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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:
FOX: Family Channel will air the Nobel Prize Concert, December 20,
at 8:00pm EST and December 27 at 6:00pm EST
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: U2 Legends, Saturday, January 2, 1999 6:00pm EST
Net Events:
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www.muse.ie will RA a LIVE interview with Bono and The Edge
December 18th, midnight GMT. The second part of the interview
will broadcast January 1, 1999, midnight GMT.
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http://www.musicvideos.com has "Christmas Baby" on it's site for
free download.
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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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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:
Irish Times look at the future added Dec 19
NY Times review added Dec 19
Making of JT added Dec 19
InSoc to cover U2's "One" added Dec 18
Muse Interview ONLINE added Dec 18
Top Ten tours of '98 added Dec 18
U2 tops Xmas sellers in Europe added Dec 18
Soccer plan rejected by Celtic added Dec 18
Music Boulevard offers 'net deal added Dec 18
www.muse.ie Interview Online added Dec 18
Celine Dion to play Belfast added Dec 17
Irish Y2K group gets $$ added Dec 17
Italian Charts and another Exclusive Interview added Dec 17
Best of #1 in Europe added Dec 17
U2 in Top Ten Tours added Dec 17
Bono and The Edge interview with Muse magazine added Dec 17
U2 #5 in Canada added Dec 16
Bono in NME contest added Dec 16
U2 on Hurricane Benefit CD added Dec 16
Bono appears via video at Nobel Concert added Dec 16
Uh-oh...POPMart last concert in Landsdowne? added Dec 15
U2 #2 in tours in 1998 added Dec 15
Decade belonging to U2 added Dec 15
Guitar World interview with The Edge added Dec 15
New Poll added Dec 15
Poll Results added Dec 15
"Best Of" Ad at Whiskey-A-Go-Go added Dec 15
David Harth featured in Magazine added Dec 15
U2 album rumoured to be in May added Dec 15
"No Bono" shirts added Dec 14
John's Chart News added Dec 14
Senior Irish Catholic recieves phonecall from Bono added Dec 13
Franklin album is Irish Times' Album Of The Week added Dec 13
Boyzone star joins McGuinness in planning Y2K in Ireland added Dec 13
RA of VH1's Legends added Dec 13
U2 is "World's Greatest Band" added Dec 13
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Condensed from The Irish Times:
(Prarit's note: The article is on the next year of music...)
Fast Forward '99
U2, stung by suggestions that POPMart was overblown old
twaddle, will announce a strippeddown, back-to-basics tour for
which they'll borrow the papiermach� U2 heads from Macnas and
the yellow arch from McDonalds on O'Connell Street.
...both Underworld and U2 are due to release new albums.
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A short New York Times review of the Best of has been added to
the Best of reviews file available at:
http://www.members.home.net/u2-news/gh_reviews.html
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>From The Irish Times:
Calling the tune
Philip King, performer and producer, has four films about to hit the small
screen, writes John Kelly
Philip King is mad about music. He writes it, he performs it and, in recent
years, he has made films about it. His company, Hummingbird Productions, was
formed in 1987 to make Bringing It All Back Home, a five-part series tracing
the influence of Irish music on American country, folk and rock traditions.
The international acclaim with which the series was greeted encouraged King
to stay behind the camera and call the shots from there. Further films on
his many musical passions were later to be commissioned and produced,
including The Juliet Letters with Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet,
Christy, a documentary on Christy Moore, and the Emmy award-winning Irish
Music in America A Musical Migration. There was also a Grammy nomination for
Rocky World, a profile of producer Daniel Lanois.
Born in Cork city in 1952, King studied trumpet at the School of Music and
was later to become part of the much-missed group Scullion. As he sits in a
Dublin production suite making the final edits to his latest project, he
suddenly tells me that he's going to buy a flugelhorn for Christmas. Then,
to explain this sudden urge, he fast-forwards to a shot of a man playing the
flugelhorn introduction to a song by Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello, the
subjects of Because It's A Lonely World, a film to be broadcast on Channel 4
on St Stephen's Day.
Elvis himself is due any minute to see the final cut, and even though the
film is not quite ready, King is happily singing along with the flugelhorn
and unconsciously displaying one of his greatest assets - an infectious
enthusiasm for music.
