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Releases:
Best of Maria McKee/Lone Justice, Jan 12, 1999 -- features Bono
in duet with McKee singing "Sweet Jane"
Earth Love Fund : "Protection", UK January 17, 1998 (Benefit for
survivors of Hurricane Mitch in Central America)
Across The Bridge of Hope: The Omagh Tribute Album, NA March 17, 1999
(rumoured)
Concerts/Live Events:
Confirmed: March 24, 1999 Hits Under The Hammer Auction,
Bono's original lyric sheet for "Sweetest Thing" to be included in
the auction
Rumour: U2 at Millenium Concert, Dec 31, 1999 - Jan 1, 2000
Confirmed: U2 at my house. Today. :)
Television/Radio Events:
BBC: Straight from The Edge's mouth -- The BBC are working on a
special for "Classic Albums" about the Joshua Tree. Airdate TBA
Network TV:
K-Rock (92.3FM) in New York City has a U2 Harley Giveaway Contest
currently running. Listen to 92.3FM for more details.
MTV:
MuchMusic/MuchUSA:
Win Disc #000001 promotion starting Nov 23, 1998
The answers are: All I Want is You, Desire, and Pride(In The Name
of Love)
VH1: Will air U2 "VH1 Legends" special December 11, 1998 9pm EST
followed by "Live at Red Rocks" at Midnight EST.
Net Events:
Official Omagh Album Tribute Site http://www.omaghcd.com
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Island Records Contest -- actually a bit difficult!
Entries judged by U2 themselves! http://www.island.co.uk/u2/main.html
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Vote for U2 at Triple J's(Australian Radio) poll at
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/net50/vote.htm
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Vote for U2 at DotMusic's Top Albums of All Time
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Vot for U2 at http://www.bradfitz.com/votingbooth?schwag402
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Fan Club/WIRE/U2 nutzoid meetings:
Coming Soon : U2 Internet Fan Club(WIRE, EXIT, One, U2Lemon,
etc.) Convention -- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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U2 Laser Show in New York City, New York NOV 20 -- DEC 18, 1998
at 9:00PM 81ST BTW CPW + COLUMBUS,AMERICAN MUS.
NAT HIST., IMAX THEATER, LASER U2 IN 3D. Admission $9US.
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U2 Party, Austin, Texas, Dec. 19 Starting at Conan's Pizza
@ 2606 Guadalup -- party will move later for 21+
Contact [email protected] for more information.
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January 29, 1999, 8:00 pm U2 coverband "Vorsprung durch Technik"
Bremen, Germany. Email [email protected] for more information.
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A SORT OF A HOMECOMING 99-The second annual gathering of U2 fans
anywhere and everywhere! July 22-25, 1999, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
For info, e-mail Liz at [email protected] or checkout the webpage at,
http://members.aol.com/conguero/asoh.html
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NEWS dates:
Fan article added Dec 12
ST video #1 in Canada added Dec 11
Bono says "No" to Hume added Dec 11
More on Uni-gram added Dec 11
U2 donate equipment to Dublin Arts Center added Dec 11
U2 to stay with Uni-gram added Dec 11
2/5 present added Dec 11
More on Windmill Lane added Dec 11
Violence in N. Ireland added Dec 11
Layoffs expected in dawn of Uni-gram restructuring added Dec 10
Polygram/Universal Restructuring Announced added Dec 10
Hurricane Mitch Benefit album has a name added Dec 10
U2 releases Internet Only Exclusive added Dec 10
Details of P-gram/Seagram merger expected added Dec 10
Bono on new Sinatra "Tribute" set added Dec 9
Springsteen rivaled by U2 and Madonna added Dec 9
Comics mock U2 added Dec 9
Italian Charts added Dec 9
Rolling Stone Interview with The Edge ONLINE! added Dec 8
Kirk Franklin article added Dec 8
Windmill Lane comes a tumblin' down added Dec 8
P-gram deal may lead to further mergers in Music Industry added Dec 8
U2 & Babe Part II connection added Dec 8
McGuinness' Book of The Year added Dec 8
POPMart Video review added Dec 7
John's Chart News added Dec 7
Millenium Concert Site(and disclaimer) added Dec 7
More on ITV special added Dec 7
B.B. King to start tour in Latin America added Dec 7
Answer to the undying "Bono's a drug addict" rumour added Dec 7
The art of the Best of LTD Edition added Dec 7 (Happy Birthday to Me!)
