:: Edge´s blog by Regina O´Numb ::

:: 2.28.2006 ::

To leave the ground

Edge and the first chords of 'City Of Blinding Lights' (feb 21)...
Well, when the show started, I felt Morumbi was in the middle of a earthquake, such of a hard sound, but we had too, your refresh chords, to get a time and jump again, and definitely was 'City Of Blinding Lights'. Edge, you said to Folha de Sao Paulo, in the second show there were something diferent. Well, I think, there were great passion in the first show (so extraordinary) and many diferent things you played in the songs during the second show. It was a present to us, an unique oportunity to the eternity, you playing with passion and showing at each song a little 'new sound'. There were many positive and glad energy, which almost made me getting ready to leave the ground (a metaphor...)...with that Ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh I felt that I was able to fly...Oh God, and you looked so beautiful that night Edge, in the city of blinding lights, not the beautiful Salvador, but the usual Sao Paulo. Thank you so much for 'City Of Blinding Lights'
:: Regina O'Numb 2/28/2006 10:50:35 PM [+] ::
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Original Download
Original of the Species, video and single, available to download in the UK and the US. Producer Jacknife Lee went back into the studio with the band last summer to record a new version of Original of the Species. And the artist Catherine Owens, long time U2 collaborator, came up with a stunning video to accompany the track, a dazzling work of futuristic animation and one of the most unusual videos the band has ever made. The track was released to radio in the US in the autumn and now both single and video are available as a download from all legal download stores including Island Tunes and iTunes in the UK and iTunes in the US.
UK iTunes Download
US iTunes Download
Catch a clip of the Catherine Owens directed video here.
Catch the whole video, along with scores of other full-length U2 videos, on our Subscribers site.
read on: U2.com
:: Regina O'Numb 2/28/2006 09:47:22 PM [+] ::
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A Grammy On The Road
What does a Grammy do when it's been won ? After the glitz and glamour of the annual presentation, after the photo-call and the red-carpet treatment, surely there is more to life for this golden gong than merely sitting on some corporate sideboard awaiting the weekly polish ? Well, if you're a Grammy won by U2 (and let's face it, lately most of them are), the Awards Ceremony is just the gateway to a glamorous new life. One minute the band are holding you high to deflect the dazzle of the flashbulbs the next you're off on the road and a life of authentic rock'n'roll debauchery. Backstage, onstage, offstage: the Grammy that U2 wins gets Access All Areas. Basking in the glory of your fans, jostling the fresh lobster in catering, chilling first-class on Vertigo 4 .. even warming Larry's seat behind the drum-kit. In this remarkable slideshow, U2.Com brings you exclusive photographic access to life on the road for a U2 Grammy. View Slideshow.
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/28/2006 09:36:23 PM [+] ::
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Lifestyle: Scarlett Johansson is the new face of Bono's RED project.
The Hollywood star has agreed to front the campaign to raise awareness and funds to fight Aids, TB and malaria in Africa. The actress told Style magazine:" It really works. I am an American Express Red cardholder and I'm putting everything on it now.
read on: femalefirst
:: Regina O'Numb 2/28/2006 02:49:30 PM [+] ::
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No Stress, Bono!
There's been a great vibe amongst Argentinian fans ahead of the Buenos Aires shows tonight and tomorrow. Outside the hotel where the band are staying, hundreds of fans have been patiently waiting to greet their heroes - even coming up with a new chant:
'Ole, Ole, Ole, Ole Bono... Bono...' More than 500 fans have been crowding the barricades outside the hotel, even standing and sitting on each others shoulders to get a better view. And it's been worth the wait: late afternoon Monday, Bono turned up to meet and greet, receiving, unsurprisingly, quite a reception. (Total madness, would be a better description). 'Don't forget about the people downstairs!' came a voice to Bono, from one fan on his knees behind the barricades, holding another one aloft. When someone offered Bono a stress ball, he returned it, adding, with a smile, that he wasn't feeling stressed! Then he was given a mic, and expressed the thanks of the band for the passion of the Argentinian fans. 'Muchos gracias,' he said. 'I love this country!' 'Uno, dos, tres ...' he added.'Cartorce!' came the response, ringing out across Buenos Aires.
read on: U2.com
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The passion for U2 makes lines at River
The fans are camping around the River Plate stadium. The gates will open at 3:00 p.m. The Police will repeat the plan of the second Stones' show. watch the fans on the lines.
look for the fans
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How will be the shows in Argentina...
In Mexico Bono sing 'Cielito Lindo' and 'El Rey'; in Brazil he said 'Go to the the hexa (the 6th championship of Cup World) and 'U2 is Irish and God is Brazilian'; in Chile Bono said the Chile is an example to Latin America and he wait the advance of Human Rights. What surprise he will have to Argentina...
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U2 arrived to renew their fidelity with Argentina
The 15.000 tickets that were on sale, sold-out, less than 4 hours.
look for Bono
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"we go in for the kill in Buenos Aires"
Apparently, U2 is doing the Buenos Aires concerts on March 1st and 2nd as a 3D HD (three-dimensional high definition) film shoot, with plans to produce an IMAX film. According to Definition Magazine, they're using gear provided by Pace Technologies, which has Titanic, The Abyss, and several other Hollywood blockbusters on its portfolio. Also involved in the production is 3ality, a company which specializes in 3D viewing ... get this ... that doesn't require any special eyewear. Freakin' cool! Word is that all of the shows so far on the 4th leg are testing grounds for the cameras/technology, and that the Buenos Aires shows will be shot with nine (9) 3DHD cameras & crews."
:: Regina O'Numb 2/28/2006 02:13:54 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: "The Old Grey Whistle Test" / "War" is released / starts "ZOOTV" tour / Chevalier of Legion of Honor.

"Boy" tour - february 28, 1981. The band perform three songs on BBC's longest running rock show, "The Old Grey Whistle Test": "I Will Follow", "The Ocean", and "11 O'Clock Tick Tock". Days after the show, U2 would return to North America to start the next leg of the "Boy" tour.

"October" tour - february 28, 1982. U2 perform in Fort Collins, Colorado at the Colorado State University Lincoln Community Center.

"War" is released - february 28, 1983. U2's third album, War, is released and goes to #1 in the UK. The album cover causes a furor over child-pornography. U2 perform in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Playhouse. Of the album name, Bono explains, "War seemed to be the motif for 1982. Everywhere you looked, from the Falklands to the Middle East to South Africa, there was War. By calling the album "War", we're giving people a slap in the face and, at the same time, getting away from the cosy image a lot of people have of U2....we want to convey a message of militant pacifism...like Martin Luther King."

"ZOOTV" tour - february 29, 1992. On Leap Year Day, the ZooTV tour kicks off with a gig at the Lakeland Arena in Lakeland, Florida. It is the first concert in North America since Tempe, Arizona, December 20, 1987. The stage consists of 6 Trabants, giant video screens and a catwalk. Cameras seem to be everywhere. After "The Pixies" performance, B.P. Fallon is introduced and takes his place in a seventh Trabant that acts as his DJ booth. After about 1/2 hour of music, B.P. leaves the Trabant, and it is also hoisted into the air. The house lights go dark, and the crowd roar. The show starts with Bono being hoisted up on stage on an elevator, with a test-pattern as the backdrop. He shouts, "Wheyhey, I could have lost you, I could have lied to you," repeatedly while the rest of the band take their place. The show starts with "Zoo Station", as all of the monitors on stage, the four vidi-walls and the lighting system light up simultaneously. The set is performed with great difficulty--U2 miss several cues, and the performance is not typical of U2. The show itself is almost an "Anti-U2" performance--U2 running from the persona the media has created for them. At the end of the show, many of the fans are confused--What has happened to U2? Have they sold out? At the end of this show, there is no chanting of "How long to sing this song?" from "40". Support is B.P. Fallon(who acts as DJ before the show begins) and "The Pixies".

"Bono honored by Chirac" - february 28, 2003. Bono is awarded Chevalier of Legion of Honor by French President Jacques Chirac during a visit to Paris. After receiving the award, Bono makes a rare public comment on the tensions and pending war in Iraq: "Tony Blair is not going to war for oil. Tony Blair is sincere in his convictions about Iraq," Bono said. "In my opinion he (Blair) is sincerely wrong."
:: Regina O'Numb 2/28/2006 02:13:40 PM [+] ::
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Edge´s "The Fly" on feb 21, 2006

Edge, I think this moment, on feb 21, was fabulous. This lucky girl was dancing beside you during "The Fly". I must confess: I would like to be her. If the performance of 'The Fly' during the first show was sensational, and really was (I was there, it was very very metal), including here, the fact of Globo TV made a great edition with the helicopter´s image...but the performance of the second show... you made some chords, some new chords during the all songs, which I report as priceless. "The Fly" were super. This girl made some air guitar moviment beside you during your solo, and both of you were growing and everything exploded with Larry´s punch-drummer-bomb on the final. My reverence Edge, for you. My congratulations to the lucky Edger. She did a great job, and you, you are fantastic. My dreams come true during 'The Fly'...I saw your metal portion, to let honoured Hendrix, there, in the satellite of love...
:: Regina O'Numb 2/27/2006 10:23:59 PM [+] ::
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U2 is in Argentina!

Earlier this morning U2 arrived in Argentina. Bono and Larry greet the fans in front of the hotel.
read on: clarin
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The last tickets are on sale in Argentina
The Argentinian organisation to U2´s show on march 1 and 2, released to sale, more tickets. By phone: 5237- 7200, by internet: www.tickettek.com.ar and in their shopps in Argentina. Baja preferencial (250 pesos), platea alta (150 pesos) and campo (150 pesos).
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U2´s 'Vertigo' shakes Argentina
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Watch U2´s arrival in Argentina:
tn24hs // stn
:: Regina O'Numb 2/27/2006 10:22:19 PM [+] ::
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Edge about Sao Paulo II: "wowww! Unbelievable!"
...Bono says: "Congratulations cause Salvador. The secrets must be discovered. Rio de Janeiro doesn´t have more secrets. Bahia still have." Guitarist The Edge agrees: "Salvador seems much more beautiful than Sao Paulo. Despite I didn´t go off the hotel in Sao Paulo. There were many fans in front of the hotel.' He affirms that 'the first show (at Morumbi) was excellent. But the second...wowww! Unbelievable. I don´t know why, but there were something different.' Bono want coffee. Edge, during two times went to the kitchen to take a cup. He didn´t seat. He prefers to talk with the guys during the dinner...from Folha de Sao Paulo about U2´s visit to Bahia, on feb 22, 2006, at Gilberto Gil´s home - look for some photos and the atmosphere of this dinner
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President Lula thanks Bono for the guitar for auction to support Hungry Zero in Brazil
On feb 21, Bono hands over a guitar for one of the Lula´s sons. This guitar will be auctioned and the proceeds for programe Hungy Zero. President reported this in his radio programe called 'Café com o Presidente' (on feb 27).
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Photos from Clayton´s Garden!
JuClayton and her 'gang' on feb 21 // sensational Bono´s photo - taken by JuClayton - feb 21
:: Regina O'Numb 2/27/2006 10:02:08 PM [+] ::
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Presidents, Poets and Pop Stars
Two special awards ceremonies happened Sunday, ahead of the show in Santiago. Chilean President Ricardo Lagos told Bono he should learn to play the 'charango' on awarding him the 'Pablo Neruda Artistic and Cultural Merit Medal' while later in the day President-elect Michelle Bachelet presented the band with Amnesty International's 'Ambassadors of Conscience' award. Edge took up the challenge and played the charango in the show. When Bono received the Pablo Neruda Medal from President Ricardo Lagos at La Moneda presidential palace yesterday afternoon, he also gave him a gift of a traditional Andean instrument known as the 'charango'. 'When we were talking before, Bono told me that one must study throughout one's life,' said the President. 'So for his next concert here, I hope he's learned how to play the charango.' Edge of course is a quick learner: a few hours later and he was playing the same charango onstage in front of 80,000 Chileans as the band performed an acoustic version of Mothers of the Disappeared, a song they wrote for the 'disappeared' victims of torture under the regime of the dictator Augusto Pinochet. The arts medal, which followed a citation by the Minister for Culture Jose Weinstein, is named after late Chilean Nobel Prize laureate Pablo Neruda, someone Bono has long been an admirer of. 'He moved me very much,' said Bono, who described him as a 'complex poet' who taught him that the rhyme for poverty is not charity but justice. It was 'extraordinary', he added, 'to be back in Chile after eight years and see how much it has changed.' Later that night, onstage, he picked up the theme, eight years to the month since the band were last in the country, remarking that 'the world can see that Chile is on a journey towards greater equality.' Just before the show and another President, this time President-elect, Michelle Bachelet, the country's first women leader, was backstage at the Estadio Nacional to present Amnesty International's 'Ambassadors of Conscience' award to the band and Paul McGuinness. 'You are a reminder to all of us that the world is not changed only by politicians and governments,' said the President Elect, who was herself a political prisoner in the 1970's. 'The world is changed by all of us.' Amnesty said it was recognition for a band who have for so long been using their music and celebrity to champion human rights causes. Responding to the award, Edge pointed out that the band are remain selective about their charity work but 'have been behind Amnesty International for 25 years.' Today, he said, they were seeing 'a miracle of change in your country', human rights is now on the agenda and 'Amnesty has been part of the revolution in Chile.' And there was another step to take, added Bono: 'There are still people in this country that are silent and they are sick with their secrets ... And I would just say to them, this is the moment, the beginning of the new Chile to set yourself free from those secrets and come forward.' The show itself was incredibly moving, summing up the way that Chile has embraced the band. When the opening chords of Mothers of the Disappeared broke into the night air, the response was spine-tingling. 'In the wind we hear their laughter / In the rain we see their tears. / Hear their heartbeat, / we hear their heartbeat.' Paul McGuinness, who has seen more U2 shows than anyone, called it 'one of the very best - the band were on top form and the crowd outstanding.' Bono visited the Chilean Embassy in Dublin a while back in a precursor to this Award ceremony. If you are a U2.Com Subscriber you can check out this archived news story, along with thousands of others, here. More on the Amnesty Award here.
U2.com

:: Regina O'Numb 2/27/2006 04:20:29 PM [+] ::
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116th SHOW - 'VERTIGO' TOUR - SANTIAGO - FEBRUARY 26, 2006
Pride in the name of Chile
Quite a day in Santiago and a special show to end it at the Estadio Nacional, complete with Edge playing the charango and the band performing Mothers of the Disappeared. Reports and photos on the way, meantime here's the set list. City of Blinding Lights / Vertigo / Elevation / Until the End of the World / New Year's Day / Still Haven't Found / Beautiful Day / The First Time / Sometimes You Can't Make it on your Own / Love and Peace / Sunday Bloody Sunday / Bullet The Blue Sky / Miss Sarajevo / Pride in the Name of Love / Where the Streets have no Name / One / Zoo Station / The Fly / Mysterious Ways / With or Without You / Mothers of the Disappeared / Yahweh / All I Want is You.
read on: U2.com
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Edge plays during 'Mothers Of The Disappeared'

Early in the day, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos gives Bono a traditional Chilean instrument called a Charango. Shortly before the show, Bono visits with relatives of political dissidents who disappeared during the rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. That all comes together during tonight's concert when Bono and Edge -- playing the Charango (similar in appearance to a small guitar) -- perform 'Mothers of the Disappeared' for the first time since U2's last show in Chile in 1998. Bono toasts 'the new Chile' with champagne at the end of the show. Lagos and President-elect Michelle Bachellet are in attendance. 'All I Want Is You' as the closer
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The highlight: Edge playing during 'Mothers Of The Disappeared'!
U2 arrived at 5:00 p.m.; at 6:00 p.m. happened a reunion to "The Ambassadors Of Conscience Award".
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U2 enchant 80.000 fans!
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President Ricardo Lagos was at the stadium and was applauded by the crowd
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Bono made 'olimpic round' by car at Constitucion square to greet the fans
After to receive the honor of the president at La Moneda palace.
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Photos
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Watch
CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS // VERTIGO // the arrival of Adam in Chile / the arrival of U2 in Chile / the arrival of U2 II / Bono and president Ricardo Lagos / Bono and president Ricardo Lagos II


:: Regina O'Numb 2/27/2006 01:11:00 PM [+] ::
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Human rights honour given to U2 - Rock band U2 have been honoured by human rights group Amnesty International at a ceremony in Chile.

U2 have promoted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Irish band's four members were named Ambassadors of Conscience at the National Stadium in Santiago de Chile. Amnesty International secretary general Irene Khan praised the group, fronted by anti-poverty campaigner Bono. She said: "Their leadership in linking music to the struggle for human rights and human dignity worldwide has been groundbreaking and unwavering." * 'Inspired millions' * "They have inspired and empowered millions with their music and by speaking out on behalf of the poor, the powerless and the oppressed." U2 were also praised for their efforts to promote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has been featured prominently at all U2 concerts on their current world tour. The Ambassador of Conscience award aims to promote the work of the human rights group through the example of its ambassadors. Previous winners include the first president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, and former Irish President Mary Robinson. The band chose to collect their honour at the National Stadium to remember those killed following a coup led by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973. Last week U2 played to about 150,000 fans in concerts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Frontman Bono visited Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and donated a guitar for auction to benefit his Zero Hunger anti-poverty programme.
read on: bbc
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2005 Ambassadors of Conscience
U2 have sung themselves to where great singing comes from, that place where art and ardency meet in the light of conscience. Seamus Heaney
read whole article on: artforamnesty
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"The greatest piece of literature in the world."
Band member Edge has been quoted as saying that they regard the Declaration (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) as 'the greatest piece of literature in the world'
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Photos
gettyimages
:: Regina O'Numb 2/27/2006 01:00:07 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: "One" live for the first time / "MLK" to Hutchence in Sydney / U2 win 4 Grammys / Edge pays tribute to Christy Moore.

"October" tour - february 27, 1982. U2 perform in Denver, Colorado at the Rainbow Music Hall.

"War" tour - february 27, 1983. U2 perform in Aberdeen, England at the Capitol Theater. Support is "The Nightcaps".

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - february 27, 1985. U2 perform in Houston, Texas at The Summit. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is played again with Bono improvising the second verse. Support is "Red Rockers".

"One" to TOTP" - february 27, 1992. U2 record a live version of "One" from a soundcheck in Lakeland, Florida for broadcast on "Top of the Pops". It is the first live performance of the song, and the first time that U2 are seen playing together live since January 10, 1990 in Rotterdam, Holland.

"POPMart" tour - february 27, 1998. Five years after recording "ZooTV: Live in Sydney", U2 return to Sydney, Australia, this time with POPMart. U2 dedicate the show to the late Micheal Hutchence, lead singer of Australian band INXS. The remaining members of INXS attend the concert, but do not join U2 on stage. Instead, Bono sings "MLK" for his close friend. At one point in the show, a fan climbs some 100 feet up a lighting tower in the middle of the stadium to watch the show, but is quickly brought back down by security. A lightning storm begins just as the concert ends with "One," and Bono calls for all the PopMart lights to be turned off -- the final song is performed in complete darkness, save for Mother Nature's display above and a crowd full of lighters below.

"U2 picks up four Grammy Awards" - february 27, 2002. At the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, U2 earns four awards: RECORD OF THE YEAR - "Walk On"; POP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL - "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"; ROCK PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL - "Elevation"; and ROCK ALBUM - All That You Can't Leave Behind. Combined with the three awards last year for "Beautiful Day", this makes seven Grammy Awards for one album. It also increases U2's career total to 14 Grammy Awards. The band opens the 3.5 hour show with a live performance of "Walk On." ...When they came back for a fourth award -- rock album of the year, for All That You Can't Leave Behind -- U2 guitarist the Edge tried to get a word in. "Some very special things have also happened to me," he attempted to say. But Bono snatched the microphone, explaining: "He's a guitar player. I do the talking." Edge´s moment...spa´s ticket...

The Edge pays tribute to Christy Moore - february 27, 2004. The Edge presents Irish folk legend Christy Moore with a lifetime ahcievement award at an industry party at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin tonight. "There is no one like Christy Moore," Edge says. "It's only when you hear Christy that you really get it because the man is totally unique."
:: Regina O'Numb 2/27/2006 12:59:58 PM [+] ::
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Santiago is the city of blindng lights!

This night, will happen an extraordianry event, at National stadium, U2 will be honoured, they will received The Ambassador Of Conscience Award. U2 chose the venue in a poignant reminder of those killed following a coup led by General Augusto Pinochet 1973 as the stadium was turned into a place of detention, torture and death. Special Human Rights to a special night! Good luck Edge & Co. God Bless you all this night!
:: Regina O'Numb 2/26/2006 11:02:29 PM [+] ::
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Thanks Edge, to play "One" here in Sao Paulo with Music Rising guitar!
:: Regina O'Numb 2/26/2006 10:54:54 PM [+] ::
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Bono, for his contribution to arts and culture

Irish Rock star Bono, received a decoration presented to him by Chilean president Ricardo Lagos, for his contribution to arts and culture, in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Feb. 26. 2006, at La Moneda Presidential Palace. Bono and his band U2 were in Chile for as part of their Vertigo concert tour. Chile's President Ricardo Lagos (L) gives a small guitar to Bono.
read and see more photos on: yahoo / gettyimages
:: Regina O'Numb 2/26/2006 09:01:28 PM [+] ::
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Amnesty International award for U2 Sunday
Irish rock legends U2 have added another award to their collection as they were named Amnesty International Ambassadors of Conscience for 2005 at a ceremony in Chile. The iconic band, fronted by debt relief campaigner Bono, were given the honour by Chilean President-elect Michelle Bachelet in the National Stadium in Santiago de Chile. U2 chose the venue in a poignant reminder of those killed following a coup led by General Augusto Pinochet 1973 as the stadium was turned into a place of detention, torture and death. Irene Khan, Amnesty International's secretary general, said U2's efforts to highlight human rights' abuses had been unwavering. "Their leadership in linking music to the struggle for human rights and human dignity worldwide has been ground-breaking and unwavering," she said. "They have inspired and empowered millions with their music and by speaking out on behalf of the poor, the powerless and the oppressed." The Ambassador of Conscience Award, inspired by a poem written for Amnesty by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, aims to promote the work of Amnesty by association with the life, work and example of its Ambassadors. Other previous winners include the first president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel, and former Irish President and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson. U2 were also praised for their efforts to promote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which has featured prominently at all U2 concerts on their current Vertigo World Tour.
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U2 in Chile
Hundreds fans waited for U2 at International Airport of Santiago, Chile. U2 arrived at 10:00 p.m. Franz Ferdinand, also arrived. Bono, Edge and Larry went to Hyatt hotel where Adam was waiting for them. Adam flew from Miami. "Thank you so much cause you´re here" said Bono to the fans.
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Fans / lines / Pablo Neruda honor / Ambassadors of Conscience!
Fans sleeping since yesterday to get a good place at inner circle. During this morning U2 will check the sound at stadium, aand Bono will receive in La Moneda, by President Ricardo Lagos the Cultural Honor Medal Pablo Neruda. At 6:00 p.m. at National Stadium U2 will receive by Amnesty International, the prize Ambassadors Of Conscience, which will have too, the elected President Michelle Bachelet. Dress room of U2 has an exhibition of photos and steal sculpture. Hours after the show, U2 will fly, leaving Chile.
look for Bono arriving in Chile / fans on the lines / fans on the lines
read on: tercera
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U2 arrived greeting their excited fans
Adam Clayton was the first. Two hours later, arrived Bono, Edge and Larry. The crazy fans passed over the barries and embraced Adam. At the final of the uproar, Clayton was safe of 'so huge love' by the police. The other three arrived with more security than Adam. The band waved for the fans. Franz Ferdinand arrived at 11:00 p.m. Paul McGuinness arrived a day before to check the things at the hotel and in the stadium
look for Bono´s smile
read on: mercurio
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U2 in Chile: 'We waited so long for this moment'
Adam Clayton said: "Viva Chile!" and other members autographed to the fans.
read and see the photos on: lun
:: Regina O'Numb 2/26/2006 01:27:04 PM [+] ::
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Some videos - Sao Paulo!
City Of Blinding Lights - feb 20 / City Of Blinding Lights - feb 20 / Vertigo - feb 20 / Elevation - feb 20 / Until The End Of The World - feb 20 / New Year´s Day - feb 20 / Haven´t Found - feb 20 / Beautiful Day - feb 20 / Stuck In A Moment - feb 20 / SYCMIOYO - feb20 / LAPOE - feb 20 / Sunday Bloody Sunday - feb 20 / Bullet The Blue Sky - feb 20 / MissSarajevo - feb 20 / Pride - feb 20 / Streets - feb 20 / One - feb 20 / Interlude - feb 20 / Zoo Station - feb 20 / The Fly - feb 20 / The Fly - feb 20 / Mysterious Ways - feb 20 / With Or Without You - feb 20 / All Because Of You - feb 20 / Original Of The Species - feb 20 / 40 / 'With Or Without You - feb 21 / Bono / Elevation - feb 21
:: Regina O'Numb 2/26/2006 12:57:46 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: U2 at National Boxing Stadium to get the first deal / Edge´s vocal debut during the show with "Seconds" + "Like A Song" + the start of a long tradition: U2 closing a show with "40," with Edge and Adam swapping instruments / U2 win at Brits 2001.

"Early Ireland" - february 26, 1980. Dublin, Ireland - U2 closes out month-long Ireland tour at the National Boxing Stadium, which holds 2,000 people. About 1,000 people actually show up. Their second single "Another Day" is released in Ireland on CBS and U2 play a sold-out show in Dublin's National Boxing Stadium at the end of a tour to promote it. The gig is recorded by RTE for telecast later in the year. A week before the show, only 500 of the 2000 tickets had been sold -- U2 create a massive guest list which included family, friends, and nodding acquaintances. Bill Stewart later recalls, "Suddenly, in a burst of white light, four slight figures pounced on stage, picked up their instruments as if they were soldiers seizing weapons and tore into their first song with a deafening roar. It was electrifying. It was the first night I saw U2." Stewart would later convince Island Records boss, Chris Blackwell (who had signed Bob Marley, Traffic, Free, Mott the Hoople, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and other bands) to sign U2 instead of Spandau Ballet. During the next year, Island Records will issue 3 U2 singles and their debut album.

"War" tour - february 26, 1983. The "War" tour kicks off with a sold out gig at the Caird Hall in Dundee, Scotland. "Two Hearts Beat As One" is played for the first time in public. This shows marks Edge's vocal debut, as the band plays "Seconds." It's the first and only time U2 has ever performed "Like A Song." It also marks the start of a long tradition: U2 closing a show with "40," with Edge and Adam swapping instruments. Support is "The Nightcaps."

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - february 26, 1985. U2 perform in Austin, Texas at Frank Erwin Center. Support is "Red Rockers".

"'Outstanding Contribution to Music" award - february 26, 2001 - London, England - Earl's Court. One, Beautiful Day, Until the End of the World, Mysterious Ways. Brit Awards 2001 -- U2 performs at the show, wins the award for Best International Group, and receives the 'Outstanding Contribution to Music' award.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/26/2006 12:53:16 PM [+] ::
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Edge, you made my week! You´re amazing! I was totally distant, but it seems you were totally near me! Good luck for you & co. at the lands of the end of the world!
:: Regina O'Numb 2/25/2006 10:45:30 PM [+] ::
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Chile!
'Where Art and Ardency Meet...'
The band will be presented with Amnesty International's 'Ambassador of Conscience Award' by the Chilean President-Elect Michelle Bachelet ahead of tomorrow's show in Chile. The Award citation refers to the fact that for over two decades U2 have 'used their music and their celebrity to highlight and champion countless human rights causes. Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney says that they have 'sung themselves to where great singing comes from, that place where art and ardency meet in the light of conscience.' More on the award here http://www.artforamnesty.org/aoc/
read on: U2.com
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A fan inside Nacional stadium in Santiago, where U2 will play tomorrow. Look for here
:: Regina O'Numb 2/25/2006 07:17:04 PM [+] ::
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Exclusive Adam´s interview to Folha de Sao Paulo!
In exclusive interview to the Folha de São Paulo, Adam Clayton speaks on the leader of the band and the confusion in sale of the tockets "To be Bono is very difficult", says the bassist...
read whole English version of this interview on Clayton´s graden by JuClayton / scroll down to feb 23, 2006 * look for this wonder photo, taken by JuClayton, of course is Lord Adam Clayton in pure smile!!!! look for here * great work JuClayton, a genuine U2´s fan!

:: Regina O'Numb 2/25/2006 04:18:36 PM [+] ::
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U2 embark to Chile: 2 p.m. this saturday!
Look for the photos on: globo
Bono / Bono and Larry / Bono
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U2 follow to Chile and didn´t dance in trio Expresso 2222
Maybe, earlier this morning Bono, Larry and The Edge flew to Chile. Some sources say that Bono wanted a boat to see the party from the water. A boat was saw in front of the party (Oceanica avenue), during the night. All of this wasn´t confirmed. Other sources say that Morleigh was with Edge in Salvador. Ali was with Bono in Salvador. Anny was with Larry since Sao Paulo. JuClayton reports, that, maybe Adam was in Sao Paulo during all the time. Other sources say that Suzi was in Sao Paulo with Adam.
read on: terra
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Bono on U2´s shows in Brazil
"On truth I´m studious of the carnival, I saw similar things in Sydney, in Santa Cruz, but nothing like this. It´s much more intense, emotional. There thousands of young people dancing, singing and jumping, together, so close. It´s very punk-rock," said Bono. About the shows in Brazil, he said that the first was more intense and the second more relaxed. "I loved the second, much more relaxed, not TV, then, I wasn´t worryed to look for the camera. Now, it was funny when I spoke Argentina and everyone with 'boo' over me. I knew the rivalry in soccer, but I didn´t think which were a lot. Now, I´ll do the same in Argentina and I´ll get other 'boo' over me." Before Bono and Edge sing with Ivete Sangalo, 'Vertigo', Asa de Aguia, played 'With Or Without You' and the Banda Cheiro played 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'.
read on: ig
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U2 attend fans during their rest in Carnival - The people in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina are very passionate, very generous Bono had a conversation with fans on the 'edge' of the home where they stayed in Salvador, at Busca Vida beach. Bono signed his name, drew flowers, fishes to some fans. With a good sense of humor he drew moustaches and cigar over the photos of U2. The young student, Arthur Bastos Poli, 10 years old, got two autographs. Tamara Telles, 28 years old, who went at the 1st show in Sao Paulo, got Bono´s autoghraph in her ticket. Lucas Castro, 9 years old, met Edge at the beach on wednesday. "I saw Edge on the beach. I was distant, he called me, and asked for a friend to take a photo of us. He talked me about the they autographs on friday". Larry said to Folha de Sao Paulo, that the pursuit of the fans during their rest, could be, a boring thing, but he wasn´t upset cause this. "The people in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina are very passionate, very generous. The, it´s allright, I don´t care a lot (with the insistence)."
read on: uol
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Bono signs a shirt for Axe-project in Salvador
On wednesday night, Bono visited VIP Expresso 2222 and signed a shirt to a benefit auction, with preceeds to Axe project.
read on:ig / more about Axe project: the adolescent and child protection here
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Bono praises Ivete Sangalo and no talk about re-election of Lula!
Tomorrow I´ll post the whole interview, today, some highlights:
"It seems God´s smile" in Salvador, but the city is very hot. "Ivete is one of my favorites singers, now; and I just 'discover' her this week. I think she´s a great star and should be a great star in the world. She has an interessant mix between charisma and IQ. This is a great combination: body, mind and soul. When we have these three together with rhythm, this is Ivete." "This is just the start of some exploration (plans of U2 in Brazil). This is just a short visit. I think we must back, when nobody know we are here, to some holidays."
read on: paraiba
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Audio of "Vertigo' (Bono, Edge and Ivete Sangalo)
I think 'Vertigo' will be a hit this Carnival in Brazil. Really this live version, is a pure tribute by Ivete and Bahia´s people to U2. Sensational, fantastic. And Bono and The Edge respond in the same level, pure love to Bahia´s people, to Gilberto Gil, to Ivete Sangalo. Larry, too, respondes with his head-beat. I never saw these guys, mainly Edge so happy, dancing, waving. THis time of U2 in Bahia means a lot to me. Bahia is a very nice state. Actually, the true origin of Brazil is there, in terms of culture, folklore, rhythm, life style. Listen to 'Vertigo' from Carnival 2006 - U2 in Bahia, here
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A review of Sao Paulo´s shows by JuClayton:

In this photo, sh´s wearing red bandana..."...Vertigo ' assaulted the directions with the same energy that had ' Elevation ', -- in the horizon - ' The Edge'-... unhappyly the The Edge did not come close,no time... but the guitar of he entered for the veins... For to end the party day with key of gold ,in the front of the Morumbi,after the show of 21 feb...thus for a gift of the destine, of the life... I meet for the first time face to face with this that I consider a lot like a sister,my since ever friend... the great Regina O'Numb and his dear sister ...I think that some things in this life are wonderful epiphanies..." read whole review, by Juclayton. which is great on: Clayton´s garden JuClayton - scroll down on feb 23, 2006, to read - P.S. really was remarkable, I didn´t mark to meet out off the stadium, and 1 hour after the end of the show, we met JuClayton; she´s a sweet fan, a sweet friend, really it was a pleasure to meet her. Her family is so nice, too.
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Some amazing photos from the helicopter on feb 20
Morumbi stadium, a place called 'Vertigo' on feb 20and 21; look for on: estadao
:: Regina O'Numb 2/25/2006 01:00:53 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: "A Celebration" for the first time / a man pointing something to Bono / in Brisbane to Hutchence / Stuart Morgan is the bassist!

"October" tour - february 25, 1982. U2 perform in Kansas City, Missouri at the Uptown Theater. U2 perform "A Celebration" live for the first time, a song which U2 had recorded around Christmas fora UK single release on March 22.

"The Unforgettable Fire" - february 25, 1985. U2 perform the first date of the "Unforgettable Fire" Arena tour in Dallas, Texas at Reunion Arena. The stage no longer has the white backdrop used in Europe, and the concert is "in the round"--seats throughout the Arena are used, as speakers, etc, are attached to the ceiling of the arena. During "Gloria" a man in the crowd screams and points something at Bono, forcing security to react. Thinking the item was a gun, security mob the man and Bono interrupts the show, this time not angry at security, but at the man for causing the disturbance. Support is "Red Rockers".

"POPMart" tour - february 25, 1998. U2 perform in Brisbane, Australia. U2 perform MLK while images of Micheal Hutchence, the late lead singer of INXS are flashed up on the giant POPMart screen.

