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New Stories:
Chicago Sun Times: U2 amongst established bands (4-22-2001)
Boston Globe: Win U2 Tickets at Triplets' Raffle (4-22-2001)
Sunday Times: U2 amongs Ireland's richest (4-22-2001)
Sunday Times: U2 set to play on Match of the Day (4-22-2001)
Sunday Times: U2 fifth richest artists in UK/Ireland (4-22-2001)
Sunday Times: U2 mention in auction article (4-22-2001)
Observer: U2 show designer produces 'Storm' (4-22-2001)
The Observer: U2's ITV offering contains vocals (4-22-2001)
Chicago Tribune: Mike DeFranco labels U2 as sellouts (4-21-2001)
The Age: Marcussen working with harder bands (4-21-2001)
Ananova: Dave Seaman planning remix album (4-21-2001)
Irish Times: Popmart Director talks about new film (4-21-2001)
SF Gate: U2 Strips Down to the Music (4-21-2001)
AMAZING San Jose Pictures (4-21-2001)
YouTwo.net: San Jose II Setlist (4-21-2001)
San Diego Union-Tribune: Top of the World, Baby! (4-20-2001)
Film Force: More on the Tomb Raider Soundtrack (4-20-2001)
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Oakenfold plays Hard Rock Hotel (4-20-2001)
New General Admission Heart Instructions! (4-20-2001)
NY Post: El Dorado Oks U2 Bono's Pad (4-20-2001)
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer: For a tease, what about U2 or the Boss in Columbus?
(4-20-2001)
SF Gate: Turlington's representatives refuse to confirm Bono wedding story
(4-19-2001)
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Unison: Luka Bloom is back for Bealtaine Festival gig (4-19-2001)
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MuchMusic: U2 PAYS HOMAGE (4-19-2001)
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Music.IZ.com: Band on the Run (4-19-2001)
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Irish World: Geldof & Bono to host party for Clinton (4-19-2001)
Irish Echo: Briefings (4-19-2001)
Irish Echo: 'Beautiful Day' dawns for football fans (4-19-2001)
Billboard: 'NOW' Makes It A Big 2nd Week At No. 1 (4-19-2001)
E!: 'Now' Still No. 1 (4-19-2001)
USA Today: Artists make tracks to 'Tomb' (4-19-2001)
icWales: Veteran Sex Bomb Tom Jones Up Against Newcomers (4-19-2001)
OC Register: How did you fare on U2? (4-19-2001)
Worldpop: Bono's pride, in the name of Mary (4-19-2001)
Rolling Stone: U2 Honor Joey (4-19-2001)
The Australian: Oh my god, they've killed rock 'n' roll (4-19-2001)
Glasgow Herald: Age gap in battle for top song (4-18-2001)
NME: 'Live' and Kicking? (4-18-2001)
NY Press: Larry purchases NY home (4-18-2001)
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Irish Independent: U2 battle Craig for top award (4-18-2001)
CNN: 'A soft and cuddly U2' (4-18-2001)
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Chicago Sun Times: U2 amongst established bands (4-22-2001)
Condensed from the Chicago Sun Times:
The concert industry has been in a state of flux for several years now,
ever since the excitement of the mid-'90s
alternative era gave way to a
more uncertain period of passing fads and teen-pop
phenoms.
A few of these much-hyped MTV-friendly acts have
become major
stadium draws: 'N Sync is at Soldier Field on June
16 and 17, and the
Backstreet Boys are playing the newly rechristened
Tweeter Center on
July 21. But there is a lack of headline-worthy
talent between those
groups and more established bands such as U2,
which is celebrating its
third decade by kicking off the concert season
with four shows at the
United Center in mid-May.
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Boston Globe: Win U2 Tickets at Triplets' Raffle (4-22-2001)
Mothers of multiples help triplets
whose dad died
By Moira Downes, Globe Correspondent,
4/22/2001
AYNHAM - A Stoughton mother of
triplets is so busy she
walked around with a urinary tract
infection for months before
she could find the time to see a doctor.
One Brockton mom is raising 6-year-old
quadruplets and their
7-year-old brother while she tries to sell
her house and find a larger
one.
The mother of 4-year-old triplets and a
3-year-old son from Norton
hasn't washed her car in more than two years.
But all these women, and many more like them,
have managed to
find room in their hectic schedules for
Sharon Dalton, a woman
some of them have never even met.
Dalton is also the mother of triplets. Her
daughters, Alexandra,
Danielle and Samantha, turned 2 in February -
six months after
their father, Daniel Dalton, died of
unexplained causes. He was 37.
And he had no life insurance.
In the past eight months, the Dalton family
lost their Easton
apartment because Sharon was unable to keep
up with the rent
payments. She was put on a waiting list for
public housing but was
told to expect to wait about a year before
any openings become
available. In the meantime, Sharon moved her
family to her sister's
house in Raynham, where she has been trying
to plan for a future
without Dan - and find the time to grieve the
loss of her husband.
''Years ago, when somebody's barn burned
down, the neighbors
would all get together and build a new one,''
said Patty D'Addieco
of Stoughton. ''There would be a big
barn-raising party and
neighbors would socialize and that's how
people were taken care
of.''
D'Addieco belongs to a support group for
parents of triplets,
quadruplets or more that has helped to
organize a modern-day
version of a barn raising for the Dalton
family. But instead of
bringing hammers and nails, the group,
Keeping Pace With
Multiple Miracles, has asked the community to
pitch in for balloons
and popcorn.
On Saturday they will be holding a
fund-raising carnival at Avon
Baptist Church on North Main Street in Avon
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Together with friends and relatives of the
Dalton family, dozens of
mothers of multiples have collectively put
together an event they
hope will bring in enough money give the
Dalton triplets some of
the financial stability they lost when their
father died.
Raffles, live music, Irish step dancing, karate demonstrations, a
stock car and race driver, old-fashioned
carnival games, moon
walks, mini-train rides, and a performing
clown are among the
many attractions scheduled to take place. In
addition, hundreds of
items will be on display for a silent
auction, including tickets to
N'Sync, U2, ''Les Miserables,'' the Boston
Celtics, and the Boston
Red Sox.
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Sunday Times: U2 amongs Ireland's richest (4-22-2001)
Condensed from the Sunday Times:
The biggest concentration of millionaires can be found in a single business in
London - Goldman Sachs, the
investment bank. When it switched to a quoted company, senior executives put
hard figures on their fortunes.
Gavyn Davies, an economist with links to Labour, is worth £166m, and nine other
staff have more than £100m.
London and the southeast, in fact, are home to 509 of the 1,000 people on the
list. The northwest has a couple of
billionaires among its 74 people listed, but the richest person in the northeast
is Graham Wylie, founder of a
software company, at £300m. Only 17 people in the region make the list.
Scotland has 68 entries, while Ireland as whole, with 28 entries in the main
list, has two billionaire entrants
(John Dorrance and the husband and wife team of Sir Tony O'Reilly and Chrys
Goulandris) and four others
worth more than £300m, including the rock band U2.
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Sunday Times: U2 set to play on Match of the Day (4-22-2001)
U2 set to play on Match of the
Day
Richard Brooks
THE Irish rock band U2 is set to be chosen to adapt its recent
single, Beautiful Day, as the signature tune for Match of the
Day. The British football programme will move to ITV in August
after more than 35 years with the BBC.
The band is expected to be given final approval this week after
a meeting of ITV sports executives and the presenter, Des
Lynam.
Last autumn ITV, which was awarded a three-year deal for the
highlights of Premiership matches, invited record producers and
groups to pitch for the programme's signature tune.
The new show, to be screened at about 6.30pm on Saturdays,
will be fronted by Lynam with, it is expected, Terry Venables
and Ally McCoist as the two regular studio guests. Gabby
Yorath will present a Sunday show of highlights.
About 10 groups or musicians were shortlisted, including U2,
Robbie Williams, Moby, Michael Nyman and Badly Drawn Boy.
Three - U2, Moby and Badly Drawn Boy - made it onto the final
list, and ITV insiders confirmed that U2 were clear favourites:
"They are international stars and not a flash-in-the-pan group.
They appeal to all ages."
Larry Mullen, U2's drummer, is by far the keenest football fan of
the group. He is a Manchester United supporter and friend of
Roy Keane, the team's Irish captain, who was invited by Mullen
to U2's recent show in London.
The band's lead singer, Bono, attended the 1998 World Cup
final in Paris between France and Brazil.
ITV decided it did not want to use Offside, the familiar signature
tune composed for the BBC's Match of the Day by Barry
Stoller.
Some of the lines in the upbeat Beautiful Day will be changed.
The line "Reach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case" will, for
example, be altered. It is also not certain whether the words
"See the world in green and blue" will stay.
"I can't offhand think of any teams who wear both green and
blue," said John Peel, the DJ, radio presenter and football fan.
"Celtic are in green and quite a few are blue."
One of the blue teams is Ipswich, which Peel supports, along
with Liverpool. He is surprised a tune with lyrics has been
chosen. "I'd have thought some stirring tune without lyrics
might have been best."
Like Peel, the former Match of the Day pundit Jimmy Hill will
miss the catchy Offside. He said: "It's like Rule Britannia. You
can't create that sort of emotion immediately with a new piece
of music."
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Sunday Times: U2 fifth richest artists in UK/Ireland (4-22-2001)
Condensed from the Sunday Times:
Another tax exemption introduced by Haughey in 1969 was
designed to encourage artists and writers to live in Ireland.
Several among the republic's richest now benefit from that
scheme, including U2 who are in fifth place with a combined
value of IR£475m. Michael Flatley, the lord of dance, whose feet
have made him IR£309m, also benefits from artists' exemp
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Sunday Times: U2 mention in auction article (4-22-2001)
Condensed from the Sunday Times:
The arrival of the relics of St Therese in Celtic Tiger dotcom,
supposedly post-Catholic, Ireland scarcely seems possible. It
is about as unlikely as the huge sales that the Faith of Our
Fathers album generated a few years ago, outstripping even
U2, or the election of Dana to the European parliament. And
yet here they are, and thousands greeted them in Rosslare last
Sunday.
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Observer: U2 show designer produces 'Storm' (4-22-2001)
Condensed from the Observer:
Mark Fisher, the creative director of The
Millennium Show in the Dome, who has
designed shows for Pink Floyd, U2 and
the Rolling Stones, has joined forces with
Pierrot Bidon from Archaos and four
prominent Dome performers to produce
Storm. Staged in a tent, with the
audience standing, Storm features
trapeze artists, dancers, singers,
rope-climbers, clarinettists,
tightrope-walkers, mimes, acrobats and
jokers. They do turns, they amaze; they
are the circus, but not quite as we know
it. The surprise ingredient is a continuous
narrative: Storm is an aerial portrait of a
day in the city.
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The Observer: U2's ITV offering contains vocals (4-22-2001)
Condensed from The Observer:
TV's preferred line-up to replace the BBC's
studio panel of Gary Lineker, Alan Hansen
and Trevor Brooking is Des Lynam, Ally
McCoist and Venables, which, they
reckon, would provide an ideal blend of
authority and beaming bonhomie to
satisfy both Mr and Mrs Viewer.
