U2 Announcement Monday based on a rumor that reads very interesting –
“Pues este lunes tendremos la fecha de lanzamiento del dvd de pasadena y los formatos en los que saldra, se rumorea que solo saldra en dvd(tres versiones distintas)porque al introducirlo en el ordenador tendremos acceso a un codigo para descargar varias canciones nuevas en formato audio/video y que habra dentro de poco(abril/mayo) una promo en directo para dar a conocer dichas canciones. “
“Monday we will have the release date of the dvd pasadena and formats that will go forth, is rumored to be only coming to DVD (three different versions) because the computer will enter an access code to download new songs in various format audio / video and that there will soon (April / May) a live promo to raise awareness of those songs.”
We have also spotted this post on twitter –
“U2 360° At The Rose Bowl” is the official name of the DVD, & the release date will be announced on Monday.”
At this point it seems possible that we could see a release annoucement on Monday, whats interesting is that the idea of releasing new songs within the DVD package. Great marketing idea.
has had another dig at U2, this time claiming the Irish supergroup buy their fans. Website Contactmusic is reporting the wonderfully verbose frontman as saying:
“I have never seen a U2 fan. I have never seen anyone with a U2 shirt or been around someone’s house that has a fucking U2 record.
“Where do their fans fucking come from? Where are they? I reckon they buy them. With all the money they’ve made, they just bought a load of people and every time they do a gig they get a shovel and pile them into their gigs to make them look good.”
So, what do you think? Are you a genuine U2 fan? Or have you been slipped a couple of Euros by Bono and The Edge?
Side Note About the photo:
June 1997, San Francisco, USA: Oasis were supporting U2 on their tour. Noel was singing Don’t Look Back In Anger and Liam was watching him intently on a monitor on the side of the stage. I was shooting portraits of him, when suddenly a monk-like figure in a cowl loomed up on his right. Jill quickly changed focus to this figure and took one of my favourite images ever, of Liam and Bono
Photograph: Jill Furmanovsky
Other side note: Liam must have forgotten that he did in fact open for U2, how quickly we forget where our last meal came from.
Bono and Lucky Bono / U2 / U2TOURFANS St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years.
On St. Patrick’s Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon.
Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast—on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage. We added our playlist for a wonderful St Patricks Day.
Sunday Bloody Sunday Released on War 1983, as single 1986 and on The Best Of (1998). Live versions on Under a Blood Red Sky 1983 and on single B-side 1997. Other live versions on Rattle and Hum, PopMart and Elevation videos.
Bad Released on The Unforgettable Fire 1984 and on The Best Of (1998). Live version released on Wide Awake in America 1985. Other live versions on Rattle and Hum and Elevation videos.
New Year’s Day Released on War 1983, as single and on The Best Of (1998). Live version released on Under a Blood Red Sky 1983. Other live versions on Zoo TV and PopMart videos.
Pride (In The Name Of Love) Released on The Unforgettable Fire 1984, as single and on The Best Of (1998). This version has backing vocals by Chrissie Hynde. Live version released on Rattle and Hum 1988. Other live versions on Zoo TV and PopMart videos.
One Released on Achtung Baby 1991 and as single. Live versions on Zoo TV and PopMart videos. Also recorded by Passengers and by Adam, Larry and Michael Stipe.
Elevation Released on All That You Can’t Leave Behind 2000 and as single. Live version on Elevation video.
Beautiful Day Released on All That You Can’t Leave Behind 2000 and as single. Live versions released as single B-side 2000 and on Elevation video.
City Of Blinding Lights Released on How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb 2004
MLK Released on Unforgetable Fire 1984
The Unforgettable Fire Released on The Unforgettable Fire 1984, as single and on The Best Of (1998).
Walk On – Just had to be added Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese activist who was sentenced to house arrest in 1989 for protesting her government. Earlier that year, while walking with some of her supporters, soldiers blocked their path and pointed rifles at them.
Whats your play list for today ? Share it with us.
Artificial Horizon / U2In the summer of 1992, U2 achieved the unthinkable: having commissioned Perfecto production duo Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne to remix ‘Even Better Than The Real Thing’, they reached number 8 with their remix just one month after the original song had peaked at number 12. The power of 1990’s club culture was truly coming to the fore and U2 were one of the first bands to fully explore the idea that a remix could actually improve on a song’s original grooves. It was the first time that the band had explored the electronic world – and the electronic world loved them back.
Fast-forward to 1995 and U2 were again ahead of the curve with their exclusive Propaganda fan-club release ‘Melon’, which saw the same production duo remix the compilation’s title track which Oakenfold turned into a bona fide club anthem around the world. ‘Melon: Remixes for Propaganda’, was also full of electronic remix gems like Massive Attack’s brooding take on ‘Mysterious Ways’ and a hip hop remix of ‘Numb’ by Soul Assassins, a loose collective of musicians and graphic artists affiliated to Cypress Hill.
