No. 2 (!) It did

No. 2 (!)
It did bode well, indeed. The voting public put Beautiful Day on to the second-highest step on the podium in Triple J’s Hottest 100 (see previous post). The best 10 per cent were:
1. Powderfinger – My Happiness
2. U2 – Beautiful Day
3. Powderfinger – My Kind of Scene
4. Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag
5. Coldplay – Yellow
6. The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatry
7. Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Californication
8. Foo Fighters – Generator
9. Paul Kelly – Every Fucking City
10. Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You

Check out all the eligible songs here (Yes, we do like a bit of Powderfinger down this way).

EUROPEAN TICKET SALES This just

EUROPEAN TICKET SALES
This just in: Latestevents.com (“concert tickets to events in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin”) will be selling tickets/travel packages for shows in Europe. You can sign up at their website to be kept informed. (If they get their database working… it seems to be dead right now.) U2world.org have a nice overview of prospective (rumoured) dates.

WE WANT BIG GIRLS Got

WE WANT BIG GIRLS
Got Napster? Search now, it must be out there. 😉 In fact, if you search for the song with 160 bitrate and about 3.37mins long…

Oh bugger, just download it from U2LA or from U2 Satellite Television.

We’d also like to share with you this nifty NapSearch bookmarklet written by Anil Dash. Just drag the NapSearch link to your link toolbar, click and you can start up Napster searches from your browser. Confused? Read more about bookmarklets.

By the way… Big Girls was produced by Howie B and Flood which suggest it was a POP leftover, with recent lyrics added.

CLUB MUZIK! Further rumours of

CLUB MUZIK!
Further rumours of this rumoured London club gig have been reported over at NME. So far we’ve had Paris, New York and now maybe London. Is anyone else seeing a pattern here?
NEWYORKLONDONPARISMUNICH Everybody talk about Mmmm PopMuzik!

Furthermore, Bono is to attend a meeting at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this weekend along with the likes of Bill Gates and General Kofi Annan.
Among the debates which Bono might attend are ‘Staying ahead of the Digital and Biotech Revolutions’, ‘Potential Within Us’ and ‘Ethics and Values That Shape Society’.

JUST DON’T BUY HIM A

JUST DON’T BUY HIM A DOG
The Aussie press sticks up for “our” Mel and asks our advice:
Q. Is Bono over-reacting? How good was Million Dollar Hotel? And what do you recommend to help Bono and Mel patch things up?
Perhaps News.com.au will pass on your advice.

BIG GIRLS ARE BRASILIAN From

BIG GIRLS ARE BRASILIAN
From our mailbox: Hey, I’m Lully, one of the moderators of Ultraviolet, the Brazilian Mailing List, and I wanted to say that in his last B Side, “Big Girls are Best” Bono mentions an address in the lyrics: Avenue Atlantico, 1702. This address (Avenida Atlantico, 1702) is where Hotel Copacabana Palace is located, the most traditional hotel in Rio de Janeiro. All the U2 and U2 crew were hosted in there; Jonas Akerlund also shooted some scenes to the Walk On video on the roof. We think he mentioned their address in the lyrics because we heard that Bono had known Ali’s pregnancy in Rio, in that weekend they were promoting ATYCLB in Brazil.

YOU. OUTSIDE. NOW. Mel’s apologised,

YOU. OUTSIDE. NOW.
Mel’s apologised, but Bono continues the argument: “I have a lot of respect for him as an actor, but I haven’t forgiven him for the way Wim has been treated by Lions Gate.” Wenders is more forgiving: “I think he’s really extraordinary in the film and gutsy to do it,” he told The Post. “I understand it throws him into a certain dilemma, now that he’s so successful with

I TAKE IT IT’S HAPPENING,

I TAKE IT IT’S HAPPENING, THEN
From U2.com:
Following the excitment of their club shows in Paris’ Manray and Irving Plaza in New York last year, rumours are abundant… are U2 performing a club gig in London?
U2.com is investigating this latest report and will let you know as soon as we get the low down… keep watching this space.

Strange, that’s the first we’ve heard of it….