"Beat On The Brat" - february 25, 2002 / Dublin, Ireland - Hanover Quay Studio - NME Awards. Exact date of this performance is unknown. U2 wins an award for Best Live Act at the NME Carling Awards in London, and part of their videotaped acceptance is a live performance of The Ramones' 'Beat On The Brat.' Adam is not in attendance, so bass tech Stuart Morgan plays behind a cardboard cutout of Adam. The NME Carling Awards are known as the 'Brats.'
:: Regina O'Numb 2/25/2006 01:00:36 PM [+] ::
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Edge you left Sao Paulo behind on feb 22, and is leaving me so happy with your time in Salvador, full of glad moments. I´m very very happy to see your smileys, your dance. I love it. When you said THANK YOU, at the end of the show on feb 21 (in fact you were the last of the 4 who said), I made a pray: 'God Bless Edge and the guys. Please, Make them so happy, as I´m today. Plese, Back Twice to them all the great moments of these feb 20 and 21. All I want is U2, together the oxygen, the bloody pressure, the heart beating, the brain working...to have a great life!
:: Regina O'Numb 2/24/2006 10:06:49 PM [+] ::
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Bono, Geldof get Nobel Peace Prize nods
OSLO, Norway, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- U2 frontman Bono and former Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof were among the 191 nominees announced for the 105th Nobel Peace Prize. Both rockers have been nominated before, "Entertainment Tonight" said Friday. Bono was nominated this time around for his continuing efforts to ease world poverty while Geldof was honored for organizing last summer's Live 8 benefit concerts. Other notables on the long list are former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The winner will be announced in October and the prize will be awarded Dec. 10 in Oslo, Norway.
read on: upi
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Bono presents NME award to Geldof with four-letter tirade
Bono shocked the organisers of last night's NME Awards in London by delivering a tirade of four-letter words. The U2 frontman was introducing Bob Geldof, who won the Hero Of The Year Award, when he uttered the word 'f**k' a staggering 14 times. He said: "Bob Geldof has told me to f**k off perhaps hundreds, maybe thousands of times," before repeating the profanity over and over again. He concluded by saying: "Thank you very much for this award and to my friend who is picking it up in all our honour - f**k off."
read on: irishexaminer
:: Regina O'Numb 2/24/2006 09:58:24 PM [+] ::
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U2 in Bahia
'Everybody is a little Irish / And I´m a lot Brazilian'
Bono sings with Gil and Ivete Sangalo in Salvador - He didn´t jump on the trio eletrico, but is the main invited to Carnival in Salvador, which officially started yestarday. So smileys, he appeared at VIP area of Expresso 2222, at 10:00 p.m. when the trio where was Ivete Sangalo stopped in front of the place. She asked for Bono, who delayed 3 minutes to appear. He was very very applauded by the people and both sung 'Vertigo'. Bono too risks going to sing in a Brazilian music, repeating the expression 'chupa toda!', trying sing the music of Ivete, one of the mosy popular of this summer. Bono was accompaigned by Gilbeto Gil. During another performance he sung Bob Marley, and later, sung in samba rhythm 'Everybody is a little Irish / And I´m a lot Brazilian' (Todo mundo é um pouco irlandes/ E eu sou muito brasileiro). Expresso 2222, the VIP area, yesterday, exceptionally, hasn´t journalist; the space was open only to U2´s band and some inviteds, as Quincy Jones. Bono was with his wife, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen. U2 arrived in Salvador, wednesday afternoon, after to the reunion of 140.000 people in two shows in Sao Paulo, on monday and tuesday. On wednesday, participated of a dinner at Gil´s home. U2 stay in a prive place at north of Salvador, on Busca-Vida beach.
read on: uol
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'The Brazilians are very generous,' he said. 'They sure know how to throw a good party.' Carnival! - Edge, Larry and Bono showed up at rehearsals for the Brazilian carnival in Salvador yesterday. Edge was first on the scene, arriving during a performance from Yvette, the biggest selling recording artist in the country. Bono was hard on his heels,
greeted by the Culture Minister of Brazil, Gilberto Gil, and his wife Flora - and soon finding a microphone in his hand. As Yvette was singing a track called Vertigo, Bono knew the words and joined in... to the unrestrained delight of the huge crowds. When Larry arrived, the reception was also massive. 'The Brazilians are very generous,' he said. 'They sure know how to throw a good party.' Later the band decamped to a terrace overlooking the beach and for some time the locals were driving by the balcony singing familiar tunes including With or Without You and Sunday Bloody Sunday. Carnival is a traditional period of partying that begins today and ends on Ash Wednesday next week.
read on: U2.com
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U2 'stop' the Carnival in Salvador
Just only during some minutes. They waved to the people. Bono was with a yellow shirt (of Brazilian soccer team) on his hands and the fans loved it. When they arrived the people shout 'U2'. They had some celeb fans into Expresso 2222 as Henry Castelli, Ingrid Guimaraes and Dira Paes. U2 were invited by the minister of culture Gilberto Gil, to see the party on the town. Gil, too, appeared at the balcony e was very applauded by the crowd. The performance of Ivete received prestige by Larry Mullena nd The Edge. The police protected the place. They go out off around 11:30 p.m.
read on: terra
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Bono Rocks Brazil's Carnival
Bono Rocks Brazil's Carnival; Performs a Duet of 'Vertigo' With Brazilian Singer Ivete Sangalo - RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Feb 24, 2006 (AP) - Thousands of Brazilians took a break from samba to rock with U2 frontman Bono during Carnival celebrations in the northeastern city of Salvador. Bono performed an impromptu duet of "Vertigo" with Brazilian popular singer Ivete Sangalo as Carnival got underway in Salvador on Thursday, a day earlier than in Rio de Janeiro. While the highlight of Brazil's carnival celebrations is Rio's annual samba parade on Sunday and Monday nights, many people prefer Salvador's carnival, where giant sound trucks with bands on top jam the city's streets night and day. The U2 singer is attending Salvador's Carnival as a guest of Culture Minister and pop star Gilberto Gil. The O Globo newspaper reported Friday that music producer Quincy Jones was also attending Carnival as a guest of Gil. Bono sang the duet from Gil's private box that faces the avenue as Sangalo and her band performed from atop a sound truck. U2 played two sold-out concerts in Sao Paulo's Morumbi soccer stadium Monday and Tuesday nights. Bono is among 191 nominees, including politicians and peacemakers, for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. The Irish singer was proposed for his fight against world poverty. Bob Geldof, former leader of the Irish punk group the Boomtown Rats, is also among the nominees. Geldof was nominated for organizing last year's Live 8 benefit concerts.
read on: abcnews
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Impressions about Bahia
Women. Big waves. Sand on the foots. And the best food. These are the words to describe Bono´s impressions about Bahia. They eat: carne-de-sol, moqueca de camarao, peixe a mode de Ilheus, robalo.
read on: estadao
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Bono says Carnival is a tsunami
Bono says that is a tsunami of music, people, dance an beautiful women, during an interview this afternoon. "I never saw anything like this in alll my life. I think I never saw a lot of people in a so small place and I felt myself very secure', says the singer, while autographed shirts and caps to the fans. U2 passed the day in rest. The expectative is the members of the band will see the party this night over the truck of trio Expresso 2222, by minister of culture Gilberto Gil. The control of the entry of the house they stay is much more hard today. Bono wake up at 2:00 p.m. made a lunch with salads and fishes. Gilberto Gil arrived 30 minutes after and talked with the guys. Bono and Larry met some fans. " I have a wish, back every year to Brazil. I´ll talk to the people in Ireland, England and New York to come here," said the singer.
read on: uol
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Rumor...Bono prepares to stay in Bahia, one more week (?????)
This friday, he promised to be at the party of Filhos de Ghandi (sons of Ghandi) beside Gilberto Gil. Tomorrow, at the trio Expresso 2222. Next wednesday, he will go to the home of Paulos Borges in Arembepe.
look for Edge and Bono / Edge and Larry
read on: globo
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Watch 'No Woman No Cry' and Bono with Ivete Sangalo!
Bono with Ivete and 'No Woman No Cry' and 'No Woman No Cry' - with Edge making backing - Gil singing in portuguese
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Watch Ivete Sangalo singing 'Vertigo' to U2!
Is sensational....shake your body Edge...here
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Watch...what´s coming is much better...
Bono, Edge and Larry with Gilberto Gil...'ah, que Deus deu, ah que Deus dá' (ah that God Gave, aj that God Gives)...before 'No Woman No Cry'...Edge´s dancing so great, Bono so poetic changing the words of the lyrics (...What´s coming is much better...), and after Gilberto Gil sings his Brazilian version...of course, at the final, Bono thanks everyone...Edge autographs to the fans, Edge makes positive signs to the fans...HOW THEY´RE HAPPY!...here
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Watch Edge shaking his body during "Abalou"
Ivete Sangalo sung here
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Photos:
click on 'Veja as fotos!' here / yahoo
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Edge in action
I loved see Edge: took photos of Bono, dancing, making backvocals...he´s adorable in Salvador

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Videos to record - U2 in Bahia:
No Woman No Cry / A different angle and longer No Woman No Cry / Vertigo = thank you Viviana
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Today, terra will transmit the party live!
on: terra.com.br; click on CARNAVAL 2006 AO VIVO, at homepage.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/24/2006 01:20:19 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: at Balthus' funneral / makes the cover of TIME.

"Bono attends funeral of French artist Balthus" - february 24, 2001. Bono attends and sings at the funeral of French artist Balthus in the Swiss village of Rossiniere.

"Bono makes the cover of TIME" - february 24, 2002. Bono is on the cover of TIME magazine's newest issue, which arrives on newsstands today. The cover headline asks, "Can Bono Save the World?" and he is profiled in two articles that discuss his recent efforts to get industrial countries to forgive the debts of Third World nations and his advocacy for AIDS relief on the African continent. The issue is dated March 4, 2002. It's the second time Bono has appeared on the cover of TIME; he and the rest of U2 were pictured on the magazine's April 29, 1987, issue at the height of their worldwide popularity during The Joshua Tree era.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/24/2006 01:19:29 PM [+] ::
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Music Rising: The Benefit T-Shirt
(U2T38081) - Worn by Edge during U2's Grammy performance, this strikingly designed t-shirt is now available as a special charity fund-raiser. Features Music Rising design and logo on front, with small Music Rising web-address on sleeve. All proceeds from this T-shirt go to Music Rising, a charity which is replacing instruments lost by musicians after hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005.
view the larger image here
read on: fanfire

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it´s great see U2 in Bahia. The carnival of Salvador is really a popular moviment. This carnival is pure, different of the School´s samba. I wish the things inspire the band to back here, inspire the band in musical terms...how great are the rhythm in Bahia. The sun is fantastic, the people is nice. Have a glad time Edge and Co.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/23/2006 10:33:48 PM [+] ::
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Gilberto Gil offers a dinner to Bono in Salvador
The minister of culture, Gilbeto Gil and his wife Flora Gil, offered a dinner, last night, to Bono and the other members of U2, at the their residence, in Horto Florestal. It was a party to celebrate the 40th b-day of Nara, Gilberto Gil´s daughter. Gilberto Gil confirmed last week the preence of Bono at his VIP area, called expresso 2222, uring the carnaval.
read on: terra
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U2 ask for access to internet at the mansion where they´re in Salvador
They asked for computer and speed access to internet (4). The mansion where the band will stay during this time is in Lauro de Freitas, a region of Salvador. Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry will be the party at camarote Expresso 2222, invited by minister of culture Gilberto Gil.
read on: terra
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U2 over the 'trio elétrico Expresso 2222'
Next friday, they, probably will be over the 'trio elétrico' (a sort of truck with stage and sounds). Band TV will transmit it...
read on: band
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Carnival of U2
At the airport, reverence, applauses and discret fans. "The Carnival begins now!". "O Carnaval começa agora!" This was the first public declaration of Bono, U2´s singer, after the arrival in Salvador. Bono, Edge, Larry, Adam and 40 people were received with applauses at International Airport Luis Eduardo Magalhaes. They disembarked around 6:30 p.m. (feb 22), from their 'Vertigo' plane. Very nice, Bono was the 1st to appear at the door of the plane. edge and Bono went to the operational part of the airport to greeting each one of the workers and some fans. As, this part of the airport is totally prive, the embraces, photos happened in a very calm way. The unique official info is that the band will see the carnival, thursday night, at Expresso 2222. The minister promissed offer a dress typical of Filho de Gandy to Bono wear at the party.
read on: correio da bahia
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from the winds in Salvador...
On the entry of Gil´s mansion, the white Van was received by 150 people who live at the place, the vast majority, childrens. The first to go out off was Edge, which spontaneously, gave the hands to the kids. An student, stayed totally numb after it. After Bono gives the hand almost all the fans who asked him. Discreet, Adam and Larry went directly to the home. The producer Michael Coppel and Edge deny any possible show in Salvador. Bono said that he would like back to the city to a show.
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U2 on the cover!
on atarde
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Bono to celebrate carnival in Brazil's Salvador
SALVADOR, Brazil (Reuters) - U2 frontman Bono and DJ Fatboy Slim are among the foreign celebrities joining Carnival festivities in Salvador, northeastern Brazil, one of the world's biggest street parties. The Salvador Carnival, which takes place in the heartland of African Brazil, gets less fanfare internationally than the Rio de Janeiro bash but is just as popular in Brazil. Between 1.5 million and 2 million people are expected in the city as celebrations get under way. Unlike Rio, where the main attraction is the samba school parades in a special venue, the action in Salvador takes place on the streets. Crowd of revellers follow "trios eletricos" -- bands playing on top of huge trucks with walls of speakers that wind round a 26 km (16 mile) route through the city. Bono was due to watch the fun on Thursday night in a VIP area with Brazil's Culture Minister Gilberto Gil, also a famous singer in his own right. Local media speculates that Bono could join Gil on Friday on his own trio eletrico, Expresso 2222. Bono and his bandmates have been in Brazil since last weekend, playing two shows in Sao Paulo for around 150,000 fans on Monday and Tuesday. He visited Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and promised to donate a guitar for auction to benefit Lula's Zero Hunger campaign. Fatboy Slim, or Norman Cook to his mother, will play above a "trio eletrico" on the last night of the party next Tuesday, mixing his electronic sounds with the local "axe" music. The Carnival Queens include Brazilian singing stars Ivete Sangalo, Daniela Mercury and Margareth Menezes.
read on:reuters
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Bono Praises Brazil's Anti-AIDS Campaign - in Salvador
Bono Praises Brazil's Anti-AIDS Campaign After Playing Two Sold-Out Concerts - RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Feb 23, 2006 (AP)¿ Brazil's government has given a packet of condoms and anti-AIDS information to U2 rock star Bono, who praised the country's anti-AIDS campaign. Bono received the kit at a dinner Wednesday with Culture Minister and pop star Gilberto Gil in Salvador, a coastal city some 750 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro, the Health Ministry said Thursday. "Bono said he is involved in (anti-AIDS campaigns) like this, and has sought to learn more about the question of AIDS in Brazil," Gil said in a statement. U2 played two sold-out concerts in Sao Paulo's Morumbi soccer stadium Monday and Tuesday nights, and Bono is expected to spend Carnival in Salvador as a guest of Gil. Brazil's Health Ministry plans to distribute 25 million condoms during Carnival, a traditional period of wild partying and sexual abandon that begins Friday night and ends theoretically on Ash Wednesday. According to the most recent official figures, 371,827 cases of AIDS have been registered in Brazil between 1983, when the first case was reported, and June 2005. Brazil is Latin America's largest country, with 185 million people. The government provides AIDS drugs free to about 160,000 patients.
read on: abcnews and terra
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Look for U2 and Bahia´s season...
Bono / Edge and Bono / Edge and Bono / Edge and Bono / Edge, Bono Gilberto Gil and Flora / Bono, Gilberto Gil and Flora / U2 arriving in Salvador / U2 arriving in Salvador 2 / Edge giving an autograph / Bono and Carlinhos Brown / Bono, Ivete Sangalo and Gilberto Gil / Bono, Gilberto Gil / Bono, Gilberto Gil, Daniela Mercury / Larry and Gilberto Gil / Larry, Gilberto and Flora Gil
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Look for a 'trio eletrico' in Salvador
on: terra
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Terra will transmit via web the Carnival in Bahia
The offical portal of Terra will transmit, since 7:00 p.m. the Carnival in Bahia, from VIP area of Daniela Mercury. There will be live transmition, videos with tme main moments, photos gallery. 90 hours of transmition in real time, for all the world. The Terra´s team will have: 35 people: journalists, photographs, filmmakers, technicians.
read on: terra
:: Regina O'Numb 2/23/2006 10:04:48 PM [+] ::
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Dancing Axe music!

After the show, on jan 30, 1998, Edge, Adam and Larry have a dinner at 'Leopoldo restaurant'; they arrived at 3:00 a.m., met Pele, which that time was the Minister of Sports. Edge danced Axe music (typical rhythm from northeastern Brazil, where they´re actually, at Gilberto Gil´s mansion). When started play 'É o tchan' (a very erotic music), Edge stopped. Adam Clayton went to a party at B.A.S.E club, organised by the Brazilian production of the shows at that time. Still at the dress room of Morumbi stadium, Edge invited a fan, Lilian Vituzzo, to go with them to the B.A.S.E.´s party, but an aunt of her was dead and she had to deny. So, Edge and Larry, didn´t go to the party. Adam stayed at the party for 20 minutes. - source: O Estado de Sao Paulo - feb 1, 1998 and ShowBizz magazine
:: Regina O'Numb 2/23/2006 09:58:09 PM [+] ::
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Franz Ferdinand talk about Edge, the shows in Sao Paulo
About the shows in Sao Paulo - major crowd the band had - Edge presented Franz Ferdinand to U2: "Edge went at our show in Dubllin with his daughter, one year ago, inviting us to make a show in Spain.
read on: uol
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Franz Ferdinand´s leader praises Bono
Alex Kapranos praises Bono: "It´s great play with them. They´re calm. Play with anybody as Bono is good cause exists a worry of him major than the music in his speech. Is this we like", afirms the singer Alex. Franz Ferdinand don´t make the same style of U2, but as the Irish, they, also want to spray their ideas. "We want make music to touch the people, make themto think"
read on: terra


:: Regina O'Numb 2/23/2006 09:03:18 PM [+] ::
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Ricardo´s photos of U2 in Sao Paulo - feb 20 / 21/ 22!
Ricardo D Trotta, the biggest U2´s fan in Brazil is sharing with Edge´s blog these photos some photos:
Bono looking for the crowd on feb 20
Bono looking for the camera on feb 20
Bono in the clouds on feb 20
Bono singing on feb 20
Brazilian flag on feb 20
SMYCMIOYO
Brazil´s dates
Edge on feb 20
Edge in the clouds on feb 20
Edge and the pedals
Edge playing on feb 20
Edge singing on feb 20
Irish and Brazilian flag in front of Grand Hayat hotel
Ricardo and friends on the line on feb 20
Morumbi stadium on feb 20 at morning
set list of feb 20
Ricardo and Neide Duarte from Globo TV on feb 20
Ricardo stayed at the same hotel of U2, just some floors down; this photo was taken by him, after the arrival of U2 at the hotel after the 1st show
hot area on feb 21
stadium on feb 21
cell-phones moment on feb 21
Larry leaving the hotel on feb 22
Bono leaving the Grand Hayat hotel on feb 22
Bono leaving the hotal when Ricardo asked him to an autograph and lovely, Bono turns and signs the cover of 'The Joshua Tree' on feb 22
Bono leaving the hotel on feb 22
trottaricardo@hotmail.com
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more on: gettyimages
:: Regina O'Numb 2/23/2006 03:38:05 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: U2 return after the houselights have gone / the first time any member of U2 has sung at the Grammys!

"October" tour - february 23, 1982. U2 perform in Champaign, Illinois at the University of Illinois Auditorium. Support is "Combo Audio". Bono grabs a camera from a photographer in the front to capture the audience on film. Just as in Dallas and Minneapolis, U2 return after the houselights have gone on to surprise the audience with "Southern Man".

"The first time any member of U2 has sung at the Grammys" - february 23, 1999. Bono appears the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles to sing "Lean on Me" with Kirk Franklin, Mary J. Blige, and others. Franklin's song is nominated in the "Song of the Year" category, but does not win. Bono's performance marks the first time any member of U2 has sung at the Grammys.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/23/2006 12:04:55 PM [+] ::
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The 2nd show of U2 in Sao Paulo, was super. I think the first show was a 'impecável' = perfect show. The 'Vertigo' tour show, properly, with all the stuff which transformed this tour as the best thing on the planet. This second, to myself was the Brazilians asking for U2 never more forget us, under the Equador line. Was, maybe a pain, to let get U2 away...We waited for so long 8 years, and many many things were as clouds in the horizon, before the confirmation of the shows. The 73.000 voices in the stadium were shouting...please, U2, back to Brazil, as soon, as possible...Particularly to me, I have only the two shows with Edge, cause he wasn´t here, all the time, I think he was filming in Mexico or L.A., and maybe (again) to his 'A Day In A Life Of Edge'...I didn´t meet him; I wasn´t at hot area; I was very distant of him; I didn´t see his eyes this time, as I did in 1998. Some lucky fans met Edge, and for what I know they had a great conversation with him, with laughs. During the show Edge played as a young guitarist, full energy, During 'The Fly' beside a fan, he was a killer guitarist. I think he played some specal chords this feb 21. As I was very distant of him, I just felt that Bono, for one time, looked for the place that I was and he walked in that direction waving, singing...that time, maybe one or two seconds, I felt that Bono was offering me one or two seconds of pure love. Thanks U2 for 'All I Want Is You', 'The First Time', 'Desire'...how special references for this unforgettable day. And we sung louder than Bono during some songs, cause all we want is U2. THANK YOU SO MUCH GOD, CAUSE U2 EXISTS!

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:: Regina O'Numb 2/22/2006 11:10:52 PM [+] ::
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115TH SHOW - 'VERTIGO' TOUR - SAO PAULO - FEBRUARY 21, 2006!
All I Want is Sao Paulo
The band mixed it up again tonight, for the second show in Brazil, with The First Time and All I Want is You in the set and even a snatch of Love Rescue Me. Here's what they played, more to follow. City of Blinding Lights / Vertigo / Elevation / Until The End of the World / New Years Day / Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Beautiful Day / The First Time / Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / Love and Peace / Sunday Bloody Sunday / Bullet The Blue Sky / Miss Sarajevo / Pride in the Name of Love / Where the Streets Have No Name / One - Zoo Station / The Fly / Mysterious Ways / With or Without You - Yahweh
All I Want is You/Love Rescue Me.
read on: U2.com
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U2 invite the fans to a prive party (cause there´s no TV transmition)
The show started with 20 minutes of delay. Bono brings two girls on stage today: one during 'Desire' to play guitar, and as she didn´t play, Edge and Bono play for her "Desire", another during 'Zoostation' and 'The Fly' danced a lot, and as Edge was playing his solo on 'The Fly' she was making her air guitar beside Edge, simply fantastic Edge. Da Bomb Larry´s power finishing the song. Bono thnaks Quincy Jones for his presence at the both shows, and minister of culture Gilberto Gil who was watching the 2nd show. Bono thnaked Lula, and said that Brazil can count him in. Bono invite the fans to a prive party, cause this show on feb 21, there´s not transmition by TV.
o globo
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Bono and Edge play 'Desire' for a fan!
Desirê Thomé Pedroso, 22 years old, from the south of Brazil, had a bandana writen 'let me up'. Bono asked her if she plays guitar, and she doesn´t it. She told him that she knows to sing ("I prepared myself for this moment, when I wrote 'let me up' in my bandana', she says to the journalist). After this, Bono asks Edge to play some chords of 'Desire' and made an incredible homage to her. She, of course, thanks the guys, kissing Edge and Bono. She´s trying to be an actress. uol
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Brazilian crowd sang louder than Bono!
Goodbye Brazil - Last night Morumbi Stadium was filled with 70,000 Brazilians, but 20,000 more without tickets listened to the show outside the stadium in the rain. They just wanted to be there to say goodbye to the biggest band on the planet. Bono brought two girls to the stage, one during 'Desire' (she stole a kiss from Bono and The Edge) and one during 'Mysterious Ways.' The highlights of the show were during 'Pride' and 'Where the Streets Have No Name,' when the audience sang louder than Bono. The setlist was full of surprises." by Celeste on: u2log
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Bono thanks Minister Gilberto Gil who was at the attendance
read and look for him on: globo
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Surprises: what setlist - debut of 'Desire' on 'Vertigo' tour / the first time of 'The First Time' in stadium and the first time of 'All I Want Is You' ending a show ...!!!!!!!!!!!
Vertigo Tour debut of Desire. The first performance of The First Time in a stadium. At the end of All I Want Is You, Bono included a snippet of Love Rescue Me, a song last played on 10 January 1990. This is the first time All I Want Is You has ever closed a concert.
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Snippets:
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Brazilian version to Cielito Lindo (snippet) - Beautiful Day / Blackbird (snippet) - Bullet The Blue Sky / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet) / The Hands That Built America (snippet) - All I Want Is You / Love Rescue Me (snippet)
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20.000 fans were out of the stadium without tickets
read on: terra
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Bono prepares the travel to Salvador (Bahia state)
The technicians will travel to Chile and Bono will travel, today to Bahia, but still stays in Sao Paulo. U2 stayed at Gran Hyatt hotel, at south of Sao Paulo. Maybe another member will travel together with him.
read on: uol
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U2 will disembark at this evening in Salvador
Their fly will directly to the Airport Luis Estevao Magalhaes, to avoid the press. They will stay in a home at Condominio Interlagos, 30 km distant of Salvador. Bono will dinner with the Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil. The singers Daniela Mercury and Ivete Sangalo will be there, too. U2 were invited to know the carnaval 3 months ago, by Gilberto Gil, who sent a letter to Bono. Bono aswered when they meet in Davos.
read on: globo
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U2 will make tourism in Salvador
Next thursday, the band will be at Camarote 2222, by Flora Gil, at Edificio Oceania, in front of Farol da Barra. If they like what they will se, they will repeat on friday.
read on: globo
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Franz Ferdinand record 2 tracks to next album in Sao Paulo
Franz Ferdinand spent their free time to record 2 tracks to their new disc at Trama records in Sao Paulo.
read on: uol
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Photos
some photos on U2-Vertigo tour / uol


:: Regina O'Numb 2/22/2006 04:01:08 PM [+] ::
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Bono to Donate Guitar for Hunger Campaign - Bono Will Donate One of His Guitars to Benefit Brazil's Zero Hunger Campaign BRASILIA, Brazil Feb 20, 2006 (AP) - Bono will donate one of his guitars to benefit Brazil's Zero Hunger campaign, the government's official news agency said Monday. The guitar will be auctioned off after U2's concerts this week in Sao Paulo's Morumbi soccer stadium, according to Agencia Brasil. The Zero Hunger campaign's goal is to ensure all Brazilians have three meals a day by the end of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's presidential term Dec. 31. The rock star-activist met with Silva at the Granja do Torto presidential resort to talk about the government's efforts to reduce hunger and develop renewable energy sources. Lenny Kravitz donated one of his guitars to the Zero Hunger program last year, bringing in about $132,000 at auction.
read on: abcnews
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Look for this video-animation of Bono and Lula
This video is a critic for the president Lula, not for Bono. The journalist is using some words of U2´s musics to get the attention to the problems of our country and, too, to get the attention to that stupid live translation which happened during the Bono and Larry´s interview to Fantastico (live). watch on: uol
:: Regina O'Numb 2/22/2006 04:00:05 PM [+] ::
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Watch the little boy on stage with Bono in Sao Paulo 1 and the girl who kissed Bono!

He´s only 13 years-old, his name is Victor, he´s from Pernambuco, at northern of Brazil. He´s a huge U2´s fan as his dad. He admires Bono´s way as a rock star and as a activist. But he wasn´t born to the stage, he said. The girl who danced with Bono during 'Mysterious Ways' and 'With Or Without You' continues married, after her kiss on Bono´s lips.
watch these moments, use login=reggiereginaonumb / senha=dezembro, on: globo
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Audio from Sao Paulo 1
here and here
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Audio Sao Paulo 1
With Or Without You - Mysterious Ways - All Because Of You - Norwegian Wood on megaupload
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Watch Bono, he wishes Brazil win the Cup World
here
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Bono and U2 make party with Quincy Jones after the 1st show at Morumbi
After the show, U2 continued the night in a closed party, at Hyatt hotel, in Sao Paulo, with the producer Quincy Jones, who is in Brazil do the carnaval in Portela, invited by his friend, Naomi Campbell. The party has the performance of Izzy Gordon, a singer from Sao Paulo. She sung musics of his aunt Dolores Duran: "O Que É Que Eu Faço", "A Noite do Meu Bem" and "Estrada do Sol" this one writen with Tom Jobim. Bono and Jones cheers with the singer , who received praises for her performance of 'My funny Valentine'. The hotel and the Brazilian production made the party. Another party will happen after the second show of U2, with Izzy Gordon.
read on: uol
:: Regina O'Numb 2/22/2006 03:17:47 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY:

"October" tour - february 22, 1982. U2 perform in Madison, Wisconsin at Headliners. Support is "The Vers".

:: Regina O'Numb 2/22/2006 02:21:19 PM [+] ::
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Sao Paulo, my Sao Paulo, is the city of blinding lights, again!

It´s impossible describe what I felt yesterday when I listened to Wake Up.....God, my whole body was shaking and I wasn´t dancing. Where pure and true emotion, an emotion which was waiting so long just to see and hear U2 live in Sao Paulo. Absolutely EVERYONE is talking about U2 in Sao Paulo. It´s amazing, never here we had it. My nephew Enzo today watched 3 times the show which was aired yesterday. I´m sure, he´s a true U2´s fan. He´s talking using terms which only U2´s fans do. God, I´m crying now, writing and preparing the things to go to Morumbi. It seems we´ll have rain, but who does care with rain, when we have U2? This time, is the time of my life. Edge was on fire, fire, fire. He´s definitely the BEST GUITARIST ON THIS WORLD AND ON THE FUTURE, TOO. He jumped all the time. He´s impecavel (perfect). My dreams come true...see and hear Edge&Co. playing in my city of blinding lights! EDGE I LOVE YOU!!!! U2 I LOVE YOU!!!! See you later, from above, at Edge´s side on the stage, on red numbered seats. Good luck to all my friends there: JuClayton, Geisa, Ricardo, Patty, MalcomVox, FlavioVox, Mariana Lima, my sister Patricia...tomorrow we´ll have more...

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:: Regina O'Numb 2/21/2006 05:01:25 PM [+] ::
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114th SHOW - 'VERTIGO' TOUR - SAO PAULO - FEBRUARY 20, 2006!

On Camera, On Stage, Sao Paulo
The camera's were here tonight and the show went out on TV across Brazil. Quite a show too! Here's what the band played, full report on the way. City of Blinding Lights / Vertigo / Elevation / Until The End of the World / New Year's Day / Still Haven't Found / Beautiful Day / Stuck in a Moment / Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / Love and Peace or Else / Sunday Bloody Sunday / Bullet The Blue Sky / Miss Sarajevo / Pride in the Name of Love / Where the Streets Have No Name / One - Zoo Station / The Fly / Mysterious Ways / With or Without You - All Because of You / Original of the Species / 40.
read on: U2.com
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The show finished at midnight - a Brazilian version to 'Cielito Lindo'...ai, ai, ai...
2 hours and 15 minutes. U2 with clear reluctance to let the stage. 'Mysterious Ways' / 'With Or Without You' Bono and a fan: Bono puts down his head at her belly, Bono kissed her at the final of WOWY. Lula´s image appeared at the screen: beside Bush, and at the final when Bono thanks him, for the hospitality. Human Rights in Brazilian Portuguese language and 'global call against poverty' (chamada global contra a pobreza). Bono says 'Oi galera' (hello guys) during 'Elevation'. At the end of 'New Year´s Day' Bono says and lets the crowd crazyyyyyyy: 'Copa do Mundo, rumo ao hexa. U2 é irlandes. Deus é brasileiro' (World Cup, go to hexa. U2 are Irish, God is Brazilian). After 'Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' Bono starts singing "ai, ai, ai..." and the crowd respond "está chegando a hora, o dia já vem raiando, meu bem... (ai, ai, ai, is arriving the time, the day is shinning, my dear...) that is a Brazilian version to 'Cielito Lindo'. During 'Beautiful Day' the uppear seats shaked with the jump of the fans. During 'Miss Sarajevo' Bono lights a sign and bring a kid to stage to speak some words. Bono says 'telefone' (phone) and the crowd show the lights of the cell phones and 'One'. On the sreen images of Lula (who received booo by the crowd) and Ronaldo beside the World Cup tropheu. After the show, the crowd had the expression and comments of gladness, a great feeling of realization and comfort to have watched a show that made history in Sao Paulo.
read on: terra
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U2 make a religious celebation at Morumbi
Bono speaks about the reunin of the nations of Latin America during "Pride" (Brazilians fans boo Argentina´s name). The quality of the sounds was much better that the Stone´s sounds on saturday. The sharp guitar of The Edge sounded for all the stadium, giving as a present to the fans the virtuosism of the musician who created a proper style, mixing the use of the guitar as percurssion´instrument, when he 'bolt' the arm with left hand and stay 'beating' with right hand, til the multiple sounds using the delay, creating a power sound mass. Bono mentions a carnaval´s metaphora during 'One' - "I love Brazil, I love Carnival, because everyone crams together -- rich and poor, young and old, left and right. But to beat poverty, all of us have to work together, to act together."
read on:o globo
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End poverty, respect rights, Bono urges Brazil fans
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Irish rock group U2 gave a lesson in human rights and urged Brazilians to help end poverty in their country in a spectacular concert on Monday night at a Sao Paulo soccer stadium. About 70,000 fans packed the Morumbi Stadium for the eagerly awaited show and the band delivered with a two-hour performance that mixed hard-edged rock with high emotion. In a sequence of songs, lead singer Bono brought a political message to the crowd of mostly middle-class and wealthy Brazilians. During "Miss Sarajevo," a song inspired by the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, clauses of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were scrolled down in Portuguese on the huge digital screen behind the band. They then launched into "Pride," their tribute to Martin Luther King, the slain U.S. civil rights champion of the 1960s. Bono told the crowd: "Martin Luther King didn't just have an American dream, but an Irish dream, a Latin American dream ... sing for Peru, for Chile, for Argentina, for Brazil." The screen then lit up with a display of the flags of all Latin American nations. At the show's pre-encore climax with the song "One," an appeal for peace, Bono spoke over the music saying: "I love Brazil, I love Carnival, because everyone crams together -- rich and poor, young and old, left and right. But to beat poverty, all of us have to work together, to act together." Brazil suffers from a range of human rights problems from police brutality to sexual exploitation and has one of the biggest gaps between rich and poor in the world. President Luiz Inacio Lula, a former factory worker whose grassroots support lies with the poor, has launched programs to wipe out poverty and hunger and has promised social reform in the country of 185 million people. How much the message of peace and brotherhood got through was open to question. Mention of Argentina brought boos from the crowd. Some also jeered when pictures of Lula and U.S. President George W. Bush appeared on the screen. Bono ended the show with the appeal: "Pobreza Zero" (Zero Poverty), and thanked Lula for his hospitality. The singer, a high-profile social activist who has met frequently with world leaders to plead the case of disadvantaged nations, had flown to the capital Brasilia on Sunday to talk to Lula. He praised him then as a hero for his social stands. Bono will donate a guitar for auction to benefit Lula's Zero Hunger campaign, which aims to give all Brazilians three meals a day, the government's Agencia Brasil agency said on Monday. U2 will play a second show at Morumbi on Tuesday night before taking the "Vertigo" tour to Santiago, Chile, on February 26 and Buenos Aires on March 1 and 2.
read on: reuters
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The girl who danced with Bono
Her name is Katiuce, shw works in a bank in Volta Redonda, a city of Rio de Janeiro estate. She said: "I don´t know speak in English my language is the kiss". She´s married and her husband promissed here, if she danced with Bono and kissed him, the marriage was finished. He boughts the tickets for her.
uol
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Bono jokes with the Stones during "Elevation"
As the Stones played last saturday in Rio, Bono says "Agora é a nossa vez" ('Now, it´s our time'). Watch it here
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Watch U2, yesterday:
globo
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Watch from Sao Paulo 1
on: City Of Blinding Lights / Vertigo / Elevation
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Watch some huge U2´s fans in Brazil, inclusive my friend Ricardo
on: globo - username: reggiereginaonumb / password:dezembro
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Franz Ferdinand is very very applauded by U2´s fans in Sao Paulo
read and see the photos on: terra to see the photos cklick on "Veja Fotos"
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Photos:
uol / o globo - click on "As imagens da noite" / terra - click on "fotos" and "fotos ampliadas"


:: Regina O'Numb 2/21/2006 02:25:58 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: where U2 conceived "I Threw A Brick Through A Window"...link-your-arms dance... / Ali is thanked.../ support for Australian Native Title Rights at the concert / Beautiful Day picks up three Grammy Awards / Bono honored at annual MusiCares tribute!

"Boy" tour - february 21, 1981. U2 perform in Paris, France at Le Palace.

"October" tour - february 21, 1982. U2 perform in Minneapolis, Minnesota at First Avenue. Before "I Threw A Brick Through A Window" Bono explains that the song was conceived the year before in this very venue, as "Strange In A Strange Land." Bono invite a fan on stage for a joyful "link-your-arms dance" during "11 O´Clock Tick Tock", a gesture that will soon become a nightly ritual. U2 returns for a second encore, and plays "I Will Follow" for the second time that night.

"Ali Hewson & Chernobyl" - february, 21 1998. Ali Hewson is publicly thanked for her work in Chernobyl by the first ever Bellarussian Ministerial Delegation to visit Ireland. Ali Hewson is the Godmother of a 4 year old child from the region, named Anna.

"POPMart" tour - february 21, 1998. Melbourne, Australia. U2 does an extensive soundcheck prior to tonight's show in Melbourne. One of the more developed songs the band seems to be trying out includes a chorus that repeats the phrase "I don't know the way." U2 announce their support for Australian Native Title Rights at the concert.

