Released!-Human Rights Concert

¡RELEASED!” presents The Human Rights Concerts – the series of benefit concerts staged between 1986 and 1998 to raise awareness and funds for the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights organisation Amnesty International. The first of these was “A Conspiracy Of Hope”, Amnesty’s 25th anniversary US concert tour in 1986. This was followed by “Human Rights Now!”, the historic 5-continent 20-concert world tour undertaken in 1988. The series continued with stand-alone concerts “An Embrace Of Hope” in Chile in 1990 and “The Struggle Continues…” in Paris in 1998. The list of musicians who contributed their services is extraordinary and includes some of the world’s foremost artists - drawn from several nations and representing a wide range of musical styles. The primary factor uniting them was their desire to donate their time and talents to place a spotlight on Amnesty’s vital work campaigning for people whose human rights are abused. Building on the achievements of Amnesty’s legendary “Secret Policeman’s Ball” benefit shows, albums and movies - these concerts brought awareness of the cause to an ever-wider public.  This new release is designed to continue that mission and raise further funds for Amnesty’s crucial work. 

Track List

Ladies & Gentlemen, Larry Mullen Jr, the actor

The Tribeca Film Festival website has posted the synopsis of Man on the Train, the movie  starred by Donald Sutherland and Larry Mullen Jr.

The English-language remake of Patrice Leconte's award-winning French film of the same name, Man on the Train stars Donald Sutherland and musician Larry Mullen, Jr. in his acting debut.

A mysterious criminal (Mullen Jr.) rolls into a small town planning to knock off the local bank, assuming it will go off without a hitch. But when he encounters a retired poetry professor (Sutherland), his plans take an unlikely turn. With no place to stay, the professor generously welcomes him into his home. As the two men talk, a bond forms between these two polar opposites, and surprising moments of humor and compassion emerge. As they begin to understand each other more, they each examine the choices they’ve made in their lives, secretly longing to live the type of lifestyle the other man has lived, based on the desire to escape their own.

They also say : 

Coming soon on nationwide VOD October 27, 2011





http://www.tribecafilm.com

Grand Finale in Mexico

Universal Music Mexico gave U2 three special awards for the high sales in the country:

• Historical sales of the catalogue which sum up more than 3 million of copies.
• Platinum Album  for No Line on the Horizon 
• Platinum Album for U2 360° Live At The Rose Bowl DVD/Blu-Ray

www.3ld.com.mx

"Soon" Makes its Debut in U2360° At The Rose Bowl DVD

U2360° At The Rose Bowl was the penultimate gig of last year's U2360° Tour and the band's biggest ever US show, with a live audience in excess of 97,000. 
The DVD ,which is released today for the rest of the world, was released for UK and US early this week.


@U2 has posted  a very good review by  Matt Mc Gee  that you can read if you follow the link.
One of the novelties of the DVD, apart from the extras and photos, is the inclusion of the song "Soon" (previously known as "Kingdom") which was the introduction of all the concerts throughout the tour.


This is "Soon" (probably included in upcoming album "Songs of Ascent"):









It  can be bought in DVD and Blu-ray versions and there is a deluxe set (first picture) which includes: a 32 page hardback book; limited edition 2-disc DVD of U2360° At The Rose Bowl plus 2 hours of bonus material; 1 Blu-ray of U2360° At The Rose Bowl plus 2 hours of bonus material; 1 vinyl 7inch; 3 U2360° guitar picks; the Tour Programme; a limited edition numbered drawing of final stage design; and 5 art prints in an embossed wallet.


Now if you have not got your copy yet, U2.com has launched a microsite where you can find Live clips, band interviews and commentary from management and production team as the new DVD goes onstage, offstage and backstage when U2360° hits the Rose Bowl.
You have to log in with your Facebook or Twitter account.

source:www.u2.com// www.atu2.com//

U2 in Must List

Entertainment Weekly  posted their Must List :What´s Hot for the Week Ending May 30,2010  which includes U2 at the Rose Bowl on DVD:

Join the nearly 100,000 fans who piled into the SoCal stadium last October, and catch the band's groundbreaking set on DVD or Blu-ray (out June 3). Bonus: Check out how Bono and the boys put the crazy thing together.

