It’s looking good for an early May release - we’ll be emailing everyone who’s resubscribed for the coming year as soon as we have final details.
Meantime, they added another DOWNLOAD from ‘U22’ and they don’t come any more special: ‘All I Want is You/Love Rescue Me’ .
Bono's Note: 'Hope is like a faithful dog'
Its not uncommon for entertainers to leave notes or items in hotel rooms for the housekeeping team to find.
Bono’s poem titled we think ” In Jerusalem, hope springs eternal,”
“Hope is like a faithful dog, sometimes she runs ahead of me to check the future, to sniff it out and then I call to her: Hope, Hope, come here, and she comes to me. I pet her, she eats out of my hand and sometimes she stays behind, near some other hope maybe to sniff out whatever was. Then I call her my Despair. I call out to her. Here, my little Despair, come here and she comes and snuggles up, and again I call her Hope.”
Signed “With great thanks for great room in great hotel in great city, Bono.”
Bono arrives Israell
U2’s front-man Bono caught Israeli music fans and paparazzi off-guard when he dined at a popular restaurant in the Jaffa Port on Monday (April 9).
Local media reports cited today that the musician, also known as Paul David Hewson, is in Israel on a private visit.
Some reports linked Bono’s visit to business ventures - both he and The Edge are investors in the Dropbox company — which has ties with an Israeli high-tech firm. Others cited that Bono - known as a leading human rights activist — may be in town for an international peace conference.
Bono, who is also a human rights activist, announced in February, 2010, that the band would play in Israel the following summer, but it was never arranged, following an outcry from pro-Palestinian groups that urged him to boycott the Jewish state. He had turned down an invitation to play in Israel two years before that.
One Direction and U2 Team Up ?
U2 want to spruce up their act - and sell more records - by working with boyband One Direction’s songwriters, according to reports. Bono and the boys have been rumored to start working with Carl Falk, who is behind One Directions hit “What Makes You Beautiful” which one a BRIT Award for single of the year 2012.
Falk is quoted in the Sun saying “There’s a long way to go but we are doing something with U2”
They (U2) have been working on their 13th studio album, the follow up to 2009’s ‘No line on the horizon’. The boys expressed disappointment with the sales of their last album, despite the record shifting over five million copies.
Hey lets not forget about RedOne who also has been rumored to be working with the boys
Gallagher Slams U2
“Nothing anybody does can be as big as Oasis. Not Coldplay, not Kasabian, nor the Arctic Monkeys. In this country not U2, not any of them. It’s as simple as that.” The comments were made on the BBC4 documentary, Marks Lawson Talks To … Noel Gallagher. Bottom line Noel has been a drunk, drugged out fool for sometime and most people have written off his talent as soothing of the past. Yet we can all cheer the arrival of his new album to see if he even has the talent to hold up his own shorts after his attempts to have the world see him in a different light. Sorry Noel your just yesterdays news and or at very best bird cage cover. - Cheers Mate
Not Just Mrs Bono ! Ali Hewson
Byline:Rafaella Gomez - Brazil
It was the first morning of the rest of her life. Dark-haired, dark-eyed 12-year-old Alison Stewart no sooner arrived at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin than Paul Hewson, a grade above her, spotted the new girl.
“He worked very hard at being the heartthrob,” she recently told an English journalist.
“He came up to me within the first day and asked did I know where his class should be going? It was just an excuse to talk to me, and I thought, ‘What an eejit.’
“I remember that on the fourth day of school, I saw him walking across the courtyard and it was, bing! That is the guy for me.”
For a year, he pursued while Ali, determined not to be just another of his girls, was cool. But the next year, Paul’s mother died suddenly of an aneurism. That year, Ali, 13, helped Paul — from washing his clothes and cooking his food to keeping track of his house keys and walking with him to school.
They began dating in November 1976, when Ali was 15. Paul is now world-famous as the Irish rock group U2’s lead man and humanitarian-at-large, Bono.
He told talk-show host Larry King years later: “I joined U2 and I started going out with Ali, so it was a good month.”
When Ali was 21, and Bono was 22, they married. They have four children, aged six to 18, whose names reflect religious values and the strong Christian theme in U2’s music: daughters Jordan and Memphis Eve, and sons Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q (partly named for friends) and John Abraham.
“It is hard, sometimes. I hate being called ‘Bono’s wife,’ and being identified just as that,” she said in 1993. She has avoided public attention “I’m very protective of my kids, and of my life with Bono. It has worked well up to now, the sort of life (in which) I can go out and do the normal sort of stuff, and he can take all the heat. I’d rather work behind the scenes.”
“The children out there had nothing, nothing, yet they seemed to be really alive spiritually. For me, the culture shock was in coming home, back to supermarkets full of food and children who seemed spoiled, who had everything, and yet were so starved of spirituality and any understanding of what life was about.”
She gave up her dream of a four-year nursing degree to keep the relationship strong as Bono and U2 topped charts worldwide.
Ali Hewson In 1989, at age 28, she graduated with a degree in social and political science, giving birth to their first child, daughter, Jordan, two weeks after her final exams.
Though the Hewsons have homes around the world, they strive to raise normal, unspoiled children in their large Killiney home in south County Dublin where they overlook the Irish Sea.