"Beautiful Day picks up three Grammy Awards" - february 21, 2001. U2 wins all three Grammy Awards for which the song "Beautiful Day" is nominated at the 2001 show in Los Angeles. The song wins for "Song of the Year," "Record of the Year", and "Best Performance by a Rock Group or Duo with vocal." With tonight's awards, U2 now has 10 career Grammys. The band also performs the song, the first time U2 has ever performed at the Grammy Awards.

"Bono honored at annual MusiCares tribute" - february 21, 2003. Stars from music, fashion, television, sports, movies, and even politics gather in New York to honor Bono as the MusiCares 2003 Person of the Year. The event, put on by the Recording Academy, honors Bono for his musical and humanitarian achievements. The tribute includes a concert featuring other artists performing U2 songs, and ends with Bono and Edge taking the stage for a 3-song set of their own: That's Life, Night and Day, and The Hands That Built America.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/21/2006 01:25:10 PM [+] ::
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Sao Paulo, my Sao Paulo, is the city of blinding lights!

I wish JuClayton could join the band to 'Party Girl'...I wish Rose, Patty, Geisa could join Bono during 'Mysterious Ways'....I wish see a great show, from above. And Edge & Co., what night we´ll have, hein? THANKS GOD, THANKS GOD!!!!
:: Regina O'Numb 2/20/2006 02:45:21 PM [+] ::
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U2 IN BRAZIL - Exclusive interview to Folha de Sao Paulo - Adam Clayton talks about the leader band and the chaos of the ticket´s sale on jan 16th
Em entrevista exclusiva à Folha, Adam Clayton fala sobre o líder da banda e a confusão na venda dos ingressos
"Ser Bono é muito difícil", diz baixista
LEANDRO FORTINO
DA REPORTAGEM LOCAL
No U2, o microfone é certamente bem mais pesado do que o baixo. "Provavelmente, ser Bono é muito difícil", afirma o baixista inglês Adam Clayton, 45, em entrevista à Folha, a única que o U2 concedeu antes de deixar o México para apresentar os shows de hoje e amanhã em São Paulo.
"Há tantas coisas acontecendo com ele, todas as pessoas querem um pedaço dele, e ele tem compromissos com muita gente o tempo todo. Deve ser bem difícil ser Bono, principalmente porque esperam sempre muito dele."
Clayton pode até parecer o membro do U2 mais apagado, mas ele é o mais antenado. Conhece bandas novas, como a sensação inglesa The Arctic Monkeys, e procura novidades, tanto em jornais, como o "NME", como em rádios, como a BBC One.
A entrevista a seguir foi feita por telefone no intervalo das filmagens do novo vídeo da cantora americana Mary J. Blige, uma versão de "One" em que ela é acompanhada pelo U2. Clayton explica a confusão da venda de ingressos para os shows em São Paulo e tenta consolar os fãs que vão ficar do lado de fora do estádio do Morumbi nas próximas noites.
Folha - As pessoas estão se matando para ver o U2. É assim provavelmente por todos os lugares por onde vocês passam. Por que todo mundo quer tanto ver o U2?
Adam Clayton - É uma pergunta difícil de responder. Acho que cada um tem a sua própria relação com as músicas do U2. Nós temos esse público incrível que, quando se junta para ver a banda, tem essa relação pessoal com as nossas músicas, o que dá um espírito de união. Então, acho que é por isso e porque um show do U2 tem uma qualidade especial, a gente sempre traz uma produção inovadora e avançada, o que faz de nosso show uma experiência muito boa.
Folha - Você ficou sabendo da confusão que foi a venda de ingressos para os shows em São Paulo?
Clayton - Sim, ouvimos que houve uma dificuldade enorme para comprar ingressos. A informação que tivemos é que os promotores calcularam errado a demanda de ingressos para os shows. Não havia muitos jeitos de as pessoas comprarem ingressos de modo rápido. Quando os ingressos acabaram, talvez tenha sido difícil fazer as pessoas se dispersarem.
Folha - Muitas pessoas ficaram sem ingresso e algumas podem culpar a banda. O que você diria?
Clayton - A procura para os ingressos era muito alta mesmo. Nós e os promotores ficamos impressionados com essa demanda. Talvez tivéssemos de fazer mais shows no Brasil, mas, infelizmente, estamos agendados para apenas dois. Por isso vamos permitir que o show seja televisionado, para que as pessoas que ficaram sem ingresso possam, no mínimo, provar um pouquinho do show.
Folha - De qualquer modo, assistir a um show do U2 em São Paulo é uma tarefa complicada: primeiro, a dificuldade de comprar ingressos, depois os congestionamentos e as filas para entrar no estádio. Vocês pretendem recompensar o público de alguma maneira?
Clayton - Espero que, quando eles entrarem no estádio, esqueçam o quão difícil foi e saibam que estamos comprometidos em oferecer uma noite realmente boa.
Folha - Vocês pretendem fazer por aqui algo diferente dos shows da turnê "Vertigo"?
Clayton - Sempre mudamos a ordem das músicas. Acabamos de fazer três apresentações nas quais mudamos bastante. Ainda não decidimos como serão os shows no Brasil. Fazemos isso no próprio dia, por volta das 18h.
Folha - Nos shows da turnê "Vertigo" você está se movimentando mais pelo palco. Por quê?
Clayton - Passei a usar um retorno [caixa de som virada para o músico para que ele possa ouvir o que a banda está tocando] de ouvido, que muitos cantores usam hoje em dia, mas que eu nunca havia usado. Isso me dá mais mobilidade, porque eles te dão maior liberdade para caminhar.
Folha - Das outras vezes em que vocês estiveram no Brasil houve a oportunidade de conhecer o país?
Clayton - Sempre que fomos ao Brasil foi muito difícil de ver qualquer coisa, porque há muita gente à nossa volta. Então, a lembrança que fica é a que tivemos shows muito bons. O Brasil é um país incrível, mas só de ver as pessoas nos nossos shows já foi ótimo.
Folha - Vocês pretendem tentar visitar algum lugar desta vez?
Clayton - Não tenho certeza. Há um papo de irmos assistir ao Carnaval em algum lugar e outro de visitarmos Brasília, mas nada foi decidido. Há tempos queremos conhecer Brasília. Tomara que dê.
Folha - Bono provavelmente encontrará nosso presidente lá.
Clayton - Ouvi falar sobre isso.
Folha - Você ouviu falar também dos projetos sociais de Lula?
Clayton - Receio que não saiba muito sobre o governo do Brasil, mas certamente Bono sabe.
Folha - Por que você está sempre mudando a cor e o corte do cabelo?
Clayton - (risos) Eu fico entediado freqüentemente e quero apenas um visual diferente. Não quero parecer igual sempre.
Folha - Como está o seu cabelo agora?
Clayton - (risos) Meu cabelo está curto e natural, do jeito que sempre foi desde o começo da turnê.
Folha - Seria mais difícil ser um astro do rock se você fosse o Bono?
Clayton - Ser Bono é muito difícil. Há tantas coisas acontecendo com ele, todas as pessoas querem um pedaço dele, e ele tem compromissos com muita gente o tempo todo. Deve ser bem difícil ser Bono, principalmente porque esperam muito dele.
Folha - Certa vez Bono disse que você é o "jazz man" do U2. Por quê?
Clayton - Bono acha que eu trago algo diferente para o U2, em parte porque eu escuto as coisas de um modo diferente das outras pessoas. Gosto de músicas estranhas, não gosto apenas de música pop.
Folha - Você já pensou em cantar?
Clayton - (risos) Sim, já pensei, já cantei algumas vezes, mas, basicamente, não sou um bom cantor.
Folha - Como baixista, o que você traz para o som do U2?
Clayton - Eu escutava muitos discos da Motown [gravadora especializada em música negra que lançou artistas como Jackson Five e Diana Ross]. Mas, quando o U2 começou, havia bandas como Stranglers, Clash e Joy Division, e eu ouvia o que eles tocavam. Então, trago uma mistura de soul com punk, esse tipo de coisa.
Folha - Você ouve bandas novas?
Clayton - Sim, escutei essa banda inglesa do momento, The Arctic Monkeys, e achei ótima.
Folha - Você conhece o trabalho do Franz Ferdinand, que vai abrir o shows de vocês?
Clayton - Sim, ouvi os dois discos deles, e são excelentes. Também gosto muito do Secret Machines, que estão em turnê com a gente neste momento. Também gostei muito da dupla africana Amadu & Miriam.
Folha - Como você fica conhecendo novos grupos?
Clayton - Essa dupla africana foi apresentada para mim por Chris Blackwell [ex-dono da gravadora Island, que lançou o U2]. Muitos amigos indicam artistas e eu também leio os jornais, como "NME". Também pego novidades quando escuto a rádio BBC One.
Folha - Por que é importante para você ouvir músicas novas?
Clayton - Sempre gostei de ouvir coisas novas. Estou sempre mudando, ouvindo coisas novas, não gosto de ficar na mesma.
read on: uol
:: Regina O'Numb 2/20/2006 02:16:16 PM [+] ::
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Watch an interview with Bono and Larry! (Edge is in Sao Paulo)
Bono and Larry during an interview to 'Fantastico', maybe, one of the most popular programe of Brazil´s TV. The interview was live. Watch here - it´s free
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Globo TV will transmit U2´s show today
The show will start at 9:15 p.m. and will be transmit since 10:20 p.m. 250 technicians wll be involved, 12 cameras and a helicopter. Globo TV has the right to re-transmit this show, but there isn´t any conclusion about any date.
read on: uol
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"O Brasil é móito bounito, Bono-ito, Larry-ito'
During the interview to Fantastico, Bono spoke in Brazilian: "Brasil is very beautiful' = "O Brasil é muito bonito, Bono-ito, Larry-ito".
*The interview was very good. Bono spoke so cute in Brazilian Portuguese language.
read on: o globo
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Maybe Bono appeared at the window, this morning
Today, at 8:00 a.m. during a programe at Globo TV, the cover band of U2, called U2Brasil, was playing in front their hotel (at the car park of Globo TV which is in front of the hotel) and there were an image, which could be Bono looking for what was going on....I saw this one, maybe was Bono, I´m not sure. But U2Brasil, let the guys sleep!
read and see the photos of this cover band in front their hotal on: terra
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Watch Bono with the fans, with Lula...
...so sorry Bono, the media in Brazil, still calls you Bono Vox. watch here - is free
:: Regina O'Numb 2/20/2006 12:57:21 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: "POP" debuts on Irish radio show / Larry wins HotPress Award / Adam wins Gibson Award / Edge and Bono recording to The Today Show.

"Boy" tour - february 20, 1981 - Lyon / France - Ecole National Des Travaux.

"Fanning debuts POP on Irish radio" - february 20, 1997. 2FM DJ Dave Fanning gives the POP album its official world premiere and interviews Bono live in the studio. The event is also broadcast on the Internet from 2FM's web site with audio and video feeds available.

"Larry wins Hot Press/Rory Gallagher Award" - february 20, 1997.Larry Mullen, Jr. wins the Hot Press Rory Gallagher Musician Award at the Hot Press/Heineken Music Awards show in Belfast. Edge won this same award in 1996, the first year it had been given out.

"Adam Clayton honored at Gibson Guitar Awards" - february 20, 2001. Adam wins "Best Male Bassist" award at the annual Gibson Guitar Awards in Los Angeles.

"Bono and Edge recorded to The Today Show" - february 20, 2003. Bono and Edge recorded their appearance on NBC's popular morning program The Today Show. The pair are interviewed and perform 'The Hands That Built America'. The program will be aired six days later (February 26th).
:: Regina O'Numb 2/20/2006 12:57:02 PM [+] ::
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Edge, be welcome in my city of blinding lights!

:: Regina O'Numb 2/19/2006 09:47:17 PM [+] ::
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Bono, probably, will be interviewed live by Fantastico programe
U2´s so nice when arrived in Brazil - Bono step down the plane so smile and waving, followed for other members of the band. A lucky fan received an autograph and a long embrance of him. They arrived around 5:00 a.m. at International Airport of Cumbica, in Guarulhos. Thye were escorted by Military Police. They were at the morning in the hotel. (In fact Edge, still didn´t arrive) The back of Bono to Sao paulo, was marked to this night, when he, probably, will make a live participation at Fantastico programe, by Globo TV.
read on: o globo
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U2 singer Bono meets with Brazil's President Lula
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hosted singer and social activist Bono of the Irish rock band U2 for lunch on Sunday at his presidential retreat. Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, who became famous as a pop music star before joining the government, joined them. Local media quoted Bono as saying he wanted to discuss fighting poverty with Lula. U2, which performed in Brazil in 1998, will play two concerts on Monday and Tuesday in Sao Paulo. "Bono for president of United Nations," read the sign of one of many fans waiting outside the presidential retreat for a glimpse of the rocker. Bono has worked on poverty relief efforts and Lula's best known social program is called Zero Hunger.
read on: yahoo
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Lula dicusses with U2´s leader about biodiesel
Lula presented to Bono the project of biodiesel, which will permit the country to have with a renewal fountain of energy, which doesn´t pollute and create jobs. Biodiesel has as raw material seeds of mamona, girassol and soja.
read on: ofuxico
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Bono says that know Brasilia was one of his dreams
read on:folha
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Photos of the arrival in Sao Paulo
Here, they promisse that there are photos of the arrival in Sao Paulo, but I can´t open, if you have more luck, try: here - click on: Veja aqui as imagens da chegada
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Look for Bono and fans in Brasilia
here
:: Regina O'Numb 2/19/2006 06:31:06 PM [+] ::
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The venue: Morumbi

I´ll entry at gate 16 (a invalid person so so close to me, will be walk-so-slowly with a crutch), and I´ll stay at red seats (Cadeira Superior Vermelha), at Edge´s side. JuClayton, Brilledesoleil and Patty will entry at gate 2. Ricardo will entry at gate 18.
on the map, portao means gate
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Make a trip inside Morumbi stadium, drive the webcam...
...and look for the place you´ll stay, next feb 20 and feb 21.
on: Morumbi stadium - click on Mais detalhes deste estádio

:: Regina O'Numb 2/19/2006 03:19:49 PM [+] ::
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more photos: Bono at the car / Bono and a fan / Bono for President / Bono, Lula and Gilberto Gil / Bono received Brazilian-soccer shirt
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U2 JUST ARRIVED IN SAO PAULO
My friend Ricardo - trottaricardo@hotmail.com - met Bono and said me that Bono is an extraordinary guy; Ricardo just called "Bono", and the Bman turns, give hands to Ricardo, very strong, very true. Adam, Bono and Larry were so happy, smileys. He didn´t see Edge. He beleives Edge will arrived, till today. But anyway, he said, all the team is happy. Ricardo phone me at 8:30 a.m.
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U2 disembark in Brazil and 'dribble' the fans
U2 arrived at 5:00 a.m. (gate 3). They disembarked at International Airport of Guarulhos (a city near Sao Paulo). After the band went to their hotel at south of Sao Paulo city, they didn´t talk with the journalists. Bono, still today will fly to Brasilia (capital of Brazil) to meet the president Lula and will lunch with him, probably a churrasco ('berbecue'), as George Bush and Condoleeza Rice made, months ago.
read on:terra
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Only Bono will meet the president Lula
Some fans received the band and the band greet the fans with care. The band stay at hotel, in Brooklyn district, south of Sao Paulo. Bono will lunch with Bono. The initiative for this lunch was by Bono, who admited admire the way of president in fighting the not social justice. Only Bono will meet the president at the lunch.
read on: o globo
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Bono will have a lunch with Lula and Gilberto Gil
Culture´s Minister, Gilberto Gil, will be at the meeting of Bono and Lula, today, at official residence of the president at Granja do Torto.
read on: terra
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rumor...were U2 recording a video in Mexico?
...the group were recording a video in Mexico...
read on: ig
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While Sao Paulo is waiting for the best concert of the world, Rio had Stones with free concert Rolling Stones rock Rio with free concert - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The spirit of carnival arrived a week early in Brazil with a free Rolling Stones concert before a crowd of over 1 million people at Copacabana Beach....Fans were also camping outside Sao Paulo's Morumbi stadium on Friday, hoping to be among the first into Monday night's concert by the Irish band U2. Organizers were overwhelmed by crowds when the U2 tickets went on sale Jan. 16. Police were called in to restore order when some infuriated fans threatened to break into the stores where tickets were being sold. One who won't have to wait in line to meet lead singer Bono is Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. He invited the activist-rock star to lunch on Sunday in Brasilia, the capital.
look for Mick Jagger with a shirt with Brazilian flag here
read on: usatoday
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Fans eat Bono (the cookie) and drink water
The fans bought a big tend, where they play U2´s songs, make reunions. They´re eating the cookies called Bono. The lines to gate 2, has 20 tends. The ages of the fans, since 47 to 13. The girls just talk, they love Bono, and let the boys very jealous. They expect for pizzas from the band as happened in Mexico. While the press assistance of president Lula confirms the meeting of Bono and Lula, the press assisntance of Universal, which organises the agend of the band in Brazil, didn´t confirm it.
read on: uol
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Fans are in front of the official residence of presdient Lula to see Bono
Around 100 people, childrens and adults are in front of Granja do Torto, the official residence of president Lula in Brasilia, waiting for Bono. There are some bunners writen: "Bono to president of UN".
read on: terra
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The show of my life
Nelson Motta, journalist of Folha de Sao Paulo - U2 / LONDRES, 1983...Welcome U2!"
read on: Folha de Sao Paulo
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Bono says: The Edge is the giant of the guitar!
This article was take off an original of Rolling Stone magazine.
The U2´s singer comments the tensions in the band and how U2´s songs are conceived, in a process similar to jazz.
read on:
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'Is a great dream to be here', says Bono
Wearing the traditional cowboy hat, Bono arrived at Granja do Torto, in Brasilia, accompaigned by Culture Minister Gilberto Gil, to a lunch with president Lula. 'It´s a great dream to be here', says Bono. He admires Lula for fight againsthe poverty in Brazil and in the world. Fans received Bono with waves. He didn´t gave any autograph.
read on: terra
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U2 record a video with Mary J. Blige in Mexico
At theater Ferrocarrilero, in Mexico, they recorded a video of "One".
read on: eluniversal
:: Regina O'Numb 2/19/2006 12:09:50 PM [+] ::
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Interview: Michka Assayas meets Bono
I'm going back to my day job, honest. I first met Bono in 1980. I had come over from Paris to interview a score of new bands but nobody made an impression on me like he did. He was totally unreserved, unlike most of the British new wave, bouncing around, eyes darting, talking fast and full of energy. He was the first Irishman I ever met. Only later did I realise that his bonhomie was a national trait. At that time U2 were sharing a tiny flat in Collingham Gardens in London that resembled the sort of spartan lodgings a cold war spy might have used. We crammed into the small kitchen, drank tea and talked politics, philosophy and music. We were young and pretentious, but even then Bono had a capacity to get the measure of a man in seconds. It's a skill that has stood him in good stead....His back has been giving him problems on tour, the consequence of a punishing schedule and age, too, perhaps. It was, he says, 'a very difficult year, going into G8 and Live 8. There was very little sleep. There was a cost there. 'I'll tell you this, I am parched for time to spend writing and time spent with the band. This year I really want to just lose myself more in the music and I will have to have a lower profile.' That won't be difficult.
read whole article on: timesonline
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Watch "I Still Haven´t Found" from Mexico I
on: pablovillegas
:: Regina O'Numb 2/19/2006 12:02:01 PM [+] ::
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TODAY - U2´S HISTORY: "HERE COME THE NEXT BIG THING"

"U2's first mention in Rolling Stone" - february 19, 1981. U2 receives its first mention in Rolling Stone magazine in an article called "Here Comes the Next BIG THING" written by James Henke...."In particular, Edge's guitar playing and Bono's singing stand out; the lyrical guitar lines slice through every song, while the vocals are rugged, urgent and heartfelt..."

"Boy" tour - february 19, 1981 - U2 perform in Geneva, Switzerland at Salle Du Fauburg.

"October" tour - february 19, 1982 - U2 perform in St. Louis, Missouri at Night Moves.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/19/2006 12:01:59 PM [+] ::
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The excitament is giant, the emotion is pure, my old autie says Bono is his etern love, my young nephew loves Larry a lot. It´s incredible how U2 is shaking Brazil. It´s incredible, but U2´s arriving...my dream come true...U2 in Brazil!
:: Regina O'Numb 2/18/2006 10:16:49 PM [+] ::
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U2 arrives in Sao Paulo, early morning of sunday
According to Universal Music, U2 will arrive this sunday (early morning). They will fly in a prive jet. No time or the name of the airport were revealed. From the airport they will run dircetly to the hotel, at south region of Sao Paulo city, near at the stadium. After the second Mexico´s show (feb 16th) they flew to Acapulco, in Mexico.
read on: o globo
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Bono will have a lunch with Lula this sunday
Lula, the president of Brazil will receive Bono, this sunday, in Brazilia (capital of Brazil, in the center of the country). The meeting will be at official residence called Granja do Torto. When they met in Davos 2005, Bono said to Lula: "God Bless you"
read on: o globo
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A judge will be at Morumbi stadium
The plan is to resolve all the short questions, under the legal procediments and immediately.
read on: terra
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Sao Paulo will profit R$600.000 with U2´s shows.
Brazilians' love to the Irish band U2 will profit R$600.000 (U$240.000) to Sao Paulo (the soccer team). This is the price of the stadium´s rent. This will be a great oportunity to the team get a great extra money.
read on: estadao
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Edge and Bono during Dazed & Confused interview on dec 1997, transcript to Brazilian mag Trip
on: trip
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MTV´s promotion to see U2 in Sao Paulo
You must to register your e-mail with a password, it´s free, and answer this question: "Why do you deserve see U2´s show?". The prize: 4 tickets and 4 Vertigo-DVDs.
read on: mtv
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UOL Music Podcast totally dedicated to U2
read on: uol
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The 'Vertigo' of U2 hit Sao Paulo in two shows with Franz Ferdinand as the support
read on: o globo
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The train of Naomi
Naomi Campbell asked for 15 VIP tickets to Pao de Açucar space, the most VIP area at Morumbi stadium (feb 20).
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Plan to U2´s show starts this saturday with 1.500 polices in Sampa
Since this saturday, around 1.500 men of the Military Police, Civil Police and Guarda Civil of the Town will take care of the security of the crowd of the two shows of U2 in Sao Paulo, on feb 20 and 21. From Civil Police, there are groups of Turist, Corregedoria (a sort of ombdusman of the Civil Police) and against traffic-drugs. They will be into the crowd, to detect the cases of drugs. Military Police will be blocking the access (gates) to detect drugs, guns or alcohol. Out off the stadium will be groups of 'dogs' of Military Police; groups of 'horses' of Military Police; groups of air care of Military Police. Inside the stadium, will be the groups against uproar (Batalhão de Choque). Guarda Civil of the Town will work around the stadium to prevent and take of the place the illegal sale. CET (Traffic-car Engineer Company) will work to the traffic-car could run in the way to make it easy.
read on: terra
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Fans camp and their 'fans' help them at the gates of Morumbi
The nember of the fans who are camping at the gates of Morumbi is major at each hour, and lack two days for the 1st show. The fans of the fans bring water to them, food. The atmosphere is festive. The artist Everson Lobão (friend of Patty) says the support is foundmental to the survive at the lines. This saturday he went to his home to have a bath. Three days on the lines, and yesterday the student Driel Siqueira, had a disease and was to sleep at home where Andrea Regina works. Driel only wake up today.
read on: o globo
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Watch about the lines at Morumbi stadium
is free, wait and watch
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The fans at the lines...Morumbi stadium
gate 18, where Ricardo will entry and Brilledesoleil, too / Patty at gate 2 (she says,tah she´s there with Bono) / Ricardo´s view from this last night - gate 18 / Ricardo - the fly is ready to the lines / during this morning
:: Regina O'Numb 2/18/2006 04:40:45 PM [+] ::
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'Beautiful Day' from Mexico city I
on: eluniversal
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An extraordinary experience with U2 in Mexico city
Great moments, great videos from this "saint" cell-phone...
read and wtach on: economista
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thousands of balloons to delight the band
"U2's third and final Vertigo tour date in Mexico last night was filmed but will not be broadcasted like the rest of the Latin shows. The shows in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina will be aired on national television. Last night's audience was really loud and participative, again bringing thousands of balloons to delight the band. Bono sported a new jacket, similar to the one he wore during the Elevation tour with the American flag lining, but with the Mexican flag instead. The band offered a great performance, but Bono did not speak to the audience as much as the night before. He chose to dance with the same girl for both 'Mysterious Ways' and 'With or Without You.' During 'Beautiful Day,' Bono changed the lyrics to: See the world in red and green / Mexico City in a waking dream / From Guadalajara to Monterrey, / Cabo San Lucas, Acapulco Bay / A new world is in motion - An after-show party was organized for the band, but they did not attend. Immediately after the show, U2 retired to their hotel." from U2log
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Watch 'Cielito Lindo'
large file for about a minute clip here
:: Regina O'Numb 2/18/2006 04:40:39 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY:

"Boy" tour - february 18, 1981 - U2 perform in Munich, Germany at the Sugar Shack. U2 take the stage at 1:00AM, and have to be wakened by manager Paul McGuinness from a semi-drunken sleep.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/18/2006 01:11:12 PM [+] ::
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3 days....


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God Bless U2 and all around and about them! I want see U2! I want them happy! I want them happy with us, too!

:: Regina O'Numb 2/17/2006 10:26:41 PM [+] ::
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113RD SHOW - 'VERTIGO' TOUR - MEXICO CITY - FEBRUARY 16, 2006!
Mexico City 2
Here's what they played on show night 2 in Mexico. Show report on the way... City of Blinding Lights / Vertigo / Elevation / Until The End of the World / New Year's Day / I Still Haven't Found What I am Looking For / Beautiful Day / Stuck in a Moment / Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / Love and Peace or Else / Sunday Bloody Sunday / Bullet The Blue Sky / Miss Sarajevo / Pride in the Name of Love / Where the Streets have no Name / One - Zoo Station / The Fly / Mysterious Ways / With or Without You - Fast Cars / Original / '40'
read on: U2.com
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Carmen Hernadez reports - Estadio Azteca 2 - Adam smiled, smiled!
"I just can't belive the amazing spot I got tonight, I was right in front of Bono on the first row. The lining up was going fine until gates wer open, all opened at the same time and people started to run and push. I was a little afraid because of the running, and also somehow confused with U2's crew, since they were the one giving orders :/ Anyhow, the show was amazing, I got the best place from the whole stadium and most of the barricade was covered with flags from all over the world: Dublin, Ireland, Mexico, USA, Canada, UK and England. Besides our Mexican flag, a friend of mine and myself mada a couple of banners which Adam and Bono saw. Adam smiled at us because of the banners and when he saw we got excited because of his reaction, he smiled again. On one of the firsts songs, (Vertigo if I well recall), Bono threw his bottle of water at us and got a little wet with it, then on Until The End Of The World, Bono spat at somebody on Edge's side, dunno why... On "Sometimes," Bono dedicated that song to his "padre, el rey" (father, the king), and at the end he sang a snippet from a local song called El Rey. During One, Bono intead of asking us to join the One campaign, he asked us to join Amnesty International to support human rights and Make Trade Fair, to give everybody the chance to get a "human, decent work." That got me pretty excited because that's on what I'm working right now. During Streets, Bono kissed Adam the way he's done it several times during the tour, I felt he wanted to do it since yesterday lol. When Fast Cars started, it got everyone by surprise, I started clapping on "Spanish style," Adam noticed and smiled and nodded at me :) Finally, Larry went to the front of the stage again at the end of 40 to say goodbye. It was the best show I was on this tour, and now I'm tired, with sunburns and sprained ankles and neck, but also very happy....I hope you enjoy your shows at least as much as I enjoyed mine :) Zillions of hugs, Carmen - originalofthespecies@gmail.com.
look for these wonder photos by Carmen (zootopian atticus): Adam and Bono / Edge and Adam / Holla / U2 (3) / Zoo Station / Adam, Bono and Edge
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Achtung Baby trilogy / Fast Cars and Stuck In A Moment!
Stuck In A Moment made its fourth leg debut; the Achtung Baby trilogy of Zoo Station, The Fly, and Mysterious Ways finally coming back after an absence of over half a year. The big surprise of the night was a performance of Fast Cars to open the second encore.
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a brand new song
U2 continues to mix up the set list with several songs moving to different parts of the show tonight. Bono sings a bit of 'She Loves You' at the end of Vertigo, and again addresses the huge crowd in Spanish throughout the night. The second encore opens with Fast Cars, which Bono tells the crowd is a 'brand new song.'
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A girl on stage during "Mysterious Ways"
Last night U2 performed again for the Mexican fans, possibly their loudest audience so far. Despite the long queues and cold temperatures the fans have endured over the last few days, Azteca Stadium was full of energy and the band responded in full form. All over the GA field, balloons with the colours of the Mexican flag filled the place. Concert highlights include Bono pulling one girl to the stage to dance during ¿Mysterious Ways,¿ and his adding a ¿Cielito Lindo¿ snippet to the end of ¿Beautiful Day.¿" by Celeste on:
U2log
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Snippets
Vertigo / She Loves You - Beautiful Day / Cielito Lindo - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / El Rey - Bullet The Blue Sky / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet) / The Hands That Built America
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Photos
on: U2-Vertigo-tour / sensational Azteca stadium
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Watch it...
here


:: Regina O'Numb 2/17/2006 06:57:43 PM [+] ::
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Fans and the lines in Sao Paulo!
Some friends of mine are in the lines. Here in this photo is Patty, she was one of the fans who were interviewed by SPTV. You can watch the movment of the fans here, is free, wait if necessary, cause is free; the cheaf of the Police informed that will be a hard operation to check the tickets. Patty is in the gate 2. Our dearest friend JuClayton arrived and her tend is in gate 2, too; she was interviewed, and I´ll serch her images and I´ll post. She reported some info, that, later I´ll add here. My friend Ricardo, has his tend at gate 18.
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Update By JuClayton from the lines of Morumbi stadium, by cell-phone! Day 1 - "My tend is the 10th in the line to gate 2. I´m very happy; the atmosphere when I look at the world and see some highly parts of the stage is fantastic. I´m in a place called 'Vertigo' yeah! But there´re some persons solding places at the lines...the scalpers want scalp us; in the line they´re make indecent attitudes, they want my official tickets. But these, they won´t have. I´m here and I´m totally happy! See you soon!"
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O´MALLEY´S still have tickets to feb 21
This Irish pub in Sao Paulo (really they´re very good) still have some tickets to feb 21 (I called them few minutes ago). The price is different than the official, cause is a part of a package, the price: R$499,00 (U$199,60) or R$449 (U$179,60)...
check it on: omalleysbar
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U2 will make a better show than Stones
The readers of Folha de Sao Paulo on line, voted: 67% (U2 will be better than Stones) / 33% ( Stones will be better than U2)
read on: folha.uol
:: Regina O'Numb 2/17/2006 06:05:45 PM [+] ::
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48th Grammy feb 2006
Videos: Best Rock Album / Best Song / Best Album / "Vertigo" & "One"

:: Regina O'Numb 2/17/2006 02:14:27 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: 'Dark Space' 24hr. Punk/New Wave Festival, Project Arts Centre, Dublin City - young band has hair on its chest / music, the centrepiece of everything!

"Early Ireland" - february 16/17, 1979 - Dublin / Project Arts Centre. U2 perform at a weekend-long festival, with numerous Irish bands appearing (The Good Vibrations, The Vipers, Throbbing Gristle, Public Image, Virgin Prunes, D.C. Nien, The Blades, The Atrix). U2 get frustrated as their set is marred by bad acoustics and bursts of feedback from their amplifiers. London music press attend the evnet, but U2 don´t get any mention in the reviews. A couple of weeks later, Bono borrows some money and travels to London to plug U2 at the offices of various record companies and music magazines with copies of demo-tapes. - Dave Fanning wrote: ""Death Race 2000" had passed its halfway mark when U-2 took the stage to the hearty applause of the dedicated followers of fashion who had forgotten to bring sleeping bags. And the band's rock n' roll breakfast tasted just fine. With perfect posturing and dynamic delivery, Paul Hewson, straining every muscle and pulling the band forward, was always arresting. While they were always confident and competent, Dave Evans (gtr.) and Adam Clayton (Bass), belied the intermittent tendency to drag the music into the clutches of the age-old malaise of heavy metal sludge, especially on the shadily atmospheric "Shadows and Tall Trees." The sound was crisp enough, but Tayto it ain't. Yet on numbers like "Cartoon World" and "Another Time, Another Place" they showed enough bravado and intelligence to show anyone that this young band has hair on its chest. "Street Missions" was great. Their encore "Glad to See You Go" was energetic but it suffered slightly from its slower-than-Ramones pace. Not to worry. Their own numbers and enthusiasm will see them through.

U2 bring matters to a successful conclusion. They were the last band to play at 'Dark Space' 24hr. Punk/New Wave Festival, Project Arts Centre, Dublin City 16th - 17th February 1979.

"Boy" tour - february 17, 1981 - Geneva / Switzerland - Salle Du Fauburg.

"October" tour - february 17, 1982 - Oklahoma City - Ok - Jammie´s.