ITV will not, though, be announcing their
final plans until a major launch at the start
of August when, among other things, they
will make public the programme's title and
the theme music. The title has already
been decided but the music is still a
contest between U2, Moby, Badly Drawn
Boy and Trevor Briton, who arranged ITV's
Champions League score. U2 and Moby
include vocals in their offerings.
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Chicago Tribune: Mike DeFranco labels U2 as sellouts (4-21-2001)
IT'S THE WAY OF THE WORLD
April 20, 2001
OAK PARK -- Oh, no, not more comments from
the peanut gallery,
right? I agree with Julia Keller's points
with regard to athletes selling
out to major endorsement deals ("Into the
Woods: Why did Tiger
turn into a human billboard?" April 12),
but that seems to be the way
of the world these days.
To be honest with you, I can stomach
endorsements by golfers or
tennis players more than professional
athletes in other team sports.
A golfer or tennis player can only make
his/her money from the sport
based on winning. You win, you get rich.
It's that simple. There are
no guaranteed contracts in golf or tennis.
You get hurt, you don't get
paid. Jack Nicklaus only made $5.7 million
over a career in golf
winnings. Need I say more? We think that's
significant, but in the
grand scheme of professional sports, that's
chump change.
I can't say I blame professional athletes.
They are exploited by the
rich whether it's from the owners or the
major corporations. Who do
you think throws up the cash for the $3.6
million purse at the end of
a golf tournament? It's not people like you
or me. It's the major
corporations, the sponsors.
Tell me, Julia, that you wouldn't take the
cash if you were that good. I
mean, wouldn't you love to win the
Pulitzer?
I'd like to be on the hot seat in front of
Regis. I hate "Survivor," but I'd
be on the show. I mean, even if you lose,
you still win.
I'd like you to follow up your article with
not only professional athletes
but movie stars, musicians and average
schleps like me who, when
given the chance, sell out. Look at
Smashing Pumpkins. Corporate
sellouts. REM. Sellouts. U2. Sellouts.
Julia Roberts. Sellout. If given
the financial reward, I may sell out too
for the benefit of myself and
my family.
-- Mike DeFranco
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The Age: Marcussen working with harder bands (4-21-2001)
Condensed from The Age:
Recently, Superheist reached the final of the international streetwise.com
band competition, a springboard event for
previous winners Papa Roach
and Taproot.
In giving the album broader appeal, Berger
emphasises the importance
of the final mastering process. Enter Los
Angeles-based Stephen
Marcussen, the post-production hand on U2's
Beautiful Day.
"Production's about 30 per cent of the
sound, then your mixing is about
40 per cent and the mastering's worth
another 30 per cent," says Berger.
"So the mastering is an integral part of
widening the sound for radio and
stereo, and all those intricate sounds you
don't normally hear."
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Ananova: Dave Seaman planning remix album (4-21-2001)
Dave Seaman promotes Renaissance
album in the US
Dave Seaman is flying to America to promote his latest
Renaissance album.
He will visit New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Francisco,
Washington and Miami. The Renaissance Desire mix
features tracks from Ashley Beedle, Francois K and Pete
Heller.
Dave is also planning a compilation of his Brothers In
Rhythm remixes which features tracks from Kylie Minogue,
U2 and Michael Jackson.
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Irish Times: Popmart Director talks about new film (4-21-2001)
Condensed from the Irish Times:
Wild about comedy
Declan Lowney, Father
Ted director, talks to
Brian Boyd about
his first film, Wild About
Harry, which opened
the Dublin Film Festival
last night
FILM: It's a light
thing. Irish whizz-kid director, Declan
Lowney (the Eurovision,
Father Ted, Cold Feet) is
looking out the window
of an imposing building in the
middle of a
Bauhaus-meets-Orwell business park in
London's Chiswick. He's
here directing a commercial
for a new brand of
biscuit - "great money" - and waiting
for the sun to set
before he can turn his cameras on.
"This place is weird,"
he says, "there's all these signs
around saying `Enjoy
Work' - what a load of bollocks,"
he giggles in a Wexford
accent untainted by 15 years of
living in London.
Since the age of 12, when he used to use his uncle's
Super 8, he's been
picking up awards - from local
Wexford amateur film
awards to a BAFTA for Father
Ted in 1997. A product
of former ANCO courses, he
ignored parental advice
to pursue a career in law and
got "the start" in RTÉ
aged 18. Flying up through the
ranks, he was a
producer/director by 24 and a few
short years later he was
given the job of doing
Eurovision in 1988 - "I
know it's bloody awful but it's a
great gig to get and
really puts you on the map".
Following some
incautious remarks to a reporter
though, the gig almost
fell through: "I did this interview
just before the show
went out and basically said
Eurovision was just an
excuse for a load of TV
executives to go on the
piss on expenses. I got into
loads of trouble for
that, although fortunately it was too
late in the day to take
me off the show".
Nevertheless, he soon
found himself out of RTÉ and in
London. He immediately
picked up work on music
programmes and his CV
includes directing U2's
PopMart tour in 1997,
live concert performances of
everyone from Prince to
the Velvet Underground and,
for the past eight
years, looking after the BBC's
Glastonbury coverage -
"I love it, I do it just so I can get
in free and get into the
vibe once the cameras stop
rolling".
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SF Gate: U2 Strips Down to the Music (4-21-2001)
U2 Strips Down to the Music
Nothing detracts from the naked
emotions of Bono and band
Joel Selvin, Chronicle Pop Music Editor
Saturday, April 21, 2001
U2 acted like a band with something to
prove.
From Bono's judo kick as drummer Larry
Mullen crashed into the opening of
"Elevation" to the rousing finale of "Walk On,"
the four-man rock band stayed close to
basics Thursday in the first of two sold-out
shows at the Compaq Center in San Jose
(formerly the San Jose Arena).
After the technological overkill of the 1997
PopMart tour, which surpassed even the
extravagant staging and multimedia
manipulation of the band's previous
football-stadium juggernaut, "Zoo TV," there
was some question whether U2 could stand
in front of an audience and just play.
The answer is yes. From the opening chord, it
was a towering performance by a
monumental band -- emotional, painfully
earnest and authentically inspirational.
Surrounding the stage was a heart-shaped
ramp with its tip reaching halfway across the
arena. With chairs gone from the floor and a
roiling mass of people pushing against the
runways, Bono could bring the show right into
the audience.
More than once, he stepped into the hands of
the people, who held him aloft as he
continued to sing.
The Edge showered the band with a virtual
orchestra in his guitar and foot pedals, while
the engine room of drummer Mullen and
bassist Adam Clayton kept steady thunder
rolling underneath. The four men moved with
a steely unity of purpose.
The stage design cut down the size of the
hall, and the lighting illuminated the unique
connection this band has with its fans. Bathed
in broad beams of white light, the audience
stayed in the picture. The band even began
the concert with the house lights up full. It
was
as if the U2 musicians had gone in the
opposite direction from the technocratic
excess of PopMart and Zoo TV, and wanted
to stress the humanity of this concert.
That humanity always has been at the center
of the band's music and message,
even if it has been overshadowed at times by
the flashing video screens, giant lemons,
phone calls to the White House and all the
other happy foolishness. But the band has
always appealed to the best instincts of its
audience. And with the distractions and
enhancements removed, the stark
emotionalism at the core of U2 stands out in
bold relief.
The band's new album, "All That You Can't
Leave Behind," also benefited from the new
lean, mean U2 focus.
Six songs were the backbone of the program.
Bono dedicated "Stuck in a Moment You
Can't Get Out Of" to the late INXS vocalist
Michael Hutchence; it's a song that builds
carefully in gospel-flavored choruses to a
sweet, hopeful conclusion. He said "In a Little
While" was the last song Joey Ramone heard
before he died ("In a little while . . . this
hurt
will hurt no more"). Bono later finished with
the softly lyrical, sentimental love song "I
Remember You, " saying, "Joey Ramone,
that's for you."
The concert reached critical mass with
"Where the Streets Have No Name."
"Mysterious Ways" found Bono toying with
giant video screens at the back of the stage.
The group played "Bullet the Blue Sky" and
"With or Without You" as if they were trump
cards. By the time the band left the stage
after "Pride (In the Name of Love)," U2 had
swept up everything in its path. The
three-song encore was just final punctuation.
If anyone thinks that U2 has gone flabby with
age and celebrity, that the exposed-nerve
electricity that ignited the group's most
powerful passions has long ago vanished,
well, they just shoulda been there.
E-mail Joel Selvin at
jse...@sfchronicle.com.
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AMAZING San Jose Pictures (4-21-2001)
Some incredible shots of the stage from San
Jose can be seen at:
http://www.sandsmuseum.com/lynnes/U2SJ1.html
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YouTwo.net: San Jose II Setlist (4-21-2001)
San Jose Second Concert Setlist:
1. Elevation
2. Beautiful Day
3. Until The End Of The World
4. New Year's Day
5. Kite
6. New York
7. I Will Follow
8. Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. Stuck In A Moment
10. In A Little While
11. Angel Of Harlem
12. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
13. All I Want Is You
14. Where The Streets Have No Name
15. Mysterious Ways
16. The Fly
Encore 1:
17. Bullet The Blue Sky
18. With Or Without You
19. Pride
Encore 2:
20. One
21. Walk On
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San Diego Union-Tribune: Top of the World, Baby! (4-20-2001)
From San Diego Union-Tribune:
TOP OF THE WORLD, BABY!
U2 leaves nothing behind in high-flying, triumphant
Elevation tour stop
By George Varga
POP MUSIC CRITIC
April 19, 2001
Moving forward by moving back is a daunting task for anyone. But U2 made it
look
easy during the Irish band's stripped-down yet rousing Tuesday night concert
at the
San Diego Sports Arena.
From the opening notes of the first song, the aptly titled "Elevation," to
the last refrain of
the final encore, "Walk On," U2 performed with renewed passion and
commitment, as
befits a veteran group seeking to reclaim its rock 'n' roll throne in an era
dominated by
teen-pop poseurs, rap-metal louts and swaggering hip-hop braggarts.
Or, as U2's 40-year-old front man Bono sang during the concert's emotionally
revealing "New York": Still I'm staying on to figure out my midlife crisis /
I hit an
iceberg in my life / But you know I'm still afloat.
Make that afloat, and back on course, as the 125-minute, two-dozen song
concert
handily demonstrated.
The sold-out Elevation 2001 show was U2's first here since its uber-high-tech
PopMart tour stopped at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium in 1997, and its first
at the
Sports Arena since 1992's similarly elaborate Zoo TV tour.
The move back to arenas, after nearly a decade in stadiums, coincides with
U2's latest
album, the Grammy Award-winning "All That You Can't Leave Behind." It finds
the
band turning back to guitar-driven basics and away from the edgy,
experimental,
techno-drenched approach featured on the three albums it released during the
1990s,
"Achtung Baby," "Zooropa" and "Pop."
Artistically, the new album is a retreat to commercially safer ground. But as
Tuesday's
concert reaffirmed, there's much to be said for musical simplicity and
directness,
especially when a band produces such stirring, anthem-like songs as U2.
Witness the first two selections of the show, both from "All That You Can't
Leave
Behind."
