Bono ditched his shades for some heavy eyeliner as U2 rehearsed on the eve of their performance at the 51st Grammy Awards.
The Irish band will open Sunday’s show with a performance of its new single "Get On Your Boots." But after trying the song five times in rehearsal, Bono still wasn’t happy with the sound. "Houston, we’ve got a problem," he (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 9 February 2009 | Discographie
When the Blues Brothers got their band back together, they claimed to be “on a mission from God,” and that sounds similar to the story Daniel Lanois has described for the making of U2’s forthcoming album, No Line On The Horizon.
Rolling Stone reports Lanois said that when U2 was deciding where to record their album, “Bono wanted to be at a (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 9 February 2009 | Discographie
The Observer Music Monthly’s Sean O’Hagan spent 18 months following U2, from Fez to Dublin, as they recorded their new album New Line On The Horizon. Part one of our world exclusive film captures the band beginning sessions in a converted riad. In part two, next week, the band continue recording in Dublin, New York and London, and you can read (...)
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TheFly | 8 February 2009 | Discographie
The video for Get On Your Boots is something else... and it’ll be premiered on U2.Com today.
Check back with us before 5pm (GMT) to see the dazzling clip featuring the band performing against a backdrop of complex graphic art designed by video director Alex Courtes.
’It’s based around the idea that men have f**ked things up so badly, (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 7 February 2009 | Vidéographie
Gordon Smart
THEY may now be on their 12th studio album, but U2 have proved yet again that they’ve still got it with another amazing music video.
Directed by French film-maker and artist Alex Courtes, it features the band performing in front of graphic images of everything from fighter jets and volcanoes to naked women and American flags.
I (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 6 February 2009 | Vidéographie
Speculation is mounting that U2 will play three dates at Croke Park this summer as part of a Europe-wide stadium tour.
The band is thought to have provisionally booked the 82,000-capacity ground for July 24, 25 and 26.
And it emerged last night that the neighbouring Jurys Hotel has tripled their prices for the dates.
Rooms are now selling (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 5 February 2009 | Tournées
ALL the talk of U2’s first album in more than four years has been of new direction and bold innovation. That’s partly true.
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Corinne/Dead | 5 February 2009 | Discographie
Corinne/Dead | 4 February 2009 | Tournées
As we enter the DEFCON 1 environs of Universal Music (not really, just hand over your mobile please. And your soul), I can only think that teenage me would really be freaking out right now to be hearing an advance copy of a new U2 album a full month before it becomes ubiquitous out in the world (maybe sooner, if a copyfight happy employee (...)
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Corinne/Dead | 4 February 2009 | Discographie