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Bathgate66 · November 2006

'WINDOW IN THE SKIES' - OPEN OR SHUT?
November 08, 2006

There's a good chance you've heard U2's new song, "Window In The
Skies," after it aired Tuesday on Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM.
Resourceful U2 fans recorded it and the MP3 has been making the
rounds online. Marie at U2.se even pointed us toward the lyrics and a
chord transcription.

http://www.u2.se/nyhet.php?id=741

Our radio insider tells us that Interscope added the song into the
national radio playlist system, which makes the song available for
stations to play, and that KROQ played it two times on Tuesday. But
that seems odd: Why would only one station in the U.S. pick it up,
and why would that station only play it twice? Something seems odd.
Did Interscope already shut the door ... err, window ... on stations
playing the new song? We'll keep you posted as we hear more....

Bathgate66 · November 2006

U2 18 DVD REVEALED...
November 09, 2006

Details are starting to trickle out now about the Bonus DVD that will
be included with the "limited edition" release of U2 18 later this
month. You can see the full tracklisting for the DVD on HMV UK's web
site. And on Amazon.com, you can watch the video clips of "With or
Without You" and "Original of the Species." (Thx CC)

http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?
locale=uk&ctx=1685%3b1%3b-1%3b-1&sku=575047

http://www.amazon.com/U218-Singles-CD-DVD-Combo/dp/B000JJ4GW0/sr=8-1/
qid=1163058920/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-7573840-3544029?ie=UTF8&s=music

Bathgate66 · November 2006

U2 rain supreme in Sydney
By Kathy McCabe
November 11, 2006 12:00
Article from: The Daily Telegraph

IRISH rock gods U2 became rain gods last night ushering in their first
Sydney concert in eight years with a summer shower.

In the opening song, City of Blinding Light, Bono acknowledged
Australia's water crisis.

"Bring on the rain, it's what we need,'' he sang.

The band proved that the wait was well worth it, delivering a barrage
of hits to satisfy the loyal Sydney fans who had held onto their
tickets after the tour was postponed last March.

A mind-blowing display of light and sound never threatened to dwarf a
band who have become the world's biggest for very good reason.

There is no doubt that the 70,000 fans had a deep and enduring
connection to U2's music, sending their voices soaring to the heavens
during classic anthems, One, Pride (In the Name of Love) and With or
Without You - during which he pulled a girl on stage and serenaded her.

Of course there was a strong message delivered with the music, with
Bono asking for Australia's continued support for the Make Poverty
History campaign, urging Sydney to remain a peaceful multi-cultural
city.

U2 perform again tonight and Monday at Telstra stadium, with limited
tickets available.

Bathgate66 · November 2006

Bono sings on stage with Kylie
By Jonathon Moran
November 12, 2006

U2 frontman Bono showed his support for Kylie Minogue tonight by
singing a duet with the pop singer in Sydney.

The duo sang Minogue's hit, Kids, which the singer originally recorded
with Brit Robbie Williams, before 10,000 people at the Sydney
Entertainment Centre.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the company of greatness tonight,"
Minogue said.

"Let me hear it for Bono."

Minogue was wearing a leopard-print cat suit while Bono rocked it up in
a black suit and sunglasses.

"It's such an honour for you to sing with me," Minogue said.

Bono then jumped in and said, "You're perfect".

The pair danced around the stage and Bono got down on his knees, kissed
Minogue's hand and thanked her at the end of the duet.

Minogue kicked off her Showgirl Homecoming Tour in Sydney last night.
It was the first time she had performed in front of a crowd since being
diagnosed with breast cancer in May last year.

The London-based 2004 Grammy winner was forced to take a break of more
than a year while she underwent treatment.

She was diagnosed with cancer just days before she was due to start the
final leg of her Showgirl World Tour in Australia. The tour was
postponed indefinitely with fans told to hold on to their tickets.

Following Sydney, Minogue and her Showgirl troupe will travel to
Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth, before heading back to Europe, playing
dates in the UK from January 2.

U2 are in Australia performing their Vertigo tour which kicked off in
Brisbane then played Sydney on Friday and Saturday nights.