The first, "Elevation," was initially heard on tape. Then, with the arena's
house lights
still on, U2's four members strode on stage to a deafening ovation and began
playing
the same song live, without missing a note.
Anchored by a thumping beat from drummer Larry Mullen and bassist Adam
Clayton,
and a liberating blast of fuzzy guitar from The Edge, the song surged with
no-frills
power. So did Bono's falsetto vocal refrain, which the near-delirious crowd
of almost
13,000 happily sang back at him.
The house lights were turned off for the similarly uplifting "Beautiful Day."
But the band
and the crowd glowed for the remainder of the performance, which alternated
between
still-vital U2 classics like "New Year's Day," "Pride (In the Name of Love)"
and "Where
the Streets Have No Name" and such winning new songs as "Stuck in a Moment
You
Can't Get Out Of" and the Al Green-inspired soul-ballad "In a Little While."
Bono was in a playful mood throughout. He repeatedly inserted fleeting
musical
quotes -- which ranged from Radiohead's "Creep" and Bob Marley's "Get Up,
Stand
Up" to Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" and David Bowie's "Young Americans" --
into
U2's own songs.
A master showman, the fist-pumping singer transcended most of the rock-god
poses
he struck as he pranced around the heart-shaped catwalk that extended from
the
stage to nearly the center of the arena floor. A few hundred lucky fans were
in the
center of the "heart," but most of Bono's interactions were with the crowd
beyond.
The sound and lighting were both first-rate. So was the imaginative use of
the
black-and-white video screens that hung above each side of the stage.
But this show was about music, not props, and the band seemed to gain new
strength
by focusing on the power of its songs. Yet, for all its redemptive rock 'n'
roll thunder,
some of the concert's most touching moments were also its quietest.
"Desire" and "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" were performed as spare duets by
Bono
and The Edge, who stood together at the tip of the catwalk. Both songs
achieved an
intimacy rarely heard in arenas. So did the impromptu, a cappella (and
initially
out-of-tune) encore of the Ramones' "I Remember You," one of two songs Bono
dedicated to the pioneering punk-rock band's lead singer, Joey Ramone, who
died
this week.
Early on in the show, Bono fondly recalled the aftermath of U2's 1987 Sports
Arena
show, when fans of the band gathered next to downtown's U.S. Grant Hotel and
serenaded the band.
He concluded Tuesday's concert by offering repeated thanks to the audience
for "a
great night," words that rang as loud and true as U2's music.
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Film Force: More on the Tomb Raider Soundtrack (4-20-2001)
From Film Force:
More on the Tomb Raider Soundtrack and Marketing Campaign
Another musician is added to the soundtrack's list, and a company changes its
name in
honor of Lara Croft.
by Paul Davidson
2001-04-19
We've been following the U2/Lara Croft connection in some recent stories here at
IGN FilmForce, and now we have further info on the music going into the Tomb
Raider soundtrack this summer.
According to trusted reader Tyler, a song by Missy Elliot may join the ranks of
U2
and Fatboy Slim. Here's his report and his impression of this newest addition:
"Things are moving along on the [Tomb Raider] Soundtrack. Another track is being
given serious consideration. Not sure if you heard reports of it already but a
track called
'Get Your Freak On' by
Missy Elliot is being considered. There is a normal version and a
remix version of this
song. The remix version features relative newcomer Nelly Furtado
who is just ready to
about to explode on the music scene. It is the remix version that is
being considered.
"On a side note, I
usually don't give think much of most of the young solo female artists
currently out there.
But I have to give credit where it's due, and Nelly is quite a talented
singer and songwriter.
I was exposed to her for the first time last week when she
opened a couple of
dates for U2, and dicovered her great talent, which I believe will
ultimately lead her to
be far more credible as an artist than any of the Britneys or
Christinas out there
will ever be. Anyway, I've always enjoyed Missy. So add her into the
Nelly mix, plus the
Tomb Raider connection, and things are moving just fine."
Just fine indeed! We'll keep you
updated on Tomb Raider soundtrack news.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal: Oakenfold plays Hard Rock Hotel (4-20-2001)
From Las Vegas Review-Journal:
NEON THURSDAY: Oakenfold plays Hard Rock Hotel
The man Guinness World Records calls the most famous deejay on earth is headed
to the
Hard Rock Hotel tonight.
Londoner Paul Oakenfold, 37, is sometimes called the "Godfather of House Music."
After
becoming known in club circles as
a pioneer of turntable mixology, as the jargon goes, he
was called up to mix songs with
the Rolling Stones, U2 and Bjork. He's traveling on a
somewhat rare U.S. tour.
Oakenfold performs with D:Fuse at
8 p.m. Tickets, $30, are on sale at the box office, 4455
Paradise Road, and through
Ticketmaster. To charge by phone, call 693-5066.
-- By DOUG ELFMAN
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New General Admission Heart Instructions! (4-20-2001)
Thanks to Michael for the following from San Jose:
After the fiasco in San Diego with the lineups and the near catastrophe
in Tacoma, the folks at the San Jose Arena have taken draconian measures
to ensure the same doesn't happen here. Pay attention as this may be
the way things are done from hereon out.
If you are hoping to get in line with a friend, forget it. If you're
hoping to leave and have lunch once you're in line, forget it.
Go right now to the Arena if you're hoping for the heart. They gave out
wristband number 38 at 9:55 this morning. People are being let in in
order, no exceptions. This policy will keep your truly out of the heart
this evening, but we must admit it's the fairest way.
Text of handout follows:
-->GA ticketholders may begin lining up at 7:00 a.m.
-->Only GA ticketholders are permitted in the line.
-->Upon arrival, each guest will have a sequentially numbered wristband
put on his or her right wrist. The order of entrance into the building
will be based on the number of the guest's wristband.
-->The heart wristbands will be distributed in sequential order when
they are received from the promoter.
-->Guests are not permitted to hold a place in line for other guests who
are arriving later.
-->The wristband must remain on the guest's right wrist while in line
and throughout the event.
-->Guest with wristbands may leave the line for a reasonable amount of
time for restroom use and re-enter the line at the same position.
-->Guest are permitted to have a reasonable amount of food and
non-alcoholic beverages.
-->No guest may exit or reenter the line after 5:15 p.m regardless of
wristband or place in line.
There are more rules but these are the biggies.
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NY Post: El Dorado Oks U2 Bono's Pad (4-20-2001)
From NY Post:
EL DORADO OKs U2 BONO'S PAD
By BRADEN KEIL
April 20, 2001 -- GIMME SHELTER
THE El Dorado's co-op board has no problem letting famous singers into
their building.
Using his real name on his application, U2 lead singer Bono - a.k.a. Paul
Hewson - received approval from the board to move his stuff into his new
$3.4 million flat at 300 Central Park West.
Three years ago, Barbra Streisand's board at the nearby Ardsley rejected
Mariah Carey. A furious Streisand publicly blasted the board, saying, "If
artists can't live on the Upper West Side . . . where can they live?"
Apparently, two blocks away.
The new apartment, which the rocker just refurbished, has three
bedrooms, four baths and killer views of the (Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis) reservoir from its 16th floor perch.
The vintage, 32-story, twin-towered building, located between 90th and
91st streets, was completed in 1931 and is one of Central Park West's
signature Art Deco landmarks - along with the San Remo, the Majestic,
the Century and 55 CPW, which were also built during that period before
Depression-era construction dwindled.
Last year, photographer and cosmetics tycoon François Nars bought and
combined two apartments on the El Dorado's 26th floor for about $5
million, from which he created a three-bedroom, three-bathroom
apartment that occupies the entire floor in the south tower.
The rocker's neighbors also will include Faye Dunaway and Tatum
O'Neal.
Michael J. Fox and his family moved from the building a few years
earlier.
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Columbus Ledger-Enquirer: For a tease, what about U2 or the Boss in Columbus?
(4-20-2001)
Condensed from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer:
For a tease, what about U2 or the Boss in Columbus?
Three weeks ago, I wrote a column in which I teased the band 98 Degrees. (Hey,
they endorsed Herbal Essences shampoo, so they were asking for it.)
A week later, the Columbus Civic Center announced 98 Degrees was coming to the
arena.
I think the conclusion is obvious: I rag on a band, and they come to town.
So without further ado, there are a couple of other things I need to get off my
chest:
How did Bruce Springsteen ever get popular, being so short and having such a
big
nose?
Why don't those pretentious, over-the-hill guys in U2 go back to Ireland, where
they
can sing their anthems inside castles and leave us alone?
And when will Michael Stipe of R.E.M. grow his hair back and start writing
lyrics
that make sense? We got your Orange Crush, buddy.
There. I've just guaranteed a pretty cool summer of shows at the Civic Center.
But it
will undoubtedly take officials a few weeks to get all this stuff lined up.
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SF Gate: Turlington's representatives refuse to confirm Bono wedding story
(4-19-2001)
Condensed from the SF Gate:
AND HAPPINESS?: Christy Turlington's
representatives would not confirm this
yesterday, and those usually in-the-know
around town said they hadn't heard . .
. but Fashion Wire Daily reported that the
model and purveyor of skin-care products
(who's doing yoga on the cover of Time this
week) is going to marry her boyfriend,
Edward Burns (who'll be at the San Francisco
Film Festival on May 1), on June 1 in San
Francisco. Bono of U2 has been asked to be
best man, says the story.
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LiveDaily: Charts: 'NOW Vol. 6' holds on to No. 1 (4-19-2001)
Condensed from Live Daily:
Charts: 'NOW Vol. 6' holds on to No. 1
Albums from Aaron Carter, Dream and Lifehouse
crack the Top 10.
by Jon Zahlaway
LiveDaily Staff
Writer
"NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 6," which debuted at No. 1 last week,
spends another week
at the top of the album chart after moving more than 500,000 copies during
its second week in
stores, according to industry sources. The album--which contains 17
previously released hits by
a chart-topping roster of artists that includes Britney Spears, Backstreet
Boys, Destiny's Child,
Shaggy, 'NSync, Lenny Kravitz, Creed and U2--has now sold more than one
million copies.
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Unison: Luka Bloom is back for Bealtaine Festival gig (4-19-2001)
From Unison:
Luka Bloom is back for Bealtaine Festival gig
By SYLVIA POWNALL
THE headline Bealtaine concert at
the Red House on Thursday 3 May
is sure to be a sell out
success.
Luka Bloom, aka Barry Moore, returns to his home town for one
night only to perform live in an intimate setting and will be supported
by the recently established Kildare singer/songwriter group.
Tickets for the gig - the grand finale of this season's
successful Red Hot Music Club
series - are priced at 12 pounds
and are likely to sell out in
record time.
The concert will feature songs
from his 'Keeper of the
Flame' album in which Luka
performs the hits of other
artists. He chose his covers
wisely and has transformed
tracks from artists across the
music spectrum from rapper
LL Cool J to REM to Elvis.
"I decided to use this project
to celebrate the work of
artists I love," he explained.
"Some of this was about
interpreting songs I already
knew and felt comfortable with.
Some of it was about
challenging myself to perform songs
that supposedly came from
outside my area, from artists
like The Cure, U2, Radiohead
and Abba."
