:: Edge´s blog by Regina O´Numb ::

:: 3.31.2006 ::

"A brilliant guitar player, but who completely understates it as a person. He pulls no shapes. He´s a man of angles, he´s got his chin and his guitar and the elbows, and plays away, and then humbly takes the plug out of the amp and goes home. My respect for him grows and grows." Bono - U2 Touch The Flame/Geoff Parkyn
:: Regina O'Numb 3/31/2006 10:56:28 PM [+] ::
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Tá cion agam ort
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'...hey, if God will send his angels, / and if God will send his angels, / and if God will send his angels / where do we go... / Jesus never let me down...' - If God Will Send His Angels by U2
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'...They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all that they do, they prosper....' psalm 1
:: Regina O'Numb 3/31/2006 10:36:54 PM [+] ::
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Look for New Orleans, now, and make your best to support Edge - it´s Music Rising!
Bourbocam // Rivercam // Bridgecam // Beadcam // Paradecam // Quartercam

:: Regina O'Numb 3/31/2006 09:37:33 PM [+] ::
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Don't Come Knocking
Written By: Bono & The Edge / Performed By: Bono, The Edge, Andrea Corr
'You're everything I could want / There's no house you couldn't haunt / You're the key that could keep me in / You're the sense, under the skin / I won't bring you roses / I'll bring myself instead / Time only is time / For what is meant / Not what was said / Don't come knocking, don't come knocking / Don't come knocking at my door / Don't come knocking, knock, knock, knocking / Don't come knocking no more / You're a dream I could wake up in / You're a fight I shouldn't try to win / You're the door, I'll always leave open / You're the heart that's always hopin... / Off a tree-lined avenue, in a college made of stone / I'll sit there not dreaming, I would rather live alone / Don't come knocking, don't come knocking / Don't come knocking at my door / Don't come knocking, knock, knock, knocking / Don't come knocking no more / All the stars in the sky / They can't light our way, oh no / All the maps, and all the charts / All the dreams... / Dreams ...won't... leave... you... / Home... / Home... / Don't come knocking, don't come knocking / Don't come knocking at my door / Don't come knocking, don't come knocking / Don't come knocking at my door / Don't come knocking, knock, knock, knocking / Don't come knocking no more'
*I love this mix: Edge, Bono and a Corr´s voice. Edge´s so sweet playing here. Strong voice of Bono and a female head with them. Great, great version. I want hear something as this one in the new album. more on U2.com
:: Regina O'Numb 3/31/2006 09:37:11 PM [+] ::
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Courtney Sells Share
Courtney Love has sold a 25% share of Nirvana's catalogue to a music publishing house. When the sale was rumored earlier this year, U2 singer Bono was interested but that fell through. Love hoped to quell any unease about the deal by stating "We're going to remain very tasteful and take Nirvana places it's never been before."
read on: muchmusic
:: Regina O'Numb 3/31/2006 09:36:47 PM [+] ::
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Explore and Exploit...
In 1697 or so, the Crown of Portugal ordered a road built from the port of Praia dos Mineiros, where the Rio Inhomirim met the Atlantic, to Diamantina, where creeks were exposing diamonds to daylight. The Estrada Real, the Royal Road, was to surmount the Serra do Mar that stands steep, dark-green, and misty about Guanabara Bay, then probe north into the region known as Minas Gerais - General Mines. The Royal Road was to connect the cities producing gold and diamonds as nowhere else on earth. Tunnels dug into hillsides were turning up just about every type of gem known to man. São João del Rei, Tiradentes, Congonhas and Vila Rica were already thriving cities. Vila Rica was becoming the largest city in the Americas, and its name would some day change from Rich Village to Black Gold ­ Ouro Preto. Diamantina, in northern Minas, was rising from the muck of a diamond mine in a gully to become a Portuguese outpost worth the wealth it was sending south to Praia dos Mineiros - Beach of Miners ­ later to be called Rio de Janeiro. From there the wealth of Brazil sailed to Lisbon. This winding dirt road connected some of the world's most miserable people to some of the world's wealthiest - the slaves in the mines of Minas Gerais to the Portuguese Crown, the ultimate beneficiaries of everything that could be stripped from the land of the brassy-colored brasa wood - Brazil. The Estrada Real was to restrict as much as facilitate transportation into the interior. The Crown did not want Brazil to develop industrial capacity. It was to continue completely dependent on Portugal for food, metals, tools, nails, ammunition, equipment, and supplies. The Brazilian economy was to be based almost exclusively on the export of gems and gold. The Estrada Real, therefore, was to facilitate the inward delivery of manufactured goods to the interior while speeding the outward flow of mineral riches. The Estrada was also to remain the only route of transportation, making it possible for Portugal to control development and exploitation. In a certain sense, the history of the Estrada Real is the history of Latin America. Unlike the settlers who came to North America from industrial nations, the colonizers of Latin America came from feudal lands. They came neither to build nor to stay. In Portuguese, the verb explorar means both explore and exploit. The language has no other word for either activity. As if by lingual necessity, the Portuguese did both at the same time, exploring a region so vast that even today it has not yet been fully mapped, exploiting the land and ungodly number of native and imported people. Once the gold and jewels were gone, the people who remained were left with magnificent churches and abandoned mines but no infrastructure for any but an agrarian economy. That situation hasn't changed much. At the beginning of the 21st century, the Estrada Real of the 17th century is still there. Most of the road is dirt, dust, or mud, though it becomes cobblestone as it passes through towns and villages. Many of the villages have a toehold on the 20th century - undependable electricity, a single phone, two television channels, visiting doctors with medical degrees - but the lives of the people there haven't changed much since the 17th century. They still cook on open wood stoves, and they travel by horse, mule and foot. They treat their ills with roots and herbs, and they pray for rain. They live in houses built by their grandfathers and sing in churches built by slaves. They still have no infrastructure for any but an agrarian economy. This is the cradle of Brazilian culture. It all started here, in the mountains of Minas Gerais. As urban Brazil struggles into modern times and the global economy, its slow, quiet past still lives along its first road. How has it survived? How long can it survive? Should it survive? What, if anything, can save it? The search for the answers - a walk down the road - turns up the seeds of an odd revolution. People who have yet to benefit from the global economy are already struggling against it. Some, poor as dirt, ignorant of the world, are satisfied with the happiness they've found in God. Others, more aware, appreciate the wealth of their ancient culture. And some, of course, want to trade their antiquated ways for the commerce and industry that brings the money that buys the stuff that promises to make life better. The people are changing, some by resisting change, some by embracing it. The culture is in the balance. The history is there, as immutable as it is unfinished. Scenes from the Estrada Real: A bridge of the Rio Jequitinhonha outside of Sao Goncalo do Rio das Pedras. The Estrada Real crosses it // A lot, and in some places most of the traffic on the Estrada Real is by hoof. // The Estrada Real coming into Três Barras // Streets behind the Igreja Metropolitana in Diamantina. Be sure to visit this city someday. for good reason, UNESCO has declared it a world heritage city // gourds used for storage // spoons // fogão a lenha wood stove // plate and faucet

:: Regina O'Numb 3/31/2006 09:36:14 PM [+] ::
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The two Steves who changed the world
Steve Jobs, the tech-savvy marketing genius, and Steve Wozniak, who invented the Apple computer, have between them revolutionized world culture over the past three decades. The two college dropouts created the California company that has changed the way people use computers, listen to music -- now through the iPod -- and even buy music by downloading it from the Internet....Today he (Steve Wozniak) has three adult children, two sons and a daughter, a house in Los Gatos, California, Hummer automobiles, and the U2 band model iPod....
read whole article on:
hindustantimes
:: Regina O'Numb 3/31/2006 03:43:25 PM [+] ::
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Videos, here:
A Celebration - (Filetype: mpeg, 49.43MB) // A Sort of Homecoming (Filetype: mpeg, 53.72MB) // All Because Of You - (Filetype: wmv, 8.15MB) // Beautiful Day - (Filetype: mpeg, 45.29MB) // Beautiful Day popup - (Filetype: mpeg, 26.26MB) // Beautiful Day version 2 - Eze Version(Filetype: ram, 4.4MB) // City Of Blinding Lights - high quality(Filetype: wmv, 14.32MB) // Discotheque - version1(Filetype: mpeg, 51.65MB) // Discotheque version 2 - Deep Club remix(Filetype: mpeg, 37.82MB) // Electrical Storm - (Filetype: mpeg, 45.35MB) // Elevation - (Filetype: wmv, 6.34MB) // Gloria - (Filetype: mpeg, 36.85MB) // Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me - (Filetype: mpg, 43.57MB) // I Got You Under My Skin - duet with Frank Sinatra(Filetype: mpeg, 44.09MB) // In a Lifetime - (Filetype: mpeg, 32.13MB) // In God's Country - (Filetype: mpeg, 29.22MB) // Last Night on Earth - (Filetype: mp4, 27.98MB) // Love Is Blindness - (Filetype: mpeg, 42.98MB) // Mysterious Ways - (Filetype: wmv, 9.01MB) // Night and Day - (Filetype: asx, 11.85MB) // One (bar version) - (Filetype: mpeg, 45.38MB) // One (buffalo version) - (Filetype: mpeg, 46.49MB) // One (Director's Cut) - (Filetype: avi, 52.89MB) // One with Mary J. Blige - (Filetype: avi, 25.86MB) // Original of the Species - version 1(Filetype: wmv, 9.52MB) // Pride - color edit(Filetype: avi, 48.14MB) // Pride in the Name of Love - (Filetype: mp4, 26.15MB) // Spanish Eyes - opens with quicktime(Filetype: mov, 16.5MB) // Staring at the Sun - version 2 (Filetype: mpeg, 41.97MB) // Stay - [Faraway, So Close](Filetype: mpg, 54.17MB) // Stuck in a Moment version 1 - the Bono falling out of the van one(Filetype: avi, 27.96MB) // Stuck In A Moment version 2 - the football one(Filetype: mpeg, 35.69MB) // Stuck in a Moment version 3 - Eze version(Filetype: avi, 29.04MB) // The Sweetest Thing popup - (Filetype: mov, 22.35MB) // Two Hearts Beat As One - (Filetype: mpg, 53.62MB) // Unforgettable Fire - (Filetype: mpeg, 26.82MB) // Until The End of The World - (Filetype: wmv, 10.05MB) // Walk On - (Filetype: mpeg, 53.84MB) // Walk On (brazil) - (Filetype: mpeg, 48.06MB) // With Or Without You - pop up video(Filetype: mov, 25.36MB) // With or Without You version 2 - alternate version(Filetype: wmv, 18.51MB) // Yahweh
animation, as played during European leg(Filetype: mov, 29.71MB). on savefile
:: Regina O'Numb 3/31/2006 02:19:46 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: "Two Hearts Beat As One" / Bono´s chin stitched up / meeting Michael Jordan-hands pull at Larry / City of Angels / ONE campaign during 'Vertigo' tour!

"Boy" tour - march 31, 1981. U2 perform in Austin, Texas at The Club Foot.

"War" tour - march 31, 1983. U2 perform "Two Hearts Beat as One" on the Top of the Pops. Bono climbs up to a balcony in the studio to embrace a girl during the song.

"Bono´s chin stitched up" - march 31, 1987. While rehearsing for the opening of the "Joshua Tree" tour, Bono falls backwards off the stage and lands on bass technician Fraser McAllister. Bono is taken to the hospital to have his chin stitched up.

"ZOOTV" tour - march 31, 1992. U2 perform in Chicago, Illinois. U2 attend a Chicago White Sox baseball game during the afternoon before their concert that evening. The person escorting U2 around for the afternoon knows famed basketball star Michael Jordan, and knows which skybox he sits in while watching the games. When asked if they want to meet Jordan, the band excitedly accepts the offer. They proceed to Jordan's skybox and are introduced to him. After about 5-10 minutes of talking U2 has to get going and they depart from the stadium to prepare for the concert. Immediately after U2 leaves, Jordan asks "Now who were those guys again?" That night's show is marred by a group of over-zealous fans who attempt to pull Bono's towel off from around his neck. They succeed, and in doing so leave him with rug burns. As Larry walks by, a female fan jumps toward the stage, grabs his leg and pulls him into the crowd. Tens of hands pull at Larry, until a security guard is eventually able to pull him out of the crowd. Both Larry and Bono flash "looks" at the section, and continue on with the show. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"If God Will Send His Angels" - march 31, 1998. The "City of Angels" soundtrack is released. The album contains a remixed version of U2's "If God Will Send His Angels".

Bono and friends snap for ONE - march 31, 2005. While appearing nightly on U2's Vertigo Tour stage, Bono also shows up in a new public service video for the ONE Campaign. He's one of many celebrities who show up, each snapping their fingers at 3-second intervals, to emphasize the message that a child dies that often from extreme poverty. The video can be watched online, and is part of the ONE Campaign's television ad campaign, too.

:: Regina O'Numb 3/31/2006 02:19:21 PM [+] ::
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Everything is eclipsed by Edge´s majestic guitar

Edge playing 'Love And Peace Or Else' at Morumbi stadium. To never forget!
Musically, another U2 triumph, led by the Edge's ringing, invigorating guitar work, everything is eclipsed by Edge´s majestic guitar. "This is our Moment... We started out as a live band and it's still in many ways a proving ground for us."...said Edge during the time of the second 'Vertigo' show **** I´m so proud of you Edge, working to the musicians of New Orleans. Your last words on Music Rising, made me happy.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/30/2006 10:19:10 PM [+] ::
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May your day be touched
by a bit of Irish luck,
brightened by a song in your heart,
and warmed by the smiles
of the people you love.
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'...And those who know your name put their trust in you; for you, Oh Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you...' psalm 10
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'...You broke the bonds/ You loosed he chains/ Carried the cross/ An my shame/ You know I believe it!..." I Still Haven´t Found What I´m Looking For by U2
:: Regina O'Numb 3/30/2006 10:15:05 PM [+] ::
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'Shattering The Glasses of the Drinking Classes'
'Glug, glug, glug...' Listen to Bono doing Samuel Beckett at last night's Dublin Castle launch of the Beckett Centenary Festival. On April 13th 1906 one of Ireland's greatest writers Samuel Beckett was born. Last night Michael Colgan, Director of the Gate Theatre and the Chairman of the Beckett Centenary Committee, invited Bono to perform a pastiche of the legendary Nobel Laureate for the launch. Listen to it courtesy of RTE here (scroll to the Listen icon at the bottom of the page). Bono was presented with a signed edition of Beckett's book 'Murphy' and in the pastiche recalls giving Beckett a copy of U2's 'The Unforgettable Fire' in 1985. More on the Beckett Centenary Festival.
photos on: vipireland // showbizIreland // Bono and Paul McGuinness // Bono is serious and a handsome man // definitely I love this pink shades
read on: U2.com // watch here

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'Where's Godot ? Who's Godot ?'
Read the complete text of Bono's note-perfect homage to Samuel Beckett last night. 'Un homage du Bono au maestro Samuel Beckett, starring un homage du Mannix Flynn à Barry McGovern - or a piece what I wrote called * WAITING FOR COLGAN * I'm so tired, I'm so tired of the telephone.../ The telephone rings... / The sound of cigar... a booming voice in a booming town / Shattering the glasses of the drinking classes / 1995 Puligny Montrachet, 400 quid a bottle... glug glug glug... / Good buy... good boy........ I'm so tired / All those PhDs / All those questions / Where's Godot / Who's Godot' / Everyone knows that / phone rings, sound of cigars / Table at the Unicorn / Puligny Montrachet / Glug glug glug / Big smoky voice shattering the glasses of the drinking classes / Birthday party sort it out... / Tell them death isn't funny but eternity is a laugh / Tell the tiger not to eat its tale / Ah to win the triple crown on your birthday / Parties, it's great to have them and not be there... / But don't leave people waiting for too long / One hundred years, it's a long time / The table is set, it looks great Michael / The sound of cigar, booming town, booming voice / Shattering the glasses of the drinking classes / Puligny Montrachet, glug glug glug / Waiting, waiting, waiting... to be fuckin... understood / Waiting waiting waiting... for Colgan / Good boy, goodbye....
read whole article on: U2.com

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China dissolves Rolling Stone magazine's partnership with local publisher
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Just weeks after its launch, the Chinese-language edition of Rolling Stone magazine faces an uncertain future after authorities said they had dissolved its publishing agreement with a local partner....March's inaugural edition featured Chinese rock pioneer Cui Jian on the cover, along with articles on U2 front man Bono, Taiwanese hip-hop star Jay Chou and blogging. The only article to deal with politics was one on the influence of rock music on ending the Cold War - a subject still considered sensitive by China's communist rulers. The mainland Chinese version is the 11th international edition of Rolling Stone, which celebrates its 40th anniversary next year. The Chinese version's debut edition quickly sold out its print run of 120,000 - four times the initial projected circulation.
read whole article on: canada

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Williamsburg Getting Edgy, but Not the Way You Think
...Over one million square feet to be developed on the Williamsburg Brooklyn waterfront in a mix of mid-rise buildings and high-rise towers. Known as 'The Edge,' the project includes Brownfield remediation, master planning, waterfront permitting and construction. 1,000 residential units will be built over 100,000 square feet of retail space and parking for over 1,000 cars. A waterfront esplanade will be built along the river, with a recreational and water taxi pier built into the river from North 6th Street. Construction will commence by the spring of 2006. The only way activists can put a stop to this? By alerting U2's management, probably. Other than that, they're screwed....
read on: curbed

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Microsoft´s U2
Microsoft to licence mouse and keyboard technologies - Microsoft is planning to licence its keyboard and mouse technologies for the first time in history. Microsoft will allow third party companies to use Microsoft's U2, tilt wheel and magnifier technologies. U2 is an interface for detection and switching. It is designed to automatically allow a keyboard or mouse to determine whether it needs a USB or PS2 connection to a computer. Tilt wheels allow users to scroll vertically as well as horizontally. Microsoft's magnifier is used as an editing and viewing tool for devices such as mice. Microsoft expects that the cost would run between 30 and 35 cents a unit for those who wanted to licence the technology. Microsoft does not plan to licence their range of Ergonomic keyboards.
read on: neowin
:: Regina O'Numb 3/30/2006 08:56:18 PM [+] ::
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Jim Morrison: Film Student
It is ironic that Jim Morrison, UCLA film school's most famous alumnus, never made a film--or not at least in the conventional Hollywood sense. During his short life, Morrison made an experimental film--HwY--and completed a documentary on the Doors, Feast of Friends, with two friends, Paul Ferrara and Frank Lisciandro. During his second year at UCLA, in 1965, Jim took a film production course with Terry McCartney-Filgate, a Canadian documentary film maker who was a visiting teacher. Here, in McCartney-Filgate, who now lives in Toronto, remembers Jim Morrison: UCLA film school in the early 60's was a very exciting place. The head of the school was Colin Young who later founded the National Film School in Britain. He used to collect all sorts of odd people. Anyone who interested him could get in the program. In my class, I had a former policeman, an Arab, an Israeli....Two guys named Ray Manzarek and James Morrison were students. Colin gave me all the tough students. Since I was an outsider, not a regular faculty member, I got all the difficult characters. Morrison was assigned to my class because he got into some trouble. He threatened to beat somebody up, I think. I remember once I was at Morrison´s apartment off campus. He was sort of a rich kid, by UCLA standards. His dad was an Admiral. He had some money. Anyway, Jim was shooting a scene there for his student film. I had agreed to play a small role, running a projector. I noticed that Jim had made a dart board on his wall of Playboy centerfolds. I remember thinking: Jim is not very fond of women. When I told him this, he just laughed. He was not very communicative. He was a loner. Jim's student film was a montage--a film that didn't have a story but that was made up of different images. I remember one scene, Jim's girlfriend danced on a television set wearing a garter belt. While she was dancing, a news clip came on showing a Buddhist monk burning himself. Jim could not have known that. It was, for a film maker, sheer good luck. Actually, Jim's film was not the most shocking--another student shot in the city crematory. But nihilism was sort of popular then and student film makers tend to be imitative. I presume Morrison had seen Triumph of the Will. Ray Manzarek was also one the students, Ray was sort of a student guru. He would offer other students advice. He was very organized. Jim had talent, but Ray had organized film talent. Jim was undisciplined. He never completed his student film. He refused to double-splice it. This was the '60s. It was too much trouble. I gave him an incomplete. An adjective would use to describe Jim Morrison: he was a narcissist. The way he would stand around, crinkle his neck, and lean back. He already had this self-image....Ray Manzarek had a group called Rick and the Ravens, I believe. One night I heard them at a student hangout in Santa Monica. Jim Morrison sang, but back then he was not very good. Nobody thought he would go anywhere. I didn't know about the movie (Oliver Stone´s The Doors) until it was released. I felt there was no point in seeing it. I knew Jim Morrison and formed my own impression of his personality. What became of the student who filmed in the city crematory? I don't know. He's probably retired and running a motel somewhere in the Midwest....
:: Regina O'Numb 3/30/2006 08:55:53 PM [+] ::
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Brazil: Feira Food
In a lot of neighbourhoods throughout Brazil, particularly in the larger cities, it's common for a fruit and veg market to visit once a week. In Brazil this market is called the "feira". The feira usually has cheaper and fresher products than your local supermarket. Normally they are bought in the early morning from a central market dedicated to those involved in the feira, that receives products directly from the farmers. However it is always worth comparing the quality with the supermarket. Prices tend to drop during the day, so those after the best quality go early but pay more. Feiras often sell more than just fruit and veg as well, and can have meat, fish, and household items. There are a couple of foods typically sold at the feira, which most Brazilians will ritually partake of. The first is Pastel. Pastel itself is very simple, it consists of two thin layers of puff pastry with a filling. Like a lot of Brazilian food this is then deep fried for a minute or two. It's hard to define a similar tasting food, but the likes of sausage rolls and vol-au-vent aren't far off, primarily because of the puff pastry. What makes a huge difference though is the filling that is used, which can vary between savoury and sweet, and within those categories there are almost infinite combinations varying from cheese, meat, poultry, and sweet with banana, chocolate, and doce de leite (cooked condensed milk), as examples. Often the pastel stand is festooned in pieces of paper with the various possibilities and price, aside from being festooned with lots of people munching pastel. The second food, albeit technically a drink, is Caldo de Cana, the juice extracted from sugar cane. Not surprisingly it's very sweet, and can be too much for a foreigner not used to it. The stand will normally have a petrol powered juice extractor where the cane is literally crushed to liberate the juice, with a stack of sugar cane on one side, and a stack of crushed on the other. Caldo de Cana is perhaps more of an acquired taste than with pastel. So if you've not been already try and find out when your local Feira is, head out early, and at least try Pastel and Caldo de Cana if you don't end up with a mountain of fruit. And in Sao Paulo, traditionally the people say: um pasteis and dois pastel; the correct is um pastel and dois pasteis.
*so sorry for my bad and poor English
:: Regina O'Numb 3/30/2006 08:51:07 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: the 1st mention at Hot Press / at the Rox, some problems / go home / Bono joins Prince / stop smoking / R.E.M. in attendance / 2nd Vertigo show!

Media coverage begins - march 30, 1978. U2 gets its first-ever mention in Ireland's Hot Press, an influential rock magazine which would be very friendly toward the band during its career. The brief mention reads: "Newly-formed Dublin new wave band U-2 scored a blow for rock 'n' roll when they won the top prize of 500 pounds in a group contest co-sponsored by the Evening Press and Harp Lager held recently during the Civic Week in Limerick. That's what you call getting the breaks..."

"Boy" tour - march 30, 1981. U2 perform in Lubbock, Texas at The Rox. The owner of The Rox refuses to pay them with cash for the gig, and during the ensuing argument, pulls out a shotgun and tells them "You're going to take a f---ing check like everyone else does..."

"October" tour - march 30, 1982. U2 perform in San Francisco, California at the Civic Center. During the second night, Bono recognizes a woman in the crowd who has been to all four concerts in San Francisco. U2 had plans to tour Canada, Australia, Japan and India, but decide to go home to Ireland. In an interview with Kid Jensen on BBC Radio, Bono explains, "You've got to do a bit of living, because if you don't do any living, there's no real life to put into your music."

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 30, 1985. U2 perform in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at the Civic Center. Support is "Lone Justice".

"ZOOTV" tour - march 30, 1992. U2 perform in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Target Center. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"Bono joins Prince" - march 30, 1995. For some parts of "The Cross" at his aftershow performance in Dublin's PoD nightclub.

"Bono´s intentions" - march 30, 1998. Bono announces his intentions of attempting to stop smoking cigarettes.

"Elevation" tour - march 30, 2001 - Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena. With the members of R.E.M. in attendance, Bono tips his cap to Athens' finest by singing pieces of 'Losing My Religion' and 'Everybody Hurts' during U2's 'One'

2ND SHOW - VERTIGO TOUR - SAN DIEGO - march 30, 2006. 'Gloria' is played for the first time since the end of the Lovetown Tour in 1990. Bono invites a fan on stage before 'Miracle Drug' and asks the fan for Spanish lessons((Another fan, Iker Dupeyron from Mexico City was so excited to meet Edge and Bono. He gave Bono his rosary beads while getting his shirt autographed. When Bono saw him during City of Blinding Lights, he tugged at the rosary beads and showed them to Iker - he was wearing his rosary beads! Then, during Miracle Drug, Bono asked if anyone knew any spanish and could translate "Love is the drug" into Spanish. He motioned to Iker, and without hesitating, Iker leaped on stage (stumbling at first) and proceeded to translate for Bono. Look for Bono and Iker: here)). Before 'One', Bono talks about Eddie Vedder, who grew up in the San Diego area and first played music here. Vedder is in attendance at tonight's show. Bono coins a new name for this tour's version of the 'heart' when he asks 'How we doing in the bomb shelter?' before 'Yahweh.' Great photos on: IngridPetzer There were well over 60 people lined up behind the barricade. Edge came out and met with everyone, signing autographs - not stopping as time was of the essence. Edgeth a family and spend the time with their ailing little girl. After he left, she was in awe of who she just met. Bono was so generous with his time for her. He signed her hat and her sign that spoke of her dream to meet him. He signed it "2005 is our year, love Bono." Look for Edge and Bono with another special and very important fan in San Diego. Photos and video of the show on: undercover
:: Regina O'Numb 3/30/2006 02:05:12 PM [+] ::
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"Some people may think our view of the problem is too music-centric," he says. "The scale of the disaster is so devastating, with entire neighborhoods gone. Other organizations are dealing with the more fundamental problems of putting roofs over people's heads. We're looking at the long-term recovery of the music culture." says Edge about Music Rising to New Orleans. And about the 'Vertigo' tour, one year ago, he said: 'It is really an incredible feeling when you've been in the studio for so long and you put the album out and then suddenly you get the chance to play the songs and see the fans again,"
:: Regina O'Numb 3/29/2006 10:01:46 PM [+] ::
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'...Baby Baby Baby light my way / (Alright now) / Baby Baby Baby light my way...' Ultraviolet (Light My Way) - by U2
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Always remember to forget
The troubles that passed away,
But never forget to remember
The blessings that come each day.
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'...Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path....' psalm 119
:: Regina O'Numb 3/29/2006 10:01:40 PM [+] ::
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"But when the music starts, it cuts through all the social and racial divides, and everyone forgets their differences, It's a great leveler and unifying force." by Edge
Online auction a bid to save Gulf Coast's music The winning bid bags four tickets to a summer concert, an autographed guitar and the satisfaction of reactivating a Cajun fiddler's career in New Orleans. An unprecedented alliance of promoters is joining artists, Ticketmaster and Gibson Guitar in online ticket auctions supporting Music Rising's effort to replace the lost instruments of Gulf Coast musicians affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Every Saturday through April, fans can bid on summer concerts nationwide, with each winner getting four premium seats, plus, in most cases, an Epiphone guitar autographed by the show's performers. This Saturday, 80-plus events go on the block, including shows by Violent Femmes, Queensryche, New Edition, Brad Paisley, O.A.R., Il Divo, Ringo Starr, Pepe Aguilar and double bills Def Leppard/Journey and Blondie/the New Cars. (Details at musicrising.org and later this week at ticketmaster.com/musicrisingauctions.) The nation's biggest concert promoters, Live Nation, House of Blues, AEG Live and Nederlander Concerts, agreed to join forces and donate their time and their take to Music Rising, founded by U2 guitarist The Edge, music producer Bob Ezrin and Gibson Guitar chairman Henry Juszkiewicz. "The willingness of these competing promoters to act together speaks to the industry's understanding of the music's importance in that area," Edge says. Since December, the organization has raised close to $1.4 million, most through a special-edition Gibson guitar, and given grants enabling about 1,100 musicians to buy instruments at or below cost through cooperating manufacturers at the Musician's Friend Web site. Instruments were in the pipeline within six weeks. Having reached more than half the 2,000 targeted pros, Music Rising will begin focusing on schools, churches and community groups. "Some people may think our view of the problem is too music-centric," he says. "The scale of the disaster is so devastating, with entire neighborhoods gone. Other organizations are dealing with the more fundamental problems of putting roofs over people's heads. We're looking at the long-term recovery of the music culture." One aim of the new campaign is to redirect attention to the Gulf Coast tragedy and encourage music lovers to invest in one of America's most sacred sonic grounds. "You still have the political turmoil and the blame game," Edge says of the storm aftermath. "But when the music starts, it cuts through all the social and racial divides, and everyone forgets their differences, It's a great leveler and unifying force."
read on: accessmontgomery
:: Regina O'Numb 3/29/2006 09:58:39 PM [+] ::
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Peter Grant Award for Paul McGuinness
U2 manager Paul McGuinness is understood to be the recipient of this year's Peter Grant Award for Lifetime Achievement in Music.
read on: hotpress
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I'm a Beckett fan, says rocker Bono
U2 frontman Bono has revealed he is a fan of Samuel Beckett, as he kicked off a series of events marking the centenary of the Irish playwright's birth. At the international launch of the Beckett Centenary Festival in Dublin Castle, Bono said he had read many of the renowned writer's plays. "I've read most of his works, I'm a fan. I don't know what he's on about half the time but I have enjoyed not knowing," he laughed. "He blew my mind, that is all I can say. He shrank language, minimalist, all that stuff. It is great that he's Irish." Bono, who was wearing his trademark shades, revealed that he gave the playwright a copy of U2's album The Unforgettable Fire in 1985. But he joked that the writer might never have found time to listen to it. "I gave it to him, I'm not sure he ever listened to it, but that is my connection. I am very proud he had a copy of The Unforgettable Fire," he said. The singer said the works of the playwright were not as important to people as they should be. "He was always kept apart as something aloof, something you didn't understand, something you had to take too, too, too seriously," he said. "And in fact Beckett was having a laugh a lot of the time." Events held as part of the festival will include the staging of Beckett's plays, poetry and prose readings, film screenings, television and radio productions, a touring exhibit in public libraries and visual arts exhibitions.
read on: yahoo
:: Regina O'Numb 3/29/2006 09:53:08 PM [+] ::
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Eclipse
Nothing quite matches the experience of viewing a total eclipse of the Sun. Whether it's the black disk of the Moon set against the ghostly, pearly white corona, the solar prominences like pink rubies on the lunar limb, or the spectacular diamond-ring effect bursting forth, the image of an eclipse remains forever etched in a viewer's mind. The human eye is superb in its ability to discern and resolve a wide range of brightnesses and details during an eclipse - from the diaphanous, faint wisps of the outer corona to the fine, hairlike structures in brilliant prominences. However, with the advent of high-speed, ultrafine-grain film and high-resolution video cameras, it's an ethereal scene almost anyone can capture using only modest equipment. Look for some photos of today´s eclipse here
ORIGIN OF THE ECLIPSES (second Brazilians legends) - Some people have myths and legends related with the eclipses and the Brazilian indians are not different. Here, some myths on the eclipses lunar and solar, counted by the indians of the family tupi-guarani, in the regions north and south of Brazil. ** Lunar Eclipse **: In the beginning of the time and the space, before they fixe in the sky, the Sun and his younger brother, the Moon, inhabited the Earth, living together many adventures. For the Guarani, as much the Sun as the Moon are considered male. One day they met Charia, a maleficent spirit, fishing in a river. With the objective of disturbing Charia, that had not perceived the two brothers, the Sun dived and moved the hook, imitating a big fish. Charia pulled the empty hook, falling backward. The Sun repeated his gesture for three times and in all of them Charia failled. "Now it is my time", said the Moon smiling. Then, she dived and was sliding in the direction of the hook. However, Charia was faster: he fished the Moon and killed her with a wooden baton. Later, he took her for his house, as was fished, to devour with his wife. When they were cooking the Moon, the Sun arrived and was invited by Charia to eat the fish. He (Sun) thanked saying that he would accept only of a little of maize broth and asked for they did not throw away the bones of the fish, cause he would like to take it with him. Later, collecting the bones, the Sun took them very distant there, and, using his own deity, revived his younger brother. Thus, a lunar eclipse represents the Moon being eated by Charia, and the red color is the proper blood of the Moon that occult herself. The Moon just re-appears in all her fullness, as full moon (blue moon), because her older brother, the Sun, revives her and keep her in safe. **Solar Eclipse **: When he wanted to eat fish, the Sun took his son to wash the feet in the river. In this way, the fish were stuned and easy to catch. Certain day, while the Sun and his son fished, Charia appeared and asked for loaned the boy, saying that he also wanted to catch some fish. The Sun, without nothing to distrust, loaned his son. However, Charia took his for the forest and hit the whole body as hits timbó liana, giving the example what he would make with timbó which was being used as poison to fish. Cause the blows, Charia killed the son of the Sun, that was furious, attacking the maleficent spirit. The two fight, knocking down one to the other. When Charia thought that he was the winner, the Sun was arisen again driving away Charia. The consequences of this fight are, until today, the solar eclipses, where Charia is represented, in general, for a ounce that tries to devour the Sun.
*so sorry for my bad and poor English
:: Regina O'Numb 3/29/2006 06:00:38 PM [+] ::
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A Brazilian custom: Kissing the Cheek
Many foreigners find it a different experience and can take some time to get used to it. Even when they are accustomed to the habit, they can still find themselves in an embarrassing situation, as there are regional differences. In Rio de Janeiro for instance, they kiss both cheeks while in São Paulo we usually kiss just one. As a matter of fact, Brazil is a kissing country, thanks mostly to our native ancestors. If you ever have the chance, visit and observe one of the native Brazilian tribes. You'll see all kinds of kisses, hugs, strokes and movements which express care, love and respect. Most Brazilian Indian moms are always with their babies, kissing them whenever they have a chance. Although often silent and shy, they are happy to express their true love for their children. It's really nice to know that even after five centuries the Indian habit is still here, a great aspect of our cultural roots. That's why people are always kissing each other whether it be in the cinema, on the street, in elevators, anywhere for that matter! Brazilian kids, teens, adults and elders kiss often and openly (Men kiss only women, while the women kiss men and women in the cheek). We are celebrating life, that's it. No harm at all. Read it:
O beijo.....The kiss
Você percebeu? .....Did you notice it?
Quando em agosto pedi um beijo.....When in August I asked for a kiss
(desejado desde março)..... (desired since March)
Eu tremia como um passarinho.....I was shivering as a bird.

Você sentiu? .....Did you feel it?
A minha alma saindo de mim.....My soul leaving me
Indo atrás de você.....Going after you
Implorando por mais um.....Begging for one more.

Você entendeu? .....Did you understand it?
Não ofereci a minha bochecha.....I didn't offer you my cheek
Porque sou brasileira.....Because I'm Brazilian
Pedi um beijo.....I asked for a kiss
Porque te amo.....Because I love you.
*so sorry, for my bad and poor English
:: Regina O'Numb 3/29/2006 04:23:59 PM [+] ::
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The Dalton Brothers
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U2 faces version
Pride
:: Regina O'Numb 3/29/2006 01:29:26 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: Red Rocks in 81 / with Mike Peters and Stuart Adamson / rain in Charlotte.

"U2 visits Red Rocks" - march 29, 1981.After a successful show in Denver the night before, U2 visits the Red Rocks Amphitheater for the first time. Local concert promoter Chuck Morris tells the band "You'll play here some day."

"October" tour - march 29, 1982. U2 perform in San Francisco, California at the Civic Center.

"War" tour - march 29, 1983 U2 perform in London, England at the Hammersmith Palais. For the encore, Mike Peters from "The Alarm" and Stuart Adamson from "Big Country" join U2 for a heavily improvised version of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door". Support is "Big Country".