"POPMart" tour - february 17, 1998 - Perth / Australia - Burswood Dome. "When we put this tour together we really wanted the music to be the centrepiece of everything," The Edge said later. "Looking at the production, it might look like that was a big part of it but that tension between the size of the production and the fact that there's four guys on stage was always something we were interested in working on. I think on a good night the production just becomes a backdrop and then some nights-like the first in Las Vegas (last April)- we felt like we were struggling against it. But it was a fair fight.". Bono dedicated "One" to Michael Hutchence.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/17/2006 01:29:39 PM [+] ::
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Mexico city, is the city of blinding lights, again!!
Good night for my friend Carmen Hernandez, for Edge & Co.! Shine on this Cielito lindo!!!
:: Regina O'Numb 2/16/2006 08:32:51 PM [+] ::
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112ND SHOW - 'VERTIGO' TOUR - MEXICO CITY - FEBRUARY 15, 2006!
'See The World in Red and Green...' .... Mexico City right in front of you.' Opening night of two in Mexico City at the mighty Azteca Stadium and the set list has changed and the temperature's rising. Here's what they played. More on the way. City of Blinding Lights / Vertigo / Elevation / Mysterious Ways / End of the World / New Year's Day / Still Haven't Found / Beautiful Day / Original of the Species / Sometimes
Love and Peace / Sunday Bloody Sunday / Bullet The Blue Sky / Miss Sarajevo - Pride in the Name of Love / Where the Streets Have No Name / One - Zoo Station / The Fly / With or Without You / All Because of You / Yahweh / 40.
read on: U2.com
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Original Night in Mexico City
A huge night in Mexico City at the wonderful Azteca Stadium, built in 1966 for the '68 Summer Olympics and still one of the largest stadiums in the world, with a capacity approaching 115,00. Not quite that many here last night, given the small matter of the Vertigo outdoor touring stage, but all the same one of our biggest audiences of the entire tour and what a reception for the band. Right from the off in City of Blinding Lights the audience was singing along to every word and when Vertigo was counted in no-one in the place needed Spanish lessons. This was without doubt one of the hottest starts to any show on Vertigo 05/06. And the band had also decided to ring the changes, with a lot of new touches in the show. The Boy era tracks were not here tonight and Mysterious Ways arrived suddenly and groovily after only three songs, quickly followed by Until The End of the World both of which have been appearing much later on the tour so far. Still Haven't Found - was this the loudest singalong of the tour to date ? - ran into Beautiful Day, updated in honour of the people and the place. 'See the world in red in green / Mexico City / Right in front of you / Shine Mexico / Shine Mexico / The soul of Mexico...' It was quite a take-off moment ('Folk songs don't you love them ?') as a snatch of The Beatles' Norwegian Wood led into a beautiful Original of thenSpecies. Sometimes found the opera in the Mexican soul before the whole place exploded for the trilogy of Love and Peace, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Bullet The Blue Sky. The 'CoeXisT' rap also got a reworking tonight, with references to an end to conflict between Palestinian and Israeli and in neighbouring countries like Nicaragua: it was a journey to Nicaragua and El Salvador in the mid-1980's that proved the original inspiration for Bullet. 'No more / No more / Let's send out a signal from the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City / No more / No more..'
read on: U2.com
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U2 back in Mexico after bodyguard beating
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Irish rockers U2 played to 90,000 Mexican fans at one of the world's most famous football stadiums on Wednesday on their first tour here since a rumpus eight years ago over the beating of one of their bodyguards. With a red, green and white Mexican flag wrapped around his leather jacket, lead singer Bono greeted an ecstatic crowd in Spanish before kicking off the concert with the group's single "City of Blinding Lights." Like fans across the world, Mexicans held up cell phones to share the concert with friends and relatives. Thousands of people had lined up outside the capital Mexico City's Azteca Stadium, the only venue to have hosted the football World Cup final twice, before the concert. U2's last tour of Mexico, in 1998, ended badly when a security guard working with the band was beaten in an scuffle with the entourage of the son of then-President Ernesto Zedillo. The bodyguard ended up in the hospital....While Zedillo met the band in his residence and reportedly apologised, and although U2 frontman Bono says he held no grudge against the country, Mexico was noticeably absent from the band's North American tour in 2001....A much-critised investigation into the death in Mexico of a friend of lead singer Bono, British singer Kirsty MacColl, added to speculation that U2 deliberately snubbed the country....Despite the long stage absence, Bono is a frequent visitor to Mexico and has described its beach resorts as his "refuge." He is friends with Mexican actor Jaime Camil -- who appears in a 2005 film about a desperate attempt to bring U2 to play Mexico -- and with actress Salma Hayek, who participates in Bono's "One" campaign against global poverty and AIDS. Hayek and Bono were photographed arm-in-arm outside the band's Mexico City hotel on Monday.
read whole article on: reuters
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Hey Pizza Man!
Fans in line outside the Azteca Stadium got a welcome surprise last night - free pizzas on the band. Many diehard Mexican fans had been sleeping out in order to guarantee a prized position down by the stage for the show. Few of them wanted to leave their place in line so when a little delivery fan, loaded up with boxes of free pizza, drove up it was a manna from heaven. As our snaps show, the pizza went down pretty well!
look for pizzas arriving / the lucky fans / more lucky fans / other lucky fans
read on: U2.com
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The band sent hundred of pizzas to the fans which were out of the stadium, wainting... "Fiesta en Mexico - U2 started the party in Mexico City a day early. Hundreds of fans queueing outside Estadio Azteca listened to U2's soundcheck yesterday. The band rehearsed 21 songs including 'City of Blinding Lights' 'Zoo Station' 'Miss Sarajevo' and 'Bad'. The Mexican fans who waited patiently outside the stadium and endured the freezing weather received a very special treat: the band ordered hundred of pizzas for them. So there you go: good music + good food = a good party!" by Celeste on: U2log
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Carmen Hernandez reports from Mexico 1
Carmen Hernandez, is a Mexican U2´s fan, she´s a huge and devoted U2´s fan. She´s a great friend, a great human being. She met Bono in San Jose, last year (look for them on the photo). This is her review:
reminding JuClayton* 1st show at Estadio Azteca - I just came back from the stadium and it was amazing, fans were so loud that sometimes our noise was louder than the band's songs. The band was very easy going tonight, a friend of mine threw his Mexican flag to the stage and Adam smiled at us, later the bag was placed above the drums. When the show finished, Larry went to the front of the stage to say goodbye and Bono apoligize again for taking so long on coming back. That's all by now, I'm extremely tired but I wanted to write to you before I go to bed. Tomorrow, te GA line may be a dissaster because apparently security won't respect the numbered wristbands they gave to us :( Anyways, let's hope they finally do it. I'm sending some of my pics from tonight, I hope you like them....By the way, could you please say Ju Clayton hello for me? Since I also like Adam very much, I try to be as closer of him as possible, and I was thinking on her during the show." by Carmen Hernandez (zootopian atticus) - originalofthespecies@gmail.com *
look for these wonder photos of Carmen:
Edge / Adam and Bono / Adam / Adam, Bono and Edge / Bono / Bono coexist
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Friends, only friends
Salma Hayek and Bono had a reunion at restaurant San Angel (on feb 14). Bono admires Salma´s work. Bono with Larry were interviewed but the Mexican press, during the soundcheck at Azteca stadium
read on: milenio
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U2´s apologize for 8 years absent
U2 sing 'Cielito Lindo'; ask for 'American dream' and say: 'Mexico is the country of the future'. Pics of Salma Hayek, Emiliano Zapata, Frida Khalo and president of Mexico Vicente Fox at the scream. 'U2 is the band of the future'
read on: eluniversal
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U2´s impact: the band shake the night with a show of the 1st world
Bono defeats human rights.
read on: oem
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'ZOOTV' made its 'Vertigo' tout debut!
'City Of Blinding Lights' opened a stadium concert for the first time ever and the famous combination of 'Until The End Of The World' and 'New Year's Day' that has appeared on every tour since ZooTV made its Vertigo Tour debut.
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Snippets
Beautiful Day / Cielito Lindo - Bullet The Blue Sky / When Johnny Comes Marching Home / The Hands That Built America - One / Unchained Melody
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Photos
some photos on: U2-vertigo-tour / el universal - fans camping / Bono - 15th pic


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No Brit Awards to U2
...Strong contenders U2 were beaten to the Best International Group and Best International Album by Green Day and their American Idiot....
read on: digitalspy
:: Regina O'Numb 2/16/2006 04:26:37 PM [+] ::
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Watch some videos from Monterrey´s show
Mexican U2´s fan Lila64, is sharing: LAPOE / LAPOE 2 / COBL
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Watch Bono
He´s speaking about Monterrey´s show. On: esmas
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Watch Larry arriving to the hotel
on: esmas
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Photos from Monterrey...Edge with a bottle...
on: aldancity
:: Regina O'Numb 2/16/2006 01:48:34 PM [+] ::
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Fans camp in front of Morumbi to wait for U2!
They´re Juliana Nunes, an advocate and Fruel de Siqueira, a student, bought a tend by internet and are camping in front of gate 18 of the stadium. They´re the first. They eat cookies. The bath will be at home of a friend they knew by internet, near at the stadium. They call at cellphone. But their favorites bands are: Beatles and Rolling Stones (?????????)
read on: o globo
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U2´s equipment disembark at Morumbi
Just (feb 16 - 5:40 p.m.) arrived at Morumbi stadium the first 54 truckers which transport the stage of 'Vertigo' tour, of Irish band U2 - 17 of them bring the structure and 37 bring the equipment of sound, lights and video. Around 300 people work in the production of the shows (Brazailians and not).
read on :ultimosegundo
look for some photos: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9
:: Regina O'Numb 2/16/2006 01:18:44 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: "Southern Man" for the first time / Brit Award Jubilee 2000 to Bono / rehearsing in Mexico!

"October" tour - february 16, 1982 - U2 perform in Dallas, Texas at Cardi's. It is the fourth sellout in Texas in four days. Bono hears Neil Young's "Southern Man" on the radio, and after practicing it with the band performs it live that night, for the first time.

"Bono accepts Brit Award for Jubilee 2000" - february 16, 1999. Bono accepts a Brit Award in London on behalf of Jubilee 2000, a coalition aiming to eliminate Third World debt to Western powers. Bono enters the audience to present the award to boxing legend Muhammad Ali, an international ambassador for Jubilee 2000.

U2 reportedly rehearses in Mexico - february 16, 2005. U2 reportedly begins ten days of tour rehearsals today at the Fox Baja Studios in Rosarito. Photos of the band in Mexico crop up during this time and provide circumstantial evidence supporting the otherwise unconfirmed reports.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/16/2006 12:59:31 PM [+] ::
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Mexico city is the city of blinding lights, tonight!
Stage is OK in Mexico city - Jake Berry says they have 5 stages. The best stage of the world. Six days to build the stage. 36 hours to dismantle the stage.
read on: esmas
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Salma Hayek won´t direct a U2´s video
She said that work with U2 "could be a honor", but she won´t direct any U2´s video.
read on: eluniversal
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Photos from the rehearsal
U2 playing / U2´s pose at the stage / Bono singing

:: Regina O'Numb 2/15/2006 06:25:37 PM [+] ::
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Monterrey!!!!
Cielito Lindo Listen to here
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Dress rehearsal the day before the Monterrey show
"...the dress rehearsal the day before the Monterrey show. We were queing outside the stadium and all of a sudden Wake Up started to sound out loud, after that they played Vertigo and they followed wih the whole set list. Some of my friends and myself left the line for a while to get a sneak peek from the show, we were all singing along from outside the stadium and Bono noticed and thanked us. When the rehearsal was over, they left the stadium one by one, first Bono, then Edge, then Larry and finally Adam...." by dear friend Carmen Hernandez - originalofthespecies@gmail.com

:: Regina O'Numb 2/15/2006 05:24:42 PM [+] ::
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U2, Westlife up for Brit awards tonight
The Brit Awards take place tonight with Westlife and U2 representing Irish interest in the glitzy event. They are among the acts nominated for awards on the biggest night in the British music calendar. Westlife have been nominated in the Pop Act category, where the winner will be chosen by CD:UK viewers, The Sun Bizarre column readers and customers of 02 and Motorola. U2 are up for two awards to add to their haul at the Grammys last week - they are nominated in the International Group and International Album (for How to Dismantle and Atomic Bomb) categories....
read on: irishexaminer
:: Regina O'Numb 2/15/2006 05:06:23 PM [+] ::
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U2 will come to the Carnaval in Bahia after Sao Paulo´s shows
Press assistance of Minister Gilberto Gil confirmed: U2 will come to Salvador to know the carmaval in Bahia. During Davo´s WEF, the minister invited Bono to know the party in Salvador,; Bono was very inerested, and the minster replay: "Then, go there, go there!" Gilberto Gil will be in Sao Paulo on feb 21. The day after, they will disembark in Salvador, and will be received at Flora Gil´s home. On feb 23, U2 will make a sort of pre-release at VIP´s area of Expresso 2222. Before they will check the run of the blocos (a sort of groups with each one with a different named Antes). The Bahia´s fans are (crossfingers) waiting for a jam session.
read on: atarde
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Bono, probably, will pass the carnaval in Salvador
According to Monica Bergamo, from Folha de Sao Paulo, Bono called with Gilberto Gil, on monday, to tell his (Bono) whishes to know the party in Salvador.
read on: terra
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Know Bahia!
on: carnaval
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The 1st Brazilian book about U2!
"U2: Historia e cançoes comentadas" by journalist Claudio D. Dirani. With 176 pages. Two years to be writen, and the jourmalist took the words from magazines, journals, articles and hundreds of sites dedicated to the Irish band on the web.
read on: o popular
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U2 will arrive in Chile on feb 24 / Santiago´s show will be filmed to a DVD
read on: elmercurio
:: Regina O'Numb 2/15/2006 12:36:26 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: the first time in Germany!

"Boy" tour - february 15, 1981- U2 perform in Hamburg, Germany at Onkel Po's Carnegie Hall. The first time of U2 in Germany. Bono says: "This is the first time in your country, and we wanna do it right." With more space to move around freely, the crowd finally get to their feet during "Out Of Control".

"October" tour - february 15, 1982 - U2 perform in Houston, Texas at Cardi's.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/15/2006 12:36:09 PM [+] ::
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Happy St Valentine´s Day!

...You say you'll give me eyes in the moon of blindness...
For everyone, mainly to Adam&Suzie * Bono&Ali * Larry&Ann * Edge&Morleigh
:: Regina O'Numb 2/14/2006 09:12:57 PM [+] ::
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Morumbi is OK to receive U2; look for...
The gates will open at 3:00 p.m., during the two shows. Franz Ferdinand will play at 8:00 p.m. until 8:40p.m. U2 will play at 9:45 p.m. until 11:45 p.m. No alcohol, no glass, no photo-cam. Food: five shops of Bob´s; more at lower seats, upper seats. Security: 750 men; Police Military, Civil. Bathrooms. Medical Care. Gates. False tickets: it will be a great control of the tickets. Traffic-car: there´s a plan of the traffic-car engeneer. How to arrive.
read on: uol
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I´m sure the things will be fine, and during the show will be on fire, cause this show is Da Bomb!
:: Regina O'Numb 2/14/2006 08:59:05 PM [+] ::
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Edge: "People are going to use ring tones as a real expression of what they're about"...The 21-second piece features a rhythmic keyboard tone too soft to wake up even the lightest sleeper. But it did catch the ear of U2's guitarist, The Edge, a judge in a ring tone composition contest run by Harmony Line Inc., a Cambridge music-software company...The ring tone contest, though limited to MIT students, graduates or school staffers, drew a range of submissions, from teenage undergrads to MIT employees in their 30s. To judge, Machover recruited The Edge, with whom he has worked in Ireland; MIT professor emeritus Marvin Minsky, considered the father of artificial intelligence; and Mary Farbood, who wrote the Hyperscore software. The group spent a night in January whittling the 20 finalists to two winners and two honorable mentions. They announced the results late last month. (The winning entries can be downloaded at www.h-lounge.com.)' Sherry Lawrence, 32, an associate director at the MIT Alumni Association, entered the contest because she's a huge U2 fan who put a clip of the band's song ''Vertigo" on her cell last year. Her submission, a country-tinged tune driven by a banjo, was a finalist....'I was never really into ring tones before," says Vazquez, a sophomore studying electrical engineering and computer science. ''I'm so afraid of my phone going off in class I always have it set to vibrate." That, he says, will change. ''I definitely want people to hear it," Vazquez says. ''And I've already had some people approach me about getting my ring tone on their phone." So far, Harmony Line's ring tones -- from the finalists in the contest and others who create and post them on the site -- can be downloaded only onto Verizon and Cingular Orange carriers. Resnick says most other North American cellphone companies will be available within weeks. The question now is whether original ring tones will catch on. Doubters include the already established companies marketing ways to download clips from existing CDs. ''I don't think people care . . . to compose their own ring tones," says Jonathan Schreiber, CEO of the Los Angeles-based Xingtones. ''I don't compose music because I don't want to. You could make it as easy as pie and I still won't. I'm not an artist." Geoff Mayfield, Billboard's director of charts, also wonders whether there's a mass market for original ring tones. ''Making your own ring might have a certain kind of coolness, but another kid might say, 'Mine plays 50 Cent,' " Mayfield says. U2's The Edge disagrees, contending that he sometimes decides whether he will like or dislike a person according to how their phone rings. Among his turnoffs: the theme from ''Swan Lake." ''Music you do in private," he says by phone. ''But ring tones become a public display, like a pair or sneakers or a T-shirt. People are going to use ring tones as a real expression of what they're about."
read whole article on: boston.com
:: Regina O'Numb 2/14/2006 08:35:18 PM [+] ::
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Carmen Hernandez reports from Monterrey and Mexico city!
It was a great concert and eventhough most of the local people didn't know about the band too much, still, the majority of the crowd were singing and cheering during the show. We all get excited when after bad, Bono sang "cielito lindo" and we all sang along. We wee so loud the whole band got very impressed. Some wonder photos: Bono coexist / Bazilian flag in Monterrey / Bono / Bullet The Blue Sky / coexist / Edge and Bono / Human Rights / heart / the end / Carmen´s group in Mexico city
originalofthespecies@gmail.com
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Mexico´s queing
:: Regina O'Numb 2/14/2006 08:20:41 PM [+] ::
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She danced with Bono and was kissed by him - Sao Paulo 98
Saturday (jan 31, 1998), Alessandra Germano, 15 years-old (1998), jumps on stage, during "If You Wear That Velvet Dress". "He didn´t say anything, but gave me many kisses, two on my lips. He also asked for my crossfix, that I was wearing. I said that I loved him" said Alessandra, who went from Brasilia and arrived at Morumbi saturday, 1:00 a.m.
watch Alessandra with Bono during If You Wear That Velvet Dress
watch Alessandar with Bono during With Or Without You
source: Jornal da Tarde - feb 2, 1998 and Folha de Sao Paulo - feb 2, 1998
:: Regina O'Numb 2/14/2006 07:19:47 PM [+] ::
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Most Inspired Artist Award...Bono
MTV´s fourth annual TRL Awards, airing on feb 25 at noon...Bono to receive the Most Inspired Artist Award. read on: Eonline
more, as "U2's frontman Bono is not only part of one of the most popular rock bands in the world, he's traveled all over the world to help others." on: MTV

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Event Coverage: Bono Speaks at the ASAE Forum, Feb. 3, 2006!
Bono was the keynote speaker on Friday Feb. 3, 2006, at a forum sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). Called "The Future in Front of Us: Living a More Involved Life,' Bono's nearly hour-long speech focused on the issues dearest to his heart-Africa and music. These two issues would keep intertwining throughout Bono's remarks all night. In typical Bono fashion, after a short introductory film about him, Bono thanked everyone for coming and exclaimed that this group was a "very different crowd" than the one he had spoken to at the same venue (the Washington Hilton hotel) the day before at the National Prayer Breakfast....He stressed to the audience that the world loses "a tsunami every month" of people in Africa due to these causes and yet there is little media coverage of it. He stated once again that this was not an issue of charity but one of justice. Bono boldly told the audience that this was the "straight truth, the righteous truth". Bono emphatically talked about "the chasm between the scale of the [AIDS] emergency and the response.' He spoke about the ONE Campaign's call for the U.S. government to allocate one percent of the federal budget to end extreme poverty in the world. (currently the U.S. only allocates 0.125 percent of its federal budget to end extreme poverty). He asked us to consider this commitment of money as "an investment" "a bargain" for the United States, a way to "redescribe ourselves" to the poor of the world. Bono finished his remarks on this subject by enthusiastically stating that he is "in love with America." Getting a bit more serious in tone, Bono pointedly told the audience that "power brings responsibility" to help those who are less fortunate....The Q&A portion of the night was particularly informative with a few very interesting moments. One of the first questions asked was who had been some of Bono's first inspirations in life. Bono immediately answered "The Clash" and spoke about the tremendously transformative power of punk rock music in society ("three chords and the truth" he said to the glee of the audience)....A question was read to Bono written by a 14-year-old student who stated that she wanted to bring the issues of ONE to her high school and wanted Bono's suggestions on how to do this. Never the performer to lose a classic moment, Bono asked the girl to come out of the audience to join him onstage. To audience applause, the girl climbed upon the stage and nervously approached Bono. Bono took her hand and bent over to graciously kiss it. He talked to her about the importance of debt cancellation and fair trade for Africa's future and how these were central issues of ONE. Then he asked her if she was ready to help make her school a ONE school. When she began to meander in her response to his question, Bono quizzically looked at her and pointedly asked her in a serious yet joking tone, "Are you telling me that you're too busy?" After chatting with Bono, the girl left the stage soon after. It seemed a poignant way to end the night. Increasing numbers of people are coming to hear Bono speak on the issues closest to his heart (Africa and music). But ultimately it seems to me that this encounter between Bono and an obviously smitten young fan is an allegory for all of us. Bono's speeches, while at times a bit repetitive, aren't there simply to be enjoyed but to motivate the listener into action on behalf of the world's poorest people. And at a time when the fight to end AIDS and extreme poverty is at a standstill in terms of the money committed to end this crisis, Bono is trying to enlist ever increasing numbers of "soldiers" (volunteers) to fight this battle. The challenge to each one of us is when will you enlist. From the urgency in Bono's voice and demeanor at this event and elsewhere, I think that I'm safe to say that he would appreciate us enlisting in his battle to end extreme poverty as soon as possible. From beginning to end, it was another beautiful night sharing the heart and soul of this amazing man. By Debbie Kreuser (zootopian ultraviolet_love14 / Interferencer Jamila / friend of Edge´s blog)
read whole article on: interference
:: Regina O'Numb 2/14/2006 02:57:00 PM [+] ::
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Mexico promises justice in death of British pop singer after U2 dedication
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The Mexican government promised justice in the death of British pop singer Kirsty MacColl on Monday, a day after the Irish rock band U2 dedicated a song to her during a concert in the northern city of Monterrey....U2 front man Bono once sang a duet with Kirsty MacColl and has been a strong supporter of Jean MacColl's "Justice for Kirsty" campaign...
read whole article on: mytelus
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The girls of Bono
With U2´s vist to Mexico, there´s a sweet moviment, a moviment of the girls who love Bono, each one says: "Bono is my fiancé"...
read on: cronica
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NO CAMPING IN SANTIAGO - CHILE, TO U2´S SHOW ON FEB 26
Chilean´s organization of U2´s show on feb 26, announced the criteria to be in the inner circle: the 'firsts' to arrive will be the lucky crowd which will be into the inner circle. There will be 4.500 people, and the rest of 500 people will be the partners of Ripley and Coca-Cola, the sponsors.
on: p4_noticias
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Promotion to see U2 in Argentina
on: promo
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Promotion to fans of Equador see U2 in Chile
The readers of HOY can see U2 in Chile, by a message to 4141.
read on: hoy and here
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Fans are camping around Azteca stadium in Mexico city
Fans are camping since yesterday. There are fans from California.
read on: cronica
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Mexicans U2´s fans camp before the show
Mexicans fans show their passion for U2; since yesterday they´re with their tends around Azteca stadium. The shows will on feb 15 and 16.
read on: terra
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ALOHA OAHU - promotion to see U2 in Hawaii
Let ETS treat you to an exceptional Nite Out...with U2! Enter to WIN an ETS Tours U2 experience of a lifetime for two to see U2 Live in Honolulu.
read on: etstours
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Buy a cellphone and guarantee a ticket to see U2 in Sao Paulo
Claro and BenQ (former-Siemens) started a promotion, yesterday, to see U2 at Morumbi stadium on feb 20 and 21. There are 2.400 tickets (filed) for who buy these cellphones.
read on: uol
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Rolling Stones and U2 make the country of Carnaval think only in rck´n´roll
Just before the Carnaval in Brazil, the country will receive Rolling Stones (to make much more hot the Copacabana beach) and U2 (to make the concerts which will be at the history of Brazil - with 146.000 people in two shows). The U2´s tickets sold out in 7 hours. Some fans were 36 hours before the sale, on the lines. "We are sure, that will be a wonder event, will make history in the spectacle´s world in Brazil" says Alexandre Accioly, one of the organizers. The security in Sao Paulo will have 750 men and Police military and civil will maintain the order.
read on: terra
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A view from the uppear seats in Monterrey
U2tours

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Scalper is scalper
Now, those guys from that blog and those guys from that site, which I reported here, during the last days, say ARE CANCELLED THE TICKET´S SALE = R$290,00 (WITH ADVANTAGE OF 45%). Really I don´t know the truth behind this story. I don´t know if the police advice them...cause the situation was so dangerous there...but I repeat here, TO BE THE HEAD OF A PLACE WITH A LOT OF FANS, YOUNGS FANS & OLD FANS, IT´S NECESSARY TO BE MODERATE, BALANCE PERSON (S), REASONABLE PERSON(S). I have on my mind, that if these heads of fan sites in Brazil, were moderate, balanced and reasonable one, the chaos of jan 16th, there weren´t happened. They are responsible with the lack of organization and the lack of education of all the chaos of that day. Grace of God, the fans are seeing what they are. I´m sure to the shows, everyone will be calm and happy. earlier posts: here and here
:: Regina O'Numb 2/14/2006 02:05:41 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: "The Kitchen" is open / "POP" tickets go on sale / "Love Rocks" to Bono!

"Boy" tour - february 14, 1981 - Sittard / Holland - Stadsschouwburg.

"October" tour - february 14, 1982 - San Antonio / Texas / Cardi´s - 3000 people / sellout.

"U2 opens The Kitchen" - february 14, 1994. U2 formally opens "The Kitchen," their Dublin nightclub, located at their own Clarence Hotel in the Temple Bar area of the city.

"PopMart tickets go on sale" - february 14, 1997. Concert tickets for selected PopMart shows go on-sale via a MTV/VH-1 program called "Tickets First." This will be done each Friday for the next four weeks.

"Bono honored by peers at 'Love Rocks' tribute" - february 14, 2002. Bono is honored by stars from TV, music, and movies at the first annual "Love Rocks" tribute in Los Angeles. Tributes are paid by comedian Drew Carey, actor Tom Cruise, former President Bill Clinton, Mick Jagger, and a host of others at this event designed to honor Bono for his philanthropy, humanitarian concern, and social activism. The event is sponsored by the Entertainment Industry Foundation, which presents Bono with the "Heart of Entertainment" award. Performers include No Doubt, who perform a cover of U2's "Sweetest Thing", as well as Lauryn Hill and R.E.M. Bono closes the show by joining R.E.M. on stage to sing U2's "One."
:: Regina O'Numb 2/14/2006 01:57:42 PM [+] ::
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/13/2006 09:39:54 PM [+] ::
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No problems to get the tickets to 2nd U2´s show in Sao Paulo
After all the problems to get the tickets to feb 20, today the complete sale´s tickets (this is the 3rd phase, after the payment) is happening in total calm. There´re 27 boxes (7 from the Pacaembu stadium and 20 from the Brazilian organization of U2´s shows). The first fan arrived at 6:00 a.m. This phase will continue until feb 21, except on feb 18.
read on: terra
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My friend Ricardo got our tickets, and said that the organization is 100% eficient...now congratulations to the organization!
:: Regina O'Numb 2/13/2006 08:29:46 PM [+] ::
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111ST SHOW - 'VERTIGO' TOUR - MONTERREY - FEB 12, 2006
'Shine on Me, Monterrey Moon'
Vertigo '06 went live in Mexico last night and it was a beautiful night under a Monterrey moon as U2 returned to the country for the first time since 1997. Here's what they played, full report on the way. Vertigo / I Will Follow / Electric Co. / Elevation / Beautiful Day / Still Haven't Found / City of Blinding Lights / Original of the Species / Sometimes / Bad / Love and Peace / Sunday Bloody Sunday / Bullet the Blue Sky / Miss Sarajevo / Pride in the Name of Love / Where the Streets have no Name / One / End of the World / Mysterious Ways / With or Without You / Yahweh / Vertigo
read on: U2.com
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'Mexico we love you'
Nearly two months after Vertigo '05 closed in Portland, and eight years since their last visit to Mexico, U2 opened the fourth leg of the Vertigo Tour in Monterrey last night....Original of the Species arrived to the sound of Edge on piano and a particularly huge roar of appreciation for a song which has gone down spectacularly on Vertigo despite making a late appearance in the set list and only then turning up irregularly. The new lighting and visuals chime with the acclaimed video and when it sequed into Sometimes it was not hard to see how this won 'Best Vocal in a Rock Performance' at the Grammy's last week....And the pale light of the moon lit up this night in Monterrey. 'Thank you for waiting for our band.' said Bono. 'Ole ole ole' sang the city of Monterrey.
read whole article on: U2.com
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Production Rehearsals, Monterrey
Bed at 7am and up at 3pm when a bunch of dazed roadies were picked up from the crew hotel. I had all my bags piled up on the sidewalk - the band party arrives today so I am transferring to their hotel. The cold of last night seemed to have stayed on and it was pretty chilly all day. At the gig, all was noise and activity with soundchecks and preparations for the run through. The band came in around 5 and we had a quick huddle to figure out the set list. We're getting into a situation now where we have so many great songs worked up that the show is potentially too long. The Edge always laughs and says 'Ah, its great value for money!' but the truth is that if even a great show is too long it throws out the dynamics of the whole event. For U2 something in the region of two hours ten minutes seems to work the best. We've touched two and a half hours on occasion and even though the crowd is delighted, you can feel them getting tired. That said, I have been pretty determined to get 'Bad' into the main set for this leg, so we decided to add it in, even though we couldn't find another song to drop to make way for it. Regular readers will know that playing without an audience has never been U2's strongest suit, so imagine our surprise when the four of them got up there and played the entire set from start to finish without stopping. We were stunned and the crowd outside the stadium were loving it. (Hearing the far off chant of 'EL-E-VA-TION' was hilarious from inside the deserted venue.) We had a brief catch up afterwards but agreed to meet at noon tomorrow to make a final plan. It had got really quite cold again by this time, so we sent the crew for cups of tea before settling in to another night' programming. Most of what we did last night was pretty good, but the new visuals for 'End of the World' needed some tidying up and the visuals for 'One' didn't work - it was all too big and distracting. Both of these we worked on and made a big improvement. 'End of the World' uses footage of fall out from atomic bomb tests, taken from a U.S. government archive film reel which - en masse and in isolation - makes for incredibly depressing viewing. By way of redeeming it in the name of art, we abstracted it, chopped it up and put it through an interference blender, so it now has the look of the band coming through your TV during a nuclear war. It's just charming. I also took another run at 'One' and nailed it. Much simpler, less busy, fewer words and more buffalo. How could I have been so blind? By 4.30am we were seeing double so bailed. We're in great shape given how quickly everybody had to get back into this. Dropped all the lads off at the crew hotel and was glad the runner knew where my hotel was as I didn't have a clue. It's gone 5am, meeting with Bono at noon, so I'd better get off line and get some sleep.
read on: U2.com
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Bad with a traditional Mexican song
U2 opens the 4th leg of its Vertigo Tour in Monterrey, the band's first show in Mexico since 1997. At the start of I Still Haven't Found..., Bono apologizes for being gone so long. Beautiful Day includes a bit of the Rolling Stones' 'She's a Rainbow.' Bad ends with Bono singing a bit of a traditional Mexican song. Before the show, police seize counterfeit merchandise outside the stadum, leading to a confrontation with merchants. One officer shoots his gun into the air to maintain control of the situation. from
U2tours
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South American flags
"...Original of the species- (the images were amazing and Bono played guitar that we could actually hear; Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own-no introductions Edge simply started playing the notes after being given his guitar; Bad / Celito Lindo Snippet- simply amazing the whole stadium continued singing; Miss Sarajevo- amazing, no introduction again and Bono got a girl up with him who was actually next to me, and sang most of the song except for the italian verses; Where The Streets Have No Name- Southamerican Flags which was pretty cool; One- short intro in spanish no cellphone text messages; Until The End Of The World- Edge was great really got into it; Mysterious Ways- great crowd pleaser got another gorgoues gir with him; With Or Without You- same girl with Bono. Vertigo 2- yes I know a lot of people will complain about this but it really got the crowd way more than the first time. Sorry if I don't make sense I haven't sleep since friday being in line which was actually kind of fun except for the cold weather, I really didn't see much cameras like in the states or europe, most people were only using their cellphones and I'm quite certain that being the only guy with camera in one of the circles of the ellipse in Adams side, actually annoyed a bit both Bono and Adams but that was my impression, anyway I got some nice pics and one of them will make the newspaper tomorrow of one of the girls bono picked. Bono cut most intros for sometimes, original, miss sarajevo, which I find it quite strange as most people in Monterrey actually speak english at least at some level, but the intro to one in spanish was really cool. the crowd was great but I don't think it will compare to the ones in Mexico City" by Mexican fan Mofo
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if we all act like ONE
U2 kicked off the fourth leg of their Vertigo tour in the Mexican city of Monterrey yesterday (Feb. 12). 48 hours before the concert, more than 600 fans were sleeping at the gates of the stadium in order to get into the ellipse; 24 hours before the show, there were more than 2,000 fans. Mexicans have really missed the band, since the last time U2 visited Mexico was during the PopMart tour in 1997. Bono spoke in Spanish several times during the concert. Before 'One,' he said to the audience: 'La gente dice que no se puede cambiar al mundo, que tu no puedes, que yo no puedo, The Edge no puede, pero si se puede, si actuamos todos como UNO.' Translation: 'People say you can't change the world. You can't, I can't, The Edge can't...but it is possible if all we act like ONE.' One surprise during the show was a snippet of the traditional folk song 'Cielito Lindo' during 'Bad.' Other highlights include Bono pulling two girls on stage for 'Miss Sarajevo,' and another one during 'With or Without You.'" from U2log
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Snippets
Bullet With Butterfly Wings / See Me, Feel Me - Beautiful Day / Blackbird / She's A Rainbow - Bad / Celito Lindo - Bullet The Blue Sky / The Hands That Built America / When Johnny Comes Marching Home
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Governor invites Bono to the Forum
At backstage, the Governor Gonzalez Paras invited Bono to the International Culture Forum, in 2007.
read on: milenio
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To Kirsty MacColl: "I Still Haven´t Found What I´m Looking For
Bono sung in Spanish "Cielito lindo" and ask for justice to clear up the death of their friend Kirsty MacColl.
read on: eluniversal
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U2 is the band of the future
After "I Still Haven´t Found What I´m Looking For" Bono said: "Mexico is the country of the future, live the Mexican dream...and this is the band of the future."
read on: milenio
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Monterrey´s crazy with U2
on: laprensa
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Against piracy
The show was fine, no problem with the fans. The police made an operation against the piracy´s sale around the stadium. No rain, but very cold night.
read on: eluniversal
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The Secret Machine play in Mexico
read on: esmas
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On the way to Brazil, U2 excite Monterrey!
U2 is near to Brazil. U2 played in Monterrey, in Mexico. Since 1997, it was the first time U2 played in the country. They openned with 'Vertigo', and after 'I Will Follow', 'Still Haven´t Found', 'Bad' and 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'. The crowd was total excitmanet during 'One'. U2 will arrive in Sao Paulo, next Saturday. U2 will play at Morumbi stadium, on feb 20 and 21. Sold out, to the two shows.
read on: terra
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Bono sings traditional song in Mexico
read on: uol
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Some photos
on: U2-Vertigo-tour
by Mexican Lila64: photo 1 / Bono / Bono / Bono / Bono / Edge / Adam / Bono / Bono / Edge / U2 / Monterrey-Edge and Bono / Monterrey-the crowd / U2 on stage
on elnorte


:: Regina O'Numb 2/13/2006 01:57:06 PM [+] ::
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Watch Edge at Sundance festival
So sweet and nice, he talks, attends the fans, he walks...lovely on: lulop
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Edge - Entertainment Week
picture of Edge with Rufus Wainwright picture of Edge with Rufus Wainwright / another Edge
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Watch "Lost Highway"
on: youtube
:: Regina O'Numb 2/13/2006 12:39:04 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: rumor tour in 2002 / SYCMIOYO as the 1st / 'Vertigo' sweeps 3 Grammy Awards!

"Boy" tour - february 13, 1981 - U2 perform in Rotterdam, Holland at De Lantaarn.

"October" tour - february 13 1982 - U2 perform in Austin, Texas at the Opry House. 3.000 people - sellout.

Summer Tour rumors spread - february 13, 2002. Rumors begin to spread that U2 will tour across Europe in the summer of 2002 with Oasis on the bill as a supporting act. Official confirmation of the tour is still weeks aw

U2 lands at No. 1 with 'Sometimes...' - february 13, 2005. "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" debuts at No. 1 today on the UK singles chart, barely edging Elvis Presley's "Wooden Horse." It's U2's sixth number one single in the UK.

