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U2 will release a concert DVD

According to a piece in the Los Angeles Times editorial section today (March 24), Irish group U2 is releasing a concert DVD sometime in 2010. The concert in question was held October 25 last year in front of 97,000 people at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

This historic show was also streamed live on YouTube for seven million fans in 14 countries.

The group is still on its award-winning 360o tour which arrives in Canada this summer. 

The song list on the DVD is as follows:

1.     Breathe
2.     Get on Your Boot
3.     Magnificent
4.     Mysterious Ways
5.     Beautiful Day
6.     I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
7.     Stand by Me
8.     Stuck in a Moment
9.     No Line on the Horizon
10.   Elevation
11.   In a Little While
12.   Unknown Caller
13.   Until the End of the World
14.   The Unforgettable Fire
15.   City of Blinding Lights
16.   Vertigo
17.   I’ll Go Crazy if I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
18.   Sunday Bloody Sunday
19.   MLK
20.   Walk On
21.   One
22.   Amazing Grace
23.   Where the Streets Have No Name
24.   Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
25.   With or Without You
26.   Moment of Surrender

 

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Artificial Horizon by U2 is now available

When U2 released No Line On The Horizon, they promised to release another album quickly. They failed to deliver on that promise in 2009. The Irish group is travelling the world right now on their 360 Tour.

They have decided to offer Artificial Horizon exclusively on their website. It is a compilation album of remix tracks. The 13 tracks are remixed by some big names in music.

Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails singer, is one artist who took one of U2’s songs and made it his own. He did a remix of the song Vertigo.

The Artificial Horizon album is available for $35 and is offering until May 14 only on U2’s website at artificialhorizon.u2.com.

 

Singer Bono gave an interview to the Irish paper The Independent last December. He said the group’s next album, Songs of Ascent, will be released this summer.

 

 

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U2 tour beats records

Conventional wisdom in the rock world used to dictate that a concert tour would only do as well as the record it was promoting. U2 blows this theory out of the water.

The Irish quartet’s latest album, No Line on the Horizon, is having dismal sales while their 360° Tour has broken all tour records.

The album arrived in stores to lukewarm reviews and little fanfare. The result: this album has only sold a third of what its predecessor did, 2005’s How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. It has only brought in a quarter of what All That You Can’t Leave Behind made in 2000.

The U2 tour, on the other hand, is a must-see event. The tour had unprecedented success in 2009 and made $109 million last year, the most of any music tour. This was far ahead of second place Bruce Springsteen’s tour which brought in $57 million.

These numbers include concert receipts, and music royalties and record sales. Madonna ($47.2 million), AC/DC (43.6 million) and Britney Spears ($38.8 million) rounded out the top 5 in 2009.

 

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U2 wins a prize for its 360 Degree tour

U2’s 360 Degree tour took them to the four corners of the globe last year, and includes some Canadian stops this summer. It has just won the best stage show award at the Total Production International Awards that recognizes the most innovative technological designs.

The revolutionary design of the 360 Degree tour sees U2 perform below a massive metal structure, nicknamed The Claw. It gives fans a better view of the show.

The roadie assigned to guitarist The Edge, Dallas Schoo, received the award for Backline Technician of the Year, while Willie Williams, the tour’s lighting designer, received the Lighting Designer of the Year and Video Visionary Award.

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Hope for Haiti Now album is #1

The telethon broadcast last Friday night (January 22) on all the big U.S. networks raised more than $57 million in donations received by phone, text message and online. It is yet to be determined how much money has been raised from the sale of songs performed that evening.

On iTunes and Amazon, people can buy any song they heard during the telethon for 99¢ or all 20 songs, including a studio version of Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) by Jay-Z, Rihanna and U2, for $7.99.

All music profits will go directly to the relief fund for Haiti to be given to Oxfam America, UNICEF and the Clinton-Bush Haiti Foundation.

Good news for fundraising efforts for Haiti: the Hope for Haiti Now album has set an all-time single day record on iTunes for album pre-orders while Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour), an original song by Jay-Z, Rihanna and U2, has also reached #1 on iTunes.

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More tickets for U2’s Montreal shows

U2, planning two of the biggest concerts Montreal has ever seen on July 16 and 17, has just made thousands more floor tickets available to the public. Organizers judged that this could be done safely.

80,000 fans will attend each show. Initially, only 40,000 seats in the stands and 25,000 floor tickets were made available. The injection of more tickets will allow 15,000 additional people to attend each show. If all the new tix sell, this means around 160,000 fans could see U2 in concert over two nights in Montreal.

U2 is already working on a follow-up album to No Line On The Horizon. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, The Edge promised an album with a different sound little used during his career, electronic.

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Hope for Haiti Gains Steam

George Clooney, who organised the event which will take place in New York and Los Angeles, has managed to gather some of the biggest stars in the world for the cause.  The telethon’s goal is to raise money for the country of Haiti, which suffered a devastating earthquake on January 12.

The event will air tomorrow night (January 22) on all American television networks, and will feature such stars as Bono, Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Shakira, Rihanna, Dave Matthews Band, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Sting, Christina Aguilera, Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson and Mary J. Blige.

According to MTV News, Bono and The Edge of U2 quickly wrote a song that they will perform with Jay-Z for the event.

Clooney will host the show with Wyclef Jean and CNN host Anderson Cooper.

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Bono Calls for an Internet Crackdown

Yesterday (January 3), the singer published an article in the New York Times asking for tighter controls over the downloading of music and films on the Web.
 
The Irish rocker wrote, "The only thing protecting the movie and TV industries from the fate that has befallen music and indeed the newspaper business is the size of the files."
 
The star added that the people who suffer the most from illegal downloading are "the creators – in this case, the young, fledgling songwriters who can’t live off ticket and T-shirt sales."
 
"Perhaps movie moguls will succeed where musicians and their moguls have failed so far, and rally America to defend the most creative economy in the world, where music, film, TV and video games help to account for nearly four per cent of gross domestic product," Bono concluded.
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U2 Offers Fans a Special Gift

The legendary band is releasing a limited edition remix album that will contain some previously unreleased material.  The album is being called Artificial Horizon.

Several remixes will be included in the 13-track album, as well as some unreleased songs that didn’t make the cut for the group’s last album, No Line On The Horizon.

Artificial Horizon will be available only to U2 Fan Club members.  Although an official track list hasn’t been announced, the album will include Jacknife Lee’s remix of Fast Cars, David Holmes’ remix of Beautiful Day, the Fish Out of Water mix of Get On Your Boots, a Grand Jury mix of If God Will Send His Angels and Trent Reznor’s remix of Vertigo.

The album will be available in the beginning of 2010.  In the meantime U2 continues to tour and will be visiting Edmonton on June 23, Toronto on July 3 and Montreal on July 16 and 17.

 

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U2 Artists to Appear on Elvis Costello Show

On Friday (December 11), singer Bono and guitarist The Edge of U2 will be making an appearance on the CTV network for Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…

The concept of the show is to allow the legendary musician, Elvis Costello, to get to know other artists and play music with them. The concept behind Spectacle really appealed to Costello, who wanted to do more than just a formal interview like the format normally followed on American nightly talk shows.

The English musician believes that his show has an advantage, because the content is recorded over a 3 to 4 hour period, and the edition that airs is condensed into a better, richer show, in addition to the unique musical portion.

Other shows scheduled for 2010 include tentative guests Bruce Springsteen, who recently received honours from US president Barack Obama, Sheryl Crow, Lyle Lovett, as well as Ron Sexsmith.

Since December 2003, Elvis Costello has been married to singer and pianist Diana Krall, who was one of the first guests in the show’s first season.