"Elevation" tour - march 29, 2001 - Charlotte, NC - Charlotte Coliseum. U2's flight to Charlotte is delayed by rainy and icy weather. The band apparently arrives at the Coliseum shortly before showtime, and goes on to play a shortened set compared to the first two nights in Miami. "...Edge was just standing there in awe of the crowd. "WOW" he would say many times through the night...."
look for Edge wearing a red shirt this night, here
:: Regina O'Numb 3/29/2006 01:29:23 PM [+] ::
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'We've talked about various things, but we're having to take this thing one step at a time. Speed [has been] a big priority.' by Edge on U2.com about Music Rising auctions during April....just in time, a year ago started 'Vertigo' tour, and after the 1st show, Edge told: 'I really liked it. I had a great time and there were some really great surprises, little turns of the songs.'...great tour, U2 made millions so happy, now it´s U2´s turn...they will be so happy...
:: Regina O'Numb 3/28/2006 09:27:25 PM [+] ::
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Christ in quiet,
Christ in dangerous,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger - by Saint Patrick
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'...Into the heart...of a child / I can smile / I can go there...' Into The Heart by U2
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'...You are a hiding place for me; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with glad cries of deliverance....'psalm 32
:: Regina O'Numb 3/28/2006 09:26:36 PM [+] ::
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Get Your Tickets For Music Rising!
Tickets to gigs across the US are up for auction in April. It's all part of a very cool fundraising initiative for Music Rising, the charity set up by Edge to replace instruments musicians lost after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. You can bid for tickets to more than 80 concerts featuring sixty artists including Queensryche, Nine Inch Nails, Ben Harper, Def Leppard/Journey, New Cars/Blondie, Melissa Etheridge and Brad Paisley. 'It's been incredible to see the way these people who are in competition with one another are getting together on this,' Edge told Billboard this week. 'It really speaks very well of the industry and people's understanding and grasp of the scale of this problem.' Visit Ticketmaster.com for information about the auctions which begin this Saturday, April 1st, and run through the month. Each auction will feature four premium location tickets for venues with reserved seating and four general admission tickets for GA shows. Most auctions will also include one Epiphone guitar, provided by Gibson, and autographed by one of the show's artists. Music Rising will also provide qualified professional musicians with $1,000 worth of shopping wholesale and at cost on Musiciansfriend.com. 'We felt like with $1,000 at cost we could equip someone with a playable instrument that would get them back on their feet," said Bob Ezrin, who is leading the project with Edge and Gibson Guitar chairman Henry Juszkiewicz. 'To date, 1,100 musicians have received at least $1,000 worth of stuff, whether it's an instrument or gear that they lost, things that made it possible to go out and ply their trade.' Edge says they are talking about further ideas for later in the year but there's nothing definite.'We've talked about various things, but we're having to take this thing one step at a time. Speed [has been] a big priority.' More on Music Rising here Contribute to the appeal here.
read on: U2.com
*Finally the system worked well to accept my contribution. I did it, Edge! I´m waiting for the t-shirt, I did it, too, Edge! Thank you so much Edge, to bring the lights to New Orleans...in brief this city will be the proper city of blinding lights!
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Hurricane Relief Via Edge Fund
Nine Inch Nails, Queensryche, Blondie, and more than 50 other artists have signed on to help out a music instrument replacement fund called Music Rising, led by U2's the Edge. Around 60 artists will help the charity by participating in an online ticket auction fundraising program, according to Billboard.com. Ticketmaster, Live Nation, House of Blues, AEG Live, and Nederlander Concerts -- concert promoters that are otherwise in competition with one another -- have joined forces for the auction, which begins April 1 and ends April 30. "It's been incredible to see the way these people who are in competition with one another are getting together on this," the Edge told Billboard.com. "It really speaks very well of the industry and people's understanding and grasp of the scale of this problem." Fans will be able to bid online for tickets to more than 80 concerts including Def Leppard/Journey, New Cars/Blondie, Melissa Ethridge, the Warped tour and others. Most of the auctions will also include a guitar autographed by one or more of the artists performing at that show, and a new auction will begin each Saturday in April. Ticketmaster.com has more information on how to enter the auctions. Music Rising official site
read on: spin
:: Regina O'Numb 3/28/2006 09:06:30 PM [+] ::
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Some reflexions on the date for the first show of U2´s VERTIGO tour, exactly, a year ago... U2 started 'Vertigo' tour on march 28, 2005 (Easter Monday-2005)...Easter Rising...U2's first "real" performance before a paying crowd (Easter Monday-1977) / over the Easter weekend U2 recorded "11 O´Clock Tick Tock" (1980)...A Peter Frampton cover version, a flautist and female backing vocalists were all elements of Feedback's first ever live concert performance, yet this was the outfit that would eventually become U2. Colm O'Hare recalls the event. Almost a quarter of a century ago -- April 11, 1977 (Easter Monday) to be precise -- at approximately 8:30 p.m., the fledgling U2 (then trading as Feedback) took to the stage at St. Fintan's High School, Sutton, on the north side of Dublin. They were third on the bill at a "rock concert," organised by myself and a couple of schoolmates. The headliners on the night were a popular but long-forgotten Dublin pub rock band, the Arthur Phybbes Band with support from Howth hard rock act, Rat Salad. It was U2's first "real" performance before a paying crowd. Over the years, accounts of their debut have appeared in various biographies -- some of which had them headlining, others which had them tagged (wrongly) as the Hype. The truth was that they were added to the bill at the last minute. Prior to the gig we had sold an impressive 400 tickets at 50p each but we needed a couple of hundred more punters to cover out costs. A schoolmate (Art O'Leary), who had defected to Mount Temple from St. Fintan's a year earlier, mentioned this band, Feedback, who were interested in playing the gig. What's more, he said, they had a following and would guarantee to bring a hundred fans along with them. Not wanting to take any chances I requested to meet up with the band before consenting to their appearance. I can clearly remember the sight of an afro-headed, Afghan-coated Adam Clayton striding across the schoolyard on the Thursday before the gig.... As show time drew closer, a nervous Larry Mullen approached me and suggested that it might be better if Feedback went on second rather than opening the proceedings....For one, they had two female backing singers in their ranks. One was Stella McCormick, a sister of former Hot Press journalist Neil McCormick and a school friend of U2. The other, Orla Dunne, also a school friend, played the flute! "We were all good friends," Dunne remembers, astonished to be reminded of her part in the event twenty-four years later. "Before Feedback we had been part of a singing group in school -- the Temple Singers. We had a wonderful music teacher, Albert Bradshaw in Mount Temple and he imbued us with real enthusiasm for singing. We were singing incredibly sophisticated stuff, a lot of romantic, renaissance music. We performed in big houses around the country. I've always felt that it would've influenced Paul's (Bono) operatic style which he developed later on with U2."..."We practised in Adam's house out in Malahide the week before the gig...Shortly after their inauspicious debut, Feedback became the Hype and dispensed with the backing singers for good. However, a few years later Dunne was offered another opportunity to perform with her old schoolmates. "In the early '80s I met Adam in Grafton Street. I hardly recognised him with his peroxide hair! He asked me would I play something with the band on their record but I turned down the opportunity." - by Colm O'Hare - Hot Press setember 4, 2001 //// April 1980: '11 O'Clock Tick Tock' recorded - U2 records its first single for Island Records, "11 O'Clock Tick Tock," over the Easter weekend at Dublin's Windmill Lane studios. "11 O'Clock Tick Tock/Touch," produced by Joy Division's Martin Hannett; "11 O'Clock" is the song formerly called "Silver Lining" and the B-side "Touch" is previously known as "Trevor." (It was released on may 1980) //// March 28, 2005 (Easter Monday): start "Vertigo" tour 2005 //// Easter Rising...in the name of love...this is U2!
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Easter Monday is a great Irish date:
"...And, of course, the following day was Easter Monday which is one of the most important dates in Irish history with the never to be forgotten Easter Rising in the G.P.O. in Dublin which signalled the beginning of the Republic and the call to all Irish men and Irish women..." on: emigrant
:: Regina O'Numb 3/28/2006 09:05:18 PM [+] ::
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LARD OVER LOVE
U2 frontman and world saver Bono has been dishing some dirt about his brushes with power. ``Literally spittle coming out, invective coming out,'' he said about Bob Geldof's angry talks with Brit Prime Minister Tony Blair over preparations for the Live 8 concerts. He said former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev once showed up at his Dublin house unannounced, joining Bono, his wife, Ali, and their son, John, at the kitchen table. ``We sat down and drank a lot of whiskey together,'' Bono said in an interview excerpted by the New York Daily News. And he said President Bush once told him that when ``I first came to this town, people used to wave at me with one finger.''
read on: kansascity
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Sound words from U2's sonic doctor - 'I remember saying to the Edge once after The Joshua Tree that we still had something to say. We decided to go in and do Achtung Baby partly based on that comment. And we did go back again and break new ground' He has helped some of rock's titans reach new heights. Bernard Zuel talks to Daniel Lanois. DANIEL LANOIS is in the studio, not surprisingly, when the call comes through....A self-described "drifter" who was born in Quebec, raised outside Toronto and now has a home in Jamaica, Lanois has had studios in New Orleans (where he worked with Bob Dylan on his career-resurrecting Oh Mercy), borrowed facilities in Nashville (where he transformed the career of Emmylou Harris on the album Wrecking Ball), taken a portable sometimes to Ireland (with U2) and these days has a couple of operations in Los Angeles and Toronto....His most famous partnership has been with U2, with whom he made four career-defining albums, from The Unforgettable Fire in 1984 to All That You Can't Leave Behind in 2000. "You grow with people, that's life: learning together, inventing together," he says. "A few years go by and you are onto new thoughts, new ideas and personalities. I remember saying to the Edge once after The Joshua Tree that we still had something to say. We decided to go in and do Achtung Baby partly based on that comment. And we did go back again and break new ground."...
read on: smh
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Paul Simon ready to "Surprise" with Eno,
After several years of work, Paul Simon is finally ready to release share his long-awaited collaboration with U2 producer Brian Eno....
read whole article on: reuters
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rumor...Bono in Berlin during World Cup...
According to information of the "citizens of Berlin newspaper" the Fifa plans two days before the World Cup final game an open air Gala in Berlin. As replacement for the originally planned Gala before World Cup oppening the Fifa wants to take part now with a million euro in the planned opening celebration of the road 17 of June. Planned is among other things an appearance of U2-Bono....source: U2tour.de
:: Regina O'Numb 3/28/2006 06:35:24 PM [+] ::
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Capoeira
Now considered a strong part of Brazil´s African culture, which also includes the camdomble religion, Capoeira combines dance, martial arts movements and acrobatics, all in one unique style, played to the beat of the Berimbau musical bow. Capoeira was developed in Brazil by African slaves back in the 16th century as a form of self-defense against oppressive slave-masters. As martial arts were forbidden at the time, Capoeira was cleverly disguised as a form of folk dance performed to music and song. Up until 1814, Capoeira and African culture had been tolerated but after the arrival of the Portuguese king Dom Joao VI and his court, everything changed. Capoeira was banned and remained so even long after slavery was abolished in 1888. Capoeira was still prohibited in the 1920s when it began to see a revival in the northeastern city of Salvador, Bahia state, where Manoel dos Reis Machado (Master Bimba) and Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (Master Pastinha) founded the first Capoeira schools. Society eventually started to accept Capoeira as an important part of Brazilian folklore and the ban was lifted in the 1930s. Nowadays Capoeira is divided into two styles, the traditional Capoeira Angola, and the adapted form, Capoeira Regional, developed by Master Bimba, who incorporating new moves and techniques to the traditional form. Capoeira Movements: 1.Ginga - the most basic Capoeira movement. Instead of taking a fixed stance, you have to keep moving all the time; all the other moves derive from this dance-like pattern. Ginga soon becomes second nature and provides a base for unpredictable movement and fake attacks. 2.Handstand - Part of many defensive and offensive movements. 3. The cartwheel - Immensely important in Capoeira. Use it for a quick retreat or lure your partner into a trap. 4. Au Malandro - If you attempt a cartwheel and your roguish partner goes for the Cabecada (headbutt into your stomach), you can retaliate with this move. 5. Cocorinha - A way of avoiding circular kicks at a close distance. You duck below the kick and lift the arm on the side the kick comes from, thus protecting your head. 6. Queda de Tres - Similar to the Cocorinha but requires you to turn your body away from the partner a little bit. 7. Queda de Quatro - The Queda de Quatro is a way of dodging kicks and is typical Angola Capoeira. 8. Negativa (Stance) - Very important because of the vast range of follow ups; you can rolê away, go into Cartwheel/Headstand/ Handstand, do a Macaco, attack with an S-Dobrado, Martelo or Meia Lua de Compasso, change orientation, retreat, close in,... 9. Rolê - This 'rolling' motion is -together with the Ginga and the Cartwheel - the basic method of moving around in the Roda. 10. Chapa de Costas - Move of Capoeira Angola. Do it of the Role, Queda de Rins, from the Rabo de Arraia etc. Aim for the groin or head. If the other one is far off, don't simply strech your leg but work with your arms and standing leg as well to achieve a long range. 11. Negativa (Takedown) -By employing the Negativa you can elude your partner's kick as well as knock him down. 12. S-Dobrado - S-Dobrado is a generic term; this technique allows dozens of variations. 13. Bênção - A straight kick that still requires some skill. 14. Ponteira - Looks similar to the Bênção but it's quite a different move. Whereas the Bencao is very common in both Regional and Angola, the Ponteira rather suits to Regional style because it's a lot faster and more unpredictable. 15. Queixada - This is a great setup for kick combinations; common follow-ups are Armada or jumped Martelos. 16. Armada - The standard standing spin kick in Capoeira. 17. Martelo - Common kick in Capoeira Regional. It requires good stretching of the legs and a fair sense of balance. 18. Martelo Rotado - Compare it to the Rolê + Martelo move described above. 19. Escorão/Chapa - The Escorão is a kick that is somehow similar to the Bênção and the Martelo. 20. Rasteira - The most common way of taking someone down. It's applied against all kinds of incoming kicks. 21. Cabeçada - The Capoeira Headbutt. 22. Tesoura - translates as 'Scissors'. The idea is to trap the other player between your legs and lever him over. 23. Cruz - The Cruz (cross) is an elegant way to evade an incoming Bênção or Ponteira and throw the partner at the same time.
*so sorry for my bad and poor English
:: Regina O'Numb 3/28/2006 04:31:33 PM [+] ::
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Watch Bono´s speech from Chicago
There´s a Brazilian translation (only words, not in sounds). Sensational. Thanks for Ricardo - trottaricardo@hotmail.com - here
:: Regina O'Numb 3/28/2006 02:39:41 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: in Denver / a crowd of 4 / Irish Tri-color / The 1st 'VERTIGO' show!

"Boy" tour - march 28, 1981. U2 perform in Denver, Colorado at the Rainbow Music Hall. The next day, local promoter Chuck Morris takes McGuinness and the band for a brief look at the Red Rocks Ampitheater, where U2 would record parts of the "U2: Live at Red Rocks" EP.

"War" tour - march 28, 1983. U2 perform in Nottingham, England at the Royal Centre. Security at the gig treat fans extremely roughly, and Bono finally stops the concert and orders the house lights on. Pointing to the audience and addressing some of the worst offending bouncers, he exclaims, "These people are paying your wages!" After "New Year's Day" Bono pulls a girl from the crowd who has been severely manhandled by the bouncers and lets here explain the poor way that she has been treated. Bono also recalls the June 3, 1980 gig at the Boat Club, "I think it was about four people there. I played that concert on my bare feet because I lost my suitcase." In the words of Bono, "the other two headlining bands are", "The Perfect Crime" and "Big Country".

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 28, 1985. U2 perform in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Maple Leaf Gardens. The lack of a backdrop allows "MLK" to be played against thousands of lighters from fans seated behind the stage. Bono again accepts an Irish Tri-Color during "Electric Co." and throws it back into the crowd--only to have the crowd fight for the flag. He tells them to stop fighting for the flag as he did in Detroit on March 23, 1985. Support is "Lone Justice".

U2 launches tour in San Diego (THE FIRST VERTIGO SHOW)- march 28, 2005 - ...The Edge's power chords crashed with an intensity reminiscent of Keith Richards or Jimi Hendrix...Letting his distinct baritone warble and soar above Clayton's plunging bass lines and The Edge's treble-sweet guitar, Bono took off his requisite sunglasses, revealing vulnerable eyes that were just as quickly shrouded again. The mood then changed. He donned a thick white headband depicting a Star of David, a cross and a Muslim symbol....As a flag unfurled over the backdrop featuring the Boy album cover, the foursome -- Bono, guitarist the Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. -- jumped into the way-back machine for "The Electric Co.," with Bono segueing into a snippet of the showtune "Send in the Clowns." ...The band then delved into material from 1991's Achtung Baby, with guitarist the Edge taking the spotlight with the fierce solos that fuel that record. "Zoo Station" and "The Fly" featured provocative sayings flashing quickly on the backdrop of beaded curtains....en the lights came on, most in the San Diego Sports Arena were still singing. Still the best...U2 rocked in San Diego...with an electric show and proved they are STILL the world´s best rock'n'roll band. / U2 opened its wildly anticipated Vertigo tour last night (March 28) at the San Diego Sports Arena, performing seven songs from its latest Interscope album, "How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," plus a number of tracks that have not been featured in its live set in years. The 115-minute show opened with new song "City of Blinding Lights" and closed with "40," from the band's 1983 album "War." Beyond the singles "Vertigo" and "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own," the band played "Atomic Bomb" tracks "Love and Peace or Else," "All Because of You" and the meditative "Yahweh," which featured drummer Larry Mullen Jr. on keyboards....(on: billboard) / Interview with U2´s members; "City Of Blinding Lights"; "Vertigo" and "Cry-Electric Co." on: U2exit / Edge during "ABOY" on: U2log / Bono´s drums for "LAPOE" on: U2log / African´s flags during "WTSHNN" on: U2log / the emotions duirng "SYCMIOYO" on: U2log. Some highlights? "ELEVATION" - Larry has a mic and is singing. After "Streets", Bono says the band will "see Mexico next year", as in -- play a show(s) there..."ALL BECAUSE OF YOU" - The band skips a planned break before this song and stays on stage to continue playing....YAHWEH - Larry plays on keyboards! Edge told to RTE 2FM´s Gerry Ryan after the premiére: The Edge said they had been concentrating on what to remember, since there were so many details and so many last minute changes. The band had tried to work out a flow for the concert, and trying to figure out which songs would connect. But at the last rehearsal they did not like the setlist and so they rewrote it, making changes till late in the afternoon before the show. The Edge admitted this way of working was 'a nightmare' for the production people, the sound and light engineers and that they were taking a big chance. Asked what he thought of the result, The Edge whole heartedly said it 'turned out a strong running order'. Did he like it? 'I really liked it. I had a great time and there were some really great surprises, little turns of the songs.' Apparently, 'Elevation' had come out 'arseways' but 'it was kinda cool'. Ryan and The Edge then discussed how everyone comes out feeling differently about the shows and whatever might work for some, would be 'f---ing great' for the other. The Edge then apologised for swearing: 'Oh sorry, can't say that.' Commenting on his bandmates, The Edge thought 'Larry was amazing. Adam is in great form. Everyone is having a really good time.' He then told the Irish listeners 'we miss everyone back home, we can't wait to show you all what we've been up to.' - Morleigh was working, too! Opening night means that the crew are still getting accustomed to the technology and how it plays to a full audience. There was a lot of scrambling going on at the desks at certain points of the night. One thing was for sure - during Love and Peace or Else, both Steve Lillywhite and Gavin Friday were jamming away! Both Gavin and Edge's wife, Morleigh, had notebooks and were jotting down notes during the show....some photos wireimage
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"It's been incredible to see the way these people who are in competition with one another are getting together on this," the Edge told Billboard. "It really speaks very well of the industry and people's understanding and grasp of the scale of this problem."
:: Regina O'Numb 3/27/2006 10:40:01 PM [+] ::
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For each petal in shamrock.
This brings a wish in your way...
Good health, good luck and happiness
For today and everyday
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'...Your steadfast love, Oh Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, Oh Lord. How precious is your steadfast love, Oh God! All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings...' psalm 36
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'Hold me now, oh hold me now...' Van Diemen's Land by U2
:: Regina O'Numb 3/27/2006 10:36:12 PM [+] ::
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Music Rising Launches Charity Ticket Auctions: "It's been incredible to see the way these people who are in competition with one another are getting together on this," the Edge told Billboard. "It really speaks very well of the industry and people's understanding and grasp of the scale of this problem." March 27, 2006, 10:00 AM ET - Ray Waddell, Nashville - In a rare alliance, a wide range of artists and competing promoters are combining efforts in an online auctioning program to benefit Music Rising, the musical instrument replacement fund founded by U2's the Edge, producer Bob Ezrin and Gibson Guitar chairman Henry Juszkiewicz. Some 60 artists will work with Ticketmaster, Live Nation, House of Blues, AEG Live and Nederlander Concerts on an online ticket auction fundraising program in support of Music Rising, a campaign to replace instruments and equipment lost by Gulf Coast musicians in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. "It's been incredible to see the way these people who are in competition with one another are getting together on this," the Edge tells Billboard. "It really speaks very well of the industry and people's understanding and grasp of the scale of this problem." The auction campaign, which begins April 1 and runs through the month, taps into the growing interest of fans in bidding online for concert tickets. In this case, fans can bid for tickets to more than 80 concerts, including Queensryche, Nine Inch Nails, Ben Harper, Def Leppard/Journey, New Cars/Blondie, Melissa Etheridge, Brad Paisley, the Warped tour and others. The promotion is national in scope. Fans can visit Ticketmaster.com for information about the auctions. Each Music Rising auction will feature four premium location tickets for venues with reserved seating and four general admission tickets for GA shows. Most auctions will include one Epiphone guitar, provided by Gibson, autographed by one or more of the show's performing artists. New auctions are expected to launch each Saturday throughout the month of April. Music Rising will also provide a qualified professional musician with $1,000 worth of shopping wholesale and in many cases at cost on Musiciansfriend.com. "We felt like with $1,000 at cost we could equip someone with a playable instrument that would get them back on their feet," says Ezrin. MusiCares and Guitar Center are also founding partners in Music Rising. "To date, 1,100 musicians have received at least $1,000 worth of stuff, whether it's an instrument or gear that they lost, things that made it possible to go out and ply their trade," Ezrin adds. "We know we're not going to be able to replace that '56 Les Paul that you had," Ezrin continues. "But we can put a very good, playable, new Les Paul or a comparable instrument in your hands so you could at least begin to play again, and hopefully, in our minds, get back home." Additional initiatives may follow the auction. "We're not ruling out other events," the Edge says. "We've talked about various things, but we're having to take this thing one step at a time. Speed [has been] a big priority. In some ways we're making this up as we go along. The events may happen but we don't really have anything to announce at this point."
read on: billboard
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Musical Artists and Nation's Largest Concert Promoters Team With Ticketmaster and Gibson Guitar for Music Rising Concert Ticket Auction Fundraising Campaign Aiding Gulf Coast MusiciansMore Than 80 Online Auctions for Top Summer Concerts Including Tim McGraw/Faith Hill, Queensryche, Melissa Etheridge, Sammy Hagar, Ben Harper, Def Leppard/Journey and More to Launch Saturday, April 1, 2006 - New Music Rising Auctions to Launch Each Weekend in April for Additional Concerts Through This First-Ever Alliance - LOS ANGELES, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 60 musical artists scheduled to perform in concert this summer are joining forces with Ticketmaster and four of the nation's largest concert promoters, Live Nation, House of Blues, AEG Live, and Nederlander Concerts, along with Gibson Guitar for online ticket auctions to raise funds in support of Music Rising, the campaign to replace instruments and equipment lost by Gulf Coast musicians in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Beginning Saturday, April 1, 2006, online auctions are scheduled to launch on ticketmaster.com where fans can bid for tickets to more than 80 summer concert events nationwide including select performances by Tim McGraw/Faith Hill, Def Leppard/Journey, Queensryche, Melissa Etheridge, Sammy Hagar, Ben Harper, Brad Paisley, New Cars/Blondie, and many more. Visit www.ticketmaster.com/musicrisingauctions for information about Music Rising Auction events and to bid on tickets. Each Music Rising Auction will feature four (4) premium location tickets for venues with reserved seating. Auctions for general admission events will include four (4) general admission tickets. Along with tickets, the majority of auctions will each include one Epiphone guitar autographed by one or more of the show's performing artists or band members. New auctions for additional concert events are scheduled to launch each Saturday throughout the month of April. Many of the Music Rising Auctions, including those for concerts at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, offer a special advance opportunity for fans to purchase tickets before they go on sale to the general public. Net proceeds from the auctions will be donated to Music Rising, the musical instrument replacement fund founded by U2's The Edge, legendary music producer Bob Ezrin and Gibson Guitar Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz along with the Guitar Center Music Foundation and MusiCares. Gibson Guitar is providing the Epiphone guitars included in the auctions. "The Central Gulf Coast region has one of the most vibrant music cultures in the world," Edge from U2 explains. "That culture was almost eradicated in the storms of last summer. We need to help bring it back. Music Rising is helping thousands of musicians affected by the hurricanes to gain a foothold on their future. But there is still so much to do to ensure that the music rises again. Every dollar collected by Music Rising goes toward musical instruments, equipment and gear for qualified musicians and music organizations in New Orleans and the Central Gulf. Ticketmaster's Music Rising Auctions offer us a way to come together as musicians, as an industry and as fans of every genre of music to make a difference." "Musicians in New Orleans and the Central Gulf Coast need our help," said Arthur Fogel, President of Live Nation's The Next Adventure. "And beyond the professional musicians, there are hundreds of churches, schools and community groups that lost their instruments and gear and simply do not have the funds to replace them. As concert promoters, we're ideally positioned to align our collective summer concerts in support of the Gulf Coast. Bob Ezrin and I discussed this with Terry Barnes, who pledged Ticketmaster's support, and the Music Rising Auction idea grew within a week to include commitments from all four of the country's national promoters. Together with the artists and with Gibson Guitars, we are able to make a real difference -- not just for those individuals and groups whose instruments we replace, but for the health of the whole region." Music Rising is a national campaign created by U2's The Edge, producer Bob Ezrin, and Gibson Musical Instruments Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz. Music Rising's supporters, including Guitar Center Music Education Foundation, MusiCares, Musician's Friend, Ticketmaster, Live Nation, House of Blues Concerts, AEG Live, Nederlander Concerts, VH-1 Networks, MTV Networks, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Ken Erlich Productions, Edun Designs, Roots Canada, U2.com and De-Lux Merchandising, constitute the most dynamic and comprehensive organized group to launch a relief program since the Hurricanes hit the United States. The campaign's goal is to put musical instruments back into the hands of musicians who lost everything in the hurricane disasters, helping them to regain their livelihoods, and to replace the instruments lost by churches, schools and community groups, in order to rebuild the heart and culture of the Central Gulf Region. Music Rising is administered by MusiCares. For information on Music Rising, visit www.musicrising.org. Ticketmaster auctions provide fan-friendly opportunities for artists, performers, sports teams, and more to connect with their fans in a secure purchasing environment, fully integrated with Ticketmaster's state-of-the-art ticketing system. Ticketmaster auctions enable consumers to determine the market value of tickets (a process referred to as "dynamic pricing"). By enabling consumers to select the price he or she is willing to pay for a ticket in a specified seat location for a specific event, Ticketmaster auctions help to keep premium tickets out of the hands of unauthorized resellers. Ticketmaster auctions also offer consumers the security of knowing they have purchased a valid ticket. For auction terms and conditions, please visit ticketmaster.com.
read on: yahoo
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Music Rising Organization Announces Charity Auction
Late last year, The Edge helped launch a new charitable organization called Music Rising, which is dedicated to raising funds to help musicians who lost their instruments in the Gulf Coast hurricanes. Now the organization is teaming up with a lengthy list of musicians and concert promoters for an online charity auction of concert tickets. Approximately 60 artists will team with Ticketmaster, Live Nation, House Of Blues, AEG Live and Nederlander Concerts for the campaign, which kicks off this Saturday, April 1. "It's been incredible to see the way these people who are in competition with one another are getting together on this," the Edge told Billboard. "It really speaks very well of the industry and people's understanding and grasp of the scale of this problem." Tickets for concerts by Nine Inch Nails, Ben Harper, The New Cars & Blondie, the Warped Tour and many others are up for grabs, according to Billboard, along with autographed guitars. More auctions will go online every week in April. Details can be found at www.ticketmaster.com/musicrisingauctions.
read on: fmqb
:: Regina O'Numb 3/27/2006 07:04:40 PM [+] ::
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Bono Back on Irish Soil...
U2 Frontman Bono was back on home soil at the weekend after an extended stay with his wife & kids in Australia after their tour was canceled due to a family illness in the band...We don't care what anyone says but Dublin is just not Dublin unless Bono and his best pals Guggi and Simon Carmody are spotted on one of their weekly bonding sessions (usually in the pub!). Thankfully Bono was a much needed distraction from the media scrum around Mike Tyson and Jordan who were also in the Capital at the weekend. ShowBiz Ireland caught up with charismatic singer as his pals and he walked from Sam Sara bar to the next watering hole on Friday night.
look for Bono / Bono, Guggi and Simon Carmody / Bono / Bono
read on: showbizireland
:: Regina O'Numb 3/27/2006 07:03:58 PM [+] ::
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U2 - Farm Club
Elevation / Stuck In A Moment / New York / Beautiful Day / Bad
:: Regina O'Numb 3/27/2006 06:54:50 PM [+] ::
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Saudade (Missing you)
In the solitude in the shadow of the sunrise.
I saw you in the night, in the stars, in the planets,
in the seas, in the shine of the sun and the sunset.
I saw you in yesterday, in today, in tomorrow...
But it did not see you at the moment.
Missing you...' by Mário Quintana

:: Regina O'Numb 3/27/2006 05:46:47 PM [+] ::
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The art of to weave
The weaving is the art to interlace wires and of crossing them between themselves in commanded form. The result of this art is the cloth. The history and the geographic distribution of the weaving are together; some archaeologists guarantee that this art exists has 32,000 years. Already in very remote time the man left to kill animals to them using to advantage milk, the coat, the wool, etc. The paleolithic period population invented a way to staple fibres and to weave them, thus obtaining a way to manufacture weaveeed. Later, what it started only for necessity, it was changedded into a way to define the social class, the clan, the etnía, the people one that if belonged. Before de Christ, in the north of the Europe and India already worked the hemp. The Mediterranean countries had had great masters in the art to weave, to dye and to weave the wool of the sheep. In Asia, old China produced the silk and in America, that had still not been discovered, the indians people of mountains knew to use in their advantage the wool of the alpacas and the flowers of the cotton in the hottest zones. Everything what we know today of the art to weave, already existed has 2000 years. This knowledge delayed to cross borders. In centuries XV and XVI the trips to new lands, made in salling boats (it had of being weaveeed). Cause of these trips it has greater exchange of craftsmen who start to teach techniques for other countries. From century XVIII the sewing press falls in disuse and the principle of industrialization in century XIX, with the modern age, does not leave space for a manual activity that very requires human work, attention, time and creativity. We must thnak to the Hippie movement the retaken one of the manual sewing press, with the necessity to value the creativity and to make something with its proper hands. Despite the transformations suffered since the Age of the Rock, the weaving never left of being the calm and useful friend of the people of the Earth.

Edge is a weaver in rock´s word
His fingers playing guitar, keyboard; his foots working in his pedals. He makes in our minds some flowers from his sweet chords; he makes in our minds some noises from his monsters chords. As the craftsmen, to make all his great work, Edge needs: attention, time and creativity.



:: Regina O'Numb 3/27/2006 05:41:50 PM [+] ::
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Bono leads race to buy Nirvana stake
Elevation Partners, the private equity company whose partners include Bono, the U2 singer, is thought to be the front-runner in a multi-million pound deal to acquire a stake in the back catalogue of Nirvana, the 1990s grunge pioneers. The publishing rights to the group's songs are currently owned by Courtney Love, the widow of Kurt Cobain, Nirvana's singer, who committed suicide in April 1994. Love is looking to sell a 25 per cent stake in the band's back catalogue, which includes songs such as Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are. The deal would give any investor a cut of the royalties every time a Nirvana song is played. The catalogue is reported to have a total value of up to $100m (£57m). Love has said that she wants a partner to co-manage the catalogue, which she finds a large responsibility. Other groups thought to be in the frame are understood to be Sanctuary, the music group, and Chrysalis, the media group. Chorion, the intellectual property rights company, has also been mooted as a potential buyer although industry insiders have questioned the fit between its brands - which include Mr. Men and Enid Blyton - and the hard-rocking Nirvana. A media executive said that Nirvana's songs would be a good asset. However he cautioned that a minority stake would make any acquirer a "passenger on Love's bus". Love's move is likely to anger Nirvana fans, who will feel that she is cashing in on Cobain's legacy.
read on: telegraph
:: Regina O'Numb 3/27/2006 02:15:50 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: no speeches / video of Streets is recorded / 10.000 pizzas for Detroit / U2 by U2!

"October" tour - march 27, 1982. U2 perform in Los Angeles, California at the Sports Arena.

"War" tour - march 27, 1983. U2 perform in Birmingham, England at the Odeon. Support is "Big Country".

"The Un forgettable Fire" tour - march 27, 1985. U2 perform in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the Forum. Bono is not so talkative and omits his regular speeches; no guitarist is invited onstage. Support is "Lone Justice".

"The video of Streets is recorded" - march 27, 1987. U2 perform at the corner of 77th Avenue and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, California. In a tribute to the Beatles, U2 perform on top of a liquor store in order to film the video for "Where the Streets Have No Name". The backdrop, a large sign that reads "The Million Dollar Hotel", is moved from it's original location to the liquor store in order to become part of the video. Earlier in the day, a local radio station reports that U2 will perform on the building, and roughly 2000 fans show for the seemingly impromptu gig. U2 lip-synch to 'Where the Streets Have No Name", and then perform "People Get Ready", and "In God's Country". U2 then perform "Where The Streets Have No Name", follow it with "Sunday Bloody Sunday", re-perform "Where The Streets Have No Name" twice more and then finish the mini-set with "Pride(In the Name of Love)". The event makes all 3 American Network news programs that evening.

"ZOOTV" tour - march 27, 1992. Bono orders 10,000 pizzas for the audience at a gig in Detroit, Michigan. While flipping through channels after "Even Better Than The Real Thing", Bono pauses to watch a pizza commerical and turns to ask the audience, "You want some pizza?" The crowd roar, and Bono picks up a phone, and dials the number on the screen: "Hello? Is this Speedy Pizza? I'd like to order 10,000 pizzas for Detroit. We're at the Palace...you know The Palace? Yeah, I am serious, I'm very serious! You can't make 10,000?! Just make as many as you can, okay! What? My name is Bono..." The crowd are confused during the pause for the encore when 3 men dressed in blue walk out on stage pushing a cart. One of the vidi-walls flashes who they are and what is on the cart--about 100 pizzas. The pizza boxes are flung into the roaring crowd like Frisbees. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"In The Name Of Love: U2 by U2" - march 27, 2004. After shopping around the rights to an official book, tentatively titled In the Name of Love: U2 by U2 the band finds a buyer. Publishing industry news sources report that the book's rights have been sold to Harper Entertainment UK with an estimated price tag of $3 million. Reports say the book will feature more than 1,000 photographs and will be written by Jim Henke, curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, who will interview the band exclusively for the book. Publication is planned for 2005.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/27/2006 02:15:34 PM [+] ::
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This exact day, 39 years ago, Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire in front of an audience for the first time, during a concert in London. Well, Edge plays on fire, Edge hugs us, Edge prays for everyone, Edge jumps, Edge dances, Edge plays while beating his foots on the floor, Edge seems a boy on stage, Edge gives himself during the shows...he doens´t set his guitar on fire...he doesn´t need it!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/26/2006 09:26:03 PM [+] ::
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'...What once was hurt, what once was friction / What left a mark, no longer stings / Because Grace makes beauty out of ugly things / Grace finds beauty in everything / Grace finds goodness in everything...' Grace by U2
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May you be poor in misfortune.
Rich in blessings.
Slow to make enemies.
And quick to make friends.
But rich or poor, quick or slow,
May you know everything and happiness
From this day forward.
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Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory....' psalm 98

:: Regina O'Numb 3/26/2006 09:25:08 PM [+] ::
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The poetry of Mario Quintana characterizes for a deep humanism, in the content, and in the form, for a "difficult simplicity". Tenderness, melancholy, positive way, mistic way, ironic mood (to disguise the sentimento), memories of childhood, of pureness - these are the reasons of his poetic world. The easiness with his expression is an ilusion: there´s nothing there similar to easy solutions. Is the conscientious artist of his potentialities expressive of his instrument, the verse and of language. Attracted by the magic or fantastic realism, for surrealists views, Mario Quintana looks for to communicate this world supply-real through a great economy, but also great efficiency of ways. He obtains it with the synthetic power of the images, uncommon metaphors, sinestesias, unusual associations and other as many resources of the modern poetry.
Utopia
If the things are unattainable... however!
Isn´t reason to not want them...
What sad the ways, if wasn´t
The magic presence of the stars!
*so sorry, for my bad an poor English

:: Regina O'Numb 3/26/2006 08:52:48 PM [+] ::
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Prayers as a medicine
Some searches reveal the power of the prayers over our imune system. Since child we learn, still in the school, that our organism is the scene of a permanent war. For one side, our imune system, the forces of the good, protecting us of the attack of the viruses and the bacteria, our enemies, who come from the other side. Today the medicine already knows that it is not enough to eat and to sleep well to set our army. When we are abated, gotten depressed or stresseds, we lose force, and the illness advances on our territory with much more easiness. The emotions, positive or not, are transmitted to all the cells of the human body. The brain counts on messengers which take to the elements of our body our feelings. They are chemical composites, the neurotransmitters, that reproduce in codes all our emotions. Thus, each cell portraies what we are feeling, as we are living. It is important that every professional of health´s area see the patient as a composed individual of a total - body and soul - and the emotions are directly related to the illnesses that appear. Because, he won´t cure the patient. He simply will function as a fireman, who erases the fire but he does not work in the wiring that is in short circuit.
*so sorry, for my bad an poor English
:: Regina O'Numb 3/26/2006 08:39:01 PM [+] ::
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Giving like a rock star
You know you've done good when Bono comes calling - At age 64, Richard Kiphart seems an unlikely traveling companion for Bono's charity missions to Africa. Especially since the Brooks Brothers-clad investment banker didn't know who the rock star was until two years ago. His children had to put a U2 CD on his stereo to explain. But without Mr. Kiphart's background in banking and the wealth he's amassed from it, it's unlikely that William Blair & Co. LLC's head of corporate finance would have been asked to join Bono's advocacy group, Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa. There's a high ante to get on the organization's eight-member board of directors....As he contemplates those, he'll continue to follow Bono on his mission to help Africa, though he admits he is little more than a valet on trips to meet legislators in Washington. On a recent trip, he says: "I think I said six words: Excuse me for bumping into you."
read whole article on: chicagobusiness
:: Regina O'Numb 3/26/2006 03:29:19 PM [+] ::
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Sao Paulo II - feb 21, 2006
Watch some short clips: The start of the show / City Of Blinding Lights / Vertigo / Elevation / another Elevatioon / New Year´s Day / Haven´t Found ... Miss Srajevo / One / With Or Without You - part 1 / With Or Without You - part 2
:: Regina O'Numb 3/26/2006 03:25:41 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: stopped by Edge / Bono plays keyboard and announces a new baby-Edge wears #7 red shirt / rare U2 memorabilia.