The concert at the Red House
kicks off an action packed
weekend in Newbridge as the
Bealtaine Festival
committee once again pulls out
all the stops.
Sunday night's dance at the
Keadeen - always a highlight
- will feature the Classic
Beatles and the Feet on the
Street party on Friday night
will include spectacular
performances from Macnas,
Kildare Artsquad, VTOS
Theatre Studies group and
hundreds of local students.
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Scotsman: U2 nominated for Best Contemporary Song (4-19-2001)
From Scotsman:
Bob builds his hopes for award
Roger Cox
AT FIRST glance pop music legends Sir Elton John and Sir Paul
McCartney would not have much in common with children's
television hit Bob the Builder.
But the animated theme tune Can We Fix It? is among the
nominations for this year's Ivor Novello music awards.
The song, which was written by Nottinghamshire songwriter
Paul Joyce and sung by actor Neil Morrissey, has been
nominated for the Best Selling UK Single Award alongside Pure
Shores by the All Saints and It Feels So Good by Sonique.
Last year, Sir Paul and Sir Elton joined Fran Healey of Travis as
winners of the competition.
If Bob wins it will be his second giant-slaying act of recent
months. Last December, the man in the hard hat surprised the
pundits by pipping Eminem and Westlife to the Christmas No 1
slot.
In the Best Song category, Coldplay received a nomination for
their song, Trouble, David Gray was nominated for Babylon and
S Club 7 were nominated for Never Had A Dream Come True.
In the Best Contemporary Song category, U2's single Beautiful
Day was nominated alongside Seven Days by Craig David and
Please Forgive Me by David Gray.
Melanie C (I Turn To You), Sonique (It Feels So Good) and
Tom Jones (Sexbomb) will battle it out for the International Hit
of the Year Award.
The awards will be presented by the British Academy of
Composers and Songwriters at the Grosvenor House Hotel in
London on 24 May.
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Starnews: DJ listeners could care less about U2 (4-19-2001)
Condensed from Starnews:
A.M. fun on FM
WGLD's drive-time team mines 'gold' from oldies, news, weather,
traffic and topical chat.
By Marc D. Allan
Indianapolis Star
April 19, 2001
If you knew Peggy Sue, then you're among the reasons the WGLD-FM
(104.5) morning team is scurrying
around, preparing to be entertaining and
informative.
Bruce Elscott is writing the sports reports he'll read throughout the show
and leafing through the morning
Star. Eileen Worcester is taking a quick
glance at the traffic report
flashing on her computer screen. Producer Jeff
Angel is making sure the trivia
contest, the Fact of the Day and other
paperwork can be found easily.
GENERATION GAP
"A difficult thing for me to adjust to was, I'm about 10 to 20 years
younger than people who are
listening to our radio station," says Elscott, 36,
who once played Ringo in a
Beatlemania band. "So I come with a different
frame of reference.
"We don't make a big deal about age. I'm not trying to fool anybody on
the air, but I'm not going to go on
the air and say I'm excited about the U2
concert" -- which he is -- "because
our listeners couldn't care less about U2."
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Sunspot.net: Producer uses Bono quote to describe Train album (4-19-2001)
Condensed from Sunspot.net:
With emotional melodies and lyrics,
capable songwriting, and precise
production by Brendan O'Brien (Pearl
Jam and Rage Against the Machine),
this album expands on the band's
previous effort (the self-titled "Train")
by introducing instrumentation beyond
that of guitars, bass and drums. This
new release off the Columbia
Records' label won't change the world
or the music scene, but to steal a
quote from U2's Bono speaking to
VH1 about his own band's latest
effort, "It might change the
temperature of the room." It has a
spark to it that will catch a listener's
ear and make him or her stop what
they are doing and pay close
attention.
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MuchMusic: U2 PAYS HOMAGE (4-19-2001)
From MuchMusic:
U2 PAYS HOMAGE
U2's Bono dedicated three songs to the late Joey Ramone at last night's sold-out
gig
at the San Diego Sports Arena. Bono paid tribute to the punk legend prior to
U2's
performance of "In A Little While" and performing a cover of The Ramones' "I
Remember You". In a final tribute to Ramone, Bono dedicated the band's closing
track
and latest single, "Walk On" to the icon.
In a timely release, Spin magazine's May
issue throws the spotlight on 25 years of
punk--covering everyone from The Ramones
and the Sex Pistols to the Minutemen and
Bikini Kill.
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Sunspot.net: 'NOW' tops chart for second week (4-19-2001)
From Sunspot.net:
'NOW' tops chart for second week
Compilation CD featuring 16 hits sold over 500,000 copies last
week.
Staff and Wire Reports
Originally published April 18, 2001
"NOW That's What I Call Music
Vol. 6" is at the top of The
Billboard 200 album chart again
this week, according to
Billboard.com. The CD sold
546,700 copies last week,
improving on its previous week's
sales of 525,000. This version of
the complication disc includes 16
particularly popular artists --
Britney Spears, Samantha
Mumba, 'N Sync, ATC, Jennifer
Lopez, Destiny's Child, Shaggy,
3LW, K-Ci & JoJo, R. Kelly,
Backstreet Boys, Evan & Jaron,
Coldplay, Lenny Kravitz, Creed,
Fuel, Incubus, U2 and Everclear --
which could account for its high
sales.
The highest debut of the week
was Ani DiFranco's
"Revelling/Reckoning" at No. 50,
but teen popster Aaron Carter
and girl group Dream both had
significant moves up the chart --
from No. 15 to No. 4 and No. 21
to No. 7 respectively. Moving up
the most spots was the
soundtrack for the movie "Josie &
the Pussycats," which went from
No. 82 to No. 16.
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Launch: U2 Pays Tribute To Joey Ramone (4-19-2001)
From Launch:
U2 Pays Tribute To Joey Ramone
(4/19/01, 3 p.m. ET) -- U2 frontman Bono may have been the last artist to
speak to Joey Ramone, as the singer called him at New York Presbyterian
Hospital on Good Friday (April 13). Two days later when Ramone passed away,
U2's "In A Little While" was playing. As the song ended, so did his life.
Bono was very moved by Ramone, and he said in a statement, "In Dublin in
1977 when I saw Joey singing I knew nothing else mattered to him. Pretty soon
nothing else mattered to me. The Ramones stopped the music world long
enough for U2 and the other garage bands to get on. They invented
something...the idea that your limitations were what made you...your street,
your neighborhood, the clothes on your back, your record collection was the size
of your universe."
Upon hearing that Ramone died, Bono sung a rendition of "Amazing Grace" in
honor of the Ramones frontman in Portland, Oregon on Sunday (April 15). In
San Diego on April 17, he dedicated the song "In A Little While" to Ramone, and
prefaced it with his remembrances of the singer. Later in the show he dedicated
the Ramones song "I Remember You" to the late singer (U2 also performed the
song earlier in the year at New York City's Irving Plaza). In San Diego, Bono
also
dedicated "Walk On" to Ramone.
-- Darren Davis, New York
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Ananova: Proud Mary are Bono's tip for the top (4-19-2001)
From Ananova:
Proud Mary are Bono's tip for the top
Bono has tipped up-and-coming band Proud Mary for stardom.
The Manchester band were the first to sign to Noel Gallagher's new record
label Sour Mash.
Bono says Proud Mary are a band to look out for and has praised their
newly released single Very Best Friend.
Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson earlier told the David Letterman
Show he was keen to recruit Proud Mary to support his band on a tour later
this year.
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SonicNet: U2, Outkast, Nine Inch Nails Do 'Tomb Raider' (4-19-2001)
From SonicNet:
U2, Outkast, Nine Inch Nails Do 'Tomb Raider'
Missy Elliott, Nelly Furtado and Moby also contribute to
soundtrack for film adaptation of popular video game.
When Lara Croft's daredevil heroics come to the big
screen in this summer's "Tomb Raider," they'll be set to
the sounds of U2, Nine Inch Nails, Outkast and other
A-listers.
A remix of U2's
"Elevation" will be the first single from the
soundtrack,
which is set for a June 5 release, according
to Elektra
Records. In the video for the song, shot earlier
this month, an
"evil" U2 kidnaps the Edge. He is then
rescued by
Angelina Jolie, who plays Lara Croft in the film
adaptation of
the popular video game.
Nine Inch Nails
contribute a new cut, "Deep," which will
be the album's
second single, and Missy Elliott and Nelly
Furtado team on
a remix of Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On".
Other new
material on the soundtrack includes Outkast's
"Speed
Ballin'," Basement Jaxx's "Where's Your Head @,"
Groove Armada's
"Edge Hill," BT's "The Revolution Will Be
Televised," and
the Chemical Brothers' "Bounce." Fatboy
Slim
contributes a remix of "Illuminata," with an
appearance by
Bootsy Collins.
"Tomb Raider"
hits theaters on June 12.
-- Eric
Schumacher-Rasmussen
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Music.IZ.com: Band on the Run (4-19-2001)
Thanks to Michele for the following.
From Music.IZ.com:
BAND ON THE RUN
It's tough being inconspicuous when you're U2. The Irish Superstars were spotted
by a sharp-eyed tourist while shooting a video for their new single "Elevation."
Bono and the guys were filming on the back lot of Universal Studios in Los
Angeles last week when they were spotted by someone on the tram chugging
along above their set.
One witness told reporters, "Suddenly, a voice cried out, 'Oh my God, it's
Bono!'
and 15 or 20 people jumped off the tram and ran onto the set. The guide
escorting
the tour was horrified and
kept using her speakerphone to tell them to return to
their seats. It was one of
the funniest things I've ever seen."
Apparently, U2 didn't see the humor in the invasion. Instead of gladhanding the
fans and signing
autograghs, the famous foursome dashed for their trailer to let the
park's security force deal
with the zealous fans and get them back on their tram.
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Spin: U2, NIN for Tomb Raider (4-19-2001)
From Spin:
04.18.2001
U2, NIN for Tomb Raider
All kinds of cool kids are on board for the soundtrack to the forthcoming Tomb
Raider
movie, which as you might know is being produced by Paramount Pictures. First
off,
the soundtrack will contain a remix of U2's "Elevation," the latest single from
U2's
current album, All That You Can't Leave Behind. But perhaps even more exciting
is
that Nine Inch Nails is also contributing a track called "Deep." According the
NIN
website at www.nin.com, the track was written, arranged and performed by Trent
Reznor, who also shared in production duties with Alan Moulder. "Deep" is set to
hit
radio the first week in May. Also slated to appear on the disc are OutKast,
Moby,
Basement Jaxx, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Missy Elliot and Nelly Furtado.
The
soundtrack is due out June 5. As for this Tomb Raider thing, well, the film is
going to
star the sexy Angelina Jolie as popular videogame character Lara Croft. Also
appearing in the film will be John Voight, Noah Taylor, Daniel Craig, and Iain
Glen.
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Irish World: Geldof & Bono to host party for Clinton (4-19-2001)
From Irish World:
Through the Grapevine with Donna Hickey
Irish World Award winner Bob Geldof and Bono are to host a huge party at
Dublin Castle for former President Bill Clinton when he flies into Dublin next
month. The 10,000 pounds per table dinner has sold out with money raised going
to the Northern Ireland Fund for Reconciliation. This charity was set up by
Senator George Mitchell who will also be a guest at the party. Bono will be
in the middle of U2's Elevation Tour in the USA and will be flying in to speak
at the dinner before flying
out the next day.
