Month: January 2009
Daily U2 News Digest for 2009-01-22
Daily U2 News Digest for 2009-01-21
Elbow’s Guy Garvey: ‘We Were Huge U2 Fans’
Guy Garvey, lead singer of the British band Elbow, says the band members were all U2 fans. Elbow, who won the 2008 Mercury prize, has recorded U2’s song Running to Standstill for the new War Child album, ‘Heroes’.
Garvey says it was the first song the band ever learnt together:
“We were huge U2 fans… it was the first thing we ever played together as nippers”, said Garvey. “It was too lovely a thing that we’d also covered it many, many moons ago.”
You can listen to Guy Garvey being interviewed by XFM’s Ian Camfield, and you can also hear Elbow’s lush cover of ‘Running To Stand Still’ on the XFM website.
The War Child album ‘Heroes’ will be released on February 16th.
Lanois: Bono wanted ‘spiritual songs for the future’
Alan Cross on ExploreMusic.com’s blog has started posting the transcript of his interview with Daniel Lanois.
“We started in Fez Morocco because we wanted a musical and exotic location. One of my first conversations with Bono was one about future hymns—spiritual songs for the future—and he was at the opinion that Morocco would be a great crossroads for a universal feeling for the album.”
You can also listen to two brief soundbytes from the interview on AtU2.com in which Lanois reveals he’s seen the band’s preliminary set-drawings, including a 360-degree stage, with all the ‘artillery’ out of the sight line.
Daily U2 News Digest for 2009-01-20
Get On Your Boots (3:24) – the credits
These are the credits to Get On Your Boots as printed on the 1-track european CD single:
Music by U2
Lyrics by Bono
Produced by Brian Eno and Danny Lanois
Additional production by Declan Gaffney
Engineered by Richard Rainey
Additional engineering by Declan Gaffney and Carl Glanville
Mixed by Declan Gaffney
Keyboards by Terry Lawless
Additional percussion by Sam O’Sullivan
Published by Universal Music Publishing BV
Thanks to Oli at www.u2swisshome.com for the information.
Bono, Will.i.am, Faith Hill, Seal and Mary J Blige sing America’s Song
You can download an mp3 of this song for free, from Oprah.com. But hurry up, ’cause it’s only going to be up there till Tuesday at 5 p.m. ET. (download mp3)
Check out a transcript of the song’s lyrics at U2wanderer.org
Obama’s niece wakes up for U2
Sleeping through most of the event, this little girl – said to be Obama’s niece – only wakes up when U2 hit the stage. Rock and roll stops the snoring.