Taking some of the best songs from ‘Achtung Baby’ and ‘Zooropa’, the selection and decision was incredibly astute: not only was it only available to Propaganda subscribers, it also became an instant collectors item. Almost two decades on, it’s still one of the coolest items in U2 fan collections today.
Of course, U2’s shoes remained glued to the dance-floor with ‘Pop’ and more recently with remixes of ‘Elevation’ and Paul Epworth’s frantic re-fix of ‘City Of Blinding Lights’. But now – 18 years on from ‘Melon’ – U2 have returned to the concept that originally bore fruit and are bringing us ‘Artificial Horizon.’ Like ‘Melon’, these remixes are either unreleased or so rare that you would have to have been in the studio to have actually heard them before.
Many of these mixes will be known to the electronic heads within U2’s fan-base – the Justice remix of Boots was rumoured to have been a bootleg for quite some time – but not any more, as it’s one of the standout remixes here. If we’re going to be precise, this is certainly the first time that remixes from Fred Falke, Fish Out Of Water and Hot Chip have been made physically available for the U2 fans. And the Frankie Goes To Hollywood-referencing ‘I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight’ (Live U2360 Remix) has never appeared anywhere before.
So what does ‘Articial Horizon’ tell us? Well, like ‘Melon’ before it, it covers refashioned songs from more than one album. A quick scan reveals that the CD starts with the Influx mix of ‘Elevation’ (from ‘All That You Can’t Leave Behind’) and includes several songs from ‘No Line…’ (including ‘Get On Your Boots’ and ‘I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight’ as well as songs from ‘All That You Can Leave Behind’ (David Holmes’ daringly dark remake of ‘Beautiful Day’) as well as a cool, ambient remix of ‘Staring At The Sun’ from ‘Pop’ by Brothers In Rhythm to close.
In the case of Hot Chip, Fred Falke and Justice, it’s a reminder that U2’s feet and heartbeat have kept up with new producers from London and Paris alike and in the case of Nine Inch Nails, they’ve walked as far as Beverley Hills. And in the case of David Holmes and Danny Saber, they’re dabbling with producers who have re-modelled their music before. Fans may remember that Belfast producer David Holmes remixed ‘Discotheque’ while Danny Saber – who retools ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun’ here – previously remixed ‘Satellite Of Love’ from ‘The Million Dollar Hotel’ soundtrack.
CISCO BluesFest The Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest runs from July 7 to 18 this year, and while the schedule of performers won’t be officially announced until April 21, it’s certainly the season for rumours.Melting snow means one thing: Bluesfest is approaching.
A couple of different fans sites have suggested that it could be possible. The timing looks good, with U2 playing Philadeliphia on July 12th and Montreal on July 16th and 17th. The leaves a couple days to stop over to LeBreton Flats.
If U2 does show up at Bluesfest, it would likely be the biggest draw the festival has ever seen.
What is the Bluesfest?
The Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest will celebrate its 18th edition in 2010 with a spectacular explosion of blues, gospel, roots, world and popular music. The festival will program will take place at multiple stages in a number of locations. The Bluesfest site will again feature two stages on the NCC grounds in front of the Canadian War Museum, with four other outdoor stages bordered by the Ottawa River and the War Museum. Additional performances will also be staged in the Barney Danson Theatre inside the War Museum.
Bluesfest’s Awards:
Tthe Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest organization was recognized by the Recycling Council of Ontario three years in a row with an award for waste minimization. The award is in recognition of Bluesfest’s efforts—in tandem with Molson Canada and Rothsay Biodiesel, among others—to ‘green’ the festival. Bluesfest was recognized for their use of compostable beer cups made of corn and disposed of through the novel use of Cupsuckers, using bio-diesel to power generators, encouraging people to bicycle to the event by providing supervised bike parking, and for their comprehensive recycling program.
What do you know about the song “Beatiful Day”? Heres some info that you may find interesing, if you have other facts share them with us.
“Beautiful Day” is the first song and lead single from U2’s 2000 album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind. It was a commercial success, helping launch the album to multi-platinum status, and is one of U2’s biggest hits to date. It was their fourth #1 single in the UK and their first #1 in the Netherlands, while the single also was #1 for a week in Australia. The song peaked at #21 in the U.S., the band’s highest position since “Discothèque” in 1997. The song won three Grammy Awards in 2001.
The lyrics were inspired by Bono’s experience with Jubilee 2000, a benefit urging politicians to drop the Third World Debt.
This is about a man who loses his material things and feels better because he realizes the value of what he has.
U2 wrote this in stages. It changed drastically when Bono came up with the “Beautiful Day” lyric and the idea for the backing vocals.
This was featured in television coverage of the 2000 Olympics from Australia. It was used in a nightly video recap called “Images Of The Games.” NBC made a donation to The Special Olympics in exchange for the rights to use it.
This was one of the first major releases made available for download. Fans could stream the song from U2.com before it was released.