'Vertigo' sweeps three Grammy Awards - february 13, 2005. "Vertigo" sweeps all three categories in which it is nominated at tonight's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles: Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal; Best Rock Song (songwriters award); Best Short Form Music Video. With 17 career Grammy Awards, U2 is now tied for 8th on the all-time list of Grammy winners. Only one of the awards is given during the TV broadcast, and U2 makes the most of the brief time allowed for acceptance speeches. Edge speaks first, holding up his Grammy and dedicating the award to his daughter Sian. After Bono says he's "genuinely surprised" by the award, Larry talks about the uncertainty that U2 would be able to perform tonight, and the uncertainty they'd be able to tour at all this year. He also apologizes for the recent ticket sales problem. Also during the show, U2 performs "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own;" and near the end of the awards, Bono joins an all-star chorus in singing the Beatles' "Across the Universe" as a fund raiser for victims of the Asian tsunami in late December.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/13/2006 12:38:57 PM [+] ::
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Monterrey is the city of blinding lights, tonight!
Tecnologico stadium will be a total party to receive U2 in Monterrey with 45.000 people. U2 arrived at International Airport of Monterrey, yesterday in a prive-fly and immediately they went to the stadium to check it. The gates will open at 3:00 p.m. Probably 15.000 people are from other states of Mexico and from south of US. The security have 600 guards (prive), and out off the stadium, ther are 300 polices. No cam-photos; no cam-video; no any obejct which could be used to attack the other fans; no alcohol. The supporter band The Secret Machines, will play since 7:00 p.m. U2 will start the concert at 8:15 p.m. and will play during 2 hours and half.
read on: elpovenir

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'It's Cold Outside...'
Band and crew have been rehearsing ahead of the opening show of Vertigo '06 in Mexico. It was pretty cold in the Estadio Tecnológico in Monterrey and everyone on stage was well wrapped up in woolies and leather jackets but the music soon warmed things up. Adam took a tip from Edge and was wearing a very cool beanie. Great to hear the songs ringing around a stadium again after a a two month break. The locals were out in force for the arrival of the band, which made for quite an exhilarating journey from airport to stadium in the company of local paparazzi. And hundreds of fans have been camped out in a kind of mini-festival around the stadium - about 600 are sleeping out, some in their own tents, in a bid to be first in to the venue and claim their chance of eye-contact with the band. Rehearsals threw up some changes: new visuals in some places and, as our shot shows, Original of the Species looked particularly stunning. Looks like there's been some creative rethinking of 'Streets' too, but more of that after the first show. 'It's cold outside...' but as the song goes, ' It gets so warm in here.' Should be hot in Monterrey on Sunday night. We'll have more soon, including the set list and a report of the show. Keep tuning in.
look for green taxi in Monterrey / sensational flowers on stage / magic equipment / great great images on stage
read on: U2.com

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The first contacts with Mexican fans
Three hours of soundcheck. During some seconds some fans along the streest around the stadium had an oportunity to see them from their cars, with intense security. Hundreds fans were there to see U2. They played 22 songs (some parts) as 'Beautiful day', 'I still haven´t found what I'm looking for', 'Sunday, bloody Sunday', 'One', 'Miss Sarajevo' and 'Pride' (In the name of love).
read on: vanguardia

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They live to support U2...dear friend Carmen Hernandez...
...Carmen Hernandez, economics' studient (23 years old), says she had a petition to bring U2 to Mexico, during the shows in San Jose. She met Bono, who signed for her 'Viva Mexico.' In Atlanta she was at the first row, with a banner with: 'Holla desde Mexico', Adam read and smiles...
read on: eluniversal

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rumor...They will film the three shows of U2 in Mexico...
read on: vanguardia

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Good night, good luck Edge & Co. Good luck too, to my friend Carmen Hernandez, zootopian atticus
:: Regina O'Numb 2/12/2006 02:43:15 PM [+] ::
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She danced with Bono and he sung 'One' for her. Sao Paulo 98!
There are unforgettable moments in 98, but to Adriana Mayumi Kanomata, 17 years old (in 1998), that moments were a dream come true; Bono looked for her dancing in the crowd, asked her to dance with him, during 'Mysterious Ways' and as she refused to let him go, he stood up her on his shoulder leaving her seating on main stage. After he sung 'One'...During the start of '40', Lord Adam Clayton kissed her and she left the stage...
look for Bono with Adriana on his shoulder (I took this photo) here
the scan with Adriana´s photo Jornal da Tarde - feb 2, 98
watch Bono dancing with Adriana during Mysterious Ways
watch her moment on stage during One
watch Lord Adam Clayton with Adriana athe the start of 40

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Will be Bono the Messiah?
Bono is the center of this article, into Brazilian magazine Epoca, where, the journalists Alexande Mansur and Luis Antonio Giron, try show Bono. They ask: How a rock singer is the major advocate of the social causes of the planet. And why thousands of Brazilians pay any price to hear him live. They report all the reverences to Bono in the internet. From the wishes to see him as the President of Brazil until the President of the World. There are much more groups dedicated to him and U2, than to The Beatles. Bono is the unique artist of the world able to ask the fans to fight (in a good way) to a better world. Inclusive the name, U2, 1you too' ask the fans to join them. 'Vertigo' tour (a tsunami) will hit Brazil with two shows. Simple and eficient songs, with bass, guitar and drumms as the better rock´s tradition. Katherine Marshall, from World Bak, says: "He has the ability of persuasion as in the media, when speaks to a large audience, as to the politic leaders, in a reunion with door-closed."
check Special of U2 / photos of Bono
read (Brazilian Portuguese language) on: revista epoca

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Bono at Brazilian Caras magazine
This magazine shows some photos of Larry and Bono in holydays in Mexico. I won´t post the scans, cause I respect their prive life. Bono said: "Any place which I am, I never stay more than three weeks distant of my family." - "The show in Brazil is very important to the whole band. I can´t wait."

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Scalper / Cambista
in Brazilian Portuguese language / in English language, Scalper is scalper. If this other blog, says that they have costs and this is the cause of the 45% of advantage, they must explain what are all of those costs. If the guys of that blog received as a present from Alexandre Accioly, those 100 tickets to the 1st U2´s show in Sao Paulo, they should make a contest or anything else to distribute the tickets FREE to their readers. If they bought the 100 tickets from a scalper (to get their readers tunned with the blog), why were they talking a lot to not get tickets by scalpers? They´re a sort of Milli Vanilli, they´re liar. They´re a shame to Brazilians fans. The lights shinne on everyone, some of them with more, some of them with less...we must accept our own situation. The readers are frequent in the same way they feel comfortable...and as Larry told to all those so called fans...two words for them...
:: Regina O'Numb 2/12/2006 02:42:53 PM [+] ::
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Grammy 2006!
Grammy for Best Album // Best Song, Best Rock Album and Best Album

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Grammy 1988!
Edge's acceptance speech at 1988 Grammy's / Bono's acceptance speech from 1988
:: Regina O'Numb 2/12/2006 01:42:46 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: somewhat tired / "POPMart" at K-Mart with "Holy Joe" / asking Pinochet for justice!

"Boy" tour - february 12, 1981 - U2 perform in The Hague, Holland at Paard Van Troje. The show is recorded for Dutch radio and TV. Unfortunately, after the rigours of the previous evening´s show followed by a night on the town, U2 appear somewhat tired. During "11 O´Clock Tick Tock" Bono dances a jig with a girl from the audience. A second encore of "Out Of Control" is played with fervour, inspiring the crowd to jump up and down.

U2 announce PopMart at a New York city K-Mart - february 12, 1997. U2 appear at a Manhattan KMart store to announce tour dates for their upcoming "POPMart" world tour. The band answers questions from the media and performs "Holy Joe" live on a makeshift stage in the lingerie section of the store. The event is broadcast live on MTV and VH-1 in the U.S., on Much Music network in Canada, and elsewhere around the world on TV and radio. Listen to "Holy Joe" live .

Bono visits cemetery and asks Pinochet for justice - february 12, 1998. One day after playing in Santiago, Chile, Bono visits a cemetery there and uses the opportunity to call on former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to account for the fate of those taken away, and presumably killed, during his regime. Bono is surrounded by several mothers of the missing. Bono publicly criticizes former Chilean Dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Bono urges the former dictator to explain what happened to the thousands that disappeared during the 1973-1990 period of Pinochet's reign.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/12/2006 01:40:56 PM [+] ::
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/11/2006 11:15:44 PM [+] ::
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Statistic of 'Vertigo' tour 2005!
Number of concerts: 110
Number of albums played: 11
Number of the titles played: 2502
Number of the different titles: 48
Number of the titles by concert: 23

Statistic by albums: number of the titles played by album and the relative % with the total.
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - 10 - 21%
All That You Can't Leave Behind - 5 - 10%
Pop - 1 - 2%
Zooropa - 1 - 2%
Achtung Baby - 6 - 13%
Rattle & Hum - 2 - 4%
The Joshua Tree - 5 - 10%
The Unforgettable Fire - 3 - 6%
War - 3 - 6%
October - 1 - 2%
Boy - 6 - 13%
B-sides and other - 5 - 10%

Statistic by album / Number of the performances by album and relative % with the total.
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - 805 - 32%
All That You Can't Leave Behind - 257 - 10%
Pop - 2 - 0%
Zooropa - 20 - 1%
Achtung Baby - 333 - 13%
Rattle & Hum - 18 - 1%
The Joshua Tree - 426 - 17%
The Unforgettable Fire - 124 - 5%
War - 218 - 9%
October - 19 - 1%
Boy - 185 - 7%
B-sides and other - 84 - 3%

Statistc by title // Number of performances and the frequence that happened
Vertigo - 148 - 135%
Beautiful Day - 110 - 100%
Bullet The Blue Sky - 110 - 100%
City Of Blinding Lights - 110 - 100%
Elevation - 110 - 100%
Love And Peace Or Else - 110 - 100%
One - 110 - 100%
Pride (In The Name Of Love) - 110 - 100%
Sometimes You Can't Make It On - 110 - 100%
Sunday Bloody Sunday - 110 - 100%
Where The Streets Have No Name - 110 - 100%
All Because Of You - 93 - 85%
Miracle Drug - 92 - 84%
Yahweh - 90 - 82%
With or Without You - 84 - 76%
I Still Haven't Found What I'm - 76 - 69%
The Electric Co - 74 - 67%
The Fly - 70 - 64%
Miss Sarajevo - 64 - 58%
Zoo Station - 58 - 53%
40 - 57 - 52%
Mysterious Ways - 52 - 47%
New Year's Day - 51 - 46%
Running To Stand Still - 46 - 42%
I Will Follow - 44 - 40%
Original Of The Species - 33 - 30%
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get - 28 - 25%
Until The End Of The World - 27 - 25%
The Ocean - 27 - 25%
Bad - 22 - 20%
The First Time - 20 - 18%
Gloria - 19 - 17%
All I Want Is You - 17 - 15%
An Cat Dubh - 16 - 15%
Into The Heart - 16 - 15%
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses - 16 - 15%
Fast Cars - 12 - 11%
Party Girl - 10 - 9%
Instant Karma - 8 - 7%
Out Of Control - 8 - 7%
Crumbs From Your Table - 7 - 6%
Walk On - 7 - 6%
MLK - 3 - 3%
Discothèque - 2 - 2%
In A Little While - 2 - 2%
Angel Of Harlem - 1 - 1%
Love Will Tear Us Apart - 1 - 1%
People Get Ready - 1 - 1%

Title open concert / Total and frequence that happened
City Of Blinding Lights - 66 - 60%
Vertigo - 35 - 32%
Love And Peace Or Else - 9 - 8%

Title close concert / Total and frequence that happened
40 - 56 - 51%
Vertigo - 38 - 35%
Bad - 13 - 12%
Fast Cars - 1 - 1%
Instant Karma - 1 - 1%
With Or Without - 1 - 1%
:: Regina O'Numb 2/11/2006 08:45:17 PM [+] ::
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There's a thread connecting Springsteen, U2 and West
When Bruce Springsteen inducted U2 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, he recalled the first time he saw the Irish rock band. It was in London during the early '80s, and Springsteen and Pete Townshend were checking out the younger competition, as it were. Springteen left the concert duly impressed....Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen and, most famously Bono and The Edge, are the familiar names in that "last band." In 25 years, U2 has gone from being darlings of college radio to Grammy establishment....But Springsteen and U2 are members of a mutual admiration society that would ward off any rivalry. Bono, an idealistic admirer of American culture, often has said that America is an idea, as well as a place, and that Springsteen personifies that idea....The Edge plays the guitar with ethereal grace. The guitar parts of a U2 song are airy and atmospheric, but there's also an urgency to the sound, and often, an introspective protest. The opening notes of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "I Will Follow" both have the defiance and the sorrow to match Bono's wailing voice. This style makes "Sunday Bloody Sunday" resonate with American fans who might have little knowledge of Irish history. And when Bono writes about the personal, rather than the political, the resulting mix of words and music is shot through with passion. Bono wrote "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" about his father, who had recently died...."Kanye, you're next," Bono told Kanye West, who also was up for Album of the Year. The outspoken hip-hop artist was the opening act during U2's recent tour. Maybe Bono sees in West something of an alternate route ¿ the kind of artist he himself would've become had he born in a different time and place. There was a fatherly pride in Bono's remark, as Bono let West know he was sure the hip-hopper would make it on his own. Bono likely sees West as well as Springsteen in the "idea" of America.
read whole article on: app
:: Regina O'Numb 2/11/2006 05:25:02 PM [+] ::
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U2 has that rare ability to communicate what the late Spanish writer, Frederico Garcia Lorca called "duende"; that "mysterious power which everyone senses and no philosopher explains." U2 Unleashes Duende At Grammys - 'Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own' -- the year's best song - No band in the universe is as big as U2. U2 is so big -- the joke goes -- that when Bono wants to change a light bulb all he has to do is hold it and the world revolves around him. Indeed, few bands blur the line between rapture and corn quite the way the Sonic Leprechaun and his Irish Soul Men can at their bombastic worst. But the other night when the lads pulled in Grammys for album and song of the year for "How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" and "Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own," respectively, they proved once again that they're the biggest band on the planet. At their best, U2 achieves what very few artists in any genre can: they create work with a sustained intensity that transforms the particular into the universal. U2 has that rare ability to communicate what the late Spanish writer, Frederico Garcia Lorca called "duende"; that "mysterious power which everyone senses and no philosopher explains."..."I have heard an old master guitarist say: 'Duende is not in the throat; duende surges up from the soles of the feet.' Which means it is not a matter of ability, but of real live form; of blood; of ancient culture; of creative action."...As Bono says on the album's accompanying DVD, "a song can change the world . . . it can change the temperature in the room." While listening to it again and again, I could feel my heart leap into my throat with the force of a Molotov cocktail bathing my senses in incandescent waves of euphoria. I was overtaken with rapture, a caesura captured in time....Lorca also said "with duende it is easier to love and understand, and one can be sure of being loved and understood." ...
read whole article on: ohmynews
:: Regina O'Numb 2/11/2006 02:46:01 PM [+] ::
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Brazilians sites as scalpers....
the blogger and the site, are united to sale 100 tickets (field) of the first U2´s show in Sao Paulo and the price=R$290,00 (U$116,00)...well, as the official price of U2´s tickets to this place is R$200,00 (U$80,00), they´re getting an advantage of 45%, and this to me means they´re scalpers....their allegation is that in the web´s sites of auction the prices are abusive. Scalpers are scalpers, and final dot. Where do they get these tickets? From the old citizens on the lines, from the false pregants on the lines, from the chaos of jan 16th....it´s strange...so...and I think is illegal...the total advantage will be R$9.000,00 (U$3.600,00), I´m using U$1,00=R$2,50.
Read the original text:

"Sexta-feira, Fevereiro 10, 2006

INGRESSOS EXCLUSIVOS "U2 BRASIL.BLOGGER" E "U2 BRASIL.ORG"!... Por que "você também" merece!

Em parceria com o Fã Clube Oficial do U2 no Brasil, o U2 Brasil.Org, conseguimos 100 INGRESSOS de PISTA/INTEIRA para o show do U2 no dia 20/02! O valor de venda que conseguimos chegar foi de R$290,00. A intenção do(s) site(s) é de ajudar os fãs e contra-atacar os preços abusivos que estão sendo cobrados!

Os interessados devem enviar um e-mail para u2brasil.blogger@gmail.com com o seguinte assunto: "LISTA DE ESPERA". Será feita uma lista de espera; por ordem de chegada dos e-mails; para que assim que estabelecermos a forma de venda e entrega, essas pessoas sejam informadas.
Por tanto, peço o favor de que somente mandem e-mails as pessoas que REALMENTE estejam interessadas na compra!
No e-mail devem constar:

- Nome completo;
- Endereço;
- CPF;
- Telefone para contato
- Quantidade desejada de ingressos (MÁXIMO DE 4 INGRESSOS POR CPF)

Os e-mails que não atenderem a essas exigências (inclusive o "assunto") serão invalidados.
*Fazer também um cadastro no U2 Brasil.Org."

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U2´s fans: trick on ticket´s sale into fan´s site
Douglas França, into the forum of the virtual community Ultraviolet, offers tickets with the price: R$250,00 (U$100,00), it´s costs R$200,00. He, a lyer, said he was an employer of a politician. He got sale at least 11 tickets to the fans in Sao Paulo and Parana. The tickets never arrived to the fans. The police is working and the investigations show that there are more as this Douglas in Campinas, Aracatuba, Belo Horizonte and in Goias state.
read on: o globo

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A special programe (cable TV) - U2, next feb 15th, in Brazil
Multishow, will present, next feb 15th, a special programe about U2´s history called 'Por Tras da Fama' (Behind the fame), at 11:00 p.m. This channel will transmit-live the first U2´s show at Morumbi stadium.
read on: globosat

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Family of victims of Pinochet´s dictatorship want homage U2
read on: terra

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U2 in Monterrey
The local press, say that U2 arrived from Los Angeles, yesterday morning; Bono arrived at the afternoon. 200 people worked building the stage which was OK, yesterday night. 65 trucks were used to bring all the stuff from the airport to the stadium. 100 people were camping in front of the gates of the stadium since tuesday. Today, there are more than 2.000 people camping. There won´t be any lottery to the hot zone, the first 4.000 people will be at this area.
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/11/2006 02:33:04 PM [+] ::
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U2 PHONES HOME - listen to
A couple hours after U2's big win at the Grammy Awards, the band phoned home to Gerry Ryan's morning show on 2FM to share their excitement ... and it's touchingly genuine -- especially Paul McGuinness who talks to Gerry with a "Guess what we just did? We won!!!" attitude that you would've expected after BOY. Edge and Bono also talk, and the interview runs about 23 minutes total. listen to them rte - thanks to @U2 and U2.source

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U2 Grammy Awards 2006 (One/Vertigo performance)
mp4 (217 MB) - here - Will play in Quicktime, VLC player. by neutral
:: Regina O'Numb 2/11/2006 12:53:45 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: Bono and Edge in an inner-city bar / the first meeting with Anton Corbijn in New Orleans / "POPMart" in the end of the world!

"Boy" tour - february 11, 1981 - Amsterdam / Holland - Paradiso. U2 give a strong performance in the Dutch capital´s best known rock temple. Earlier in the day Bono and Edge hung out with a photographer in an inner-city bar where Bono played a few tunes on the piano.

"October" tour - february 11, 1982 - New Orleans / LA - SS President Riverboat. The second half of U2's U.S. tour begins with the band playing on a riverboat as it sails its way down the Mississippi River. A writer from New Musical Express attends the show to report on the band's progress, and brings with him photographer Anton Corbijn, who meets U2 for the first time and begins a working friendship that lasts to this day, U2 and Corbijn do a long photo shoot along side the SS President. It is U2's first meeting with Corbijn.

"POPMart" tour - february 11, 1998. U2 perform in Santiago, Chile - Estadio Nacional. To top it off, that same day, the chilean soccer team beat the english soccer team in Wembley Stadium in England by 2-0, and the images of those 2 goals were shown on the screen just before the band walked down from the lemon with the chilean soccer team's shirt to sing "Discotheque". The show ended with Bono asking Pinochet where the bodies (of the desappeared when Mr Pinochet was the president) are, just before "One" Bono once again returned to the eighties speaking of the dissapeared, and during the song in the "love is a temple" part, he almost went crying. "Mothers Of The Disappeared" was beautifully rearranged, just Edge and Bono, and in the end they went singing El pueblo vencera.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/11/2006 12:50:33 PM [+] ::
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'It means a hell of a lot to us.' Said Edge. 'An even more precious gift than the awards is the gift that you've all afforded us to continue to make our music.'

Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own'
Best Rock Song for 'City of Blinding Lights'
Best Rock Album for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Song of the Year for 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own'
Album of the Year for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Steve Lillywhite won a Grammy for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical category due to his work on How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and Jason Mraz's album, Mr. A-Z.

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:: Regina O'Numb 2/10/2006 09:54:26 PM [+] ::
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Three of them...27 years ago, exactly this day! (Pizza, too)
Adam, Bono, Edge - On the morning of the 10th February 1979 at the Trinity Arts Block, Trinity College, Dublin City. After this photo session, the band save for Larry Mullen went to 'The Pizzaland Restaurant' in Grafton Street for lunch.
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/10/2006 09:51:03 PM [+] ::
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More From Grammy Night
Backstage news and cool shots from Grammy night. When Edge came offstage after his fret-blistering performance in the Hurricane Katrina tribute at the end of the show (check our 'guitar-legends' snap with Bruce and Elvis) Grammy Night '06 was still young! Joining the rest of the band and management who were celebrating in the dressing room (you could hear the cheers from the U2 dressing room in San Francisco when we won 'Album of the Year') who should turn up but the shy and retiring Kanye West - along with his mother and girlfriend. Kanye too did alright for awards on the night, but as Bono pointed out onstage, Kanye is 'Next!' There wasn't a lot of time to savour the moment: everyone had to brave the press line where the flashbulbs were popping and questions needed fielding from the battalion of reporters. And this time Larry got a chance to speak - earlier his moment had been cut short! Then there were interviews for TV networks including with MTV, vh1 and CNN. (Catch that last one here, it's got, er, pizzas in!). It was A-List City wherever you looked at The Staples Center and the band bumped into Jay Z and Faith Hill along the way who, like everyone else, were delighted that the Irish had done so well. We thought we were all done until we realised we had lost the singer - not for the first time. No worries, turned out he'd joined in an interview with Kanye! After that it was off to a party hosted by Interscope boss Jimmy Iovine at the Tom Tom club in Santa Monica - and anyone was was anyone was here. Dr Dre, Green Day, Keane, Arcade Fire, Bruce Springsteen and the radiant Patti, Sheryl Crow, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and various Coldplay types dotted about the place. Even though it was now in the small hours, what with the pool and the dancing, the phone calls home to Dublin, the champagne and the Guinness...it was a pretty great way to get ready to fly to Mexico!
Edge, Springsteen, Costello // U2 // Bono and Paul
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/10/2006 08:44:53 PM [+] ::
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Vertigo Is Go Again!
It's been quite a week for U2. On Wednesday the band swept the board at the 2006 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles and now they take the sold-out Vertigo Tour on the final leg of its year long global tour. Here's our cut-out-and-keep guide to what's been going on - and what's coming up. This was Grammy night when the band took all five awards they were nominated for including Song of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Rock Album. 'It means a hell of a lot to us.' Said Edge. 'An even more precious gift than the awards is the gift that you've all afforded us to continue to make our music.' Get the lowdown here . Watch the band talk about winning in this very laid back CNN clip. Taking 'Album of the Year' for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb was particularly sweet. 'I'm not sure we deserved all of the Grammys,' said Larry. 'But Album of the Year is a special one.' Read why here. On Sunday in Monterrey, Mexico, the band perform the first of twenty stadium dates which will take them through South America, into Asia, down to New Zealand and Australia and finally back to the US to close the tour. Check out the dates and who is supporting them here. We'll keep you up to date on set lists, show reports and latest live shots in our Vertigo Tour area. And of course we have our own tour diarist travelling with the band in the shape of the inimitable Willie Williams. Willie keeps a behind-the-scenes journal of life on the road for U2.Com Subscribers. You can get a taste of some of his latest entries here and find out more about subscribing here.
read on: U2.com
:: Regina O'Numb 2/10/2006 08:34:58 PM [+] ::
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U2 'unrivalled artistically'
New York - Feted by world leaders and honoured for their humanitarian work, Irish rockers U2 and their charismatic frontman Bono received the accolades that mattered most on Wednesday - from their musical peers. Barely mentioned in the run-up to the annual Grammy awards, U2 ended up dominating the evening, winning all five categories in which they were nominated, including the prestigious album and song of the year prizes. The unexpected haul was a reminder of U2's continuing musical influence, which has at times been overshadowed by Bono's high-profile campaigning for causes like HIV/Aids prevention and poverty alleviation. "If you think this is going to go to our heads, it's too late," Bono said, as he accepted yet another Grammy at the United States music industry's biggest party of the year in Los Angeles. * Potential Nobel peace laureate * The issue of swollen heads is a sensitive one for U2 and particularly for Bono whose style of political activism has been dismissed by some critics as sanctimonious preaching. "There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment," the writer Paul Theroux, wrote recently in the New York Times. But for his admirers, including the likes of Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, Bono can do little wrong, and he has regularly been mentioned as a future Nobel peace laureate and even a potential head of the World Bank. He was named one of Time magazine's 'Persons of the Year' in 2005, alongside Bill and Melinda Gates, and has been referred to as "a kind of one-man state" and even "an alternative United Nations". Some industry insiders were surprised at the group's success on Wednesday, given that their album, How To Build An Atomic Bomb, was released in 2004 and is no longer even on the charts. "I think a lot of people voted for the band as opposed to the album," said Ken Schlager, executive editor of Billboard magazine. * In a class of their own * While U2 are hardly in need of a career boost, Schlager said the Grammys were more important for publicising the esteem in which Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton are held by their peers. During the ceremony, U2 were publicly thanked by rapper Kanye West among others and performed on stage with soul singer Mary J Blige. "They are without doubt the best live popular music act in the world right now. That, more than anything else, makes them huge stars," said Schlager. "They have rivals in terms of earning power, but I don't think there's anyone out there who can touch their performances artistically right now." The US leg of the recent Vertigo tour earned $260m and played to three million people at 90 concerts, according to Billboard. * Rock band like a circus * Nearly always dressed in black and always with his signature wrap-around tinted glasses, Bono has, in recent years, become as comfortable in the political arena as in 60 000-seat stadiums. He was present at the meeting of the Group of Eight industrialised powers last year when it decided to cancel the debt of the 40 poorest countries, and he also attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last month. He even showed up last week at the US national prayer breakfast in Washington to urge President George W Bush to boost US aid to the world's poor. In one of his many acceptance speeches on Wednesday, Bono compared the excitement of being in a rock band to running away with a circus. "And there's also the possibility with rock music ... that it might just amount to something a little more than entertainment on occasion and that you might be able to communicate some honest feelings," he said.
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Grammys get it right
U2 pulls off a surprise, Mariah Carey's comeback hits a roadblock and Gwen Stefani goes home empty-handed....Instead, longtime Grammy favorite U2, who had not been predicted to win in major categories, walked off with five awards, including Song of the Year for "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" and Album of the Year for "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." Along with wins for Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song ("City of Blinding Lights") and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group (also for "Sometimes ..."), U2's total Grammy tally rose to 21. That places the Irish band at No. 6 on the list of most-honored Grammy winners ever, one ahead of Alison Krauss, whose three trophies in country categories brought her total to 20. "If you think this is going to our head, it's too late," Bono joked as he accepted the award for Song of the Year. "Being in a rock band is like running away with the circus," the ever-quotable Nobel Peace Prize nominee said. "But there's also the possibility with rock music ... that, you know, it might just amount to something a little more than entertainment on an occasion, and that you might be able to communicate some honest feeling." He went on to explain the meaning behind both the band's moving Song of the Year pick, one of the most personal Bono has penned, as well as its latest album. "(It's) an odd title for an album, and people have asked, 'What are you talking about?' I was talking about my father Bob," with whom the recent Nobel Peace Prize nominee had a rocky, feud-filled history. "He was the atomic bomb in question. When he died, he set off a chain reaction in me. I've been shouting ... and screaming about him for the past few years. Maybe tonight is the time to stop." U2 also was responsible for one of the night's most memorable performances, an impassioned version of "One" with powerhouse enhancement from Mary J. Blige in a replay of their duet from the Katrina telethon last year. The band's Album of the Year win is the quartet's second; its first came in 1987 for "The Joshua Tree." "But we've lost two, so I know how it feels, Kanye." For two years in a row the outspoken, boastful rapper and critics' favorite was shut out in the top categories, yet once again he nearly made a clean sweep in the rap field, winning for Best Rap Album ("Late Registration"), Best Rap Song ("Diamonds From Sierra Leone") and Best Rap Solo Performance ("Gold Digger"). ("I had no idea," West said as he won his first televised prize, pulling out a sheet of paper with "THANK YOU LIST" scrawled on the back.) "You're next," Bono said, adding, "he's a great artist." Indeed, the singer had kind words for all of his fellow nominees. Mariah: "You sing like an angel." Gwen Stefani: "The heart of Hollywood. She's like Carole Lombard." And "to be in the company of Paul McCartney, who discovered the country we're all living in, is an honor." Not entirely sure what that reference means, but all the goodwill in the world didn't put a Grammy in Sir Paul's hands. His two performances, however - "Fine Line" and "Helter Skelter" with his own band, and a mash-up built on "Yesterday" with "retired" rapper Jay-Z and Linkin Park - were among the program's few standout performances....
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U2 is the great winner of 48th Grammy!
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U2´s surprise and they get five prizes
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/10/2006 08:32:49 PM [+] ::
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U2's The Edge Signs Limited Edition "Music Rising" Gibson Les Paul's at Guitar Center Hollywood
U2's The Edge visited Guitar Center Hollywood last week to personally sign 31 of the Gibson Les Paul Limited Hurricane Motif guitars. 14 of these "Signature Editions" are available now exclusively through Guitar Center at $10,000 each, with all proceeds going to the Music Rising Campaign. All of the guitars are individually painted, and offered on a first come, first served basis, - subject to availability. To order the guitar of your choice, simply select your favorite "one of a kind" color from the selection below, and contact your local Guitar Center store. Model: Gibson LP5MHMNH-SIG With Case Limited Edition Sig Les Paul Mardi Gras Motif
Guitar Center ID: 103633368 / 103633434
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/10/2006 05:46:42 PM [+] ::
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Fans from 440 cities in Brazil payed their tickets...Democracy...
After 3 days of the ticket´s reserve to the second U2´s show in Sao Paulo, fans from 440 different cities went to the bank (Itau) to pay for their tickets. According to Itau´s announcement, 1.639 bank, received the fans. Southern of Brazil had the vast majority of the fans: 142 cities in Sao Paulo-state, 77 in Minas Gerais-state, 32 in Rio de Janeiro-state and 7 in Espirito Santo-state. The fans made the reserve by phone and sold out in 7 hours. The payment in the Itau didn´t have lines. Now, the fans will take the tickets, properly, starting next monday till the day of the show (21) in Sao Paulo, at Pacaembu stadium and in Rio, starting on feb 15 till feb 19.
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Alert in Brazil: false tickets
There will a massive control at the gates of Morumbi stadium, and the Brazilian organization of U2´s shows, detected the illegal commerce of the tickets to feb 20 and 21 (scallpers and web´s auction).
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So, take care the tickets and other stuff to arrive at the stadium, go to the place that the universe reserved for you, cause U2 do care their fans....
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Balloons for U2 at Azteca stadium in Mexico city
While Monterrey (the actual city of blinding lights) is preparing the things at the stadium to receive U2, next sunday; Mexico city is planning their party: every fan will bring to the stadium, three balloons, each one with the one of the three official colours of their beautiful country, green, white and red. They will let them go off when the band arrive, at the stage..
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/10/2006 03:01:13 PM [+] ::
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Watch Edge and Bono on Ellen Degeners show!
Here is a link to some of the clips of Ellen backstage at the Grammy rehearsal. There is one with Bono, although a shorter version, as also a clip with Edge and Bonnie Rait. Really funny stuff!! on: warnerbros and Edge´s clip, properly
:: Regina O'Numb 2/10/2006 02:26:15 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: the end of European "TUF" tour / "YES" gig of the year / Steve Lillywhite on board, again!

"October" tour - february 10, 1981. U2 perform in Brussels, Belgium at the Beursschouwburg.

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - february 10, 1985. U2 perform the last date of the European Leg of "The Unforgettable Fire" tour in Paris, France at the Palais Des Omnisports De Bercy. Bono's voice is much better than on two nights ago in Zurich. During "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", Bono again improvises, "Well, I got a feeling deep inside of me, I can't explain it all the time. I don't know the words, and sometimes I don't know the tune...sometimes I feel like I'm knockin on Heaven's door..." Support is "Belfegore". After the show, U2 take a week off in Ireland, and then return to the US to start the next tour leg.

U2/Ash gig honored as Best of 1998 - february 10, 1999. U2's appearance with Ash at the YES Concert in May, 1998, is awarded "Gig of the Year" by Irish online music 'zine Oh Yeah!.

U2 brings Steve Lillywhite on board to produce new album - february 10, 2004. Billboard reports that U2 has called on the familiar talents of Steve Lillywhite to produce the band's new album. Lillywhite produced U2's first three albums, and helped during sessions for The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, and All That You Can't Leave Behind. The news comes nearly a year after reports that U2 had been working with veteran rock producer Chris Thomas (The Sex Pistols, The Pretenders), and fans are left to speculate why Lillywhite would replace Thomas after reports months ago that they were in the "final stages" of recording. U2 manager Paul McGuinness issues a statement via the band's official web site: "There are various producers involved in this album," he writes. "Chris Thomas has done some great work. It's good to work with Steve again but it's not as if we're starting from scratch." Lillywhite's comments in the original article, though, seem to suggest the band is starting anew: "It's the first time I'll have gone in to actually start a record with them in 20 years," says Lillywhite.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/10/2006 02:24:57 PM [+] ::
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'We are tonight!'

Edge was asked after the show, does five out of five officially make U2 the greatest band in the world ? 'We are tonight!' he said. (Backstage of Grammy´s night)

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Edge, I´m so proud of you and whole band. Amazing, I think HTDAAB, is the best album of U2. The songs are remarkable, to me, are anthems to my whole life. Your sweet atittude during the New Orleans-portion, simply shows your generosity, you´re so lovely. Your atittude during 'Vertigo' and 'One' shows me, that we will have U2 for so long, cause U2 are playing as boys. Your atittude during the speeches, were spectacular, how many smileys, you had. All these stuff made me a comfortable Regina O'Numb! THANK YOU SO MUCH U2, CAUSE I´M A FAN OF THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD!...and what shirt! I want one, I want one!
:: Regina O'Numb 2/9/2006 07:05:10 PM [+] ::
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U2 is the big Grammy winner - five, including the biggest, album and song of the year!

CNN) -- Mariah Carey may have received much of the pre-show attention, but U2 was the big winner Wednesday night at the Grammys, taking five awards -- including two of the biggest, album of the year and song of the year. In accepting the album award for "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," Bono, U2's lead singer, paid tribute to all the other nominees, including Kanye West. "Kanye, you're next," he told the rapper, who had received eight nominations and was considered a favorite for the big award. West's album "Late Registration," besides being a big seller, dominated critics' 2005 best-of lists. The album of the year award is U2's second. The band also won for 1987's "The Joshua Tree." (Watch Bono and the gang chew on their win and their pizza -- 5:42) U2 won song of the year, a songwriter's award, for "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own," as well as best rock album for "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." After the song of the year award, Bono explained the odd album title was a reference to his father, Bob, the "atomic bomb" of the title. He hoped winning the Grammys would provide some comfort to what was sometimes a difficult relationship. Bob Hewson died in 2001; his wife, Bono's mother, had died when Bono was 14 and he raised the singer, born Paul Hewson, alone after that. U2 also gave one of the night's outstanding performances, offering an energetic "Vertigo" and then a moving "One," the latter with Mary J. Blige. The band's guitarist, The Edge, joined in on a telecast-concluding performance of "Yes We Can Can" (written by New Orleans' Allen Toussaint) and "In the Midnight Hour" (a tribute to the late Wilson Pickett). The group now has 20 Grammys, among the top 10 award winners on the all-time list....
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February 08, 2006 / Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center - 'Vertigo', 'One'; Edge on: 'Yes We Can Can' and 'In The Midnight Hour' U2 performs at the 48th annual Grammy Awards. The band brings its own light show for 'Vertigo,' which features the swirling red designs used during the Vertigo Tour. 'One' is performed with Mary J. Blige, and features the Zoo TV tour's video animations showing the word 'one' on the screen in different languages. Later in the ceremony, Edge takes part in an all-star musical tribute to the artists and sounds of New Orleans, performing with the likes of Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, and others. As for the awards, U2 wins all five categories in which its nominated and Steve Lillywhite also wins Producer of the Year.
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U2 deserves it
...Another major shocker: In an interview backstage, West came on all humble about having lost album of the year. "It's all good. Because U2, those are my boys right there," said West, dapper as always in a lavender Yves Saint-Laurent suit and white leather gloves. "U2 deserves it."...
read on: washington post
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Watch U2 after the Grammy´s ceremony, eating pizza
watch Bono and the gang chew on their win and their pizza - 5:42 minutes; Edge looks like he, really, wanted the pizza. Bono tries to explain that comment a bit, and he explains he was talking about pop music, that the Beatles were the "big bang" of pop music and the whole genre. Also, Larry speaks, and claims he's very hurt by being cut-off, and then Bono says he was going to read a poem, then Larry cuts back in and says he wrote it when he was 12, but he thought it was appropriate for the occasion. on: here
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CNN Grammy interview (TO RECORD)
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Watch "One"
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Audio of U2´s performance at Grammy´s night
Vertigo / One (featuring Mary J. Blige) on: maximail
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Watch from MTV!
MTV has some video highlights -- including video of U2 performing "Vertigo" and "One -- & both accepting and talking after the awards! It's short but sweet!
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Watch them on Ellen...
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..."this is our 6th Grammy. We won two earlier." by Edge
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"Yes We Can Can" & "In The Midnight Hour"
The Edge , joined in on a telecast-concluding performance of "Yes We Can Can" (written by New Orleans' Allen Toussaint) and "In the Midnight Hour" a tribute to the late Wilson Pickett (Irma Thomas, Sam Moore, The Edge, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello)
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Photos
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/9/2006 05:17:40 PM [+] ::
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A Special One
'I'm not sure we deserved all of them,' said Larry. 'But Album of the Year is a special one.'

