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Releases:
Across The Bridge of Hope: The Omagh Tribute Album, November 30,
1998
Release of Zucchero album called "Blue Sugar" with a collaboration
with Bono on the song "Blue", November 5, 1998(EUR only?)
Concerts/Live Events:
RUMOUR: U2 at Amnesty International's 50th anniversary of the
United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
Celebration, Paris, France, December 10, 1998.
RUMOUR: U2 at the Nobel Prize Presentations Concert, Oslo,
Sweden, December 11, 1998, 8:00 PM local time.
Nobels Fredspriskonsert (Nobel Peace Prize Concert)
Oslo Spektrum, Sonja Henies pl.2
0185 Oslo
Norway
Venue Phone Numbers (NO TICKETS!) Tlf: +47 22052929 Fax: +47 22052940
Performers.: Andrea Bocelli, a-ha, Alanis Morissette, Espen Lind,
The Cranberries, (S�lvguttene og Kringkastingsorkestret) and more
PRICE: NKR. 560/450/350,- USD$70/55/43
TICKETS: +47 22 05 29 29 / +27815 33 133
Confirmed: U2 at my house. Today. :)
Television/Radio Events:
BBC: Straight from The Edge's mouth -- The BBC are working on a
special for "Classic Albums" about the Joshua Tree. Airdate TBA
Channel V(Australian) : U2 video special, November 14, 9:30 - 11:30pm
Network TV:
MTV:
MuchMusic/MuchUSA:
SPOTLIGHT(and a huge 3-day one at that!):
Much programming repeats 3 times a day so each show airs 3 times :)
-- 7 pm, 11:30 pm, 5:30 am, November 10, November 11, and November 12.
Egos And Icons November 10, 1998
VH1: "U2 Day", November 9th,1998 UK/EUR
WestWood One: Will air U2 radio special on November 10, 1998
(I am not sure if this is the same special that Rocktropolis is doing,
but
suspect that it is...)
Net Events:
Vote for U2 at NBC: http://www.nbc.com/NBCFridaynight/frimusic.asp
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Island Records Contest -- actually a bit difficult!
Entries judged by U2 themselves! http://www.island.co.uk/u2/main.html
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Win a U2 Trip to Ireland!
http://www.musicblvd.com/rocktheworld
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Support Breast Cancer Research and buy the Bear!
http://www.pinkribbonball.ozemail.com.au/bear_star.html
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JamTV: Win the new album. http://www.canoe.ca/JamTrivia/home_u2.html
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Bono/The Edge on Sly-Fi TV : http://www.davestewart.com
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Rocktroplis: Ask U2 a question!
http://www1.rocktropolis.com/main/events/u2/
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SonicNet :Chat with Producer Steve Lillywhite, 8:00 pm EST/5:00 pm PT 's
Michael Goldberg & Gil Kaufman special guest:
Producer Steve Lillywhite
This week R'N'R Insider interviews and chats with famed
producer Steve Lillywhite, best known for his seminal work
with U2 and Peter Gabriel. Learn about the man behind the
curtain twirling knobs for platinum artists like the Rolling
Stones, Morrissey and most recently The Dave Matthews
Band. Ask him about his recent collaboration with U2 on a
new single for their forthcoming compilation release "The Best
of U2, 1980-1990.
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Vote for U2 at Triple J's(Australian Radio) poll at
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/net50/vote.htm
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Vote for U2 at DotMusic's Top Albums of All Time
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Vot for U2 at http://www.bradfitz.com/votingbooth?schwag402
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Fan Club/WIRE/U2 nutzoid meetings:
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18th Anniversary of U2's first performance in Canada Celebration
DEC 9th 1998. Check out http://www3.sympatico.ca/p.m_c.c/
or email [email protected] for more information.
(Peter wants to rent a theatre to show Rattle N' Hum on Dec. 9.
The proceeds will go to the a hospital for sick children.
He is putting up a LOT of money himself and he needs 70 people to go.)
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January 29, 1999, 8:00 pm U2 coverband "Vorsprung durch Technik"
Bremen, Germany. Email [email protected] for more information.
