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U2 are reportedly planning to play a series of gigs at London’s 02 Arena in 2008.
According to thisislondon, the veteran rockers will be playing 21 nights at the venue.
It is reported that the concerts will follow the completion of the band’s new album at some point next year.
U2 will be following the precedent set by Prince, who played 21 nights at the arena in September.
The Irish rockers are currently working with Brian Eno in the studio on the follow-up to 2004’s How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
-DigitalSpy
U2exit.com: U2 are urging fans not to purchase tickets for the concerts - because they have not scheduled any gigs for 2008. A statement from the group reads, “There are no plans for live dates next year - so please don’t buy tickets for any U2 shows you see advertised.”
“The Joshua Tree will prove a braver and better record than anything else that’s likely to appear in 1987″ NME
U2’s The Joshua Tree has been meticulously remastered from the original analogue master tapes to mark 20 years since its release.
“There has been continuous demand from U2 fans to have The Joshua Tree properly re-mastered,” says Paul McGuinness. “As always, the band had to make sure it was right, and now it is.”
The album will be available in four formats:
• A standard CD featuring liner notes from Bill Flanagan, lyrics and unseen photographs from long time collaborator Anton Corbijn.
• A double 12″ gatefold vinyl format, with the original album pressed across two 180 gram audiophile discs.
• A deluxe edition including a second CD of b-sides and demos from the original album sessions.
• A limited edition box set containing two CD’s and a DVD featuring The Joshua Tree Tour live from the Hippodrome in Paris and other rare video footage.
The CD track listing is as follows: Where The Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, With Or Without You, Bullet The Blue Sky, Running To Stand Still, Red Hill Mining Town, In God’s Country, Trip Through Your Wires, One Tree Hill, Exit and Mothers Of The Disappeared.
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.
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.
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.”
Happy 46th Birthday to the one who gave Bono his first (and only) job!!
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U2 are reportedly planning to play a series of gigs at London’s 02 Arena in 2008.
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