"Boy" tour - march 26, 1981. U2 perform in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the New Faces Club.

"October" tour - march 26, 1982. U2 perform in San Diego, California at the Sports Arena.

"War" tour - march 26, 1983. U2 perform in NewCastle, England at the City Hall. Newcastle sees a cheerful Bono talking throughout the show. Before "Surrender", during "Electric.Co" and after this song he intends to say more but is stopped by Edge who starts "I Fall Down". Support is "The Alarm".

"ZOOTV" tour - march 26, 1992. U2 perform in Cleveland, Ohio at the Richfield Coliseum. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"Elevation" tour - march 26, 2001 - Miami - Ft Lauderdale - National Car Rental Center. Bono introduced the other soul-inflected cut from the CD, "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of," by dedicating it to Michael Hutchence, the INXS frontman who killed himself in a Sydney, Australia, hotel room in 1997. The moving delivery was capped by The Edge singing a beautiful falsetto coda that wowed the crowd. In one of the night's surprises, Bono played keyboards on "Sweetest Thing." Afterward he told the crowd the song was for his wife, "who's here tonight with a baby in her belly." Lenny Kravitz attends the show.
Edge wears red shirt#7 this night!

"Rare U2 memorabilia hits eBay" - march 26, 2004. A collection of rare U2 memorabilia -- including a reel-to-reel copy of U2's very first recording session -- is offered for auction on eBay with an opening bid of $18,000 (USD) and a "Buy It Now" price of $35,000. The collection also includes Bono's handwritten lyrics for one of the three songs ("Shadows and Tall Trees") and typed lyric sheets for the other two two tracks ("Street Mission" and "The Fool"), along with proof sheets from early photo sessions with all four band members. U2 manager Paul McGuiness tells the Irish Times: "I've seen it on the site and it's clearly genuine. Someone can buy the tape but they can't release anything from it without the band's permission." McGuinness adds that permission will not be granted to the owner because the tracks are "pretty rough." The auction ends April 4th with no bids.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/26/2006 02:15:16 PM [+] ::
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the profile that our fans have given us

"Deep down he knows that the credibility that he has, to be able to call for those meetings and the amount of respect he gets, is largely due to the profile that our fans have given us. To a politician, somebody who commands so much respect and interest of so many people is attractive ally and a terrifying enemy"
by Edge, answering the question: Without U2 he (Bono) probably wouldn´t have been able to meet all those important people?
on Rolling Stone - february 2005.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/25/2006 10:00:44 PM [+] ::
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'...And you can dream, so dream out loud / You know that your time is coming round / So don't let the bastards grind you down....' Acrobat by U2
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May joy and peace surround you.
Contentment latch your door.
And happiness be with you now.
And bless you evermore.
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'...For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the humble with victory....' psalm 149
:: Regina O'Numb 3/25/2006 08:35:58 PM [+] ::
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Grace of God in the economy
The kingdom as utopia is the grace giving us the direction. To search the kingdom and the justice of God, it means work to move the world in the direction of the priorities of the kingdom. It seems that there are three questions that humanity ask: Who are us? How to manage the wealth? How to live together? The kingdom, maybe, answers: Of God and for God. Solidarity. Fraternity. Such answers collide with the system that, to answer, generated a without number of philosophies and religions; a without number of economic teses; a without number of proposals of organization of the society. The grace gave the principles, and we should make it a concrete history. Jesus Christ: "You know those that are considered governing of the nations dominate them, and their 'great' exert the power over them. It will not be thus among all of you? For the opposite, who want to become great among you will have to be in service; and who want to become the first one will have to be in service of all. Therefore not even the Son of the God came to be served, but to serve and to give His life in rescue of many ". Jesus Christ praised a new society, whose governmental power would be exerted by the way of the service to all. A society of citizens, where all would be citizens, therefore, a society where the government assumes its vocation of servant, of all, only is that the citizenship blossoms. In the society of the Christ, the power would have to be exerted of this form so that the society could fulfill its vocation, which is: a society where the use of the land was regulated, objectiving 'the good of all'. A society with collective conscience. A society where the childs are priority, therefore, God does not want that none of the childs lose, and threat with hard penalties the society that to deviate the children of its divine vocation: vocation to the health; to the education; to the security; to the longevity; to the job - at last a life that can be celebrated. A society where all enjoyed the right to the dignity. Only where it has dignity has citizenship. A society where the aged is referencial of wisdom, never a pack, therefore, in the bible, the aged is the council member who helps the young in its walked and, by this is seen as a mentor, as somebody who is guard of the values that must guide the society. Somebody that must be honored. In the society praised by Christ the set of citizens is the state. And all are citizens. Therefore, the government would be the service of all. And to be the service would mean that the government would be under the control of the citizenship, and because the government would be under the control, the human rights would be respected. And where the human rights are respected, the future of these citizens would be assured, or either, the citizen would be the beneficiary of the wealth that would produce. A concept that would not only enclose the health or the oldness, but the school, the security, the job, the leisure, at last, everything what give quality to the life. In this society, the government would be an agent, and the future would be, not as something that the more remote better, but as a succession of presents, where each day would bring the guarantee of an assured future. And I´m not referring here to the communism, which I don´t like.
*so sorry for my bad an poor English
:: Regina O'Numb 3/25/2006 08:26:19 PM [+] ::
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Watch U2 - 1987
U2 'Exit/In God's Country' - "The Whistle Test" march 8, 1987; here
:: Regina O'Numb 3/25/2006 06:33:52 PM [+] ::
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Bono is making the right thing...
It´s just cause Bono is an untired advocate of the poorest countries, this book, which Los Anegles Times makes a review, exists: The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good - Late last December, Time magazine put the face of Bono on its cover and declared him, along with Bill and Melinda Gates, a "person of the year." The pick had nothing to do with the increasingly banal musical output of an aging rock legend. Instead, it was for having "persuaded the world's leaders to take on global poverty," as the magazine's editors grandly put it. "We've been doing this for a few years ¿ pretending this is the one, this is the leap," Bono told Time. "And in fact, this year was the one."...Easterly's call for a more modest, results-oriented approach to aid is dead-on, but it would be a moot point without the enthusiasm and advocacy with which Bono and those like him raise interest in (and money for) aid in the first place. So it's hardly fair to say that rock stars do nothing for the fight against poverty: Were it not for their preaching, Easterly's important book would probably never have been written.
read whole article on: calendarlive
:: Regina O'Numb 3/25/2006 02:22:31 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: Phoenix crowds / calm crowd... / a fan to play with them / Bono takes the stand for R.E.M.'s Buck / Bono and Ali launch EDUN!

"October" tour - march 25, 1982. U2 perform in Phoenix, Arizona at the Coliseum. The band resumes support of the "J. Geils Band'. The band are warned about the tough Phoenix crowds, which chased Bob Seger and Tom Petty off stage after only four songs. Bono explained in an interview, "We knew we could that that kind of a fight. By the end of the night we had played two encores."

"War" tour - march 25, 1983. U2 perform in Liverpool, England at the Royal Court Theater. Bono tries to get the intense crowd to calm down a bit, "No bursts of violence of any sort, all right?". Bono also discusses his distaste with those who are opposed to U2 singing political songs, "People said we couldn't write a song like this next song...I'm opposed to any kind of violence. I feel that we have a right to sing this song, called "Sunday Bloody Sunday"". Support is "The Alarm".

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 25, 1985. U2 perform in Cleveland, Ohio at Richfield Coliseum. Again, during "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", Bono pulls up a guitarist from the audience to play along. Support is "Lone Justice".

"Bono takes the stand for R.E.M.'s Buck" - march 25, 2002. Bono makes a surprise appearance at the trial in London of R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, who is facing "air rage" charges related to an incident on board a British Airways flight from Seattle to London in April, 2001. Bono tells the court that Buck "is actually famously known for being a peaceable person. Of all the people in the music business, I couldn't believe my eyes when I read about this." Buck is later acquitted of all charges against him.

Bono and Ali launch EDUN Clothing in Beverly Hills - march 25, 2005. With U2 in Los Angeles preparing for the pending launch of the Vertigo Tour, Bono and Ali appear at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills for that store's launch of their EDUN clothing line.

:: Regina O'Numb 3/25/2006 02:07:46 PM [+] ::
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Many will see and hear...

...the future is better!
"I waited patiently for the Lord.
He inclined and heard my cry.
He brought me up out of the pit
Out of the miry clay.

I will sing, sing a new song.
I will sing, sing a new song.
How long to sing this song?
How long to sing this song?
How long, how long, how long
How long to sing this song?

You set my feet upon a rock
And made my footsteps firm.
Many will see, many will see and hear...."

photo from feb 20
I never saw this one before. Edge was so deep, intense, closed eyes, it seems he was making a prayer! Sublime! Psalm 40 is my favorite, for some reasons. It´s so direct. And, ever I feel myself in prayer when I sing this song. It was perfect to close the first show in Sao Paulo. But I haven´t the true extension of Edge´s feelings in this song, cause I was distant of him. When I arrived in my home I watched and I was totally touched by Edge. God, how Edge is great! I think he was praying for everyone, what generosity, what love! God Bless Edge & Co. & their families & friends! Still today, passed more than a month, I have tears in my eyes, just to remember. It was a true church at Morumbi. Edge & Co. & their families & friends deserve all the Blesses of God, all the good and right things in this world. God, please, make all the dreams of U2 come true, they deserve TWICE-all the miracle they made and make in my life, which I´m able to feel hearing their songs, reading their lyrics, watching their videos and shows. Watch this transcendent moment here, it´s '40' from feb 20. Bono was the first to say bye on feb 20, after Adam, and Edge and the last was Larry. Bono left his crossfix over the mic.

You say you´ll give me eyes in a moon of blindness

photo from feb 21
And they made a love declaration to Sao Paulo; at the first time they closed a show with 'All I Want Is You' with some snippet of 'Love Rscue Me.' Wonderful. I think was the best way to finish that show when all the 80.000 fans were as plugged with 220ww in the electricity; 'All I Want Is You' calms all the crowd and made us with a certain thought: They will be back one day! They will be back! We tatooed our voices in their hearts, and they tatooed their love into our hearts. It´s marked: U2 and we have a commitment: one day we´ll meet again. Listen to (it´s terrible this audio, but while I didn´t have a better version, it´s just to mark the day)
'All I Want Is You' and 'Love Rescue Me' from feb 21. After each band´s member, said THANK YOU at the mic, Edge was the last and say a huge THANK YOU; really the guy keeps rocking until in the bye bye Brazil.

The first bye bye, after "With Or Without You" on feb 21:

The final bye bye, and Edge was the last to say a huge THANK YOU!:

:: Regina O'Numb 3/24/2006 09:46:23 PM [+] ::
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"And the trees are stripped bare / Of all they wear / What do I care / October / And kingdoms rise / And kingdoms fall...
But you go on...and on..." from October - by U2
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May your home be filled with laughter.
May your pockets be filled with gold.
And may you have all the happiness
Your Irish heart can hold.
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"I waited patiently for the Lord; He inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord...." psalm 40
:: Regina O'Numb 3/24/2006 09:42:25 PM [+] ::
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In Chile an exhibition with U2´s photos
Photographic exhibition review 7 years of rock´n´roll in Chile - The photographer Juan Pablo Quiroz - Since march 23 still march 30 - SCD room of Bellavista - Many photos: Roger Waters, Lenny Kravitz, Charly García and U2 during the last tour, on feb 2006.
read on: lasegunda
:: Regina O'Numb 3/24/2006 03:23:28 PM [+] ::
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TRIBUTE HAS REAL SOUNDS OF U2
A u2 tribute band supported by the legendary Dave Sharp of The Alarm come The Keay on Saturday at 8pm. You 2 are the most accurate tribute to the mighty U2! brimming with passion, raw energy, grit and vocal harmony their live performance hits you head on. From U2's first single Out of Control right through to the material from the acclaimed How to Dismantle An atomic Bomb, You2 play everything the audience would expect to hear and more. Throughout the 1980s the real U2 used The Alarm as their main support band for their tours. They are endorsed by guitarist and singer Dave Sharp, who performs a fantastic energetic acoustic show which gets the audience going for a full-on You2 performance.
read whole article on: thisiscornwall
:: Regina O'Numb 3/24/2006 03:22:56 PM [+] ::
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U2 Wide Awake in Dublin 1985
1st part and 2nd part

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Edge and Bono during Golden Globe
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:: Regina O'Numb 3/24/2006 03:22:26 PM [+] ::
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Shelter of the wild life
Isn´t easy arrive at this small piece land. Cause the old dispute between London and Buenos Aires, it does not have flights since Argentina, the near country. It´s necessary to cross Andes, to go until Chile - to the edges of the Pacific - and come back toward the Atlantic! The Falklands/Malvinas. Of island in island, only on board of small and pressed twin-engine. Before taking off, there´s a cruel ritual: to put everything in the scale. Everything has that to be weighed because of the airplane´s size. Also the people are weighed (so cruel). The landing is always in improbable places. Luggage for a side, luggage for another one, leave airplane, enter in boat, in car...Pickup.trucks to walk where the roads finish. Asphalt, few asphalt. What more it has is windscreen broken for rocks. The wind just stop in the winter. The fog goes down and the tracks are closed. Sometimes, the visitors stay confused. The port of the capital, Stanley, is one of the few shelters of this part of the Atlantic. Animal that sees few people (not every time) at first, scares. Later, they catche privacy. In Stanley live 2.000 people. Calm, as a typical English city. The clock of the church stimulates the famous British punctuality. In front of of the chapel, a curious monument to the anti-environmental past: a monument made with whale jaws. It does not have walls between neighbors. You only surround decreases and colorful ceilings demarcate the territory. The abrupt declivity of the other side of the bay keeps the names of the boats that had defended the British presence in the archipelago. And the children are the same as in any place of the world. Here and there, memories of the 1982 war, that it lasted more than two months. The beach of Gipsy Cove is isolated for barbed wire. It is one of the areas where still exist mines, left for the Argentines. The penguins do not know of these quarrels. For them, any human being presence is invasion. The beach is its perpetual colony of vacation. Some are scratch without haste. Others run for the sand, pierce waves, dive, seem to dance. Or simply they watch if the human beings do not walk preparing plus some confusion. The Falklands, or Malvinas, as prefer the Argentines, can have much geopolitical importance for the men. For these animals, however, the archipelago is much more important: one of the last shelters of the planet for some threatened species of extinguishing. That it continues thus.
more on Falklands
*The war between Argentina and England in 1982, in this place, were one of the reasons of 'War' album in 1983.
so sorry for my bad and poor English.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/24/2006 03:18:32 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: Bono and Larry to lend a hand / a girl jumps on stage / "Elevation" tour starts in Miami-Edge wears Miami Dolphins' shirt!

"Boy" tour - march 24, 1981. U2 perform in Vancouver, BC, Canada at the Commodore Ballroom.

"War" tour - march 24, 1983. U2 perform in Glasgow, Scotland at Tiffany's. During the pause between songs before "Seconds", Bono jokes "So here we are in the capital of Great Britain," and two audience members jump up on stage and shout "F--- off!" into the microphone. Roadie Steve Iredale has trouble getting the two off stage, and Bono and Larry come forward to lend a hand. The show is broadcast on a local FM station. Support is "The Alarm".

"ZOOTV" tour - march 24, 1992. U2 perform in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Maple Leaf Gardens. A girl from the audience jumps on stage during "With Or Without You" and runs over to Larry, Adam, and then kisses Bono. Bono waves off the crew members who are chasing her, and lets her sing along with the song. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"Bono/Liam kiss photo causes a stir" - march 24, 1996. Bono appears in The Sunday Independent newspaper in a photograph of him and Oasis' lead singer Liam Gallagher exchanging an open-mouth kiss. The photo was taken two nights earlier, March 22, after an Oasis show at the Point Depot theatre in Dublin. Similar photos from a slightly different angle were also published in other U.K. media outlets. In a 1999 article in Rolling Stone, Bono described the photo as follows: "Actually, what happened," says Bono, "was he had a guitar pick in his mouth, and he dared me to take it off him while the paparazzi were standing around. I couldn't resist. I can't say his breath smelled sweetly - let me put it that way. I, however, look like I've just come from the local boxing club."

"Elevation" tour - march 24, 2001 - Sunrise, Florida. U2 opens the Elevation 2001 Tour in front of a packed house at the National Car Rental Center in Sunrise, Fla. The band enters the stage casually with the house lights still on, wearing everyday t-shirts and jeans except for Bono, who is dressed in his customary black leather jacket and black pants. The entrance and presentation is a far cry from the spectacle of U2's last two tours. The stage includes a heart-shaped catwalk that extends more than halfway into the floor of the arena. The tour features General Admission on the floor, and the first 300 fans are allowed inside the heart. Early in the show, Bono falls off the catwalk while walking backwards. After a brief time, he climbs back on stage and continues the show. The band performs 6-7 tracks from All That You Can't Leave Behind and a collection of their biggest back catalog hits and concert favorites. The show is widely praised by fans and critics alike.
Miami Dolphins' Edge´s shirt, this night...''More children than Abraham'.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/24/2006 12:20:39 PM [+] ::
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I'll give you everything you want...

photo from feb 20
What could I say more about this wonder song? The imagens on the screen are fabulous: the purple flowers, buterflies, that mouth speaking flowers. The crowd sung each word of this song, a great choral in a church called Morumbi. Before this song Bono made a bridge between 'All Because Of You' and 'Original Of The Species' with 'Norwegian Wood'...so sweet. Edge´s playing keyboard, is the total calm kodak moment. Watch 'Original Of The Species' - feb 20, here
:: Regina O'Numb 3/23/2006 06:59:41 PM [+] ::
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When the first light of sun - Bless you.
When the long day is done - Bless you.
In your smiles and your tears - Bless you.
Through each day of your years - Bless you.
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'...But I will sing of your might; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been a fortress for me and a refuge in the day of my distress. Oh my strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love.' psalm 59
:: Regina O'Numb 3/23/2006 06:59:36 PM [+] ::
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Norwegian Wood
'I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me. / She showed me her room, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? / She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere, / So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair. / I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine. / We talked until two and then she said, "It's time for bed". / She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh. / I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath. / And when I awoke I was alone, this bird had flown. / So I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood.' - by Lennon / McCartney - This was the first Pop song to use a Sitar - George Harrison played it. Harrison was new to the Sitar and took many takes to get it right. He bought the instrument, which he described as "crummy," and taught himself to play. A few months later, he studied the Sitar with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, who helped Harrison explore Eastern music and religion. John Lennon admitted this is about an affair he was having while married to his first wife, Cynthia. Norwegian Wood is a fake wood that was used to make cheap furniture. There are not many lyrics in this, but they tell the story of a man who gets invited to a girl's house, but when she won't let him into her bed, he sleeps in the tub. When she leaves the next morning, he sets the place on fire. The Beatles recorded this on October 12, 1965, the first day of the Rubber Soul sessions. The first take of the song, which is included on the Anthology 2 CD and includes George's sitar much more prominently, was originally going to be put on Rubber Soul until a remake was made a week or two later. Ringo played the finger cymbals. Bob Dylan wrote a parody of this called "4th Time Around." This was one of the first songs Lennon wrote that told a complete story. Bono played as a bridge between 'All Because Of You' and 'Original Of The Species' in Sao Paulo
:: Regina O'Numb 3/23/2006 06:57:07 PM [+] ::
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U2.com, reports: "One Love, One Life" - U2.Com Premiere! In South America last month, U2 and Mary J Blige shot a new video for 'One', Mary J´s latest release. Catch a sixty second clip of the video in the site (At present only in Windows Media).
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At first, U2.com reports that U2 recorded the video in South America, but I think it was in Mexico (Central America or Latin America). Anyway, it happened! And it´s great. (Some sources in Brazil, said, that Edge just arrived on the day of the first show, or two days delay of the other three, cause he was checking the conclusion of this video). Edge´s playing one of the coloured Music Rising guitars, which he used too, here in Sao Paulo (I don´t know if he played with this guitar, too, in the three Mexican shows. I think yeah), SIMPLY IS SO PURE. In Corbijn´s style, this video brings Mary J Blige as a diva, as she is, arriving in a limo, so glammed. Again, when U2 like anyone, U2 spread out the red carpet, is their generosity, Grace of God. Some Catholic symbols. As an invite to the fans, with the arrow pointing the way. The fans arriving at the final. Some chairs as 'Pride' video. iPod. Clear water to drink, maybe. Full band playing, but the star is Mary, who makes very well her part in this video. I have a theory about U2´s videos when the videos are released out off album´s release...it´s a start of a new cycle...I have it on my mind, as I had in: 'A Celebration' (to War-era); 'All I Want Is You' and 'Night And Day' (to Zoo-era); 'Sweetest Thing' (to Elevation-era) and 'Electrical Storm' (to Vertigo-era)...God, what´s coming is deep, strong, beautiful! God Bless U2 and all around them! We need U2!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/23/2006 06:40:45 PM [+] ::
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Edge in Vegas, on november 2005. Simply, perfect!

Look for this photo in larger size, here. Who took and sent me this photo is Tim Neufeld, a very very nice U2´s fan who reports in his blog, that: In the 'City Of Blinding Lights'... '...The more you see, the less you know / The less you find out as you go / I knew much more then, than I do now...' Bono wrote this lyric because of an experience he had at a friend's photography show. The friend ushered Bono into a room displaying large pictures of U2 taken twenty years earlier. Bono didn't know that the photos were going to be exhibited and was shocked to see a picture of himself climbing into a helicopter. He remembered the day (it was his first time in a helicopter) and remembered the feelings of the strange young man he was now looking at: excitement, naivete, energy and idealism.
read whole article and know his work on: timneufeld
:: Regina O'Numb 3/23/2006 04:20:50 PM [+] ::
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Germany's version of Abbey Road.
Tour Takes Visitors Through Berlin's Rock History - Berlin's special atmosphere has inspired scores of tortured rock legends from David Bowie to Nick Cave. Now, anyone wanting to follow in their iconic footsteps can take a tour through three decades of rock history. With its aura of Cold War angst and unique status as a divided city, Berlin in the 1980s was an obvious hang-out for many a wild child of rock. Temporarily home to a host of musicians including the Ramones, Depeche Mode and U2, the city also inspired Lou Reed's classic album "Berlin," which has been described as "one of the darkest albums ever made."...The Hansa studios - Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: U2 also recorded at the Hansa Studios. The tour continues to the legendary Hansa studios on Potsdamer Platz, where "Heroes" was recorded. Other bands who've worked here include Iggy Pop, Depeche Mode and U2, whose 1990 album "Achtung Baby" was produced here by Brian Eno. The studios are arguably Germany's version of Abbey Road. "Depeche Mode like to use field recording from Berlin -- the sounds in the subway, anything they could find," Schmied said. "Then they worked the sounds into the songs they recorded at Hansa."...
read whole article on: dw
:: Regina O'Numb 3/23/2006 04:02:28 PM [+] ::
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Happy Birthday Ali!

Health, peace, love, success, harmony, hope for you Ali and your lovely family. Thank you so much to make our frontman, Bono, so happy, to be the support of Bono´s moments in this hard world. Thank you so much for your great work to get a better world, as in Chernobyl Children's Project International and much more!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/23/2006 04:00:48 PM [+] ::
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Top 20 Concert Tours
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
TOP 20 CONCERT TOURS
1. (1) U2; $2,881,120; $82.37. / 2. (2) Bon Jovi; $1,384,927; $77.10. / 3. (3) Aerosmith; $1,107,701; $91.14.....
read whole article on: 9news
:: Regina O'Numb 3/23/2006 02:44:56 PM [+] ::
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Sinclair Broadcast Group and the Tube Music Network Announce Agreement to Launch THE TUBE into 28 New Markets 24-Hour Music Channel Available In 71 Of The Top 100 Markets By Summer - Les Garland, CEO, The Tube Music Network, announced a distribution agreement today with Sinclair Broadcast Group (NASDAQ:SBGI - News). Sinclair owns and operates, programs or provides sales services to 58 television stations in 36 markets, including Pittsburgh, St.Louis, Minneapolis, Tampa, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Nashville, Columbus, Cincinnati and Syracuse....THE TUBE Music Network is a pure, music network that features a bold fusion of the best artists, the best songs and the best images of all time. The playlist reflects the music of some of the biggest touring acts in America today, including The Rolling Stones, U2, Paul McCartney, The Eagles, Elton John, Prince and Rod Stewart; mixed with classic artists such as Led Zeppelin and Tom Petty; and newer artists such as Norah Jones, Coldplay, Jack Johnson, James Blunt, Alicia Keys, KT Tunstall and John Mayer.
read whole article on: yahoo
:: Regina O'Numb 3/23/2006 02:41:08 PM [+] ::
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Even Denton gets nervous
Even as the inquisitor on his own TV show, Andrew Denton gets the jitters. You'd think the seasoned presenter would be more relaxed after interviewing the likes of former US president Bill Clinton, Denmark's Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik, Hollywood great Jane Fonda and U2 frontman Bono. But clammy palms and a dry mouth can still strike before he takes the hot seat on his ABC TV show Enough Rope.
look for Bono and Andrew Denton taken after the interview
read whole article on: smh
:: Regina O'Numb 3/23/2006 02:37:03 PM [+] ::
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The brain and the age
A brain that is demanded to each day with new informations. The years make well to the memory? Our brain is a great pile of experiences, as a library with three floors. In one of the floors of this quantity, they are the old memories, the called "memory of long stated period". Facts that had occurred many years ago. Another floor keeps the registers most recent, of the last week or memory of the last new year´s eve. And there´s another memory. Is that one that help us to remember what we saw and we say some minutes ago. All the pile suffers with the time´s action. But is known that some areas grow old early than other. One of the areas that lose neurons since the 30 years is known as hipocampo. It has the form of a cylinder, minor of a minimun finger. But it is the door of entrance for new information in our brain. The oldest memories already had been transferred to different parts of the cerebral cortex. This can explain because many aged people are capable of remember child´s experiences. But they have difficulty to remember recent facts. The speed of 'to speak' and also of the body´s movments are lated with another area of the brain, it´s called "black substance." They are two small points, the size of a rice grain. The abnormal aging of this area provokes an illness called Parkinson´s syndrome. Does not exist a functional loss of the proper brain with the age. Does exist loss functional of brain, as it exists of the lung, of the heart, characterized or dependent of illnesses that need to be diagnosised and duly treated. The age, by the way, can be a key. The brain of the 40's has abilities that a young does not have. More complex associations only after the 40's. The conclusions are quickly, cause exist a sort of data base. Then, it is easy to join those data and to the conclusion. Another difference is the connections that are necessary between some parts of the brain to join the information, some pieces of each memory, these connections, are much more efficient when people are a little older. The conducting wire of the information in the brain is the neuron. Still in childhood, the neuron starts to gain a layer. It is as protective rind of an electric wire, basically with a substance called mielina, that continues growing in the adult phase. This formation of the mielina still happens between the 30, 40 years of age. But as to take advantage of the age and to prevent its harmful effect? Is a fact: the physical exercise reduces the death of neurons of the black substance (the region of the on brain 'to speak' and to the movments) and also protects hipocampo (the area reached for the Alzheimer´s syndrome, that damages the recent memory). Finally, keep rocking with mental activities. Reading, to learn a new activity, cause our brain needs to work.
*so sorry for my bad and poor English language
:: Regina O'Numb 3/23/2006 02:29:23 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: U2 sign with Island Records / a flag / "Slow Dancing" during ZOOTV / U2 misses Oscar.

"U2 sign with Island Records" - march 23, 1980 - U2 sign first international recording contract with Island Records. Four years, four albums, with three singles to be released in the first year. Contract calls for the band's debut album to be recorded in August for an October release. The deal is binding for all territories except Ireland. In the U.S., U2 will be distributed on the Warner label. Negotiations with CBS, A&M, and EMI had fallen through. Bill Stewart of Island made the offer in dressing room after U2's concert at National Stadium. Colm Henry took this photo and others in Cork; marks this date.

"Boy" tour - march 23, 1981. U2 perform in Seattle, Washington at Astor Park.

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 23, 1985. U2 perform in Detroit, Michigan at Joe Louis Arena. An Irish Tri-Color is thrown on stage, and Bono drapes it over the microphone stand. Bono throws the flag back into the crowd, and members of the audience start fighting over it. Bono shouts, "Stop fighting about that flag! That's what all the trouble is, don't you understand that?" Support is "Lone Justice".

"ZOOTV" tour - march 23, 1992. U2 perform in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the Forum. "Slow Dancing," a song that Bono and Edge wrote for Willie Nelson is performed for the first time on the "ZooTV" tour, except Bono know sings two verses and admits the third verse is still unfinished. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"U2 performs at Oscars, misses award" - march 23, 2003. U2 performs "The Hands That Built America" at the Oscar Awards in Los Angeles, but the song -- written for the film Gangs of New York -- fails to win the award for ORIGINAL SONG. Eminem's "Lose Yourself" takes the honor. U2 arriving for the Oscar´s party.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/23/2006 01:06:20 PM [+] ::
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You heard me in my tune when I just heard confusion

photo from feb 20.
It´s 'All Becuse Of You' a lovely song, with literally whole band playing. It´s remarkable. Listen to the Edge´s first chords makes me 'shiver' and the crowd singing together, is fantastic; when Bono sings oh oh oh oh and puts his right hand over the heart it´s a sort of lament, it´s great this song, it´s great; and live is exraordinary. During this song, Bono gives back the cookies called 'Bono' which he took during 'New Year´s Day' to the fan in the first row. You can watch here.

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Still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming up, the sun is coming up on the ocean

photo from feb 21
And we got 'Yahweh', it was amazing to hear 80 thousand voices singing the name of God. This audio is terrible, from feb 21, but while I didn´t get a better version, it´s only to mark that unforgettable moment.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/22/2006 10:04:42 PM [+] ::
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May you have all the happiness. And luck that life can hold - And at the end of all your rainbows. May you find a pot of gold.
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...Oh Lord...Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily. Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me. You are indeed my rock and my fortress; for your name's sake lead me and guide me... psalm 31
:: Regina O'Numb 3/22/2006 10:04:36 PM [+] ::
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World Water Day
African Well Fund Announces 4th Annual Bono Birthday Fundraiser
The African Well Fund announces the fourth annual fund-raising drive to "Build a Well for Bono's Birthday." Donations may be made in Bono's honor from March 22nd through May 6th. The money raised will be used by our partner Africare to fund clean water projects in Zimbabwe. Schenectady, NY (PRWEB) March 22, 2006 - The African Well Fund is excited to announce plans for the 4th Annual Build a Well for Bono's Birthday fund-raising drive. The fund-raiser aims to raise money in honor of Bono's May 10th birthday. Donations for the drive will be collected from March 22nd to May 6th. All donations received will be used by our partner Africare to fund water projects in Zimbabwe. U2 fans and others inspired by Bono's tireless activism on behalf of Africa are invited to make a donation in his honor. Donations from the previous 3 campaigns totaled more than $50,000 and were used to fund water projects in Uganda, Ethiopia and Angola. This year the funds raised will be used for a project in Zimbabwe. Donations may be made by visiting our website at www.africanwellfund.org/donate.html . As in previous years, after donating, contributors are invited to sign our online card and leave a birthday wish for Bono. The messages along with a 'Well Share' certificate for the amount donated will be delivered to Bono via Principle Management at the conclusion of the drive. This year, the African Well Fund has two additional ways to participate in the birthday fund-raiser. The first is through the purchase of a t-shirt featuring the winner of our recent t-shirt design contest. Over 50 entries were received and with much difficulty a winning entry was chosen. The t-shirts featuring the selected design will be available for a limited time at http://www.cafepress.com/wellfund . All proceeds from the sales of these shirts will be added to the total. The birthday fundraiser will also be the beneficiary of a special EBay auction entitled PHOTOS4 // BBW4. Beginning April 17th, U2 fans will have the opportunity to bid on U2 concert photos donated by some very talented photographers. Check our website for further details. The African Well Fund is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was founded in 2002 by a group of U2 fans. Since that time, AWF has raised more than $145,000, which has been used to fund more than 40 clean water projects in sub-Saharan Africa. All donations to the African Well Fund go directly to Africare, one of the leading private, non-profit, charitable organizations assisting Africa. The African Well Fund was founded to focus on one achievable goal: providing access to clean water to everyone in Africa. The African Well Fund believes that access to water is not merely a basic human need but a basic human right.
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No right to water on World Water Day
MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Officials from 140 countries were set to issue a broad declaration on World Water Day, but will stop short of declaring a universal right to the precious resource for which two thirds of humanity face uncertain supplies. Wrapping up their week-long World Water Forum, ministers are hoping to help shape global strategy to improve water distribution and eradicate waste in order to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015. Government ministers called Tuesday for a global campaign to ensure the survival to the majority of the world's people who are at risk from inadequate or unsafe supplies. "The lack of water or its poor quality kills 10 times more people than all the wars combined," Loic Fauchon, the head of the France-based World Water Council, said in opening a ministerial session. "Let us declare the right to water, without ambiguity, as an essential element of human dignity," Fauchon said. Fauchon reminded the ministers that more investments were needed. He also said political will and "transparency" in management were required, as management was "often incoherent" and tended to favor other sectors. The World Water Council, which is cosponsoring the Forum along with the Mexican government, is seeking to have the right to water recognized as a "human right", much the same as the right to education. Ministers are to issue a declaration on the final day the forum on Wednesday, which coincides with World Water Day, a UN observance launched 13 years ago, but it is unlikely to enshrine a right to water. Argentina's environment minister, Atilio Armando Savino, said the final declaration would not explicitly declare a right to water. For that reason, Bolivia and Venezuela have announced they would not sign it. The government of Bolivian President Evo Morales, a leftist and indigenous leader, is planning an alternative text. For the first time, the forum in Mexico -- which follows those in Marrakech, in 1997; The Hague, in 2000; and Kyoto, in 2003 -- reserved a significant place for the role of local communities. The theme of this year's forum, "Local Actions for a Global Challenge," is to be reaffirmed Wednesday by a final declaration by the United Cities and Local Governments, which has members in 127 countries. While reaffirming that "the public authority and it alone holds the primary responsibility" of water service, the UCLG insists on "the right of each human to water of sufficient quantity and quality" and calls on governments to "favor decentralization, to increase the financing of local infrastructures and to support international cooperation with local governments." The mayors and local leaders also are seeking, for "local powers who want to," the possibility of spending a portion of tax revenues from water users on programs for developing countries. Such an approach has already been adopted by several European countries -- including France which has a specific law to this effect -- and Australia, Canada, Japan and the United States. The World Water Council said that the Turkish city of Istanbul had been shortlisted as the venue of the next World Water Forum, in March 2009. The council said its final decision would be made after three months of negotiations with the Turkish government. If those negotiations fail, the council will start talks with the runner-up candidate, Qatar.
read on: yahoo
:: Regina O'Numb 3/22/2006 10:02:35 PM [+] ::
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"The Simpsons" 20 Best Guest Voices of All Time
The TV gods are smiling upon us. This Sunday, March 26, Fox will air an episode of The Simpsons written by and guest starring Ricky Gervais (BBC's The Office and HBO's Extras.) He'll be playing a David Brent-like character who seduces Marge when the two of them are paired up on a Trading Spouses-type show. It's a bit of an experiment for the show (it was creator Matt Groening's idea) and Gervais told the press he's prouder of this episode than anything else he's done. It's hard to imagine it won't work, but if it is as funny as it sounds, it could shoot up to the top of our list of the greatest Simpsons guest stars of all-time (recurring characters, like Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob, or Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony don¿t count.) - 20. U2 - "Trash of the Titans" - Homer tries to boost his campaign for sanitation commissioner by crashing a U2 concert (back in the PopMart days.) But he finds the band is an unwilling audience.
Memorable Exchange:
Bono (To Homer): "Ray Patterson is a fine civil servant. Why should the people vote for you?"
The Edge (aside, to Larry Mullen): "Here we go. What do you say we slip out to Moe's for a little bit?"
Adam Clayton: "Can I come too?"
The Edge: "No."
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read whole article on: thephoenix

