Brazil Nuts

BRAZIL NUTS
Here’s some more goodies from Rio, courtesy of Andre.

Bono, moving in mysterious ways.

Bono sings with fans

BONO SINGS WITH FANS
Andre from Brasil reports that he saw U2 film the video for “Walk On”. The band shot footage in the Museu de Arte Moderna, from 9am till 10pm. When it started to rain at 9.30pm, Andre and 5 friends started singing Summer Rain. Bono stopped the shoot, grabbed a guitar and played and sang the song with them.

It’s all in the hair

IT’S ALL IN THE HAIR
Well, you know what they say about men with long hair… According to the Sunday World (Irish tabloid newspaper), Bono’s wife Ali is pregnant again, and due in June.

Which brings to mind a quote from U2.com, from an interview with Daniel Lanois:

U2.COM: There

All that you fear

ALL THAT YOU FEAR!
Previously at U2log we featured, what seemed to be, a noticeable comeback of the ‘Bono Mullet’.
Now thanks to Andre and his pictures from Brazil (see previous post), we have more shocking evidence to present. Is this rather embarrassing hairstyle made cool/uncool by many a fashion victim on the trail of a full scale comeback?

At the Copa, Copacabana

AT THE COPA, COPACABANA…

Andre of the Ultraviolet U2 Brazilian mailing list and fan club sent us this link to his pictures of U2′s showcase in Brasil last night – with the promise of more goodies later. Yum. He also reports that today Bono will be going to Angra dos Reis, a seaside town in Rio, to buy a ‘big house for the holidays’.

Big THANK YOU to Andre for his photos and information.

Walk on video

WALK ON VIDEO
From local Rio de Janeiro news: During the interview, the singer, Bono, said the band had changed their minds, and now will shoot the Walk On videoclip in Rio de Janeiro. Yesterday, the band was waiting for the producer and the recording equipment. In the the meantime, they were choosing shoot locations in the city.

“We had already defined the clip’s concept, that it should be shot at England. But, as soon as we got here, we thought: “No, this is the place for the video”. Here you have the ideal vibe for a song like Walk On,” said Bono.

Why’d you say Burma?

WHY’D YOU SAY BURMA?
U2′s new album ATYCLB is banned in Burma, reports Dotmusic, because its pays tribute to the country’s imprisoned pro-democracy leader, Aung San Kyi. We suppose the country’s officials… well, panicked. The NME has more.

Meanwhile, Aussie fans strike back. U2 better pay O’Herlihy big money.

U2 play Brasil

U2 PLAY BRASIL
Augusto Bermond of U2 Vitoria in Brasil reports U2 played the following tracks last night:

Beautiful Day
Stuck In A Moment
Elevation
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Beautiful Day (again)
Stuck In A Moment (again)

The show will be broadcast on Sunday.

ATYCLB screensaver

ATYCLB SCREENSAVER
Achtung U2 are offering an official ATYCLB screensaver.

Promo Bono meets Hot Press

“..on a rather different tact, the www.youtwo.net website claim to have found a hidden message on the ATYCLB cover.
‘Bono and Co are pictured in the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris’ they hypothesise ‘in the background there are check in desks and information screens. If you look at the screens very closely, you can see a message on the the left side that says J33-3. This message refers to the bible, specifically to a part of Jeremiah in the Old Testament’.
Finally we thought you might like to have a look at the limited edition Promo bono which was sent out to particularly important VIPs.
‘He talks! He promotes!” it says on the box. ‘Pull the cord for random quotes like ‘Lets bite the arse of the pop charts’ and ‘They’re boys, we’re men’.”

Sound familiar??!!