Speaking of U2, Bono and the
boys had to dive for cover when filming of the
new video was interrupted by
eagle eyed fans. The boys were filming at the
back of Universal Studios,
when a tram that carries tourists round the
attraction came close by. Fans
jumped off the tram and headed for the boys.
U2 took cover in their trailer
while security men escorted the fans back to
their tram.
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Irish Echo: Briefings (4-19-2001)
From Irish Echo:
Briefings
The New York Daily News reported that Joey Ramone, leader
of the seminal punk band The Ramones, was listening to the U2
song "In A Little While," when he died last Sunday of lymphoma
at the age of 49.
"Slow down my beating heart./A man dreams one day to fly/A
man takes a rocket ship into the skies./He lives on a star that's
dying in the night,/And follows in the trail, the scatter of light."
He's sure come a long way, baby, from his "Brothers
McMullen" days. Ed Burns, the triple-threat
actor/director/screenwriter will tie the knot this summer with
American supermodel Christy Turlington. The wedding will take
place in San Francisco, and June bride Christy will be escorted
down the aisle by one of her closest friends, Bono. Yes, that
Bono.
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Irish Echo: 'Beautiful Day' dawns for football fans (4-19-2001)
From Irish Echo:
New & Noteworthy
'Beautiful Day' dawns for football fans
By Eileen Murphy
Football fans in Ireland and England will get a special musical
treat when "Match of the Day" makes the move from the BBC to
rival network ITV. Although producers of the highly rated sports
show will be packing up their game clips, talking heads and other
sundries, they'll have to leave their . . . jocks? socks?? stocks???
Actually, the show's producers have been forced to ditch their
familiar "di-di-dah-di-di-di-di-dah" theme song. It seems that the
BBC bosses plan to use the "Match" music to underscore
English games and FA Cup contests.
But never fear: the ITV team has chosen another, rather
catchy tune to replace the old one. It's by a little Irish band
whose name escapes us at the moment. You've heard of them --
wraparound sunglasses, edgy guitar work, cute drummer.
U2 beat out stiff competition, including Moby, Robbie Williams
and Badly Drawn Boy for the coveted (and lucrative) deal.
"Beautiful Day" captured the producers' imagination, although
they did ask for one small change in the lyrics. "I'm not a
hopeless case" will now be, "I'm going to run this race." Larry, a
big football fan, is said to be thrilled. The other guys are,
presumably, chuffed as well.
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Billboard: 'NOW' Makes It A Big 2nd Week At No. 1 (4-19-2001)
Condensed from Billboard:
'NOW' Makes It A Big 2nd Week At No. 1
The sixth volume of the various artists compilation "NOW That's
What I Call Music!" enjoys a second week at No. 1 on The
Billboard 200, posting a slight increase over its debut week
sales total. The set, which sports hits from artists such as
Destiny's Child, U2, and Jennifer Lopez, sold more than
546,700 copies sold in the U.S., according to SoundScan.
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E!: 'Now' Still No. 1 (4-19-2001)
Condensed from E!:
"Now" Still No. 1
by David Jenison
Apr 18, 2001, 2:35 PM PT
Now that's what we call smoking the competition.
For the second straight week, Now That's What I Call Music! 6
dominated the Billboard album charts, selling nearly as many copies
as the rest of the
top five albums combined. The latest installment in
the hugely successful
Now series--featuring recent hits by Britney
Spears, Creed, U2 and
Evan & Jaron--sold more than 546,000 copies
for the week ended
April 15, according to Soundscan. That's about
20,000 more than the
collection sold in its debut week.
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USA Today: Artists make tracks to 'Tomb' (4-19-2001)
From USA Today:
Artists make tracks to 'Tomb'
By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY
Because so many recording artists turn to video games to alleviate
studio cabin fever, Elektra had no problem luring cutting-edge
stars to the soundtrack for Tomb Raider, the hotly anticipated live-action
film based on the big-selling (24 million copies worldwide) game
featuring cyber-heroine Lara Croft. Directed by Simon West (Con Air)
and due June 15, Tomb stars Angelina Jolie, who also appears in U2's u
pcoming video for the soundtrack's fresh mix of Elevation.
Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor, a longtime video-game addict, screened
several scenes before writing and performing Deep, slated for a mid-May
release as the second single. Also recorded specifically for the soundtrack,
out June 5, are the Chemical Brothers' Bounce, Groove Armada's Edge Hill, BT's
The
Revolution Will Be Televised,
Outkast's Speed Ballin' and Basement
Jaxx's Where's Your Head @. Fatboy
Slim revamped Illuminata,
featuring Bootsy Collins, and Missy
"Misdemeanor" Elliott radically recast
current Get Ur Freak On with Nelly
Furtado.
"We needed songs that worked
thematically and captured the high-intensity
vibe and darkness," says soundtrack
producer John Kirkpatrick of Elektra.
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icWales: Veteran Sex Bomb Tom Jones Up Against Newcomers (4-19-2001)
From icWales:
Veteran Sex Bomb Tom Jones Up Against Newcomers
The Western Mail
18/04/2001
POP veteran Tom Jones is in line for another major music award for his
hit Sexbomb.
Jones is up against the likes of Mel C in the International Hit of the Year
category at the Ivor Novello Awards.
U2 will battle it out with newcomer Craig David for a top songwriting title.
The Irish band's chart-topper Beautiful Day faces teenager David's
Seven Days for the best contemporary song, along with David Gray's
Please Forgive Me. Gray, from Pembrokeshire, is also up for another
important prize, best song musically and lyrically, with his track up against
Coldplay?s Trouble and S Club 7's Never Had A Dream Come True.
Craig David is another who is up for two prizes as he shares a
song-writing credit for Artful Dodger's hit Woman Trouble which is
nominated in the dance section. All Saints's Pure Shores and Sonique's
It Feels So Good are also up for a pair with both competing for
best-selling UK single. However, they are also up against Bob The
Builder and his number one Can We Fix It? for bestseller which is
assured of the prize.
A past Ivor winner, Robbie Williams, is shortlisted for the Performing
Rights Society's (PRS) most performed work with Rock DJ.
The Ivors are internationally renowned as the top honours for British
songwriting talent. Industry figures from the British Academy of
Composers and Songwriters choose most of the winners, although some
are awarded on the basis of sales or plays. Winners will be announced
on May 24 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London.
Here is the full shortlist for the Ivor Novello Awards (with credited
song-writers in brackets):
Best song musically & lyrically -
Trouble, Coldplay
(Guy Berryman, Jonathan Buckland, William
Champion,
Christopher Martin); Babylon, David Gray (David Gray);
Never Had A Dream
Come True, S Club 7 (Cathy Dennis, Simon Ellis).
Best contemporary
song - Beautiful Day, U2 (Paul Hewson, Dave
Evans, Larry
Mullen, Adam Clayton); Seven Days, Craig David (Craig
David, Mark Hill,
Darren Hill); Please Forgive Me, David Gray (David
Gray).
Best original
music for a television/radio broadcast - Gormenghast
(Sir Richard
Rodney Bennett); Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (David
Arnold, Tim
Simenon); The Wyvern Mystery (Philip Appleby).
Ivors dance award
- Girls Like Us, B-15 Project (Ali Campbell, Brian
Travers, Dawnette
Nevers, Janice Fyffe, Haldane Browne); Woman
Trouble, Artful
Dodger & Robbie Craig featuring Craig David (Mark Hill,
Craig David,
Robbie Craig, Pete Devereux); The Time Is Now, Moloko
(Roisin Murphy,
Mark Brydon).
Best original film
score - Chicken Run (John Powell, Harry
Gregson-Williams);
X-Men (Michael Kamen); Gangster No 1 (John
Dankworth).
PRS most performed
work - Rise, Gabrielle (Gabrielle, Ollie Dagois,
Ferdy Unger
Hamilton, Bob Dylan); Rock DJ, Robbie Williams (Ekundayo
Paris, Nelson
Pigford, Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers, Kelvin Andrews);
Pure Shores, All
Saints (Shaznay Lewis, William Orbit).
International hit
of the year - I Turn To You, Mel C (Melanie Chisholm,
Rick Nowels, Billy
Steinberg); It Feels So Good, Sonique (Sonia Clarke,
Linus Burdick,
Simon Belofsky, Graeme Pleeth); Sexbomb, Tom Jones
(Errol Rennals,
Mousse T)
Best selling UK
single - Pure Shores, All Saints (Shaznay Lewis,
William Orbit);
Can We Fix It?, Bob The Builder (Paul Joyce); It Feels So
Good, Sonique
(Sonia Clarke, Linus Burdick, Simon Belofsky, Graeme
Pleeth).
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OC Register: How did you fare on U2? (4-19-2001)
From OC Register:
How did you fare on U2?
April 19, 2001
Were you able to score prime seats or coveted floor tickets for U2's concerts
next
week at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim? Or did you end up in the rafters? Did
you buy your tickets at the box office, through Ticketmaster, or did you deal
with a
ticket broker? How much did you end up paying?
The Register is seeking fans to share their experiences of buying U2 tickets.
E-mail
us at sh...@ocregister.com or call (714) 796-7855.
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Worldpop: Bono's pride, in the name of Mary (4-19-2001)
From Worldpop:
Bono's pride, in the name of Mary
U2 frontman Bono went on US television this week to talk about their
current world tour and spoke about up and coming band Proud Mary. He
was asked who he thought were talented new bands to watch out
for and
he discussed Proud Mary's single Very Best Friend. In the
same week
Chris Robinson from The Black Crowes did exactly the same
thing on The
Letterman Show adding that when he was over in the UK he was
impressed by their sound and wanted to discuss Proud Mary
supporting
them later in the year.
Proud Mary are the first signing to Noel Gallagher's Sour
Mash label and
seem to be doing well from the contacts the Gallaghers have
given them.
The single Very Best Friend was only given a limited release
but all 500
copies sold out almost straight away. The band have recently
supported
Toploader on their UK tour and will announce headline tour
dates later this
month.
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Rolling Stone: U2 Honor Joey (4-19-2001)
From Rolling Stone:
U2 Honor Joey
Bono dedicates three songs to Joey Ramone
Last night's sold-out U2 show at San
Diego Sports Arena was about
celebrating the spirit of rock & roll, so it
was fitting that U2 frontman Bono
repeatedly paid
tribute to the late Joey
Ramone, who passed
away on April 15th.
The Irish quartet's
love for the Ramones
is well-documented.
At a show at New
York City's Irving
Plaza late last year,
Bono said, "We got
started on the poetry
and punk rock of New
York City. The
music of Patti Smith,
Television -- but
more than anybody,
the band that got us
started when we were
fifteen, sixteen --
Larry was fourteen,
still is -- was the
music of the
Ramones."
The remembrances may
not have been
unexpected, but that
made Bono's words
and actions no less
touching. Prior to
doing "In a Little
While," from the recent
All That You Can't
Leave Behind, Bono
informed the crowd
that "Joey Ramone
passed away this
week." He then talked
briefly about his
experiences with
Ramone before
dedicating the song to
the legendary
frontman.
