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Live Nation Artists Absorbs Signatures Network

Posted by SPun2U on Nov 16, 2007 in Band Management, News & Rumors | Comments Off

Live Nation Artists, a subsidiary of the live event production/promotion company Live Nation, has agreed to acquire Signatures Network, a global music merchandise corporation that holds merchandising licenses for some 150 artists, including the Beatles, U2, the Grateful Dead and Bruce Springsteen. Live Nation’s Artist division, which was formed earlier this year, hopes the relationship will continue to bolster their position in the always active area of merchandising and will see Signatures’ CEO, Dell Furano, taking the reins as head of the new enterprise. The acquisition was valued at $79 million, a number that includes cash, stock and repayment of debt that Signatures has outstanding.

- CMJ

Bono Adds Vocal To Old U2 Demo

Posted by SPun2U on Nov 14, 2007 in News & Rumors | Comments Off

Bono has re-recorded his vocal for a demo of the song ‘Wave of Sorrow’, an offcut of ‘The Joshua Tree’ album.

At u2.com, Bono explained that the song was one of the unfinished tracks from the album and that it was “a song that was trying to describe experiences that myself and Ali had when we were working in Ethiopia during the famine.”

The new version of The Joshua Tree is out this month.

For 2008, there is already talk of a new U2 album, possibly for a Broadway musical or maybe even both a studio record and a Broadway recording.

Word is U2 have written 20 songs for a Broadway show based on Spider-Man. The show will feature all new music.

- undercoverhd.com

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BONO – ACTIVISM MAKES BONO APPRECIATE U2 MORE

Posted by SPun2U on Nov 8, 2007 in News & Rumors | Comments Off

Outspoken BONO’s activism has helped save his career as a rock star in U2 – because he’s always so grateful for recording session time with his bandmates. The Where The Streets Have No Name singer has become a leading voice in the war against global poverty, but he insists he could never turn his back on music to become a full-time activist. And he insists the work he does outside U2 helps him appreciate what he has when the group comes together. He tells Rolling Stone magazine, “I’ve spent a lot of time in these two-dimensional worlds – numbers, values, analysis of statistics – and when I get away from it, being with U2 is such a playground. “It’s made me realise how sacred music is. It’s a kind of sacrament – like marriage, like friendship.

“I’m not sure the other three in the band know this, because they – maybe sensibly – have avoided that other world. They just think they’re in U2, and that’s great. But I really know how great it is to be in U2.

“As it became my job to be in a band, you take for granted that you’ve got a few hours with your mates in the studio. I don’t anymore. It is sanctuary and escape from the material world of casualties, profit and loss, cynicism and hard-bitten victories over your own indifference or somebody else’s. “You get into this f**king room and everything seems possible, and I’ve never really appreciated it more than now… It’s this incredible thing. I treasure it.”

- ContactMusic