands
Development Authority to create the U2 Tower. The 450-foot twisting
tower will be the tallest structure in the city. The majority of the
tower will consist of two-bedroom apartments expected to fetch
upwards of $3 million each depending on the view.

But its the reason for the namesake of the tower that makes it
special. At the top of the twisting building will be a penthouse and
recording studio for the band. With their own special elevator from
the ground floor to their studio, the band will be able to record
while looking out over the sea and city.

The tower will bring new meaning to the band's hit song "Vertigo."

Picture: http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=4399

Jammin909 · October 2006

given to grunge · October 2006

Bathgate66 wrote:

TMZ.com
October 6th, 2006

U2's Irish Tower

Bono and the boys are finally getting the ivory tower they deserve.
The Irish rock band is teaming up with Dublin, Ireland's Docklands
Development Authority to create the U2 Tower. The 450-foot twisting
tower will be the tallest structure in the city. The majority of the
tower will consist of two-bedroom apartments expected to fetch
upwards of $3 million each depending on the view.

But its the reason for the namesake of the tower that makes it
special. At the top of the twisting building will be a penthouse and
recording studio for the band. With their own special elevator from
the ground floor to their studio, the band will be able to record
while looking out over the sea and city.

The tower will bring new meaning to the band's hit song "Vertigo."

Picture: http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=4399

That's the way they do it! Great move, it should be a factory of fabulous new album next year! It's going to be......I don't have a word how to express myself!

Bathgate66 · October 2006

U2 on the move
October 7, 2006

U2 are leaving Island Records after 27 years and are signing up with
rivals Mercury, according to reports.

The BBC claims the Irish band have decided to end their long-standing
relationship with Island and are set to release their Greatest Hits LP
through Mercury Records on November 20.

No comment has been made from the band or from either record label, but
it is thought U2 are keen to continue working with Jason Iley, who
switched from Island to Mercury to become their President earlier this
year.

He and his team, including A&R manager Richard O'Donovan, jumped ship
in May and this is thought to have motivated U2's decision.

Meanwhile, the band members have revealed the songs they wish they had
written in the new issue of Q Magazine.

Larry Mullen Jr opted for 'Block Rockin' Beats' by The Chemical
Brothers, Adam Clayton picked 'Back to Life' by Soul II Soul and The
Edge chose 'Wonderwall' by Oasis.

Bono listed a number of tracks, including 'Brownsville Girl' by Bob
Dylan and Sam Shepard; 'Unfinished Sympathy' by Massive Attack; 'Live
Forever' by Oasis; 'The Last Song I'll Ever Sing' by Gavin Friday;
'Lucky Man' by The Verve; and 'Almighty Love' by Emm Gryner.

Bathgate66 · October 2006

U2 to split from Island Records over 'hands-off' executives
By Anthony Barnes
Published: 08 October 2006

After 26 years and global sales of around 150 million albums, U2,
arguably the world's biggest band, have quit the record label that
discovered them.

Insiders claimed yesterday that the band's members, led by Bono, became
fed up with the Island Records' senior management's "hands-off"
approach towards them, despite their having generated hundreds of
millions of pounds for the label.

Friends said yesterday that the final straw came during a recent
recording session in London. While Bono and the band worked on new
tracks to add to their latest "Best of" compilation, no one from Island
Records dropped by to meet them. One observer claimed this "put their
noses out of joint" and did nothing to help the deteriorating
relationship. Their closest ally at the label, the former general
manager Jason Iley, was appointed managing director of Mercury Records
last year, and the band have now followed him there.

U2 have frequently said they owe their career to Island and that its
founding boss, Chris Blackwell, was instrumental to their career. No
other label had shown any interest in giving them a deal when the band
were signed in 1980.

Despite leaving Island, the band will remain within the Universal Music
Group. The first release on the new label will be a charity single next
month.

LikeAnOcean · October 2006

Bathgate66 wrote:

U2 reveal new album plans

07 Jun 2006

Bono has revealed that U2 are planning to start work on a new album.

The follow-up to How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, is likely to be
released in summer 2007.

“I’ve got a lot of songs, oddly enough, from taking piano lessons,”
he says. “My kid’s piano teacher, Dawn, has been teaching me the
piano. And every time she gives me a lesson, I write a new song!”

Being back in U2 mode means that he’ll be putting his extracurricular
activities on hold for a while.

“I’d like to thin my schedule in terms of the politics and activism
and just get lost in the music again. That’s what I’m really looking
forward to for the summer.”

Meanwhile, Bono has been slammed by Irish Jesuit Quarterly magazine
for claiming that the Catholic Church has damaged the country.

Addressing February’s National Prayer Breakfast in the White House,
he said: “I’ve avoided religious people most of my life. Maybe it had
something to do with having a father who was Protestant and a mother
who was Catholic in a country where the line between the two was,
quite literally, a battle line. Where the line between church and
state was well, a little blurry, and hard to see. Seeing what
religious people, in the name of God, did to my land…”

“Bono is wrong,” states Father Fergus O’Donoghue, a Jesuit historian.
“Irish civilisation is profoundly Christian, which means that
Christian belief has been formative in every aspect of Irish
political, economic and social development.”

The Hot Press Newsdesk

Very cool! Lets hope they make an edgier album. More experimentation.

Jammin909 · October 2006

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Very cool! Lets hope they make an edgier album. More experimentation.

Hope being the keyword there. I think they are past there "experimentation" years.

With that being said, I still listen to HTDAAB weekly.

