Outspoken Echo & the Bunnymen leader Ian McCulloch has sparked a new rock feud with Irish supergroup U2 after calling them "spud peelers" who wanted to become part of the music industry’s elite in a new magazine interview.
The Killing Moon singer insists Bono and his band have become just like Bob Geldof, Sting and "all of them c**ts who no (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 24 October 2008 | Divers
By Richard Tafoya
U2’s Bono and the Edge have been added to the announced performer’s lineup for the annual Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz event at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, on Oct. 26.
The duo will take the stage as part of a concert lineup honoring B.B. King, to whom they will also present the organization’s Founder’s Award, (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 18 October 2008 | Divers
Rob Golum
The rock band U2 is getting almost $19 million in shares of Live Nation Inc., the concert promoter, as part of a 12-year contract with the company signed in March.
Live Nation, based in Beverly Hills, California, registered 1.56 million shares in a regulatory filing yesterday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 18 October 2008 | Divers
Legendary composer Ennio Morricone will perform two shows in Belfast this year after a second date was added to meet huge public demand.
The man behind the unforgettable scores for the likes of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America, Days of Heaven, The Untouchables and Cinema Paradiso, had been due to perform a unique (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 17 October 2008 | Divers
By NADIA MENDOZA NOEL GALLAGHER wants U2 to support OASIS at their mega-gig next year.
LIAM’s big bruv reckons BONO and his pals are the perfect group to share the stage at Slane Castle in June.
The Champagne Supernova star posed with bandmate GEM ARCHER on the stunning grounds in the Republic of Ireland as they announced plans to gig (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 16 October 2008 | Divers
By DENIS ARMSTRONG
It’s hard to pin down Daniel Lanois.
I assume the legendary producer and recording artist is playing a gig in New York when he lets it slip that he’s in the Big Apple to produce the new U2 record, due in 2009.
As if that isn’t news enough, he’s simultaneously promoting his latest CD and documentary film Here Is What Is, (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 12 October 2008 | Collaborateurs
Bono and Sir Tom met at a Dublin club Sir Tom Jones asked U2’s Bono to write him a song for his new solo album, 24 Hours, which will be released in the UK next month.
Sugar Daddy was written after the veteran singer met the supergroup frontman in a Dublin nightclub.
Even though Bono does not perform on the track, U2 guitarist The Edge plays (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 10 October 2008 | Divers
The secrets to The Edge’s unconventional but instantly recognizable guitar sounds have been guarded as closely as nuclear codes.
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Corinne/Dead | 9 October 2008 | Tournées
’No-one else was playing Explorers at the time...’. Two great clips featuring Edge from the new BBC series ’The Story of the Guitar’.
Edge on his Gibson Explorer
’The Edge introduces his iconic guitar, the Gibson Explorer he has had with him most of his career, and explains how the band craft songs from the sounds he finds.’
Edge on U2’s (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 8 October 2008 | Divers
U2 are nominated in the 2008 MTV Europe Awards. Here’s the competition and here’s how you vote.
Nominated in the ’Best Act Ever’ category, the band are up against a diverse list of acts who we can safely say have never been in the same category before: Green Day, Tokio Hotel, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears... and Rick Astley.
Vote (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 6 October 2008 | Divers