U2log Podcast Now Ready for Sampling

With the new album out, the upcoming tour, the possibility of another new album this year and Paul McGuinness single handedly saving the record industry from pirates (*cough*) what you really need is two guys named Christopher telling you their thoughts on what’s going on in the world of U2.

U2log.com has got it’s own podcast, http://u2log.lemonproductions.ca, hosted by myself and Christopher, two guys with faces made for podcasting.

Episode 1 is up and ready for your consumption. It goes best with a pint of your favorite beverage.

Special Report: U2’s Day at the BBC

U2 @ BBC Radio Theatre
http://www.bbc.co.uk/musicevents/u2/

Friday February 27th of 2009 was a brilliant day to be a U2 fan in London. The BBC brought us closer than we’ve ever been before for hours of brilliant coverage. My friend and I won tickets to the Radio 1 Live Lounge in the morning, and stayed until the end of the rooftop gig in the evening.

After waiting out in the cold from 9am we finally got into the BBC Radio Theatre and secured a spot at the front next to Edge. Everything was amazingly organised and fans were led into the theatre in the order in which they had queued up. Take note venues of the world!
Continue to read this special report by guest contributor Clare K.

“U2 fans have bigger egos than U2”

In this Irish Times interview Bono quotes will.i.am saying U2 fans have bigger egos than the members of the band:

“The thing about U2 that nobody seems to get,” says Bono, “is that the very things people think about us, which is the megalomania and the immodesty, they’re so far from the truth. People don’t see that. We had will.i.am doing some work on the new album and he was shocked by the absence of ego. He said: ‘Your fans have bigger egos than you do.’

Discuss.

RTÉ 2XM to premiere title track of U2’s No Line on the Horizon

Get ready to rip, folks. RTÉ 2XM will play the title track of U2’s new album ‘No Line on the Horizon’ on Thursday, February 12 at 12 noon GMT.

You can tune in to 2XM on DAB digital radio sets in the Greater Dublin area, Cork and Limeric, or online at www.rte.ie/digitalradio.

U2’s sessions in Fez: the video

u2-fez

The Observer’s Sean O’Hagan, a long time friend of the band, spent 18 months following them from Fez to Dublin, as they recorded New Line On The Horizon.

He’s captured his travels on film and in part one of this exclusive – but brief- footage the band begins sessions in a converted riad in Morocco.

Watch the video on guardian.co.uk

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Bono, Sugimoto and the Church of Light

There was something familiar about the sleeve of U2’s new album (Not a picture of any sea or ocean, but actually Lake Constance (Bodensee) as seen from Uttwil, in Switzerland, taken in 1993.) A few Google searches later, I realised that the photographer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, also took a photo of Tadao Ando’s Church of Light:

Church of Light

And it so happens that Bono visited that church, when he was in Osaka, Japan with Guggi and Gavin Friday back in 2006:
Bono at the Church of Light in Osaka
Bono and Gavin Friday, Church of Light. Photographer unknown.

And here’s a picture of Bono and Tadao Ando together when the architect came to visit Dublin.

So there you have it. A fun little insight into how U2’s choice for their new sleeve may have come about.

Daily U2 News Digest for 2008-12-29

generic (feed #9) 8:11pm U2 drummer’s Bono rant – Sowetan
generic (feed #9) 8:54pm Five Different Versions for the New Album from U2 “No Line on the … – Softpedia
generic (feed #9) 10:55pm Bono makes U2 drummer ‘cringe’ – First Post
generic (feed #9) 11:00pm The return of U2 – U2 France
generic (feed #9) 3:03am U2 on the Horizon – Examiner.com
generic (feed #9) 5:06am U2 Drummer Splits With Bono – Anorak.co.uk (satire)
generic (feed #9) 5:56am U2 Frontman Bono Palms Over $100 Million – Post Chronicle
generic (feed #9) 9:00am U2 drummer: 'Bono makes me cringe' – Digital Spy
generic (feed #9) 2:20pm U2's Drummer Speaks Out Against Bono's Political Inclinations – Cleveland Leader
generic (feed #9) 2:57pm U2 reveal all about Spiderman Musical – Q4Music
generic (feed #9) 6:53pm U2's new world – MyParkMag