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*U218Singles album page updated 4th Jan 2009
26th Jan 12, U22 results announced: U2.com has been running a vote among members to decide which songs should appear on the new U22 CD. The results have now been announced and can be seen on the U2.com site. The biggest surprise for me is that there are so few pre-Joshua Tree songs on the list, with only The Unforgettable Fire and Out of Control making the cut. It would have been good to see something like Party Girl or Electric Co on there but unfortunately a lot of U2 fans don't even know songs like those. I remember sitting in the nosebleeds in the Boston Fleet Center in 2001 when Party Girl was played and it was obvious that most of the crowd didn't recognise it. Shameful! 09th Jan 12, Site changes still ongoing: I'm still pottering about with the design and layout of this site and hope to make the changes live fairly soon. Watch this space. On the U2 front, I see there's finally some good news about the Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark musical. It's just had the most successful week of any show in the history of Broadway, taking $2.9 million (£1.8 million) in ticket sales in the last week of 2011. Perhaps Bono and Edge won't give up on their $70 million investment just yet. 31st Oct 11, Happy birthday Larry: Today is Larry's 50th birthday, which takes me back to this day 10 years ago when I was lucky enough to share in Larry's 40th birthday celebrations...along with 15,000 other people at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island. I'd recently finished my Masters degree at university and decided to treat myself to a trip to the US to see U2 on the 3rd leg of the Elevation Tour. Thanks to some great friends who hooked me up with tickets and places to stay, I got to see several shows in New York, New Jersey and Providence. The last of these was on 31st October so we all got to sing Happy Birthday to Larry and wish him many happy returns. We were lucky enough to be on the front rail that night, so we had a great view as fans handed him a giant birthday card and Bono presented him with a cake. You can see a few photos of that night here. I only wish I'd had a better camera with me. 20th Oct 11, Site changes: I'm in the process of changing all my pages to php files instead of htm. Hopefully it should happen seamlessly but if you happen to come across any broken links, please let me know. 13th Sep 11, Is it really 20 years since Achtung Baby was released?!: Apparently you will soon be able to buy a special deluxe edition of Achtung Baby, which is being released on 31st October to mark the 20th anniversary of its original release. You'll need pretty deep pockets if you want one though, as it'll cost you £385 (or about $630). For that you get copies of Achtung Baby and Zooropa, CDs of unreleased material, DVDs of the videos for the singles from the album, vinyl singles, a book, art prints and DVDs of 'ZOO TV: Live From Sydney' and 'From The Sky Down', the recently released documentary film that charts the band's history during the period around the recording of Achtung Baby. You'll even get a pair of Bono-style sunglasses. For that price, perhaps Bono will come round and deliver them himself. 18th Aug 11, Billionaire Bono?: It seems that the investment company which Bono co-founded (Elevation Partners) has made a killing on shares in Facebook. Their stake in the social networking site is now valued at $975 million, a pretty handy return on the $210 million they paid for it in 2009. That should keep the B-man in sunglasses for a while... 04th May 11, Rare U2 video clip: A friend of mine recently discovered an old VHS video of U2 accepting the Best International Group award at the Irish Music Awards in 1988 (which were sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board) and he's now uploaded it to YouTube. It's very rare footage - in fact I haven't been able to find any other mention of U2 even winning this particular award, let alone video of them accepting it. You can watch the video here. 13th Apr 11, U2360 tour breaks world record: U2 have now broken the Rolling Stones' record for the highest grossing tour of all time, after their recent Sao Paolo concert took them past $558 million in ticket sales. They still have 20 concerts to play, at the end of which they'll have grossed a whopping $700 million. Nice work if you can get it. 24th Feb 11, U2 confirmed for Glastonbury: Gigwise.com are reporting that U2 have confirmed that they will be headlining this year's Glastonbury festival on Friday 24th June, after being forced to cancel last year when Bono injured his back. Edge made the announcement on a video played at last night's NME awards, at which Glastonbury won the award for best festival. 17th Jan 11, Adam becomes a dad: Wonders never cease...it seems Adam has become a father. The Irish Independent is reporting that he had a baby boy with an unnamed French woman early last year. Despite Adam's reputation as the most 'rock'n'roll' member of U2, he's reported to be deleriously happy with fatherhood. Who can blame him?! 01st Jan 11, PS!: I suppose I should have mentioned that of course the answer I was looking for was that U2 played the Superbowl half time show in 2002. If you didn't win the book, don't forget you can always buy it on Amazon.com. 01st Jan 11, Competition winners: Congatulations to Dawn and Cynthia who have each won themselves a copy of the U2FAQ book in my recent competition. Thanks and commiserations to everyone else who entered...better luck next time! I hope everyone out there is having a happy new year and as someone once said, "may the best of 2010 be the worst of 2011". 16th Dec 10, Win a copy of the new U2FAQ book: I mentioned a while back that I was planning to run a competition to win copies of John D. Luerssen's great new book, "U2 FAQ: Anything You'd Ever Want To Know About The Biggest Band In The World and More". The good people at Hal Leonard Publishing have now sent me a couple of copies to give away as prizes, so here's the question: In which year did U2 perform at the Superbowl half time show? Send me an email with your answer. I promise not to use your address for anything other than contacting you if you win. Honest. :) The closing date is the end of this year - midnight GMT on 31st December, so you've plenty of time to enter. All correct entries will be put into a metaphorical hat and two winners chosen at random. I'll only ask for your mailing address if you win, so don't send it with your entry. If you don't win the competition, you can always buy the book at Amazon.com. There's also a sample chapter here if you want to check it out. The author will also be appearing on The Vinyl Experience on New York's WRXP (101.9 FM and online at 1019xrp.com) this Sunday to discuss the book. They'll be playing a few rarities so that's definitely worth a listen. 22nd Sep 10, U2360 tour to visit Mexico and maybe Belfast?!: Another new date has been added to the U2360 tour with the announcement that the band will play Mexico City's Estadio Azteca on 14th May 2011. Maybe there's still hope for some UK/Ireland dates yet! I have no idea why the band have seemingly ignored their home fans on the current European leg of the tour. Perhaps they think we've had enough U2 to last us for a while. Although, according to U2place.com (an Italian site), there are rumours that the band will return to the UK and even play Belfast at the very end of the tour next year. I've heard plenty of Belfast rumours before though and they never come to anything, so I'll believe it when I see it. 06th Sep 10, More shows down under: Second shows have been added in Australia and New Zealand after the initial dates sold out in record time. The extra shows will be in Auckland (Nov 26th), Melbourne (Dec 3rd), Brisbane (Dec 9th) and Sydney (Dec 14th). A second show in Perth on Dec 19th has already sold out. Meanwhile Tony Blair has hailed Bono as a potentially great political leader. He says Bono "could have been a president or prime minister standing on his head. He had an absolutely natural gift for politicking, was great with people, very smart and an inspirational speaker". Something to think about if the music career doesn't work out... 25th Aug 10, U2 debut another new song: U2 have performed another brand new song called Every Breaking Wave during their concert in Helsinki on 21st August. Apparently it's planned to be the lead single from the upcoming 'Songs of Ascent' album, which has been rumoured for many months now but which could be in the shops before Christmas. You can watch Every Breaking Wave live from Helsinki on YouTube. |
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