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Ahead of his new Dublin show, Gavin Friday talks to U2.Com about making movies, going into the studio with Bono and producing ‘Tomorrow Belongs to Me’.

Gavin Friday has a new show, ‘Tomorrow Belongs to Me’, opening in Dublin, at the end of the month – a ‘musical/visual tribute to 20th Century German Music, Art, Film and Literature’. And Gavin, one of U2’s oldest friends and collaborators, has just been in the studio with Bono recording ‘sea chanteys’ with producer Hal Willner for the double album ‘Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys’, released next month. Oh, and he’s made his Hollywood debut this year, in Neil Jordan’s Golden Globe nominated ‘Breakfast on Pluto’. And found time to collaborate with Quincy Jones on the soundtrack to the 50 Cent biopic ‘Get Rich or Die Trying’. Did we mention he’s just become a neighbour of Bono? Seemed like a good moment to track Gavin down for a goss. Here’s what he had to say.

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It seems almost as many politicians as News Corporations staffers will be present when the great and the good of Rupert Murdoch’s empire meet in California this weekend.

News Corp’s management conference will start on Sunday with a vastly reduced contingent of News International executives compared with previous years.

Mr Murdoch, the executive chairman, will host the event for 250 key executives at California’s Pebble Beach, a peninsular south of San Francisco know for its golf courses and cypress trees.

Les Hinton, the News International executive chairman, will lead a management contingent that will include his lieutenant, Clive Milner, the group managing director of News International, and the bosses of the two national newspaper groups, Paul Hayes, the managing director of Times Newspapers, and Mike Anderson, the managing director of News Group Newspapers, who sits in the adjacent office to that of Mr Hayes in Wapping.
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By Ray Waddell

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - The list of the top tours for the first half of 2006 is predictably weighted toward veteran rockers, but the lineup also yields a few surprises from developing acts and new arena productions.

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Source: DDDA looking for development experience to build U2 tower - Irish Architectural News

Dublin Docklands Development Authority is seeking expressions of interest from world-class development teams, who have significant experience in the delivery of high rise towers of architectural merit, to compete for a unique development opportunity to design, construct and finance the U2 Tower and Britain Quay Development.

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Elevation Tour 3rd leg Rarities

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U2 is a rock band with an impressive resume. The band has enjoyed success in three different decades, has over 20 Grammy Awards (second to Stevie Wonder), has had six number 1 albums in the US and 9 in the UK, and in 2005 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. have accomplished these worldly successes while living out a life of contradiction: in One Step Closer: Why U2 Matters to Those Seeking God, author Christian Scharen suggests that unlike many following a Christian path, U2 approach life and approach their work in a subtle and very real manner.
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