Later in the show,
following a soulful
rendition of "One,"
Bono again
announced, "This is
for Joey Ramone,"
before singing a
sweet version of the
Ramones' "I Remember
You," which U2
played at their
Irving Plaza show. And in
a final tribute to
the late punk icon, Bono
dedicated the band's
closing track, "Walk
On," another number
from All That You
Can't Leave Behind,
to Ramone.
STEVE BALTIN
(April 18, 2001)
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The Australian: Oh my god, they've killed rock 'n' roll (4-19-2001)
Thanks to Anton for the following.
From The Australian:
Oh my god, they've killed rock 'n' roll
By Iain Shedden, Music writer
April 16
I AM drawn only occasionally to newspaper obituaries, whether of the
celebrity type or the ones saluting long-serving academics who liked a beer
and a joke and did wonderful service in the community. There is one death
notice, however, that has a disturbing fascination, not least because it has
appeared more than once; indeed, it crops up with blood-curdling regularity.
The corpse in question is rock music -- "Rock dead shock, read all about it"
-- and if I had a guitar string for every time I've read one of these dumb
thought pieces I could garrotte each of the authors and still have enough
strings left to . . . well, string a few guitars and form a rock band.
The latest of these tiresome tirades came in The Australian on April 4 --
"Rheumatic rockers stranded by rush for digital video" -- in which the
otherwise learned and dexterous George Megalogenis proffered the body of
rock to be devoured by our readers because, he suggested, the film Gladiator
sold more copies on DVD than the rehashed Beatles CD 1 a few weeks before
Christmas.
Pretty irrefutable evidence of putrefying rock flesh, you have to agree. For
days afterwards musos from Ballarat to Byron Bay could be seen handing in
their drum kits and Fender Stratocasters to St Vinnies and doing swap deals
in pawnbrokers for sword-like implements with which to forge acting careers.
What's more, Megalogenis's theory was blindly ironic, since the gladiator in
question, a New Zealander I believe, is not shy about fronting a rock band
in his spare time.
Let's lay this turkey to rest. Rock is not dead, nor will it ever be so. It
is the undead -- an all-singing, all-dancing bastard love child of Satan and
the blues doomed to roam the earth in perpetuity, spouting fury, rebellion,
incisive social commentary and existential nursery rhymes about love and
stuff that at any time can move one to tears or prompt someone else to rip
one's clothes off.
It has that power and, like any zombie intent on maintaining eternal
membership of the Netherlife Club, cannot be killed off by the latest
technology or the poisoned pen.
"Rock 'n' roll can no longer claim to dominate popular culture when it
places all its eggs in the basket of a band [The Beatles] that split more
than 30 years ago," quoth Megalogenis. He goes on to say that this rush for
DVD over CDs indicates a seismic shift in consumer attitudes. "The record
companies only have themselves to blame for playing the same old song."
Well, they can always console themselves with the knowledge that they are
selling more CDs than before or that any number of rock bands that weren't
born when the Fabs broke up are going triple-platinum with increasing
regularity, untroubled by Russell Crowe's acting flair and digital
penetration (not in a rugby league sense).
So much for that "rock is dead" idea, but what should really be killed off
is the whole hoary argument about whether it's a goner. Just as some scribes
are intent on committing leather pants and mosh pits to the great beyond,
equal quantities rush to defend them, usually with signal "but what about
Powderfinger/U2/Rolling Stones?" rants as primary evidence. I have risen to
the bait once or twice myself. But enough; this argument has run its course.
The theories and theses on both sides of this artificial rockface are
varied, but invariably wide of the mark. As soon as Elvis confounded the
critics in 1957 or so, it should have been taken as read, so to speak, that
rock 'n' roll is here to stay, that it will never die. I'm a touch biased in
my thinking, I admit. It may be only rock 'n' roll, but I like it. God gave
it to me and it has given me the best years of my life. It's a long way to
th . . .
Anyway, let's draw a line under this dodo right now. It's time to address
much more important issues relating to the music industry, such as how come
Gwyneth Paltrow, who can barely act, never mind anything else, has had two
top 10 hits in the past few months? She'll be the death of rock, that one.
You mark my words.
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Glasgow Herald: Age gap in battle for top song (4-18-2001)
From The Glasgow Herald:
Age gap in battle for top song
JIM McLEAN
ROCK veterans U2 are to battle it out with newcomer Craig David for the best
contemporary song crown won last
year by Scots band Travis.
The competition for the top songwriting title, part of the Ivor Novello Awards,
is between the Irish band's
chart-topper Beautiful Day and teenager David's Seven Days.
An outside contender is David Gray's Please Forgive Me. Gray is also up for best
song musically and lyrically,
with his track up against Coldplay's Trouble and S Club 7's Never Had A Dream
Come True.
Last year, Travis collected two of the music industry's most prestigious
accolades.
This year's award nomination offers the hope of compensation for Craig David,
who was disappointed after leaving
the Brit Awards empty-handed, while Robbie Williams cleaned up with awards for
best British male, best single
and best video.
Craig David is up for two Ivor Novello prizes, sharing a songwriting credit for
Artful Dodger's hit Woman Trouble,
nominated in the dance section.
All Saints' Pure Shores and Sonique's It Feels So Good are vying for
best-selling UK single.
Winners will be announced on May 24.
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NME: 'Live' and Kicking? (4-18-2001)
From NME:
'LIVE' AND KICKING?
U2, PAUL McCARTNEY, RONAN KEATING and STING are among the
artists reported to be in the running to appear at a massive 'LIVE
AID'-style two-day celebrity event at HAMPDEN PARK stadium in
GLASGOW.
According to reports in today's Scotsman newspaper, the event
will take place next May and is expected to attract around 100,000
people to the 52,000 seater stadium.
It is being organised by actor and director David Hayman, who told
the newspaper he wants to raise 100 million pounds to help alleviate poverty,
hunger and war through a new charity, Spirit Aid.
He said: "The miracle of the weekend will be millions of people
around the globe pledging and raising million of pounds. The money
will be used for the poor and underprivileged of our planet,
those devastated by war, hunger and persecution." As well as
inviting pop stars to appear, he also plans to enlist the help of
Hollywood celebrities such as Pierce Brosnan, Jamie Lee
Curtis, Chris O'Donnell and opera singer Luciano Pavarotti.
Haymen, who appeared as Glasgow gangster Jimmy Boyle in the film 'A Sense
Of Freedom' and also acted in 'Sid N' Nancy', 'My Name Is Joe' and
'Regeneration', said he will take a year off work to pursue the project and
has begun
attempting to secure the 250,000 pounds that will be needed to stage the
event.
Hampden Park representatives were this morning unable to confirm or deny
whether
the concert would be taking place.
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NY Press: Larry purchases NY home (4-18-2001)
Thanks to Amy for the following.
From New York Press:
Rosie Invades Nyack
Nyack-on-Hudson is quite civilized. It allows William Hurt, Jonathan
Demme and Harvey Keitel's daughter to live here. There are about
6000 people in this village, happily watching land values skyrocket
and pitying the poor sods who call Manhattan home. Soon, U2
drummer Larry Mullen will move his lady friend and their children to a
converted hay barn about 10 houses from me, bringing unwelcome
Irish vegetarianism another mile up along the Hudson foreshore.
Helen Hayes, who lived here for many, many years, is remembered
wherever there is space to hang a shingle with her name on it.
Now the quiet happiness of this riverside village, 25 miles from New
York, is about to be marred by the return of Long Island's Most
Unwanted, Rosie O'Donnell.
O'Donnell is a fat television host. She considers Tom Cruise a
desirable male and Madonna an intelligent and attractive female. I
was once stuck in an elevator in London with Cruise, and was so
amused by his shortness that I had to restrain myself from patting him
on the head and giving him a lollipop. I've seen Madonna at a distance
of about four inches and, well, she looked exactly like all other badly
aging, gap-toothed Italian women. She grunted at me, which I assume
is what O'Donnell interprets as articulate brainpower.
There is grief
galore with O'Donnell's move to Nyack. She has lived
here before,
made herself deeply unpopular and is not wanted back.
She bought Helen
Hayes' home on Broadway (also known as Helen
Hayes Dr.),
ruined the streetside view of that beautiful pile and simply
annoyed the crap
out of everyone I know. Her armed goons in tow, she
would annex a
corner of the Runcible Spoon Bakery (the worst tea,
coffee and
sandwiches in Nyack) and affect a sincere-looking
sourness to all
and sundry. Where Helen Hayes would potter around
her garden, chat
to pedestrians and rub the tummies of wandering
dogs, O'Donnell
planted three rows of 15-foot-tall pine trees and
installed enough
security gadgets to impress James Bond. The
house has long
been known as Pretty Penny. Ms. O'Donnell departed
Nyack for
Connecticut a couple of years ago, and seems intent on
turning up in
the form of another penny.
The court of all
testimony against O'Donnell is O'Donoghue's Pub. It
is also the
local headquarters for all things softball and Irish, which
leaves an Aussie
like me and my Boddington's-drinking English art
dealer friend a
little lost, but it is the best bar in this part of the Hudson
Valley. Opinions
are at their most eloquent just after happy hour. To
wit, "The
problem with that bitch [i.e., Rosie O?Donnell] is that she
thinks she can
piss standing up." Also, "Couldn't make friends here,
thrown out of
Hickville, Connecticut. Should go back to Long Island."
It has been
noted in the Nyacks that O'Donnell, a rabid antigun activist,
employs a
plethora of heavily armed bodyguards around her and her
children at all
times. There are many Marine and Army veterans at
O'Donoghue's,
and this hypocrisy does not sit well with them. Her
avowed
lesbianism draws no comment.
The imminent
arrival of Larry Mullen draws no similar ire. Mullen is
rebuilding an
awful brown house about 300 yards from chez Hunter,
and is expected
to spend a couple of months there banging drums,
small children
and suchlike each year. There is no wall or fence to
frighten the
natives, and the building contractor at O'Donoghue's says
there was not
going to be one. A year-round resident housekeeper,
yes, but that's
about it. One would think that a member of one of the
world's biggest
rock bands would have permanent security
headaches. The
verdict at O'Donoghue's is that Mullen has learned to
be a filthy-rich
rocker and a normal human being at the same time.
One worries,
however, that Mullen's vegetarianism might translate into
teetotalism,
which is as welcome in Nyack as Ms. O'Donnell.
The new
O'Donnell compound overlooks Hook Mountain, a piddling
hill at the end
of my street. Already the pine trees and security people
are positioning
obstreperous erections. The driveway is long and, for
the moment, the
house is barely visible. Soon it will be completely
obscured, which
is most convenient, as that's the way Nyackers I
know like to see
Rosie O'Donnell.
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Hot Press: Gavin Friday Discusses T-Rex Cover for Soundtrack (4-18-2001)
Thanks to Caroline for the following.
From Hot Press magazine, 25th April 2001:
Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer have recorded a version of T-Rex's
'Children of the Revolution' for Baz Luhrman's new movie, Moulin Rouge.
Premiering in Cannes during the summer, the turn of the century drama stars
Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor and Kylie Minogue.
