Raiders Star Darren McFadden Runs Through an NFL Offseason to Highlight Year-Round Coverage

Twenty-two time Grammy Award-winning band, U2 will be providing the soundtrack to NFL Network’s Super Bowl XLIII commercial that will run during the game.  “Get On Your Boots,” the group’s newest single, will be featured in the commercial airing only on Super Bowl Sunday.

The ad, entitled  “RUN,” features Oakland Raiders star running back Darren McFadden beginning a training run that continues through the NFL offseason, illustrating that NFL Network is where “Football Season Never Ends.”
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It appears that the big “EXCLUSIVE” Get On Your Boots video premiere has been delayed. The following message was posted on Independent.ie web site:

Friday January 30 2009

5.24 pm

Delivery of the video for U2’s new single, ‘Get on Your Boots’, has been delayed.

Universal Music have issued the following statement:

“The video is going really well but unfortunately it just wasn’t finished in time for the premiere today. Alex Courtes is an amazing director and we can assure you that it will be well worth the wait.”

Mark Crossingham, Managing Director Universal Music Ireland

You will still see the video here first at www.independent.ie/u2

I guess we’re all in a holding pattern until the toilet get’s plunged!

U2 will play at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles next month.

The 51st annual Grammy Awards take place on February 8th and there’s plenty of other great acts lined up including Kid Rock, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Rihanna, Coldplay, Jennifer Hudson, Lil Wayne, Paul McCartney, Radiohead and Jay-Z.

It will air on CBS from 8–11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).

The band have already confirmed they’ll be performing the new single ‘Get On Your Boots’ at the UK’s BRIT Awards at London’s Earls Court, ten days later on Wednesday 18 February. And a few days after that they’ll be in Berlin to play at Germany’s ECHO Awards.

- U2.com

So here is the breakdown as provided by Jono a U2exit contributor>

Triple A radio in US #1

Rock Radio in US #14

HOT AC in US #34

Rock radio in Canada #1

For all the charts> http://www.radioandrecords.com/Formats/Charts/Canada_ROCK_Chart.asp

This will be one of their biggest radio hits of all time, especially with the dig downloads!

That’s the title of the image by Hiroshi Sugimoto on the cover of No Line on the Horizon. Here’s the story behind it.

A month and a half before the release of No Line on the Horizon, with the first single only released to radio this week, there’s a surprising level of online chat about… the album cover design. We thought we’d find out a little more.

The artwork, designed as usual by the team at Four5One in Dublin, features a seascape by the renowned Japanese artist and photographer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, who has known Bono for several years. (One of his works hangs in the band’s management offices.) One of a few contemporary photographers who continue to work with traditional photographic techniques such as the silver gelatine process and the use of long exposures, the horizon is a central motif in Sugimoto’s ‘Seascapes’ collection. He’s travelled the world to stand on remote cliffs overlooking oceans, capturing the light and atmosphere and the way these effects play in front of the horizon, which always precisely bisects his frame. His work has touched millions and U2 are not the first to see a symmetry between their work and his. We spoke to Shaughn McGrath at Four5One to ask how the design came together.

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