There have been a few great nights for U2 at the Grammy Awards - and last night's was undoubtedly right up there. So, Edge was asked after the show, does five out of five officially make U2 the greatest band in the world ?
'We are tonight!' he said.

"You can't ask me to be humble in a moment like this," added Bono, with a chuckle.

Maybe because the album came out such a long time ago - October 2004 - U2 were not favourites last night, even the band admitting as much in the build-up to the ceremony.

The Album of the Year is only U2's second - there was The Joshua Tree in 1987 - and Bono was gracious towards the other nominees in receiving it.

'This is our second Album of the Year but we've lost two, 'Achtung Baby' and 'All That You Can't Leave Behind,' so we know how it feels'... Kanye, you're next' he's a great artist, being on the road with us. Extraordinary. To be in the company of Paul McCartney, who discovered the country that we're all living in, is a true honour indeed. Yes, sir. Mariah, you sing like an angel, really something else.
'And what about Gwen? This is the heart of Hollywood. She's like Carole Lombard, she's this extraordinary girl.'

The memory of Grammy nights in the past when they were favourites but didn¿t win, made this night all the sweeter said Larry after the show.

'After the 'Pop' record, things like this actually mean something. I'm happy and humbled to have received so many Grammys.' he said. 'I'm not sure we deserved all of them, but Album of the Year is a special one.'

And although U2's Grammy haul is now at 21, putting them sixth on the list of all time winners, there are no dead certs on Grammy night.

'We've been here and lost on some of our most important albums,' recalled Bono, citing the example of 'Achtung Baby. 'But what's really great about this is that in truckstops around the world, especially the United States, people will pick this album out and discover songs they didn't know. As songwriters it really means something, you want to get these songs off, get them into the pop consciousness.'

And the band are as excited as ever about the prospects for rock and the bands that play it.
'There's something about this bass, drums and guitar format that feels fresh,' he said. 'You have this opportunity to make rage into a chorus or hurt into a verse, (and) sorrow is always so much sweeter when it rhymes..'

At which point Larry reminded him that when he's 'finished dealing with the world problems, Third World problems, maybe he should do something about the music industry, because it needs a little help.'

The celebrations were already kicking off, added the singer. 'There may be some Guinness involved.'

Willie Williams, our U2.Com on-the-road diarist, has not just been lighting the band at the Grammys, he's also been keeping his journal up to date. Here's an extract from last night: 'It sounds predictable and unlikely to say so, but the band genuinely didn't expect to win. The competition was so strong and the Atomic Bomb album has been out for over a year so it seemed unlikely that they'd get it, which made the winning all the more sweet. It was great to watch them. There was much rejoicing (though sadly U2 was overlooked yet again in the 'Best Polka' category.)...
Read the diaries in full on our Subscriber Site.

And in case you missed them, here's the awards that U2 won - and who else was in the running....
look for Edge and Bono on 'Vertigo' here / and here

U2.com
:: Regina O'Numb 2/9/2006 02:36:36 PM [+] ::
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'A big, big night for our band.'
What a night at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles as U2 take Song of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Rock Album, sweeping the board in all five categories in which they are nominated. A year after the band won three awards for Vertigo, the first single from How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, tonight the album itself and the next two singles stole the show. City of Blinding Lights won Best Rock Song while Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own took Best Vocal Rock Performance. 'I don't know what to say,' said Bono, on one of several trips to the stage. 'This is really a big, big night for our band.' Edge said it was 'amazing' to be accepting the best rock album award. 'It means a hell of a lot to us. An even more precious gift than the awards is the gift that you've all afforded us to continue to make our music.' The awards mean U2 have now won twenty one Grammys but this was the first time since 1988 and The Joshua Tree that they have won Album of the Year. 'If you think this is gonna go to our head - too late,' Bono joked, after accepting the award for Song of the Year for Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own, which he dedicated to his late father Bob Hewson. 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb is an odd title for album,' he mused. 'We accept that. Actually I was talking about my father Bob. He was the atomic bomb in question. I wanna thank my father Bob for giving me the voice and a bit of attitude to use it ...' Other winners included Maria Carey, Kanye West and John Legend who won three awards each, while Chemical Brothers also bagged a couple. Adam took the opportunity to thank the producers of 'Bomb' and it was appropriate that Steve Lillywhite could join them on stage. Steve also went home with a prize - Producer (nonclassical) of the Year for his work on 'Bomb' and Jason Mraz's 'Mr. A-Z' Photo by Wire Image
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/9/2006 02:31:00 PM [+] ::
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'The pilot of the U2 aeroplane.'
Great shots and more quotes from the Special Merit Awards Ceremony last night when Chris Blackwell was honoured - and the band had the words. Cheered on by Adam and Paul McGuinness, Bono arrived on the podium to open his eulogy with references to Irish whiskey and Amelia Eirhart, the first woman to make a solo-return transcontinental flight. "Do you know this is where she used to drink?" he asked. 'She Drank three quarterss of a bottle of whiskey before she took that flight...Why am I saying this ? Because she was a pioneer.' Just like Chris Blackwell, the London-born, Jamaican-raised founder of Island Records, who first signed U2 way back when. 'First time I met Chris was in the depths of winter,' recalled Bono. 'The height of punk rock in the 70's in London. He was wearing Flip Flops - not very punk rock or maybe very punk rock...I thought, 'This man's not a follower of fashion, he's a pioneer.'' Reflecting on a career in which Blackwell has provided career-making breaks to such artists as Bob Marley, Steve Winwood, Cat Stevens and Roxy Music, Bono said, 'People might say Chris was lucky to be in the room when Bob Marley walked in. But when it happens with 15 or 20 different artists, we realize that we we're all lucky to be in the room with him. Bono explained that if truth be told and U2 had arrived on the scene today They wouldn't have made it past the second album - but Chris Blackwell believed in them and stuck with them. 'Thank you for being the pilot of the U2 aeroplane,' he added. 'We wouldn't be here without you.' Blackwell explained his long career by saying, 'I'm simply a fan of music, and if you really love something, it never feels like going to work.' Our snaps show Bono making the award to Chris Blackwell along with Neil Portnow, President of The Recording Academy. More on the Special Merit Awards here.
look for Bono and Chris Blackwell here
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/9/2006 02:24:32 PM [+] ::
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U2 steal the spotlight at Grammy awards - "He was the atomic bomb in question and when he died it set off a kind of chain reaction in me" ...On an evening notable for performances by veterans like former Beatle Paul McCartney and funk pioneer Sly Stone -- both in their sixties -- U2's success came at the expense of the younger generation...."If you think this is going to go to our heads, it's too late," said U2 frontman Bono, who revealed that the main inspiration behind the album was his father, Bob, who died in 2001. "He was the atomic bomb in question and when he died it set off a kind of chain reaction in me," Bono said. "And I've been shouting about him and giving off about him and complaining about him and screaming about him for the past few years. Maybe tonight is the time to stop," he added....Bono paid tribute to West, who recently toured with U2 but was clearly upset to have to settle for awards in the rap category for the second year in a row. "Kanye, you're next," said Bono, who went on to praise McCartney as the man who "discovered the country that we're all living in." U2's other awards included Rock Album of the Year and Song of the Year for penning "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own."...Stevie Wonder and Alicia Keys performed a stripped-down version of Wonder's classic "Higher Ground" as a tribute to the widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, who was buried Tuesday....
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U2 dominate Grammys, Mariah overshadowed - "We are tonight."
...U2 won all five categories in which it was nominated, including the coveted awards for album and song of the year. With a career haul of 22, the band ranks No. 6 on the all-time list of Grammy winners. U2's triumph, coupled with Green Day's upset win in the marquee race for record of the year, gave an decided rock 'n' roll cast to the recording industry's biggest night, even as pop and R&B acts continue to dominate the charts. The evening marked the first time since 2001 that rock acts clinched all three of the biggest Grammy prizes in a single year, including U2's wins back then for song and record of the year. Asked backstage if his band was now the greatest in the world, U2 guitarist the Edge replied, "We are tonight." Singer Bono, clutching a glass of white wine, added, "You can't ask me to be humble at a moment like this." He noted that U2's album "How to Dismantle and Atomic Bomb" has now yielded eight Grammy Awards, including three from last year, and recalled that the band has lost album of the year twice. It won the award in 1988 for "The Joshua Tree." The song of the year award for "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" also marked the band's second win in this category, following its 2001 victory for "Beautiful Day." ... U2's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" also won best rock album. Additionally, the band won for rock performance by a duo or group with vocal ("Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own") and rock song ("City of Blinding Lights").
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U2 dominate Grammys with five wins - It's really a big night for our band"
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Irish rockers U2 took time out from saving the world to bask in some Grammy glory on Wednesday. The band won all five categories in which it was nominated, including the coveted album and song of the year awards. With a career haul of 22, the band ranks No. 6 on the all-time list of Grammy winners. "I don't know what to say. It's really a big night for our band," U2 singer Bono said, as the band accepted the second album of the year award of its career....U2's new CD "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" also won best rock album. Additionally, the band won for rock performance by a duo or group with vocal ("Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own") and rock song ("City of Blinding Lights")...
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U2 dismantles Grammy Awards - Irish band captures five prizes, including coveted Album, Song of the Year LOS ANGELES - The rock gods snatched Grammy history from the comeback queen Wednesday, as perennial favorites U2 took home five trophies while Mariah Carey had to settle for three. U2 won the 20th Grammy of its career, including album of the year for 'How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb' - the same disc that earned them three awards last year....'If you think this is going to go to our head, it's too late,' U2 frontman Bono said after the group won song of the year for 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own.' After winning the night's big award, album of the year, Bono told Carey, 'You sing like an angel.'...Aside from winning the most awards, U2 provided one of the more rousing performances in the jam-packed show as they sung their hit Vertigo, then collaborated with R&B queen Mary J. Blige's gospel-inflected fervor for their classic 'One.'...
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/9/2006 01:54:02 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: twice in the same day / a Brit Award´98 into lemon / MDH premieres in Berlin / Pollstar Concert Awards for U2&their team.

"October" tour - february 9, 1981. U2 perform two songs live on Swedish TV's Mandagsborsen show, and follow it with a show at the Underground.

"U2 wins a Brit Award" - february 9, 1998. U2 wins a Brit Award as "Best International Group." Bono gives an acceptance speech from inside the band's mirrorball lemon, which was videotaped days earlier during one of U2's shows in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

"The Million Dollar Hotel premieres at the Berlin Film Festival" - february 9, 2000. The Million Dollar Hotel has its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. The film is based on a story by Bono, and Bono is listed as a co-producer of the movie - he also makes a very brief cameo.

"U2 wins big in Pollstar Concert awards" - february 9, 2002. U2 earns three awards at the 13th annual Pollstar Concert Industry Awards in Los Angeles: Major Tour of the Year, Most Creative Stage Production, and Personal Manager of the Year - Paul McGuinness. In addition, Clear Channel Entertainment's UK division -- which promoted U2 -- wins the award for Best International Promoter.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/9/2006 01:27:55 PM [+] ::
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Good luck U2 tonight: Album Of The Year / Song Of The Year / Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal / Best Rock Song / Best Rock Album / Steve Lillywhite as a producer!!!!

"The Edge, the Edge, the Edge, the Edge. He is a rare and true guitar original and one of the subtlest guitar heroes of all time. He's dedicated to ensemble playing and he subsumes his guitar ego in the group. But do not be fooled. Take Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Neil Young, Pete Townshend - guitarists who defined the sound of their band and their times. If you play like them, you sound like them. If you are playing those rhythmic two-note sustained fourths, drenched in echo, you are going to sound like the Edge, my son. Go back to the drawing board and chances are you won't have much luck. There are only a handful of guitar stylists who can create a world with their instruments, and he's one of them. The Edge's guitar playing creates enormous space and vast landscapes. It is a thrilling and a heartbreaking sound that hangs over you like the unsettled sky. In the turf it stakes out, it is inherently spiritual, it is grace and it is a gift." by Bruce Springsteen - R&RHOF

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:: Regina O'Numb 2/8/2006 10:02:35 PM [+] ::
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GRAMMY 2006 - TONIGHT - STAPLES CENTER - LOS ANGELES!
Bruce, Elvis, Edge... for New Orleans

The Grammy Awards tonight will include a musical tribute to New Orleans and Southern soul from a specially convened all-star supergroup. Yesterday, as our exclusive backstage snaps show, Edge joined some of these legendary musicians to get in the groove for this special New Orleans moment. Word is that those involved include local musicians Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas and Dr John along with Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Sam Moore and Bonnie Raitt. 'Our Academy represents thousands of music people across the country, many of whom were directly affected by the New Orleans tragedy,' said Neil Portnow, President of The Recording Academy. 'Music's biggest night wouldn't be complete if we didn't take this unique opportunity to pay homage to a region with such rich musical history and culture. New Orleans, we'll always be there for you.'
read on: U2.com
Edge and Bruce Springsteen / Edge and guitar Music Rising / Edge, Bruce, Costello / Edge signs a guitar / Edge signs a shirt / Edge signs a book / stage of Staples Center
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Gearing Up For Grammy Night - Edge spent the morning (yesterday) in rehearsals with Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen...
The band were on stage at The Staples Centre in Los Angeles yesterday, running through songs for the big show tonight. Edge spent the morning in rehearsals with Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen and others preparing for a special Grammy focus on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. On stage after six weeks off, U2 looked rested and happy to be back at the day job. Adam was in shades, Edge in a very cool 'Music Rising' t-shirt and Bono playing his favourite 'The Goal is Soul' guitar. Without giving too much away, when Mary J Blige joined them on stage for 'One' you sensed that the roof will get a little raising come the live show. U2 and Mary went through the song plenty of times just to get it spot on. 'A pleasure to work with Mary J,' said the singer when they finally called it a day. Later on Bono was on camera with Ellen Degeneres for her show, before some MTV filming. In the evening it was time to big it up for Mr Chris Blackwell who was presented with the Trustees Award at the Grammy Special Merit Awards. Blackwell was the man who founded and ran Island Records for many years - and signed you know who back in 1978. 'Thank you for being the pilot of the U2 aeroplane,' as Bono put it. 'We wouldn't be here without you.'
read on: U2.com
Adam signing a guitar / Bono and Paul McCartney / Bono´s place
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GETTING READY FOR THE GRAMMYS - "U2 were at the Staples Center in Los Angeles today (feb 7th) where they rehearsed for a performance at tomorrow's Grammy Awards. Backstage, Bono was interviewed by talk show host Ellen Degeneres for a segment that will air on her show this Thursday. Tonight, Bono was at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, where he joined Recording Academy President Neil Portnow in presenting the Trustees Award to music producer Chris Blackwell during the Grammy Special Merit Awards." by @U2
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Mr Chris Blackwell who was presented with the Trustees Award at the Grammy Special Merit Awards, by Bono
...In the evening it was time to big it up for Mr Chris Blackwell who was presented with the Trustees Award at the Grammy Special Merit Awards. Blackwell was the man who founded and ran Island Records for many years - and signed you know who back in 1978. 'Thank you for being the pilot of the U2 aeroplane,' as Bono put it. 'We wouldn't be here without you.'
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U2 singer Bono made a surprise appearance to sing the praises of Blackwell
...U2 singer Bono made a surprise appearance to sing the praises of Blackwell, who signed his group to Island after many other labels turned them down. He praised Blackwell's willingness to let musicians take risks without corporate interference or fear of getting dropped. "If U2 arrived right now, in the current climate, we would not have gotten past our second album, and I think that's kinda sad. I especially think it's very sad, because we're doing very well now," he said, to laughter. Blackwell, who also signed such acts as Bob Marley, Roxy Music, Marianne Faithfull and Traffic, replied his only contribution to U2's success was that he "pretty much stood out of the way."...
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Grammy 2006, in Brazilian Portuguese language
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"Vertigo" - "One" and Edge´s perform with Bruce and Costello
Word on the street is that U2 rehearsed "Vertigo" and "One" (with Mary J. Blige) on Tuesday, which would confirm previous reports that those are the songs U2 will play.
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SBT will transmit-live Grammy´s ceremony, today, 11:00 p.m.
check it on: sbt

:: Regina O'Numb 2/8/2006 03:25:53 PM [+] ::
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Road Diaries Return - WILLIE WILLIAM IS BACK!!!!!
He's back! Willie Williams is back on the road with U2 and has started penning his unique, behind-the-scenes tour journal for U2.Com Subscribers. Willie, U2's longtime Show Designer, is at the Grammy's with the band this week before heading down to Mexico and the opening night of Vertigo '06. Here's a couple of extracts of his latest entries to whet your appetites. * On Preparing for the Fourth Leg. * 'Phone call with Bono this morning to talk about the Grammys and the live show. He sounded in great form, almost like he had taken some time off, hard though that is to imagine. Regular readers will know that U2 performed at the Grammy Awards last year. It¿s no secret that in most cases TV awards shows are where rock and roll goes to die, but the Grammys people are more savvy and helpful than most and we were all pleased with last year¿s result. It¿s the same team organising the forthcoming show, so I¿m as confident as is possible that we¿ll get through it OK. Plus, Bono has a plan, which always helps.........' * At An Industry Awards Do in London.* '...clearly the fleet was in and there were rakes of people there whom I know and love dearly. Smasher, the Vertigo tour¿s video director, had Eurostarred in from Belgium, but the surprise of the night was running into Pete, a sound engineer with whom I did two Stiff Little Fingers tours around 1981. We became quite pally on the tour (when you¿re doing 35 club dates in France in 36 days its sink-or-swim) and I haven¿t seen him since, though remarkably, with the exception perhaps of marginally fewer teeth, he was entirely unchanged. It all turned out to be shockingly A-list, which frankly is a little depressing as I would hate people to start taking these events seriously, but I could see that this had potential to be a very enjoyable night. It was a sit down dinner for over 500 roadies and I found myself seated next to Harvey Goldsmith and Bob Geldof, neither of whom I'd properly met before but they were both very engaging. Geldof is every bit as entertaining dinner party company as you'd imagine and I particularly enjoyed hearing his take on some of the political jaunts, as I only ever hear Bono's side of the stories. Bob¿s a little more...direct, perhaps....' Willie Williams's Road Journals are just one of the benefits you get when you become a subscriber to U2.Com. To take a free tour of our Subscribers Site and to find out about all the other exclusives, check this.
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/8/2006 03:22:45 PM [+] ::
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Varig created a promotion to the fans of Rolling Stones and U2!
Varig (Air Company) created a special price to attend the fans who will embark at air-bridge (a kind of the fly Rio-Sao Paulo-Rio) to see the shows of Rolling Stones and U2 in the two cities. Under the promotion, the part Rio-Sao Paulo, which normally cost R$635,00 (US$254,00), go-back by class LRTPONTE, will cost R$480,00 (US$192,00), go-back, between the days feb 17 and 22. Stones´ fans which fly from Sao Paulo will embark on feb 17 and 18 and back to Sao Paulo on feb 19. Who lives in Rio and guaranted the tickets to the shows of U2 at Morumbi Stadium should embark to Sao Paulo on feb 19 and 21 and back on feb 22 to Rio. The promotion, is valid only to the fly which will happen between 11: p.m. and 17 p.m.
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U2´s fans will be selected to see U2 in a privileged place (HOT ZONE)...JuClayton deserves to be there! 'Vertigo' tour, has an area to 5.000 people, in a heart form with two catwalks where Bono sings. To this space, called hot zone, the tickets weren´t sold. During the entrance the crowd will pass by a device with a green light or red light, as an airport. After, the U2´s security choose who will entry to see the show in this privileged place.
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*for everything JuClayton, is the fan who deserves it, much more than any other.
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Watch fans into the elipse-2005
I wish JuClayton and other friends of this Edge´s blog be the lucky fans into hot zone in Sao Paulo-2006, as Ricardo, Rose, Geisa, Malcom, Patty, Danny, Fernanda, Nildo...watch it
:: Regina O'Numb 2/8/2006 03:01:54 PM [+] ::
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Bono will join 'The Leadership Summit 2006 - august 10-12, 2006
2006 Speakers - We are excited to announce the newly-confirmed speakers for The Leadership Summit 2006. This year, Bill Hybels will be joined by: Bono, Lead Singer of the rock group U2 and TIME Magazine's 2005 Person of the Year // Wayne Cordeiro - Senior Pastor, New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu // Patrick Lencioni - Founder & President of The Table Group, Inc. // James Meeks - Senior Pastor, Salem Baptist Church in Chicago // Ashish Nanda - Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School // Peg Neuhauser - President, PCN Associates // Andy Stanley - Senior Pastor, North Point Community Church in Atlanta...
read whole article on: willowcreek
:: Regina O'Numb 2/8/2006 01:45:28 PM [+] ::
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Mexico: the stage is still building...since last saturday, to Monterrey, the city of blinding lights! 17 truckers; 13 engineers and techincians and 150 workers; 14 hours per day working; porta-floor to protect the ground at the field; just to let Monterrey, the city of blinding lights...
read on: angelfire / look for the wonder stadium in Monterrey
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Good luck to dear friend Carmen Hernandez, zootopian atticus, in Monterrey!
:: Regina O'Numb 2/8/2006 01:30:23 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: Edge now does background vocals / U2 in Cleveland - R&RHOF&M

"The Unforgettable Fire" - february 8, 1985. U2 perform in Zurich, Switzerland at Hallenstadion. During "Sunday Bloody Sunday", Bono's voice sounds terrible and starts cutting in and out. The band leave the stage after the song, and return 20 minutes later to finish the show. Bono still struggles through the rest of the show--backstage they had decided to drop "A Sort of Homecoming", and skip over parts of "Bad". "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" is played with The Edge now doing background vocals. Support is "Belfegore".

U2 exhibit opens at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum - february 8, 2003. In the Name of Love: Two Decades of U2, an exhibit of artifacts and memorabilia from U2's career, opens at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. The exhibit, which features early artifacts never seen before by the public at large, as well as handwritten notes and lyrics, the band's instruments and tour fashions, and much more, will remain open through September.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/8/2006 01:30:03 PM [+] ::
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the strongest record...

"I would be surprised if we won everything we were nominated for," he said, adding that "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" was "a very strong record, I think maybe our strongest ever in terms of the overall range of the album." by Edge on The Edge´s good works
:: Regina O'Numb 2/7/2006 08:03:26 PM [+] ::
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Grammys To Pay Tribute To New Orleans - Edge will join it!
New Orleans natives Allen Toussaint, Dr. John and Irma Thomas will be joined by Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello tomorrow night (Feb. 8) as the Grammy Awards pay tribute to the hurricane ravaged city. The segment will also feature participation from Bonnie Raitt, U2 guitarist the Edge and soul music great Sam Moore. "Our Academy represents thousands of music people across the country, many of whom were directly affected by the New Orleans tragedy," says Recording Academy president Neil Portnow, noting that the 48th annual ceremony "wouldn't be complete if we didn't take this unique opportunity to pay homage to a region with such rich musical history and culture." As previously reported, the Edge and producer Bob Ezrin created the Music Rising initiative to provide instruments to musicians affected by last year's Gulf Coast hurricanes. The Recording Academy's non-profit MusiCares Foundation is in charge of managing the organization's grants process. In November, Toussaint and Costello recorded an album in New Orleans with several other longtime collaborators. Dubbed "The River in Reverse," the project will be released in May via Verve Forecast. In other Grammy Awards news, Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow and Sting have joined the lineup of artists and celebrities who will present awards or introduce performances during the event, which will be broadcast live on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The show will also include one-of-a-kind performances by Madonna and Gorillaz, Linkin Park and Jay-Z, U2 and Mary J. Blige, Faith Hill and Keith Urban, Christina Aguilera and Herbie Hancock and Jamie Foxx with Kanye West. For an up-close look at the top nominees for this year's event, visit the special online section Billboard Goes to the Grammys.
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The Edge's good works - U2 guitarist, his band up for 5 Grammys, creates charity LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- With a long-held affection for New Orleans, a city he calls "very unique and very special," U2 rocker The Edge felt compelled to try to help it recover from Hurricane Katrina. The result: Music Rising, an organization that provides instruments to musicians blasted by the storm. The city especially took hold of his heart in 2001 after he and the band, while playing there, suffered a tragedy back home. A storage area in Dublin where they kept a lot of instruments was wiped out in a flood. "Luckily," he recalls, "my main guitars were with us in New Orleans ... the Gibson Explorer that I've had since I was 17 years old, and the amplifier I've used on every album for every show since we got a record deal." Four years later, after Katrina blew through New Orleans, the memory of that good fortune led him to create Music Rising, along with Gibson Guitar, the Guitar Center Music Education Foundation and the MusicCares Foundation. For The Edge, aka David Evans, that relief work topped off a packed year of touring, family trauma and five Grammy nominations for U2's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." The Grammys will be handed out Wednesday. The normally soft-spoken guitarist, 44, grows passionate when he talks about Katrina's impact and his efforts to help with Music Rising. "When I heard about the hurricane, the devastation of the city and the area, I pretty soon started thinking about the musicians, started to think about the cultural loss, not just to New Orleans, not just to America, but really to the world," he told the Associated Press. Does that mean he's planning to follow band-mate Bono's worldwide activist footsteps? Not likely, he responds. "Bono is kind of a one-off character in music. His skills as a communicator are amazing, and his powers of persuasion are equally amazing," he said, smiling. "I would never think of trying to take on quite that level of commitment." Captivated by New Orleans - True, but New Orleans' mark on the modest musician -- known for his humility as well as his thunderous melodies -- runs deep. In the early '90s, a visit with Bono to a small New Orleans club had an unexpected impact. "We walked in and the place was jumping. There was this little funk band, but they were all playing brass instruments, which is something I'd never heard of or seen before," he recalled. There, the pair saw a 12-year-old trombone player named Trombone Shorty. "We were just mesmerized by him," The Edge said. "I ended up with Bono, after a few tequilas, and we ended up dancing with a bunch of girls on the top of the bar. It was one of those sort of nights." The birthplace of jazz, and a major influence on rock and roll, New Orleans captivated his attention, he said. He returned last November and found a different, less fun-loving city -- one torn apart by natural disaster and a lack of aid. "Going through the streets of New Orleans and seeing the homes of musicians I knew and respected, seeing Fats Domino's home completely destroyed ... It does bring it home in a very personal way," he said. At a recent Music Rising event in Hollywood, the native Irishman showed up in his customary skullcap, black leather jacket, jeans and sneakers, and chatted easily with some New Orleans transplants. Affable and humble, he even asked for their e-mail addresses and talked about music "gear" -- more a regular Joe than guitarist for one of the biggest bands in the world. U2, its long history including 11 studio albums and 16 Grammy wins, rocked the music world last year with its "Vertigo 2005" tour, and was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As for its 2006 Grammy nominations -- including Album of the Year and Song of the Year for Bono's emotional ode, "Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own" -- The Edge said he has no expectations. "Being in the country the whole year, I almost felt like people would have been sick of us by now, that the last band they would want to see is U2." "I would be surprised if we won everything we were nominated for," he said, adding that "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" was "a very strong record, I think maybe our strongest ever in terms of the overall range of the album." But the middle-aged musician acknowledged that newer Album of the Year nominees such as Gwen Stefani and Kanye West -- whose albums he likes -- may have an advantage. "I think in some ways people will go for something new, that's just arrived, me included," he said, a glint in his eye. The band plans to start working on new songs after returning from an upcoming tour in South America, he said. And watch out Rolling Stones: U2 won't stop touring any time soon. "We grew up on the road ... It's such an integral part of what we are. I don't think we could give up touring. I don't think we could do what the Beatles did, just pack it in."
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look for where Bono will seat at Grammy´s night here
:: Regina O'Numb 2/7/2006 05:53:27 PM [+] ::
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Batman cartoon theme
U2´s fans Bono_vox and Azor are sharing: "The info says that this is a record made by Edge for the Batman cartoon. There were only a handful made (5 or 6 at most) that went to producers and executives who worked on the show so they can review them and make a decision on what was to be used. Warner thought that his main title was too dark and decided to change it after the first season. Edge had wrote a 2nd theme but was rejected. Now, former Jellyfish member Andy Sturmer wrote and recorded a completely different main title, which sounds a bit too much like the old Nelson Riddle/Adam West theme. The unreleased theme made by Edge is included here, and I added the "new" non-Edge theme if you're curious how it sounds (sounds like a cheap remake of Hawai 5-0). Batman theme (1 min) mp3 (Filetype: m4a, 1.11MB) // Batman theme (2 min) - mp3 (Filetype: m4a, 1.95MB) // Batman theme (30 sec Alternate) mp3 (Filetype: m4a, 0.55MB) // Batman theme (30 sec) - mp3 (Filetype: m4a, 0.58MB) // Batman theme (45 sec) - mp3 (Filetype: m4a, 0.8MB) // Batman theme (Alternate Sting) - mp3 (Filetype: m4a, 0.18MB) // Batman theme (Sting) mp3 (Filetype: m4a, 0.27MB) // New Batman theme (non-Edge) - mp3 (Filetype: mp3, 0.45MB) // Unreleased - (Post Modern Instrumental) mp3 (Filetype: m4a, 1.28MB) // Unreleased - (With Bono's vocals) - mp3(Filetype: m4a, 1.28MB). listen to on: http://savefile.com/projects/820874"
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I prefer, of course, Edge´s version, cause Batman is from the dark side of the city of blinding lights, so, he needs a theme, a dark theme, and Edge´s chords touch my heart. Definitely Edge´s theme is better, and better, and better.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/7/2006 03:24:40 PM [+] ::
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Smooth ticket sales for second U2 concert in Brazil; about 70,000 sold
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Some 70,000 tickets for a U2 concert in Brazil sold out smoothly in about seven hours, organizers said Monday, avoiding a repeat of chaos last month when nearly 100,000 fans overwhelmed stores and computer systems. A first show by the Irish rockers sold out on Jan. 16, but organizers were forced to regroup after the 12 stores selling tickets experienced computer problems and were overwhelmed by massive crowds. Police had to be called in to restore order when some infuriated fans threatened to break into the stores. The supermarket chain that owns the stores issued a public apology following the mayhem, which kept some frustrated fans waiting in lines for more than 12 hours. Concert promoters set up a telephone call centre to handle sales for the second show, and organizers said in a statement that it handled nearly 900,000 calls on Sunday from fans seeking tickets. U2 is scheduled to play at Sao Paulo's Morumbi stadium on Feb. 20 and 21, just two days after the Rolling Stones stage a free concert at Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana beach. Nearly one million people are expected to attend. The bands haven't performed in Brazil since the late 1990s.
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Remote Control: Two channels of Globo TV system will transmit live the 1st U2´s show in Sao Paulo Together Multishow cable channel and Globo TV (open TV) will transmit, live, direct from Morumbi Stadium. It´s the first time that a channel of Globosat (cable TV) will make a transmition simultaneously with Globo TV (it´s the same signal). Jornal: Globo / Editoria: Segundo Caderno / Edição: 1 Caderno: Segundo Caderno
:: Regina O'Numb 2/7/2006 12:58:45 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: last concert in Argentina / U2 elevate Astoria Theatre!

"POPMart" tour - february 7, 1998 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - River Plate Stadium. The last of the three concerts in Argentina. "Gone" was dedicated to Michael Hutchense, which ended with Bono singing "And they will never tear us apart!" several times. During the start of "I Still Haven't Found..." Bono sings an Irish tune, "Dirty Old Town" Wow! "Bad" came pouring out of the speakers and it was magic. Bono changed around some of the lyrics, and combined the second and third verses together, "If I could throw this lifeless life line to the wind, I'd led your heart astray, to see you break, break away." Then Bono added part of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" with the crowd singing the "do do do do--do do do do" and a little of "All I Want Is You". Edge headed for the b stage and Bono announced they were going to play a song they wrote for Willy Nelson, "Slow Dancing". Again, the audience cheered "Oh lay, oh lay, oh lay, The Edge, The Edge!" as Edge started "Sunday Bloody Sunday". "We Will Rock You" was added to "Bullet...", and during "Discotheque" Bono added something that sounded really familiar, "The Fly! Yeah!" Bono dedicated "One" to Jose Luis Cabezas, a journalist who was murdered a year ago. He told Willy to turn off all the lights and for the audience to light up, it was beautiful. They closed with another amazing performance of "Mothers of the Disappeared", this time Larry and Adam joined in during the second verse. The audience really caught on to "El Pueblo Vencera."

U2 warmup for Elevation Tour at London's Astoria Theater - february 7, 2001. U2 continue their warm-ups for the start of the Elevation Tour by playing at London's Astoria Theatre, a small venue which holds 1,500 fans. Tickets are given away to competition winners, who are joined in the crowd by dozens of celebrities including Mick Jagger, Salman Rushdie, the Gallagher brothers (Oasis) and more. At the aforementioned London Astoria show, Bono announces to the crowd that Larry Mullen and his longtime partner Anne Acheson are parents for the third time. It's revealed days later by Dublin media that the child is a boy, Larry and Anne's second son. The band finish the show with "40" and Adam and Edge swapping their instruments. Bono introduces Edge: "genius, scientist, a man sexually aroused by Dana, a Zen Presbyterian and one of the few Christians I´ve ever met and liked."
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can you get it to be bigger and bigger?