"There's all sorts of mad stuff on there, like "Pride (In the Name of
Love)" being done by Nicole Kidman and a cha-cha band, and Ewan McGregor
singing "Like a Virgin," Gavin Friday laughs. "The soundtrack's coming out
during the summer, on Interscope, and will also include covers by Beck,
David Bowie, and Madonna. We're in very, very good company!"
Who's the bigger Marc Bolan fan, him or Bono?
"The way it worked in the 70s is that I bought all the records and he
nicked 'em off me! I'm sure if you checked under his bed there's a big pile
of scratched T-Rex 45s belonging to yours truly.
"There are two mixes - a 'Bohemian' one and a 'Hermaphrodite' one which is a
gay handbag done by a heavy metal band. There are some hysterically high
vocals that are going to upset the neighbourhood dogs and a few other
surprises that I'll let you discover for yourself."
The recording took place shortly before Bono jetted over to Miami for the
start of U2's Elevation tour.
"It was a lot of fun," Friday continues. "T-Rex was always Eddie Cochran
hanging out with Phil Spector, so we gatecrashed the party. We recorded it
on our own studio, got Biff from Windmill Lane to mix it and that was
pretty much that."
Next up for Friday is a trip to Los Angeles as part of Hal Wilner's Harry
Smith tribute.
"He's organising a series of shows, which are being recorded for DVD and
live album release later in the year. This one's taking place on April 25th
and 26th in UCLA, and features people like Beck, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Maria
Mckee and Kate and Anna McGarrigle. I'm doing something with Mary Margaret
O'Hara and, hopefully, Eric Mingus Jr."
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ATL: U2 vs. Heston (4-18-2001)
From Across the Line:
18. 4. 01 U2 VS. CHARTON HESTON
U2 have been targeting the actor Charton Heston on their current
Elevation tour. According to NME, the band have been using one of
Charlton's pro-firearms speeches as an introduction to their song,
'Bullet The Blue Sky'. Heston, who played Ben Hur and Moses
in his most famous roles, is president of the National Rifle Association.
Meanwhile, the possibility of a second Slane gig is more likely now, as the
legal provision is now in place to allow a second gig to happen on the
site. The band's representatives must now contact Meath Council to get
permisssion to go ahead. Tickets for the first Slane show sold out in 45
minutes.
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Cleveland College Radio station announces U2 Marathon day (4-18-2001)
Press release
Cleveland College Radio station announces U2 Marathon day.
It's a Beautiful May!
It will be a Beautiful May day in Cleveland when WBWC 88.3, kicks off their
Summer Marathon series on Thursday, May 3rd with the music of U2. The
Baldwin Wallace College campus radio station will be celebrating U2's first
Cleveland appearance since 1992 by playing U2 non-stop beginning at 7:00am,
and running continuously through 1:00am the following day.
Co-hosts for this special broadcast will be Baldwin Wallace's Todd Richards,
and Mary Cipriani, an alumni of John Carroll University's WJCU.
The entire U2 marathon will be webcast live and can be heard at this address:
http://www.bw.edu/~wbwc/. (Log onto the audio broadcast under the
programming/live sports link.) You will need the Real Audio player installed to
listen to the broadcast which can be downloaded from http://www.real.com
We will also have roving reporters at the Hard Rock Cafe and at the General
Admission line at Gund Arena, to interview fans about their U2 experiences
and concert memories. So look for us on our cell phones there and share your
U2 stories with our listeners. We're also inviting fans from around the
world to listen in to the web cast, and send us their requests for rarities,
b-sides, remixes, soundtracks etc. Send us an email with the song you'd like
to hear and the hour of the day you'd like to hear it and we'll do our best
to play ALL of your requests.
Send your requests to:
Todd Richards dd...@yahoo.com
Mary Cipriani cipr...@cs.com
Be sure to include the Song Title, and the Hour for the request.
In the subject line of your email, please include "Marathon Request".
Note: Cleveland is on EST time (same as NYC), 5 hours behind London, 3 hours
ahead of Los Angeles, so please make your requests in our Cleveland time
zone. Also, we will be in pre-recorded/taped mode from 7:00pm to
12:00midnight as we will be at the Cleveland concert, so we won't be able to
play any requests between these hours.
Cleveland College Radio has supported U2 extensively over their career.
Case Western's WRUW broadcast their December 1981 Agora concert live on the
air.
Adam Clayton has been interviewed on Cleveland State's WCSB.
WJCU played album tracks off Achtung Baby a week before its release,
becoming one of the first stations in the country to break the album.
WBWC has featured U2 in their summer marathon series a number of times,
including the past three years running.
WBWC is licensed as non-commercial, educational, FM radio station licensed to
Baldwin-Wallace College under the authority of the Federal Communications
Commission. In 1958, WBWC signed on as the first totally student funded and
operated radio station in the United States. WBWC began its popular Summer
Marathon series over 10 years ago, featuring one artist's music all day every
Thursday throughout the summer. Other marathons planned for this summer
include the Beach Boys, Metallica, and Nine Inch Nails.
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Mojo: Utrecht Shows Moved to Arnhem (4-18-2001)
From Mojo:
Because of production and technical problems, the U2 concerts that were
scheduled to take place in the Prins Van Oranjehal in Utrecht on July 31st,
and August 1st and 3rd have been moved to the Gelredome in Arnhem. The
dates of the shows remain the same.
Because of this location change, another 15,000 extra tickets will be sold
for each show beginning May 12.
The tickets that have already been sold remain valid for the same dates in
the Gelredome. All tickets are general admission.
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Jam!: U2, Coldplay up for songwriting awards (4-18-2001)
From Jam!:
U2, Coldplay up for songwriting awards
U2 and British crooner Craig David are in competition
for the prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting award, The
BBC reports.
David's "Seven Days" and U2's "Beautiful Day" have
been short-listed for the prize, alongside David Gray's
"Please Forgive Me."
The awards, presented by the British Academy Of
Composers And Songwriters, are considered Britain's
highest songwriting prize.
The BBC said David is also
nominated for his
collaboration with dance
producers Artful Dodger,
while Gray is also nominated
for his song "Babylon."
Coldplay's "Trouble" and S
Club 7's "Never Had A
Dream Come True" are also
short-listed, the report
said.
Last year, Robbie Williams
was named songwriter of
the year, while Travis won
the contemporary song
prize.
The awards will be handed out
this year May 24.
Here's the full list of
nominees:
Best song musically and
lyrically
Trouble, Coldplay (Guy
Berryman, Jonathan Buckland,
William Champion, Christopher
Martin)
Babylon, David Gray (David
Gray)
Never Had A Dream Come True,
S Club 7 (Cathy
Dennis, Simon Ellis).
Best contemporary song
Beautiful Day, U2 (Paul
Hewson, Dave Evans, Larry
Mullen, Adam Clayton)
Seven Days, Craig David
(Craig David, Mark Hill,
Darren Hill)
Please Forgive Me, David Gray
(David Gray).
Best original music for a
television/radio
broadcast
Gormenghast (Sir Richard
Rodney Bennett)
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
(David Arnold, Tim
Simenon)
The Wyvern Mystery (Philip
Appleby)
Ivors dance award
Girls Like Us, B-15 Project
(Ali Campbell, Brian
Travers, Dawnette Nevers,
Janice Fyffe, Haldane
Browne)
Woman Trouble, Artful Dodger
& Robbie Craig
featuring Craig David (Mark
Hill, Craig David, Robbie
Craig, Pete Devereux)
The Time Is Now, Moloko
(Roisin Murphy, Mark
Brydon).
Best original film score
Chicken Run (John Powell,
Harry Gregson-Williams)
X-Men (Michael Kamen)
Gangster No 1 (John
Dankworth).
International hit of the year
I Turn To You, Mel C (Melanie
Chisholm, Rick Nowels,
Billy Steinberg)
It Feels So Good, Sonique
(Sonia Clarke, Linus
Burdick, Simon Belofsky,
Graeme Pleeth)
Sexbomb, Tom Jones (Errol
Rennals, Mousse T)
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YouTwo.net: San Diego Setlist (4-18-2001)
San Diego Setlist:
1. Intro/Elevation
2. Beautiful Day
3. Until The End Of The World
4. New Year's Day
5. Stuck In A Moment
6. Gone
7. Even Better Than The Real Thing
8. New York
9. I Will Follow
10. Sunday Bloody Sunday
11. The Sweetest Thing
12. In A Little While
13. Desire
14. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
15. Bad
16. Where The Streets Have No Name
17. Mysterious Ways
18. The Fly
Encore 1
19. Bullet The Blue Sky
20. With Or Without You
21. Pride
Encore 2
22. One
23. I Remember You
24. Walk On
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Ananova: Joey Ramone died listening to U2 (4-18-2001)
From Ananova:
Joey Ramone died listening to U2
The funeral of Joey Ramone has taken place in America following his
death at the weekend from cancer.
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein from Blondie, Joan Jett and original
Ramones drummer Tommy Erdelyi were among friends and family at the
ceremony yesterday, reports MTV.com.
The punk icon's brother said Joey died listening to a U2 song.
He was buried at Hillside Cemetery in Woodhurst, New Jersey. There was
a service at Schwartz Brothers Memorial Chapels in the Ramone's home
town of Forest Hills, Queens.
Ramone, real name Jeffrey Hyman, died on April 15 following a seven-year
battle with lymphatic cancer.
At the service, his brother Mickey Leigh led tributes telling mourners that,
while he could talk the whole day long about his late sibling, "my brother
could have said it all in two minutes and 10 seconds".
According to MTV, he also revealed that one of the last musicians to speak
to Joey was long-time Ramones fan Bono. He rang Joey on Good Friday
and although Joey was unable to say much, "You could really see him perk
up," said Mickey.
He also said, when the call came from the hospital for him and his mother
to go to the hospital on Sunday, Mickey brought a copy of U2's All That You
Can't Leave Behind.
He played In A Little While to Joey and by the end of the song 'he was gone'.
That night at a concert in Portland, Oregon, U2 sang a rendition of the
Ramones' I Remember You, which Bono referred to as a "great, great love
song."
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E!: Bang a Song (4-18-2001)
From E!:
Bang a Song: In an homage to Marc Bolan's T.
Rex, U2's Bono has completed recording the final
tune for the upcoming Moulin Rouge soundtrack,
the sparkling glam classic "Children of the
Revolution." Can't wait to hear this album. Along
with a few songs by stars Nicole Kidman and
Ewan McGregor (Elton John has already proclaimed McGregor
a rock star), the soundtrack features a duo between
Timbaland and Beck (Bowie's "Diamond Dogs"), a new Fatboy
Slim song ("Because We Can") and a cover of the '70s smash
"Lady Marmalade" by Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink and Christina
Aguilera, which is just slamming the radio waves.
And speaking of Dublin's finest frontman, Bono and U2 were in
L.A. last week to film bits for the tune "Elevation" for the
upcoming Tomb Raider video. Apparently, the band plays two
versions, showing its good and evil sides. The U2 bad boys
kidnap the good-boy version of the Edge, who is rescued by
saucy video game heroine Lara Croft, played by the luscious,
anatomically precise Angelina Jolie.
