OneRepublic to open for U2 in Munich
- Lenny Kravitz:
- The Fray:
- Interpol:
- OneRepublic
Translated from: Ebenfalls am 05. März erscheint die Deluxe Version des Albums „Waking Up“ inklusive sechs bisher unveröffentlichten Bonustracks. Aber es warten noch weitere Highlights auf die deutschen Fans von OneRepublic: Ab dem 24. April ist die Band auf großer Deutschland-Tour und wird außerdem – wie soeben bestätigt – am 15. September als Support von U2 in München dabei sein!
U2 at Bonnaroo ?
And while this may have been well-wishing at the beginning, it sounds like it may not be well-wishing after all.
According to Alex Young, CEO of online music publication Consequence of Sound, Bonnaroo officials have not ruled the band out, an about face from 2008’s ‘Roo when promoters came out of the wood work to kill Led Zeppelin rumors.
While the U2 buzz may not have reached Zeppelin heights it still proves that the ‘Roo promoters are not afraid of squashing rumors.
Young states: “U2 feels more and more like Springsteen last year — it was hard to imagine, but in the back of our minds, we knew it was going to happen.
U2 is certainly capable of hitting Manchester even despite the fact they’ll be in the west coast. Bruce & Co. flew from Europe last year. I do not have any specific word of them being confirmed yet, but I have not got one blatant “no” from the people I’ve talked to.”
Big Questions: Is U2 starting a ‘festival trend’ in 2010, and will Bono show up at the Bonnaroo Festival?
Threre’s one problem with this rumor. U2 are locked into an exclusive agreement with Live Nation to promote their concert performances until 2020. They can play glastonbury because Live Nation co-owns the festival.
Bonnaroo is owned by AC Entertainment, thus making it impossible for them to play there. Maybe, yet it seems the buzz has gotten louder.
Rumors are not yet facts until the contract has been signed. We will keep you updated - Let us know what you think - Do you want to see U2 at Bonnaroo ?
U2 Producer Wants Next American Idol Judge
He tells Idol Tracker:
I love the show … So I’d like to make it a bit more interesting. I don’t base my opinion on whether someone can sing in tune or not. And there’s the question of could you find the next Bob Dylan or Neil Young on “American Idol”? It’s a weak point in the show, and if there was anyone with those sorts of talents, I would be able to recognize it.
Also, when asked what best qualifies him for the job:
Possibly my work with Rob Thomas and Matchbox Twenty, they had great pop sensibilities. Certainly Bono is one of the greatest singers and any record I’ve made with U2 is pop music. Jared Leto is another great star who’s a pop singer.
We appreciate both Lillywhite’s verve in publicly campaigning and his seemingly genuine appreciation of Jared Leto’s singing voice, but is he really up to the task? (Cowell, for one, wonders if he’s handsome enough.) Either way, we’re going to go ahead and support this, because maybe without Lillywhite around U2 will stop making albums?
Read more: U2 Producer Steve Lillywhite Wants to Be Your Next American Idol Judge — Vulture http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/02/u2_producer_steve_lillywhite_w.html#ixzz0gMLz0Qrf
The Edge Fights for California Project
U2 guitarist The Edge publically defended his 156-acre development on the California coastline this week, denying charges his plans will be an environmental disaster.
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“We just had this dream of building a house that was in perfect harmony with these hills,” Edge told the New York Times. “We see it as something that could be a bench mark of sustainability.”
Unfortunately for the legendary guitar hero and Bono sidekick, many of his neighbors in Malibu see theproject as a bench mark for destroying habitats and view corridors.
Edge’s plan calls for five homes ranging from 7,317 square feet to 12,004 square feet, including a 1,600-foot long road snaking up the hillside. Neighbors and conservationists are irritated by several aspects of the project, but the idea of the 20-foot wide road draws special criticism.
“What is so silly is they say it is so green,” Paul Edelman, the chief of planning and natural resources for a neighboring nature conservancy, told the NYT. “But every time you drive up there, any savings you would have are shot by fossil fuel.”
The struggle over the plan has gone on for two years. “For somebody so revered even to be orchestrating this type of development in such a sensitive area is hypocritical,” Malibu councilman Jefferson Wagner told the Los Angeles Times last year.
Pristine hillside land is rare on the California coast, and construction is strictly controlled and always hotly debated. Any new development faces a lengthy, vitriolic battle.
To his credit, Edge—which the NYT calls the “nom de guitar” for David Evans—seems typically relaxed about the whole experience. While some celebrities run from such controversies, he’s occasionally granted interviews and personally engaged his neighbors.
When people see the actual plans, “they completely mellow out,” he assured the Times. Edge and his wife, Morleigh Steinberg, bought the property in 2006 with Irish developer Derek Quinlan, paying $9 million for the five lots, the Times reports. He’s “maintained a residence” in Malibu for decades, he told one interviewer.