:: Regina O'Numb 3/22/2006 10:02:02 PM [+] ::
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Statistics - 4th of 'VERTIGO' TOUR!
How many songs? How many different titles? Which albums? Find in this heading all the statistics of Vertigo//2005-2006 Tour!
Last update: March 2, 2006 - Last concert: Buenos Aires.
*General statistics:
A number of concerts played: 118
A number of albums represented: 11
Numbers total titles played: 2685
A number of different titles played: 52
Number of titles by concert: 23
*Statistics by album// A number of titles played by album and percentagem
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - 10 / 20%
All That You Can' t Leave Behind - 5 / 10%
Pop - 1 / 2%
Zooropa - 1 / 2%
Achtung Baby - 7 / 14%
Rattle & Hum - 3 / 6%
The Joshua Tree - 6 / 12%
The Unforgettable Fire - 3 / 6%
War - 3 / 6%
October - 1 / 2%
Boy - 6 / 12%
B-sides - 6 / 12%
*Statistics by album// Numbers total interpretations by album and percentagem
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - 851 / 32%
All That You Can' t Leave Behind - 275 / 10%
Pop - 2 / 0%
Zooropa - 24 / 1%
Achtung Baby - 372 / 14%
Rattle & Hum - 22 / 1%
The Joshua Tree - 460 / 17%
The Unforgettable Fire - 132 / 5%
War - 236 / 9%
October - 19 / 1%
Boy - 187 / 7%
B-sides - 94 / 4%
*Statistics by titles// A number of interpretations and frequency of event per title"
Vertigo - 157 / 133%
Beautiful Day - 118 / 100%
Bullet The Blue Sky - 118 / 100%
City Of Blinding Lights - 118 / 100%
Elevation - 118 / 100%
Love And Peace Or Else - 118 / 100%
One - 118 / 100%
Pride (In The Name Of Love) - 118 / 100%
Sometimes You Can't Make It On ... - 118 / 100%
Sunday Bloody Sunday - 118 / 100%
Where The Streets Have No Name - 118 / 100%
All Because Of You - 95 / 81%
Yahweh - 95 / 81%
Miracle Drug - 92 / 78%
With or Without You - 92 / 78%
I Still Haven't Found What I'm ... - 84 / 71%
The Fly - 77 / 65%
The Electric Co - 75 / 64%
Miss Sarajevo - 72 / 61%
Zoo Station - 65 / 55%
40 - 60 / 51%
Mysterious Ways - 60 / 51%
New Year's Day - 58 / 49%
Running To Stand Still - 46 / 39%
I Will Follow - 45 / 38%
Original Of The Species - 37 / 31%
Until The End Of The World - 35 / 30%
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get ...- 30 / 25%
The Ocean - 27 / 23%
The First Time - 24 / 20%
Bad - 22 / 19%
All I Want Is You - 20 / 17%
Gloria - 19 / 16%
An Cat Dubh - 16 / 14%
Into The Heart - 16 / 14%
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses - 16 / 14%
Fast Cars - 14 / 12%
Party Girl - 10 / 8%
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%
Mothers Of the Disappeared - 2 / 2%
Norwegian Wood - 2 / 2%
Angel Of Harlem - 1 / 1%
Desire - 1 / 1%
Love Is Blindness - 1 / 1%
Love Will Tear Us Apart - 1 / 1%
People Get Ready - 1 / 1%
"Tittles that opened / frequence"
City Of Blinding Lights - 73 / 62%
Vertigo - 36 / 31%
Love And Peace Or Else - 9 / 8%
"Tittle that closed / frequence"
40 - 59 / 50%
Vertigo - 39 / 33%
Bad - 13 / 11%
All I Want Is You - 3 / 3%
Fast Cars - 1 / 1%
Instant Karma - 1 / 1%
Love Is Blindness - 1 / 1%
With Or Without - 1 / 1%
source:U2neophobia
:: Regina O'Numb 3/22/2006 09:26:34 PM [+] ::
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Os Mutantes - 'Minha Menina' (My girl)
Os Mutantes, included in this samba, some electric guitar, in 1968; and this album turns in a cool and cult item from the psychedelic´s 60's. You can hear here. There´s another version of this song, but in English, called 'She's my shoo, shoo;' in this version they swap the guitar for the keyboards. Hear here. Read more about them here
*the lyrics in Brazilian Portuguese: 'A Minha Menina' - Ela é minha menina / E eu sou o menino dela / Ela é o meu amor / E eu sou o amor todinho dela / A lua prateada se escondeu / E o sol dourado apareceu / Amanheceu um lindo dia / Cheirando a alegria / Pois eu sonhei / E acordei pensando nela / Pois ela é minha menina / E eu sou o menino dela / Ela é o meu amor / E eu sou o amor todinho dela / A roseira já deu rosas / E a rosa que eu ganhei foi ela / Por ela eu ponho o meu coração / Na frente da razão / Eu vou dizer / Pra todo mundo / Como gosto dela / Pois ela é minha menina / E eu sou o menino dela / Ela é o meu amor / E eu sou o amor todinho dela / A lua prateada se escondeu / E o sol dourado apareceu / Amanheceu um lindo dia / Cheirando a alegria / Pois eu sonhei / E acordei pensando nela / Pois ela é minha menina / E eu sou o menino dela / Ela é o meu amor / E eu sou o amor todinho dela / Minha menina, Minha menina...
*(my poor and bad English version): ' My Girl ' - She is my girl/ and I am her boy/ She's my love/ and I am her love/ the silver moon is been hidden/ and the golden sun appeared / Sunrise a pretty day / Smelling the joy / Therefore I dreamed / and woke up thinking her / Therefore it is my girl / and I am her boy / She is my love / and I am her love / the rosebush already gave roses / and the rose that I earned was her / For her I put my heart / In the front of the reason / I will say / To everybody / As I love her / Therefore she is my girl / and I am her boy / She is my love / and I am her love / the silver moon is been hidden / and the golden sun appeared / Sunrise a pretty day / Smelling the joy / Therefore I dreamed / and woke up thinking about / Therefore she is my girl / and I am her boy / She is my love / and I am her love / My girl, My girl...

:: Regina O'Numb 3/22/2006 09:02:25 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: Bono´s briefcase is gone / "A Celebration" is released / "Party Girl" to John!

"Boy" tour - march 22, 1981. U2 perform in Portland, Oregon at the Fog Horn. Backstage, after meeting for 20 minutes with some female fans, Bono realizes his briefcase is gone--inside, $300 and a bunch of written lyrics--lyrics for the new record. The stunned band realize they only have 12 weeks to write the music for their next album "October". And it returns after 23 years.

"A Celebration" - march 22, 1982. "A Celebration" is released in the UK as a single.

"War" tour - march 22, 1983. U2 perform in London England at the Hammersmith Odeon. John, a guy from the audience joins the band during "Party Girl" and Bono builds the entire song around him.

"The Unforgettable Fire" - march 22, 1985. U2 perform at the Chicago, Illinois at the University of Illinois Pavillion.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/22/2006 12:13:26 PM [+] ::
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"We're very lucky. Bono is a natural front man. I'm the guy who wants to deal with a problem and just wrestle it to the ground. Larry is one of those nuts-and-bolts kind of guys who want to tell it like it is; he's not going to take a step unless he knows where he's going, so he's a great anchor. And Adam is our great jazzman. Whenever things are getting too square, he'll throw in a curveball at us and send us in a different place." by Edge - August, 2004 - Vanity Fair


:: Regina O'Numb 3/21/2006 10:22:09 PM [+] ::
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Edge plays heart´s beating

The girl who danced with Bono during 'Mysterious Ways' continues with him during With Or Without You, Bono sang the song on his knees, holding the girl, and she had some fun with his hair. The crowd went nuts when she kissed his slips. On feb 21, the song was great, there´s no girl on stage, this audio is terrible, but while I don´t get a better version, this is only to mark the day, that wonderful day....and Edge again...he plays with the heart´s beating
:: Regina O'Numb 3/21/2006 08:11:50 PM [+] ::
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May the luck of the Irish be always at hand. And good friends always near you. May each and every coming day. Bring some special joy to cheer you
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'Praise the Lord! How good it is to sing praises to our God; for He is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting. The Lord builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the outcasts of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds. He determines the number of the stars; He gives to all of them their names....' psalm 147

:: Regina O'Numb 3/21/2006 08:08:06 PM [+] ::
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Os Mutantes - 'Domingo No Parque'

'Domingo No Parque' = 'Sunday In The Park' by Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil writes a story of Joseph. In a sunday, instead to work, he goes to the park and meets Juliana, his girl friend with his friend John. He kills both with a knife. You can watch a legendary clip from 1966 or 1967 on youtube. This clip is a part of a Taditional Festival in the Brazilian´s TV, during that time. We were under the military dictatorship. The half crowd applaud Gilberto Gil, who is accmpagnied by the three Mutantes (Arnaldo and Sergio Baptista and Rita Lee) and half crowd 'booo' them cause they (the crowd) didn´t accept the electric guitar in this song. During those years, which I was just 5-6 years old, my family was trying to move out off Brazil, precisely to US, but we didn´t get it.
*lyrics in Brazilian Portuguese: O rei da brincadeira (ê, José) / O rei da confusão (ê, João) / Um trabalhava na feira (ê, José) / Outro na construção (ê, João) / A semana passada, no fim da semana / João resolveu não brigar / No domingo de tarde saiu apressado / E não foi pra Ribeira jogar capoeira / Não, foi lá pra Ribeira, foi namorar / O José como sempre no fim de semana / Guardou a barraca e sumiu / Foi fazer no domingo um passeio no parque / Lá perto da Boca do Rio / Foi no parque que ele avistou / Juliana foi que ele viu, foi que ele viu / Juliana na roda com João / Uma rosa e um sorvete na mão / Juliana, seu sonho, uma ilusão / Juliana e o amigo João / O espinho da rosa feriu Zé / E o sorvete gelou seu coração / O sorvete e a rosa (ô, José) / O rosa e o sorvete (ô, José) / Foi coçando no peito (ô, José) / Do José brincalhão (ô, José) / O sorvete e a rosa (ô, José) / A rosa e o sorvete (ô, José) / Oi, girando na mente (ô, José) / Do José brincalhão (ô, José) / Juliana girando (ô, girando) / Oi, na roda gigante (ô, girando) / Oi, na roda gigante (ô, girando) / O amigo João (ô, João) / O sorvete é morango (é vermelho) / Oi, girando e a roda (é vermelha) / Oi, girando, girando (é vermelha) / Oi, girando, girando... / Olha a faca! (Olha a faca!) / Olha o sangue na mão (ê, José) / Juliana no chão (ê, José) / Outro corpo caído (ê, José) / Seu amigo João (ê, José) / Amanhã não tem feira (ê, José) / Não tem mais construção (ê, João) / Não tem mais brincadeira (ê, José) / Não tem mais confusão (ê, João).
*(my poor and bad English version): The king of the trick (ê, Joseph) / The king of the confusion (ê, John) / One worked in the fair (ê, Joseph) / Another one in the construction (ê, John) / Last week, in the end of the week / John decided not to work / In the sunday in the afternoon he left hasty / And he was not in Ribeira to play capoeira / Not, he was in Ribeira, to be going with a girl / Joseph as always in the weekend / He kept the tent and it disappeared / He was walking in the park in the sunday / There close to the Boca do Rio / It was in the park that he sighted / Juliana was that he saw, was that he saw / Juliana in the wheel with John / A rose and an ice cream in the hand / Juliana, his dream, an illusion / Juliana and the friend John / The thorn of the rose wounded Zé (Joseph) / And the ice cream froze his heart / The ice cream and the rose (ô, Joseph) / The rose and the ice cream (ô, Joseph) / It was itch in the chest (ô, Joseph) / Of the joking Joseph (ô, Joseph) / The ice cream and the rose (ô, Joseph) / The rose and the ice cream (ô, Joseph) / Oh, turning in the mind (ô, Joseph) / Of the joking Joseph (ô, Joseph) / Juliana turning (ô, turning) / Oh, in the giant wheel (ô, turning) / Oh, in the giant wheel (ô, turning) / The friend John (ô, John) / The ice cream is strawberry (it´s red) / Oh, turning and the wheel (it´s red) / Oh, turning, turning (it´s red) / Oh, turning, turning... / Look for the knife! (look for the knife) / Look for the blood in the hand (ê, Joseph) / Juliana in the floor (ê, Joseph) / Another fallen body (ê, Joseph) / His friend John (ê, Joseph) / Tomorrow therw won´t have fair (ê, Joseph) / No more construction (ê, John) / No more trick (ê, Joseph) / No more confusion (ê, John)
* listen to Gilberto Gil during 'Domingo No Parque'. Read more about Os Mutantes here
Tomorrow I´ll write about 'Minha Menina'
:: Regina O'Numb 3/21/2006 08:08:02 PM [+] ::
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New 'One' video
U2 and Mary J Blige / to record on: rapidshare
Wonder. Is it recorded in Mexico? I think there are something latin in this video.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/21/2006 06:00:14 PM [+] ::
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Protecting endangered species reduces poverty
At the start of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Curitiba (Brazil), WWF has released a new report calling on member governments to integrate an environmental perspective into efforts to alleviate poverty. "Through working in partnership with local communities, governments and wildlife authorities to develop joint solutions conservation can both save species while also helping to improve the livelihoods of the communities living in these areas," said Julie Thomas, WWF social development support officer. The report, with six case studies, specifically highlights that WWF's species work can contribute towards poverty reduction, as well as promote sustainable and fair development in rural areas of countries such as Nepal, Uganda, India, Namibia, Costa Rica and China. The case studies prove that the conservation and sustainable management of species and their habitats can mean better protection of forests, freshwater and marine areas. As a result this can lead to the rural poor getting greater and more secure benefits from the goods and services they provide. This can not only increase incomes, but access to freshwater, health, education and women's rights often also improve. According to the report, some ecotourism projects based on the observation of species in the wild - such as marine turtles, pandas and mountain gorillas - generate significant amounts of money to communities. By applying knowledge of species movements in and across habitats, this can help implement sustainable land-use planning. "Saving pandas, gorillas or tigers is not just about stopping an endangered species from going extinct, but it can also help to reduce poverty and improve the lives of local communities," said Dr Susan Lieberman, Director of WWF's Global Species Programme. "Often the issues that threaten species are the same which contribute to poverty, such as loss of habitats and natural resources. This report provides evidence that when endangered species benefit, people can benefit as well." For example, in Tortuguero (Costa Rica), live turtles are worth more to the local economy than turtle meat and eggs ever were. The community strongly supports conservation measures to promote ecotourism, and both turtle and tourist numbers have been climbing over the past 30 years. Community forests in parts of Nepal have led to the restoration of vital corridors for the survival of tiger populations living there. WWF is helping local people to manage and directly benefit from these forest resources. According to the report, groups of community forest users can earn US$4,760 annually. The report further shows that more than 60 per cent of people living around Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, which protects the habitat of the endangered mountain gorilla, feel they benefit economically and socially from the forests. In Namibia, the creation of conservancies, where communities are managing their wildlife resources, has resulted in better wildlife management, increased wildlife populations, ecotourism development and increased profits in community-owned enterprises. In turn, as all community sectors are represented in these enterprises the project is improving local democracy.
read on: wwf
:: Regina O'Numb 3/21/2006 03:20:16 PM [+] ::
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Roxy Music reform with Brian Eno
They´re making a new album - Roxy Music are working on their first album of new material with their original line-up for more than 30 years. The band's last album was 'Avalon' in 1982, but this new effort will be the first to feature Brian Eno since 1973. All five original members of the group - Bryan Ferry, Andy MacKay, Phil Manzanera, Paul Thompson and Eno are involved, reports Ananova. The band, who rose to fame in the early Seventies glam rock era, have been recording with producers Rhett Davies and Chris Thomas although no release date for the album has yet been set. Roxy Music first reunited in 2001, and last year got together for a series of concerts including the Isle Of Wight festival. Eno was not present in the line-up at any of those shows. More concerts are planned for this year in Europe although dates and venues have yet to be confirmed. Ferry quit the band in 1983 to go solo, while Eno went onto release his own acclaimed solo albums and become one of the world's most in-demand producers working with U2, Talking Heads and James among others.
read on: nme
:: Regina O'Numb 3/21/2006 01:34:59 PM [+] ::
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The World's Conscience
The world's ultra-rich are giving to worthy causes more than ever before. Charitable foundations now jump in where governments cut official aid. It can make a huge difference to the needy -- even if the donors' motives are often self-serving. When Paul Hewson drops in on the planet's richest couple, Bill and Melinda Gates, horizons quickly expand as the conversation jumps from one topic to the next. "We don't leave anything out from stand-up comedy to quantum physics," Hewson says...
read whole article on: spiegel
:: Regina O'Numb 3/21/2006 01:30:52 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: Steve Wickham / to CBS / drinking champagne to celebrate the tour's last night!

"October" tour - march 21, 1982. U2 perform in Phoenix, Arizona at Gales Nightclub. U2 fly in to rejoin the "J. Geils Band" on their tour, and end up at Gales to jam with a few local artists.

"War" tour - march 21, 1983. U2 perform in London England at the Hammersmith Odeon. On the first night, violinist Steve Wickham joins U2 for "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "Tomorrow"; Bono tells everyone that they got to know Wickham after Edge met him at a bus-stop in Dublin. The first night has no support act.

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 21, 1985. U2 perform at the Chicago, Illinois at the University of Illinois Pavillion. The first night the concert is covered by CBS for a newspiece on the band. Bono grabs a cameraman and asks him, "Is this CBS news? You want to see some people? You come up here and see these people!" Bono points the cameraman in the direction of the 21,250 people in attendance at the concert. "You see, these people are our people! And this is a big place...but this music and these people are much bigger than this place!" The local affiliate airs the footage the next evening.

"ZOOTV" tour - march 21, 1992. U2 perform in Albany, New York at the Knickerbocker Arena. Bono shakes the fan´s hand, after have reconized a banner, referring to U2´s shows in the venue in 1983. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"POPMat" tour - march 21, 1998. U2 perform the final gig of POPMart in Johannesburg, South Africa. The band fails to meet with South African President Nelson Mandela, who is busy with a long ongoing legal trial. U2 wraps up its 11-month long PopMart world tour with an emotional show in Johannesburg, South Africa. As he did to the people of Sarajevo, Bono tells the South Africans, "To be united - to be 'One' - is a great thing. But to be tolerant, to respect differences maybe even a greater thing." As the mirrorball lemon opens up at the start of the encore, the band is surrounded inside by balloons and streamers, and they're drinking champagne to celebrate the tour's last night. Watch 'POPMart' tour in Johannesburg - March 21, 1998: Mofo // I Will Follow // Gone // Even Better Than The Real Thing // Last Night On Earth // Until The End Of The World // New Year´s Day // Pride // I Still Haven´t Found... // All I Want Is You // Starring At The Sun // Sunday Bloody Sunday // Bullet The Blue Sky // Please // Streets // Lemon-tape mix // Discotheque // Velvet Dress // With Or Without You // HMTMKMKM // Mysterous Ways // One // 40

:: Regina O'Numb 3/21/2006 01:21:22 PM [+] ::
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Let her talk about the things you can't explain. To touch is to heal...


photos from feb 20
Another up moment of the shows. Edge plays 110% again, and his sexy chords in 'Mysterious Ways , are marked in the rock´s history. It´s beautiful see Edge making his solo beside Larry, so beautiful. Bono calls Katilce to jump on stage to dance with him during Mysterious Ways, and you can read the whole story here, in this blog. During the second show on feb 21, the show was much more powerful, this time Bono din´t get a girl, cause she danced during 'The Fly'. Listen to this (so sorry, but this a bad version) version while I don´t get a better one; anyway was fantastic!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/20/2006 07:30:17 PM [+] ::
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May you always have these blessings...A soft breeze when summer comes. A warm fireside in winter. And always the warm, soft smile of a friend.
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'Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory....' psalm 108
:: Regina O'Numb 3/20/2006 07:16:21 PM [+] ::
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Ali 'Hewson' Bono
This is an article about Ali in Spanish language, you can read on: elmundo.es and you can translate the link on: worldlingo
:: Regina O'Numb 3/20/2006 06:03:44 PM [+] ::
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Sign language translators struggle to bring the show to the hard of hearing
It's a weekday matinee of Childsplay's musical 'Bunnicula' in Tempe, and actors Jon Gentry and Debra Stevens are romping around the living room set in vibrant dog and cat costumes. Half-illuminated, standing stage right, Judy Robbins and Sam (just Sam) follow along with their fingers, their arms, their mouths noiselessly echoing lines of dialogue....Rates, Robbins adds, haven't changed in the 14 years she's been in the Valley, which could be one reason there are just a handful - so to speak - of sign interpreters who accept performance jobs. (Theater isn't the only signable art: Robbins has interpreted live concerts by rock acts U2 and Melissa Etheridge.) And the Valley's small pool of theatrical sign interpreters isn't very well-organized....'The actual English in American Sign Language,' Robbins says with a laugh, 'doesn't always have the same flavor'.
read on: eastvalleytribune

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In the 'City Of Blinding Lights'...
'...The more you see, the less you know / The less you find out as you go / I knew much more then, than I do now...' Bono wrote this lyric because of an experience he had at a friend's photography show. The friend ushered Bono into a room displaying large pictures of U2 taken twenty years earlier. Bono didn't know that the photos were going to be exhibited and was shocked to see a picture of himself climbing into a helicopter. He remembered the day (it was his first time in a helicopter) and remembered the feelings of the strange young man he was now looking at: excitement, naivete, energy and idealism.
read whole article on: timneufeld
:: Regina O'Numb 3/20/2006 05:57:19 PM [+] ::
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Joseph
Look for what was my good Joseph / To falling in love for the maiden / Amongst all most beautiful / Of all his Galiléia / To marry Débora or Sara / My good Joseph, you could / And nothing of this happened / But you loved Maria / You could simply / To be carpenter and to work / Without never having that to exile / And hiding with Maria / And your craft to teach / As your father always made / Why it will be, my good Joseph / That this your poor son one day / Walked with strange ideas / That had made to cry Maria / I remember of you sometimes / My good Joseph, my poor friend / That of this life just wanted / To be happy with his Maria - by G. Moustaki. - version by Nara Leão (In Brazilian Portuguese: Olhe o que foi meu bom José / Se apaixonar pela donzela / Dentre todas a mais bela / De todas sua Galiléia / Casar com Débora ou com Sara / Meu bom José, você podia / E nada disso acontecia / Mas você foi amar Maria / Você podia simplesmente / Ser carpinteiro e trabalhar / Sem nunca ter que se exilar / De se esconder com Maria / E teu ofício ensinar / Como teu pai sempre fazia / Por que será, meu bom José / Que este teu pobre filho um dia / Andou com estranhas idéias / Que fizeram chorar Maria / Me lembro às vezes de você / Meu bom José, meu pobre amigo / Que dessa vida só queria / Ser feliz com sua Maria) **** As, yesterday was a day of Saint Joseph, I post today an old song recorded in the end of the 60's here in Brazil, by a group called Mutantes (you can hear this song here). This group had courage to play electric guitar during the sambas and typical Brazilians songs in the 60 and 70's. Listen to Os Mutantes and Gilberto Gil during a song called 'Domingo No Parque' and during 'Minha Menina' a typical samba from the 60's. Read more about them here
This song 'My Good Joseph' had the version writen under the Miliatry Dictatorship, so it´s a metaphor of the things which were happening in Brazil.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/20/2006 03:19:53 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: farewell gig to Dik Evans / Larry sings a verse of "Angel Of Harlem".

"Early Ireland" - march 20, 1978. At the suggestion of Steve Averill, lead singer with seminal Irish band "The Radiators From Space", "The Hype" changed their name to "U2". Dik Evans leaves the band following a farewell gig at Howth Community Centre, in the middle of the show. The remaining four members finish the concert under the new name "U2". As Adam would later recall, "It's perfect. You don't know what it means, but it sticks with you." Dik Evans later would join the Virgin Prunes.

"Boy" tour - march 20, 1981. U2 perform in San Francisco, California at The Old Waldorf. Again, U2 performs in front of a sell-out crowd(1200). Support is "Romeo Void".

"October" tour - march 20, 1982. U2 perform in Providence, Rhode Island at the Brown University/Alumnae Hall.

"War" tour - march 20, 1983. U2 perform in Derby, England at the Assembly Rooms. Last night of support from "The Nightcaps".

"ZOOTV" tour - march 20, 1992. U2 perform in New York, New York at Madison Square Garden. The 18,000 tickets for this show sell out in under ten minutes. Again, Larry sings a verse of "Angel of Harlem", but does not perform "Dirty Old Town" on this night. Bono reveals U2's intentions to mount a larger stadium tour in the fall: "Maybe we should come back here at the end of the summer. In fact, we are coming back at the end of the summer!" Bono also comments on the US elections coming up in 8 months, "If you don't get the right President, we're all f---ed!" Images of Phil Joanou's wedding are flashed on the screen during "Desire". He and his new wife, Katie, had been married in Las Vegas the day before. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

McGuinness addresses rumors - march 20, 2002. With rumors continuing to fly after U2's recent cancellation of a summer tour, manager Paul McGuinness releases a brief statement on U2.com, the band's official web site, about the band's plans for 2002: "U2 would like to clarify that, contrary to certain speculation in the press, they will be neither touring Europe this summer, nor splitting up.' said the statement. 'Instead, they are spending time in the studio working on new material for a possible release later this year."

:: Regina O'Numb 3/20/2006 02:59:34 PM [+] ::
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There's a lot of things if I could I'd rearrange

photo from feb 21
I think this moment, on feb 21, was fabulous. This lucky girl was dancing beside Edge 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... Edge 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 Edge during his solo, and both of them were growing and everything exploded with Larry´s punch-drummer-bomb on the final. My reverence for Edge. My congratulations to the lucky U2´s fan. She did a great job, and Edge are fantastic. My dreams come true during 'The Fly'...I saw Edge´s metal portion! Bono sung a bit of David Bowie´s Jean Genie before The Fly, with him playing his guitar, alone...
:: Regina O'Numb 3/19/2006 07:30:48 PM [+] ::
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May the good saints protect you.
And bless you today.
And may troubles ignore you.
Each step of the way
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"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?... psalm 27
:: Regina O'Numb 3/19/2006 07:30:23 PM [+] ::
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Welcome to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), due to kick-off next week in Brazil.
'a little less conversation, a little more action.'Elvis had it right in 1968 when he sang the line, 'a little less conversation, a little more action.' Welcome to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), due to kick-off next week in Brazil. In the 14 years since it began at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the achievements of the CBD have been few. Every word, every comma, every full stop has to be negotiated, debated and then renegotiated by over 180 countries. In 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainability Development in South Africa, the world promised to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010 on land and 2012 in the ocean. Yet here we are in 2006, just 4 years away from that deadline, and they haven't even started the 'Programme of Work', the main vehicle for the creation of a global network of protected areas Unfortunately, the world's plants and animals are running out of time. If reducing the rate of biodiversity loss was their promise in 2002, then 2006 is a wake up call with life on the planet continuing to be consigned to the history books. Extinctions are now running at 1,000 times normal levels and will increase up to 10,000 times normal levels by 2050 if urgent action is not taken. Whilst the delegates at the CBD slowly negotiate, we are working to stop biodiversity loss right now. Our ship the 'Esperanza' is in the Atlantic working to expose the pirate fishing fleets that operate without sanction across the world's oceans. Teams of activists are also working in the heart of the Amazon to stop the rainforest being destroyed to grow agricultural products, such as soya. On the other side of the planet, volunteers from around the world are protecting the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. Working from the Global Forest Rescue Station, they are helping traditional landowners and eco-forestry experts establish the rights of traditional landowners.
read on:greenpeace
*Activists unfurled a banner from the famous Christ statue in Rio de Janeiro to call on governments to protect global biodiversity. Representatives from 188 countries are taking part of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) in Curitiba, Brazil, to discuss the protection of biodiversity.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/19/2006 07:23:56 PM [+] ::
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Look for Bono
Madame Tussaud's statue of Bono (in New Yrok) on: bestweekever and here
:: Regina O'Numb 3/19/2006 06:05:25 PM [+] ::
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In Argentina, U2 is nominated for...
Best International Video ('Vertigo') / Best International Show ('U2 in River Plate stadium') / Best International Group / Best International Album (Achtung Baby).
read on: cordoba
:: Regina O'Numb 3/19/2006 06:05:07 PM [+] ::
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Watch 'Desire'
VH1 logo
:: Regina O'Numb 3/19/2006 06:04:45 PM [+] ::
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THE STEPS
You do not go down the steps of the dream. Not to awake the monsters. You do not go up to the attics - where gods for backwards of their masks, occult the proper enigma. You do not go down, you do not go up, stay. The mystery is in your life! And is a wild dream this our world. by Mario Quintana

If I was a priest
If I was a priest, in my sermons, I would not speak in God nor in the sin - much less in the rebelled angel and the enchantments of his seductions. I would not cite saints and prophets: nothing of its celestial promises or its terrible curses...If I was a priest I would cite the poets, I would pray their verses, most beautiful, that since the infancy had packed me and 'who gives me' that some were mine! Because the poetry make pure the soul... to a beautiful poem - still that God Aside - a beautiful poem always takes the God! by Mario Quintana
:: Regina O'Numb 3/19/2006 05:57:04 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: in a way to the first deal / Break On Through / what "Bad" is really about / Bono and Edge graze lambs in Dublin / Bono inducts Blackwell!

"Sense Of Ireland Festival" - march 19, 1980. U2 share the bill with "Berlin" and "The Virgin Prunes" on the third night of the Sense of Ireland Festival in the Acklam Hall in London. Many record company executives are present at the gig and four days later U2 sign a major international recording deal with Island Records, rumor has it, the things were decided in the ladies toilet of London's Acklam Hall/Lyceum. The deal guarantees U2 50,000 pounds up front, four albums, and a further 50,000 pounds to fund an international tour. Chris Blackwell bets his A&R man, Bill Stewart, 100-1 that U2 will have a #1 record within 3 years. Chris Blackwell wins the bet.

"Boy" tour - march 19, 1981. U2 perform in San Francisco, California at The Old Waldorf. Again, U2 performs in front of a sell-out crowd(1200). Support is "Romeo Void".

"October" tour - march 19, 1982. U2 perform in Garden City, New York at the Nassau Country Community College Ballroom.

"War" tour - march 19, 1983. U2 perform in Manchester, England at the Apollo Theater. Lines from The Doors´ Break On Through pop up in "Electric.Co".Support is "The Nightcaps".

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 19, 1985. U2 perform in Minneapolis, Minnesota at Frank Bell Auditorium. Bono reveals what the song "Bad" is really about: "This song is written about a friend of min, somebody who meant a great deal to me, somebody I used to play football with, just spent a lot of time with. He was much younger than me. I joined this band and he didn't join very much at all. In fact on his 21st birthday his girlfriend gave him enough heroin to kill him. This song is written for him, it's written for any of you also...This song is 'Bad'". Support is "Red Rockers".

"Freemen Bono and Edge graze sheep in St. Stephen's Green" - march 19, 2000. Taking advantage of their newfound Freedom of Dublin, Bono and Edge graze lambs in Dublin's St. Stephen's Green. Alerted in advance of the photo opportunity, Irish media flock (no pun intended) to the Green to capture the moment. Grazing sheep on the Green is one of the many unique privileges afforded to Freemen of Dublin. Edge called his "My Little Lamb" and Bono revealed that his was called "Michael Jackson", "cause he is Baaaad."

"Bono inducts Blackwell into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" - march 19, 2001. Bono inducts Island Records founder Chris Blackwell into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/19/2006 04:06:35 PM [+] ::
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There was a time, exactly on march 19...and she lost her boy-friend (so cute) and her job, cause a disease in her health. She was a glad girl, but anything rare and dangerous was near her and attacked her, seven yeas ago. She was a U2´s fan. In 2000, while U2 was in Rio she was at the hospital, but at least anything from her for Edge was handed over him and he keeps it at his jacket´s pocket. Her battle continues and she keeps rocking when she got the tickets to see both U2´s shows in Sao Paulo. She was in both, not in hot area, of course (poor girl, cried a lot for this one...she didn´t see Edge´s eyes this time), but she was seating at numbered red seats (cadeiras cativas) beside Edge´s side on stage and was so glad again, just looking for, soooo distant, her favorite band, since their early days, I think she is one of the oldest Brazilians fans of U2. Her eyes shine again as happened in 1998, when her brown eyes met some fantastics green eyes. U2 were distant this time, but she gave them a big hug! She loves U2! And U2 love all the fans! Grace of God, she´s into this hot area (this hot area=U2 love all the fans: near them and distant them, this is called an unconditional love)!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/19/2006 03:56:52 PM [+] ::
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Time is a train and transform the future in the past

photo from feb 21
Edge´s guitar making power, after noises from the screen as Ronaldo and 6? / Lula and Bush. How is sensational see U2 playing 'Zoo Station'...as I didn´t see ZOOTV live. "...Ready for what's next...I'm glad to be alive / I'm ready / Ready for the push...Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright / It's alright... it's alright... it's alright... it's alright / Hey baby... hey baby... hey baby... hey baby.../ It's alright / It's alright..."..the video from feb 20 shows for itself the atmosphere, and on feb 21 was much better (not this audio from a fan which is terrible, but it´s just to mark it, in time here there´s a good version).
:: Regina O'Numb 3/18/2006 09:03:03 PM [+] ::
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Walls for the wins!
And a roof for the rain,
And drinks by the fire.
Laughter to cheer you,
And those you love near you
And all that your heart may desire!
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'...Be my brother / Brother...'
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'...God is my shield, who saves the upright in heart....' psalm 7
:: Regina O'Numb 3/18/2006 09:00:55 PM [+] ::
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Dublin Boys Top of Pops!
The Evening Press, March 20, 1978 - Four Dublin schoolboys carried off the top prize at the Limerick Civic Week Pop '78 Competition on Saturday night. Sponsored by The Evening Press and Harp Lager Guinness, the competition was to find the most talented and entertaining pop group or showband. The Dublin boys who attend Mount Temple Comprehensive, and are known as U2 Malahide, headed 36 groups from all over the country and won for themselves £500, plus a trophy. In second place was Rockster, also from Dublin, and the Limerick group Village were third. The only all-girl group in the contest, Harmony, from Tallaght, Co. Dublin, who got an enthusiastic reception, were unplaced. The other finalists were East Coast Angels, Dublin, Graffiti, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin, Dragster, Charleville, Co. Cork and Doves, Athenry, Co. Galway. The adjudicators were Billy Wall, Head of Light Entertainment, RTE, Jackie Hayden, CBS Records, who will select one of the groups for a recording test, Paul O'Brien, President, Junior Chamber, Limerick and Disc Jockey Mike "Rave" McNamara. The Mayor of Limerick, Cllr. Frank Prendergast, presented the trophy to the winners, and the cheque for £500 was presented by Mr. Colm Clarke, Limerick area representative for Guinness. Mr. Harry Roycroft, also of Guinness, presented the trophy for the runners-up, and Mr. Alan Maxwell, Sales Promotion Executive in Irish Press Ltd., presented the trophy to the third placed group. Co-ordinator of the event was Mr. Eamon Walkin of Limerick Junior Chamber. The Mayor, Cllr. Prendergast, said it was the ambition of the Civic Week Committee to cater for as many tastes as possible throughout the week in the city and all competitions were very successful. He thanked The Evening Press and Guinness for their sponsorship and CBS Records who "definitely had some groups in mind for recording." Mr. Colm Clarke of Guinness and Mr. Alan Maxwell for The Evening Press replied. Mr. Maxwell said Civic Week was a tremendous effort. Mr. Jackie Hayden from CBS, a spokesman for the jury, said the standard was a credit to the musicianship. "U2 Malahide," the winning group, was made up of 16-year old Larry Mullen, of Rosemount Ave., Artane, an Intermediate Cert. Student at Mount Temple, Dave Evans (16), of St. Margaret's Park, Malahide, Adam Clayton (17), of Ard na Mara, Malahide, a Leaving Cert. student, and Paul Hewson (17), of Cedarwood Rd., Ballymun, who is also doing his Leaving Cert. The group are just a year together and progressed from country music to "doing our own stuff." Paul Hewson said: "This means we can solve our money problems in a big way, particularly with regard to equipment. Now we hope to be able to buy a van." The boys had to promote themselves. "No one in Dublin was interested in us and we came down here as a last resort," said Adam Clayton, group leader. All the boys had praise for their school, which encouraged them, and gave them facilities to practise. In particular, they appreciated the help of Mr. Donald Moxham, History Teacher, and Mr. Albert Bradshaw, Music Teacher, at the school. They appeared on RTE three weeks ago and they came to Limerick with the financial help of their parents -- the trip cost them £60 -- and the support of their fans who travelled with the group to see them triumph.
© The Evening Press, 1978. All rights reserved.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/18/2006 04:30:57 PM [+] ::
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The poems
The poems are birds that arrive, it isn't known from where and they settle in the book that you read. When you close the book, they flight as to go out off a trapdoor. They don't have landing nor port, they feed one instant in each pair of hands and leave. And look for these your empty hands, in the wonderful astonishment to know that the food of them just was in you...by Mario Quintana

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The true art to travel
We always must leave to the street as who runs away from house. As all the ways of the world had opened for us. It does not matter that the commitments, the obligations, are there... We arrive from so far, open soul and the heart singing! by Mario Quintana

*(so sorry for my bad and poor English)


:: Regina O'Numb 3/18/2006 04:27:24 PM [+] ::
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Nothing compares to U2!
10.000 people for each show: one last wednesday with Oasis and other yesterday with Santana...really nothing, but nothing in this world compares to U2, with total respect to Oasis and Santana. U2 has the best musicians, as professional guys, as a world citizens, U2 has the best team in all the senses....U2´s shows are priceless...God Bless U2!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/18/2006 03:40:45 PM [+] ::
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Sao Paulo 2
on joeahorro, click on 'site of blinding lights

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HQ Studios 16-11-2004
By BBC Radio - 01 - Vertigo / 02 - All Because Of You / 03 - Miracle Drug / 04 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
/ 5 - Beautiful day - on: savefile

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TV GaGa - jan 30, 1986
here
:: Regina O'Numb 3/18/2006 01:11:09 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: four encores / Edge´s beard / in Leeds to "The Tube" / in the next day they married / The first time of "The Sweetest Thing" during Freedom of Dublin!

