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(Starting with No Line On The Horizon and Spanish Eyes)

Set of 4 Lithographic Prints

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EXCLUSIVE ACCESS & MUSIC

From The Ground Up: U2.com Music Edition brings you the inside track on U2360° – the stories, the photos, the music. Presented in a bespoke, wrap-around sleeve, the large-format hardback book opens to reveal FOUR exclusive lithographs of the band, some very cool bookmarks and Edge’s Picks – a limited-edition, 15-track live CD, curated by The Edge. These are the cuts you asked for after our one-off release of U22 and the moment you subscribe (or resubscribe) to U2.com you can also instantly access TWO BONUS U2360° DOWNLOADS – No Line On The Horizon and Spanish Eyes – tracks that are not on U22 and not on this new CD.

EXCLUSIVE CONTENT

On our dedicated subscriber site find all the band’s music streaming all the time; specially commissioned video from studio & stage; interviews with band & crew; archived news documenting the U2 story from the 1970s. Chat and blog in Zootopia, the busiest U2 fan community, rich with content generated by you for you.

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Enter exclusive competitions, take 25% off your first purchase in the U2.com Store and get a dedicated U2 email address (‘yourname@U2.com’). Join a ticket presale when the band goes on the road, browse photos, video & reports from previous tours and dig in to the exclusive road diaries of Show Designer Willie Williams.

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12 months membership to U2.com

From The Ground Up: U2.com Music Edition (deluxe U2360° Tour hardback photo book)

Edge’s Picks, 15-track Live CD

Bonus U2360° Live Downloads
(Starting with No Line On The Horizon and Spanish Eyes)

Set of 4 Lithographic Prints

Set of 4 bookmarks

25% discount in U2.com Store

New membership (75 dollars)

This package includes:

12 months membership to U2.com

From The Ground Up: U2.com Music Edition (deluxe U2360° Tour hardback photo book)

Edge’s Picks, 15-track Live CD

Bonus U2360° Live Downloads
(Starting with No Line On The Horizon and Spanish Eyes)

Set of 4 Lithographic Prints

Set of 4 bookmarks

25% discount in U2.com Store

U22 Double Live CD Set (22 tracks from U2360° in deluxe booklet with notes from Adam Clayton)

11 Instant U22 Downloads plus Bonus track Unknown Caller

Zoo2Live Double Live CD Set (U2 Live in Sydney on 1993 ZOOTV Tour) – While Stocks Last

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Along with talk of a new album early in 2013, U2 have confirmed the October publication of the official U2360° photo-book, From The Ground Up.
Featuring the photos of Ralph Larmann and words by Dylan Jones, the hardback documents arguably the most spectacular rock ‘n’ roll tour of all time.

U2.com subscribers will be able to get their mitts on a special edition featuring more live tracks that didn’t make the U22 CD cut. Pre-ordering starts this weekend.

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The summary is back after a 2-month break: the lack of news led to a pause with great expectations for its come back. The first lines – written at the beginning of the week – were not full of hope, luckily very good news have appeared in the following days in the ‘notepad’ section…

Bono’s holidays

As it must be one of U2‘s most quiet time, news were mainly about Bono‘s adventures during his holidays. It all started at the Avignon festival, where the singer stopped by before heading to Saint Tropez. It was quite hard to miss Bono in his loud yellow trousers which amused both the press and several fans. It’s been an opportunity for U2 fans to get some material for U2 talk, by analyzing the poorly matched Bono‘s outfit and the usual weight he puts on every summer.

During his holidays Bono also got involved in more serious matters, among which an appearance in the African version of Big Brother in order to talk about the ONE association to the contestants. Talking about real TV: Bono denied the rumor that [he would be a judge http://www.u2france.com/actu/Bono-l… in shows such as X Factor and American Idol. Despite being inundated with such invitations U2‘s singer strongly refuses to commit in such things.