U2 members are not involved in the institutional church; they rely on their wider community to nurture them in their spiritual lives. The Edge describes this community: "There is that community sense that I would associate with the Christian ideal of looking after your neighbor. But it isn't always pretty; in fact it's often very rough. Like do you care enough about someone to risk confronting them with the truth, if it is going to hurt them? That's love in action, real commitment to one another, real community, and it has nothing to do with being nice to everyone at all times. So in some ways rather than being a once a week concept, it's sort of the way we try and live here. And the challenge is to try to move it out further, so there's not just your immediate small community but it's asking, can you get it to be bigger and bigger?" by by Margaret Benefiel on Edge - Soul at Work: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/6/2006 09:12:50 PM [+] ::
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"It was starting to feel like I was begging, and I have too much pride for that"
Sad reality sinks in for New Orleans music scene - LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Like nearly every house in New Orleans, Bethany Bultman's home has holes in its roof. Buckets to catch rainwater surround her desk, and she is hesitant to go out at night. Much of her neighbourhood is still completely without power. She is one of the lucky ones. Leaky roof aside, her house suffered little damage, and she has a second one in Massachusetts, a world away from the devastation Hurricane Katrina inflicted last August. Bultman admits to missing her Cape Cod getaway, but she cannot bring herself to abandon New Orleans. There would be the guilt of leaving behind the city and those who are suffering, but more important, there are checks to write. Bultman inscribes upwards of 70 per week, each for $100 (57 pounds), each given to a New Orleans musician. To date, her efforts have been funded largely by donations from Pearl Jam and nonprofit organisation Jazz Aspen Snowmass; she recently was promised $250,000 from MusiCares, the Recording Academy's charitable arm. The checks Bultman writes are allocated only to those who work, which these days in New Orleans can mean performing at a club in front of a handful of Federal Emergency Management Agency workers. On many nights, money from the door is minimal or nonexistent. Bultman hopes her $100 subsidy is enough to dissuade someone from taking a gig in another city. If instruments and artifacts from the city's musical heritage were washed away, then New Orleans' soul -- the musicians who define it -- must stay. "As the time wore on," Bultman says, "more and more musicians who were dumped all over the country wanted to come back. We soon realised that this is really about giving people instruments and giving people hope, and that's when we started paying the gig fees." Two months ago, Bultman, a writer/historian and the co-founder of the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic, was urging displaced musicians to return to the city. She started the clinic with her husband in 1998 with the assistance of Dr. Jack B. McConnell, the developer of Tylenol tablets whose son, Page, played keyboards for the band Phish. With a mix of pride and a dedication to preserving a music culture that she says "percolates out of the ground," Bultman hoped all New Orleans' evacuees would soon be returning. 'NEW ORLEANS IS NOT A HEALTHY PLACE' Reality, however, soon sunk in, and now she is not so sure. "The goal was to get everyone we could get back to New Orleans," she says. "Now that we're back, we've moved away from that. We've moved away from the fantasy that everything would go back to the way it was. New Orleans is just not a healthy place for everyone to come to." Eight of the city's ZIP codes are still without full power, according to the January 24 status report from the mayor's office. The area affected most by Katrina -- the Ninth Ward -- remains under curfew, and 911 emergency availability is scattered. Few hospitals are open, and the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic, which had free use of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, has lost such privileges, as much of the facility needs extensive repairs. And for many, life was not all that great before Katrina. One in four of the city's residents lived below the poverty line, and a great number of its working musicians relied on a steady influx of tourists. Bultman stays in touch with the national organisations providing relief to New Orleans musicians, including MusiCares, which announced its pledge in support of her efforts January 25. She is heartened by the outpouring of generosity of her top donors and has nothing but praise for MusiCares. But five months after Katrina, Bultman feels that little has been accomplished. Nearly all of the 200 musicians she helps lack a place to live. She worries the situation will only get worse with a dearth of health care and tries to communicate to the national associations that the effort to restore the music community in New Orleans is one that will take years -- and one that will happen one saxophone at a time. RETURN TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY Pianist Joe Krown was playing 12 gigs per week prior to Katrina. His wife, who worked at Tulane University Hospital, was laid off after the hurricane. He filled out the paperwork for nearly every charity dedicated to helping musicians. "I have a mortgage and a rent and no income, and before I said anything more to a couple of them, there was a check in the mail," Krown says. "That happened with MusiCares and the Musicians' Clinic and the Jazz Foundation." He also benefited from the New Orleans Musicians' Relief Fund, which was started by one-time dB's member Jeff Beninato and his wife, Karen. Along with Chicago rock group Wilco, the couple brought Krown and such musicians as Leroy Jones, George French, Craig Klein and Cranston Clements to Chicago for a benefit show that raised more than $100,000. Beninato says he started the charity two days after Katrina hit New Orleans, and a few days after that he heard from MusiCares. He began working with the national organisation, providing names of musicians he knew were still in New Orleans. Beninato is re-outfitting the New Wave Brass Band, hoping to get the big band in marching form for Mardi Gras. Providing instruments for working New Orleans musicians has become a group effort, and MusiCares is at the forefront. Wick says the charity has helped more than 600 musicians get new instruments, and he says MusiCares receives between 30 and 80 applications per day. MusiCares has partnered with Gibson and the Guitar Centre chain and launched its Music Rising replacement initiative in New Orleans with U2's the Edge. While an unknown number of musicians still need a place to live, they need the instruments to make a living. Krown, for one, says he was able to replace some equipment thanks to MusiCares, and the program has made it easier for him to be self-sufficient. "It was starting to feel like I was begging, and I have too much pride for that," Krown says.
read on: reuters

:: Regina O'Numb 2/6/2006 07:00:42 PM [+] ::
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The tickets to the 2nd U2´s show sold out in 7 hours and 10 minutes
The sale´s tickets started at 4:00 p.m. and finished at 11:10 p.m., this sunday. read (BPL) on: uol
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The tickets to the 2nd U2´s show sold out in 7 hours
70.000 tickets were sold. Many dificulties. 900.000 tentatives at call center.
read (BPL) on: terra
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Tickets by call center to the 2nd U2´s show sold out in 7 hours
The press assistance of the Brazilian production said: "It was confirmed that is an eficient and democratic way, permitting the fans from whole country equal chances to buy the tickets."
read on (BPL) on: o globo
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Finish the tickets´s sale to U2´s show
The journalist Michelle Alves de Lima, of Estado, bought the 4 last tickets to the show on feb 21. Michelle made few tentatives, and at 0:10 a.m. (today) her call receive this replay: "You bought the last 4 tickets to uppear seats of U2´s show, You´re were prized. Now the sytem will be closed and the next people which will call, immediately will entry at a data-base-waiting". The people from this data-base-waiting will have more chances after the final date to the payment. São Paulo (011 - 3131-0101) Rio (021 - 2277-3131)
read (BPL) on: estadao
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rumor...were sold only 40.000 tickets...?
Second Folha de Sao Paulo, 700 workers were at the call center- being 300 in Rio and 400 in Sao Paulo. One worker, revealed, that only 40.000 tickets were sold to the 'normal' people. The rest of 33.000 tickets will be to guests, press, and for special sale to the partners of the organization and the sponsors. Accyoli Entretenimento and Planmusic, denyed this information, but didn´t know to say how many tickets were available. by Thiago Ney and Leonardo Cruz - source: Folha de Sao Paulo - 06/02/05 - Caderno Cotidiano - Pág. C6
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Fans say the services of Rio´s call center was better than Sao Paulo´s one
The Sao Paulo´s demand was bigger than Rio´s one. Foreign auditors were at the call center checking the system.
read (BPL) on: terra
:: Regina O'Numb 2/6/2006 05:46:29 PM [+] ::
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Mr. Kapellen - Computer technician Joshua Kapellen doesn't look like a rock 'n' roll roadie.
Who Ya Gonna Call With Email Trouble From the Tour Bus? - Rock Stars Take Along Techs As Sidekicks of a Sort; 'Give Hope to Every Geek' - Computer technician Joshua Kapellen doesn't look like a rock 'n' roll roadie. He's cleanshaven, wears starched, white button-down shirts and a clip-on tie. But to megaband U2, Mr. Kapellen is just as important as all its husky stage hands. Last March, lead singer Bono needed his Xbox connected while the band rehearsed in Canada. Mr. Kapellen got a call. He hooked up the contraption and a few minutes later was playing videogames with Bono. "It was one of the coolest things that has ever happened to me," says Mr. Kapellen. Mr. Kapellen, 28 years old, put his life in Minneapolis on hold in 2004 when Best Buy Co.'s Geek Squad of computer repair people asked him to accompany the Irish band and provide tech support to the 120 people traveling with the "Vertigo" world tour. He has been on the road in North America and Europe ever since. "We're just ordinary guys," Mr. Kapellen says of computer repairmen. "But somehow we get ourselves into these extraordinary situations."...During a U2 concert at Madison Square Garden in 2001, Larry Mullen Jr., the group's drummer, accidentally sat on his 10-year-old Casio organizer, which contained all his contacts, Mr. Stephens says. As Mr. Mullen's assistant scurried to give him his backup organizer, it fell and shattered. One of the band's guitar technicians called Mr. Stephens for help. "He said, 'I'll give you anything if you can get this thing fixed,' " recalls Mr. Stephens, who found a similar model on eBay and was able to use parts from that one to pull data off Mr. Mullen's antiquated organizer....
read whole article on: wsj
:: Regina O'Numb 2/6/2006 05:40:06 PM [+] ::
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U2, Kanye West lead predictions for Grammy prize
All Grammys are not created equal. While 1,100 nominees are vying for 108 trophies, one contest trumps the rest for prestige, pizzazz and PR power. Album of the year. Music's most coveted prize, an anointing of artistic merit that also can reignite sales, brings five diverse candidates into a tight race decided by a notoriously illogical voting body. The results will be revealed during the Grammy Awards, airing at 8 p.m. Wednesday on CBS. The five albums in play are U2's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," Kanye West's "Late Registration," Mariah Carey's "The Emancipation of Mimi," Paul McCartney's "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard" and Gwen Stefani's "Love Angel Music Baby." ..."I think U2 will win," says Grein, countering a consensus leaning West. "Three albums have a shot. Kanye is second, Mariah is third. I've got to believe U2 will take it. They're so respected, and they stand for the traditional pop-rock craft that has always done well in the Grammys going back 35 years."... U2 Album: "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" Sales and airplay: "Bomb" has sold 3 million copies since its release Nov. 23, 2004. U2 did not have widespread radio success with the album, but "All Because of You" was the No. 49 modern-rock song of 2005; "Vertigo" was No. 50. Critical standing: Praised as a creative tour de force that cemented U2's rock reign. Metacritic: 78. Rolling Stone: 4 stars. EW: B. USA TODAY: 4 stars. "Many will declare (it) a return to form ... but it's also a triumphant leap forward that stretches the limited vocabulary of rock 'n' roll without sacrificing the genre's original promise of purity." -- Edna Gundersen - Touring boost: U2's Vertigo Tour trampled the competition, with global grosses exceeding $260 million. The band earned $123.2 million playing to 1.2 million fans at 69 sold-out U.S. dates. Grammy clout: U2 is up for four other Grammys, including best song. "Bomb" also generated two Grammys from three nominations last year. The band has 16 Grammys but hasn't won best album since 1988 for "The Joshua Tree." Grammy tilt: Out nearly 15 months, "Bomb" may feel dated to voters. All other elements point to victory. U2 pleases modern and old-school camps. The band has artistic relevancy and earning power. Bono's humanitarianism is a plus. "As in all awards competitions, voters look for ambassadors for their art form, and U2 make great ambassadors," Grein says...
read whole article on: greenvilleonline
:: Regina O'Numb 2/6/2006 05:36:04 PM [+] ::
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Bono and Ali, during Fashion Week, yesterday in New York
A party presenting fall fashions from the EDUN clothing line, founded by U2 lead singer Bono and his wife Ali Hewson, during Fashion Week Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006, in New York.
photos on: yahoo / gettyimages
more on: globo.com
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BONO EYES TAKE-TWO
IS U2's righteous lead singer playing with violent video games? Bono's private-equity firm Elevation Partners is rumored to be eyeing a bid for troubled video-game company Take-Two Interactive ¿ developer of the popular "Grand Theft Auto" series. A potential deal could be worth more than $1 billion, including debt. Elevation is said to have teamed up with Pequot Capital, a hedge fund and venture capital investor that owns a large chunk of Take-Two's shares, sources told The Post's Zachery Kouwe. On Tuesday, The Post broke the news that Take-Two was in serious discussions with several buyout firms. Elevation could combine Take-Two's successful titles with video game developers Pandemic Studios and BioWare Corp., which the firm acquired last year for $300 million. There are still hurdles to a deal, however, including Take-Two's habit of restating earnings, which has led regulators to begin looking for wrong doing at the company. It's not that Bono and Elevation are afraid to invest in troubled companies. The firm laid out $100 million for part of Homestore.com after several former executives were indicted in a multimillion dollar fraud at the company. But is Bono, famous for uniting folks around the world, ready for the heat Take-Two generates? The video-game maker has been blasted in the past for creating strains in the social fabric.
read on: nypost

:: Regina O'Numb 2/6/2006 05:34:05 PM [+] ::
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We, of course, will look and are looking across at hip-hop and see the amazing innovation in the studio. U2 Aren't Ruling Out Hip Hop For Next Album - Many were surprised when U2 announced that Kanye West would be the support for their latest tour, but the surprises keep coming thick and fast with band admitting the rapper has inspired them to dabble in hip hop. According to a Femalefirst.co.uk article, the band¿s altruistic front man Bono modestly stated ¿I happen to be in really a truly great band, and experimentation has been the lifeblood of this band¿We, of course, will look and are looking across at hip-hop and see the amazing innovation in the studio.¿ Despite the fact the band are still touring for their last album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb they are already looking towards the future. Bono has been busy as always spreading his word of charity to those in power, and recently made a speech in front of George W Bush urging him to enforce a 1% tithe on the US National budget. He explained that the money would go towards aiding widows and other such socially and economically troubled citizens. That hasn¿t spared Bono from the wrath of the infamous Paul Weller however, who as reported by Gigwise.com said ¿The whole thing of Bono becoming the Pope - what the fuck¿s all that about? Pseudo-American rubbish.¿
read on: undercover
:: Regina O'Numb 2/6/2006 05:18:07 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: the working girls from Hamburg / El Pueblo Vencera / U2 win twice.

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - february 6, 1985. U2 perform in Bologna, Italy at the Teatro Tenda. On the second night, Bono again brings up the working girls that he met in Hamburg, Germany on January 27, 1985. Bono tells a short story at the beginning of the song, "How much do you feel like tonight? Well I feel like 50 DeutchMarks(DM) tonight. I say, I think you're worth a lot more than 50, and she says I'm 60 DM then...Well, I say you're worth much more than 60 DM. She says, 100 DM...and I say that's 'Bad'...."

"POPMart" tour - february 6, 1998 - Burnos Aires / Argentina. The set list was the same up till the end of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Bono sang Stand By Me while looking up at the almost full moon, "When the land is dark, and the moon is the only light we'll see." When Edge got to the b stage and put on his acoustic guitar he looked over to Bono and asked "Staring or Desire?" Bono smiled, and jumped into Desire. After they finished Bono spotted someone near the b stage with a harmonica, took it, motioned to Edge to continue Desire, and played the full ending. Afterward he said it was off key, but it sounded great! When the Lemon opened the band was wearing Argentina national football jersey's, and Bono was holding a ball with disco ball pieces attached. The roar from the crowd was almost deafening. Bono dedicated One to the sons and daughters who died during Argentina's military rule. Again they closed the show with Mothers of the Disappeared, Bono mentioned how last night the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo came out. It wasn't quite as emotional as last night, that moment only comes once, but lingers forever. The audience caught on to "El Pueblo Vencera" and I heard people singing it long after the lights came up.

U2 win twice at NME's Brat Awards - february 6, 2001.U2 earn two awards at the "Brats", sponsored by NME/Carling in London. They picked up hardware in the Best Rock Act category, and in the creatively titled "God-like Geniuses" category. Voting for the awards is done by readers of UK rock magazine NME, prompting Bono to say this group of rock fans has "impeccable taste."
:: Regina O'Numb 2/6/2006 05:17:40 PM [+] ::
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photo by Ricardo (trottaricardo@hotmail.com) - London 1
now in Sao Paulo: 3:30 p.m....and at 4:00 p.m. the tickets go on sale
...now: 4:49 p.m. and I didn't get nothing....I´ll continue...

...JuClayton got her reservation....CONGRATULATIONS JU!

...not me...

...after almost 2 hours, my friend got 2 reservations to me...I´m trying with two phones and two cell-phones, my family is supporting me...but not...at least...two field´s tickets....THANK YOU SO MUCH RICARDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He got 4, two to me, Ricardo is an angel!

...maybe a problem with a reserve of my friend....:((

:: Regina O'Numb 2/5/2006 06:30:43 PM [+] ::
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More on Sao Paulo
If you're aiming to reserve tickets tomorrow for the second Sao Paulo show in Brazil, here's the information you need on ticket pick-ups. As we reported earlier, the ticket limit for the Feb 21st show is now FOUR per person and they go on sale tomorrow, February 5th. Ticket payment will be cash only between February 6th-8th at Banco Itau branches throughout the country. TICKET PICK-UP FOR THE SAO PAULO SHOW WILL BE BETWEEN FEBRUARY 13TH AND 21ST (BUT NOT THE 18TH) at the Pacaembu Stadium, SAO PAULO from 9am until 7pm (inclusive show day) AND IN RIO BETWEEN FEBRUARY 15TH AND 19TH AT THE JOCKEY CLUBE, BRASILEIRO FROM 9AM TILL 7PM
read on: U2.com
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"Original Of The Species" this night in Brazil!
Globo TV will air, this night, into Fantastico programe, a video of "Original Of The Species"
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Tickets to 2nd show of U2 go on sale today
read (BPL): terra

:: Regina O'Numb 2/5/2006 02:41:50 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: Madres de La Plaza de Mayo on-stage / Bono with Fanning.

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - february 5, 1985. U2 perform in Bologna, Italy at the Teatro Tenda. On the first night, Bono again yells "La prima, ma non ultima volta!" (The first but not the last time!) during "I Will Follow". Bono introduces "Seconds" as being "a message to the President!" The crowd is extremely excited, but there are no serious problems. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is played before "40" and is introduced as a "song that you play in your own bedroom when no one is listening." This version is still heavily improvised as Bono still doesn't know all the lyrics, and jokes about it during the song--"If you know the words just sing along, it doesn't matter if you make them right or wrong..."

"POPMart" tour - february 5, 1998. At the first of three shows in Buenos Aires -- the band's first shows ever in Argentina -- U2 brings a large group of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo on-stage as the band sings "One." The show ends with "Mothers of the Disappeared," during which most of the Mothers are brought to Bono's microphone to share the name of their "missing" children.

Bono chats with Fanning on Irish TV - february 5, 2000. Bono appears on RTE's "Saturday Night Live" TV program, which is hosted this week by longtime friend Dave Fanning. Fanning interviews Bono, but no songs are sung.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/5/2006 02:41:32 PM [+] ::
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a bit of a mind blower

"...Edge: Well we've seen parts of the world which we've never seen before which is great. We just got in from South America and that was a bit of a mind blower.
Bono: Yeah Perth was a little Protestant after Chile and Buenos Aires, Rio and San Paulo. You couldn't import a few more Catholics, could you? Sorry.
Edge: Yeah??. that's all I have to say about the world. We've seen some new bits and we've enjoyed them very bits. As for the bits we knew before they seem pretty much the same as I remember them last time..."
The Australian - feb 20, 1998.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/4/2006 09:38:36 PM [+] ::
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The fan who danced with Bono during 'Mysterious Ways' - Sao Paulo1-1998
Adriana Fontenelle Brito, 14 years old (in 1998), came from Goiania, arrived at the stadium at 4:00 p.m. (on jan 30, the day of the 1st show). She was the second to dance with Bono. After, Bono sung "One" for her. "Bono pointed to me. My cousin puts me on stage and I started to dance." says Adriana. "I don´t dance, normally. I didn´t know what I was making." On Saturday, jan 31 (the 2nd show), Adriana received another present. Bono gives her a glass (a recipient) with half quantity of water.
look for the scan, with her photo on Folha de Sao Paulo - feb 2, 1998
:: Regina O'Numb 2/4/2006 09:21:30 PM [+] ::
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It's a combination of our own indifference/and a Kafkaesque labyrinth of 'No's'/as people vanish down the corridors of democracy Bono's Wonk-and-Roll - Humanitarian Rocker Hits Lecture Circuit - The title of Bono's $95-a-head speech to a group of association execs last night seemed intriguing, if a little annoying: "The Future in Front of Us: Living a More Involved Life." The humanitarian and rock star's pep talk capped yet another visit to our nation's capital this week, which also included an appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, where he made a self-deprecating quip about his messianic tendencies and side-hugged President Bush on his way to the lectern. Now it was on to another only-in-Washington experience: a speech sponsored by an association that association leaders join to . . . associate. At the Hilton Washington, no less....Maybe after so many lobbying trips to the Hill, there wasn't anybody left to charm. Or his U2 band mate Larry Mullen's worst fears have been realized and Bono is running for "[expletive] president."...Bono recalled how he first became interested in poverty in Africa and debt relief, when he and wife Ali spent a month working at an orphanage in Ethiopia after the Live Aid concert in 1985. And told a story of how his life was irrevocably changed when a man approached him on one of his last days in Africa and asked him to take his son home with him because in Ireland he would live...."I didn't expect change to come so slowly," Bono said. He spoke with breaks, as if he were creating lyrics. "It's a combination of our own indifference/and a Kafkaesque labyrinth of 'No's'/as people vanish down the corridors of democracy," he said. "Those of you in this town/know what I'm talking about." Even when he's wonking shop, Bono can still sing.
read whole article on: washingtonpost
:: Regina O'Numb 2/4/2006 07:30:43 PM [+] ::
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U2 in Sao Paulo, on feb 21 - call center and the numbers: in Sao Paulo: (011 - 3131.0101) / Rio de Janeiro: (021 - 2277.3131) - on Sunday - feb 5th - at 4:00 p.m.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/4/2006 07:01:52 PM [+] ::
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Dangerous words, crazy plans....where´s the love?
There´s a person so close to me, which needs wheel-chair to go to the show. This fan, of course didn´t buy field´s tickets. This fan bought (to the 1st show) this called "Espaço Emotion-Pao de Açucar" not to feel privileged, but to have a better view of the show. To the second show, it seems, there´s NO "Espaço Emotion-Pao de Açucar." At Morumbi stadium, there´s a place to the invalid persons, which to a soccer-game works very well, but to the show, I have some doubts, and this fan will be there (if get the tickets for feb 21) . With the 'disappearance' of "Espaço Emotion-Pao de Açucar" some fans from this web site, are using some dangerous words, as this space were a subject of dispute..."WE´LL HAVE MORUMBI ONLY FOR US"...this at first could be a cute demonstration of love, but these words aren´t moderated by the responsible persons of the site, and I have a fear, that all the chaos which happened on the lines to buy the tickets for Sao Paulo 1 could repeat at Morumbi stadium, properly. I have on my mind the order-word of this site, when the fans went to the lines on jan 16th: "We need the first row to (to this site)" and the fans made many crazy things on the lines, and added the lack of organization, resulted in a chaos. A person who answered at phone-number ........ (from the Brazilian production of the shows), simply said me, the doubts will be solved tomorrow when the lucky fans will get the call center working to try buy the tickets. There´s another plan, the fans are planning to make a camp, and at each 'tent' will have 40 fans and they will alternate, to stay one, always there, and this will start early, as they consider enough. This, also, could be a demonstration of love, but is this justice? I think the gates could be open, so early, to the people just get their places at the stadium, without any uproar...The person so close to me, which will see the show with the wheel-chair will arrive at the stadium, around 6:00 p.m. and I hope everyone who´s fighting for a place to see U2 in front of their noses, just had got their places. This thought of mine, is just for security, just it. Pao de Açucar 'took out off' (their name) the second show, mainly, cause the fans started a protest against them, and the guilty was the lack of organization by Alexandre Accioly and Luiz Carlos Niemeyer. Pao de Açucar is a good group. I must thank them to bring U2 to Brazil. You can think I´m boring, maybe you´re right, but when the case is the security we need to do 110% of us, to the things will be allright.
...in time, these two events have nothing related to U2...but At Least 73 Die in Manila Stadium Stampede / Show of Mexican group RBD: uproar and death in Sao Paulo

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The Police anticipates de opening gates of Morumbi in 1998
for security, of course; source: Folha de Sao Paulo
:: Regina O'Numb 2/4/2006 03:14:41 PM [+] ::
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AWF Announces T-shirt Design Contest
The African Well Fund is excited to announce a t-shirt design contest to help promote our 4th annual ¿Build a Well for Bono¿s Birthday¿ fundraising campaign. Tagged Design4 : BBW4, the contest requests entrants to design a t-shirt for this year¿s fundraiser. The contest runs from February 3 to March 15, 2006. The winning design will be announced on March 22nd, World Water Day and the kickoff of our annual Birthday Well drive. The African Well Fund is seeking a design that captures our mission, our commitment to the ideal that access to clean water is a basic human right, and also the spirit of Bono¿s activism on behalf of Africa, particularly his ability to inspire others to action. For more contest details please visit our webpage: http://africanwellfund.org/D4-BBW4.html. The winning design will be used on t-shirts and other items that will be sold through Café Press. All proceeds from these sales will benefit the Birthday Well fundraiser. A T-shirt with the winning design will be sent to Bono along with the donation totals at the conclusion of the fundraiser.
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/4/2006 02:59:02 PM [+] ::
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Culture's magnetic forces - U2 is the unique band mentioned!
On the eve of Super Bowl Sunday, the Monitor wondered: Is this the last unifying event in a fractured pop culture? May the Force be with you. There was a time when that phrase was practically a benediction for a nationwide religion. A few years later, everyone wanted to know who shot J.R. In the 1990s, "yada, yada, yada" became a common refrain. Not so long ago it seemed as if we all spoke the same pop-culture language. But in an era of 500 TV channels, billions of Web pages, unlimited Netflix rentals, and iPods with music libraries of Smithsonian proportions, popular entertainment has suddenly become mind-bogglingly vast. As the overlap between what we all watch, read, and listen to steadily erodes, the water cooler has become a modern-day tower of Babel, where conversations sound like the jumbled voices emanating from the jungle in "Lost." (If that reference is lost on you then, well, Q.E.D.) In decades past, major pop-culture moments - the ones that everybody experienced at the same time - acted as an intangible glue that bound us together. "There's a 'we' in all of those; the unum of the pluribus," says Tim Burke, a cultural historian at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. "It's harder to get those things as the media fragments." Which makes Sunday's Super Bowl all the more remarkable. "It's the largest national event, at least in terms of people doing a common thing at one time in American culture," says Mark Dyreson, a Pennsylvania State University professor who co-wrote the chapter "Super Bowl Sunday: A New American Holiday?" for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of American Holidays. That got us thinking: Which other pop-culture phenomena still bind us together? After days of argument, research, fact-checking, and multiple rounds of voting - a process as rigorous as a "CSI" forensics test - the staff here at Weekend came up with a highly subjective, nonscientific list of 10 things that act as common denominators. (The Super Bowl, by the way, came in at No. 2 in our ranking. The Olympics didn't even make the cut.) The Top 10 list (Where we all still speak the same cultural language.) 1) Breaking news // 2) Super Bowl // 3) New Year's / July 4 // 4) Oprah Winfrey // 5) Harry Potter // 6) American Idol // 7) The Oscars // 8) Cyberspace hangouts // 9) The Da Vinci Code // 10) U2....10) U2 - KIM JOHNSON/AP - Every generation has its rock 'n' roll superheroes. In the 1950s it was Elvis. In the '60s it was the Beatles. In the '70s it was Led Zeppelin. And ever since "The Joshua Tree" was released in 1987, the heir apparent to the title "World's Greatest Band" has been Ireland's favorite sons, U2. Their albums go platinum almost instantly. Their concerts - full of boomers on down through Generation Next - sell out faster than you can say "Sunday Bloody Sunday." Lead singer Bono is known the world over, as much for his humanitarian work (the Nobel Prize-nominee had breakfast with President Bush Thursday) as for his distinctive, soaring voice. In an age of wildly fragmented musical offerings, a vast number of audiophiles worldwide still find what they're looking for in the unifying power of U2.
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/4/2006 02:34:20 PM [+] ::
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Mofo!
Mofo - Leeds - aug 28, 97 / Mofo - MTV Awards performance


:: Regina O'Numb 2/4/2006 01:15:09 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: the first time in Italy / meeting Mothers of the disappeared in Argentina / Tickets for U2 Dublin show sell out in record time !

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - february 4, 1985. U2 perform in Milan, Italy at the Palazetto Dello Sport. During a stop on the way to Milan, someone vandalizes the tour trucks and puts sugar in the gas tanks. The band arrive at the Palazetto Dello Sport just in time to play the concert, and go on stage without performing a soundcheck. "La prima, ma non ultima volta," Bono shouts from the stage--"The first but not the last time!" The band are very well received and each song is lapped up hysterically.

"U2 meet with Argentina's famous "Madres of the Plaza de Mayo" human rights group" - february 4, 1998. The group is investigating the whereabouts of the estimated 30,000 people who disappeared during Argentina's last dictatorship. While in Buenos Aires, Argentina, U2 meets with the famous "Madres de Plaza de Mayo" human rights group, which has made regular marches around the Plaza de Mayo in front of the Argentine Presidential Palace since the darkest days of that country's 1976-1983 military dictatorship to demand justice for their missing children. This Argentine group is similar to the El Salvador-based group Bono wrote about in the 1987 song "Mothers of the Disappeared."

Tickets for U2 Dublin show sell out in record time - february 4, 2005 - U2's record-breaking run of ticket sales for their forthcoming world tour, continued today with the sell-out of two concerts in Dublin. Over 150,000 tickets sold out in just under an hour for the two shows, which will take place at Croke Park in Dublin on June 24 and 25. The tickets went on sale at 8am this morning, priced between 59.50 and 80 euros, alongside tickets for shows in Paris and Nice. The Dublin concerts are part of the Irish rockers' Vertigo world tour, which kicks off in San Diego on March 28 and includes 13 other US shows, as well as 24 concerts in Europe.
U2 have already sold out concerts in Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff and London in the UK, as well as a number of shows in the USA, including Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia and the opening European date in Brussels. Many extra dates have had to be added to cope with the extraordinary demand for tickets. The record breaking sales look set to continue as tickets for U2 concerts in Vienna, Oslo and Amsterdam go on sale on Saturday, followed by tickets for shows in Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Chorzow on sale from Monday.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/4/2006 01:12:55 PM [+] ::
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EDGE: not just to New Orleans, not just to America, but really to the world / U2 won't stop touring any time soon / after this tour: to start working on new songs / something new, that´s just arrived!
The Edge and U2 Offer Aid to New Orleans - A few years ago, New Orleans came to the rescue of U2's The Edge. Now he's paying the city back, helping provide instruments to musicians blasted by Hurricane Katrina. He and his band were in New Orleans in 2001 when tragedy struck at home.

"We lost an awful lot of instruments in Dublin in a flood... The storage area where we had all our equipment was completely flooded. But luckily my main guitars were with us in New Orleans... the Gibson Explorer that I've had since I was 17-years-old, and the amplifier I've used on every album for every show since we got a record deal."

In 2005, after Katrina devastated New Orleans _ a city he calls "very unique and very special" _ he was inspired to try to help. The result was Music Rising. For The Edge, aka David Evans, that relief work topped off a packed year of touring, family trauma and five Grammy nominations for U2's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." The Grammys will be handed out Wednesday. The normally soft-spoken guitarist, 44, grows passionate when he talks about Katrina's impact and his efforts to help with Music Rising, which he organized along with Gibson Guitar, the Guitar Center Music Education Foundation and the MusicCares Foundation.

"When I heard about the hurricane, the devastation of the city and the area, I pretty soon started thinking about the musicians, started to think about the cultural loss, not just to New Orleans, not just to America, but really to the world," he told the Associated Press.

Does that mean he's planning to follow band-mate Bono's worldwide activist footsteps?

Not likely, he responds.

"Bono is kind of a one-off character in music. His skills as a communicator are amazing, and his powers of persuasion are equally amazing," he said, smiling. "I would never think of trying to take on quite that level of commitment."

True, but New Orleans' mark on the modest musician _ known for his humility as well as his thunderous melodies _ runs deep. Rising Music is clearly a labor of love.

In the early '90s, a visit with Bono to a small New Orleans club had an unexpected impact.

"We walked in and the place was jumping. There was this little funk band, but they were all playing brass instruments, which is something I'd never heard of or seen before," he recalled.

There, the pair saw a 12-year-old trombone player named Trombone Shorty.

"We were just mesmerized by him," The Edge said. "I ended up with Bono, after a few tequilas, and we ended up dancing with a bunch of girls on the top of the bar. It was one of those sort of nights."

The birthplace of jazz, and a major influence on rock and roll, New Orleans captivated his attention, he said. He returned last November and found a different, less fun-loving city _ one torn apart by natural disaster and a lack of aid.

"Going through the streets of New Orleans and seeing the homes of musicians I knew and respected, seeing Fats Domino's home completely destroyed ... It does bring it home in a very personal way," he said.

At a recent Music Rising event in Hollywood, the native Irishman showed up in his customary beanie, black leather jacket, jeans and sneakers, and chatted easily with some New Orleans transplants. Affable and humble, he even asked for their e-mail addresses and talked about music "gear" _ more a regular Joe than guitarist for one of the biggest bands in the world. U2, its long history including 11 studio albums and 16 Grammy wins, rocked the music world last year with its "Vertigo 2005" tour, and was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

As for its 2006 Grammy nominations _ including Album of the Year and Song of the Year for Bono's emotional ode, "Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own" _ The Edge said he has no expectations.

"Being in the country the whole year, I almost felt like people would have been sick of us by now, that the last band they would want to see is U2."

"I would be surprised if we won everything we were nominated for," he said, adding that "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" was "a very strong record, I think maybe our strongest ever in terms of the overall range of the album."

But the middle-aged musician acknowledged that newer Album of the Year nominees such as Gwen Stefani and Kanye West _ whose albums he likes _ may have an advantage.

"I think in some ways people will go for something new, that's just arrived, me included," he said, a glint in his eye.

The band plans to start working on new songs after returning from an upcoming tour in South America, he said. And watch out Rolling Stones: U2 won't stop touring any time soon.

"We grew up on the road ... It's such an integral part of what we are. I don't think we could give up touring. I don't think we could do what the Beatles did, just pack it in."
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listen to him on: mp3 of Edge
New Orleans musician John Henry Kelly, left, whose recording studio was ruined by Hurricane Katrina, watches U2 guitarist David Evans, aka The Edge, sign a specially designed Gibson guitar, Friday, Jan. 27, 2006, at the Guitar Center in Los Angeles. The woman at right is unidentified. The normally soft-spoken Evans, 44, grows passionate when he talks about Katrina's impact and his efforts to help with Music Rising, which he organized along with Gibson Guitar, the Guitar Center Music Education Foundation and the MusicCares Foundation to aid the musicians of flood-ravaged New Orleans. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) on yahoo
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I just knew it Edge, when you said to Rolling Stone´s mag: "In February, the band will launch Vertigo's final leg, which includes dates in Mexico, Argentina, New Zealand and Australia. "The reaction to the shows has been unprecedented," says the Edge. "From a really great start, it's just built and built and built. I'm happy to say bye-bye, because I don't think we could ever top it."...as I wrote in Edge´s folder from Zootopia and Interference, you were making a reference to this actual tour...

:: Regina O'Numb 2/3/2006 09:56:14 PM [+] ::
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He just can't keep silent any longer - I have been influenced by watching him and inspired as well / And for New Orleans to recover, it will need music
U2 guitarist the Edge strums up support for New Orleans musicians hard-hit by hurricane.
By Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writer
It's pretty easy to keep your mouth shut when you stand next to Bono for 25 years. By the same token, it's also pretty easy to become a good listener. The first reason is why the Edge, the guitarist for U2, has long projected the same poker-faced presence on stage as Charlie Watts from the Rolling Stones. The second reason is why he is now assuming an atypical role as spokesman for a charity benefiting the beleaguered musicians of New Orleans.

"I didn't ask Bono for advice, no, but I have been influenced by watching him and inspired as well," said David Evans, who in his youth picked up his now-famous nickname for the angular cut of his profile. "As a band, U2 has done quite a bit of work for different causes, but when we do it as a whole, it's Bono as the lead singer who naturally steps up to do a lot of the talking. And he is quite good at it."

Yes, to say the least. Bono has become a global political figure (and, sometimes, a mocked celebrity) for using his microphone to champion the cause of African poverty relief. Now the Edge is stepping front and center for Music Rising, a campaign to replace musicians' instruments destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and the devastating floods in its wake. Last week, that campaign brought the 17-time Grammy-winning rock star to the cavernous Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

He apparently has picked up some of Bono's sly humor as well: "I can't believe it; I've been here an hour, maybe an hour and a half, and I haven't heard anybody play the opening of 'Stairway to Heaven.' "

The Guitar Center may be infamous for bad amateur noodling, but on this day it was the site of a meeting between the U2 star and some of the New Orleans musicians getting new amps, keyboards, guitars and other gear to resume their music careers. "Sometimes it doesn't take much to get them back and working and making music," the Edge said after quietly huddling with the wide-eyed visitors from Louisiana.

Walter Barrilleaux, wearing a battered old New Orleans Saints cap, talked about eating MREs, the military rations that became lifeblood when the waters overtook his hometown. Keyboardist Barrilleaux began playing R&B in New Orleans clubs 40 years go.

John Henry Kelly explained how his rock band's entire collection of instruments and gear not only suffered water damage but literally fell apart at the seams from the noxious petro-goo carried by the flood.

The Edge listened intently and afterward said the stories can't begin to tell the true tale.

"I spent some time there, just to see what was going on," he said, "and the sheer breadth of it all, the area covered by the tragedy, it's hard to conceive if you didn't actually see it yourself."

The Music Rising campaign sprang from the Edge's conversation with music producer Bob Ezrin about donating some guitars to musicians from the Gulf Coast states. The Edge felt they could do more; that led to a partnership with Gibson Guitar and the Guitar Center Music Education Foundation to create a special instrument. The result, a limited-edition Music Rising Gibson Les Paul guitar that Guitar Center is selling for $3,334, is hand-painted with a design evoking Mardi Gras colors. Parts that typically would be fashioned from plastic (the backplate, pickguard, etc.) are made from wood grown in the Gulf states. Proceeds from the sales go entirely to the Music Rising cause.

The Edge and his band mates will appear on the Grammys next week, and the attendant media interest will give him a platform to promote the Music Rising guitar sales and requests for donations. He also is appearing in a series of public service announcements for Music Rising, which may be his most significant face time and the most his voice has been heard by fans since "Numb," the quirky, muttering song off the 1993 U2 album, "Zooropa," that had Bono give over the rare lead-singer job to his old pal.

The Edge was asked if the very targeted cause of Music Rising has been an issue - to put it another way, shouldn't the needs of hospitals, schools and public safety come first?