"I grew up with three strands of music. First there were the sponsored
programmes you heard on the radio; and that was the only pop music you heard
on Irish radio. So that was the pop music diet. Then there was the ballad
thing, because the Clancys had come home and that had an enormous effect -
and they were ours! I remember very well being in the school talent contest
singing The Bold O Donoghue, The Holy Ground and The Jug of Punch. Then my
elder brother was a classical music nut, and he was listening to
Shostakovich and Stravinsky; and my sister was more mainstream, listening to
Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert. So by the time I got to 16, I was
listening to everything!"
While at University College, Cork, King came into contact with writers such
as Nuala N� Dh�mhnaill, Michael Davitt, Gabriel Rosenstock and Liam �
Muirithle. There was, as he describes it, "a quite revolutionary aspect" to
language and music and, towering above it all was the presence of Se�n �
Riada. The pubs of Cork were also fertile musical ground, with people like
Mick Daly and Christy Twomey playing everything from Carter Family to Rory
Gallagher tunes, with maybe even Rory himself in attendance. It was almost
inevitable, therefore, that King would eventually be part of some kind of
musical venture of his own. It would have to be a group which had a uniquely
broad musical vision and that group was Scullion.
On one level they were an unlikely bunch. There was piper, Jimmy O'Brien
Moran, guitarist Greg Boland, whose influences included The Meters and
Zappa, Sonny Condell, who had been in Tir na n�g (if you know what I mean)
and King himself on vocals and harmonica. They were to become a popular band
in Ireland and were, at one point, quite capable of filling the Olympia or
the National Concert Hall. Despite a deal with WEA, however, the potential
for success outside Ireland was never really achieved.
"The problem with Scullion is that it was indefinable. We had a great time,
but we lacked a conclusive direction - although there is a Sculliony sound,
a rhythm or a cadence or a tonality that's there. In those days you could
travel Ireland and play the folk club circuit and the `before the disco'
circuit - where the young ones would sit on the stage with their backs to
you - and I miss it very much. "Singing was always my thing. I was always
extrovert and unstoppable, and once I started I'd have to be taken away! I
always wanted to sing everything; it didn't matter whether it was Little
Richard or Frank Sinatra. I think John Martyn was a huge influence on me and
he was to produce the second Scullion album. He has a foot in the well of
tradition, and everything he did seemed to be shot through with a sense of
tradition. And I was always interested in that."
In 1987 King, Nuala O'Connor and Kieran Corrigan set up Hummingbird
Productions with a specific project in mind. King was interested in the
story of Irish music, how it had crossed the Atlantic and informed the
American musical tradition of country, rock and folk, all of which had since
returned to Ireland in various guises. Many people knew the story but it had
never been told on television. Certainly, King wasn't the first person to
propose such a project either, but he was the first one to pull it off.
Somehow he managed to convince all of those who needed convincing that this
was a very good idea.
"We set out on day one specifically to tell that story. As far as
film-making was concerned, in terms of the detail and the technicality of
making a film, we were all extremely ignorant. But we did it because of
enthusiasm. I remember sitting at a meeting in London with the BBC. Present
were BBC NI, BBC Books, BBC Records and this was the money that we needed.
"I had to get it and it was like a house of cards; if one of them fell, it
all fell. And these were people that knew nothing about Irish music! Nothing
at all! I've said it before, that convincing commissioning editors to take
your idea is a war of attrition, so you just don't go away. It's like the
puissance in showjumping; the fences are built higher and higher. But I just
sat down and started talking! And none of it was put on, because I loved the
stuff so much and I managed to convince them that it was a fascinating
story."
King has done a lot of convincing recently. In the immediate future there
are no less than four of his films about to be screened - Ceolta Nollag �
Chorca Dhuibhne (Network 2, Christmas Day), East Meets West with Donal Lunny
and the Kodo Drummers (Network 2, December 27th) and The Making of the
Joshua Tree with U2 early next year on ITV. The fourth is the Bacharach and
Costello film to which he is putting the finishing touches as we talk. This
degree of output, in the often soul-destroying world of independent film and
television, is quite remarkable.
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