Their Australian leg of the tour last March also was postponed due to a
family illness of one of the band members, believed to be guitarist
David "The Edge" Evans.

They restarted the tour in Brisbane last week and will travel to
Adelaide, Melbourne and Auckland.

Bathgate66 · November 2006

The Daily Telegraph
November 14, 2006

Time to shout 'no more' to encore bore

By Kathy McCabe

Before concert fatigue sets in after a relentless week of historic
shows, it is time for the music fan to stand up and chant "no more"
to encores.

According to most dictionaries and encyclopedias, the term derives
from the French for "again" and is "an additional extra performance
of a musical piece at the end of the regular concert, which is not
listed in the event set list."

These days not only is the encore incorporated into the set list, but
it has become the obligatory finale for every single show you will
ever see.

What started out as a response to a standing ovation or deafening
cheers after a superlative gig has become an awkward contrivance.

There is nothing more silly -- with the exception of a wardrobe
malfunction or a misstep resulting in the performer face-planting --
than a band's fake "thank you Sydney, goodnight" before returning
five minutes later. At both the U2 and Kylie concerts last week,
there was considerable cheering and applause before the entertainers
returned to the stage.

But you could sense everyone was saving their full lung capacity and
red-raw hands for the real action when the band and the Showgirl came
back on stage.

Don't get me wrong: both acts deserved to be called out for encores.

As did Pearl Jam, who did two encores, one being a half-hour acoustic
set. Sorry, but if you don't think you can get away with that in the
main part of the show, what makes you think the fans want it at the
end?

These days the regular concertgoer knows exactly what the band will
get up to during the show -- unless they are opening their world tour
in your town. Official websites and fan pages contain set lists and
reviews of a concert, right down to the encore songs.

U2, to their credit, swap and change songs from show to show for
their final minutes. And Bono, I am still waiting for "Bad," thank
you very much for the disappointment on Friday night!

But it is the insincerity of the farewell before any band goes off
stage that truly grates.

Why not tell your audience before the very last song that it is
indeed your last song?

If you still want to go through the encore motions, why not
say, "We'll see you in three minutes after you've yelled 'more' a
lot, done the Mexican wave six times around the arena and we've had
time to go to the toilet and throw down a coldie"?

Apparently Elvis Presley wasn't into the encore and the phrase "Elvis
has left the building" arose to tell his fans they should go home.

At least festival acts are honest enough to deliver their best set in
30 to 60 minutes and it is always accepted that there will be no more
songs.

Encores should only ever be spontaneous and only ever one song, or
forget it.

© The Daily Telegraph, 2006.

Bathgate66 · November 2006

The Daily Telegraph
November 14, 2006

Time to shout 'no more' to encore bore

By Kathy McCabe

Before concert fatigue sets in after a relentless week of historic
shows, it is time for the music fan to stand up and chant "no more"
to encores.

According to most dictionaries and encyclopedias, the term derives
from the French for "again" and is "an additional extra performance
of a musical piece at the end of the regular concert, which is not
listed in the event set list."

These days not only is the encore incorporated into the set list, but
it has become the obligatory finale for every single show you will
ever see.

What started out as a response to a standing ovation or deafening
cheers after a superlative gig has become an awkward contrivance.

There is nothing more silly -- with the exception of a wardrobe
malfunction or a misstep resulting in the performer face-planting --
than a band's fake "thank you Sydney, goodnight" before returning
five minutes later. At both the U2 and Kylie concerts last week,
there was considerable cheering and applause before the entertainers
returned to the stage.

But you could sense everyone was saving their full lung capacity and
red-raw hands for the real action when the band and the Showgirl came
back on stage.

Don't get me wrong: both acts deserved to be called out for encores.

As did Pearl Jam, who did two encores, one being a half-hour acoustic
set. Sorry, but if you don't think you can get away with that in the
main part of the show, what makes you think the fans want it at the
end?

These days the regular concertgoer knows exactly what the band will
get up to during the show -- unless they are opening their world tour
in your town. Official websites and fan pages contain set lists and
reviews of a concert, right down to the encore songs.

U2, to their credit, swap and change songs from show to show for
their final minutes. And Bono, I am still waiting for "Bad," thank
you very much for the disappointment on Friday night!

