August 14, 2008
U2 to release early concert video on DVD
SANTA MONICA, Calif., (UPI) -- The Irish rock band U2 is set to release its 1983 concert video, "Live at Red Rocks," on DVD next month, Universal Music Enterprises announced Monday.
The DVD will be released by Interscope/Island/UME Sept. 30 in the United States, along with the accompanying live album, "Under a Blood Red Sky."
Recorded at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado June 5, 1983, "Live at Red Rocks" will be available for the first time on DVD, and will include five previously unreleased songs and a director's commentary.
The remastered "Under a Blood Red Sky" album was originally released in November 1983, and consists of live recordings from three shows on the band's War Tour through Europe and the United States.
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August 06, 2008
Bono remembers U2's "Boy"
Rolling Stone,
This could be the greatest comment on RollingStone.com ever: U2's Bono was reading David Fricke's review of the new reissue of Boy, and was moved to respond. Unfortunately, he maxed out our word limit in the comments section, so we're just going to post his text in full here. We're not going to attempt to boil it down, except to say that he does mention that the band is presently attempting to finish their most "complete and radical album yet." Without further ado:
Bono
Entering the blogosphere, a review of BOY from the singer who was one at the time of recording... We the members of said post punk combo are very complimented by DAVID FRICKES 4.5 star review of our debut, an album we always believed in. I remember now a generous JON PARELES review from the VILLAGE VOICE in 1980, a line something along the lines of "this is peter pan, I hope they break up before they grow up." Anyway, as my band mates and I attempt to finish our most complete and radical album yet, here's my why and what i think is right and wrong about BOY having listened to it for the first time in over twenty years if you start from the pseudo british accent and the little reported fact that the singer sounds like a girl, things don't look too promising ...the annoying gene is present in self consciousness and self immolation... you do want to give the singer a slap for lots of reasons but let's start with the pretentiousness....the singer has obviously been listening to SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES, JOY DIVISION and a few others whose combined archness and artfulness was just too much for the freckled face teenager from northside of DUBLIN.... neither fully protestant or catholic, IRELAND had left the boy with a face like a baked bean and in search of a nonregional identity...a theme that continues to the present.
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July 30, 2008
U2 Set Sale For a New Horizon
Exclusive: New Studio Album & Tracklist Revealed
Stephen Maguire and Seamus Ross, Sunday Mirror
It's the beautiful day millions of U2 fans around the globe have waited patiently to see for the past four years.
Now we can reveal details of the supergroup's long-awaited new album.
It is believed to be titled No Line On The Horizon and will be on sale in music stores on November 14.
The band's record company Universal has already registered the internet domain name nolineonthehorizon.com -- prompting speculation this will be the new record.
And among the songs to be released on what many music insiders are calling the band's best work to date are "Moment of Surrender," "For Your Love," "Love Is All We Have Left" and "One Bird."
Others include "If I Could Live My Life Again," "The Cedars of Lebanon" and "No Line On The Horizon."
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