"Boy" tour - march 18, 1981. U2 perform in San Jose, California at the State College Auditorium. The doormen don't keep track of attendance, and it is rumoured that the crowd approached 2000 people, in a building meant to hold 1000. U2 return for four encores, and as Howie Klein wrote in a local newspaper, "I just remember getting the distinct impression that if they hadn't called it off, the audience would have probably gotten them to do the whole set over again." Support is "Romeo Void"

"October" tour - march 18, 1982. U2 perform in New York City, New York at The Ritz. Another two sell-outs at The Ritz. The second night, Bono remarks of the change in The Edge's appearance, "[his] mother doesn't even remember what he looks like. He's even grown a beard! I'm all against facial hair myself!" U2 encore with Garland Jeffreys.

"War" tour - march 18, 1983. U2 perform in Leeds, England at the University. Support is 'The Nightcaps". The British music show "The Tube" airs 3 of the 5 songs filmed two days previous: "Gloria", "New Year's Day", "Sunday Bloody Sunday".

"ZOOTV" tour - march 18, 1992. U2 perform in East Rutherford, New Jersey at the Meadowlands Arena. One of the strangest incidents of the tour occurs on this night: Phil Joanou attends the show with a woman named Katie. Bono sings before "With Or Without You", "Let's go to Vegas, let's get married, for a while..." Inspired, Phil and Katie fly to Las Vegas the next day and get married. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"U2 and Paul McGuinness accept Freedom of Dublin" - march 18, 2002. U2 and Paul McGuinness receive the Freedom of Dublin honor during a ceremony at Smithfield Civic Plaza in Dublin. "I'd have thought people would be sick of U2 by now," Bono tells the thousands in attendance. "It's still moving to come home and see the amount of goodwill toward us." After the ceremony, U2 performs a 4-song set which includes "All I Want Is You," "Desire", "The Sweetest Thing", and "One." It is the first time the band has performed "The Sweetest Thing" live. Guitarist The Edge promised that, if called upon by Dublin city militia to guard and protect the city, he could be counted on to respond.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/18/2006 01:10:11 PM [+] ::
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One love!

photo from feb 20
One on screen and Edge brings the wonder coloured Music Rising guitar to Brazil, to play 'One' on feb 20. And he wore the Music Rising shirt in Bahia, just after Grammy´s night. It´s a honor for us. Edge playing the refreshing chords during 'One on feb 20' makes me cry. The cell-phones are wonder in all the senses. 'Como um' = "As one"; poor and rich, from the left and the right, as in carnival. Edge is a magic, his wisdom is a balsam. On feb21, this sound here (from a fan) is terrible, but the show was fantastic
:: Regina O'Numb 3/17/2006 09:25:58 PM [+] ::
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May you always have these blessings.
A soft breeze when summer comes.
A warm fireside in winter.
And always the warm, soft smile of a friend.
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'...She got soul, soul, soul, sweet soul / And she teach me how to sing. / Shows me colours when there's none to see / Gives me hope when I can't believe / That for the first time I feel love....'
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'...Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart....' psalm 97

:: Regina O'Numb 3/17/2006 09:19:49 PM [+] ::
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HAPPY ST PATRICK´S DAY

May St Patrick guard you wherever
You go and guide you in
Whatever you do - and may his loving
Protection be a a blessing to you always
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Watch a boy band celebrating St Patrick´s Day!
U2´s celebrating, of course, here
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Whiskey In The Jar
As I was going over the far famed Kerry mountains
I met with captain Farrell and his money he was counting.
I first produced my pistol, and then produced my rapier.
Said stand and deliver, for I am a bold deceiver,

musha ring dumma do damma da
whack for the daddy 'ol
whack for the daddy 'ol
there's whiskey in the jar

I counted out his money, and it made a pretty penny.
I put it in my pocket and I took it home to Jenny.
She said and she swore, that she never would deceive me,
but the devil take the women, for they never can be easy

I went into my chamber, all for to take a slumber,
I dreamt of gold and jewels and for sure it was no wonder.
But Jenny took my charges and she filled them up with water,
Then sent for captain Farrel to be ready for the slaughter.

It was early in the morning, as I rose up for travel,
The guards were all around me and likewise captain Farrel.
I first produced my pistol, for she stole away my rapier,
But I couldn't shoot the water so a prisoner I was taken.

If anyone can aid me, it's my brother in the army,
If I can find his station down in Cork or in Killarney.
And if he'll come and save me, we'll go roving near Kilkenny,
And I swear he'll treat me better than me darling sportling Jenny

Now some men take delight in the drinking and the roving,
But others take delight in the gambling and the smoking.
But I take delight in the juice of the barley,
And courting pretty fair maids in the morning bright and early
hear Edge in his legendary karaoke moment in 1997 singing 'Whiskey In the Jar
:: Regina O'Numb 3/17/2006 09:19:25 PM [+] ::
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Don't Come Knocking, US Premiere
Wim Wenders' Don't Come Knocking, featuring Edge and Bono on the soundtrack, opens in the US today. Last year, despite the small matter of being in the middle of a world tour, Bono and Edge took up an invitation from longtime friend Wim Wenders to write the title track for his latest film Don't Come Knocking. The film, a western starring Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange and Tim Roth, won rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival and today opens in Los Angeles and New York. With Edge on guitar and Bono - joined by Andrea Corr - on vocals, the track was produced by Garret Lee in a hotel in Amsterdam when the band were playing the city last summer. It was a close call according to Wim, who said that Bono and Edge had been planning to write a title track for the film but the pressures of the touring schedule nearly made it impossible. 'Our deadline was coming closer and closer and it was a very simple one. When we had to start making release prints, it would be too late. I kept that date open as long as possible and never gave up the hope that things would work out in the last minute. And they did! Literally in that last minute the song came in!' But it was worth the wait, he says. 'I got goose pimples when we first heard it and saw it with the picture. It has heartbreaking lyrics and the duet with Bono and Andrea Corr is stunning... I can't wait for you to all hear it!' Listen to a clip of Don't Come Knocking here (on the site). We'll be talking more to Wim about the film and his friendship with U2 in the coming days, meantime check out the official Don't Come Knocking site here. and catch a trailer of the film here.
read on: U2.com
:: Regina O'Numb 3/17/2006 09:19:02 PM [+] ::
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Bono's speaking tour will bring him to Dallas - "There is nobody like him"
Rocker scheduled to discuss global AIDS, poverty at May 5 event - Bono is making a surprise return to Dallas. But the U2 frontman is bringing a message ¿ not his music ¿ to town. Bono, a Nobel Prize nominee, has been credited with helping persuade the U.S. to increase funding to fight AIDS in Africa. The World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth today will unveil plans for "Bono Speaks Live." The Irish rocker is scheduled to appear May 5 at Dallas' Fair Park Music Hall to discuss the fight against global AIDS and poverty in Africa. Bono, one of rock's most celebrated superstars, has increasingly turned his attention to humanitarian efforts. Now, the Grammy winner divides his time between meetings with world leaders and world tours with his band. He co-founded DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) to raise awareness of the crises in Africa and to pressure wealthy governments to help. And while plenty of celebrities have taken on causes, Bono has proved to be an informed and effective lobbyist. He has impressed politicians with his knowledge of arcane congressional procedures and has reached out to leaders across the political spectrum. He has won praise from President Bush and has traveled to Africa with then-Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. "He's obviously someone who is not just doing this on a whim. It's a deep, deep commitment," said Jim Falk, president of the World Affairs Council. "Leaders recognize that this is a man who has done his homework and truly is committed." Bono, a Nobel Prize nominee and former Time magazine Person of the Year, has been credited with helping to persuade Mr. Bush to increase funding to fight AIDS in Africa. Mr. Falk said he made it his goal to bring Bono to North Texas after reading his writing on poverty. But initially, the World Affairs Council's invitation was rejected. "He gets thousands of requests," Mr. Falk said. "The first few tries, they said no. We kept persevering." Several months later, Bono agreed to speak in Dallas. "Texas is important politically," Mr. Falk said. "He wants to reach a diverse and strong audience." On Sunday, tickets will be made available to members of the World Affairs Council, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that educates citizens on international affairs and foreign policy. Tickets will go on sale to the public March 26. Mr. Falk said that while his organization has brought many compelling speakers to the area, Bono's speech would be special. "He is a singular celebrity," Mr. Falk said. "There is nobody like him."
read on: dallas

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Watch Bono - Global Call to Action against Poverty in Brazil
Here it´s named as Chamada Global Para a Açao Contra a Pobreza; you can check it out on: chamadacontrapobreza. Watch here
*thank you so much Rose (Brilledesoleil) - rose.porto@uol.com.br

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Watch
LoveTown tour documentary and Out Side It´s America documentary

:: Regina O'Numb 3/17/2006 09:18:33 PM [+] ::
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A reader
From the out off to inside of the book: strategies to tangle the reader in history. Basicly, when intending to teach the reading, it is to convoke the man to take his word. To have the word is, before everything, to equip themselves to become less undecipher. To read is to take care of yourself, breaching with the gratings of the isolation. To read is to run away itself with the other, without however losing themselves in the some faces of the word. To read is to enchant itself with the differences. To teach and to learn the reading: people learn and teach all the time that, we find them with the diversity of texts that exist or -- as professours -- when promoting the "hug" of the child with the texts.
*(so sorry for bad and poor English language)


:: Regina O'Numb 3/17/2006 08:46:56 PM [+] ::
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The Amex chief providing backing for Bono
American Express is part of a quartet of companies supporting the U2 singer's Aids in Africa campaign - When Bono walked into the head office of American Express 18 months ago, the company practically laid out the red carpet. The campaigning rock star had something that one of the world's biggest financial services groups was very much looking for: a way of reaching the growing band of so-called "conscience consumers". This month, Amex launched its RED card, part of an initiative in which consumer companies are backing Bono's Global Fund, which helps women and children affected by HIV and Aids in Africa. Amex's contribution is to donate 1% of all spending on the card to the charity. The woman charged with making sure the launch of the card in Britain is a success - with the plan then to roll it out globally - is Laurel Powers-Freeling, the American head of Amex's UK consumer card business. ...PRODUCT) red - as the initiative likes to be known - offers something potentially far more valuable than a large target market: the chance to become worthy by association....The principle of paying more - or at least doing without Air Miles or loyalty bonuses - to feel good about yourself is not new. Amex estimates there are already 1.5 million "conscience consumers" in the UK, people who buy products associated with a social or ethical benefit, be it Fairtrade coffee or organic bananas. This is expected to swell to 3.9 million within three years....Cool and sexy - To reach these people, Amex has decided to change the way it markets itself for its new scarlet-hued card....The involvement of U2's lead singer is a key part of the company's aim to be "cool and sexy", terms not normally associated with a piece of plastic. More than a month after the launch of RED at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, the head of Amex UK is still singing the rock star's praises. "Bono said this beautiful thing in Davos. He said that this card - he was holding it up - is not about what you have, it's about who you are." ...
read whole article on: guardian
:: Regina O'Numb 3/17/2006 01:05:37 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: U2 win Limerick Talent Contest / the last time of "A Celebration" / U2 pulls out of the parade / WZLX announces a contest / Edge and Bono at Eamonn Doran's pub for the filming of Chris Evan's TFI Friday / U2 adds a Jacknife in the studio!

"Early Ireland" - march 17, 1978. On St. Patrick's Day, and after having already played one gig earlier in the evening, U2 win 500 Pounds and some studio time at a Limerick talent contest sponsored by Harp Lager, Evening Press and CBS Records. Jackie Hayden of CBS Ireland, and later of Hot Press, is amongst the judges.

"October" tour - march 17, 1982. U2 perform in New York City, New York at The Ritz. Another two sell-outs at The Ritz. Originally, U2 were to be part of the famous St. Patrick's Day Parade on the 17th. However, shortly before the parade, IRA member Bobby Sands dies as a result of his hunger strike. Parade organizers want to dedicate the parade to Sands' memory and U2 pulls out of the parade, unwilling to take part in a political celebration. Photographer Lynn Goldsmith takes pictures of them, but they weren´t invited. The two shows at The Ritz are organized quickly and sell out quickly. U2 encore with Garland Jeffreys.

"War" tour - march 17, 1983. U2 perform in Sheffield, England at the City Hall. "A Celebration" is performed for the last time during this concert. Support is "The Nightcaps".

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour -march 17, 1985. U2 perform in Denver, Colorado at McNichols Sports Arena. U2 perform an another St. Patrick's Day in the US. Adam Clayton is interviewed by the Denver Post. That night, Bono recalls the Red Rocks concert of June 5, 1983: "Well, I noticed it's not raining in here this time. When we played Red Rocks, I'll always remember that rain, that was the sunniest rain I ever felt." U2 also thanks concert promoter Berry Fey, who booked U2 at Red Rocks. Support is "Red Rockers".

"ZOOTV" tour - march 17, 1992. U2 perform in Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston Gardens. Yet another St. Patrick's Day in the US--this time in the heart of Irish America, Boston where 20% of the inhabitants are of Irish decent. Local radio station WZLX announces a contest to give 25 pairs of tickets away to the people wearing the most original costumes or carrying the most original banners. Adam and Larry are seen throughout the city, and in one pub stop to play with a band playing U2 cover tunes. During "Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World", Bono sings, "I dreamed I saw St. Patrick, played and scored a hat trick, and Larry Bird was throwing his arms around the world..." Christina Petro, the belly-dancer who made her debut in Miami rejoins the show. "Angel of Harlem" is dedicated to Billie Holiday, and Larry sings a verse of the song. "One more from Larry Mullen, ladies and gentlemen...tonight for the first time ever!" Bono applauds after the song. Larry also sings "Dirty Old Town" with The Edge and Bono accompanying on guitar. The Edge performs "Van Diemen's Land" for the first time on the ZooTV tour. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"Edge and Bono" - march 17, 2000. Bono and The Edge at Eamonn Doran's pub for the filming of Chris Evan's TFI Friday. The British chat-show came to Dublin for a special St. Patrick's Day broadcast. They performed "The Ground Beneath Her Feet."

"U2 adds a Jacknife in the studio" - march 17, 2004. London's XFM reports today that remix DJ Jacknife Lee has joined U2 in the recording studio.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/17/2006 12:47:20 PM [+] ::
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And when I go there / I go there with you / It's all I can do

photo from feb 20, 2006.
'Vamos la Brasil' = 'Go there Brazil', says Bono at the start of 'Streets' on feb 20, Edge jumping is great, after Bono kisses Adam. Simply on feb 21, the crowd sung lounder than Bono, this song. I almost jumped as Edge, almost...in time: still today I cry when I watch this show...was magic; another magic occurred in Sao Paulo. This time, I think, higher than 1998. I wish God Doubles this positive energy to U2!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/16/2006 08:01:14 PM [+] ::
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May there always be work for your hands to do.
May your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane.
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
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"...Well if you dream then dream out loud, always / Eternally yours, always / ... / Wait for me I'm running late, always / This is the moment that we share for always / Turning slowly into a prayer, always / Now and forever / For always"
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Judge me, Oh Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide....My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the Lord" - psalm 26
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"The amount of clutter of a system is represented by its entropy: the more organized the system, minor its entropy. This growth of entropy is another expression of the second law of the thermodynamics: in an isolated system (that not exchange energy and information)...It seems to solve a chaos, an entropy, only is possible when a local decrease of the entropy exists, a local increase of the order..."...so, the things, maybe are in disorder, but with the increase of energy (love power) and information (knowledge:science-medicine) the order will be back and the things will be fine...I´m sure...
fragments from a work of Marcelo Gleiser - Hanover / USA

:: Regina O'Numb 3/16/2006 07:08:10 PM [+] ::
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"Ireland is probably the most musical country on Earth," said Edge Music clubs are going green - "Ireland is probably the most musical country on Earth," U2 guitarist The Edge said a couple of years back. And since New York becomes Ireland for a day every year - and that day is tomorrow - that means a city that's already pretty musical itself becomes a little more so. The St. Patrick's lineup goes beyond rousing renditions of "Danny Boy" or "Whiskey in the Jar," which are certain to be performed even at pubs that aren't selling green beer by the barrel. It means the full range of Irish music, from ethereal tenor ballads to the rowdiest sort of sing-along laments about the condition of Ireland and the world. A couple of the more popular shows are already sold out. The Pogues, for instance, have reunited for their first city shows in 15 years, but unless you either know someone very important or are willing to pay a scalper a lot of money, don't bother even walking past the Nokia Theater, where they're performing tonight through Sunday. Don't despair. There are still loads of acts that will whet your pennywhistle on St. Patrick's Day:...
read whole article on: nydailynews
:: Regina O'Numb 3/16/2006 04:01:47 PM [+] ::
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Bono thanks Kiwi fans for patience; he was on his way home to Ireland
U2 singer Bono has apologised and thanked his New Zealand fans for their patience after the shock news New Zealand concerts of the Vertigo tour were off. In return, he has promised "amazing shows" when they return in November for the rescheduled concerts, for which exact dates are still to be set. The band had to cancel the final 10 concerts of the tour last week because of serious illness of a family member of one of the band, disappointing fans in Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Japan. In an interview with the Rock radio station, Bono said again that the band hoped to be back in Australia and New Zealand in November. "Thanks so much for your patience out there," he said, speaking on his way to Sydney airport to catch a flight home. Bono said he could not go into details about the reasons for the cancellation, but he expected the end of year concerts would be all the better for the break. On ABC's Enough Rope show in Australia on Monday night, he said: "Oh yeah, because it will be the only time we get a chance to play these songs for a long time. It will be extraordinary and the member of the band whose life has been turned upside down by this recent news, he will be on fire as opposed to having a cloud hanging over them. "They'll be amazing shows." He said the band had only pulled out of a tour once before. "It's only happened once before and oddly enough it was in Sydney in Australia in the late 80s, we had to postpone three dates. It makes you feel ill. For those who have to travel and change travel arrangements we're really, really deeply sorry." He told the Rock some of the crew travelling with the band were still going to New Zealand for a break in the South Island, but he was on his way home to Ireland. He said it had been a "mad, mad, mad year" with the Vertigo tour combined with U2's success in the Grammies. He would spend the unscheduled break writing, playing the piano and guitar and playing with his children.
read on: nzherald
:: Regina O'Numb 3/16/2006 04:01:13 PM [+] ::
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Everything finishes well
The gender novel has an advantage on the romance: the agility that, many times, substitutes soundings and ramifications in the interior of their personages. Such is the case of the history of Nelly Galassi Rock: one is about the meeting and adventures of the Marcelo boy and the Malandrinho monkey that, leaving the house of the grandmother and the forest behind (backwards), live days of challenges and applauses under the canvas of a circus. The text tells the necessity to follow trip in front as the only and possible way for the return, it´s only to affirming for us that we have the freedom of choice between to stay or to go out off, and it seems to have been written in a time where the authors did not withhold their imagination with environment or to be politically corrected. After all, after trainned, as the small monkey could survive in the old habitat, or as, after captivated for the great circus family, the now-adolescent could find work that left him satisfied in the old small city? But the things arrange itself to the wonders, as it could not leave of being: that everything finishes well, when finishes (in a very very positive way). from 'A History Of Circus And Freedom' by Nelly Galassi Rock
*so sorry for my bad and poor English language

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A video of U2 in Brazil
here
:: Regina O'Numb 3/16/2006 03:42:00 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: The Hype / only 12 people / in New Castle for "The Tube" / "Springhill Mining Disaster" / a show for Entropy!

"Early Ireland" - march 16, 1978. "The Hype" perform in Dublin, Ireland at the Project Arts Centre, headlining the St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Festivities go on until deep in the night.

"Boy" tour - march 16, 1981. U2 perform Anaheim, California at Woodstock. U2 play in front of 12 people as the second date in the Los Angeles area is not well advertised.

"October" tour - march 16, 1982. U2 perform in Amherst, Massachusetts at the University of Massachusetts Bowker Auditorium.

"War" tour - march 16, 1983. U2 perform in Newcastle, England at Tyne Tees TV Studios. Five songs are performed, "Gloria", "New Year's Day", "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "40" and "I Will Follow". The crowd consists of U2's fan club members from around the Newcastle area. The session is filmed for British music show "The Tube". The only song not to air is "40", the first three are shown two days later, and "I Will Follow" airs June 24, 1983.

"U2 perform on RTE-TV in Ireland on "The Late Late Show" - march 16, 1987. The show is a special on the 25th anniversay of the Irish folk act "The Dubliners". U2 perform "Springhill Mining Disaster" with a delicate intro by Edge, a song of lament about the trapped miners at the Cumberland mine disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada. U2 join "The Dubliners" and "The Pogues" for a finale.

"POPMart" tour - march 16, 1998. U2 perform in in Cape Town, South Africa at Green Point Stadium. U2 plays its first-ever show in South Africa when the PopMart tour stops in Cape Town. Edge's parents are both in attendance. During "Mysterious Ways," images of a wedding appear on-screen, leaving fans confused - the concert is being filmed by Phil Joanou for his next movie, Entropy, and the unusual footage is actually part of a scene in the movie about a man who's directing a documentary about U2 while his personal life falls apart.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/16/2006 02:11:16 PM [+] ::
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What love!

'Pride', ever has an atmosphere of love and high love. Unfortunatley there were some bullshit around the rivalry in soccer games between Brazil and Argentina, and Brazilians fans 'booo' Argentina (my apologizes to Argentine brothers and sisters). Anyway in both shows U2 was superb. Watch 'Pride' from feb 20. Particularly on feb 21, the crowd sung higher than Bono...was fantastic, was magic!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/15/2006 09:50:14 PM [+] ::
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'May your troubles be less
And your blessings be more.
And nothing but happiness
Come through your door'
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...I'm getting ready to leave the ground.

Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh

Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights...
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...How excellent is thy lovingkindness, Oh God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.... - psalm 36
:: Regina O'Numb 3/15/2006 09:08:23 PM [+] ::
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Playing marble
The space of the street and the game of marble (bolinhas de gude), are presented as proper of the boys, space to which an intruder, Claudinha (little Claudia), the child who arrives in a street and in wants to make friends, insists on belonging. She wants to play marble with the boys, dressing "skirt, blouse of the same color and, in the head, a bow red of ribbon". "Can I play?", she asks then, and Andre answers: "- I never saw a player of marbles with ribbon bow!", alluding to the female symbols that exhibits and that marks her as one "another one". Claudinha tries then a strategy of "Not-female", taking off the bow of the hair and placing pants, but the cunning does not cause effect. Exactly deloused of these symbols of female, she already "was marked" as woman: "You cannot play, because you are a girl!'. Thus, in this world (in these streets with the boys), for the antagonistic boys, the sort identities mark for the definitive citizens spaces, positions and behaviors; if to this somebody insists on running away, remains the essence of the gender (the "being"). The fact of Claudinha comes back to dress her dress red and to use her ribbon, and it comes back "to seem girl", but she wins "with marbles and more marbles" all the small balls of the game - effective ending of the history - it points to an agreement of the not necessary gender "I don´t need to leave of being girl, to play 'game of boys' and to be successful ". It is in this direction that points the heading of the book: a challenging heroine of borders, a girl of 'Proud Girl' by Elcio Schueller.
*so sorry for my bad and poor English language

:: Regina O'Numb 3/15/2006 06:06:32 PM [+] ::
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Best Guitarist: The Edge
The guys in Interference report: "Esquire magazine has given Edge its Esky Music Award for Best Guitarist. Of the U2 guitar hero, the magazine says: "Influence? Ingenuity? Sheer grace? The Edge has got 'em. If Bono is U2's magnetic rattle, he who was born David Evans is U2's gloriously infallible and apolitical hum. And he's not just a guitarist's guitarist, he's also the heart and soul of one of the most important rock bands ever. We think if anyone in U2 should have a God complex, it's this man. That he doesn't is even better." We can't help but agree. U2 is also included in Esquire's poll of The Best Song of the 21st Century with "Beautiful Day" battling it out against 31 other songs. The winning song will be chosen via single-elimination match-ups and "Beautiful Day" is pitted against The Strokes' "Last Nite." The winner of that match will go up against either 50 Cent's "In Da Club" or The Postal Service's "Such Great Heights." According to the magazine, "Beautiful Day" has already received, as of January 31st, an impressive 11 percent of votes, placing it just behind Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt" with 14 percent. To place your vote visit Esquire.com. The Esky Awards and complete list of nominated songs in The Best Songs of the 21st Century are featured in the April 2006 issue of Esquire."
:: Regina O'Numb 3/15/2006 02:12:10 PM [+] ::
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Bono, working in the new material...
Bono did an interview with New Zealand's "The Rock" radio. It's available in four parts and covers some of the same topics Bono discussed on the Enough Rope program in Australia Monday night. But perhaps of most interest is Bono's comments on what he plans to do with the band's time off between now and November. "The thing I'm most excited about is writing some new material for U2. That's what I want to do more than anything right now.... We're having a great time on tour, but the thing you miss the most is the chance to take a few days out to write, to sit at the piano, to play the guitar, and in my case, to play with the kids." Bono ends the interview by thanking U2 fans "for their patience at this time. We really, really appreciate it." listen to on: xtramsn - source: @U2 reader Fiona
:: Regina O'Numb 3/15/2006 12:50:50 PM [+] ::
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Long live the King! At 80, the incredible B.B. King is still singing the blues You don´t have to be sad to play the blues. The sentiment comes from someone who should know of what he speaks: blues master B.B. King. 'I'm very happy playing the blues,' said the 13-time Grammy winning Mississippi Delta plantation native, who has been in the music business closing in on an incredible 60 years. 'A lot of people think you have to be unhappy, but the blues is something like an ointment. It's good for what ails you.' It certainly has kept the King of the Blues going for most of his 80 years. He reached that landmark last Sept. 16. His extended birthday tour continues with a stop in the Kirby Center, Wilkes-Barre, on March 19. Last June, ground breaking began on the B.B. King Museum in his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi....King believes the genre has a message for everyone: 'Blues have stories in it. For people that like the melodic line, there's something to hear. For those who like to dance, it has a beat. For those who like to sit quietly and read, there's a blues for that. There are many shades of blues that fit the universe.' To King, blues is life itself....'Most of the white kids have heard about the blues from some of their idols. (Rockers such as Eric Clapton, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and U2 were among those crediting King as an inspiration)....
read on: timesleader

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Rare autograph auction
On April 1, Rock Star Gallery, an Arizona-based music memorabilia museum, will conduct an auction of more than 200 lots of rare rock and pop music memorabilia to benefit the Children's Cancer Center at Phoenix Children's Hospital. Titled "From Beatles to Zeppelin," the auction will be held at the gallery, with auctioneer Mike Brandly officiating and live Internet bidding available through CBTechLive.com. U2: U2 autographed Black Fender Guitar - CBTechLive #91162 - Auction Lot #91162. Signed by: BONO, EDGE, ADAM and LARRY in silver sharpie for a beautiful effect on black glassy strat. Acquired recently during the U2 Vertigo Tour. // October - U2 OCTOBER AUTOGRAPHED VINYL ALBUM 1983 - CBTechLive #91136 Auction Lot #91136. U2 - October. Released: 1983. Autographed by: Bono - Edge - Adam - Larry, all of whom signed in black marker. Custom framed in a black, solid, hard wood frame with double matte and the original vinyl album. Album cover looks brand new. It is in excellent condition.
// War - U2 WAR 1983 AUTOGRAPHED ALBUM ORIGINAL - CBTechLive #91252 - Auction Lot #91252. U2 - WAR. Released: 1983. Autographed by: Bono, Edge, Adam, and Larry. War is a very popular U2 release, and is custom framed in a beautiful, solid hard wood frame with a triple matte to compliment the colors on the album cover, and framed with the original vinyl album.
source: prweb

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St. Patrick´s Day in Sao Paulo
St. Patrick's day is due this Friday (17th), and All Black's and O'Malley's are at least two Irish theme pubs in São Paulo celebrating with various events during the week. All Black have the band Insônica covering U2 hits on the Friday (17th). The cover charge is expensive, R$50 for men and R$30 for women, but you do get an exclusive T-shirt and a pint of Guinness. Opens at 5pm. On Sunday (19th), Murphy's Law (an Irish band) and Tilt are playing, starting at 3pm. Free entry, with promotional prices and typical Irish cuisine. O'Malley's are clearly sharing bands with All Black, as Murphy's Law will be playing there on the Tuesday (14th) and Friday (17th), although on Friday they are joined by Dose Tripla.
read on: gringoes

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Watch Edge and Bono - St Patrick´s Day
on march 17, 2000: here

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BONO CELEBRATES ST PATRICK'S DAY AT MADAME TUSSAUDS
New York waxwork museum Madame Tussauds is celebrating St Patrick's Day 24 hours early this week (16MAR06) - by unveiling a new figure of U2 rocker BONO. The Irishman's waxwork will be unveiled at the Manhattan landmark tomorrow (16MAR06) to launch the museum's annual St Patrick's Day celebrations. Irish jig dancers and native Irish musicians will be on hand to welcome the new addition, while Madame Tussauds staff will lay a green carpet down for the wax Bono's arrival. It is the first time Bono's figure has appeared in the US.
read on: contactmusic
:: Regina O'Numb 3/15/2006 12:38:46 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: KROQ radio / a song of hope / Bono inducts Bruce!

"Boy" tour - march 15, 1981. U2 play Resenda, California at the Country Club. Radio station KROQ has been playing U2 songs for weeks prior to the concert, which causes a sell-out crowd of 600.

"War" tour - march 15, 1983. U2 perform in Ipswich, England at Gaumont Theater. Support is "The Nightcaps". "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is announced as a song of hope.

"ZOOTV" tour - march 15, 1992. U2 perform in Providence, Rhode Island at the Civic Center.

"March 15 1998" - "El Universal" a Mexican Newspaper reports that the investigation into the pistol-whipping incident on December 3, 1997 at the POPMart concert in Mexico City is a sham. There never was any investigation, despite promises made to Paul McGuinness.

"Bono inducts The Boss into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" - march 15, 1999. Bono inducts Bruce Springsteen into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony in New York City. He praises Springsteen as "...the first hint of Scorsese, the first hint of Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, and the Clash. He was the end of long hair, brown rice, and bell bottoms. He was the end of the 20-minute drum solo. It was good night Haight Ashbury, hello Asbury Park." It is Bono's third induction, having previously done the same for The Who in 1990 and Bob Marley in 1994. In addition to his speech, Bono joins the all-star jam session at the end of the night, and helps sing a rendition of Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready."
read this Bono´s speech on: u2_interviews

The Joshua Tree gets new Diamond certification - march 15, 1999. U2's The Joshua Tree receives the new "Diamond" certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The certification is for releases that have sold 10 million units in the U.S. At present, only 62 titles from 46 artists qualify.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/15/2006 12:37:42 PM [+] ::
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While Edge plays keyboard...

A 13 year-old boy was pulled up on stage in the end of Miss Sarajevo on feb 20, to "try" to sing the line "this is the time". The expression in the face of the boy is priceless. 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 an activist. But he wasn´t born to the stage, he said. Fantastic moment as on feb 21with this audio shared by MalconVox...and it seems Edge was in a Church...
"Is there a time for keeping your distance
A time to turn your eyes away
Is there a time for keeping your head down
For getting on with your day
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Here she comes
Heads turn around
Here she comes
To take her crown

Is there a time to run for cover
A time for kiss and tell
Is there a time for different colours
Different names you find it hard to spell
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Is there time to be a beauty queen

Here she comes
Beauty plays the clown
Here she comes
Surreal in her crown

Dici che il fiume
Trova la via al mare
E come il fiume
Giungerai a me
Oltre i confini
E le terre assetate
Dici che come fiume
Come fiume...
L'amore giunger
L'amore...

Is there a time for tying ribbons
A time for Christmas trees
Is there a time for laying tables
And the night is set to freeze"
:: Regina O'Numb 3/14/2006 09:07:42 PM [+] ::
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An Artist
"One of the functions of the artist is to create the wonderful world (or the surprising one), for the simple reason that we don´t find in the world 'wonders' in enough quantity to satisfy the wonder hunger that inhabits the people" This quote is motivated by the book named 'Manual de Zoologia Fantastica' by Jorge Luis Borges, when a child, in visit to a zoo, enchants with animals that never saw - jaguars, vultures, bisons - instead of frightening ahead of them. When we grow, it is in the art that we search this state of spell that satisfy momentarily our hunger of wonders.
(so sorry for my bad and poor English language)
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...For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.... psalm 12


:: Regina O'Numb 3/14/2006 08:35:16 PM [+] ::
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'We are coming back...'
Following the news that the final dates of Vertigo '06 were being postponed, Bono spoke to ABC TV in Australia - and revealed that the band would be back in Australia to play their shows in November. We thought you might like to read more of his conversation with presenter Andrew Denton of Enough Rope. Here are some edited highlights.
Presenter: Great to have you here. Now of course last week you had to announce the postponement of the Vertigo Tour, why was that?
Bono: Well, I can't really get into the details why a family member was very ill, there was a lot of distress and angst and (the) good news is I can announce tonight we are coming back, looks like November, and that's a great relief to me. I didn't want to leave Australia without having that hammered down but I'm just about that much away from being able to give you the dates, so maybe even tomorrow I'll be able to do that.
Presenter: Fantastic! It's a big thing to postpone a tour like this isn't it?
Bono: You know it's only happened once before and oddly enough it was in Sydney in Australia in the late '80s, we had to postpone three dates. It makes you feel...well, it's against everything... it's really hard to describe how awful it feels and we've a very close relationship with our fans - it's quite a thing, the U2 thing - and I'm amazed actually that people have been so kind to us, and on the websites, people... just care if everything going to be okay. And for those who have to travel and change travel arrangements we're really, really deeply sorry, although the airlines have been really cool about about all of this and so it looks good.
Presenter: From your point of view, this is the end of an almost year-long world tour and now you're going to have to crank it up again in November hopefully.
Bono: It'll be better.
Presenter: Be better?
Bono: Oh yeah, 'cause it will be the only time we get a chance to play these songs for a long time. It will be extraordinary and the member of the band whose life has been turned upside down with his recent news, he will be on fire, as opposed to with a cloud hanging over him. So they'll be amazing shows.
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Catch a video clip of the interview here
Read the entire transcript of the interview here
read on: U2.com
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Thank you so much Bono for this interview. This word 'was' is a sort of comfort, here. As I wrote some days ago...isn´t important the names, the speculations, the rumors. The necessary: respect, no pressure, prayers. The very very important thing here is: God Bless U2 and their families and friends. Cause all because of U2, we are.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/14/2006 03:16:52 PM [+] ::
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rumor...U2 are being tipped by recoding the theme tune for the next Bond movie U2 head to head with Tina - ROCK band U2 are being tipped to get music fans shaken and stirred by recording the theme tune for the next Bond movie. Bono and pals are the frontrunners to sing the theme tune for new flick Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig as 007. Legendary Bond producer Barbara Broccoli is a fan of the Irish band and wants to give them the license to thrill. Broccoli said: "David Arnold will be composing the soundtrack but we have not yet chosen who is doing the song. "I think U2 are great. Bono actually wrote the song for GoldenEye but Tina Turner performed it." But insiders on the set of the action-packed film say Tina Turner - who sang the GoldenEye theme - is also in the running to take on the mission of being the act with the golden tune. The songstress got to No 7 in the charts with GoldenEye in 1995. If she was to record the theme, she would be following in the footsteps of Shirley Bassey who recorded THREE themes tunes - Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker. Our inside man said: "To quote one of her hits, she's one of the best. We want Casino Royale to have a huge impact so we want a big theme tune. Although it's not been decided yet, she's definitely high up on the wish list."
read on: thesun
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I think Golden Eye the best Bond´s tunes; is the tune which captioned the exactly way of a Bond´s think.