A live performance was taped for British TV show Top Of The Pops on the rooftop of a hotel in Ireland that Bono and The Edge own. They also taped a performance of “Elevation” that day.
This evolved out of a punk rock song they were working on called “Always,” which was used as the B-side to “Beautiful Day.” “Always” was included on a 2002 album of U2 rarities called U2 7. The album was distributed through Target stores.
The video was first shown at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sep. 7, 2000.
In England, this went to #1 its first week. It beat out a duet by Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue which was expected to claim the top spot.
This was the first track and first single on All That You Can’t Leave Behind. The album did much better than their previous one, Pop, released in 1997.
When this went to #1 in the UK, Bono told BBC Radio One: “This tastes very sweet. You think to yourself, you’re a rock band, you don’t need the pop charts, but you do need the pop charts. Singles are what makes rock sharp, and we’ve not been great at singles. I can’t tell you how excited we feel, we’ve been around for a while and to hear this song on the radio, it feels very special.”
This won 2000 Grammys for Song Of The Year, Record Of The Year, and Best Rock Performance By Duo Or Group. The album was released after the 2000 cutoff date and was not eligible for awards, but this was because it was released as a single before the date. The next year, U2 won 4 more Grammys.
When accepting the Grammy awards for this, The Edge wore a jersey with the number 3 as a tribute to Dale Earnhardt, a race car driver who died the weekend earlier in the Daytona 500.
U2 performed this at halftime of the 2002 Super Bowl after it won an online poll, beating out “Desire,” “Pride” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Unlike the year before, when Aerosmith was joined by Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly, U2 had the halftime show to themselves.
Clips of this song are used as the theme music for The Premiership, a weekly TV show in the UK which shows that covers all the English Permier League football (soccer) games.
This song was played at the end of a Smallville episode entitled “Nicodemus,” where Clark takes Lana up on the windmill and shows her the Metropolis horizon line.
Kurt Nilsen from Norway won the 2003 World Idol competition singing this song. World Idol brought together winners for the Idol competitions in various countries to compete against each other. 2003 was the only year it took place, and Nilsen beat 10 other contestants, including Kelly Clarkson, who placed second.
The last of a three part series over a couple of months. Whats more taboo than drugs, sex or is God ? The unwelcomed guest in the world of rock ‘n’ roll. However that’s preciselly why Bono, lead singer of U2, finds God to be such a powerful subject for the band’s songs. “You’re in a rock band what can’t you talk about? God? OK, here we go,” he once said. “You’re supposed to write songs about sex and drugs. Well, no, I won’t.” Todays top trending conversation is #SEX and you have to wonder with the quesions posed by fans? Does U2 have a lot fo sexual references in their songs or would say that they pretty much stay on the “God” trip?
From the band’s origins as four dreaming teenagers in Dublin, Ireland, in the 1970s to its current status as among the greatest rock bands on the planet, U2 has written and performed music shot through with a religiosity that defies easy categorization.
On its 2001 Elevation Tour, U2 sold out arenas and stadiums around the world, using in the process a surprising amount of religious imagery. The band usually closed with “Walk On,” a song from, All That You Can’t Leave Behind. Toward the end of the song, Bono would shout “Unto the Almighty, thank you!” and lead the crowd in a chorus of hallelujahs.
Bono and the rest of U2 would seem to fit comfortably with evangelicalism and contemporary Christian music. That placement, however, is resisted by both the evangelical establishment and the band itself. U2’s members—Bono, guitarist The Edge, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and bassist Adam Clayton ( which has birthday this month)—drink and smoke and swear, causing some pietistic Christians to question the band’s beliefs.
U2 doesn’t seem to care whether churches accept the band. Over years, U2 has grown uncomfortable with organized religion, calling church life “claustrophobic” and blaming Christianity, at least in part, for dividing Ireland. “I have this hunger in me…. Everywhere I look, I see evidence of a Creator,” Bono has said. “But I don’t see it as religion, which has cut my people in two.”
The question of U2’s religious beliefs, and the ways band members have expressed them, is the subject of a 2001 book, Walk On—The Spiritual Journey of U2 (Relevant Books), by Steve Stockman, a Presbyterian minister in Ireland. Stockman mines U2 interviews and books about the band and its music to write a spiritual companion to the band’s career.
Stockman wrote that in U2’s early days in Dublin, Bono, The Edge and Mullen embraced a charismatic evangelical form of Christianity unusual then for Ireland. They found like-minded believers in a small group called the Shalom Fellowship. In the early 1980s, one of Shalom’s leaders declared that U2 would have to give up rock `n’ roll to please God.
It was a crossroads for the band, and after deciding that God would rather have them play rock music than stay in the fellowship, Bono, The Edge and Mullen left. Never again would any members of U2 be formally aligned with a religious group. “For Bono, The Edge and Larry, the God that they met and have pilgrimaged with down the amazing road is a God who is bigger than church or religious boundaries,”(STOCKMAN)
Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 8:48AM
U2 360 WorldWide Tour 