"People know that music is so central to the spirit of New Orleans and that helping these people regain their livelihood can only help the economy and the spirit of the entire community," he said. "The music of New Orleans - which is a wide, vast array of styles and sounds - is a valuable natural resource for the region."

The guitarist recalled that on one of U2's first visits to the U.S. the band members spent a night prowling the French Quarter and ended up staring, slack-jawed, at an "amazing" local brass-heavy band playing in a dive bar. The visiting Irishmen ended up drinking too much and dancing on tables with the waitresses.

"It was everything I wanted America to be; it was everything I wanted New Orleans to be," the Edge said with a fond smile. "It was a wonderful night. And that band, at that bar, you got the feeling that you could find exceptional music like that on every block."

U2 albums have long conveyed a greater sense of place than most rock - the early work was steeped in the feel of Ireland, "Joshua Tree" musically mapped the American West and "Achtung Baby" was a buzzing odyssey through Berlin backstreets. With all that the Edge has seen and heard about New Orleans, will the Crescent City be in the mix of the next U2 project?

"It's very possible. We know Daniel Lanois [producer of "Joshua Tree" and "Achtung Baby"], who is from that area, and working with him on that would seem fitting," he said. "The place has meant a lot to me and to musicians everywhere, and I hope dearly that it can recover. And for New Orleans to recover, it will need music."
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/3/2006 09:55:42 PM [+] ::
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U2 ask for wine and fruits to the hotel in 1998, in Brazil
Different of the majority of the rock´s stars, which make some crazy requirement to the hotels, U2´s members were considered 'simple persons' by the workers of the hotels Copacabana Palace, in Rio and Renaissance, in Sao Paulo. The unique request to the hotel in Sao Paulo: mineral water, fruits, sandwichs, natural juices and red wine. In the contract between the band and the hotel, the stay of the band will be in total 'anonymous way'. The band were registered with false names, and occuped the presidential suite at 25 floor, and other suites 'Stanford' at 23 and 24 floor. In Rio de Janeiro, the band behave as normal persons. Despite, they had their own cooks, Bono and the band eat at the restaurant of the hotel, without any restriction. In Sao Paulo, the worry was the security; they twice the security to try obstruct the invasion of fans and the uproar. Under the area of the presidential suite there are 3 living rooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms and a balcony with a view to Paulista Avenue and a jacuzzi to 6 persons. source: Folha de Sao Paulo - jan 29, 1998
look for the workers protecting the ground of the field at Morumbi stadium in 1998 here
look for the Renaissance Hotel in Sao Paulo, where U2 stayed in 1998 here
:: Regina O'Numb 2/3/2006 09:44:20 PM [+] ::
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Three Irish music awards for U2 - Bass player Adam Clayton represented U2 at the event
Irish rockers U2 have won three prizes at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards, held in their home town of Dublin. The band, who were represented by bass player Adam Clayton at the ceremony, won best Irish band, best Irish album and best live performance. Gwen Stefani, Kanye West and the Kaiser Chiefs won international awards at the event, held at Dublin's Point Theatre. The Pogues got a lifetime achievement award, while Westlife were best Irish pop act for the sixth year running. After collecting their prize, the boy band revealed they may soon be recording a duet with controversial pop star Michael Jackson. "It would be a cool thing to do," said singer Shane Filan. "We are all big fans." Hosted by comedian Patrick Kielty, the awards featured performances from Sugababes, McFly, Jamie Cullum and The Darkness. The evening closed with the Pogues and the Dubliners joining forces for a rendition of Irish Rover. "It is nice to be a legend when you are still alive," said Pogues frontman Shane McGowan after the event. "A lifetime achievement award is not part of any job really." Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, former Atomic Kitten member Kerry Katona and X Factor judge Louis Walsh also attended the ceremony, to be broadcast on RTE2 this Sunday.
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'Best fans in the world'
Adam was in Dublin last night to do the honours as U2 won 'Best Irish Band', 'Best Irish Album' and 'Best Live Performance' at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards. Joe Elliot and Justin Hawkins presented Adam with the Album award for 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb', Stephen Rea handed over the Live award - for the Croke Park Vertigo '05 shows - while Jonathan Rhys Meyers was on hand for Best Band. U2, said a tanned and relaxed looking Adam, have the 'best management company in the world, best crew in the world and best fans in the world'. What more can you say ? Gwen Stefani, Kanye West and the Kaiser Chiefs won international awards at the event, held at Dublin's Point Theatre. Shane McGowan (Lifetime Achievement Award for The Pogues) closed the evening in traditional style with the Dubliners performing Irish Rover. Watch it all on RTE2 this Sunday evening. Here's the winners: Best Irish Female: Gemma Hayes / Best Irish Male: Damien Dempsey / Best Irish Pop Act: Westlife / Best Irish Band : U2 / Best Irish Album: U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb / Best Live Performance : U2 - Croke Park / Best Folk/Trad: John Spillane / Best Irish New Act: Humanzi / Best Irish DJ: Ray D'Arcy / Best International Album: Kaiser Chiefs - Employment / Best International Band: Kaiser Chiefs / Best International Male: Kanye West / Best International Female: Gwen Stefani / RTE 2fm Hope for 2006: Laura Izibor / Lifetime Achievement Award : The Pogues / Industry Award: Bill Whelan / The Humanitarian Award: Fr Peter McVerry.
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Three wins for U2 at Meteor Awards
U2 were the big winners at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards in Dublin last night, winning awards in three categories. The quartet were named Best Irish Band and also took the awards for Best Irish Album for 'How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' and Best Live Performance for their Croke Park shows. The band were represented at the awards ceremony in Dublin's Point Theatre by bassist Adam Clayton. In total, 17 awards were presented at the ceremony, which featured performances from, among others, Westlife, Bell X1, The Pogues, Republic of Loose, Damien Dempsey, Gemma Hayes, The Darkness and Jamie Cullum. Hayes won the Best Irish Female award, while Best Irish Male went to Dempsey. Westlife were named Best Irish Pop Act with Humanzi winning the award for Best New Irish Act. The Kaiser Chiefs won two awards: Best International Band and Best International Album for their debut 'Employment'. Kanye West and Gwen Stefani won the awards for Best International Male and Best International Female. The Best Folk/Trad award went to John Spillane, while Laura Izibor was the winner of the RTÉ 2fm Hope for 2006 award. The Pogues were presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award; Bill Whelan was honoured with the Industry Award and Today FM's Ray D'Arcy was named Best Irish DJ. Fr Peter McVerry was presented with the Humanitarian Award, which included a cheque for ¿100,000 to aid his work with homeless young people. The awards will be broadcast on RTÉ Two at 9pm on Sunday, 5 February.
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/3/2006 01:04:23 PM [+] ::
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The Brazilian organization of U2´s shows in Sao Paulo, reveals the phone-numbers to buy the hottest tickets of the year The sale´s tickets to the second show of U2 in Sao Paulo, on feb 21, will be by a call center and the numbers: in Sao Paulo: (011 - 3131.0101) / Rio de Janeiro: (021 - 2277.3131). The sale´s tickets go on Sunday - feb 5th - at 4:00 p.m.. The fans must inform the complete name, CPF (a sort of ID), telephone-number to contact and e-mail. The prices will be the same as the first sale, and the students will have half-price. It will be accept only money, and after all the things (CROSSFINGERS TO THE EVERYTHING IS ALL-RIGHT), there will be two places to get, properly, the tickets: in Sao Paulo - Pacaembu Stadium (between feb 13 and 21) and in Rio de Janeiro- Jockey Club (between feb 15 and 19), always in this time: from 9:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.
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The plans to the second U2´s show in Sao Paulo
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Look for the phone-numbers to buy the tickets for the second U2´s show
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Fans need go to the bank on monday and tuesday
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The announcement of Brazilian production of U2´s shows informs how to buy the tickets
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U2 tickets sell out in 50 minutes as third chance to buy more tickets for Auckland gig go on sale The third chance for U2 fans today, did not last long. An extra three thousand seats became available for each concert, after the Auckland city council approved another stand for the Ericsson Stadium. They sold out in about 50 minutes. Nicola Lincoln was the first to receive tickets at Real Groovy in Auckland, she'd been in line since before nine o'clock this morning. She was so excited she did not even check which night the tickets were for. She says at first she thought the sale of more tickets was a hoax but she was not going to take any chances.
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TVN will the 'official' channel of u2 in Chile
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:: Regina O'Numb 2/3/2006 12:52:30 PM [+] ::
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Update: Bono - National Prayer Breakfast - feb 2, 2006
Full transcription of Bono´s speech / video / photos
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Bono Lauds, Prods Prayer Breakfast
U2 activist reaffirms call to fight AIDS, poverty before audience including President Bush. - Bono, keynote speaker for the 54th National Prayer Breakfast at the Hilton Washington Hotel on February 2, urged American leaders to follow through with promises to aid the world's sick and impoverished. He lauded the audience of national and foreign government, military, and religious leaders for their efforts to fight AIDS and grant debt relief for Africa. But Bono also prodded them make harder sacrifices. "After 9/11, we were told America would have no time for the world's poor. We were told that America would be taken up with its own problems of safety. ¿ But America has not drawn the blinds and double-locked the doors." Bono said. "You have doubled aid to Africa. You have tripled funding for global health. And Mr. President, your emergency plan for AIDS relief and support of the Global Fund, has put 700,000 people onto life-saving antiretroviral drugs and provided 8 million bed nets to protect children from malaria. 'But here's the bad news. There is so much more to do. There is a gigantic chasm between the scale of the emergency and the scale of the response." Event planners had tried to keep the U2 frontman's appearance a carefully guarded secret. He co-founded the Washington-based humanitarian organization, DATA (Debt. AIDS. Trade. Africa.). He has been recruiting churches and American politicians in the battle against the AIDS pandemic. He said treatable diseases cost Africa 150,000 lives every month... a "completely avoidable catastrophe." He also chastised those who champion free markets while preventing the poorest of the poor from selling their products. "While the law is what we say it is, God is not silent on the subject," Bono said. "There are the laws of the land, and then there is a higher standard. We can hire experts to write them so they benefit us, so that they say it's okay to protect our agriculture, but it's not okay for African farmer to protect their agriculture to earn a living. As the laws of man are written, that's what they say. But God will not accept that." The advocate also called again for the U.S. government to increase its foreign aid contribution by 1 percent of the federal budget. Bono said, "It sounds to me that in this town of deals and compromises, 1 percent is the best bargain around." *Bush Stresses Unity* President Bush followed Bono to the podium and reaffirmed his thanks and respect for the faith of the American people. "Over the past five years, we've been inspired by the ways that millions of Americans have answered that call [to love your neighbor just like you'd like to be loved yourself]," Bush said. "After Katrina, volunteers from churches and mosques and synagogues and other faith-based and community groups opened up their hearts and their homes to the displaced. We saw an outpouring of compassion after the earthquake in Pakistan and the tsunami that devastated entire communities. We live up to God's calling when we provide help for HIV/AIDS victims on the continent of Africa and around the world." The President also stressed unity before the interfaith gathering. "We share one thing in common," Bush said. "We are united in our dedication to peace and tolerance and humility before the Almighty." The event featured remarks from some Jewish lawmakers and a prayer from Jordan's King Abdullah II. Bush said, "[Prayer] reminds us that when we bow our heads or fall to our knees, we are all equal and precious in the eyes of the Almighty." The prayer breakfast, begun during the Eisenhower administration, historically draws 3,600 attendees from 155 nations, including heads of state. A low-profile group commonly known as Fellowship Foundation sponsors the annual event. The group's well-connected members around the world work behind the scenes to provide members of Congress and foreign dignitaries with spiritual encouragement and fellowship. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minnesota, who co-chaired the breakfast with Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Arkansas, is the event's first Jewish chair. *Abdullah Addresses Luncheon* King Abdullah II also spoke at greater length during the National Prayer Luncheon. He said that Christians, Jews, and Muslims betray the victims of terrorism if they succumb to intolerance and ill will. "In every generation, people of faith are tested," he said. "In our generation, the greatest challenge comes from violent extremists who seek to divide and conquer. Extremism is a political movement under religious cover. Its adherents want nothing more than to pit us against each other, denying all that we have in common. We must therefore heed the words of the New Testament: "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good" [Romans 12:21]. "The violence unleashed by terrorist groups, and the few who follow them, stems from hatred," he further argued. "Theirs is a repugnant political ideology which violates the principles and statutes of traditional Islamic law. No matter what grievance one may have, or what evil one confronts, the Qur'an commands us: 'Let not the hatred of others make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice.' Extremists of any religion who teach intolerance and violence mutilate Scripture to advance their cause." Joseph Lumbard, special adviser to the king on interfaith affairs, said the king wants to engage in a deeper dialogue with Catholics and members of other Christian traditions. "We all have an interest in a secure and just peace in the Holy Land," Lumbard said. He added that the king has also been trying to "help evangelicals come to a more thorough understanding of the traditional teachings of Islam" and address misunderstandings resulting from the claims of extremists. Following the luncheon he met with a select group of evangelical leaders. While King Abdullah II has met privately with individual evangelical leaders in Jordan, Lumbard said he had never before addressed a largely evangelical gathering in the United States. "He wants to begin a long process of relationship building," Lumbard said. The spokesman added that despite multiple threats on his life, Abdullah would not be deterred in his approach. "His majesty knows that for true peace, all parties must be involved."
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'Thank You, Mr President...'
Bono is in Washington this week lobbying policy makers in the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. Yesterday he quoted Islamic, Jewish and Christian texts in a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast calling on the U.S. government to give an additional 1 percent of the federal budget to the world's poor. Speaking to President Bush, members of Congress, the Cabinet and the military as well as clergy and representatives from other countries he argued that it is unjust to keep poor people from selling their goods while singing the virtues of the free market, to hold children to ransom for the debts of their grandparents and to withhold medicines that would save lives. 'God will not accept that,' he said. 'Mine won't. Will yours?' Here's how Bono opened his lengthy talk. Click the link at the bottom of the page to read the whole talk on the DATA site - which is where you can learn more about the global campaign to end extreme poverty. 'Thank you. Mr. President, First Lady, King Abdullah, Other heads of State, Members of Congress, distinguished guests¿Please join me in praying that I don¿t say something we¿ll all regret. That was for the FCC. If you¿re wondering what I¿m doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I¿m certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It¿s certainly not because I¿m a rock star. Which leaves one possible explanation: I¿m here because I¿ve got a messianic complex. Yes, it¿s true. And for anyone who knows me, it¿s hardly a revelation. Well, I¿m the first to admit that there¿s something unnatural¿ something unseemly¿ about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert¿ but this is really weird, isn¿t it? You know, one of the things I love about this country is its separation of church and state. Although I have to say: in inviting me here, both church and state have been separated from something else completely: their mind. .
Mr. President, are you sure about this? It¿s very humbling and I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned ¿ I¿m Irish. I¿d like to talk about the laws of man, here in this city where those laws are written. And I¿d like to talk about higher laws. It would be great to assume that the one serves the other; that the laws of man serve these higher laws¿ but of course, they don¿t always. And I presume that, in a sense, is why you¿re here. I presume the reason for this gathering is that all of us here ¿ Muslims, Jews, Christians ¿ all are searching our souls for how to better serve our family, our community, our nation, our God.
I know I am. Searching, I mean. And that, I suppose, is what led me here, too. Yes, it¿s odd, having a rock star here ¿ but maybe it¿s odder for me than for you. You see, I avoided religious people most of my life. Maybe it had something to do with having a father who was Protestant and a mother who was Catholic in a country where the line between the two was, quite literally, a battle line. Where the line between church and state was¿ well, a little blurry, and hard to see. I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays¿ and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way. Seeing what religious people, in the name of God, did to my native land¿ and in this country, seeing God¿s second-hand car salesmen on the cable TV channels, offering indulgences for cash¿ in fact, all over the world, seeing the self-righteousness roll down like a mighty stream from certain corners of the religious establishment¿ I must confess, I changed the channel. I wanted my MTV. Even though I was a believer. Perhaps because I was a believer....' Read the rest of Bono's speech here.
read on: U2.com

:: Regina O'Numb 2/3/2006 12:52:22 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: to allow younger people / Edge and Bono on "North And South Of The River" / U2 play halftime Super Bowl XXXVI / An open letter from Larry Mullen!

"Early Ireland" - february 3, 1979 - U2 perform in Dublin, Ireland in all-ages session at McGonagle's in an afternoon gig for those too young to be served wine, and then Trinity College (The Buttery Bar & Restaurant) in the evening. In an attempt to allow younger people to hear them play, U2 play twice in the same day.

"Early Ireland" - february 1979. Bono borrows some money and travels to London to plug U2 at the offices of various record companies and music magazines.

"Early Ireland" - february 1980. U2 perform several dates (of which I'm unsure of the exact date): (Belfast, Queen's University), (Tullamoore, Bridge House), (Cork, Country Club), (Tullermeny, Garden of Eden Club).

"October" era - february 1982. U2 take 6 places in Irish DJ Dave Fanning's Top 50 of All-Time, including the number one spot with "11 O'clock Tick Tock". U2's album "October", peaked at #101 on Billboard, and is now on its way down the charts.

"The Unforgettable Fire" era - february 1985. Sales of "The Unforgettable Fire" surpass the 1 million mark.

"Rattle And Hum" era - february-july 1988. Recording sessions and editing work for "Rattle & Hum" take the band to and from Dublin, Ireland and Los Angeles, California. U2 spend these months pouring over 160 hours of concert footage and documentary footage with Phil Joanou, resulting in 90 minute feature film. They record songs at STS studios and A&M studios for the new album.

"Achtung Baby" era - february 1993. U2 begin to record new material in Dublin.

"Performing Rights Society" - february 1994. U2 issue a writ challenging the Performing Rights Society on their exclusive right to collect song writing royalties for performances of songs.

"North and South Of The River" - february 1995. Bono and The Edge team up with veteran Irish songwriter Christy Moore to record "North and South of the River" in Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, the track was available in Ireland only, and later released world-wide on the "Staring At The Sun" single.

"POP" era - february 1998. Sales of "POP" surpass the $5.5 million US mark.

"U2 performs at halftime of Super Bowl XXXVI" - february 3, 2002. U2 performs at halftime of Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans. Bono walks through the crowd to take the stage as 'Beautiful Day' begins. A larger version of the heart is used for the stage, surrounded by people on the field and in the heart. As 'MLK' starts a screen rises from the back of the stage, which scrolls the names of the people lost in the World Trade Center disaster, fire and police departments, on the flights, and in the buildings themselves. The scrolling continues through most of 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' As the band's performance comes to an end, Bono reveals the U.S. flag-like lining of his jacket. The band's performance is well-received by both football fans and the media, as well as by other musicians who performed prior to the game including Paul McCartney and Mariah Carey. As for the game, the New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams 20-17 on a field goal on the game's last play.
watch "Beautiful Day" here - watch "MLK/Streets" here

"McGuinness adds new band to stable" - february 3, 2004.Irish media report today that Paul McGuinness has agreed to manage a new band, The Rapture. The Irish Voice describes the New York-based quartet as a "dance rock" band. McGuinness is quoted as saying "These people are a dynamite live act, and that's kind of what I like best about rock 'n' roll."

An open letter from Larry Mullen - february 3, 2005 - This is not something that I would normally do, but I feel that I have to do something to redress this situation. There was a mess up in the way the tickets were distributed through U2.com for the Vertigo pre-sale. Some of it was beyond our control, but some of it wasn't. I am now in the process of figuring out a way of distributing the tickets for our intended return to North America in the fall. The only fair way of doing this, is to give U2 Propaganda members, who are now U2.com members, priority in the queue. After that, people will be given priority in the order in which they joined. Many people who joined U2.com and didn't get tickets are understandably angry. They now have the option to get a full refund of their subscription fee. The idea that our long-time U2 fans and scalpers competed for U2 tickets through our own web site is appalling to me. I want to apologise to you who have suffered that. If your U2.com pre-sale experience has left you disappointed, I hope this will go some way towards reassuring you of our total commitment to our audience.
Slainte
Larry.
By the way, a note to those so-called U2 fans who are quick to accuse U2 of unseemly behaviour, I've only got two words for you...
Click here for information on a refund.
read on: U2.com

:: Regina O'Numb 2/3/2006 12:43:40 PM [+] ::
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It's a very effective form of cooperation for everybody involved
Within the band itself, huge rock star egos have no place. Band members ask themselves, "What's good for U2 as a whole?" While admitting that they all have quite healthy egos, The Edge observes, "Your ego, in our case, gets subsumed into a kind of band ego," a situation that is possible only because everyone is secure in his position. "No one's trying to do anyone else down. It's kind of the opposite. You know if you get a chance to compliment somebody else, in the end you're complimenting the whole band." The relationships band members have with one another stem from mutual respect and many years of hard work. Band members have grown up together, gone through their apprenticeship as musicians together, fought with one another, and matured in their Christian faith together. "There's a stability there and a kind of trust that is pretty indestructible at this point," comments The Edge. "A very miniature community like we have is a great model for success. It's a very effective form of cooperation for everybody involved." by Margaret Benefiel on Edge - Soul at Work: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations
:: Regina O'Numb 2/2/2006 10:21:50 PM [+] ::
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Bono Pushes U.S. to Increase Aid to Poor
Bono Asks Washington to Boost Aid to World's Poor an Additional 1 Percent of the U.S. Budget - WASHINGTON Feb 2, 2006 - Quoting from Islamic, Jewish and Christian texts, rock star Bono called Thursday for the U.S. government to give an additional 1 percent of the federal budget to the world's poor. Speaking to President Bush and members of Congress at the National Prayer Breakfast, the U2 front man said it's unjust to keep poor people from selling their goods while singing the virtues of the free market, to hold children to ransom for the debts of their grandparents and to withhold medicines that would save lives. "God will not accept that," he said. "Mine won't. Will yours?" Bono's speech riveted the ballroom audience that included the president and first lady and leaders from Congress, the Cabinet, the military, the clergy and countries from around the world. At every table, Bono had distributed white plastic bracelets from The ONE Campaign to fight AIDS and poverty, and Sen. Hillary Clinton was among those who wrapped it around her fingers while she listened. Bono thanked the president for helping to fight the spread of malaria and AIDS. Bush, in markedly lighter remarks than the singer, praised him as "a doer" but didn't comment on his proposal. "The thing about this good citizen of the world is he's used his position to get things done," Bush said. "You're an amazing guy, Bono. God bless you." Bono said the United States spends less than 1 percent of its budget on the world's poor. One percent of last year's budget would have been about $26 billion. On the Net: http://www.whitehouse.gov
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Joining Bush at prayer breakfast, Bono is "man of the cloth": leather
WASHINGTON Preaching to President Bush at the National Prayer Breakfast, Bono (BAH'-noh) has proclaimed himself a "man of the cloth": leather. The Irish rocker and advocate for the poor was the main speaker at the Washington breakfast for politicians of all faiths. But he says he felt a little out of place in his role as preacher. He joked, "Please join me in praying I don't say anything we all regret." Bono used the appearance to promote "The One Campaign," a group he's leading that calls on the world's rich nations to dedicate one percent of their budgets to aiding the poor in Africa. Following Bono to the microphone, Bush praised the singer's efforts. He called Bono "an amazing guy" who's "used his position to get things done."
read on: kristv

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Remarks by President Bush at the National Prayer Breakfast
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of remarks by President Bush at the National Prayer Breakfast: / Hilton Washington Hotel / Washington, D.C. / 9:09 A.M. EST
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Bono, today = National Prayer Breakfast!
In Washington DC. Bono is the keynote speaker. This annual breakfast is not an official event, but is put on by the Fellowship Foundation, an evangelical Christian group. This year, according to the press, King Abdullah II of Jordan is speaking at the lunch afterwards.
read on: washingtonpost
:: Regina O'Numb 2/2/2006 10:18:52 PM [+] ::
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Live At The 2006 Grammy Awards
Don't miss the 2006 Grammy Awards on Wednesday. The band are nominated for five Awards and will also perform - including a duet with Mary J Blige. U2 are nominated in five categories for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (see the list at the bottom of this story). Although the album was released in 2004, it was too late to qualify for last year's Awards. But Vertigo, the first single, was in time to qualify and last year it was nominated in three categories - and won all three categories. Here's our report. In fact the band have had a steady stream of nominations in this most prestigious bash of the music industry calendar. Here's our report of the 2002 Awards when the band won Four Grammy's. The year before it was Beautiful Day that won big.Watch the band accepting their awards and performing in this great video. The 2006 Awards take place next Wednesday, February 8th, at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles. We'll bring you news as the Awards are announced and you can also watch it live on CBS Television Network from 8 p.m. (ET/PT). And just to refresh your memory, here's the categories the band are nominated in - and who the competition is! ALBUM OF THE YEAR...How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb ¿ U2 - SONG OF THE YEAR (Songwriters award) ...Sometimes You Can¿t Make It On Your Own ¿ U2... - BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL...Sometimes You Can¿t Make It On Your Own ¿ U2 -
BEST ROCK SONG (Songwriters award)...City of Blinding Lights ¿ U2...BEST ROCK ALBUM...How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb ¿ U2...Steve Lillywhite, who produced the first three U2 albums and How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is also nominated - for his work with U2 and with Jason Mraz.
read whole article on: U2.com
:: Regina O'Numb 2/2/2006 10:18:25 PM [+] ::
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The Brazilian organization of U2´s shows in Sao Paulo, reveals the phone-numbers to buy the hottest tickets of the year The sale´s tickets to the second show of U2 in Sao Paulo, on feb 21, will be by a call center and the numbers: in Sao Paulo: (011 - 3131.0101) / Rio de Janeiro: (021 - 2277.3131). The sale´s tickets go on Sunday - feb 5th - at 4:00 p.m.. The fans must inform the complete name, CPF (a sort of ID), telephone-number to contact and e-mail. The prices will be the same as the first sale, and the students will have half-price. It will be accept only money, and after all the things (CROSSFINGERS TO THE EVERYTHING IS ALL-RIGHT), there will be two places to get, properly, the tickets: in Sao Paulo - Pacaembu Stadium (between feb 13 and 21) and in Rio de Janeiro- Jockey Club (between feb 15 and 19), always in this time: from 9:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.
read (Brazilian Portuguese language) on: terra / O Estado de Sao Paulo
tomorrow will happen the official announcement
:: Regina O'Numb 2/2/2006 09:53:39 PM [+] ::
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Pele and Bono for a better world!
Bono meets Pele before come to Brazil. Former athlet and singer form an alliance with artists from many countries at WEF in Davos, Switzerland. Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pele, 65 years old met Bono, 45 years old and it was an emotional moment of the event, created in 1971 by German professour Klaus Schwab-president of the forum, as an international debate of the businessmen leaders. "Always I was your fan. Now, much more" said U2´s singer. Pele spoke about 'how the ball can change the world,' the sport as social unite. Bono shows to the world the Red label to change the world. Look for some scans of the Caras magazine: photo 1 / photo 2 / photo 3 / photo 4 / photo 5
*So sorry Bono, but the Brazil´s media, still reports your name as Bono Vox.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/2/2006 08:24:48 PM [+] ::
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Central´s sale of U2´s tickets to Sao Paulo 2
ticketronics

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U2 in Mexico: MTV will transmit some specials of U2!
To celebrates the return of U2 in Mexico City and Monterrey, MTV will transmit a special programation, from feb 1st to feb 16th.
read on (Spanish language) on: esmas

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U2 in Japan: U2.com members are able to be in front of the stage
"Ticket PIA, Japan's version of Ticketmaster, has arranged a ticket purchasing service for fans who are NOT residents of Japan. Beginning today, fans may sign up for a lottery to purchase up to four tickets to the U2 concert in Yokohama on April 4. The lottery application period ends on February 8. On February 14, those who have applied to the lottery will be informed if their ticket order will be processed. Because of safety laws in Japan, the general admission area at Nissan Stadium will be divided into sections (see map above). Fans may only specify a request of general admission, lower-level stands, and upper-level stands in their ticket order, not a section number. Seating and section assignments will be specified with the confirmed order. U2japan.com reports that U2.com members ordering general admission tickets in the pre-sale last week were given section 'SS' in front of the stage. Fans who find a lottery system too complicated or risky should consider one of the ticket packages for the Yokohoma concert being offered by ETS, the official tour and travel operator." by Cindy on U2log

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Auckland tickets available
Additional tickets for both shows in Auckland are currently available from http://www.ticketmaster.co.nz/custom/u2/u2vertigo.html (GAs pulled up to 4 for each show.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/2/2006 01:06:05 PM [+] ::
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Trabantland
Documents U2's interest in the Trabant, an East German Car, and how they used them for stage decor during the Zoo TV Tour. here on savefile

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New Year´s Day - on Bedouin Soundcalsh
listen to this cover on: bedouin

:: Regina O'Numb 2/2/2006 12:40:22 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY U2´S HISTORY: an this is also the end of my voice / MDH-begins film / MDH-US premiere / Bono-WEF!

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - february 2, 1985. U2 perform in Munich, Germany at Sedlmayerhalle. Bono's voice is in rough shape on this night. He misses most of the high notes on "Bad", and during "New Year's Day" his voice gives out completely. Bono jokes about the problem at the end of the show, "This is the end of 'The Unforgettable Fire Week', and this is also the end of my voice..."

Phil Joanou announces plans to film "Entropy", his second U2 based film - february 2, 1998.

Filming begins in Los Angeles on Million Dollar Hotel - february 2, 1999. Film crews begin shooting The Million Dollar Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The script is co-written and based on a story by Bono. The movie is being directed by the band's longtime friend, Wim Wenders, and will star the likes of Mel Gibson, Milla Jovovich, and others. Bono has a cameo appearance in the movie, too.

Million Dollar Hotel has U.S. premiere as Bono has war of words with Mel Gibson - february 2, 2001. Nearly a year after its premiere in Europe, The Million Dollar Hotel makes its U.S. premiere in limited distribution at movie theatres in New York and Los Angeles. Bono takes this as an opportunity to start a war of words with the film's lead actor, Mel Gibson, who months ago told Australian media that the movie was "as boring as a dog's arse."

Bono attends World Economic Forum - february 2, 2002. On day three of the World Economic Forum in New York, Bono sits on a panel and debates foreign aid with U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. Later in the day he joins Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates for a news conference on AIDS prevention in Africa. Gates announces that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will pledge another $50 million for anti-AIDS efforts in Africa.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/2/2006 12:39:42 PM [+] ::
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Us...

U2 incarnates what it is to think in terms of "us," in the band itself, in the U2 community, and in the wider world. In reflecting on the U2 community, The Edge typifies this attitude: "In the long run, I suspect that other people will end up doing far more than us, and that's an exciting idea." - Soul at Work: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations by Margaret Benefiel.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/1/2006 09:28:51 PM [+] ::
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The Edge Leads Gibson's Music Rising Campaign - Limited guitars are being sold in aid of musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina...
U2 guitarist The Edge has thrown his weight behind Gibson's campaign to help New Orleans musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina. With creative input and endorsement from The Edge, Gibson has created 300 limited edition Les Paul guitars, in the colours of the New Orleans Mardi Gras, all of which are being sold with proceeds going to the Music Rising campaign that will provide instruments for musicians hit by the tragedy. A minimum pledge of $1million to Music Rising has been assured. "New Orleans is a crucible for great music,' said the U2 axe man. 'The idea that it would be just a place of history for music is awful to me. "Coming from Dublin in the Seventies, when music was something you had to search out, I'd never dreamt that somewhere like New Orleans could exist. Music was coming out of the walls. It seemed not just a form of escapism, but like it was weaved into everybody's life." Others supporting the Music Rising campaign are MTV, VH1, Rolling Stonemagazine and Ticketmaster. Click on the link on the right to watch a clip of The Edge talking more about the campaign and New Orleans. (gibson)
read on: mtv
:: Regina O'Numb 2/1/2006 09:11:40 PM [+] ::
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Some crazy plans!
Here in Brazil, the fans are planning to wait U2 at the two probable airports (Congonhas Airport and Guarulhos Airport ), half on each one, to communicate each group by cellphone (they´re checking with some pilots which will fly from Mexico). They are planning to meet U2, in this hotel, that the media in Brazil is reporting and I must add, until in Chile they know about this hotel. I won´t post the name, cause I respect the U2´s prive way.....They are planning to camp in front of Morumbi stadium, since feb 16th or 17th to the first show. They are planning to go to Stone´s show in Rio, on feb 18th, cause they believe U2 will join Rolling Stones on stage...
check something on latest news about U2 in Sao Paulo

:: Regina O'Numb 2/1/2006 08:42:50 PM [+] ::
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You too can put Bono video on phone -- it's free
LOS ANGELES -- A company behind a subscription video service for mobile phones has launched an ad-supported, free 24-hour music-video channel for Internet-enabled phones, computers and other portable devices capable of playing video. The service, launched last week by SmartVideo Technologies Inc., offers full-length music videos from recording artists such as U2, Kanye West and Mariah Carey, says Richard Bennett, president and chief executive of the company in Duluth, Ga. SmartVideo has licensed thousands of videos, although not all of the major record labels have come aboard, Bennett says. He declined to name the record labels. The company plans to add music-video channels tailored to urban, dance, rock and other genres....
read whle article on: orlandosentinel
:: Regina O'Numb 2/1/2006 05:59:26 PM [+] ::
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'Desire' in Rio 98
On jan 24th, Bono were at Salgueiro shool samba, danced and played tambourine. The night of the first show of U2 in Brazil, reserved a surprise. During 'Desire' some members of rhythm section of Salgueiro school samba joined U2. The rehearsal was only one time, three hours before the show at backstage. Mestre Louro, the 'boss' of the rhythm section, enjoyed a lot and said that 'Desire' isn´t a rock, it´s a slow samba.' They posed to photos with Bono. (In an interview to MTV after the show, Edge explained the meeting: "We had only one first contact with Salgueiro and we did not have time to rehearsal. The rhythm section arrived only few hours before the show, played a little and we decide to leave to roll.") After the show, U2´s members fly by the helicopter at Jacarepagua autodrome to the heliport at Rodrigo de Freitas lake, then they came to the hotel by car. They arrived at the hotel around 0:30 a.m. Adam and Larry drunk some drinks and went to their suites, during a party at the hotel to the MTV US, with 50 persons, which finished at 5:00 a.m. Edge and Bono weren´t at this party, they went directly to their suites. They were tired. Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton rest all the day in the hotel, while Larry makes fitness at Ibeas Top Club.
source - Folha de Sao Paulo - jan 29, 1998
:: Regina O'Numb 2/1/2006 05:20:42 PM [+] ::
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Tickets to Franz Ferdinand in Rio are sold out; the band won´t play alone in Sao Paulo The tickets to the show of the Scotish band Franz Ferdinand, on feb 23, in Rio, at Circo Voador, are sold out. The ticket´s prices R$100,00 (U$40,00). THe students pay half-ticket. Before Rio, they will play twice to support U2´s shows in Sao Paulo, on feb 20 and 21, at Morumbi Stadium.
read on (BPl) on: uol
:: Regina O'Numb 2/1/2006 02:59:10 PM [+] ::
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Watch U2: TFI A Grand Madness!?

It' sensational, so funny watch them on: rapidshare
:: Regina O'Numb 2/1/2006 12:40:18 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: "All Along The Watchtower" for the first time / "Southern Man" / U2 say bye bye Brazil / Bono in WEF-2002-NYC!

"October" tour - february 1, 1981. U2 perform in London, England at the Lyceum Ballroom. After an unexpected sell-out, over 700 fans are turned away at the doors.This night U2 perform "All Along The Watchtower" with Pete Wylie of the band Wah Heat! who is announced by Bono as "one of the new breed".

"The Unforgettable Tour" - february 1, 1985. U2 perform in Manneheim, Germany at Musensaal. The highlight of the show is Neil Young's "Southern Man" which hasn't been performed since 1982--only now, Bono accompanies with guitar.

U2 say bye bye Brazil - february 1, 1998 - After the last show in Brazil, U2, discretly embark to Argentina. They stayed at Renassence hotel, in Sao Paulo, until 8:00 p.m.

Bono attends World Economic Forum - february 1, 2002. Still at the World Economic Forum in New York, Bono meets with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who promises that Africa will be the main topic of discussion at the upcoming G-8 Summit in Canada. Later, Bono offers comments to delegates gathered for an evening concert. There are reports that Bono also sings during the concert, but these reports are never confirmed.
:: Regina O'Numb 2/1/2006 12:35:58 PM [+] ::
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