AI to present 10 million pledges added Dec 6
Another Millenium Concert added Dec 6
RUMOUR: U2 at Millenium Concert added Dec 6
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Tina Rhodes has written an excellent article on U2 available
at ZooNation:
http://zoonation.com/news/Shadowsandtales_TR.html
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The ST video is #1 in Canada(on MuchMusic).
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>From The Belfast Telegraph:
City to rock in Nobel finale
By Martina Purdy in Oslo
OSLO is ready to rock to the sound of music giants Phil Collins, Phil
Coulter and Alanis Morissette at the climax of three days of Nobel
celebrations.
Tonight's concert in Oslo's Spektrum is expected to be the grand
finale to mark the Nobel prize giving to John Hume and David Trimble.
However, Mr Hume today ended speculation that Irish supergroup U2
will make a surprise visit.
"I asked (U2 lead- singer) Bono to come but unfortunately he is tied up
with recording a new album."But stars who are due to appear include
country singer Shania Twain and Enrique Iglesias, son of Julio.
In the hours up to the concert, the two laureates had a round of
meetings. Each met separately this morning for half an hour with the
Norwegian foreign minister, Knut Vollebaek.
There was also a joint meeting with prime minister, Kjell Nagne Bonvevik.
The SDLP's Dennis Haughey said today he is looking forward to seeing
his old friend Phil Coulter in concert.
"The first time we heard Phil play we knew he had a great talent but of
course we never realised he would become so famous," he said.
� Copyright Belfast Telegraph Newspapers Ltd.
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Condensed From CNN:
Seagram Absorbs PolyGram, Creates World's Largest Music Company
AP 11-DEC-98
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Seagram Co. became the world's largest
music company with its acquisition of Polygram NV, turning its
attention to an industry that faces slow growth and rapidly
changing technology.
Seagram's Universal Music Group officially absorbed Polygram
on Thursday and announced plans for a cost-cutting consolidation
that will merge some labels and link others into East Coast and
West Coast music groups.
The move is expected to include layoffs for about 3,000 of the new
company's 15,500 employees and a smaller roster of artists.
The roster now includes a diverse collection of artists ranging
from Luciano Pavarotti to rockers U2 and country music's Reba
McEntire. Company officials declined to comment on layoffs or
which artists might be dropped.
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Condensed from The Irish Times:
The word on the Grapevine
The City Arts Centre/Grapevine celebrates 25
years in business next week. Sandy Fitzgerald,
executive director from the very beginning, talks
to Mic Moroney about the past, present and
ambitious future of the lively community arts
centre on the quays
To celebrate the City Arts Centre/Grapevine's 25
years in business next Wednesday night, former
Arts Council chairman Ciaran Benson will launch a
book of photographs from the early days.
Grapevine moved into the new building and adopted
the more odourless title of City Arts Centre in the
mid-1980s, when they bought the building for about
�260,000 with the help of the Arts Council, some
investment in the basement studios from U2 (new
recording equipment is finally coming in next
month) and "sponsorship in kind" from the Allied
Irish Bank - as Sandy says, "basically giving us the
loan, but not that they waived any interest."
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Addicted To Noise has another article on the Uni-gram shake-up.
It mentions a list of acts that will not be effected/dropped because
of the takeover.
"UMG's press release included a list of more than 50 popular artists
now signed to the conglomerate, as a result of those artists having
deals with any of the affiliated labels that UMG now comprises. The
list included such high-profile acts as hip-hop/folkie Beck, R&B
artists Blackstreet and Erykah Badu, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson,
hip-hop's LL Cool J and Jay-Z, ska band No Doubt and rock groups
U2 and the Wallflowers."
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The Edge and Paul McGuinness were both present at the awarding
of the Nobel Prizes yesterday in Oslo...
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Thanks to Derek Mark McAllister for the following:
>From The Irish Star:
December 10 1998.
"U2 Wall Keeps Pop-ing Up"
Dublin Corporation and local residents in the Windmill Lane are are
furious due to the fact that the wall has been cleaned yet come
night time and the next morning the wall has been resprayed by U2
fans.
Throughout the night up to 20 grafitti artists arrive and return
the walls to their former glory, in fact the murals and designs are
placed with perfect perfection so as to give the idea that nothing
has changed.
Dublin Corporation have asked the Gardai to check and patrol the
area by night as it is to costly to send Corporation workers to
clean the wall every day.
Local residents have seen the nightowls at work with ladders and
spotlights and spray cans. The locals have rang the gardai but by
the time they arrive the work has been carried out and there is no
sign of the painters.
-- Prarit....[email protected] U2 news: http://www.members.home.net/u2-news/u2.html
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