From Entertainment Weekly’s feature on the 101 most powerful people in entertainment comes this cartoon featuring Bono as “Banshee” the Irish X-man.
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Bono co-writes song for Sheridan film
Gavin Friday, Maurice Seezer and Bono have written a song called “Time Enough for Tears” for the upcoming Jim Sheridan film “In America”. Vocalist on the track is Andrea Corr.
Talking to U2log.com Friday explained: “Bono saw the film and was blown away by it. He wanted to work with us and something happened, organically.”
Friday and Seezer have recently completed work on the score for Sheridan’s film. It is their third collaboration with the director, after “In the Name of the Father” and “The Boxer”.
The song has 40’s Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald feel to it and is likely to surprise anyone who expects something along the line of the previous collaboration, “In the Name of the Father”.
Friday: “It’s very poetic, very romantic. Very vulnerable and naked. It’s a beautiful song.” The film, “In America”, will premiere next year, April/May at the earliest.
More info at GavinFriday.com.
(source: GF)
New York, New York…
… so good they mixed it twice.
U2 Live book mailing list
A mailing list has been set up for people who wish to contribute to the upcoming update of P.J. de la Parra’s “U2 Live – A Concert Documentary”. The authors of the book are thinking of fans who saw multiple concerts on the Popmart and Elevation tours, people with photographs and people who had on or off stage interaction with the band. Anyone who think they can help the authors by answering questions on concert details, venue and other local information is welcome to subscribe.
To join this moderated mailing list, please visit the list’s info page
U2 is #1 in Portugal
Today, U2 went to number 1 in the Portuguese single charts with Electrical Storm. The single was released yesterday. (via U2portugal.com)
Going, going, gone
With thanks to U2Eastlink.com, here’s Gone. (quicktime)
Round up, Reviews, previews, tabs
We were away from our desks for a while. Apologies if you tried to contact us and got no response. Here are some updates from our mail box: John Kennedy, a former production and tour manager with U2, is to take over the post of director for the Cork 2005 European City of Culture. Kennedy also worked as production manager on the acclaimed TV series Bringing It All Back Home.
U2tour.de (p)reviews the Best of CD, track by track. If you haven’t been able to track down “The hands that built America”, U2 Satellite Television lends a, um, hand.
And for the musicians among us, two readers sent in tabs for “Hands”. Nick van den Broecke pointed us to his website and Dave Curran, sent his tabs to us:
Nuclear Nirvana
Bono’s quoted talking about Kurt Cobain in an article on Nirvana at MSN Newsweek online:
The Hands that Built America
Check out U2tour.de for the lyrics of U2’s new song “The Hands that Built America” made for Martin Scorcese’s film ‘The Gangs of New York’.
U2.com streaming ‘Best of’
U2.com is randomly streaming tracks off the ‘Best of’ release, registered users only… previously registered members will have to sign up again.
If you missed last week’s download of Bono’s live duet of “It’s Only Rock n Roll” with Mick Jagger, U2exit.com is streaming it.