But it is the insincerity of the farewell before any band goes off
stage that truly grates.

Why not tell your audience before the very last song that it is
indeed your last song?

If you still want to go through the encore motions, why not
say, "We'll see you in three minutes after you've yelled 'more' a
lot, done the Mexican wave six times around the arena and we've had
time to go to the toilet and throw down a coldie"?

Apparently Elvis Presley wasn't into the encore and the phrase "Elvis
has left the building" arose to tell his fans they should go home.

At least festival acts are honest enough to deliver their best set in
30 to 60 minutes and it is always accepted that there will be no more
songs.

Encores should only ever be spontaneous and only ever one song, or
forget it.

© The Daily Telegraph, 2006.

LedZepFan · November 2006

While I agree that the whole fake 'Goodnight" is pointless, I adore encores and they often seem to be used to take the show to a new level. Why the fuck not. More bang for your buck. Half hour acoustic set?! Awesome! Why complain about that

Poncier · November 2006

And frankly there are occasions when bands do more of an encore than expected, making it truly spontaneous, Pearl Jam obviously will do this at times, even U2 played a 3rd encore in Boston (on my birhday thank you very much) in 2004 which was definitely spontaneous, in fact many folks had headed to the exits and were rushing back in.

Bathgate66 · November 2006

hey the band has to catch their breath, grab a beverage, have a smoke .

Bathgate66 · November 2006

The New York Times

November 13, 2006
Bono, Trying to Throw His Arms Around the World
By TOM ZELLER Jr.

PRECISELY 22 years ago this month, on the occasion of "the Irish band
U2" playing a sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall in New York, the
band's lead singer, 24 years old at the time, stopped to chat with a
critic from The New York Times.

Paul (Bono Vox) Hewson, as the article called him, was trying to
explain that although the proceeds from the show were being donated to
Amnesty International, he shunned "the condescending thing of being a
singer-prophet leading the mass."

"I think that's a misuse of the stage," Mr. Hewson said. "How can you
be the spokesman for a generation if you've got nothing to say other
than ‘Help!' "

That mixture of passion and self-contradiction might have been telling.
Bono's rock stardom — cemented a year later with U2's appearance at
Live Aid, the epic exercise in rock 'n' roll fund-raising — has been
eclipsed by the very empire of advocacy organizations he helped create
to do, he now says, what simple fund-raising never could. As a
co-founder or principal in a collection of nonprofit, commercial or
hybrid entities aimed at tackling poverty, AIDS and debt relief
primarily in Africa, and by making expedient alliances — with corporate
players like Gap and Armani, or with conservative politicians like
Jesse Helms — Bono has become the face of fusion philanthropy.

There's a method to the mission. The four pillars of the Bono activism
conglomerate — the lobbying groups DATA and ONE, the clothing line EDUN
and, most recently, the (Product) RED brands — are meant to tweak and
motivate change at different levels of the developed world's social,
economic and political systems. That way, barriers to advancement in
poor countries can be removed.

The model has earned him high praise. He has been a Nobel Prize
nominee. He was one of Time magazine's Persons of the Year, along with
Bill and Melinda Gates. His supporters even lobbied — unrealistically —
to have him installed as president of the World Bank.

Throw in the rise of the "U2charist," in which some Episcopalian
congregations have taken to celebrating the liturgy by using U2's music
and what some consider its message of "global reconciliation, justice
for the poor and oppressed, and the importance of caring for your
neighbor" (snipurl.com/U2charist), and the canonization of Paul Hewson
appears complete.

That kind of beneficent overexposure, of course, is bound to draw
exasperation. Exhibit one: the appearance in March of the Web site
Eliminatebono.com, home of GONE: The Campaign to Make Bono History, an
impudent retort to the singer's project ONE: The Campaign to Make
Poverty History (one.org).

But not every complaint is pure sour grapes.

Labor groups were quick to point out, for example, that Gap — a key
partner in Bono's (Product) RED campaign, which drafts corporate
sponsors to contribute profits on RED products to fight disease in
Africa — has a reputation for running sweatshops in developing
countries.

