Daily U2 News Digest for 2009-02-26

delicious (feed #6) 8:06pm Video: Bono and Adam Clayton on BBC’s The Culture Show
delicious (feed #6) 11:03pm Hot Press interview: "There’s A Bono-Factory"
delicious (feed #6) 8:53am Q Magazine’s 5-star review: No Line on the Horizon is just possibly their best
delicious (feed #6) 8:54am Uncut magazine: Rock juggernaut’s 12th studio album is a grower
delicious (feed #6) 9:06am Absolute Radio U2 quiz: "I don’t think we’ve got a song called Golden Delicious"
delicious (feed #6) 9:11am Mojo: Exclusive Adam Clayton Q&A
delicious (feed #6) 9:11am How To Buy… U2
delicious (feed #6) 9:12am Mojo: Will Bono Haunt Me To The Grave?
delicious (feed #6) 9:13am Mojo: Blue Sky Thinking

U2 on Fridaynight with Jonathan Ross

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U2 recording their performance for the BBC’s Fridaynight with Jonathan Ross, as posted to Twitpic by Ross (@wossy) That’s actor Clive Owen in the foreground.

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And here’s Bono fixing Clive’s tie.

According to Ross they played Get On Your Boots and Breathe. A U2log contributor in the audience let us know the band also recorded Boots for their Comic Relief appearance in March.

Daily U2 News Digest for 2009-02-25

delicious (feed #6) 8:01pm U2exit.com: Audio of BBC Culture Show performances
delicious (feed #6) 8:03pm Video: NRJ interview (French/English)
delicious (feed #6) 9:13pm U2-Powered Spider-Man Musical Gets Premiere Date
delicious (feed #6) 11:43pm Boston Herald: NLOTH as byzantine as the bailout, as fresh as Obama
delicious (feed #6) 11:46pm L.A. Times blog: U2’s ‘No Line on the Horizon’: Three stars
delicious (feed #6) 11:48pm Comcast Debuts U2 Exclusive HD Music On Demand
delicious (feed #6) 4:51am U2 on TOTP for Comic Relief, March 13
delicious (feed #6) 5:05am U2, Dublin Legends (Google translation of French article)
generic (feed #25) 7:57am U2 Rehearse GOYB, Breathe & Magnificent from NLOTH
delicious (feed #6) 12:30pm Le Monde: U2: "Our music is an antidote to fear" (Google translation from French)

U2 live on French TV – U2log.com was there

The French TV channel Canal + had been preparing for this for a week: the welcoming of U2 as very special guests of the daily show “Le Grand Journal”. This show has become a reference for political and cultural events, a talk show offering one of the most state-of-the-art musical set.

Monday evening’s show was an exceptional event, since U2 had never done any live performance on any French television set before. Canal + was totally themed around U2 for the night, even broadcasting their advertising jingles under the colors and design of U2.

Read the full rapport by U2log.com editor Fabienne

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.