Being a single mother while U2 toured for months, even years, “is as hard as it is for any single parent,” she said. “But then, the difference is that if something goes completely wrong, I can just phone Bono. He’s probably one of the best psychologists I know. He always comes through for me.”
In 1993, seven years after the Soviet nuclear power plant, Chernobyl, exploded in Ukraine, she made her first trip to Belarus, where 70 per cent of the contamination fell.
There, she said, four million children suffer from leukemia and other cancers and genetic deformities. It was her first of many gruelling 5,600-kilometre trips — sometimes driving one of many ambulances filled with medical supplies.
She was working for Chernobyl Children’s Project, which provides care for children, many of them abandoned, deformed and dying from “Chernobyl AIDS.”
The Hewson-Roche team, and others, spent three weeks in Belarus in 1993 where they filmed in high-radiation exclusion zones to make the award-winning documentary Black Wind, White Land — Living with Chernobyl.
They filmed children, among them nine-month-old Anna. “Both her legs are short. Both her ears are closed,” said Ms. Hewson.
“I just picked her up and it’s just one of those things where we bonded.” She has been adopted by an Irish family and is Ms. Hewson’s goddaughter.
In 1996, Ms. Hewson was part of an Irish aid convoy to Belarus and Western Russia to mark the 10th anniversary of the (April 26, 1986) Chernobyl explosion. Chernobyl’s estimated toll ranges from 50 direct deaths and 4,000 eventual deaths to more than 500,000 deaths and nine million people affected.
In 2003, she narrated Chernobyl Heart, a film about the suffering left by Chernobyl, which won an Oscar in 2004 for best documentary.
“Sellafield has the potential to be 80 times the size of the Chernobyl accident,” she said.
(Britain had to shut down THORP in 2005 after a massive internal leak went undetected for nine months. It plans to reopen this year for another three years, over objections from Ireland, Iceland, Norway and Austria.)
“There are people being born with Down syndrome and higher numbers of leukemia cases on Ireland’s east coast,” said Ms. Hewson, “but research is not being done into this.” Since 9/11, she has noted: “The 75 tonnes of plutonium sitting on its site can’t but be at the top of any terrorist’s list.”
In 2005, she, Bono and New York designers Rogan Gregory and Scott Hahn started a Fair Trade organic clothing label EDUN — nude spelled backwards to suggest natural and Eden. (The Hewsons are shareholders in an organic food chain called Nude.)
“Bono’s biggest impression of the Africans is that they don’t want charity. They want trade,” says Ms. Hewson. “If you have it made in Africa, you create trade there, you can create jobs there.”
“Rich countries subsidize their own agricultural sectors by about $1 billion per day,” said Ms. Hewson at EDUN’s launch. She cited the $4-billion annual subsidy the U.S. hands its cotton farmers. “Then they flood the market with (cheap) cotton. It’s unfair. It’s a false economy and just crushes African farmers.”
Lucky 13 !
24 months around the world tour with a brief stop to address Bono’s back surgery. Their back in the the studio in Dublin recording what we can only guess will be their 13th album.
Adam spoke earlier in the week to John Murray of Radio One in Irleand. He was promoting the “Walk in My Shoes Campaign to raise money for mental health issues. Last year Adam mum passed away however this program was inspired by her work with St Pats Hospital.
Last Night we posted a message from Dallas……
Just received this report from Dublin, where U2 is in the studio…
Just a heads up on how wonderful your 4 basses are….beautiful instruments and so much “weight” and deep tone with a very light weight bass……amazing. The Will Lee is killer and the PJs so balanced. Adam has been tracking away and not having to break the momentum dialing in his sound…..Just a very good marriage of effortless tone that seems inherent with the overall design. The entire band and the production team could not be happier.
Nice one,
Dallas Schoo/U2
Fake Bono On Video !
Jason Mattera, editor at large at Human Events, is famous for his hardball jouralism was caught with his pants down this time. The original Breitbart.com story has been removed and the Jason Mattera videos have now been moved to “private” on YouTube. There is widespread discussion on Twitter that the person Mattera interviewed in the videos may have been a Bono impersonator. May have ! Well any fool that was listening the the interview could have noticed the answers to the question.
Check out the conversation between Mattera and fake-Bono, which is quite funny in its proper context (i.e. Jason Mattera’s “basic shoeleather journalism” resulted in his ambushing the wrong guy):
Jason Mattera: By dodging taxes on royalties are you raiding the poverty programs you purport to champion?
“Bono”: No.
Jason Mattera: No? Don’t you want governments to be generous with other people’s money and not yours?
“Bono”: I don’t have control over that.
Jason Mattera: How do you not have control over that? It’s your company. Are you not in charge of your own company?
“Bono”: It’s not my company.
Jason Mattera: You have no say in what U2 does?
“Bono”: Not particularly.
Jason Mattera: You don’t? You don’t have a say in what U2 does?
“Bono”: No.
Pavel Sfera only impersonates Bono as far as appearance, and does not do interviews in-character. Jason Mattera acknowledged the error, saying that he “got punked”. That’s not entirely accurate, though, since Mattera himself initiated the interview. Sort of like when someone steals a bait car.
Well, now Bono knows that Jason Mattera is after him. Perhaps he’ll keep a few impersonators on hand in the future. Actually, this isn’t a bad way to deal with ambush journalism in general.
The ambush video has been set to private, but has re-emerged via other outlets. You can see the Jason Mattera video below
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