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NEW YORK - The second “American Idol” charity event is set for April 9, with a lineup that includes Bono, Brad Pitt, Miley Cyrus, Fergie, Chris Daughtry and Carrie Underwood.
Last year’s “Idol Gives Back” show raised $76 million to benefit underprivileged children.
The Fox network announced the date Monday. Football stars Peyton and Eli Manning are also scheduled, along with John Legend, Mariah Carey, Annie Lennox, Reese Witherspoon and Snoop Dogg. Fox said more names will be added in the coming weeks.
AS if we hadn’t seen enough ways to make an extra buck from U2, it seems they’ve come up with yet another one.
But now they’ve just been given a hammering for their latest idea — and “ripping off” fans — by legendary pop impresario Harvey Goldsmith.
The band, it would seem, have plans to cash in on a new-found way to soak music fans: “reselling” tickets for gigs by auction to get more than their face value.
Goldsmith bumped into Paul McGuinness, the “fifth band member” of U2 (and presumably one of the five mystery employees who were each paid €5m last year by U2’s parent company), at a music industry festival in France last month.
McGuinness had just given a speech lambasting internet service providers (ISPs) as thieves for allowing music piracy traffic by their users. With declining album sales internationally, he was doing his job and protecting his band’s revenue stream. Fair enough.
But when Goldsmith — who is one of the world’s most famous promoters of live music — met McGuinness for a drink afterwards and discussed how the internet has effectively legalised ticket touts, he was shocked at the response. So much so that Goldsmith used the conversation as an anecdotal intro for a “keynote address” at the Concert Industry Consortium in Los Angeles. Read the rest of this story »
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. Read the rest of this story »
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.
February 25, 2008 — BONO can’t even eat in peace. When the U2 frontman tried to have a quiet dinner of pizza and wine with his wife, Ali Hewson, their kids and model Helena Christensen at Serafina Broadway in the Dream Hotel, it turned into pure chaos. “The paparazzi were hounding them and banging on the windows so much to get a shot while they were eating [that] the restaurant had to close the doors and put down the window shades,” said a source. “They still acted extremely nice, like very simple and easy people.”
What a Night. What a City. What a cheeky-chancer you have for Taoiseach! Bono and the normally shy other members of U2; namely The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr, and Adam Clayton, brought the U23D European Premiere to their home manor this week…
Rocker faces opposition over hotel renovations and plans to erect `egomaniacal’ U2 Tower
U2’s Bono helped persuade George W. Bush and Tony Blair to increase African aid and cancel a portion of Third World debt.
But Ireland’s most famous rock star is finding it harder to charm Dublin preservationists as he seeks to expand the 177-year-old Clarence Hotel.
The singer failed to win over opponents with several bottles of wine and lunch at the Clarence in September, said Michael Smith, former chairman of An Taisce, an independent planning watchdog. The $224 million (all figures Canadian) project would triple the hotel’s size and top it with a panoramic glass bar. Read the rest of this story »
The biggest stars in Irish music appeared on ‘The Late Late Show’ tonight in a special tribute to legendary singer Ronnie Drew.
Tonight’s performance is the first time that the song, written by Robert Hunter (Grateful Dead) with Bono, The Edge and Simon Carmody, has been aired on Irish television.
Award winning director and ex-Frames bass player John Carney has directed the video for The Ballad of Ronnie Drew.
Filmed over two days at Dublin’s Windmill Lane studios in January, Carney and his team were on hand to document the recording and the video magically captures this unique tribute to the legendary Ronnie Drew.
The result is a fly-on-the-wall- video; Christy Moore, Shane MacGowan, Damien Dempsey, Andrea Corr, Sinéad O’Connor and Moya Brennan among others are seen at work, along with members of The Dubliners, Kila and U2.
Produced by John Reynolds, “The Ballad of Ronnie Drew” will be released on digital download from February 22nd and a CD single will follow on February 29th in Ireland only. Profits from the release will go directly to the Irish Cancer Society here.
The biggest stars in Irish music will appear on ‘The Late Late Show’ tonight in a special tribute to legendary singer Ronnie Drew.
U2, Andrea Corr, The Dubliners, Sinéad O’Connor and Kíla are among the acts confirmed to perform the specially composed ‘Ballad of Ronnie Drew’, which is released as a digital download today and as a CD single on 29 February.
All profits from the release of the single will go to the Irish Cancer Society at the request of Ronnie Drew.
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Tonight’s performance is the first time that the song, written by Robert Hunter (Grateful Dead) with Bono, The Edge and Simon Carmody, has been aired on Irish television.
Commenting on tonight’s show, host Pat Kenny said: “This will be an unmissable one-off performance of a very special song by some of our most talented and most famous musicians. It’s another first for ‘The Late Late Show’.” Read the rest of this story »
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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.
Award winning director and ex-Frames bass player John Carney has directed the video for The Ballad of Ronnie Drew.
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