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The world is better with U2´s songs
Belletti, a U2´s fan - this article in Spanish language reports the love of this Brazilian soccer player for U2. He admires Bono and Edge 'basically cause they compose the songs and make the world a few better'.
read on: sport.es
*This is true, I met him in Sao Paulo on the streets and he was hearing U2 in a high way, driving his car

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Photos from Vancouver - crew pics
on: crewpix

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U2 top Rolling Stone rich list
Irish rockers U2 have beaten The Rolling Stones and The Eagles to top the 2005 rock rich list, drawn up by Rolling Stone magazine. Bono and his bandmates made an estimated GBP90.7 million from touring and album sales, becoming the only act to break GBP58.8 million on the Rock's Top Thirty Moneymakers list, which is compiled using interviews with industry experts and figures from Nielsen Soundscan and Pollstar. The top 10 rock earners of 2005, according to Rolling Stone magazine are:
1. U2 (GBP90.7 Million) 2. The Rolling Stones (GBP54.4 million) 3. The Eagles (GBP37.1 million) 4. Sir Paul McCartney (GBP33 million) 5. Sir Elton John (GBP28.8 million) 6. Neil Diamond (GBP26.4 million) 7. Jimmy Buffett (GBP25.9 million) 8. Rod Stewart (GBP23.7 million) 9. Dave Matthews Band (GBP23.3 million) 10. Celine Dion (GBP18.5 million).
read on: yahoo

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Rare rock autograph auction
From Beatles to Zeppelin - Rare Rock Autograph Auction - Rare rock memorabilia to be auctioned April 1 to benefit pediatric cancer center in Phoenix. On April 1, Rock Star Gallery, an Arizona-based music memorabilia museum, will conduct an auction of more than 200 lots of rare rock and pop music memorabilia to benefit the Children¿s Cancer Center at Phoenix Children¿s Hospital. Titled "From Beatles to Zeppelin," the auction will be held at the gallery, with auctioneer Mike Brandly officiating and live Internet bidding available through CBTechLive.com....The auction also features several artist-used guitars, including many signed by their previous hit-making owners such as U2, Aerosmith, Rolling Stones and Springsteen....
read whole article on: prweb

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Finding God in unexpected places
A journalist queries celebrities about God. The answers are sometimes surprising. On the brink of her teen years, Cathleen Falsani experienced one of those indelible moments that can orient a life. A friend put a rock album on the stereo, and a raspy voice shouted out praise to God. It was a revelation to the highly religious youngster. "I was absolutely transfixed by the extraordinary mix of faith with rock 'n' roll - a forbidden fruit at our house," she writes. That introduction to the legendary Irish band, U2, set her "on a course that continues today: To discover God in the places some people say God isn't supposed to be. To look for the truly sacred in the supposedly profane."...Not surprisingly, Falsani's quest takes her aboard the bus of U2's Bono, as he tours US churches prodding them to join the fight against AIDS; and into a discussion of one of the central themes of his music - grace....
'I'm not often comfortable in church. It feels so pious and so unlike the Christ that I read about in the Scriptures.' - Bono
read whole article on: csmonitor
:: Regina O'Numb 3/14/2006 03:10:53 PM [+] ::
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Bono in Australia - transcript of the interview to Enough Rope - on march 13, 2006
ANDREW DENTON: Welcome to a very special edition of ENOUGH ROPE, Bono.
BONO: Thanks very much, thanks for having me.
ANDREW DENTON: Last week you had to announce the postponement of the 'Vertigo' tour, why was that?
BONO: Well I can't really get into the details of why. A family member was very ill and there was a lot of distress and angst and the good news is I think I can announce tonight we are coming back. Looks like November. That's a great relief to me. I didn't want to leave Australia without having that hammered down. We're about that much away from being able to give you the dates. Maybe tomorrow.
ANREW DENTON: It's a big thing to postpone a tour like this, isn't it?
BONO: It's only happened once before and oddly enough it was in Sydney in Australia in the late '80s, we had to postpone three dates. It makes you feel ill. It's against everything. It's really - it's hard to describe how awful it feels. We've a very close relationship with our fan base thing. It's quite a thing the U2 thing. I'm amazed actually that people have been so kind to us on the websites and people really don't care. They just care is everything going to be OK. For those who have to travel and change travel arrangements we're really, really deeply sorry. Although the airlines have been really cool about all of this. So it looks good.
ANDREW DENTON: From your point of view of course this is the end of an almost year-long world tour and now you're going to have to crank it up in November hopefully.
BONO: It will be better.
ANDREW DENTON: Better?
BONO: Oh yeah, because it will be the only time we get a chance to play these songs for a long time. It will be extraordinary and the member of the band whose life has been turned upside down by this recent news, he will be on fire as opposed to having a cloud hanging over them. They'll be amazing shows.
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read whole interview on: abc
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Watch Bono´s interview in Australia
197MB mp4 file - Quick Time - on: megaupload
:: Regina O'Numb 3/14/2006 01:18:15 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY - Edge punches in Hammersmith Odeon / Band of the 80's / Bono meets President George Bush / U2 into the Hall Of Fame!

Boy tour - march 14, 1981 / San Diego, CA - Globe Theater.

October tour - march 14, 1982 / Indianapolis, IN - Indiana Convention Center.

War tour - march 14, 1983 / London, England - Hammersmith Odeon - The Nightcaps. U2 in London, Paul Du Noyer wrote to New Musical Express, 02/28/1983: "...'Seconds' and 'Surrender' follow in majestic procession; the latter song is the cue for giant white flags to unfurl somewhere above The Edge's head, and flutter in the wind machine. Jack the Laddishly, Bono takes his lyrics on a detour, diving into a sly slice of Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean.' Later on, in 'Twilight,' he'll again go daft and happy with a few bursts of Kajagoogoo's 'Too Shy' and the Bunnymen's 'Cutter.'...The "Boy" backdrop is dropped on cue for "Tomorrow," to yet more loud acclaim. Jubilant fans punch the air (but with forefingers delicately extended, U2 fans being less aggressive than their clenched-fist HM counterparts) and The Edge punches the intro to "I Will Follow." We have a great time...."

Band of the 80's - march 14, 1985 - Rolling Stone: Band of the 80s. Rolling Stone magazine puts U2 on cover with caption: "Our Choice: Band of the '80s." It's arguably the biggest honor the band has received to date in the U.S. The accompanying article explains that for many fans, U2 has become "The Only Band That Matters." - from the Rolling Stone magazine: "...Edge has the wise, slightly sad face of an Irish shopkeeper, keeps his shirts buttoned to the neck, is soft-spoken but musically daring and seems possessed of an infinite store of dignity -- a most unusual trait in a rock performer. The two have been close friends since their earliest days. "The reason for being in a band initially was purely satisfaction," continued Edge, an acknowledged whiz kid academically. "Having started for that reason, we started writing songs, we started doing things. And our academic careers just went out the window. Because we suddenly realized that this was important to us."..."

Bono meets President Bush - march 14, 2002. Wrapping up several days in Washington, Bono meets with U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House and later appears with him as Bush announces a U.S. pledge of $5 billion to help fight poverty in Africa. In his speech, Bush praises Bono: "As you can see, I'm traveling in some pretty good company today: Bono. (Laughter and applause.) We just had a great visit in the Oval Office. Here's what I know about him: first, he's a good musician; secondly, he is willing to use his position in a responsible way. He is willing to lead to achieve what his heart tells him, and that is nobody -- nobody -- should be living in poverty and hopelessness in the world. Bono, I appreciate your heart and to tell you what an influence you've had, Dick Cheney walked in the Oval Office, he said, 'Jesse Helms wants us to listen to Bono's ideas.' (Laughter and applause.)"

U2 into the Hall Of Fame - march 14, 2005 / New York, NY - Waldorf-Astoria Hotel - Until the End of the World, Pride, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Vertigo. U2 performs after being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen (, whom Bono had inducted into the Hall six years earlier). In the party spirit of the evening, Bono goes into the audience to pop open and spray a champagne bottle during 'Until the End of the World.' Bono sings a bit of Springsteen's 'Promised Land' during 'Pride', and the Boss duets with Bono on 'I Still Haven't Found....' Listen to on U2exit. Springsteen praises U2 for staying together for so long with no breakups and no lineup changes: "...bands get formed by accident, but they don't survive by accident. It takes will, intent, a sense of shared purpose, and a tolerance for your friends' fallibilities...and they of yours. And that only evens the odds. U2 has not only evened the odds but they've beaten them by continuing to do their finest work and remaining at the top of their game and the charts for 25 years. I feel a great affinity for these guys as people as well as musicians." Also inducted tonight are The Pretenders, The O'Jays, Buddy Guy, and Percy Sledge. Non-performers inducted are Frank Barsalona and Seymour Stein.

:: Regina O'Numb 3/14/2006 12:32:10 PM [+] ::
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The first manager! (Happy B-Day Adam!!!!)

And Adam was our first manager.
"There was this undeniable belief, that Adam instilled in us. We only wanted to play music, we didn´t think about it in terms of making money or making records but Adam always did. And Adam was our first manager. We looked at him as if he was out of his mind."
by Edge about Adam´s audaciousness.
B.P.Fallon - U2 Faraway So Close.

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"Walk On"
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And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong

Walk on, walk on
What you got they can't steal it
No they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on...
Stay safe tonight
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Walk on, walk on
What you've got they can't deny it
Can't sell it, can't buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight
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'...I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place....The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation....' - psalm 118
:: Regina O'Numb 3/13/2006 08:18:48 PM [+] ::
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Guitar showing the way

Bullet The Blue Sky, power of Edge´s fingers here, and all the kind of him when playing and showing for Bono the right way, in middle of a dark one, in the middle of a dangerous place ...after Bono beside of the firework (feb 21). Ever, willl be fantastic to watch it, On feb 20, a blind-folded Bono hurt his hand while trying to lit that firework they use now in the b-stage. It seems he was feeling pain, licking the blood on his finger, then singing Johhny Comes Marching Home
:: Regina O'Numb 3/13/2006 08:17:59 PM [+] ::
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Watch U2 on feb 21
During the start of 'I Still Haven´t Found What I´m Looking For', Bono says in Brazilian Portuguese language (very well, he speaks very well): "Ontem tocamos ao vivo para todo Brasil. Hojé á a nossa festinha particular. Cantem comigo para um novo Brasil", which means "Yesterday we played live to whole Brazil. Today is our little prive party. Sing with me to a new Brazil" - watch here - Thank you so much MalconVox who is sharing this wonder little clip.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/13/2006 05:49:42 PM [+] ::
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Looks Like November (U2, probably, will play in november the postponed shows)
Bono has told Australian TV that U2 will be back in the country in November to reschedule postponed shows. There's no specific dates yet but the band are hoping to make an announcement very soon. Speaking to ABC's 'Enough Rope' on Monday evening, Bono said that he didn't want to leave Australia without confirming that the band are aiming to get back on the road later in the year. Last week the March and April dates were postponed because of the illness of a family member of one of the band. 'I can't really get into details why,' Bono told presenter Andrew Denton. 'There was a lot of distress and angst and (the) good news is ... I can announce tonight we are coming back, looks like November and that's a great relief for me.' Bono said it was hard to describe how bad the band felt about postponing the dates - something U2 have only ever done once before - and praised fans for their generous reaction to the sudden news. 'Our music does come out of (a) very tight community,' he said. 'So if one of us is going through it we're all going through it.' He promised that the rescheduled shows would be something special. 'It will be the only time, you know, we get a chance to play these songs for a long time, it will be extraordinary.' Keep checking in with U2.Com for updates on when rescheduled dates might take place.
read on: U2.com
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U2 hints at November tour
U2 frontman Bono says the band will probably be coming back to Australia in November. U2 cancelled this month's tour because one of the band's family was extremely ill. Bono has told the ABC's Enough Rope he cannot give specific dates just yet, but he has promised fans a great concert. "Because it'll be the only time, you know, we get a chance to play these songs for a long time, it will be extraordinary," he said. Bono says some extraordinary people have turned up at U2 shows as a result of their social activism work. "You can't imagine Paul Volker, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and we put him in the dressing room of the Fun Loving Criminals by mistake. Let me say there was a smoky atmosphere and he went to make a speech at the World Bank something the next day where he said he, and he tells the story, he said I went in there and I could smell something and I want you all to know today I inhaled." He also talks about Mikhail Gorbachev arriving on his doorstep in Ireland one Sunday afternoon unannounced, with a four-foot teddy bear. "And I asked him was he religious and he told me his parents were and that he had been brought up with some sort of Catholic influence in his life and then finally I decided, I said do you believe in God and he said no but I believe in the universe and it was just an amazing, it was the way he said it, I knew he had thought very long and hard about it. I mean there was a lot of Irish whisky involved too." Bono says he would like to organise a meeting with Australian Prime Minister John Howard when he is back in the country for the November tour. "You do get the feeling like in Australia that you know there's just this is a new model, somewhere happening down here, you know something going on, new societies being dreamt up so and you're doing really well, it's an amazing, even just coming like here having not played here for eight years, you can see there's a prosperity, the way people walk, it's a confidence. Now you ¿you should be the opportunities to lead the world outside of this hemisphere, to actually just to take some moral high ground." Bono says he was surprised by US President George W Bush's humour at a recent meeting, saying Mr Bush looked "rather enviously" at Bono's signature oversized glasses. "I liked him a lot more than I thought I would. All I'm thinking when I'm meeting him is how I'm going to explain it to the band."
read on: abc
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Watch a fragment of the interview
Bono says the affected band member will be on fire when they come back:
"We are coming back, looks like November, and that's a great relief to me," the singer told Andrew Denton on the ABC's Enough Rope." * "I didn't want to leave Australia without having that hammered down" * "I'm amazed the people have been so kind to us on the websites," he said, and apologised to fans who have had to change travel arrangements. * Bono said the band would be in peak form when it returned because the affected band member will "be on fire, as opposed to having a cloud hanging over him".
watch (to record) on:by neutral
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There will be a translation
on: abc

God Bless U2 and their families and friends!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/13/2006 12:39:53 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: Adam Clayton is born / Adam´s 23rd b-day / Adam´s 27th b-day / Adam´s 32nd b-day!

March 13, 1960. "Adam Clayton" is born in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, UK. read Adam Clayton´s bio

"October" tour - march 13, 1982. U2 perform in Louisville, Kentucky at the Gardens.

"War" tour - march 13, 1983. U2 perform in Brighton, England at Top Rank. Adam celebrates his 23rd birthday as Dennis Sheehan, U2's tour manager, brings birthday cake and champagne on stage. Steve Iredale brings presents on stage, including slippers, cigars and a silk morning coat. While Adam is looking at his presents, Bono picks up his bass and starts playing a short riff. For the encore this evening, Dylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door" is played with "The Alarm"'s Mike Peters. This is the first time U2, themselves, play the song, and Bono still doesn't know the words.

"27th b-day party" - march 13, 1987. U2, along with 300 of their closest friends and family members, celebrate the instant success of "The Joshua Tree", and Adam Clayton's 27th birthday party with a large party at Boland's Mill in Dublin, Ireland. The band have been using Boland's Mill for the past few weeks as a rehearsal studio. At midnight, U2 take the stage and perform "People Get Ready".

"ZOOTV" tour - march 13, 1992. U2 perform in Worcester, Massachusetts at the Centrum. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies". Adam turns 32, and after "Even Better Than The Real Thing" a woman dressed as a Playboy bunny arrives on stage and hands a big bunch of balloons to Adam as a present, and she draps a purple boa around his neck, and Adam says "Please, no photographs." Before "Until The nd Of The World" Bono says: "I just need The Edge, play for me Edge," and Edge completely messes up in the music. Announcing another song, Adam says: "This is a song about a Donegal man, coming back from the pub late at night, and when he gets back into his house, he can´t put his key in the door. It´s called 'Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World'.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/13/2006 12:39:39 PM [+] ::
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A Classic

Magnifique moment, when Edge´s movment in this guitar stop, to feel the crowd...Sunday Bloody Sunday...during both shows a peace anthem: on feb 20 and feb 21, from which is this photo...in time 'COEXIST is the same in portuguese' as Bono said, is COEXISTA.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/12/2006 08:56:19 PM [+] ::
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Everything is a question of time
The time is a sensational thing, that can delay or to be short. It can cause pain or bring joy. You already repaired that five minutes of wait delay not to pass of that five minutes when you are delayed? Which the real duration of the time? More of the one than this: it will be that the time can be measured by the hands of the clock? Many philosophers already had dedicated themselves to think on the time. One of them was Saint Agostinho, who lived between years 350 and 430 of our age. For Saint Agostinho, the time only exists as what it escapes: "What it´s the time, after all? If nobody asks me, I knows ", says him. "But if it is asked me and I want to explain, already I do not know". Or either: for him, we can try experiment the time, but we do not get to say what it is. The time only reveals to us as some thing that runs away, that it slides. When we go to speak, it already passed. One of the biggest desires of the civilized man was, without a doubt, to measure and to control the time. For never forget the hours. For us that we are born and we grow in a surrounded world of clocks, the time completely seems natural. It is some thing that always passes in the same rhythm and can be measured by the hands of a clock. But this form to mark the time from the displacement of a hand in one determined space is an invention, a standard that stops we if it became a fact. But it will be that the time can be measured by the displacement in the space? "It is as if we agreed that the time is a specie of force that pushes the things of the world of the past for the future. It always pushes in the same direction, always in the same rhythm. It swims can resist this force ", explains the physicist Alberto Luiz de Oliveira. Imagine an arrow, that we can call gift. It is gone off of the past in direction to a target that never arrives - the future. It is in this way that we perceive the time. We divide the time in past, present and future. But it will be that it is exactly thus? How was born the idea that we have of the time? In the antiquity, the man commanded the time in accordance with the cycles of the nature: the day and the night, the four seasons. "But later the men had started to find interesting to subdivide the cycle of the day, to define the hour. Then it was invented, for example, the clock of the sun, the water clock, or then the hourglass - the sand clock ", says Alberto Luiz. It was only in century 13 that the man invented the father of all the modern machines: the mechanical clock. When the men marked the time for the duration of the days, of the seasons, that are always unstable, did not have an efficient form to command the society. It was with the mechanical clock that was born first the great gear of social control. When marking the hours with precision, the clocks, of the high one of the towers, had started to control the life in the cities. The great revolution that the mechanical clock allowed was the possibility to command the life of the people. A revolution that forever changed the organization of the work and the society. From now on, the man started to move away from the natural rhythm, marked for the cycles of the life, and passed to guide for the movement of the gears, for the social time. "The day started to be a certain time piece number, of hours. Later, these pieces of hour had been broken up in lesser pieces: the minute, later as ", clarifies Alberto Luiz. And the life passed to be determined by incessant tick tock, by to run of the hands of clock. "The curious one is this image that we believe is so foundmental, that is a so basic component of the reality, the scientists today say that it is alone an illusion", informs the physicist. In the same way, for some philosophers, the time is an internal experience of the man and exists only in the soul. Aristotle, Greek philosopher who lived about three centuries before Christ, asked: "If did not exist the soul, would make some direction to speak of time?" "We do not find this time in the world. We project this time on the world ", affirms Alberto Luiz. Today, we know that the time is not in the clock. What the hands show is only one invention of the man to organize the world. But it will be that other times do not exist - the time of the conscience and the experience of each one? If the time as we know is an illusion, what it will be that exists? The reply it is surprising: it does not have only one time, but several!
*this text it´s only to say, this time will pass...if exists time to worry, existis, too, time to the victory, to happiness: it will be, soon, a time which everyone will enjoy! Grace of God!
(so sorry for my bad and poor English language)
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We're gonna break the monster's back
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For the needy shall not always be forgotten.
psalm 9
:: Regina O'Numb 3/12/2006 05:26:31 PM [+] ::
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The Edge, a weaver in hot Latin America!
"...In this task, the singer is not aloone. To his side, always very closed, The Edge is elevated in scene like a quiet giant, that speaks only through his guitar, more and more intense. From his calm, the great Edge commands everything what it happens musically on the scene, while the singer takes care of the mass, happy, aroused. With each riff of his instrument, that already is an own seal, woven musics and, by the impressive boxes of sound, as hand to hand appear One, Miss Sarajevo, Misterious Ways, Zoo Station and each one of the twentys songs that integrated the set list of shows in hot Latin America...."
source: it´s a fragment of the article in Spanish language on: laopinion


:: Regina O'Numb 3/12/2006 04:09:45 PM [+] ::
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Introspect: The First One of Your Kind - U2's OOTS Video*
"Original of the Species is a very special song for me - it's a beautiful, melodic journey - it's about seeing some people who are ashamed of their bodies, in particular teenagers with eating disorders, not feeling comfortable with themselves and their sexuality. I'm just saying to them, you are one of a kind, you are the first one of your kind, you're an original of the species...So it's a 'be who you are' and I can't wait to play it live." - Bono, from Universal Records' "Album Comments from the Band". U2 has claimed that it hasn't always made the best videos for its songs, yet a few of them are truly memorable for me, like "Stay (Faraway, So Close)," "All I Want is You" and "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own." Each video is distinctive in its composition, subject matter and presentation. Often, U2's best videos are those that tell a story. Such is the case with its latest, and perhaps what will arguably turn out to be its greatest video, video one for "Original of the Species." The music video for OOTS was conceived and directed by Catherine Owens, the woman responsible for many of the beautiful visual concepts and special effects for the band's current Vertigo Tour and a longtime U2 friend and associate. The concept for the video grew out of an idea that she was originally working on to accompany this song on the Vertigo Tour. As Catherine Owens said in an interview with U2.com on Dec. 22, 2005, "My role begins in pre-production on the visuals. Hearing the album part-way through its recording, picking up on where the band are going with new material, collaborating with the band and show director Willie Williams on new visual concepts... When U2 are on tour it takes up a lot of my time, this tour more so then others as I have also directed a video for them for the song 'Original of the Species.'" To further clarify the origins of this video, Bono mentioned in an interview with MTV's "TRL" host Damien Fahey last December that the video was originally inspired by the Steven Spielberg's 2001 film "AI: Artificial Intelligence." Though reception to the film was lukewarm, it deftly explored the search for identity in a world of confusion, when what one thinks is real is actually synthetic. The film's main character is David (played by Haley Joel Osment), a boy trying to make sense of the world around him with his semi-intelligent teddy bear. One poignant moment in the film comes when David asks his teddy bear if his parents are real, to which Teddy replies, "You ask such silly questions, David. Nobody knows what 'real' really means." Using Bono's reference to the "AI" movie, it appears then that the OOTS video is about one's search for meaning in life, a search to find one's place and purpose in a world where nothing is secure except one's sense of self. In this exploration to find oneself and, ultimately, to love oneself, OOTS takes us on a visual and emotional journey through exquisite and intimate imagery. The first thing that struck me about OOTS is the introductory music. The notes chime in a way reminiscent of a baby's music box, full of innocence and hope. Next, images of conception appear as umbilical cords intertwine together becoming a fetus which transitions into a mother caressing her child. Next, the image of a young girl appears onscreen seeming to be devoid of emotion, like a blank canvas on which the future will be written. As she turns around, digitally scanned images of the members of U2 begin to appear. The first one we see is Larry Mullen Jr. For me, this was no surprise because the embryo, the very beginning of U2, started with Larry and his bulletin board posting. Then, the young child begins an incredible transformation. Flowers (what look like irises) begin to encircle her head until she is completely covered with them. Emoting with every fiber of his being, Bono appears and begins to breathe life into the child as she starts to smile and cry. She is becoming fully human. After showing emotional development, the development of her brain begins. But instead of the traditional names of the various brain lobes, the areas are labeled with phrases reminiscent of ZooTV, like "Stay True," "Let Go," "Love," "Always Free." It's almost as if U2 is telling us that the heart is more powerful, more of what makes us truly human, than anything else our rational minds can produce. As Bono removes his shades revealing himself without the pretense of celebrity, the video reaches its pinnacle. Exploding with emotion, scenes of Bono singing interspersed with images of a pregnant woman. It is as if Bono is stressing to us that this child, and by extension every child, is precious and unique and is a life to be valued, a theme that Bono raises in his plugs for the One Campaign during the Vertigo Tour. Barely able to control the emotions churning inside himself, Bono shows us tattoos cascading down his arm which represent some of the images in this video'a heart, a dove flying free and the word "Mother" surrounded by flowers and vines. This image alludes to the idea that the one who might be most imprinted with the messages in OOTS - be true to yourself, accept yourself as you are, celebrate your uniqueness, etc. - just might be Bono himself. Bono has said that oftentimes the songs that he writes for others he later discovers that he has actually written for himself. Nearing the end of the video, we see the young girl surrounded by brightly colored butterflies. Her full individuality and uniqueness appear to have blossomed. As the four scanned heads of U2 circle around the screen, the video closes with one last shot of each member of U2. Bono has said that he wrote this song (his favorite from "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb") for Edge's daughter Holly when she was going through a difficult time in her life. In an interview with Q magazine in November 2004, Edge had this to say about OOTS: "The last time I cried I was listening to that song. It was a song that Bono started on the last record about my daughter, Holly. He's her godfather. The lyric became more universal. About being young and full of doubt about yourself. He probably wouldn't agree, but I think the song has connotations for Bono, looking back to when he was 20." Since then, Bono has stated that OOTS is for "all of U2's girls" (including Edge's three other daughters, Bono's two and Larry's one) but I think the real meaning of OOTS is much greater. What U2 does in this video is highlight one of the driving forces behind its music¿the belief in the sanctity of each human life. We can see this theme in many songs spanning the decades from "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" from 1983's "War" to "Miracle Drug," also from "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." This belief of U2's is reflected in its longtime support of Amnesty International, one of the few organizations invited to accompany the Vertigo Tour, its historic opposition to political violence and, of course, in Bono's tireless advocacy to end extreme poverty in Africa through DATA and One. It is reflected in the love and respect that U2 shows its fans and followers as well as in the way the band mates treat each other. In so many aspects of its conception and delivery, OOTS is really the first one of its kind. It may very well go down in U2 history as the one song and video that most truly encapsulates what U2 stands for - the majesty of the human spirit and the dignity of every human life. On Jan. 11, 2006, a second version of the OOTS video premiered on AOL. Very similar in concept and design to the preceding video, this version features Bono singing the song by himself, along with images of a woman pregnant with child in the background. The video is most interesting due to the numerous close-ups of Bono in which we can see his various facial expressions, many of which are reminiscent of Bono's famous onstage character, MacPhisto. One of the most memorable moments of the video to me was Bono's playful smile after he sang the lyric, "Some people have way too much confidence." At the end of the video, the word "Love" is prominently displayed onscreen as if to sum up the whole meaning of OOTS in one word¿love. Love for yourself, love for each other, love that can transform the ugly into the beautiful, the transitory into the transcendent and the sinner into the saint. Love that forgives, love that heals, love that elevates our hearts and souls." by By Debbie Kreuser - 2006.01 - interference
:: Regina O'Numb 3/12/2006 03:46:34 PM [+] ::
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Bono´s interview - Monday March 13
Monday March 13 - An ENOUGH ROPE special - Andrew Denton interviews U2's Bono - - Monday March 13 at 9.35pm.
read on: abc
:: Regina O'Numb 3/12/2006 01:50:52 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: at midnight to Adam Clayton / a strained version of "With Or Without You" / Bono as a supermodel at Comic Relief.

"October" tour - march 12, 1982. U2 perform in Memphis, Tennessee at North Hall Auditorium. At midnight, it is Adam Clayton's 22nd birthday. The band go to Miller's Cave, a local club run by a local band, "The Miller Brothers", who play songs in honour of Adam. U2 drunkenly take the stage to perform "Southern Man", and "Out of Control".

"ZOOTV" tour - march 12, 1992. U2 perform in Hartford, Connecticut at the Civic Center. The 16,438 tickets for the show sell out in 40 minutes--a record for the arena. Bono's voice has started to bother him, and he is unable to sing the high notes in several songs. He apologizes to the crowd after a strained version of "With or Without You", and leaves the stage in frustration. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"Bono stumps on British TV for Comic Relief charity" - march 12, 1999. Bono, dressed in drag as a supermodel, appears on British television during the Comic Relief charity telethon to urge people to donate to the relief effort for the underprivileged in Africa and the UK. The appearance has presumably been taped in advance, as Bono is believed to be still in the U.S. preparing for other upcoming appearances.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/12/2006 01:50:36 PM [+] ::
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I see the love and peace

photo from feb 21.
'The solo comes from a very deep and dark place. You wouldn't want to go there.' said Edge about his solo during "Love And Peace Or Else" to Blender magazine (2004). I agree with him, his solo provokes shiver. I really loved U2´s performances on feb 20 and on feb 21. Fantastic!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/11/2006 08:34:21 PM [+] ::
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The boy who joined Bono in Sao Paulo
His name is Victor, 13 years old, an intelligent guy, so studient. He´s now famed in his city, Caruaru, in Pernambuco at northwest of Brazil, near of Bahia. He wishes to be a Doctor. He´s so proud of Bono. Yesterday night he appeared in a popular programe called 'Globo Reporter' during 5 minutes. You can watch (is free) here
from: Globoreporter
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A panaromic view of Morumbi stadium on feb 21
photo and clip
:: Regina O'Numb 3/11/2006 06:57:38 PM [+] ::
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"...The storms will pass / It won't be long now ...Take my hand / You know I'll be there / If you can / I'll cross the sky for your love..."
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Give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good: for His mercy endureth for ever.
Give thanks unto the God of gods: for His mercy endureth for ever.
Give thanks to the Lord of lords: for His mercy endureth for ever.
To Him who alone doeth great wonders: for His mercy endureth for ever.
To Him that by wisdom made the heavens: for His mercy endureth for ever.
To Him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for His mercy endureth for ever.
To Him that made great lights: for His mercy endureth for ever:
The sun to rule by day: for His mercy endureth for ever:
The moon and stars to rule by night: for His mercy endureth for ever.
To Him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for His mercy endureth for ever:
And brought out Israel from among them: for His mercy endureth for ever:
With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for His mercy endureth for ever.
To Him which divided the Red sea into parts: for His mercy endureth for ever:
And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for His mercy endureth for ever:
But overthrew Pharaoh and His host in the Red sea: for His mercy endureth for ever.
To Him which led his people through the wilderness: for His mercy endureth for ever.
To Him which smote great kings: for His mercy endureth for ever:
And slew famous kings: for His mercy endureth for ever:
Sihon king of the Amorites: for His mercy endureth for ever:
And Og the king of Bashan: for His mercy endureth for ever:
And gave their land for an heritage: for His mercy endureth for ever:
Even an heritage unto Israel His servant: for His mercy endureth for ever.
Who remembered us in our low estate: for His mercy endureth for ever:
And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for His mercy endureth for ever.
Who giveth food to all flesh: for His mercy endureth for ever.
Give thanks unto the God of heaven: for His mercy endureth for ever.
Psalm 136

:: Regina O'Numb 3/11/2006 03:11:03 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: a reavelaton in Hawaii / B.B.King hands The Edge his guitar Lucille / Bono honors Barsalona!

"Boy" tour - march 11, 1981. U2 perform in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Maple Leaf Ballroom.

"October" tour - march 11, 1982. U2 perform in Memphis, Tennessee at the North Hall Auditorium.

"War" tour - march 11, 1983. U2 perform in Cardiff, England at St. David's Hall. Bono shouts at a fan who is spitting at other fans close to the stage, and threatens to have him thrown out. Bono invites someone on stage to sing *anything*, and a girl eventually gets up and sings "Land of My Fathers", to which the whole crowd eventually joins in.

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 11, 1985. U2 perform in Honolulu, Hawaii at the Neal Blaisdell Center Arena. Bono tells the crowd that "Pride(In the Name of Love)" was developed the last time U2 were in Hawaii, in November 1983. Support is "Red Rockers".

March 11, 1989 - Bono and The Edge appear on stage at a B.B. King concert in Dublin, Ireland at National Stadium. B.B. King talks about the meeting several years earlier with a band from Ireland, and introduces the two members of U2. The band storm into a nine-minute version of "When Love Comes To Town" during which B.B. hands The Edge his guitar "Lucille" who stammers out a thanks about being honoured to play it.

"POPMart" tour - march 11, 1998. U2 perform in Osaka, Japan.

"Bono honors Barsalona" - march 11, 2002 - Bono joins Bruce Springsteen and others at the annual Nordoff Robbins charity dinner in New York to pay tribute to Premier Talent's Frank Barsalona. Barsalona is known as the first booking agent in the music industry, and is responsible for booking U2's first tour across the U.S. before he had even seen the band perform.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/11/2006 01:06:13 PM [+] ::
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Para o meu pai

photo from feb 20.
When Bono said "para o meu pai" (for my father) before singing Sometimes You Can´t Make It On Your Own, everybody beside me had tears; the crowd cheered and comforted him, and Edge played as asking: feel your love, feel your love. They played it in both shows. In the second, Bono finishes saying 'para o meu papai'...wonderfull!

:: Regina O'Numb 3/10/2006 10:28:13 PM [+] ::
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EVERYTHING 'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT
...Everything's gonna be all right! / Everything's gonna be all right! / Everything's gonna be all right! / Everything's gonna be all right! / I said, everything's gonna be all right-a! / Everything's gonna be all right! / Everything's gonna be all right, now! / Everything's gonna be all right!...* ...As Bono sung in Bahia...'What´s coming, is much better' - from No Woman, No Cry
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'...I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears....'
Psalm 34
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...The sun is coming up on the ocean...Yahweh, Yahweh...

:: Regina O'Numb 3/10/2006 09:22:27 PM [+] ::
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Just a Rail Hub? Or a New Sort of Compass for Europe?
Deutsche BahnThe raised bridge connects two office towers. The station's location, at the point between Berlin's east and west, is deplored by some critics as sitting in the middle of nowhere. Eventually, travelers can go from this station to Paris, Moscow, Copenhagen or Istanbul. Nobody in Berlin, it is safe to say, has failed to see it, the enormous construction site bristling with cranes in the middle of what used to be the desolate no man's land between the eastern and western halves of the city...."We consider this station to be a central place between the former East and the former West Berlin," said Hartmut Mehdorn, the chief executive of the giant German railway system, Europe's largest. "But it's also a central place in Europe. We wanted to be a little bit symbolic in this sense, after the reunification of Germany and the joining of East and West."...the Zoologischer Garten Station in the former West and the Ostbahnhof in the former East - that will be closed once the new main station has opened....
look for the station
read whole article on: nytimes
:: Regina O'Numb 3/10/2006 08:32:25 PM [+] ::
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U2 Concert Postponed, Kanye West Continues 'Touch The Sky' Tour
Rapper/producer Kanye West will continue his Touch the Sky Tour overseas, after it was announced that U2's Vertigo Tour will be postponed. West, who was scheduled to support U2 on their Vertigo '06 Tour, will resume his tour March 16 in Auckland, New Zealand. The Vertigo Tour was postponed after one of the band's family members fell ill. U2, who expressed 'great regret' over the postponement, was scheduled to play 10 more dates before finishing the outing. "Of course my prayers are with U2 and their families at this time, and I'm sure their fans share that sentiment with me," said West, who performed last night (Mar. 9) in Paris, France. "It's been an incredible experience touring with U2. They are a truly special band, a great organization, and their fans are the best in the world." West had originally finished the tour in the United Kingdom. His final date at the NEC Arena was marred by violence, when a man shot two security guards who wouldn't allow him entry into the concert without a ticket....
read whole article on: allhiphop
:: Regina O'Numb 3/10/2006 08:09:35 PM [+] ::
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Bono were with family in Sydney
IF Sydney can deliver one thing to the world's biggest rock star, it's a beautiful day. The city has turned on its best for U2 frontman Bono, his wife Alison Stewart and children Jordan, 17, Memphis Eve, 15, Elijah, 7, and John Abraham, 5, since the Irish royal family touched down in Sydney at the weekend....Onlookers said Bono looked relaxed and happily signed autographs for fans. "He was really good about it all," one Taronga visitor told Confidential. "I stuck my hand out and he shook my hand and said hello. He was really nice about it."
read on: ntnews
:: Regina O'Numb 3/10/2006 05:46:39 PM [+] ::
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Businesses that are affected by the Vertigo tour postponement are responding to fans in helpful ways Call and response - cindy // 10-03-06 // 04:16 PM // Businesses that are affected by the Vertigo tour postponement are responding to fans in helpful ways: ETS, the official Vertigo tour and travel operator, is contacting its clients individually to discuss refunds and transfers. Air New Zealand is offering fans with non-refundable tickets to Auckland free ticket transfers when new concert dates are announced. Qantas Airlines is offering a 'special waiver' to fans with tickets if they contact the airline before Monday, March 13. U2log.com encourages fans who have helpful information about changing or cancelling travel plans to contact us so the information can be shared with the fan community." on: U2log
:: Regina O'Numb 3/10/2006 05:16:26 PM [+] ::
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Mysterious Ways
U2´s fan wuerc, from Poland is sharing: from the Charlotte 2001 show? Mysterious Ways
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Watch 'Love Is Blindness'
from Buenos Aires I here
:: Regina O'Numb 3/10/2006 01:41:24 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: at Rod Stewart concert / the bottle remains unopened / boots in Philadelphia.

"Boy" tour - march 10, 1981. U2 perform in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at Barrymore's.

"October" tour - march 10, 1982. U2 perform in Knoxville, Tennessee at the University of Tennessee. After the set U2 attend a Rod Stewart concert, and arrive in time to catch the second half of the show.

March 10 1983 U2 perform in Birmingham, England at the Odeon Theatre. After "Party Girl", Bono announces to the crowd that "War" has entered the UK charts at number one. Bono asks for a bottle of champagne, and is unable to open it. Tour manager, Dennis Sheehan, comes on stage and attempts to open it, but is also unable to. A man from the crowd is allowed on stage and again vainly attempts to open the bottle. The Edge finally rips into "11 O'Clock Tick Tock", and the bottle remains unopened.