(Product) RED and Gap representatives have countered that the clothing
company has made strides in cleaning up its act, and that the factories
manufacturing clothes for (Product) RED were not sweatshops. But
Charles Kernaghan, the director of the National Labor Committee for
Worker and Human Rights, said he was not convinced.

"Bono cannot be so naïve to think that the conditions in the factories
he tours remain the same when he isn't there," Mr. Kernaghan said.

Other groups have raised questions about the ability to access and
inspect the factories that generate EDUN's own fair-trade clothing
line, even though the company has been vetted by Verité, a nonprofit
auditor. And investments by Bono's private equity firm, Elevation
Partners, in video game titles like "Mercenaries 2: World in Flames"
and "Destroy All Humans" have resulted in complaints that the rock star
is singing from both sides of his mouth.

Bono reflected on his humanitarian efforts — and on the complaints — in
a call this month from Brisbane, Australia, where, as it happened, a
small group of international activists was planning to demonstrate at
U2's concerts because, they said, "Mercenaries 2" simulates violent
military action in Venezuela.

"I have to tell you, the things that come up when you're in this band,"
Bono said. "I mean, some of it of course is real and substantial — and
people have genuine fears and concerns. But some of it is just barking
mad.

"I've come to a place where I realize that there is something obnoxious
about a spoiled rotten rock star in a photograph with a vulnerable
child taken by a dreadful disease. But that's who I am and that's who
they are. And I'm doing my best."

James Freed contributed reporting for this article.

Bathgate66 · November 2006

The New York Times

November 13, 2006
Bono, Trying to Throw His Arms Around the World
By TOM ZELLER Jr.

PRECISELY 22 years ago this month, on the occasion of "the Irish band
U2" playing a sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall in New York, the
band's lead singer, 24 years old at the time, stopped to chat with a
critic from The New York Times.

Paul (Bono Vox) Hewson, as the article called him, was trying to
explain that although the proceeds from the show were being donated to
Amnesty International, he shunned "the condescending thing of being a
singer-prophet leading the mass."

"I think that's a misuse of the stage," Mr. Hewson said. "How can you
be the spokesman for a generation if you've got nothing to say other
than ‘Help!' "

That mixture of passion and self-contradiction might have been telling.
Bono's rock stardom — cemented a year later with U2's appearance at
Live Aid, the epic exercise in rock 'n' roll fund-raising — has been
eclipsed by the very empire of advocacy organizations he helped create
to do, he now says, what simple fund-raising never could. As a
co-founder or principal in a collection of nonprofit, commercial or
hybrid entities aimed at tackling poverty, AIDS and debt relief
primarily in Africa, and by making expedient alliances — with corporate
players like Gap and Armani, or with conservative politicians like
Jesse Helms — Bono has become the face of fusion philanthropy.

There's a method to the mission. The four pillars of the Bono activism
conglomerate — the lobbying groups DATA and ONE, the clothing line EDUN
and, most recently, the (Product) RED brands — are meant to tweak and
motivate change at different levels of the developed world's social,
economic and political systems. That way, barriers to advancement in
poor countries can be removed.

The model has earned him high praise. He has been a Nobel Prize
nominee. He was one of Time magazine's Persons of the Year, along with
Bill and Melinda Gates. His supporters even lobbied — unrealistically —
to have him installed as president of the World Bank.

Throw in the rise of the "U2charist," in which some Episcopalian
congregations have taken to celebrating the liturgy by using U2's music
and what some consider its message of "global reconciliation, justice
for the poor and oppressed, and the importance of caring for your
neighbor" (snipurl.com/U2charist), and the canonization of Paul Hewson
appears complete.

That kind of beneficent overexposure, of course, is bound to draw
exasperation. Exhibit one: the appearance in March of the Web site
Eliminatebono.com, home of GONE: The Campaign to Make Bono History, an
impudent retort to the singer's project ONE: The Campaign to Make
Poverty History (one.org).

But not every complaint is pure sour grapes.

Labor groups were quick to point out, for example, that Gap — a key
partner in Bono's (Product) RED campaign, which drafts corporate
sponsors to contribute profits on RED products to fight disease in
Africa — has a reputation for running sweatshops in developing
countries.