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NEWS dates:
Calgary Sun Best of added Nov 1
ST Chartings added Oct 31
Omagh Aid Album added Oct 31
Irish Echo review added Oct 31
Adriana Kaegi to work on Fashion Show added Oct 31
Q Magazine article(long) added Oct 31 Happy Halloween!
A note about Ali Hewson's God-children added Oct 30
Incorrect Bigmouth article added Oct 30
Joanou on Entropy added Oct 30
CMJ interview with The Edge added Oct 30
CDNOW links to Best Of added Oct 30
The Edge on touring added Oct 30
Island Records Contest added Oct 30
A quick note for my Swedish readers added Oct 30
Irish Times Review of Best Of added Oct 30
PopMart Video/Best of on sale early again... added Oct 30
How big is a big seller? Try seven times platinum... added Oct 30
The Edge confirms Eno/Lanois! added Oct 29
Gotta coupla' bucks? added Oct 29
N2K contest added Oct 28
Rocktropolis Interview added Oct 28
ST debuts at #4 in Norway added Oct 28
Two British Reviews of ST added Oct 28
Japanese 3" ST Single Tracklisting added Oct 27
Irish Charting of ST added Oct 27
dotmusic's hoplessly incorrect assessment on the Best of added Oct 27
Rem/U2 on radio today added Oct 27
Recent band pics from Dublin added Oct 26
Oldies on the charts added Oct 26
U2 on the charts and heading for Nobel Concert added Oct 26
Irish Times articles added Oct 25
Polygram win ASCAP awards added Oct 25
Anniversary of Graham's passing added Oct 25
ST #3 in UK added Oct 25
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Calgary Sun Review:
In an effort to keep the size of the digest to a manageable level,
I have created a new file called
http://www.members.home.net/u2-news/gh_reviews.html
where all reviews of the new album will be kept.
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ST in Germany debuted at #21, and #10 in Holland.
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>From The Belfast Telegraph:
Irish stars unite for Omagh aid album
Buncrana boy's poem to feature on track
By Maeve Quigley
LIAM Neeson recites a moving poem written by one of the children
killed in the Omagh bomb outrage.
The Ballymena-born actor is among a host of world- famous Irish acts
who will be appearing on a special star- studded album in aid of the
Omagh Memorial Fund.
Across The Bridge Of Hope will feature music from U2, Van
Morrison, Ash, Sinead O'Connor, Boyzone, The Divine Comedy,
Enya, Paul Brady and Juliet O'Connor, who have all donated their
services free.
The album takes its title from the poem written by 12- year-old Buncrana
boy Sean McLoughlin shortly before he was killed in the Omagh atrocity.
The album has been co- ordinated by Northern Irish music industry
figures Ross Graham and Tim Hegarty.
Mr Ross explained: "After the bombing in Omagh I got a call from
Tim suggesting that something should be done in tribute to the people
of Omagh.
"I've been working in the music industry for about 20 years so I
decided to phone round contacts to see what could be done.""Everybody
was so supportive that we began to have the seeds of the project very
quickly."One of the featured tracks on the album is Sean's poem, which
has
been recorded in New York as a reading by Ballymena actor Liam Neeson.
He was also asked, at Seamus Heaney's request, to record the Nobel
laureate's The Cure At Troy.
Ross added: "We approached Seamus Heaney, who is one of the
finest poets in Ireland, to ask him if he would like to donate material
for the album and he was more than happy to offer us The Cure At
Troy.
"We asked him if he would record a reading for the album, but he
proposed that Liam Neeson do it. Liam readily agreed to take part
and the track was recorded in New York exclusively for the album."U2
have donated the track Please, which was written originallly as a plea
to the people of Northern Ireland to try to find a resolution to the
Troubles.
The Corrs have donated their top selling single What Can I Do?, while
Downpatrick's Ash have added the song I'm Gonna Fall from their latest
album Nu-Clear Sounds.
Van Morrison has donated a version of The Healing Game, which features
Paddy Moloney, Brian Kennedy and Phil Coulter.
Boyzone will feature on the album singing their hit single Words while
Paul Brady has offered a recording of The Island.
The Divine Comedy have taken the track Sunrise the only song that Neil
Hannon has ever written about the Troubles from their latest album,
while
Enya has made a recording of the Christmas carol Silent Night and Juliet
Turner has recorded the track Broken Things.
