Daily U2 News Digest for 2009-02-23

delicious (feed #6) 7:49pm BBC rolls out the red carpet for U2
delicious (feed #6) 7:58pm Stills from Anton Corbijn’s film for NLOTH: "Linear"
youtube (feed #10) 12:29am Favorited a video on YouTube.

delicious (feed #6) 2:14am Le Figaro: U2, un groupe toujours au diapason
delicious (feed #6) 5:24am Irish Times reviewer and readers pissing on their own as usual
delicious (feed #6) 6:08am Irish Times offers 60-second previews of NLOTH tracks
delicious (feed #6) 6:35am Last.fm reponds to U2/Riaa/data accusation: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
flickr (feed #3) 6:37am Posted a photo on U2log.

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delicious (feed #6) 9:39am NME: The Superleague of Extraordinary Gentlemen
flickr (feed #3) 10:34am Posted a photo on U2log.

U2.com are preparing for their relaunch
delicious (feed #6) 11:51am Listen to the U2 interview at NRJ radio on U2france.com
delicious (feed #6) 12:58pm Video: Zane Lowe interviews U2 (UK only)
generic (feed #25) 2:43pm U2 Get on your boots (new single)

Guess the title of U2’s upcoming tour

Live on French radio station NRJ on Monday night, U2 were asked what the title of their upcoming tour will be. Bono replied – excusez his French:

“It’s something to do with kissing the future and fucking the past…”

Can you guess the title?

Continue for a summary of (part of) the interview

Details of U2 and Anton Corbijn’s film “Linear” revealed

U2 has released details on Anton Corbijn’s film Linear, starring French actor Said Taghmaoui (Three Kings, Lost), which accompanies the album No Line on the Horizon. Linear’s credits are available from nolineonthehorizon.com and include the running order of the songs as featured in the film.

01. UNKNOWN CALLER
02. BREATHE
03. WINTER
04. WHITE AS SNOW
05. NO LINE ON THE HORIZON
06. FEZ-Being Born
07. MAGNIFICENT
08. STAND UP COMEDY
09. GET ON YOUR BOOTS
10. MOMENT OF SURRENDER
11. CEDARS OF LEBANON

Corbijn reveals:

“As U2 never do anything in half measures, the record that emerged from the studio in late December 2008 was a very different one than the one I’d made images for. Not only had the running order changed, now there were completely new songs on the record while another song had gone, new lyrics without the characters had emerged, and different sounds dominated the songs I had worked on. Disaster!”

If you buy the hardback book box format, magazine format or digipack format of No Line On The Horizon, you will be able to access and download the film from the website by entering your details, and unlocking the download by entering the cd into your computer’s dvd/cd-drive.

Stills from the movie can be found on suckingrockandroll.com.

Irish author Christopher Nolan dies

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Irish author Christopher Nolan (43) has died. Nolan suffered from cerebral palsy and used a pointer attached to his head to write three books. His autobiographical work “Under the Eye of the Clock” won the Whitbread Prize in 1988. Nolan, who attended Mount Temple Comprehensive school, inspired U2 to write the song ‘Miracle Drug’.

Irish Times obituary