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U2 to stay in docklands despite ruling

Posted by SPun2U on Jun 17, 2002 in News & Rumors | Comments Off

U2 have announced that they are going to stay in Dublin’s docklands despite
a ruling that their present studio must be demolished.

A statement from the band said arrangements had been made with the Dublin
Docklands Development Authority to move to a new building. Details of the
development will be announced in the next few weeks.

The band lost their bid to prevent the demolition of their studio in
Dublin’s south docklands earlier today, when An Bord Plean?la gave the
go-ahead for a development at Hanover Quay.

The Dublin band has been recording at the studio since 1994, including their
latest multi-million seller ‘All That You Can’t Leave Behind’.

The Dublin Docklands Development Authority placed a Compulsory Purchase
Order on a row of buildings at Hanover Quay, arguing that the public would
require access to the waterways from a civic amenity area it is developing
nearby.

The plan was opposed by U2 who argued their studio, which opens out on to
the waterway, should not be demolished as, in part, it constituted musical
heritage.

The band told an oral hearing at the Gresham Hotel in January that they were
identified with the docklands, having recorded at the single storey plus
mezzanine building since 1994 and, prior to that, at Windmill Lane.

However U2 later hinted there might be a compromise when they said that they
did not want to move, but might if a similar building could be located
nearby. Talks failed to reach a compromise.

Another opponent was businessman Harry Crosbie, who will now lose two
adjoining warehouses. His home, which is also in the same area, was not
subject to the CPO.

- RTE

U2 Fails to Stop Demolition of Famed Studio

Posted by SPun2U on Jun 17, 2002 in News & Rumors | Comments Off

DUBLIN (Reuters) – The Irish rock group U2 has lost a bid to prevent
demolition of the studio where it recorded its latest award-winning album.

Ireland’s Planning Board has been given the go-ahead for a redevelopment
project that requires the razing of the studio, feted by the group as part
of Ireland’s musical heritage.

The studio, on Hanover Quay in Dublin, was used by U2 to record the
Grammy-winning album “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” and has been compared
in significance to The Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles spent
their early days.

More than 8,000 fans had signed an online petition ( www.saveu2studio.com)
to preserve the studio, where the group also recorded some of its “Pop”
album.

Dublin’s Docklands Authority placed a compulsory purchase order on the
property in August 2001 as a step toward demolishing the studio to create a
public amenity on the quayside.

- Reuters

New info on the upcoming Best Of Album.

Posted by SPun2U on Jun 17, 2002 in News & Rumors | Comments Off

An official source has stated that the new best of album should be out Nov
11th , as per the last best of U2 are looking at a double with
B-sides to start with, plus maybe some sort of bonus dvd as well.

Band are planning to have the new tracks finished by the end of this
week. Besides this it isn?t sure, wether the “Gangs Of New York” track will be
on the album or not yet!

Thanks to the U2-Tribute Band Achtung Vorsprung who gave us these information.

- As reported on u2tour.de

U2 record for Scorese film

Posted by SPun2U on Jun 15, 2002 in News & Rumors | Comments Off

U2 is in the studio working on new material and have set the cameras
on themselves to preview a new song online.

At u2.com you can watch a 30 second clip of the band rehearsing the
new song “The Hand That Built America”. The song is another one of
the tender U2 ballads.

“I saw your face in a war coloured sky” Bono sings in the song bound
to strike a chord in the post September 11 world.

The song will make it’s debut in the new Martin Scorcese film ‘Gangs
of New York’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The movie is set in New
York between 1846 and 1863, said to be the most violent place on
earth at the time. The story is about a conflict between a white
Anglo Saxon family and some Italian immigrants.

The movie is scheduled for later this year.

By Paul Cashmere
http://www.undercover.com.au
From Undercover:

Larry Leaves Bono to Sir Paul…

Posted by SPun2U on Jun 13, 2002 in News & Rumors | Comments Off

While Bono was enjoying himself on Tuesday at Sir Paul McCartney’s wedding to Heather Mills U2′s drummer Larry Mullen was busy enjoying himself elsewhere.

The shyest member of U2 was busy giving an American museum two letters of rejection the band received when they were starting out in the music industry.

The letters were sent to Bono and Larry back in 1979 when they posted both Arista and RSO records demo tapes from their band the Hype, which was the band’s name before they changed it to U2.

One of the letters even arrived to Bono on his 19th birthday saying the demo was not suitable for them at that time. Mullen donated the letters to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.

He also has a collection of every single piece of U2 memorabilia since the band formed in 1979 in Mount Temple School in Dublin.

He even has the first ever U2 T-shirt he designed in art class.

? ShowBiz Ireland, 2002.