A song which may well be released as a single is a recording of the ABBA
hit Chiquitita, sung by Sinead O' Connor.
All the artists involved offered their services free and proceeds will
be
donated to the Omagh Memorial Fund, including royalites.
The full content of the album will be finalized on Monday and all the
production work will be done in Northern Ireland.
Across The Bridge of Hope will be released on November 30.
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Irish Echo Review, courtesy of @U2 News,
http://www.atu2.com/news :
In an effort to keep the size of the digest to a manageable level,
I have created a new file called
http://www.members.home.net/u2-news/gh_reviews.html
where all reviews of the new album will be kept.
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>From CNN:
Globix to Broadcast Max Azria '99 Fashion Show
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 1998--Globix Corp.
(NASDAQ: GBIX), a leading Internet service provider and
one-stop solution for Internet-based services, was selected by
premier American design firm, BCBG Max Azria, to host and
co-produce the Internet broadcast of Seventh on Sixth's BCBG
Max Azria Spring '99 Fashion Show. Production company,
dearaddy productions will be co-producing the event.
The BCBG Max Azria Spring '99 Fashion Show is part of the
acclaimed Seventh on Sixth fashion series at Bryant Park. It
highlights Azria's newest collection and will take place on Nov. 2,
998, at 7 p.m. EST and can be seen at www.bcbg.com. The
cybercast will be available in Real Video and Microsoft Windows
Media Technology and will be optimized for 28.8k, 56k, and T-1
users. Web guests, who log in to see the show, can register to win
a signed CD from fashion powerhouse, Max Azria.
The dearaddy productions company complements the streaming
expertise at Globix with its own expertise producing and
promoting fashion, music and lifestyle events. The dearaddy
company promotes these events through live net broadcasts and
public relations. Adriana Kaegi, dearaddy's owner, developed a
number of contacts in fashion and music as the singer who
co-founded the legendary combo Kid Creole and the Coconuts.
Her work has been widely praised and just as enthusiastically
received. She has performed for Lady Diana, the United Nations,
President Bush and on U2's War Album. Her work has also
appeared on popular TV shows and movies, such as "Against All
Odds."
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(Biggin' thanks to Dave and Wendy for the following!)
>From Q Magazine:
BOYS TO MEN by Phil Sutcliffe
Hanover Quay, site of U2's inconspicuously housed studio, is not a
salubrious part of Dublin. Neglected hulks rust at moribund moorings. A
cement works powders deserted streets with grey. When Bono dropped by
the
corner bar, someone asked, "Didn't you used to live on Cedarwood Road?
Yeah, I used to burgle your house."
Hardly the location anticipated for the musical base of Ireland's four
richest men under 40. However, David "Edge" Evans, Q's host, seems
perfectly at ease here. At least, the solitude seems to accord with the
self contained nature of the least menacing man dressed in black from
boots
to beanie you ever met.
Retrospection's comfy sofa beckons: discussion of U2's new 1980-1990
Best
Of (and bonus B-sides) compilation. He sets to. A genuine band project,
the
track listing of "tunes that captured the moment" was uncontroversial,
the
target market "people who got into the band after Achtung Baby and don't
have the early albums", all tracks remastered for added value.
He chunters cheerily until Q mentions their first album, Boy. Then he
pauses and shakes his head: "You know, I cannot remember who we were
then."
I Will Follow - By the time they recorded Boy U2 had been all over
Europe
for a year with the songs. The outcome: "It was the most fun album we
ever
recorded. We'd become so tight we had time to try all sorts of strange
and
wonderful things. I remember on I Wil1 Follow Bono did these mad, like,
drum solos on the glockenspiel." There again, the song turned out to be
about the death of Bono's mother, who had died suddenly of a brain
haemorrhage when he was 14. It had even been written in their rehearsal
room at the gatehouse to Ballygriffin cemetary where Iris Hewson was
buried.
"Going back through the early stuff, nothing really horrified me,"
reflects
Edge. "Particularly on Boy, I can hear a bit of the Banshees and The
Buzzcocks and some hint of The Skids, as well as - ha ha - some wildly
original ideas of our own... The shocking thing is that well before we
had
a right to, we had this belief that we would become a very successful
band," recalls Edge. "From the beginning Adam never doubted that we
would
make it big".