(Product) RED and Gap representatives have countered that the clothing
company has made strides in cleaning up its act, and that the factories
manufacturing clothes for (Product) RED were not sweatshops. But
Charles Kernaghan, the director of the National Labor Committee for
Worker and Human Rights, said he was not convinced.

"Bono cannot be so naïve to think that the conditions in the factories
he tours remain the same when he isn't there," Mr. Kernaghan said.

Other groups have raised questions about the ability to access and
inspect the factories that generate EDUN's own fair-trade clothing
line, even though the company has been vetted by Verité, a nonprofit
auditor. And investments by Bono's private equity firm, Elevation
Partners, in video game titles like "Mercenaries 2: World in Flames"
and "Destroy All Humans" have resulted in complaints that the rock star
is singing from both sides of his mouth.

Bono reflected on his humanitarian efforts — and on the complaints — in
a call this month from Brisbane, Australia, where, as it happened, a
small group of international activists was planning to demonstrate at
U2's concerts because, they said, "Mercenaries 2" simulates violent
military action in Venezuela.

"I have to tell you, the things that come up when you're in this band,"
Bono said. "I mean, some of it of course is real and substantial — and
people have genuine fears and concerns. But some of it is just barking
mad.

"I've come to a place where I realize that there is something obnoxious
about a spoiled rotten rock star in a photograph with a vulnerable
child taken by a dreadful disease. But that's who I am and that's who
they are. And I'm doing my best."

James Freed contributed reporting for this article.

LedZepFan · November 2006

Bathgate66 wrote:

"I've come to a place where I realize that there is something obnoxious
about a spoiled rotten rock star in a photograph with a vulnerable
child taken by a dreadful disease. But that's who I am and that's who
they are. And I'm doing my best."

.

It's a shame more people can't see it this way. It's unbelievable the amount of criticism I hear about Bono. For trying to help people. Christ.

soulsinging · November 2006

LedZepFan wrote:

It's a shame more people can't see it this way. It's unbelievable the amount of criticism I hear about Bono. For trying to help people. Christ.

amen to that. if a quarter of the people reaming him a new one spent a quarter of that time trying to make even a quarter of the effort he does... this world would be a much nicer place to live.

Bathgate66 · November 2006

U too greedy: Bono and boys rehash old tunes for 'new' album
Wednesday November 15th 2006

YOU'VE probably heard this one before.

U2's latest album will be launched amidst the usual fanfare at midnight
tomorrow, but fans hoping for fresh sounds or a hint of experimentation
would be best advised to stay under the duvet.

There is a grand total of one new song from Bono and the boys, there's
one re-hash of a punk oldie with Green Day and 15 apparently shameless
re-hashes of their own oldies, and not-so-oldies such as 'Vertigo' from
the band's previous album.

And the bonus track? It is only 'I Will Follow', which you might have
bought on the Boy album. Or perhaps on their first Best Of collection a
few years back. Or maybe you're not actually a U2 fan.

Compilations

"It's that time of the year," Steve Cummins of music magazine 'NME'
Ireland said yesterday.

"If you look at new Irish bands, they are told not to release anything
in November or December as it all just gets lost amid all these
compilations and best-ofs.

"The latest U2 singles collection is a re-hash and these things should
actually be less relevant than before, because you can make your own U2
compilation and include the songs you want from the likes of iTunes,
for your own best-of compilation. But they're stocking fillers, bought
by people for U2 fans rather than by U2 fans who'd have the songs
before."

Oasis, Girls Aloud, Moby, ABBA and Aerosmith are among countless other
artists currently cashing in by re-hashing old material with the odd
new feature, but as ever, nobody does it better than Bono and the boys.

It's hard to imagine any U2 fan who hasn't picked up or been given
'Pride', 'With Or Without You', 'Where the Streets Have No Name' or
'Sweetest Thing' at this stage, given that they have been released on
the original albums and then re-released on one of the two Best-Of
albums a couple of years back.

But not according to Shaun Pritchard, who is opening up the HMV Grafton
Street at midnight tomorrow night to cater for people looking for the
U218 Singles album.