Far from raping the landscape, the houses will be shining examples of green building, he says, with special consideration to preserving the fauna and reusing dirt. He told the New York Times the criticism is “overblown,” and noted that Malibu already has its share of ugly hillside development.
“There is this myth about how this road is going to be an eyesore, but it is so much better than anything up here,” he told the Times.
The plans are scheduled to go before California’s notoriously mercurial Coastal Commission this summer.
Hymns for U2charists
When was the last time ou attended church ?
Do you think you would attend church more often if you enjoyed the music, understood the message, believed the speaker ? How about we focus on the music part of it. Lets face it we all like a good opening number. Something to really pick you up out of your seat.
We think it’s important to have the opening hymn be a high-energy song. Especially if you’re not going to be having the congregation singing preludes first, it’s also good for it to be a song with an intro that starts relatively quietly and builds. Some songs that we found work well as opening hymns for U2charists include:
- “Pride (In the Name of Love)” — especially if you’re doing it live and extend the chimey harmonic guitar intro
- “Elevation” — especially if you start it with an extended call and response in which the lead singer sings, “the goal is …” and everyone sings/shouts “SOUL!” (listen to the mix of “Elevation” playing as the band takes the stage in the Elevation: Live in Boston and U2 Go Home DVDs to get an idea of how the music would sound — and, by the way, as long as you’ve got one person who can play a tamborine, you can do this without a band)
- “Where the Streets Have No Name” — A communion hymn ?
- “Beautiful Day” — works well because it gives some time for energy to build before the chorus.
- “I Will Follow” — fun because its opening riff is so iconic.
The U2charist was initially started in the U.S. Episcopal Church but has been adapted by several other denominations. It is typically a liturgical service (including communion) that features the music of the rock band U2 and a message about God’s call to rally around the Millennium Development Goals.
The U2charist is held by supporters to be a great opportunity to reach out to people in their congregations and larger communities, especially young people, with messages of global reconciliation and justice for the poor and oppressed. Bono, U2’s lead singer, has been a particularly vocal proponent of the Millennium Development Goals, and has been proclaimed as a global MDG ambassador.
The U2charist seeks to raise awareness of the MDGs and call people worldwide to a deeper faith and engagement with God’s mission.
After consulting with Breuer, the Rev. Paige Blair, rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church in York Harbor, Maine, along with several of her parishioners, held her first U2charist on Sunday evening, July 31, 2005. Since that time, Blair has appeared numerous times in the media as an advocate for the U2charist.
Since the U2charist began in 2004, it spread quickly around the world, with services being held in numerous countries, including a “U2-dienst” (U2-service), started by the Rev. Jan Andries de Boer from Broek op Langedijk in the Netherlands in 2006., as well as services in Australia, Italy, and Mexico.
Did you know ?
Universal Music Publishing Group and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) do not require a license for U2’s music to be used during U2charist services provided that:
- the context is a worship service and it is not called a concert
- all of the money raised goes to a nonprofit or non-governmental organization supporting the Millennium Development Goals with none of the money going to the hosting church
“It’s not if I believe in love/But if love believes in me” — echoes 1 John 4:10: “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
U2 360 Sale Monday for Salt Lake City Show
Tickets go on sale to the general public Monday Feb. 22 for the U2 360 tour, coming to Rice Eccles Stadium June 3. Tickets will be available through Smith’s Tix outlets, through the Smith’s Tix website or by calling 801-467-TIXX and 1-800-888-TIXX. Tickets are priced a $30-250, with at least 10,000 tickets priced at $30. General admission floor tickets will be $55. Lenny Kravitz will be the opening act.
The Rice Eccles show will be U2’s first North American show this summer. It fulfills a promise made during the question and answer portion of the U2 3D film premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where Bono assured fans that the band would stop in Salt Lake City during their next tour.
I saw U2 360 in October last year in Las Vegas, and it was amazing. The band was loose and playful except during serious parts of the show (political statements are always a must with U2), and they certainly put a lot of energy into their songs, especially those from their latest CD, “No Line on the Horizon.” The 360 tour didn’t seem as thematically coherent or emotionally powerful as other U2 tours I’ve seen, but the staging and light effects were incredible. I hope Bono brings his laser suit to SLC.
Interpol, Lenny Kravitz and The Fray
U2 announced the support acts for this summer’s North American 360° stadium tour on their official site moments ago, and though a few of their openers are somewhat obvious picks (Lenny Kravitz, The Fray), and Interpol.
Interpol will open for U2 at 6 dates on the 360° tour in Minneapolis, East Lansing, Toronto, Chicago, Miami and Philadelphia, while The Fray and Kravitz will open at 3 shows each. Check out the full tour schedule at U2TOURFANS.com
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