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Internet Wire: Fans To Boycott U2 Concert (4-18-2001)
From Internet Wire:
Fans To Boycott U2 Concert -- Organization Unites Others To Join In
Boycotting Overcharged Ticket Prices
Story Filed: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 6:03 AM EST
SAN JOSE, CA, Apr 18, 2001 (INTERNET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Long time and
devoted fan, Vaus D. Aslaun, founder of The Fan's Final Say, an organization
fighting for the rights of fans, has announced that he and others are joining to
boycott U2's upcoming concerts, starting with Compaq Center (San Jose Arena) on
April 19th and 20th during U2's kick-off tour, Elevation 2001. Aslaun was
astonished with the outrageously high priced tickets, coupled with mismanaged
online ticket sales, and deceiving show announcements.
The Fan's Final Say is voicing their concerns for the face value of tickets with
over $100 for general admission. They are also furious with the online service
since U2 members were given the first privilege of getting a code to buy tickets
from the site, but these codes were poured out to non-members and were also
sold on Ebay and broadcasted on radio stations, not giving fans to use their
original codes to make the purchase. Other fans willing to pay the overcharged
ticket prices, were caught by surprise when the tickets were sold out for the
April
19th show, few minutes later it was announced that U2 was scheduled to play
the next evening on the 20th, not giving the fans the option nor the flexibility
for
concert dates.
Aslaun believes people or the consumers should not be victims of greedy bands,
promoters, or corporations. After witnessing hoards of disappointed fans, he
quickly moved to be the advocate, thus forming the organization, The Fan's Final
Say. Before his press conference he said, "This is definitely confirms that
times
are changing. You can almost measure how the value of the masses or U2 have
been lost by looking back at the band's history. From singing about MLK, being
soulful, then going on to sing about bubble gums in a club with Discotheque, to
about absolutely nothing in It's a Beautiful Day. I am wondering if this is
their way
of building their retirement...all image with no substance."
Several years ago Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins stood against the
monopolizing ticket sales companies, such as Ticketmaster and Bass
Tickets. Fans honored their decision even when the venues were not available to
feature them. The Fan's Final Say was hoping that U2 would have the conscience
to do the same. Aslaun said, "I don't know who to blame, U2, promoters, venues,
or the transnational corporations that U2 have been enslaved by. I can
understand
that the entertainment industry can be soulless, but artists need to wake
up...they
are not just entertainers, they are culture creators, and they
should not subjugate it's followers."
One Atlanta concert attendee commented after the show, "...I am completely
disappointed at how short the concert was, at one hour and 55 minutes with no
encore. These tickets were very expensive by concert standards ($132 each), and
I feel the band owes its fans more than it gave."
Aslaun is lobbying heavily in San Francisco Bay Area and hopes his message is
viral and hits home with other fans across the nation in the upcoming shows,
believing that in the end, people or the consumers have the final say.
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The Sun: U2 will battle Craig David for songwriting gong (4-18-2001)
From The Sun:
ROCK veterans U2 will battle it out with Craig David for a
top songwriting gong. Their chart-topper Beautiful Day is up
against his Seven Days
and David Gray's Please Forgive Me
for the best contemporary
song at the annual Ivor Novello
Awards.
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NME: Carter Gets Lift from U2 (4-18-2001)
From NME:
CARTER GETS LIFT FROM U2
Former MONKEY MAFIA mainman
and HEAVENLY SOCIAL DJ JON
CARTER has remixed the next
single for U2, NME.COM can
reveal.
The DJ has re-worked 'Elevation'
from the band's current album 'All
That You Can Leave Behind',
according to
www.muzikweekly.com The
track will be the third single to
released from the album, and is
currently being mooted for a late
June/early July release.
NME.COM understands that the
mix came about after Carter was
asked to DJ at the band's one-off
London date at The Astoria
earlier this year, and follows a
series of high profile mixes for the
likes of Stereo MC's and Manic
Street Preachers.
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Irish Independent: U2 battle Craig for top award (4-18-2001)
From Irish Independent:
U2 battle Craig for top award
ROCK veterans U2 will battle it out with newcomer Craig David for a top
songwriting title.
U2's chart-topper, Beautiful Day, faces teenager David's Seven Days for
the best contemporary song at the Ivor Novello Awards, along with David
Gray's Please Forgive Me.
Gray is also up for another
important prize best song musically and
lyrically, with his track up
against Coldplay's Trouble and S Club 7's Never
Had A Dream Come True.
Craig David is also up for
two prizes as he shares a songwriting credit for
Artful Dodger's hit, Woman
Trouble, which is nominated in the dance
section.
All Saints' Pure Shores and
Sonique's It Feels So Good are also up for a
pair, with both competing for
best-selling UK single.
However, they are also up
against Bob The Builder and his number one
Can We Fix It? for
best-seller, which is assured of the prize. A past Ivor
winner, Robbie Williams, is
shortlisted for the Performing Rights Society's
most-performed work.
The Ivors now in their 46th
year are internationally renowned as providing
the top honours for British
and Irish songwriting talent.
Anthony Barnes
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CNN: 'A soft and cuddly U2' (4-18-2001)
From CNN:
'A soft and cuddly U2'
Bono: Singing to the back of the house
April 17, 2001
(CNN) -- They've played giant football stadiums and arenas crowded with
frenzied fans. They've rocked the multitudes with shows featuring giant
television sets blaring out music and messages. Now the angry, political
quartet from Ireland is looking to scale down.
"We're playing a more intimate kind of venue, the 15 to 20 thousand seaters,"
guitarist The Edge told World Beat. "Last time we were in football
stadiums ... as weird as it might sound, the indoor arenas do feel like spaces
that
we feel comfortable in. The football stadiums are a bit of a challenge for us.
They are very big and it's hard to feel the people at the back of the venues."
"A soft and cuddly U2,'' Bono added.
The band is in the middle of its sold-out 2001 Elevation tour, and members are a
bit reflective about their continued success and getting closer to their fans.
World Beat sat down with lead singer Bono following a concert in Atlanta to
talk about U2's success.
World Beat: We really enjoyed your show last night. It seems you all are
returning to an older U2 style.
Bono: Our thing from the very beginning has always been... to try and break
down the distance between the performer and the audience. When we were ...
doing the Zoo TV (tour) and we were creating these kind of giant, multimedia
shows that reached out to the back of a stadium -- already the idea was about
reducing the distance. The emotional proximity is very important. I have seen
bands in clubs and felt 100 miles away from the lead singer. So we try to get
lost in the songs and that is really where you connect.
World Beat: The point in the show where you dive into the audience must
drive the security people crazy.
Bono: Yeah it is just one of those annoying things that a singer will ask of
security, but for me to be able to perform like I perform I have to be able to
step
into the songs, you know. And I try to do what they tell me and the character in
that particular song is a little out of control and I think the last verse is
"Look, I
got to go." There are things there that, if I could, I would like to rearrange,
and
then he just sort of jumps off into the crowd. But, you know, I've escaped with
limbs and minor injuries and so have they (audience), so we are OK.
World Beat: Throughout the show you never want to lose your sense of humor,
either.
Bono: Well, humor is a weapon, really, in the right hands. I think comedians are
more effective than rock stars, for instance, at getting across political points
or
describing people where they are and getting away with it. I think in the 60s
and
the early 70s rock stars used to get away with it. Now, when they see them
coming with their placards they roll down the blinds and hold their ears. A
comedian can get right in there and make people laugh, and while they're
laughing, people are vulnerable. You can tell them the state of their soul a lot
easier.
Be sure to tune into WORLD BEAT the weekend of May 19 for an exclusive
behind the scenes look at U2 on their sold-out 2001 Elevation tour. Go
back-stage with the band and get a sneak peek at the making of their video for
their next single, "Elevation." World Beat airs on CNN Saturdays 12:00 a.m. -
12:30 a.m. ET, and Sundays 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET.
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SonicNet: Bono one of the last to speak with Joey Ramone (4-18-2001)
Condensed from SonicNet:
Joey Ramone -- born Jeffrey Hyman on May 19, 1951 --
died at New
York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan on
Easter Sunday,
after a seven-year battle with cancer.
One of the last
musicians to speak to him was U2
frontman Bono, a
longtime Ramones admirer, who called
Joey in his
hospital room on Good Friday. (Joey wasn't
able to say much,
but according to Mickey, "You could
really see him perk
up.")
On Sunday, when Mickey and his mother got a call from
the hospital to
come in, Mickey brought a copy of the
current U2 album,
All That You Can't Leave Behind, and
slipped the CD into
a little boombox in Joey's room. The
track he played was
Bono's own "In a Little While"
(RealAudio
excerpt), which Mickey felt was a very
spiritual song:
In a
little while
This hurt
will hurt no more
I'll be
home, love
In a
little while
I won't
be blown by every breeze
Friday
night running to Sunday on my knees
When the song came
to an end, Joey was gone. That
night, at a concert
in Portland, Oregon, U2 offered their
audience a
rendition of the Ramones' "I Remember You"
("a great, great
love song," says Bono) and, for Joey, the
old hymn "Amazing
Grace."
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SonicNet: U2 mention in Stereo MC's article (4-18-2001)
Condensed from SonicNet:
On the performance end of things, Stereo MC's always
received high marks
for breaking the otherwise
hackneyed
dance-show mold -- so much that they caught
the attention of
U2, who brought them along for a
European tour.
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Philstar: U2 mention in Regine Velasquez article (4-18-2001)
Condensed from Philstar:
Now that Regine is turning 31 on April 22, it seems that she is starting
to retrace her roots. The
boyish haircut was first seen in her Narito
Ako days. And although Regine
has been a consistent box-office
draw and a TV top-rater, she
openly admits that her first love is still
singing. She says that the
high she feels on stage is incomparable to
anything. Bono (of U2),
Fatboy Slim and Madonna are going back to
the basics. So why can't
Regine?
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Releases:
April 17. Release of a limited edition French "Stuck in the
Moment" digipack single. Tracklist:
1- Stuck in a Moment
2- Big Girls Are Best
3- All I Want Is You (live from Man Ray in Paris)
4- Even Better Than the Real Thing (live from Man Ray in Paris)
April 24. Moulin Rouge Soundtrack release,
features two new U2 songs.
June 4. Club and radio release of U2's next single, "Elevation."
July 16. UK release of "Elevation" single. Tracklist:
1-Elevation
2-The Sun, the Moon and the Stars
Concerts/Live Events/Appearances:
May 5. Bono is profiled on "People in the News" on CNN at
11:30 a.m. EDT.
May 6. Re-broadcast of "People in the News" on CNN at 8:30
p.m. EDT.
August 25. U2 to perform at Slane. Other tour dates can be
found
at http://www.YouTwo.net/u2concerts.html
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Net Events:
May 3. U2 Marathon on WBWC 88.3 FM. Broadcast in
RealAudio.
For information, visit http://www.listen.to/beautifulday.
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In Print:
Rolling Stone, Issue 86, March 29, Tour Preview by Anthony
DeCurtis
Spin, April 2001, Bono on Cover
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Fan Club/WIRE/U2 nutzoid meetings:
See U2tours.com for tour-related parties and meetings.
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