"ZOOTV" tour - march 10, 1992. U2 perform in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Spectrum Arena. At the end of the show, a fan jumps up on stage and attempts to hug Bono. Security grabs him, but Bono waves them off. Bono returns the hug, and the man hands Bono his boots. The Philadelphia local, the "Courier Post" writes that the concert "wasn't quite the affiar some over-enthusiastic reviewers in other cities made it out to be. Too many times, the band seemed to be overshadowed by its toys." However, not all the local papers are as negative; a reviewer in the "Philadelphia Inquirer" writes that the show was "powerful and effective enough to restore faith in rock & roll in this cynical 30-year old pop music critic." Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".
:: Regina O'Numb 3/10/2006 01:41:19 PM [+] ::
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Many will see and hear: the future is better
I waited patiently for the Lord.
He inclined and heard my cry.
He brought me up out of the pit
Out of the miry clay.

I will sing, sing a new song.
I will sing, sing a new song.
How long to sing this song?
How long to sing this song?
How long, how long, how long
How long to sing this song?

You set my feet upon a rock
And made my footsteps firm.
Many will see, many will see and hear.

I will sing, sing a new song.
I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song.
I will sing, sing a new song
How long to sing this song?
How long to sing this song?
How long to sing this song?
How long to sing this song?

PS: Now isn't important any name, no speculation, no rumor; only a positive energy, a prayer from any religion...this is the time...to be ONE, all U2´s fans as ONE, increasing a big wave of love, good things, lights; but very very very strong and honest with total respect for U2...I´m sure everything will be fine
:: Regina O'Numb 3/9/2006 10:11:10 PM [+] ::
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'Desire' for the first time during 'Vertigo' tour

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). As her name was Desirê, which means Desire, she begged Bono and Edge to play her song, she even showed Bono her ID, so that he would believe her. 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. This moment was perfect, Edge rocks 'Desire' with Bono so loud, on feb 21!

:: Regina O'Numb 3/9/2006 09:58:49 PM [+] ::
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Vertigo '06: Final Dates Postponed.
It is with great regret that tour promoter The Next Adventure announces the postponement of the final ten dates of U2's Vertigo '06 tour. This action is unavoidable due to the illness of an immediate family member of one of the band. The effected dates are listed below. 'Any fan of U2 will realise that this decision has not been taken lightly', said TNA President Arthur Fogel. 'We will announce further details as soon as we have them.' The effected shows, which are all sold out, are: March 17th & 18th, Ericcson Stadium AUCKLAND; 21st, Queensland Sports & Athletics Centre BRISBANE; 24TH & 25TH, Telstra Dome, MELBOURNE; 28th, AAMI Stadium ADELAIDE; 31st & 1st April, Telstra Stadium, SYDNEY; 4th, Nissan Stadium YOKOHAMA; 8th Aloha Stadium, HONOLULU. We'll bring you more news on U2.Com as we get it.
read on: U2.com

PS: the fans will understand very well, and thanks for the informations, before all the cruel rumors and speculations
:: Regina O'Numb 3/9/2006 01:49:19 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: "The Joshua Tree" is released / scalpers in 92 / 7 U2 albums crack UK Top 100.

"Boy" tour - march 9, 1981. U2 perform in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at Le Club.

"War" tour - march 9, 1983. U2 perform in Poole, England at the Arts Centre. Support is "The Nightcaps".

"The Joshua Tree" is released - march 9, 1987. "The Joshua Tree" is released and quickly goes to #1 worldwide. It debuts at #7 on the American BillBoard charting system, and marks the first time U2 has had a Top Ten album in the United States. It is the first album to sell more than 1 million copies on CD; the fastest selling album in British music history and enters the U.S. chart at #7, U2's best debut yet. The band appear at the Belfast Tower Records at midnight, signing autographs and speaking with fans who are there to purchase the album. More than a thousand fans line up at midnight outside a London record store to buy the record as early as possible -- one of those fans in line is singer Elvis Costello.

"ZOOTV" tour - march 9, 1992. U2 perform in Uniondale, New York at Nassau Coliseum. Bono comments on the high-prices for tickets that are being demanded from scalpers: "I hope nobody paid too much, I heard somebody paid $500 to get in tonight...Let me tell you, we are not worth that price." Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies". Larry, Adam, and Edge take up their positions on stage. Bono runs onto the stage, behind Larry, then to his microphone. There is near total darkness, only the tip of Bono's cigarette is visible. He launches into "I could have lost you" before Edge lets loose with the opening riff of Zoo Station.

"7 U2 albums crack UK Top 100" - march 9, 2001: European Elevation tickets sell fast - 7 U2 albums crack UK Top 100.Tickets for U2's concerts in the UK, Ireland, and The Netherlands sell out at record paces. The Slane Festival sellout leads to hostile scenes at Irish ticket outlets as fans are disappointed with the 45-minute sellout. U2 and concert promoter MCD begin an effort to get Irish planning laws changed to allow two shows at Slane instead of on each year. With U2's popularity soaring, seven albums land in the UK's Top 100 albums chart: All That You Can't Leave Behind at No 3, The Joshua Tree at No 24, The Best Of 1980-1990 at No 25, Achtung Baby at No. 37, Rattle And Hum at No 53, Zooropa at No 93 and POP at No 97.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/9/2006 01:49:09 PM [+] ::
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For the first time, 'The First Time'

On feb 21, when the first chords of 'The First Time' were played I closed my eyes and thought to myself, 'they are playing...' Unbeliavable, they played at the first time in a stadium, this lovely song. What could I say more? They destroyed me.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/8/2006 11:00:19 PM [+] ::
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Who's working for who here?

Bono was soaked in sweat, and he joked with Edge in the beginning of Stuck In A Moment - only on feb 20, touching him and saying "no sweat", the he touched himself and said "sweat" and then "who´s working for who here?" (Edge´s smile). Great moment. Bono and Edge sing at the mini stage (Edge´s side), and when Edge begins his wonder falseto Larry and Adam join them, fantastic. It´s an angel singing...Thank you so much God!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/8/2006 10:21:44 PM [+] ::
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Wings
'An insane person of God cried abundantly in the way of the night and said: "Here is what is the world as I see it: a closed safe where we are locked up, under, without measure, to madness, lost in the darkness of our sin and our pride. When the death raises the cover of this safe, that one that has wings flies until the perpetual day. But, that one that who is unprovided of wings remains in the safe, imprisoned of a thousand angush". Give to the bird of spiritual ambition the wings of the direction; give the heart to the reason and extase to the soul. Before they take off the cover of this box, make yourself bird of spiritual way and extend your wings and your pens..." The Language of the Birds (so sorry for my poor and bad English language)
:: Regina O'Numb 3/8/2006 09:37:54 PM [+] ::
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN´S DAY



In this day, I wish all the women in this world could have the place to do their best!
I dedicate this message to Morleigh Steinberg, Edge´s wife, cause not only she does Edge, as the happiest man, not only she´s mum of the two Edge´s childrens. not only she´s a great filmmaker, choreographer, dancer; but mixed with those ways, cause she´s too, just like the members of U2, she has a strong social conscience...in 1988, after performing in the music video "They Dance Alone," Sting's protest song against General Pinochet's military regime, her dance company, ISO, organised a dance benefit as a fundraiser for Amnesty International. She was at the backing vocals during "The Tribute To Heros", with U2 performing "Peace On Earth" / "Walk On". She, as Edge, have a commitment with justice and freedom.
MORLEIGH YOU´RE AWESOME, AND I WISH YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE!
Congratulations, also to Suzie, Ali, Ann, my friends JuClayton, nomad_cais, Vic, Heather, Rose, Geisa, Carmen Hernandez, Debbie Ann; my sisters Patricia and Sandra; my mum at the satellite of love...
by Regina O'Numb
:: Regina O'Numb 3/8/2006 04:08:16 PM [+] ::
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RUMOR: New U2 album due later this year?
It's been a month since U2 cleaned house at the 2006 Grammy Awards, winning five tropies including the 'Album of the Year' award for their album "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb," but already talk has shifted to the possibility of the band releasing a brand new album later this year. Though reports remain unsubstantiated, the band has dropped many hints over the past year or so on the interest of recording and releasing a brand new album. After U2's tour with hip-hop superstar Kanye West last year, lead singer Bono stated that the band will "experiment" with newly inspired ideas from hip-hop music, though it's unsure if this new "experimental" material would be included on an upcoming album. In the January 2006 edition of Q Magazine, Bono said that the band was working on a new album for 2006, yet many expect the record to hit shelves in early 2007. In a December 2004 interview with Rolling Stone, Bono revealed that there were twenty-four songs that came out of the How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb sessions with only eleven of them making the cut - leaving thirteen tracks unreleased. Some of the rumoured songs to possibly appear on the next album include "North Star" - a song from the HTDAAB sessions; "Lead Me In The Way I Should Go" - first mentioned in the Feburary 2003 issue of Grammy Magazine; and "Mercy" - described in Blender magazine as "a six and a half-minute outpouring of U2 at its most uninhibitedly U2-ish."
read on: monstersandcritisc
:: Regina O'Numb 3/8/2006 04:07:46 PM [+] ::
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Happy (belated) Birthday Rose!
Heath, peace, love, success, harmony, hope for you dear Rose and your cute family. I wish your dreams come true...one of them was realised...you were at hot area, during the both shows in Sao Paulo (she´s the one with white cap, beside JuClayton with red bandana, in this photo. Have all the goals with your profession, the doctor from Maceio!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/8/2006 04:07:21 PM [+] ::
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Vertigo Buenos Aires TV Broadcast (audio)
"Aca les dejo para descargar el show del 1º de marzo en Buenos Aires, transmitido por canal Telefe el dia 2 de marzo, la calidad del audio es muy buena, pero el show fue transmitido incompleto." by alejobonovox - 01. City of Blinding Lights / 02. Vertigo / 03. Elevation / 04. Until the End of the World / 05. New Year's Day / 06. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / 07. Beautiful Day / 08. Sunday Bloody Sunday / 09. Bullet the Blue Sky / 10. Miss Sarajevo / 11. Pride / 12. Where the Streets Have No Name / 13. One / 14. Mysterious Ways / 15. With or Without You - on: savefile - MP3 a 160 Kb/s.
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Complete audio of Buenos Aires II
part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4
:: Regina O'Numb 3/8/2006 03:24:17 PM [+] ::
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Audio from Buenos Aires II
Source: internet webcast. All I Want Is You // The First Time // // With Or Without You // Original Of The Species
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Some great photos of U2 in Argentina
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Audio of Tibetan Freedom 97:
June 7th, 1997 - POPMart tour - US - on: savefile : 01 - Gone // 02 - Mysterious Ways // 03 - One // 04 - Until The End Of The World // 05 - Please.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/8/2006 02:56:37 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: some villanous / Larry´s pain in his left hand / "Old Grey Whistle Test" / Vertigo Tour 3rd leg ticket presale is a smashing success!

"War" tour - march 8, 1983. U2 perform in Exeter, England at the University. The escaped inmate from the night before has convinced authorities to let all the centre's occupants attend this concert. They authorities allow them to, and Bono meets with them afterwards. Bono: "Some of them looked really villanous, but they were all were behaved." Support is "The Nightcaps".

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 8, 1985. U2 perform in San Francisco, California at the Cow Palace. On the second day, before the show, the band have a serious scare. Larry is rushed to the hospital complaining of pain in his left hand, a problem that he has been keeping from the rest of the band. The diagnosis is akin to "Tennis Elbow" of the wrist. The doctor's advice to Larry is to take two weeks off and relax, but Larry replies that that is out of the question--the band has a major tour schedule to keep. The doctor designs a plaster cast that can be removed so that Larry can play the concerts, and keep it in the cast off-stage. He is also given pain killers to help with the discomfort. At that evening's show, Larry is clearly in pain, and a song or two is cut short. During "Electric Co.", Bono jokes, "I hope you people at the back don't feel left out, because you're just as close to the music. It's not about being close to the musicians, the music's much more important, I think. Anyway, The Edge has got smelly feet, you know." Support is "Red Rockers".

"Old Grey Whistle Test" - march 8, 1987. U2 perform seven songs on TV in Belfast, Northern Ireland at Balmoral TV Studios for "Old Grey Whistle Test". Amongst the seven songs, are three new songs, performed for the first time: "Trip Through Your Wires", "Exit" and "In God's Country". This is the first time the band has returned to the stage to perform in seven months. The next day, U2's latest work "The Joshua Tree" will be released worldwide. Bono is voted as "Sexiest Male Rock Artist" on the Rolling Stone Reader's Poll.

Vertigo Tour 3rd leg ticket presale is a smashing success - march 8, 2005. Internet presales for the 3rd leg of U2's Vertigo Tour begin today, and unlike the failure of the 1st and 2nd leg presales six weeks earlier, today's is an overwhelming success. As Larry Mullen had promised a month ago in a letter to fans posted on U2.com, the system is overhauled for today's presale. U2.com members who were also members of the Propaganda fan club are the only ones able to order tickets today, and fans are thrilled with the experience. Other U2.com members are able to order tickets later in the week, and again those presales are an overall success. The new system appears to include more tickets for U2.com members to choose from, as well as higher quality seats. Unlike the earlier presale, there are few complaints, if any, from fans that the only tickets available are in the upper levels or far away from the stage.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/8/2006 02:51:47 PM [+] ::
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It was a beautiful day. I didn´t want let it get away...

photo from feb 21
"...yellow, green...Sao Paulo...Amazonas, Amapa, Santa Catarina...Amazonas, ocean..." and Bono flourished the song as this was a beautiful day 20. Edge was sweet when the song was the tranguility sea, and after he played so aggressively, really Edge was 110% and U2, too, they were 110%. At the final Bono said: "Brasil é um país bonito" = 'Brazil is a beautiful country', and after Bono makes some movments as a soccer player kicking a ball to mke a goool, he talks 'Ronaldo', celebrates the goool and shows 6 fingers, speaking 'Six'. Beautiful Day on feb 20 was brillant, but on feb 21 was better, believe was better on the second show. 'Unbelievable!'
:: Regina O'Numb 3/7/2006 09:13:38 PM [+] ::
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ADAM CLAYTON´S BIRTHDAY CARD 2006
Hello, Hello, U2´s fans.
What could we give as a birthday´s present to a guy who have everything in this world? I think a Birthday Card is a good idea as a Surprise Party. A party is a private thing...so, the card is a nice way to the fans. Then, I would like to invite all of you to write a message to Adam Clayton, celebrating his 46th B-Day. You must to click on "comments :: 3.7.2006 :: "; then will open a box, and you´ll write your name (Seu nome), your e-mail (Seu e-mail), your URL (Seu site) if you have one; after, type your message (you can include your URL and e-mail into the message if you prefer) and click on "Salvar"; this box will be closed and will open another box, and all you need to do... click on "Fechar". I´ll copy the messages and I´ll past it on the post. This card will be sent to Cecilia-U2 World Service by web, and to the Principal Management by P.O....Who knows he could be very very curious on next Monday abou his card...and he could read the messages...

"Adam Clayton´s Birthday Card 2005":
(photo, words and art-work by JuClayton)
U2´s CARDS

Thank you so much.
by Regina O'Numb
:: Regina O'Numb 3/7/2006 09:13:16 PM [+] ::
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BONO IS RIGHT
by Joao Mellao Neto (Estadão) - The Irish Bono, for who does not know, is the leader of the best band of rock of the moment, the U2, that was in these days in Brazil. Bono is different of the other rockstars. He has ideas and politics certainties and devotes to them with equal tenacity to that he dedicates to music. It gives to take it serious it? Yes, it gives. For greater that is the preconception that the clarified elites have in relation to the discernment of the stars, the fact is that Bono is a special case. He is received with respect and reverence for the heads from State from all the countries that he visits. He has what to say, and it isn´t about place-common or trivialities. He makes success in Davos, for example. And is not singing that it conquest the austere 'crowd' World Economic Forum. Bono is an activist politician. And, as such, one of the most respected of the present time. His support is his immense popularity to divulge his ideals. And these are not even utopian triflers. It is sad that the Brazilian media, with few exceptions, almost no attention dedicated to the politics ideas politics of Bono. They preferred to give detached to the music and the eventual eccentricities and extravagrancies so common in stars of the rock. If some agency of the press had made use to interview him (the serious one) on subjects politicians, the readers would have been surpresing with the property and the knowledge of cause that Bono possesss. The singer of U2 is an applied disciple and dileto of economist Jeffrey Sachs. And Sachs, in turn, is considered by the magazine Times as one of the one hundred more influential people of the world. Jeffrey Sachs launched, in the last year, a shining and enlightening book prefaced by Bono. The tittle is 'The End of the Poverty', already translated and published in Brazil. For who still finds that rock musician place is in stage, that leaves of side the prayers of Bono and treats to read very based arguments of Sachs well. The same one, by the way, that the singer defends. The main thesis of its workmanship is that it is possible to finish with the misery in the world until the year of 2025. Less than two decades. Not, isn't about plus one of these utopian words of order, launched for inconsequential leftists in delirious environments as World Social Fórum. Sachs possesss a respectable biography to watch over. Many of the economists and managers of the FMI and the World Bank had been his pupils in Harvard. He idealized and to lead the well-succeeded transistion of the Poland from the socialism for the market economy. It was, also, one of the main consultants whom if countries had been valid díspares as India and Russia in its process of economic opening. On, currently, to the University of Columbia, he is, in the academic community of U.S.A., unanimity, celebrated as one of the economists most brillant of its generation. Made the presentations, we entry in the merit of his thesis. History teaches us that the humanity puts the problems when its already apt to solve them. To speak in end of the misery, two generations ago, did not make sense, a time that half of the world population was needy. To nail to the end of the misery, a generation ago, was utopian, since a third of the humanity was needy. To consider the end of the misery in the current generation is something viable, since the villains had reduced only to fifth of the inhabitants of the planet. The world today - for the first time in all History - possesss economic resources, administrative capacity and technology adjusted in volume enough to finish of time with the still existing places of misery. What it lacks, therefore, is wishe politics to make it. Is not about charity or assistencialismo. It is not intended, here, to give money to the poor persons to become them rich. What if it considers, only, is that if it gives an efficient aid that allows to be helped them. Of about 6 billion human beings, 1 billion already arrived at the top of the economic stairs and 4 billion already had almost cheated to arrived to the little its lower steps. It remains about 1,4 billion. These do not have conditions, for itself proper, to reach the first step not even. The recent phenomenon of the economic globalization - in contrast of that they affirm the angry activists of the Social Forum - cheated to make true miracles. The possibility of insertion in the world-wide commerce took off of the misery many hundreds of millions of people, in special in Asia. Even though nations that were the symbol of the misery two decades ago, as Bangladesh and Vietnam, today possess real perspectives to prosper. The problem is, in the truth, the countries that, by diverse reasons, never will be reached by the globalization. Are peoples unfed, devasted for illnesses as the AIDS and the malaria, whose States do not possess the minimum resources to decide its deficiencies. In diverse international foruns, the developed nations already had been committed to direct 0.7% of its PIBs, during ten years, for the Goals of Development of the Milênio, a program articulated and concrete elaborated for the UN. What the Sachs and Bono plead is only that these nations fulfill what they had promised. It´s a good idea to read the book of Sachs. Its arguments shining and are very well based. It´s a good idea, also, to hear the words of Bono. They are not inconsequential or trivial prayers, nor it is useful to the so common easy demagogy in the quixotic causes that the artists frequently defeat. The Goals of the Milenio will not be reached if it will not have leaderships as Bono - and he with any doubt is a leader enters the young - to mobilize the public opinion in the direction to sensetize and to pressure the governing of the rich nations so that they fulfill its part. This is a historical paper of which our generation cannot be given to the luxury of if exempting. Let us appreciate the beautiful musics sung for Bono. But - mainly - let us hear, also, what he has to say." by Joao Mellão Neto, journalist, was Federal Deputy, was Secretary and Minister of State. Email: j.mellao@uol.com.br
read on: diegocasagrande
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I worked with Joao Mellao Neto. I admire his tech view...so sorry for my bad and poor Engish version, but the article is very good

:: Regina O'Numb 3/7/2006 09:05:22 PM [+] ::
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Interjections, exclamations and onomatopoeia in Brazilian Portuguese - psiu / opa / piu-piu / au-au By Mark Taylor - When I first arrived in Brazil, other than battling with Portuguese, there was also the battle of trying to understand other colloquialisms that are used to communicate. One example of this is the commonly used interjection "psiu" (pronounced "pseeuu" or something like this). It is primarily used when someone's trying to catch your attention, although at first I thought they were trying to shoot me with a blowdart or do an impression of a flat tyre. Another similar sounding interjection is "shiu" (pronounced something like "sheeuu"). Rather than trying to catch your attention this is usually the opposite, and is a lighthearted attempt at basically telling you to "shut up". In Britain at least there's a a similar noise "shoo", mostly for quite literally shooing say an animal away. Usually used as an exclamation there's "opa" (pronounced something like "op-ah"). It can be spoken in many situations, for example if you almost trip over, or even if you're showing happiness as your mug of beer arrives. Of course it might be mistaken for a hiccup. It's also interesting to see how onomatopoeic words vary between English and Brazilian Portuguese. For example birds don't go "tweet tweet" or "cheep cheep", they go "piu-piu" (pronounced something like "peeoo-peeoo"). Piu-Piu is also the character that English speakers will know as Tweety, from the cartoon with Sylvester the cat. Some more examples of this. A dog doesn't bark "woof woof", he goes "au au". As my wife often reminds me in reference to our dog, he does speak Portuguese after all. Ducks go "quá quá", a somewhat similar version of "quack quack". A rooster does a somewhat similarly complex "cocoricó" as opposed to a "cockledoodledoo". Last but not least, a pig goes "croinh croinh" which again is similar to an "oink oink".
read on: gringoes
:: Regina O'Numb 3/7/2006 07:34:57 PM [+] ::
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Becoming a paid subscriber to U2.com is great! (I am)
...Don't forget that if you are thinking of becoming a paid Subscriber to U2.Com and accessing all the special benefits, we'll also mail you a copy of the double-disc set 'U2.Communication' which is not available in the shops. It features eight live tracks from the tour and a great collection of visual and interactive content. Read about the offer - and take a free online tour. Thanks for reading, we'll be in touch with more U2 news soon. Best wishes
U2.Com Team.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/7/2006 06:13:27 PM [+] ::
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Peter Rowen interview
... they've probably produced one of the most consistently impressive collections of images of any rock band in existence. The four young band members standing in front of the joshua tree, The Fly and MacPhisto wreaking havoc on the Zoo TV tour, Bono in a bubble bath -- the list goes on. But for me, the most prominent U2-related image has always been one that didn't feature any of the band members. It's the album cover for War and it still gets to me to this day. The stark contrast of the red lettering juxtaposed with the timeless black and white photo of an angry child says so much, by simply saying so little. It's haunting, yet innocent. And I hear "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in my head every time I glance at it. I knew that Peter Rowen, the model for those covers, was the younger brother of Bono's friend Guggi. I also remembered that he did some acting in Ireland in the years following his work with U2. What I didn't know is that he grew up to be a successful photographer. And I found that to be especially interesting. Who would guess the subject of such a famous photo would grow up to be a photographer himself? I recently caught up with Peter, who is based in Dublin, and he kindly agreed to a session of Q & A, via e-mail....
look for some excellent photos by Peter Rowen on U2 here
read whole interview by Tassoula E. Kokkoris on @u2.com


:: Regina O'Numb 3/7/2006 04:38:10 PM [+] ::
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"Adam Clayton´s Birthday Card 2005":
(photo, words and art-work by JuClayton)
U2´s CARDS
:: Regina O'Numb 3/7/2006 01:48:33 PM [+] ::
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U2 'Vertigo' tour 2006 in Argentina - 3D during 3 days
James Cameron worked during this time in Argentina (feb 28, march 1 and 2), and the movie will be released only to the cinema with the technology IMX (actually only 200 cinema-rooms all around the world). On march 2007, will be released in DVD
look for some great photos on: svc-gallery
read on: svc
:: Regina O'Numb 3/7/2006 12:57:36 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: the return to The Ritz...guitar have a muscularity... / an inmate is in the audience / being in a band´s speech!

"Boy" tour - march 7, 1981. U2 perform in New York City, New York at The Ritz. They return to the stage where months before they made their spectacular North American debut. Support is "Our Daughter's Wedding"."...U2's musical focus is its gifted guitarist, ''The Edge'' Evans, whose extended lyrical guitar flights have a muscularity and an exotic flavor similar to Tom Verlaine. Mr. Evans knows exactly how far to push his mysticism without its turning sickly, and his best solos have a passionate emotionality that is rare in rock these days..." by NYTimes march 1981.

"October" tour - march 7, 1982. The J. Geils Band/U2 cancel a date in Jacksonville, Florida at Jacksonville University.

"War" tour - march 7, 1983. U2 perform in Bristol, England at Colston Hall. During "Surrender", Bono sings part of Micheal Jackson's "Billie Jean", a current top 40 hit. An inmate from a Devon remand centre is in the audience tonight--he returns to the centre after the show. Support is "The Nightcaps".

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 7, 1985. U2 perform in San Francisco, California at the Cow Palace. Bono, as he did in Bologna, Italy on February 5th, introduces "Seconds" as "a message to the President, a message to Ronald Reagan...We make enough noise here, you can hear us in The White House, in Washington. This is a song called 'Seconds'...you see it takes a second to say good-bye!" Fans throw their shoes onstage, and Bono remarks "There's no business like shoe-business.." Bono introduces "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" with a long speech about being in a band: "It doesn't seem that long ago that were 16 and 17, and we were playing to just one person or maybe 10 people. It's just great to play to so many thousands of people now. There's probably a lot of young bands out there...garage bands from GarageLand. If you're playing for one person or two people, you give them as much as you give to anybody here...We don't need stadiums and large PA's and fancy equipment..you don't need that. It has taken me seven years to learn that all you need is maybe three or four chords, and you can write a song...a song like this man wrote. This song gives us a lot of strength, and I dedicate it to the man who wrote it..." Bono, as he did at the previous concerts in Los Angeles on March 2,4,6, pulls an audience member on stage to play with the band. Support is "Red Rockers".

"ZOOTV" tour - march 7, 1992. U2 perform in Hampton, Virgina at the Coliseum. Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".
:: Regina O'Numb 3/7/2006 12:57:19 PM [+] ::
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Intense and sweet!

I have found what I was looking for: U2: Edge&Co. On feb 20 (this photo is from this day), Bono starts the song: "'Cup World. Go to the hexa. U2 is Irish. God is Brazilian'...Bono welcomes the crowd from the Brazil´s states as Amazonas, Santa Catarina, Bahia at Morumbi stadium and the Church part starts...intense, sweet, super power of love, the crowd choral and Edge´s chords, Edge´s eyes. Edge is total angel, it´s amazing. I have some feelings that Edge´s praying to the whole crowd. So deep. At the final of the song Bono sings Brazil´s 'Cielito Lindo'..."Ai, ai, ai, está chegando a hora" (Ai, ai, ai, it´s arriving the time)...and the crowd contines..."o dia já vem raiando meu bem, eu tenho que ir embora...." (the sunrise is happening, my love, I must go out off...). I Still Haven´t Found What I´m Looking For was sensational, from both shows; on the second Bono invite the fans to a prive party, cause this show on feb 21, there´s not transmition by TV.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/6/2006 09:04:15 PM [+] ::
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The Nation´s Favourite Lyric - Vote for U2´s lyrics
Choose your favourite and enter it along with your information into these boxes below then click submit!
96 - U2 - One / "One life, with each other sisters brothers" - "One Words by Bono (c) 1991 Blue Mountain Music Ltd Administered in the UK by Fairwood Music Ltd Used with kind permission
97 - U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name / "I want to run, I want to hide, I want to tear down the walls, that hold me inside" - Where The Streets Have No Name Words by Bono (c) 1987 Blue Mountain Music Ltd Administered in the UK by Fairwood Music Ltd Used with kind permission
98 - U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love) / "One man come on a barbed wire fence, One man he resist, One man washed on an empty beach, One man betrayed with a kiss." - Pride (In The Name Of Love) Words by Bono (c) 1984 Blue Mountain Music Ltd Administered in the UK by Fairwood Music Ltd Used with kind permission
read on: MTV

:: Regina O'Numb 3/6/2006 09:01:04 PM [+] ::
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Diego Maradona Nicks Bono's Hat
After Buenos Aires concert...U2 front man Bono may have enjoyed playing front of a crowd of thousands on Thursday night in Buenos Aires but he may have been upset afterwards to find out someone had nicked his hat. And the culprit turned out to be none other than legendary Argentinean footballer Diego Maradona who turned up for the gig. Maradona was spotted hanging out with the band after the show and swapping headgear with Bono in mid conversation. The notorious 'Hand of God' man then left the building still wearing the hat showing he'd lost none of his devious touch.
read on: gigwise
:: Regina O'Numb 3/6/2006 09:00:38 PM [+] ::
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Dear U2.Com Subscriber,
Since we last mailed you the band have swept the board at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles and opened the final leg of the Vertigo Tour playing to stadiums in Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. There's lots to update you on. First up, the Grammys, where the band won in each of five categories in which they were nominated, including Album of the Year for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.Check out our reports and our backstage photos. And if you were knocked out by Mary J Blige's duet with the band for 'One', we've just posted a video of the performance for our subscribers only - and also of the band playing Vertigo. Mary J has recorded a studio version of One which features Bono and you can now download it. The final leg of the tour is well underway and we're carrying show reports, set lists and photos at every stop. In Chile last weekend band and Paul McGuinness were honoured by President-elect, Michelle Bachelet, when she presented them with Amnesty International's 'Ambassadors of Conscience' award. As U2.Com Subscribers, you have unrivalled access to behind-the-scenes life on the tour thanks to the diaries of Show Designer Willie Williams. Here's Willie, facing a dilemma after the second show in Brazil last week. 'It was half past midnight and I had to leave for the airport at 5am. Either I could go to my room and pack, catch maybe three hours sleep then get up feeling like death - or I could go to the bar. On reflection it was a no-brainer. The bar was jumping. Bono arrived with Naomi Campbell and Quincy Jones in tow and the place was packed with the great and good of Sao Paulo...' Latest road diaries here. 'Original of the Species', is now available to download in several countries, both the single and the acclaimed Catherine Owens-directed video. Check out the video in full right now..Can't leave you without mentioning that there's a very cool new item just gone on sale in the U2.Com Shop raising funds for musicians who lost their instruments after the Gulf Coast hurricanes. Edge recently launched the charity Music Rising and now a special T-shirt - same as the one he wore at the Grammy Awards - has been produced to boost fund-raising. Feel the quality here. Thanks for reading, we'll be in touch with more U2 news soon.
Best wishes
U2.Com Team.

:: Regina O'Numb 3/6/2006 09:00:06 PM [+] ::
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When you miss anything...
Over 75 per cent of the population believes in ESP (extra-sensory preception), and a majority in precognition. Reports of apparitions, of telepathy, and other strange phenomena have been rife since antiquity. Science has made such staggering advances in explaining the world around us that paranormal events - those that seem to contradict scientific laws - appear all the more suspect. These dismissive attitudes are fundamentally non-scientific. Where evidence for the paranormal exists, scientists have a responsibility to examine and evaluate that evidence. Investigate poltergeists, the mystique and the powers of mediums and faith healers, and the effects of sensory deprivation, meditation and hypnosis on paranormal human abilities (psi). Recently findings concerning mind-over-matter experiments, life beyond death and the effects of personality, sex differences and the environment on the way that psi operates. When you miss anything, and don´t know explain it, you don´t know what´s missing. What could be? Not the object, of course, but the feelings...What could be?

:: Regina O'Numb 3/6/2006 08:44:22 PM [+] ::
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Some scans of U2 in Brazil

:: Regina O'Numb 3/6/2006 04:12:14 PM [+] ::
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Bono - Bono's life has already contained 100 times as much as a normal person's ...Maybe, Bono's life has already contained 100 times as much as a normal person's, despite having only inhabited the planet for 44 years. He's slept in Brezhnev's bed, enjoyed cigars with Clinton, had Gorbachov turn up for Sunday lunch (and forgotten he was coming!), been chastised by Tutu, given sunglasses to the Pope, hung out with DJ'ing supermodels, taken advice from Johnny Cash and addressed the US Senate on perhaps the biggest issue of this century. Not bad for someone who doesn't take himself too seriously. The man is an impressive human being who oozes a deep rooted spirituality, yet admits that very religious people make him shudder. He seems to know his way around family life, good wine, real politik, music and art. What's not to like about him?! To read about his life, his energy, his desires and his humility will probably challenge you in at least seven different directions all at the same time. Even if you don't care for his music, any person who most admires grace as a characteristic, is probably going to be worth finding out more about....with Michka Assayas
:: Regina O'Numb 3/6/2006 03:06:19 PM [+] ::
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U2 sign the petition to the women rights in Argentina
Bono, Adam, Larry, Edge, Paul McGuinness and President of Irish Amnesty International, Gaby Smyth, signed a petiton to ratificate the Protocol of UN in 1999, about the women rights. Argentina is the only country of Mercosul, that didn´t ratificate it. Bono said: "Argentina is a great country and this is a great thing to do". Next march 8, is the International Day of the Women.
read on: tucumanaldia
:: Regina O'Numb 3/6/2006 03:00:39 PM [+] ::
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Video of "The Sweetest Thing"
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Watch Fuse TV U2 Special
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Audio - Buenos Aires II
City Of Blinding Lights

:: Regina O'Numb 3/6/2006 03:00:17 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: two shows at the Paradise Theater and some great b-sides / part of U2 met a garage-band / up international charts / U2 announces the 3rd leg of 'Vertigo' tour!.

"Boy" tour - march 6, 1981. (Two shows) U2 perform in Boston, Massachusetts at the Paradise Theater. Several of the songs are turned into B-sides: "Out of Control" appears on the "I Will Follow" single, "Fire/J.Swallow" is released in the UK, and a seven inch single with "Cry/Electric Co." and "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" is given away for free. "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" and "The Ocean" are also released as B-sides for the single in 1992. "I Will Follow" appears as the B-side to "Gloria". The show is recorded and used for promotional purposes by Warner Brothers. WBCN has been supporting U2 ever since, playing tracks from "Boy" and advertising the shows. Support is "La Peste".

"October" tour - march 6, 1982. U2 perform in Tallahassee, Florida at the Leon Country Arena. The same day, German WDR TV broadcasts the "Rockpalast" concert from November 4, 1981. After the show, Larry, Adam and Bono are walking outside and hear a garage-band playing. During the conversation, the band request U2 perform "I Will Follow".

"War" tour - march 6, 1983. U2 perform in Portsmouth, England at Guildhall. Bono mentions his distaste for a journalist that "doesn't get it"--the journalist in question comments that the songs do not do anything for him. Bono quotes some lines from "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in his explanation and then sings the entire song. Support is "The Nightcaps".

"U2 rises up international record charts" - march 6, 2002. Flush off the success of winning four Grammy Awards, U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind climbs up the album sales charts in countries including Australia, Canada, and the U.S. It moves from no. 46 to no. 19 in Australia and from no. 28 to no. 10 in the U.S.

U2 announces 3rd leg of Vertigo Tour - march 6, 2005. U2 surprises many fans with its announcement today of dates and cities for the 3rd leg of the Vertigo Tour -- which won't begin for more than six months. The announcement lists 33 initial dates beginning in Toronto in mid-September and continuing almost until Christmas with a final show in Portland. The 3rd leg is longer than previously thought, and means U2 won't visit Japan or Australia in 2005.

:: Regina O'Numb 3/6/2006 02:43:55 PM [+] ::
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Begin, again; begin again.

The classic is the classic, and New Year´s Day is the true example. Bono announces Adam Claytom, The Edge, Larry Mullen...he talks, too Bruce? and the crowd with that white shirt, makes a white wave when the view is from above, representing the new year´s day in Europe, so strange and amazing...white snow near the Equador´s line...in the tropical´s land. Edge plays so wonder as his competence shows: guitar and keyboard. During the performance on feb 20, Bono appears eating a cookie, called Bono (the story was posted yesterday). In the final Bono add 'Obrigado Franz Ferdinand' = 'Thanks Franz Ferdinand'. Edge is 110%, again on feb 20, and on feb 21st, everything were better...
:: Regina O'Numb 3/5/2006 07:51:24 PM [+] ::
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Freedom of Dublin for Bob and Ronnie
Bob Geldof will be awarded the Freedom of Dublin today. The outspoken musician has been selected to receive the honour for his work in helping alleviate debt and famine in the developing world. Former Olympic gold medallist Ronnie Delaney will also receive the honour, 50 years after his victory in the 1500 metres at the Melbourne Olympics. The award is the highest the city can bestow. Past recipients include U2, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton.
read on: irishexaminer
:: Regina O'Numb 3/5/2006 07:49:51 PM [+] ::
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Bono loved this fruit in Brazil
'Taste this fruit', says Flora Gil. 'It´s sirigüela.' The singer take one."Wowww", says. "Wowww!!! Very good."...look for this siriguela here, and read, too


:: Regina O'Numb 3/5/2006 07:33:40 PM [+] ::
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Listen to - Buenos Aires II:
New Year's Day - ISHFWILF - Beautiful Day - Sunday Bloody Sunday // Bullet the Blue Sky - Miss Sarajevo - Human Rights - Pride (In the Name of Love) // Where the Streets Have No Name - One - Mysterious Ways - With or Without You
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Audio of 'Desire' from Brazil - Sao Paulo II
to record: rapidshare
:: Regina O'Numb 3/5/2006 06:36:43 PM [+] ::
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Give both to the deserving and the undeserving!
...There is a legend that the praise for building the Cathedral of St. Sofia was not given to the Emperor Constantine but to Euphrasia, a poor widow who drew from her mattress "a wisp of straw and gave it to the oxen" that draw the marble from the ships. That was all, she did nothing more. He opened their eyes to many things which they and this generation greatly need to know. These messages are a spiritual stimulus. We hear much of the decline of the drama. Think of this piece of real drama of our own times. "He was in the world and the world knew Him not." Two poor, brave women were courageously fighting against sickness and penury. They were facing a hopeless future and one of them even longed to be quit of this hard world for good. And then He spoke. And spoke again! Day after day He comes and cheers them. And though they still have their sorrows, they have joy and a new courage. For He inspires them with His promises for their future when His loving purpose shall be revealed; and He gently rallies them on their unbelief; as He did their forlorn predecessors during that walk to Emmaus. Have you lost faith? You may not see him standing by your side with HIs ready smile of confident encouragement; but you will know that He is there, as He always is and that He still expects great things of you, and is ever ready to help you to achieve them. If winter comes - are you afraid of poverty? Give your love, your time, your sympathy, yourself; give all that you have under His direct guidance to all who are needy; give both to the deserving and the undeserving. Has health gone? Are you no better though you have prayed long and often? You will find the incense of healing; and you will understand why He will not remove the gold from the crucible until all the dross has gone, and you are taking the glorious shape of your true self which His eye alone has foreseen.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/5/2006 06:35:20 PM [+] ::
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Make Move On Me
acid house, funk and soulfulhouse, it´s good, it´s good.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/5/2006 06:11:49 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: the first time a fan plays with U2 "Knockin' On Heaven´s Door" / Larry introduces "...Arms Arond The World" / Edge´s angelic voice / Bono attends Lauryn Hill concert in L.A.