Being always very charitable, Bono also sent his smile to the young Miro Angers, a 12 years old boy who suffers from an unoperable brain tumor. In order to show him support a website has been created so that everyone can send him a picture with a smile on it. As Bono got moved by the story of Miro he also sent him his smile. Unfortunately the tumor won over Miro a few days later…

Rumor: there won’t be an end of the world with U2

On August 22nd the Guatemaltan Culture Minister said an invitation had been sent to U2 in order to perform a concert on December 21st 2012, to celebrate the end of the Maya calendar, which is also – according to certain beliefs – the time the world will come to an end: people will have to celebrate Christmas early if they want to get presents. The participants list would be quite appealing: invitations were also sent to Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Elton John, Neil Young (and that’s not the full list).

Yet there are almost no chances to see the all four members of U2. Since 1990 the band has never agreed to take part in a show that was out of their promotional tours. The’ve been invited thousands of times but never accepted anything. The best case scenario would be an appearance of Bono who is used to playing mini concerts without his band since the 2000s.

A few summer bonuses…

As we got quite bored because of the complete absence of Larry and Adam and that the few public appearances of The Edge along with Bono were not quite satisfying, we did something else. First we wished a happy birthday to The Edge on August 8 then we wondered if the live album U22 was reaching our expectations. We also kept creating new photo albums on our Facebook page – making 2 new albums : When the rock star meets other celebrities, which is dedicated to Bono‘s meetings with other political and musical personalities, and Before…and now in which you’ll be able to see how U2 managed to evolve since 1980.

A review on U2′s projects

Quite a quick update…as there are no updates! So here is the review from the previous summary.

Danger Mouse could produce U2′s next album

Bonotold last month The Irish Voice that U2 keep working in studio with Danger Mouse, who could produce its next album. As always the Irish singer appeared to be very optimistic about their current studio sessions, even telling they could be their best ones since 1979. According to Bono: « U2 have to do something very special to have a reason to exist right now”. He seems to be pretty confident about that as he explains the collaboration with Danger Mouse «hit a vein» and that «there might be life in the old dog yet!» (the dog being U2, not Danger Mouse). The next album doesn’t seem to be ready yet, few are the chances to have it released by the end of 2012.

Next tour and album trilogy

As the next album is not ready yet, no tour is on the horizon before 2012 at least. After their 360° Tour, U2 members said they were willing to go back to indoor venues, and don’t plan to compete with The Claw when it comes to spectacular stages. Maybe will there be an indoor tour in 2014…
As long as the three potential albums to come (a rock album, a club album and an “ambient” album) are concerned, there are no more news, still it seems the project isn’t over. The “ambient” album was probably about songs that could have been on the Holy Grail called “Songs of Ascent” – an album that was supposed to be released shortly after No Line On The Horizon, including titles from the 2004 to 2009 sessions.






Memo pad

October : release of the official 360°’s photo book

‘From The Ground Up’ – a 256-page hardbook which puts together photos taken by Ralph Larmann during U2‘s last tour – is set to be released next october (we’re waiting for the final date). So far the publishing rights haven’t been sold to any French publishing company, so we don’t know if any French version of it will ever come out. However the book will be available in a German edition in October with the title U2 360° – Um die Welt in 760 Tagen – published by Koch.

End of 2012 : next U2.com’s gift for paying subscribers

The official website of the band has just announced that the next gift offered to paying subscribers of U2.com will be a special edition of the book ‘From The Ground Up’ including live tracks that didn’t make it on U22 — the current gift from U2.com. Those songs will be revealed in October. In order to get that special-edition book you’ll then have a choice: buying it as soon as it is out in store or waiting to get it through U2.com with extra live tracks. It looks like the only version you can get from the official website is the English one, there’s no mention of any other language.

Coming next: another hardbook about U2 on its way

The professional music photographer Peter Neill has decided to please U2 fans with the preparation of a hardbook including his pictures of the band taken during the 2009 Sheffield and 2010 Paris shows. His plan is to offer 2 versions of his book: a standard version and a limited-edition version in which fans will be offered the chance to choose the first-page picture. If you know a good and cheap publishing/editing company offering great quality at reasonable prices you can tell him by mail here: info@shootthesound.com. You can also follow his project updates on his Facebook page MusicShots.

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