Free U2 related email services

Posted by SPun2U on Dec 19, 2012 in dublin, ireland, Site News

Today most people have more than one email account, one for work/professional, and a second for non-work, hobby interest. For U2 fans there are a couple of free U2 related email services that you can use.

Both services are free to use (ad supported) and available to U2 fans worldwide.
Both Free email package includes:

• Generous 1 GB storage
• Advanced Web 2.0 email Web Mail Interface
• Personal calendar and address book
• Inbox folders and message filing just like Outlook
• No reading of email for ad targeting
• Spam and virus filtering
• Service options include registered email and online storage
• 25MB file attachments

and more!

Coming Soon:  U2dublin.com email.

U2’s Bono and wife Ali bonded with Matthew McConaughey in Ibiza

Posted by SPun2U on Aug 20, 2012 in News & Rumors

Matthew and Camila vacationi Ibiza with Bono

Bono and his wife Ali usually spend their summer vacays in the south of France, but this year they’ve also added Ibiza to their itinerary.  While there they met up with Matthew McConaughey and his pregnant wife Camila, as you can see from our picture, with Bono taking plenty of protection from the scorching sun with his hat and black shirt.

Here’s no surprise – Simon Cowell would love to have Bono appear on his reality singing competition The X Factor.  Bosses at American Idol and all the other shows feel the same.

“Bono is one of the top choices each year when shake-ups on these shows come around. He has repeatedly shrugged off talk of appearing as a judge as he hasn’t the time and it’s not really up his street at the moment,” a source told The Irish Sun.

“As far as producers are concerned, who better in the world to judge you than someone considered a kind of God of the music world?”

Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/amyandrews_gossipgirl/u2s-bono-and-wife-ali-bonded-with-matthew-mcconaughey-in-ibiza-166391536.html#ixzz243L1E8os

Bono, Edge laud ‘Spidey’ success

Posted by SPun2U on Aug 5, 2012 in News & Rumors

U2 stars Bono and The Edge have hailed late theatre producer Tony Adams following the success of their Spider-Man stage show.

The two musicians began work on Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark after Adams approached them in 2002 to write the score, but the production hit the buffers when Adams died of a stroke in 2005.

After a series of further setbacks, the show finally launched last year to scathing reviews – but it ended 2011 on a high note, setting a new Broadway box office record for the highest single-week gross, taking more than $2.9 million in post-Christmas sales.

In a statement, Bono says, “For all the problems, there was magic on the stage. Things did get chaotic and messy after our producer Tony Adams died. But this week’s news has us all giddy again and we are raising our glasses to Tony, to our indefatigable cast, crew, creative and production team.”

Guitarist The Edge adds, “It just goes to show that you can’t keep a good superhero down. This is a proud day for everyone who has been a part of this show. The Broadway public have voted with their feet.”

CANOE

Super Channel to Air U2 Doc

Posted by SPun2U on Nov 17, 2011 in News & Rumors

TORONTO: BBC Worldwide Canada has licensed the U2 documentary From the Sky Down to Super Channel in Canada.

From the Sky Down became the first documentary to ever open the Toronto International Film Festival. The doc marks the 20th anniversary of U2’s 1991 album, Achtung Baby, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance. It features new interviews, stories and unseen footage from the band’s return to Hansa Studios in Berlin, the site where they first recorded Achtung Baby, with Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for Superman).

Hilary Read, the COO of BBC Worldwide Canada, said, “Long-time U2 devotees and new fans alike will be drawn to this up-close, intimate portrait that Davis Guggenheim has created of one of the world’s most talented and influential musical acts. The film was incredibly well-received at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. It’s great to be partnering with Super Channel to give From the Sky Down its TV debut in Canada.”

“We are very pleased to have the opportunity to bring Canadians a viewing opportunity of this quality in HD and commercial-free,” said, Sandy Perkins, the VP of programming for Super Channel. “From the Sky Down is certain to be embraced with enthusiasm by our viewers.”

- Worldscreen.com

Win U2′s ‘Achtung Baby’ Reissued Vinyl Box Set

Posted by SPun2U on Nov 17, 2011 in News & Rumors

SPIN celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, and released a definitive list of the 125 Best Albums of the SPIN era, from 1985-2010. Among many worth candidates

for No. 1, we chose U2′s 1991 game-changer Achtung Baby to top the list. Now, to celebrate the album’s 20th birthday, SPIN and Universal are teaming up to give one lucky fan a special-edition Achtung Baby 4-LP vinyl box set, featuring the album itself plus seven epic remixes. Enter below to win!

“Initially recorded at Hansa Studios, a former SS ballroom near the reopened Berlin Wall (and later completed back home in Dublin), Achtung was an effort, stoked primarily by Bono and the Edge, to ‘deconstruct’ the band and rewire it with jolts of beat-generated clutter and collage, nicked from industrial music, hip-hop, dance remixes, and the Madchester scene,” wrote SPIN editorial director Charles Aaron of the album. “U2 became the emblematic band of the alternative-rock era with Achtung Baby. Struggling to simultaneously embrace and blow up the world, they were never more inspirational.”

Contest ends December 1.

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