"Boy" tour - march 5, 1981. U2 perform in Albany, New York at J.B. Scott's. Support is "Mission of Burma".

"October" tour - march 5, 1982. U2 perform in Tampa, Florida at the Curtis Hixon Hall. The audience was so involved with U2 and the night it becomes clear that the concept works.

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 5, 1985. U2 perform in Los Angeles, California at the Sports Arena. On the third night, during "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", Bono asks that all the guitar players raise their hands; it's believed to be the first time this has happened, the beginning of what would become a U2 concert tradition. He pulls up one fan, and quickly teaches him the chords. Bono, Adam, and The Edge move to the side of the stage, and let the stunned guitarist play to a cheering crowd for a few minutes by himself. The 3 members of the band return and finish the song. The first recorded death threat against Bono is registered when someone sends a copy of a gun license to U2's officies. Security is tripled for all three shows. Bono would later explain, "I just laughed it off. It was like the Blues Brothers - 'We're on a mission from God and we ain't finished yet!'" Support is "Red Rockers".

"ZOOTV" tour - march 5, 1992. U2 perform in Atlanta, Georgia at The Omni. Bono is more familiar with his new persona--The Fly, and poses for cameras and strikes poses more than the previous shows. Larry introduces a song, "Hello there! Adam, Edge and I would like to play a song for you...it's called 'Arms Around The World'". Bono comments that "The Pixies" are, "a band that's louder than America..." Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"POPMart" tour - march 5, 1998. U2 perform in Tokyo, Japan. Guitarist The Edge, who is better known for the echo-driven guitar style that forms the basis for the U2 sound than for his singing, stood alone on a small stage set into the middle of the crowd, and accompanied himself as he sang "Sunday Bloody Sunday," a song the band rarely performs live. No video screen, no images and no techno beats. Just a guy with an angelic voice, a guitar and a powerful song to sing.

"Bono attends Lauryn Hill concert in L.A" - march 5, 1999. Bono is one of many celebrities who show up at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles to take in the first of three sold-out shows by Lauryn Hill, who recently cleaned up at the Grammy Awards. Bono has expressed his admiration for Hill during interviews in the last year.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/5/2006 05:40:10 PM [+] ::
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Edge is an angel!

photo from feb 21.
What say about Until The End Of The World, one of the etern classical and favourites of all the time? Just magnifique, always I loved this battle between the good and the bad, the duel of Slane Castle is my favorite, but this new way is great, and when Edge stays behind the own the band, I think to myself, he´s blessing the things (the band and the crowd), our magic sideman is doing that again...make pure magic with pure love, Edge´s very intense. On feb 20, At the final of Until The End Of The World, Bono took the balloons (from Katilce´s hand) and eat a cookie, bringing the cookies near Larry´s kit during 'New Year´s Day'...(read whole story page down)
:: Regina O'Numb 3/4/2006 10:00:21 PM [+] ::
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Never anyone will know...
This site, announces that Edge visited and posted a comment: 'legalleader'...well, at first there are thousands nicknames around the web as The Edge; second, I´m in th web, wave with my partial name, that is Regina, so, do you wave in the web, with your original name?; The Edge is also Dave Evans; I have no idea about it. I think almost everyone like the web. But have sure who´s each U2´s member in the web, it´s practically impossible. As we say in Brazil, whos was born at first, the egg or the chicken? I think nobody will never know where U2´s members wave in the web. I never met anyone in the web who could be one of them. Now I´m an envy Edger, cause this legalleader, announces Edge visit them...so they are lucky guys in the web...(I don´t believe in them)
:: Regina O'Numb 3/4/2006 06:18:18 PM [+] ::
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Bono eats Bono´s cookies, dances with Katilce! in Sao Paulo I
These guys reports their story about Bono during the first show in Sao Paulo:
They asked for a girl called Katilce, that, the same who kissed Bono during "With Or Without You" to hand over Bono the cookies called Bono (famous in Brazil), cause she wa in the first row and them on the second. The girl took some balloons with Ireland colors and put them together. At the final of Until The End Of The World. Bono took the balloons (from her) and eat a cookie, bringing the cookies near Larry´s kit during 'New Year´s Day'. During Mysterious Ways Bono asked her to jumps on stage, she goes, she danced, she kissed him during With Or Without You. Bono gives them, the cookies back during the lovely All Because Of You. look for the group where was the worldwide famous Katilce with Bono´s cookie here // look for Bono where he calls her to jump on stage here // look for them dancing during 'Mysterious Ways' here // look for her happiness 5 minutes after...here.
read on: godonlyknows
:: Regina O'Numb 3/4/2006 03:27:56 PM [+] ::
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Bono will record something with Kanye West
...At the Grammys, Bono told us that Kanye West was "an inspiration" and said that while Kanye is opening for U2 in Australia and New Zealand in March, they'll do some recording together . . .
read on: rollingstone
:: Regina O'Numb 3/4/2006 02:32:49 PM [+] ::
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April 8 - End of the road
March 01, 2006 - Source: @U2 - "If you've been holding out hope for a second show in Hawaii next month, it's time to stop. Two sources tell @U2 that there will only be the one show at Aloha Stadium on April 8th; no more shows will be added. One source points to an official news release issued a week ago which refers to the April 8th show as "the final date of the Vertigo Tour." see the image here
:: Regina O'Numb 3/4/2006 02:24:07 PM [+] ::
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The real
'Simple possibility, constantly available to aquire of anyway which they want to allow the love, the wishes and the reason. by Fernando Pessoa. ** Atoms as vibrations: The atoms and their particles sub-atomics have the 'vibrations activity', as cycle energy, wagy energy or oscilation energy of the natural state. They´re nothing more than energy in state of oscilation. The solidity is an illusion, cause all the substances are formed by so amazingly small atoms, separate each other by distances that, compared wiht their own size, are vast. The same atoms aren´t solid, as them are energy in movment. In cycle moviment, what means, in vibration. All the physical elements show themselves into the physical level of existence across the interaction of the cycle waves forms - forms of waves that not limit by themselves to physical level, but to lie down across of the physical, come from the highest level of reality. The atoms are harmonics ressonants: from the search of relations among phenomenuns as atom standard, plants, cristals and music´s harmony. The atoms react as they had ressonance. This ressonance principle down the barriers between physic and music and promisses reveals itself as one of the better 'camps' of search to atom physic in the near future. So, the atom as a tiny musical code. A complex theory of the universe looks for in each atom an emanated of tonic 'sound', a tiny ressonance, and conceive a collection of atoms (or musical codes) forming the chords, known of the physical as molecule. Continuing the expansion in size from the in to out off, the molecules combine to form the many objects and forms of the world, as each object and each live being is made of a great number of molecules, or chords, which give to the object a 'being' its proper 'sound' individual and complex.
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:: Regina O'Numb 3/4/2006 01:53:28 PM [+] ::
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Watch from Santiago - feb 26, 2006
Miss Sarajevo and Pride
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Audio from Buenos Aires II:
"U2 2005-03-02 Buenos Aires (partial broadcast) mp3s - Taken from partial airing of the broadcast - avi -> adobe auditon -> cdwave -> cbr 160kbps - here" by markoajda
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Photos from Argentina
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Complete audio from Sao Paulo I
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:: Regina O'Numb 3/4/2006 12:43:16 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: "Boy" enters the US at #135 / Edge´s sensitive solo / "Mrs. Edge's little boy" / Edge is the Best Irish Musician and more at Meteor Awards!

"Boy" tour - march 4, 1981. 'Boy' charts in U.S. Boy enters the U.S. album charts at #135. Philadelphia / PA. Bijou Cafe. Bono told about last time they were at the city...we weren´t another English band passing through..and that they had been warned about American radio´s conservative attitudes.

"October" tour - march 4, 1982. U2 perform in West Palm Beach, Florida at the Auditorium. During the bridge "An Cat Dubh" - "Into The Heart" Bono says "We´ve been waiting, we´ve been waiting all day, for you..." followed by Edge´s sensitive solo that receives a screaming response from the audience.

"War" tour - march 4, 1983. U2 perform in Hanley, England at the Victoria Hall. Support is "The Nightcaps". Bono sings "Out Of Control" with some lines from Echo & The Bunnymen´s The Cutter, which he does like.

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 4, 1985. U2 perform in Los Angeles, California at the Sports Arena. Bono receives a bouquet of flowers from a girl in the audience and hands them out, one by one to other members in the crowd. The Edge's mother is in attendance, and Bono introduces The Edge as "Mrs. Edge's little boy". A local charity group has organized a food drive, and Bono requests that the audience help out by donating. Support is "Red Rockers".

"U2 sweeps Irish Music Awards" - march 4, 2002. U2 wins in every category the band is nominated at the 2nd annual Meteor Irish Music Awards in Dublin. The band's awards include Best Irish Musician (Edge); Best Irish Pop/Rock Group; Best Irish Pop/Rock Male Singer (Bono); Best Irish Pop/Rock Single ("Walk On"), Best Irish Pop/Rock Album (All That You Can't Leave Behind), Best Irish Video ("Elevation"), and Best Irish Live Artist. In addition, manager Paul McGuinness is presented with an award for contributions to the Irish music industry.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/4/2006 12:42:12 PM [+] ::
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Music Rising in Brazil!


Edge, thank you so much to bring the wonder coloured Music Rising guitar to Brazil, to play 'One' on feb 20. Thank you so much to wear the Music Rising shirt in Bahia, just after Grammy´s night. It´s a honor for us. You playing your refreshing chords during 'One' makes me cry. The cell-phones are wonder in all the senses. 'Como um' = "As one"; poor and rich, from the left and the right, as in carnival. You know how to touch our hearts in a calm way, Edge. Your wisdom in music terms it´s a balsam, be sure.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/3/2006 11:22:38 PM [+] ::
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Compassion is the law of laws
"...February 14, 2000 - Divine thought cannot be defined, or its meaning explained, except by the numberless manifestations of Cosmic Substance in which the former is sensed spiritually by those who can do so. To say this, after having defined it as the Unknown Deity, abstract, impersonal, sexless, which must be placed at the root of every Cosmogony and its subsequent evolution, is equivalent to saying nothing at all."... Compassion is the law of laws. Blavatsky explained that brotherhood is not a mere ideal - it is a fact in nature on the spiritual plane. From that we derive a logical basis and a binding source for morality that can guide and inspire us, even while more traditional religious sources are losing their compelling force. She gives us the metaphysics from which we can deduce the most important priciples of how to live.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/3/2006 10:49:58 PM [+] ::
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118TH SHOW - 'VERTIGO' TOUR - BUENOS AIRES - MARCH 2, 2006! (final of South America part)
'We hear their heartbeat...'
Mothers of the Disappeared is in the set tonight and Edge is on the charango for a moving finale to the South American tour. Here's what they played for this second show in Buenos Aires, more news on the way. City of Blinding Lights / Vertigo / Elevation / Until The End of the World / New Year's 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 / Mothers of the Disappeared - Original of the Species / All I Want is You.
read on: U2.com
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'The Hat of God'
There was a footballing deity at the show in Buenos Aires last night and word reaches us that he legged it after the show with the singers cowboy hat. The presence of Diego Maradonna, best known to football followers for his 'hand of God' goal which put England out of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, created much excitement amongst the football-loving members of band and crew. Director of Sound Joe O'Herlihy has had any singer or actor you care to mention at his mix position down the years, but rarely has he been as excited as having a C20th footballing great in the house. Maradonna, now a well-known chat-show host in Argentina, was spotted hanging out with the band after the show and engaging in an exchange of headwear with Bono. Sources suggest that the footballer left the house in the singers hat.
read on: U2.com
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Edge played 'Mother Of The Disappeared' (with five of them this night) with charango
With five members of the Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo at tonight's show, Mothers of the Disappeared makes an appearance in the set list. Bono also acknowledges them at the end of Miss Sarajevo. Like last night, tonight's show is filmed with high-definition 3D camera rigs for an expected IMAX film release. The show is also broadcast live on Argentina radio 107.9. Bono sings a bit of 'Rock the Casbah' during Sunday Bloody Sunday, and a bit of 'Satisfaction' during The Fly.
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An atomic bomb in Irish colours
...with this unimitate Edge´s guitar and his catheral´s 'falseto'...
look for Bono andthe plane-paper
read on: pagina 12
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Meeting with the mothers
U2 and Mothers - Meeting happened some minutes before the show. Bono received the medal which distinguishes him as a Illustrious Visiting of Buenos Aires City
read on: pagina 12
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U2 say bye bye Argentina with a great show and messages for the human rights
on: clarin
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A religious experience
...the big secret of U2 continues being The Edge...
read on: clarin
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U2 say by with another great show in Argentina
read on: inforegion
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U2 and an unforgettable show
look for them
read on: nuevodiarioweb
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Bono, illustrious visiting
read on:inforegion
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The snippets
Beautiful Day / Solo Le Pido A Dios (snippet) - Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (snippet) - Bullet The Blue Sky / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet) / The Hands That Built America (snippet) - The Fly / (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (snippet).
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Photos
Irish singer Bono (C) and the rest of the U2 band pose with by members of the Argentine Human Rights group Madres de Plaza de Mayo at the final U2 concert in the Monumental soccer stadium in Buenos Aires March 3, 2006. Bono honoured the human rights group whose relatives went missing during the 1976-83 military dictatorship.
on: yahoo


:: Regina O'Numb 3/3/2006 10:20:56 PM [+] ::
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Watch Edge playing charango in Santiago
So sweet, Edge plays everything, hear him with Bono on feb 26, during Mothers Of The Disappeared
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Watch some fragments from Buenos Aires I
City Of Blinding Lights / Elevation
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From Mexico II - feb 16, 2006:
The quality of the video is not very good, specially the camera work ! But the Audio is acceptable, on: pablovillegas /// mp3: City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, Elevation, Until The End Of The World, New Year's Day on: maximail

:: Regina O'Numb 3/3/2006 10:20:24 PM [+] ::
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Happy Birthday dear sweet English girl!
Health, peace, love, harmony, hope for you and your boys!
May the universe, shinnes all your way!

:: Regina O'Numb 3/3/2006 06:23:52 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: two gigs in Bayou / the first time in an arena / you´re offering me money / "POP" is released / POPMart plane helps New Zealand!

"Boy" tour - march 3, 1981. "Boy" is released in America and U2 begin its first Major US tour over there with 2 gigs in the Bayou Club in Washington. guided by Ellen Darst of Warner Brothers, Island's U.S. distributor, and a future member of the Principle Management team. The 3-month long tour ends with sold-out shows at New York's Palladium and the Fast Lane in Asbury Park, NJ, in late May. In his review for The Washington Post, Harry Sumrall writes: "U2, like The Police and The Clash, are taking New Wave to the next, higher, musical level. Their music is still simple, but never simplistic - and simply marvelous."

"October" tour - march 3, 1982. U2 play the first of 14 support dates with the "J. Geils Band' in the Lee County Arena at Fort Meyers in Florida. Warner Brothers, is disappointed with sales of the album, and is reluctant to put more money into promoting U2. It is suggested that U2 start to tour in support of the "J. Geils Band", who are at the top of their success and on a worldwide tour of their own. At this concert, U2 arrive late and have insufficient time to perform a proper soundcheck--which is left to the roadies. This marks the first time U2 perform in an arena. As support, they have to limit their set to 45 mintues.

"War" tour - march 3, 1983 U2 perform in Liverpool, England at the Royal Court Theater. Support is "The Nightcaps".

"ZOOTV" tour - march 3, 1992 U2 perform in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Coliseum. Before performing "Angel of Harlem" at the B-stage, a fan reaches out with a dollar bill and requests that Bono perform his favorite song. Bono replies, "You're offering me money? You've already paid me a fortune, man!" Bono addresses his image in the mirror during "Desire", calling it "a hopeless case". Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"U2 releases POP" - march 3, 1997. The POP album is released worldwide, except in the U.S. where it hits stores a day later. Although hyped in the media as U2's attempt to make so-called "techno" music, many fans feel the album includes sounds that represent a wide variety of U2's caree. It reaches #1 in 29 countries, a record for U2, but quickly drops out of most major sales charts, including in the U.S.

"U2 donate the POPMart plane in order to help New Zealand deal with a massive power failure that occurred on February 20" - march 3, 1998. The jet is used to fly in power generators. Irish rock band U2 came to the aid of power-hungry Auckland as a giant cargo plane for concert equipment was diverted to fly in generators to relieve a 12-day power outage. The plane was in Sydney loaded with touring equipment when Auckland's municipal power supplier Mercury Energy made an impassioned plea. Most of the world's heavy lifting planes were already in use due to potential military action in the Gulf and hurricanes in Florida. The use of the band's plane was one of very few victories for Mercury during 12 days which it has described as "the weeks from hell." The power outages have affected an estimated 60,000 inner city workers and residents.
:: Regina O'Numb 3/3/2006 12:53:07 PM [+] ::
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Buenos Aires is the city of blinding lights, again!

Buenos Aires got 'Love Is Blindness'...it´s great; please, do care your love for them, let the guys sleep...U2 do care their fans...Kabul-internet and Kabul-radio will airs the audio; Teleocho will transmit the show this night in Argentina; Cablevision will re-transmit, next saturday; Kabul fm reports that "Madres de La Plaza de Mayo" will join the band on stage. Bono wil be declard Citizen of Buenos Aires
Edge, have a great night with all the band and the crowd! God Bless all you at River Plate stadium, with love, love, love!!!!!
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...and what say about the Music Rising guitar in Brazil...and about '40' when I felt Edge´s praying for all the U2´s fans...God, I have a lot to write!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/2/2006 11:09:50 PM [+] ::
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I and I in the sky, You make me feel like I can fly, So high, elevation!

Edge jumps, Edge plays, Edge´s smileys to the fans, U2 is the maximum...U2 is in the middle age and plays as a young band...I love 'Elevation'..just I love and I lived so fly during the two shows...elevation...I love it...this photo is from the second show and this video is from the first show (Bono says 'Agora é a nossa vez' = 'Now is our time', in reference to Stones show on feb 18 which was aired by Tv, too / Larry singing is great) ...Edge in 'Elevation'

:: Regina O'Numb 3/2/2006 10:23:11 PM [+] ::
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117TH SHOW - 'VERTIGO' TOUR - BUENOS AIRES - MARCH 1, 2006!
'Buenos Aires right in front of you...'
'See the world in white and blue, Buenos Aires right in front of you.' From Blinding Lights to Love is Blindness, a blinder of a show at the River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires. Here's what they played, more on the way. City of Blinding Lights / Vertigo / Elevation / Until The End of the World / New Year¿s 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 / Fast Cars / Yahweh / All I Want is You / Love Is Blindness.
read on: U2.com
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'Hola Argentinos!'
The 3D cameras were here tonight, suspended over the stage so you couldn't miss them, and this Argentinian audience looked like they knew they were going to be famous. 'Hola Porten-yos! / Hola Argentinos! / Hola Chicas...' Wow, the reception to that alone gave the show lift-off and then we were higher than the sun with Elevation, and soon lost in a lyrically customised Beautiful Day. 'See the world in white and blue / Buenos Aires right in front of you / From the Pampas to Patagonia / Tierra del Fuego, Rio Parana / Argentina is in motion / From the Andes to the ocean / See the bird with the leaf in her mouth / After the flood all the colours came out...' With Edge and Bono out on the b-stage for the first time, the crowd were chanting, 'Ole, Ole, Ole... Bo-no, Bo-no.' 'I love The Edge,' says Bono, before introducing Sometimes - 'para mi padre' - because he loved his dad too. It's a huge performance and surrounded by crowd and cameras on the b-stage the 3D filming is proving quite a spectacle. 'Love and Peace' read signs in English and Spanish, jostling with Argentinian flags and sure enough here is Love and Peace, cameras sliding along the dolly track set up along the front of the pit. Now the chants are for 'Edge, Edge, Edge' as Sunday Bloody Sunday breaks into the night sky. 'Sing for us' invites the singer and the audience oblige. A searing performance of Bullet the Blue Sky, all the more potent for its peculiar meaning in this part of the world, runs into snatches of Johnny Comes Marching Home and The Hands That Built America and then we are soaring again with Miss Sarajevo, one of the great surprises of the whole tour. A moving spoken introduction heralds the arrival of One, a song which is finding new audiences at present, following the band's Grammy duet with Mary J Blige and its release as her current single. 'If you come from a small country like Ireland,' raps Bono. / 'Argentina is a very very big place / But our countries have a lot in common / The most important thing is / The difficulties of our past / Will not prevent us making a better future / If we work together / Left and Right / Rich and poor / Old and young / If we act together / As one...' And we are one as the lights bathe the stage in yellow, the images of the band members hang on the video screen and 'One' - in many languages as at the Grammys - lights up the smaller screens. 'Gracias Franz Ferdinand,' sings Bono, reminding us of the very fine support act we have in South America. 'Muchos gracias Buenos Aires..' Returning for an encore, the band bursts into 1991 with Zoo Station, The Fly and Mysterious Ways, Adam walking out in front of a wall of static, Bono dancing his way down stage left. For The Fly Mark Pellington's hurricane of words and phrases are translated into Spanish and the band are almost performing too each other, to the delight of the audience. The night closes on a surprise. 'Love is blindness, I don't want to see / Won't you wrap the night around me? / Oh, my heart, love is blindness....' And the night is wrapped around us and a memorable show draws to a close.
read on: U2.com
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Great surprises to the Argentine fans
The omission of Mothers Of The Disappeared. Th first time of Love Is Blindness since 10 December 1993.
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U2 made a party at River
read on: inforegion
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A rock, solid and politic show (the 1395th show of U2´s history)
read on: corrientesnoticias
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70.000 fans at Monumental
read on: rosarionet
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Wat some images from Buenos Aires and...
Watch: something from 'Elevation' / images from helicopter as in Sao Paulo / City Of Blinding Lights...No fans on stage...here
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Some photos:
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:: Regina O'Numb 3/2/2006 08:36:28 PM [+] ::
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Bono calls on Argentine president
U2 singer Bono visited Argentine President Nestor Kirchner at the Government House on Wednesday, hours before the first of two Buenos Aires concerts as part of the band's Vertigo 2006 tour. Only a handful of fans caught word of Bono's surprise appearance at the Casa Rosada, or "pink house," in downtown Buenos Aires, where his arrival in a black SUV caused a stir among office workers ending the workday. Two women excitedly clutched the U2 front man on the arm before he entered the Casa Rosada wearing a cowboy hat and wraparound sunglasses. Bono has met frequently with Latin American leaders on the band's swing through the region, while espousing causes from AIDS prevention to anti-poverty campaigns. In the Chilean capital of Santiago on Sunday, President Ricardo Lagos awarded the lead singer the country's highest arts prize. A week before in Brazil, Bono discussed the government's anti-poverty program with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and received a packet of condoms and Aids prevention information from the country's Health Ministry. Meanwhile, fans were camping out for good seats at the sold-out River Plate soccer stadium, where U2 was to play in front of a 50,000-strong crowd. Bono, guitarist the Edge, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and bassist Adam Clayton flew to Buenos Aires on Monday from Santiago, where they wowed some 80,000 fans over the weekend.
a video here
read on: scotsman
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Famous People & Musicians with Tinnitus
...Bono - U2 lead singer, he even sings about it in his lyrics. Bono derived his name from a hearing aid store in his hometown of Dublin, Ireland which had a sign that read 'Bonavox Hearing Aids'.
The Edge - U2 guitar player...U2 - Staring At The Sun - "...There's an insect in your ear, if you scratch it won't disappear, its gonna itch and burn and sting, you wanna see what the scratching brings...waves that leave me out of reach, breaking on your back like a beach, will we ever live in peace? as those that can't do, often have to preach, to the ones, staring at the sun..."...
read on: fortunatecy
:: Regina O'Numb 3/2/2006 08:36:05 PM [+] ::
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Audio of Sao Paulo II
Isn´t so good, but...first part
:: Regina O'Numb 3/2/2006 08:35:37 PM [+] ::
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Listen to "Mother Of The Disappear" from Chile
on: maximail
:: Regina O'Numb 3/2/2006 08:19:35 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: at university for only two weeks / the first U2´s Grammys / Bono to Dylan in Vegas.

"War" tour - march 2, 1983. U2 perform in Lancaster, England at the University. Referring to the location of the show, Bono mentions that he also went to university albeit for only two weeks. Support is "The Nightcaps".

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 2, 1985. U2 perform in Los Angeles, California at the Sports Arena. Is a timid affair, this show. The previous night has made the band uneasy, and taken its toll on Bono´s voice. Support is "Red Rockers".

"U2 win its first Grammy Awards" - march 2, 1988. "Best Rock Performance By a Duo Or Group" for "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and "Album Of The Year" for "The Joshua Tree". at the Grammy Awards. All 4 band members, and many others in the "organization," attended what was essentially U2's coronation as the biggest band in the world. Edge spoke first accepting the award for "Duo or Group."...The Edge: "Well, uh, we seem to have lost our bass player. He went to the loo a couple of minutes ago and he's still in the back. [laughter] [Edge sees Adam approaching.] Oh, Adam, this way. Here he comes...."

"Bono sings with Bob Dylan in Vegas" - march 2, 1999. Bono appears on stage in Las Vegas with Bob Dylan during a concert that opens the newest House of Blues inside the Mandalay Bay hotel. He plays guitar and sings an improvised lyrical tribute during an encore of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door." He customizes lyrics such as "Happy birthday baby you're a star, Bob Dylan has gone too far."
:: Regina O'Numb 3/2/2006 03:54:20 PM [+] ::
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Buenos Aires is the city of blinding lights!

So, don´t cry for U2 Argentina...be happy, smileys in all the city...you' re in advantage Buenos Aires, four days with Edge (and wearing cap!!!), while we had him here, just during 2 days...but I´m totally happy. Edge, have a great night with all the band and the crowd! God Bless all you at River Plate stadium, with confettis, big flags, big banners!!!!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/1/2006 09:18:58 PM [+] ::
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...you give me something I can feel, feel...Yeah yeah yeah yeah

photo - feb 21, 2006.
'Vertigo' an extradordinary punk of the new milenium, could be a state of mind and body, when the oxygen, more than enough arrives in the brain, can to cause 'vertigo'; could be an adjectiv as...she´s so vertigo, loving U2 as she does; could be a country, a city, cause the venue of U2´s shows are literally named 'Vertigo' and is so sweet to think... 'Welcome to Vertgo';...bringing Spanish to the rock´n´roll, making it much more democratic and charming, as a new paradigma. Woww and the guitar expoldes and calms itself, making your mind to dive in a labirinth, suddenly the guitar´s chords explodes, is just Edge making you wake up! The two shows had a perfect 'Vertigo' full of energy and passion, but the second had more...I can feel...to the first show Bono add...'she loves you...she loves you...girl'...all of the girls love U2!


:: Regina O'Numb 3/1/2006 09:18:19 PM [+] ::
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AMERICAN EXPRESS OFFICIALLY BEGINS THE PRODUCT RED REVOLUTION
1 March 2006 - Elle Macpherson launches American Express RED credit card to help fight HIV and AIDS in Africa. London, 1 March 2006 ¿ Elle Macpherson today spent the world's first official (Product) RED1 pound as she launched American Express RED2 at Harvey Nichols. The Australian supermodel shopped at the London department store using American Express RED ¿ the credit card that donates 1% of every transaction to the Global Fund3 to help women and children affected by AIDS/ HIV in Africa. American Express RED is part of (RED), a revolutionary new business initiative launched by Bono and Bobby Shriver, Chairman of DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa), at the World Economic Forum in January to deliver a sustainable flow of private sector money to the Global Fund. As a founding member of (Product) RED, American Express is one of the first companies to develop a bespoke product, launching American Express RED - the membership card of the (RED) community. Available from today, those spending with American Express RED will be able to play their part in supporting this important cause by simply using their credit card as normal. For every pound spent on the card, American Express will donate a minimum of 1% to the Global Fund. The donation increases to 1.25% for spending above £5000 in any given year, and customers who use their cards in the first month generate an additional £5 donation to the Global Fund. The fee free credit card, is red plastic with the American Express iconic design. Also, there are additional unique benefits that are tailored to meet the lifestyle needs of Cardmembers. REDdeals give access and value through retail, travel and entertainment offers on a monthly basis. Hand−picked offers and events include tickets to the sold-out Rolling Stones concerts in August and discounts at outlets such as Harvey Nichols¿ Fifth Floor Restaurant and food store Villandry. Every three months, REDpass gives one lucky Cardmember an extraordinary, money-can¿t-buy experience. The first of these is the chance to collaborate with an artist on an original piece of work as part of a once in a lifetime trip to Africa. Laurel Powers-Freeling, UK Country Manager, American Express said: "We're tremendously excited by the opportunity (RED) offers American Express as a business. In addition to the donation, American Express RED offers a competitive interest rate and some new and interesting benefits --showing that you don't have to sacrifice good value to do good." For more information or to apply for American Express RED log onto: AmericanExpressRED.co.uk
1. (Product) RED
- RED is a global initiative whose primary objective is to engage the private sector in the fight against AIDS in Africa by channelling funds from the sale of (RED) products directly to the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
- Companies whose products take on the (RED) mark have made a commitment to contribute a portion of profits from the sale of that product to the Global Fund to finance AIDS programmes in Africa, with a focus on women and children.
- Current partners are: American Express, Converse, Gap and Giorgio Armani.
2.About American Express RED
- There will be no annual fee and a competitive rate of 12.9% APR.
- 1% on all eligible spend (goods and services transactions only ¿ fees and ATM transactions for example are excluded) on American Express RED is paid directly to the Global Fund on the Cardmember¿s behalf.
- Spending above £5,000 per year will generate a donation of 1.25% on all spending above that amount, and an extra £5 will be given to the Global Fund if Cardmembers make their first purchase on the Card within the first month.
- American Express is a world leader in providing charge and credit cards to consumers, small businesses and corporations.
- It is the world's largest travel agency, offering travel and related consulting services to individuals and corporations around the world.
3. The Global Fund
- The Global Fund is the world's leading funder of programmes to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
- Created in 2002, the Global Fund has committed over $4.5 billion to life saving programmes in 130 countries and accounts for a quarter of the world's funding for AIDS programmes in the developing world (over 50% for malaria and 65% for tuberculosis).
- Global Fund-financed programs already support nearly half a million people on AIDS treatment and reach tens of millions with the knowledge and tools to protect themselves against HIV infection.
- The Global Fund is a public-private partnership, governed by representatives of governments, the private sector and civil society from all over the world. It allows countries to design and execute their own programs, but provides funds only on the basis of proven results. It is a lean institution with an overhead of less than 3%, ensuring that resources go directly to where they are needed most.
- Currently, most of its funding comes from governments and only 1% comes from the private sector. The Global Fund needs additional resources from all sectors to continue scaling up the support for life-saving work around the world.
- For more information about the Global Fund, visit: www.theglobalfund.org
read on: joinred
:: Regina O'Numb 3/1/2006 09:17:31 PM [+] ::
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More photos from Bahia

Marcelo Pimentel is sharing these photos!
:: Regina O'Numb 3/1/2006 08:19:14 PM [+] ::
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U2 in Argentina

Fans camping around River Plate stadium since sunday
Flags from Colombia, Spain and Argentina, one of them has writen: "Thank you Jesus for bringing U2". Bono met fans in front of the hotel, with photos, autographs...To not repeat the facts of the last week during the Rolling Stones shows the Police planned a great operation.
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The party in Buenos Aires
A big flag at the stadium: "Thank you for coming to the end of the world". Fans from Spain. The little papers (as confetti) to throw over the stadium, from th crowd. Two big banners at the end and at the final, writen: 'we missed you' and 'we will miss you'.
read on: diariohoy
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This radio will transmit the Buenos Aires II
internet and radio
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Fans wish to hand over Bono a present
Some kids of 'Vecinos sensibles' from Palermo, wish hand over Bono a parchment in aluminum as it was an atomic bomb. This parchment had misseles pieces with nuclear ogive disarmed in the 90's after an agreement of US and Russia. With this message: "Messenger and constructor of the peace"
read on: notiexpress
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Fans camping at the gates of River stadium
read on: terra and on: uol
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Some photos:
on: flickr / on: cronicas / the stage
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Watch U2 at the balcony greeting the fans, they are absolutely happy!
Argentinian fans are so lucky, they have Edge during all the time and wearing cap....here Edge just arrived on the day of the first show...watch on: tn24hs
:: Regina O'Numb 3/1/2006 01:56:14 PM [+] ::
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THIS DAY - U2´S HISTORY: Band of the Eighties / Bono thanks the crowd / returning to Dublin to work / Cristina Petro makes her debut / U2 win with "Zooropa" and Bono introduces Frank Sinatra!

"War" tour - march 1, 1983. U2 perform in Newcastle England at the City Hall. Support is "The Nightcaps". Bono explains that his biggest ambition is to 'break through into you'. But tonight Bono adds, 'sometimes we don´t succeed.'

March 1984. U2 is chosed as Rolling Stones' "Band of the Eighties".

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - march 1, 1985. U2 perform in Phoenix Arizona at Compton Terrace. U2 perform in front of a sold out crowd of 23,000--the largest crowd the band has been able to generate at a headlining concert. Thousands of fans rush to the front of the stage when U2 are annouced, "Ok, Phoenix...are you ready? From Dublin, Ireland...U2!". The crowd go crazy and fans at the front are crushed against the barrier separating the stage and crowd. When Bono spots a fan in the audience pushing and shoving, he shouts, "Hold it! NOW HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!...WE DON'T EVER HAVE TROUBLE AT A U2 CONCERT!" Two more fans jump into the fracas, and Bono tries to make some peace, "The two of you and your friends--one walk that way and the other walk that way...you both meet each other in another place!" Bono attempts to calm things down a bit after a short soliloquoy about the audience, "I'm not going home with anybody damaged," and cues the band to play "Pride(In the Name of Love)" again, hoping it will settle the crowd down. At the beginning of the song, Bono asks everyone in the crowd to take one step backwards, and it works--the people in the front have breathing room, and the crowd seems more settled. Bono thanks the crowd at the end of the night, "To my knowledge, nobody has been hurt, and that feels really good..." Support is "Red Rockers".

March 1991 U2 return to Dublin for further recording at STS and Windmill Lane Studios.

"ZOOTV" tour - march 1, 1992. U2 perform in Miami, Florida at the Miami Arena. The second "Zoo-TV" era show is somewhat better than Lakeland, Florida's on February 29, 1992. Mistakes still show up in most parts of the show, but fewer mistakes than the performance the night before. Belly-dancer Christina Petro makes her debut performance during "Mysterious Ways". She had approached U2's management before the tour with the offer to dance during the show. Petro gave the band a surprise performance during the rehearsals in Lakeland, Florida, and she was quickly added to the concept of the show. She is guided to the stage in the dark, and as "Mysterious Ways" starts she seemingly appears out of nowhere. Bono sings to a large video image of her, only turning around and acknowledging her for the final verse and chorus of the song. Petro will not perform again until March 17, 1992 in Boston, Massachusetts. Bono addresses the Russian Cosmonaut who has had trouble returning to Earth because of a lack of funds in the former Soviet Space Agency. "Using our satellite dish, he sent down his best wishes. A whole revolution has taken place while he was up there..." Bono bungles the lines to "Where the Streets Have No Names" and sings: "I wanna run...sunlight into my face..." Support is B.P. Fallon and "The Pixies".

"U2 wins 5th Grammy - Bono introduces Sinatra" - march 1, 1994. U2 wins its 5th Grammy Award: Best Alternative Album (Zooropa); Bono accepts the award by saying, "I'd like to give a message to the young people of America. That is, we shall continue to abuse our position and f--- up the mainstream." Bono also introduces Frank Sinatra for the "Living Legend" award, an introduction Sinatra would call "maybe the best I've ever had."
:: Regina O'Numb 3/1/2006 01:55:46 PM [+] ::
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