October - Edge knocked up this solemn piece, full of what U2 called "ice
notes", on the piano in his parents' living room. Although he thought
of
it as the soundtrack to an unmade movie, his bandmates fancied it. Which
sounds chummy. But U2 made the October album amid the only crisis ever
to
threaten the band's continued existence: the conflict with Shalom, the
non-denominational Christian group which Edge, Bono and Larry Mullen had
founded in their teens. Over the years it had grown. Zealots moved in
and, in due course, challenged their faith. "These people said, 'How
can you believe in Christian principles and be in a rock'n'roll band?
They're mutually exclusive.' We really questioned ourselves - Are they
right? Are we doing something that's inconsistent?"
Eamon Dunphy's 1987 book, Unforgettable Fire, recalls Edge and Bono
walking
along the beach at Portrane, Shalom's prayer retreat where the
singer was baptised in the sea. Edge tells Bono the band must end. Bono
agrees. However, says Edge, "That's just not true. What I told Bono was,
'Look, we'll have to make a decision here, we can't stay in this
position.'
We didn't want to say goodbye to the Shalom group. But it had all gone
wrong. We concluded U2 could deal with any moral conflicts and carry
on."
Trash Trampoline And The Party Girl - With two hours' studio time left
and
a B-side imperative, Bono improvised the lyric. But it touched a raw
nerve
in Adam Clayton. The bassist was the only U2 member who had not joined
Shalom. For a while the band tour bus divided between the Bible readers
at
the back and the rock'n'rollers at the front. Clayton took the song as a
public dig. "Adam did feel vulnerable," Edge acknowledges. "He asked
Bono
about the song directly and Bono said, 'No, that's not what's going
down.'
But I think Adam was still unsure. And maybe the Shalom issue did slip
in
even though Bono didn't intend it."
Sunday Bloody Sunday - Suddenly, U2 entered the political arena with a
song
which linked Ireland's two Bloody Sundays, 1920 and 1971, with the
crucifixion ("The real battle is begun/To claim the victory Jesus won/On
a
Sunday, bloody Sunday"). The Edge reckons they wrote it naively,
without
considering the consequences. But it might have caused a more serious
backlash if the guitarist had got his way. Unusually conceived the
original
lyric as well as the music. It began, "Don't talk to me about the rights
of
the IRA." He can smile about it now: "My words were pretty clumsy, a
polemic. Bono shifted it to being much less political, more of a
personal
reflection." After Noraid-supporting Irish-Americans misunderstood and
began throwing money on the stage when U2 played the song, Bono
responded
with the introduction: "This is not a rebel song!" When they played it
the
day after the Enniskillen bombing in 1987, as immortalised by the Rattle
And Hum movie, he added a raging "Fuck the revolution!" Sunday Bloody
Sunday resulted in enduring opprobrium from Republicans, and prompted a
denunciation from Gerry Adams. "Thankfully those days are long gone,"
says
Edge. "We're optimistic about what's been happening."
Pride (In The Name Of Love) - After Sunday Bloody Sunday, political
morality became a U2 staple, fitting their religious concerns. They
dedicated Pride to Martin Luther King. "Because of the situation in our
country non-violent struggle was such an inspiring concept. Even so,
when
Bono told me he wanted to write about King, at first I said, 'Woah,
that's
not what we're about.' Then he came in and sang the song and it felt
right,
it was great. When that happens there's no argument. It just *was*."
addiction," says Edge. "Bono knew the family, he'd talked to the
brothers
about it. It was new for him as a lyricist, writing in the first person
from someone else's point of view I don't think there's ever been a song
about addiction that captures the feeling so vividly." U2 wrote Bad from
scratch in the studio at then new producer Brian Eno's behest - the
band's
response clear proof that both parties had come initial trepidation
about
working together. "We had wanted to work with him for quite a while,"
says
Edge. "But it was hard to persuade him. I think he was intimidated by
the
lack of irony in what we were doing. He'd come from Talking Heads,
Rhode
Island school of design, living in New York, and here was this Irish
band
hitting everything full on, completely earnest, hearts on sleeves, no
irony
at all."
