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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 »
National Geographic is the distributor handling U2-3D, the new concert film from the legendary Bono-led band. The rookie distributor is managing to grab virtually all of the nation’s Digital 3D locations (although likely short of the number that the recent Hannah Montana from Disney opened on). There is no tracking available for U2-3D, and it’s difficult to tell how high the awareness is for this movie-going experience. I suspect that $10,000-$12,000 per location is possible, a far cry from Hannah’s $45,000+ PTA on opening weekend, but still an impressive $6M-$8M for the weekend.
Bono has insisted that the new U2 album will be “radical and uncompromising”.
The singer claimed he couldn’t give any details away but argued that it wouldn’t be worth the band’s time producing a record that was anything less than “great”.
Speaking at the European premiere of U23D, he said: “Who needs another U2 album unless it’s a really great piece of rock ‘n’ roll? You young people better watch out!
“We have to do something really extraordinary to be able to get out of bed these days.”
He added: “If I told you [about the album] I’d have to kill you. And if I did tell you they’d probably have to kill me too.”
Producer Daniel Lanois revealed earlier this week that the Irish rockers had begun work on the follow-up to 2004’s How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
The well-oiled musical machine known as U2 is currently cooped up in Dublin with longtime cohorts Briano Eno and Daniel Lanois working on its forthcoming album, according to Billboard. The iconic Irish rockers have spent time prior to this amassing new material on three separate occasions in other exotic locales, such as Morocco and France, and Lanois purports the results to be “prolific.”
Moreover, Lanois hinted at the much-speculated notion of a double disc due to the luxuriant nature of these sessions. The yet-to-be-titled album will serve as the follow-up to the band’s 2004 release, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
In addition to the aforementioned news, U2 has revealed a new charity single titled “The Ballad Of Ronnie Drew,” which will initially be available in Ireland only this Friday, February 22 and a week later on CD. The song boasts appearances by the Pogues’ Shane MacGowan, the Frames’ Glen Hansard, Sinead O’Connor, Andrea Corr, Damien Dempsey, Ronan Keating, Chris de Burgh, Gavin Friday and members of the Dubliners. At the request of Ronnie Drew himself, all proceeds collected through this tributary endeavor will go to the Cancer Society.
Bono & Co. jump out to fans and foes alike in new, 3-D movie
The foremost question viewers will probably find themselves asking before putting on their special glasses and settling in to watch “U2 3-D” is: “Who is the intended audience for this movie?”
If you have never been to a U2 concert, are not a U2 fan or just find that sunglasses-at-night-wearing, globetrotting, world-saving force of nature and frontman of the world’s biggest rock band, Bono, to be extremely obnoxious, then you might be surprised by “U2 3-D.” Read the rest of this story »
The European premiere of U2’s long-awaited ‘3D Vertigo Tour’ concert film will be screened in the band’s native city tonight.
Hundreds of fans are expected to turn up to Parnell Street’s Cineworld in the heart of Dublin as speculation mounts the rock legends will put in an appearance.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah last month.
While it is still unclear if frontman Bono and members The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jnr will make an appearance, it was confirmed the film’s director Catherine Owens will be present.
Shot in South America, the film uses the latest technology allowing band members to appear to leap off the screen and is the first digital 3D multi-camera production.
It is being screened as part of the Dublin International Film Festival.
U2 producer Daniel Lanois has been talking about the recording of the band’s new album, which resumes this week in Dublin’s Windmill Lane studio.
“We’ve had a few very successful jam sessions so far, including one in Morocco,” the Canadian enthuses. “I’m very excited about what we’re doing. Everyone has an appetite for breaking new ground and everybody wants to make a masterpiece.
“We’re not taking anything for granted. We don’t think it’s going to be easy. In fact, it’s always hard work and I like it that way. When the work is hard, you know you’re busting through something that hasn’t been done before.”
Asked what the follow-up to How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb will sound like, Lanois says: “I can tell you a little bit about the fundamental quality. It’s very much hand-played but it’s also electro.”
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Award winning director and ex-Frames bass player John Carney has directed the video for The Ballad of Ronnie Drew.
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