Dublin split over the U2 Tower

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Dubliners like a good debate and a recent hot topic of discussion has been the U2 Tower, the development in the city’s docks area that has earned its nickname through the involvement of Bono and other members of the Irish rock band.

Prices have been falling across most of Ireland, but in the capital developers have not lost their appetite for looking skywards. Dublin, the argument runs, is suffering from urban sprawl. Traffic is clogging up and polluting the city and surrounding suburbs. The city council says that it has been losing tax revenue as business park and retail developments have been built outside the city. So the developers’ solution is to build tall in the city centre – a decision that has caused considerable local controversy, as similar schemes have done in London.

Last October Geranger, a consortium consisting of Ballymore Properties, Patrick McKillen and August Partners (representing U2 band members and management), were selected by the docklands authority as provisional preferred bidders for the U2 Tower, which will have a recording studio for the band at the top. Foster & Partners, the consortium’s architects, have proposed a 130m (430 ft) mixed-use tower on the landmark site at the meeting point of the River Liffey, the River Dodder and the Grand Canal. This scheme replaced a proposal for a 60m tower; some were annoyed that the first scheme was so unceremoniously dropped in favour of the Foster design. On the other side of the river, another 100m-plus structure is planned, the Point Village Watchtower, which will combine with the Foster tower to create a gateway. (more…)

U2′s Bono Sends Well Done Text To Oscar Winner

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Glen Hansard, winner of the Oscar for Best Original Song, has revealed that U2’s Bono sent him a text message congratulating him.

Hansard won the Oscar in Los Angeles on Sunday along with his partner Markéta Irglová for their song ‘Falling Slowly’, which appears in the movie, Once.

“What was really amazing for me was getting texts from family and friends, it was amazing beforehand, and then I got a text from Bono and I was like ‘Ah, my God, that’s just amazing,’” Hansard told Irish radio station, RTE.

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REVIEW: ‘U2 3D’ the ultimate front row seat

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The music of U2 spans decades. Since its formation in the late 1970s, the band has released 11 studio albums, produced several chart-topping hits and won countless awards on its way to earning a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. People don’t refer to U2 as the biggest rock band in the world for nothing. (more…)

REVIEW: U2 gets up close and personal with 3D concert film

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It’s a beautiful day for U2 fans everywhere as their long-awaited 3D concert movie opened in theaters nationwide this past weekend, and what a great movie it was. For a much cheaper price than one would pay for a terrible ticket in the back row of some arena, fans are given a front row seat that literally puts U2 front man and longtime political activist Bono in their laps for a fraction of the cost. (more…)

REVIEW: Technique secures prime seats for all

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No matter how good they are, concert films always seem like films of concerts. U2 3D puts viewers at the concert.

Seamlessly blending footage from several shows during the “Vertigo” tour, U2 3D was shot primarily in South America at packed stadiums bursting with energy. (more…)