"By opening at midnight, we are giving fans an opportunity to be the
first to get their hands on this album and the opportunity to get their
hands on some exclusive merchandise," he said.

"This album is set to be a must for all enthusiasts' music collections."

No fear that the boys will be in situ of course, although they will be
able to hear the 'keer-ching' of the cash registers from Down Under.

The new track is called 'Window In the Skies', while U2 cover 'The
Skids,' and also 'The Saints are Coming' track with American rockers
Green Day. You get a DVD featuring "single promo videos" too, which
sounds as bad as it is.

"The Manic Street Preachers have brought out a compilation and it's
fantastic because it is three-discs, dvds, and 20 new songs," Mr
Cummins added.

"This latest U2 release is probably catering for the non-fan, the
person who doesn't buy a lot of music."

Jason O'Brien

soulsinging · November 2006

Bathgate66 wrote:

"This latest U2 release is probably catering for the non-fan, the
person who doesn't buy a lot of music."

Jason O'Brien

the only intelligent thing in this entire article. duh.

also, who expected this to be a new album? nobody puts new material on a greatest hits.

Bathgate66 · November 2006

TWO 'TIME'-LESS U2 ALBUMS
November 15, 2006

You won't be surprised to hear that The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby
are on a list of the All-Time 100 Albums. But you might be surprised
that the list comes from none other than TIME magazine (who seem
uniquely qualified to make an All-TIME list). Use the link below to see
the full list, which is smartly broken up by decade rather than trying
to pin a single album down as "the best." There's also album profiles,
podcasts, polls, and more.

see the full list at TIME.com >>

http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/

2 U2 albums, but regretabley , no pearl jam

erickvazdel · November 2006

Bathgate66 wrote:

TWO 'TIME'-LESS U2 ALBUMS
November 15, 2006

You won't be surprised to hear that The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby
are on a list of the All-Time 100 Albums. But you might be surprised
that the list comes from none other than TIME magazine (who seem
uniquely qualified to make an All-TIME list). Use the link below to see
the full list, which is smartly broken up by decade rather than trying
to pin a single album down as "the best." There's also album profiles,
podcasts, polls, and more.

see the full list at TIME.com >>

http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/

2 U2 albums, but regretabley , no pearl jam

That Sucks !

PJ should have at least 1 album in that list, I really think that "Ten" is better than "Nevermind".

About "Achtung Baby" and "Joshua Tree" .... Amazing albums. Masterpieces.

Bathgate66 · November 2006

Bono/Edge/Pearl Jam:

Video on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7S67oO8EdY

Photos
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=bono&ei=UTF-8&fr=my-
newsclip&c=news_photos

U218 & "Window in the Skies" images
http://www.u2france.com/article9410.html
http://www.u2france.com/article9411.html

Bathgate66 · November 2006

U218 VIDEOS: BEHIND THE SCENES
November 17, 2006

When the U218 DVD comes out next week, buyers will find a booklet with
the DVD that includes short "behind the scenes" snippets about most of
the videos written by the directors. Kevin Godley's account of the
"Sweetest Thing" video is LOL funny, and Meiert Avis talks about the
"planned spontaneity" of the video shoot for "Where the Streets Have No
Name":

----
What you see is exactly what happened that morning, almost in real
time. Paradoxically, we planned this down to the last detail, even
spending a week re-enforcing the roof structure to make sure that it
wouldn't collapse if fans got up there. Getting busted was an integral
part of the plan. We had a backup generator up on the roof so that we
could keep shooting in case the authorities pulled the fuse on the
primary generator, which they did, very quickly. In the background you
can see we rebuilt the sign from the Million Dollar Hotel to create
some interest, just in case no one showed. The whole thing was pure
rock and roll.
----

Bathgate66 · November 2006

Matthias from http://www.u2-vertigo-tour.com is in line for Saturday's show in
Melbourne, and says everyone just heard a full-band version of "One
Tree Hill" :eek: :eek: during soundcheck. Could make for a fun night tonight, or more likely it's being rehearsed for the upcoming shows in New Zealand. U2 hasn't done a full-band version of OTH since the end of the Lovetown tour -- January 9, 1990.

One Tree Hill ?

OMG ! ! ! ! :eek:

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