Smack them Irish boys up

Here’s some press coverage of video director Jonas Akerlund
who has been hired to direct the ‘Beautiful Day’ Video

I think they’re pushing it

I think they’re pushing it a bit with the ‘domestic’ feel of the album. Songs about female, um, hygiene products?

Bon Jovi of course, started the copycatting with their ‘Keep the Faith’ adventure.

Bono Jovi?

Always and Summer Rain. Is covering Bon Jovi and Belinda Carlisle tracks a sign U2 is in decline?

Chastised

From our mailbox: “Your site is has an amazing design (much better than U2.com), but… IT HAS ERRORS IN NETSCAPE!!!”. Yes, it’s true, we buggered up. Netscape users will notice a problem in the bottom right hand corner of the page. We will work on the issue. [ should be resolved now ]

In the meantime, here’s more mail: “Guys lets rock it. I hope your new album turney will be a big one. That would be my first U2 concert with my favorite band. Believe in you, you can do it. You can do everything.”

And also: “Make it bigger please ”

Elsewhere in their mag, Rolling

Elsewhere in their mag, Rolling Stone call the single snippet a ‘throwback to the band’s pre-Achtung Baby days. Really Randoms: DMX, U2

Rolling Stone reports: U2 Stirring

Rolling Stone reports: U2 Stirring Their Souls in the Studio. “Sometimes you dream one up, and sometimes you find one on the floor.”

The cam is gone

The cam feeds from U2.com have died – time in the studio is up. This means U2log.com will shift gear. What gear, we don’t know yet – but there’ll be a lot to speculate about until the album is released, so keep an eye on things here.

For those with a webcam fixation, there’s always Big Brother.

A new pair of eyes at U2log.com

Hi guys! Another pair of eyes have arrived….Thanks for inviting me! And with these eyes, I see that that little square table over there….really needs to be cleaned up. Come on, just because you’re a big rock star, and you make alot of money, doesn’t mean you have to be a slob. Do you suppose there’s even a top to that table?

Beautiful snippet repost

Well, here it is, 30 seconds of the new single ‘Beautiful Day’ which won’t be out till September. (300k .mov file)
For those of you without Quicktime, here’s it is in mp3.
And if you can’t handle that either, how about Real Audio?

If you want to get it from the source, hop over to U2.com, go to the Green Room and click on the guitar.

When you’ve got it… poll it. Or discuss it in our forum.

The dirty dozen

As you can see from this image taken from U2.com there are 12 slots on the board.