Poncier · October 2006

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6ssYXJOqg_w
1997 VMA's..Bono in his limited edition PJ Hoodie

Bathgate66 · October 2006

Poncier wrote:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6ssYXJOqg_w
1997 VMA's..Bono in his limited edition PJ Hoodie

OMG

LOL

was that only avail in peru ?

?

"please " ?

was that off of "pop" or was it a "B" side off of "pop" ?

wonder what number Bono had on the pearl jam hoodie,..;)

Bathgate66 · October 2006

Radiohead and U2 Get A Special Makeover
For a new compilation album...

By: Scott Colothan on 10/6/2006 9:38:28 AM

Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Kaiser Chiefs and Coldplay are amongst the
acts who have contributed tracks to a unique compilation album.

‘Rhythms Del Mundo’ is released in the US on November 14 and has been
put together by Cuban collective the Buena Vista Social Club.

On the album, Radiohead’s ‘High and Dry’ gets a special makeover
courtesy of El Lele de Los Van Van, while U2 team up with Coco Freeman
for an interpretation of ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.’

Proceeds from the album will go directly to Artists Project Earth,
which seeks to raise awareness of climate change and help those
affected by natural disasters.

Thom Yorke commented: "We need a law, we need to have the government
put climate change in its place. If you leave industry to sort it out
on a voluntary basis, that's never going to happen.

“So everybody if they've got any concerns about climate change has to
register that concern with their government officials because it's the
only way to go."

The track-listing is as follows:

1 Coldplay – ‘Clocks’
2 Jack Johnson – ‘Better Together’
3 Arctic Monkeys – ‘Dancing Shoes’
4 Dido & Faithless – ‘One Step Too Far’
5 Ibrahim Ferrer – ‘As Time Goes By’
6 U2 and Coco Freeman – ‘I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For’
7 Maroon 5 – ‘She Will Be Loved’
8 Kaiser Chiefs – ‘Modern Way’
9 Omara Portuondo – ‘Killing Me Softly’
10 Vanya Borges feat. Quincy Jones – ‘Ai No Corrida’
11 Sting – ‘Fragilidad’
12 Vanya Borges – ‘Don't Know Why’
13 Aquila Rose & Idana Valdez – ‘Hotel Buena Vista’
14 Coco Freeman & Franz Ferdinand – ‘The Dark of the Matinee’
15 El Lele de Los Van Van and Radiohead – ‘High and Dry’
16 Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo – ‘Casablanca’

Jammin909 · October 2006

Thanks for posting all the U2 news "bathgate".

Poncier · October 2006

Bathgate66 wrote:

OMG

LOL

was that only avail in peru ?

?

"please " ?

was that off of "pop" or was it a "B" side off of "pop" ?

wonder what number Bono had on the pearl jam hoodie,..;)

Its from the 97 MTV awards, sadly the clip doesn't show host Chris Rock after the performance sitting in the audience saying "Damn, Bono looks like the unabomber".

The live version of "Please" is more like the single version, stripped down from the Pop album version. I like the single version better.

Bono's Hoodie was #117

norm · October 2006

As I assumed, the greatest hits package concludes U2's contract with Island.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20061010/en_music_eo/20193

U2 Votes Itself Off Island

By Josh GrossbergMon Oct 9, 10:29 PM ET

U2 has found what it's looking for--a new home.

The Irish rockers have decided to bolt Universal Music Group's Island Records, the label formerly owned by music impresario Chris Blackwell, who launched the band's storied career over a quarter-century ago, and take up residence at Universal's Mercury Records.

The split was said to be amicable and reportedly came about because of U2's desire to maintain its relationship with music executive Jason Iley, who transferred from Island to Mercury last year.

"We foster strong relationships at Universal Music," a UMG spokeswoman told Reuters. "We have the best artists and the best executives and we're proud of how closely they work together."

The rep rejected earlier reports in British newspapers that U2 was unhappy with Island executives "hands-off" approach toward the band, which has sold upward of 170 million albums worldwide, has won 22 Grammys and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

After gaining a cult following gigs in their hometown, Dublin, and London in the late '70s and the release of a couple of 12-inch singles, U2 signed with Island in March 1980. Six months later, the label released the band's landmark debut, Boy, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Blackwell sold the label to Polygram in 1989 and, after a series of mergers and acquisitions during the 1990s and 2000s, Island is now under the control of Vivendi-owned Universal Music Group, which also owns Mercury Records.

During their tenure with Island, Bono and the boys recorded 11 studio albums and issued two compilations

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers' final release for Island will be another greatest-hits CD. U218 Singles, set to hit stores Nov. 20, features 16 of the band's greatest hits along with a cover of the Skids' track "The Saints Are Coming," which U2 recorded with Green Day last month under the aegis of producer Rick Rubin at London's Abbey Road studios. The two bands debuted the song live at the reopening of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans two weeks ago during Monday Night Football.

Proceeds from the sales of that single, which was released for download via iTunes last week, will go towards the Edge's Katrina charity, Music Rising, a program that aids struggling New Orleans musicians.

The album's final track, which hasn't been announced yet, will also be a new cut.

U2's label switcheroo and new album aren't the only thing keeping the band busy.

There's a new autobiography, U2 by U2, to plug, and yet another leg of the Vertigo World Tour to complete. U2 is set to play a series of dates in Asia and Australia that were scuttled due to a family illness.

In other news, according to the Irish Times, U2 just filed an application with Dublin's development authority to construct a 30-story twisting tower. Not only will it be the tallest apartment building in the city, but it will also be topped by the band's penthouse as well as a recording studio.

How's that for vertigo?

If all goes well, the so-called "U2 Tower" will be completed by 2009.

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