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From the Institute of Development, Employment and Training council of Cadiz, is intended to raise awareness of the immense possibilities of Cadiz as ideal location for the filming of audiovisual productions, as this is a sector of significant economic potential.

Guillermo Blázquez, Head of Locations of producing NLTH Film LTD of London, this council has requested permits for timely recording of a video-clip for the band U2, although the singers in the group will not come.
The shooting is a motorbike that part of Paris and ends in Tarifa (the motorcycle never circulated across the beaches).

The date will be the next day on July 23, hours 21.00 to 04.00 am of 24.
The sites chosen by the company as a stage are: environment Market streets, the Cathedral Square, Candelaria Square and other streets of downtown besides the Campo del Sur, the area Baluarte de San Roque and Avda. Fernandez Ladreda.

The team is composed of shooting 18 people, between players and technical team.
With the recording of this video clip is shown once again that Cadiz is a city increasingly defendant not only for this type of work but for the shooting of films like James Bond or Captain Alatriste, among many others.

To read this article in it’s native language visit http://www.lavozdigital.es/cadiz/20080719/local/cadiz/proxima-semana-cadiz-sera-200807191225.html

Our friend Matt McGee has reported that the newest U2 album could be released on November 18th.

From twitter:
Rumor from a reliable source: New U2 album out on November 18.

That’s not that long, it’s time to end this non-U2 period!!

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DUBLIN (AFP) - U2 megastars Bono and the Edge have won a green light for a controversial Dublin hotel project designed by renowned architect Norman Foster, they said Thursday.

The Irish multi-millionaires have faced opposition from heritage campaigners over the proposed 150-million-euro (238-million-dollar) reconstruction project of The Clarence hotel, a protected building on the river Liffey waterfront.

But the Irish planning authority, the An Bord Pleanala, has now given it the go-ahead after a long consultation period.

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The Edge reissued and remastered The Joshua Tree last year, stuffing it full of rarities and B-sides for good measure. This year, Boy, October and War underwent deluxe upgrades, the material fruits of which can be had on July 22. But if that’s too long to wait for U2 nostalgia buffs, online music savior Imeem is streaming all three releases free of charge from the band’s profile, starting…now!

As some of you Listening Post readers might have noticed, Imeem is our go-to third-party when it comes to easily embedded and uploaded music. Eliot tagged it as one of the top 10 hottest music sites in the game today, and given its ease of use and growing acceptance by major and minor labels, it’s a distinction that is hard to argue.

You know you’re doing something right when the Rupert Murdoch-owned MySpace is hell-bent on freezing you out from its social network. Recent deals like this one with U2, along with past agreements with The Rolling Stones, New Order, Radiohead and more are only going to add to Imeem’s cultural capital.

- Wired

Yahweh the animated video the used for the Vertigo Tour.

UPDATE: Full day passes for The Women’s Conference 2008 have sold out in a historic, record-breaking time of only three hours, after going on sale July 14, California First Lady Maria Shriver announced today (July 15th).

LOS ANGELES (July 14, 2008) – California First Lady Maria Shriver today announced an  extraordinary lineup of newsmakers and world opinion leaders confirmed for The Women’s Conference 2008 to be held on October 21 and 22 at the Long Beach Convention Center. Tickets to the conference go on sale today at 9:00 a.m. PDT at www.californiawomen.org.

With a growing roster of more than 50 speakers and participants led by Christiane Amanpour, Lance Armstrong, Cherie Blair, Bono, Warren Buffet, Sister Joan Chittister, Marian Wright Edelman, Sally Field, Michael J. Fox, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Caroline Kennedy, Heidi Klum, Jack Kornfield, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Matthews, Jenny McCarthy, Indra Nooyi, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Russell Simmons and Gloria Steinem, conference attendees can expect the same empowering experiences, fascinating speaker pairings, and once-in-a-lifetime conversations that have become the conference’s trademark under Shriver’s leadership.

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The Mighty Boosh star Noel Fielding has become friends with U2 guitarist The Edge, The Sun reports.

The surreal comic reportedly discussed music industry experiences with The Edge ahead of the Mighty Boosh band’s first live gig in Kent this weekend.

A source said: “Noel and The Edge have become really pally. The Edge has been giving Noel lots of guidance and advice about the band over the phone.

“He really loves the show and is keen to help out Noel any way he can.”

Fielding is also working on a Boosh album, which Mark Ronson is rumoured to be producing.

- ShowBiz, Digital spy

A work of art owned by U2 has been sold for over £5 million at auction, according to reports. The piece by Jean-Michel Basquiat went under the hammer at the Contemporary Art Sale at Sothebys in London yesterday.

“Untitled (Pecho/Oreja)” was bought by the Irish rockers in New York 20 years ago and has since been on display in their Dublin recording studio.

A spokesman for the auction house said a private buyer had bid £5,081,250, considerably less than the record fee for the artist, which stands at £7.5 million. Basquiat died of a drugs overdose in 1988, a year before the piece was picked out by U2 bass player Adam Clayton.

-Dotmusic