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - "We were listening to some
gospel during the Joshua Tree sessions. I remember The Mighty Clouds and
the Rev. Cleveland and the Staple Singers... The original was more
loose,
almost Jamaican, Bono hit on the melody and I had the title in a
notebook.
At first, no-one took it that seriously because it sounded so unlike
anything we'd ever done and it didn't gel until the mix, but when it was
finished we all realised we had something special. The reviewers didn't
like it, though. One American one said it was a pale imitation of the
original form and that Foreigner song I Want To Know What Love Is was
better." Have U2 been influential? "Hmm, I do think we created some new
musical styles and Bono some vocal styles that have now entered the
language. I hear them coming back in other bands from time to time,
yeah."
The Sweetest Thing - Omitted from The Joshua Tree, for Bono The Sweetest
Thing represented a new departure into the revelatory pangs of love.
Next
stop, lust and all kinds of perversity. Now it makes a double
reappearance
on both Best Of and B-sides albums. "Bono wrote it as a birthday present
for Ali (his wife)," says Edge. "When we recorded The Joshua Tree we
liked
it, but it was her song so it was different from the rest. Afterwards we
realised it should have been on the album."
Silver And Gold - Silver And Gold arose from humiliation. Bono visited
The
Rolling Stones at work in a New York Studio. The cool codgers fell into
a
blues jam and affably invited him to join in. But he couldn't. He didn't
know the songs. Hot-cheeked, he went back to his hotel and wrote Silver
And
Gold. When he recorded it, Keith Richards and Ron Wood backed him on
acoustics, the former using the handle of his switchblade as a slide. "I
was so sick of white blues," Edge laughs. "So we approached Silver And
Gold
with uncertainty and suspicion, but we found our own way into it."
When Love Comes To Town - "Bono and I met B.B. (King) in Dublin," Edge
says. "He said, 'Hey you guys should write me a song.' We said, 'Ah,
yeah.'
I thought it was unlikely but a while later Bono said, Remember B.B.
King?
Well I've done this song and it's pretty good. We liked it so much we
decided to use it on Rattle And Hum and ask B.B. if he'd join us."
Peculiarly the '80s precisely frame the first phase of U2's musical
life.
"The Rattle And Hum movie had given us a bit of a fright. We started out
with the idea of doing a small film and we'd become involved with
Hollywood
studios, budgets and promotional campaigns. It was getting too big. We
felt
like caricatures of ourselves. There were some funny moments, though,
the
police escort through the streets of Barcelona before and after the
Spanish
premiere being one. The motorbike cops were going so fast and obviously
loving it, while our driver was in a sweat passing parked cars by
inches. I
looked at Bono and we both knew it had all gone a bit too far. So we
left
the stage at The Point, Dublin, December 31,1989, and went off to
consciously redress the balance."
U2 were about to pass 30, collect $200 million, and perhaps belatedly,
discover irony.
Here's the album review�by David Sheppard
MEANING IT
It's nearly a decaded since a tired and emotional Bono stood on a Dublin
stage and announced, albeit elliptically, the demise of U2 Mk I. His, as
it
transpired acuitous, contention was that to survive the band had to "go
away and dream it all up again". So,10 irony-strewn, glitter-shod and
giant
lemon-encased years later seems as good a time as any to step back and
re-evaluate the decade during which the world succumbed to U2.
Inevitably the group's youthful repertoire suffers by comparison with
its
post-modernism-touting '90s incarnation: sanctimonious lyrical
didacticism and elephantine '80s production are what immediately strike
the
ear as Island's 14-track retrospective unfolds. It's as if the band were
on
a singular crusade to re-cast juddering anthemic rock as a thing of
evangelical epiphany and not the Devil's music after all.
But, taken as a whole, this is also a document of four driven musicians
forging a unique identity on the anvil of virtuous ambition,
highlighting
social injustices, the enigma of superpower America, and generally
laying
balm upon the wounds of the world, all in a unit-shifting,
football-chant-friendly style. No mean achievement.
-- Prarit....[email protected] U2 news: http://www.members.home.net/u2-news/u2.html
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