Just a reminder...

source:www.ew.com

“U2360° At The Rose Bowl”.

More news about the launching of “U2360° At The Rose Bowl”.

 

DVD – Blu-Ray 
Direction: Tom Krueger
Release date:  June 3 ( USA) , June 7 (rest of the world)
Formats: DVD y Blu-Ray

• U2 360° At The Rose Bowl (2DVD Super Deluxe Box Set) – $39.95
• U2 360 At The Rose Bowl (2 DVD Deluxe Edition) – $21.95
• U2 360 At The Rose Bowl [DVD] – $14.95
• U2 U2 360 At The Rose Bowl [Blu-ray] – $21.95

U2 360° At The Rose Bowl (2DVD Super Deluxe Box Set) – $39.95
2 DVDs,  24 pages booklet with info, Poster, Set-list,tour programme, y Vynil 7″.
U2 360 At The Rose Bowl (2 DVD Deluxe Edition) – $21.95
concert plus extras:
- Squaring The Circle: Creating U2360 Documentary
- U2360° Tour Clips
- Bonus Track ‘Breathe’ (Live At The Rose Bowl)
- Berlin Timelapse Video

Vids:
- Get On Your Boots
- Magnificent
- I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight (Animated)
- I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight (Live At Barcelona)
- The Making Of ‘Get On Your Boots’ Video
- The Making Of ‘Magnificent’ Video

Tracklist:
1. Get On Your Boots
2. Magnificent
3. Mysterious Ways
4. Beautiful Day
5. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
6. Stuck In A Moment You Can’tGet Out Of
7. No Line On The Horizon
8. Elevation
9. In A Little While
10. Unknown Caller
11. Until the End of the World
12. The Unforgettable Fire
13. City of Blinding Lights
14. Vertigo
15. I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
16. Sunday Bloody Sunday
17. MLK
18. Walk On
19. One
20. Where The Streets Have No Name
21. Ultra Violet (Light My Way)
22. With Or Without You
23. Moment Of Surrender

360° in DVD

U2 will release the Pasadena Rose Bowl Concert in DVD.They are still working on the exact content of the DVD but the promise is that it will be released soon.

Can´t wait to relive or live for the first time those wonderful moments!!!

Register here for more information.


source:www.atu2.com/http://livedvd.u2.com/

U2 in Music of Ireland Documentary

"The Music of Ireland - Welcome Home," a documentary featuring interviews and performances from U2, Pete Seeger, Sinead O'Connor and the Chieftans will debut on New York public television station WLIW on Feb. 17, then rollout to other PBS affiliates throughout March.

"Music of Ireland" will be available as a CD and DVD in a number of outlets: Barnes & Noble is the exclusive brick and mortar retail partner and will debut an in-store promotional campaign on March 2; Amazon.com will feature all the CD tracks digitally on a 45-day exclusive starting that same day. In addition, the CD and DVD will be bundled as a bonus for those who donate to public television during pledge drives.

The CD was produced by John Reynolds, and features new material by Clannad's Moya Brennan - who also hosts the documentary - O'Connor, the Chieftans, former Irish Tenor Ronan Tyanan and Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, among others.

The documentary "Music of Ireland" opens in 1960 with the success of the pioneering Clancy Brothers, and includes Liam Clancy's final U.S. television interview before his death. Other interviews include "Riverdance's" Michael Flatley, Bob Geldof and Academy Award-nominated director Jim Sheridan.

A sequel to the "Music of Ireland" is planned for later this year, and will focus on U2, Celtic Woman, The Cranberries, The Corrs, the Irish Tenors and songwriters Glen Hansard and Damien Rice.

The documentary was executive produced by The Elevation Group's Denny Young, who previously produced "Bonefish Grill's Notes From The Road" for Ovation, and is presented by WLIW in association with WNET.org and Tourism Ireland.

"For such a small country to produce such amazing talent and the way their music defines the people is just extraordinary," Young says. "It has fascinated me for most of my life and is something I wanted more people to be in tune with."

More info: www.musicofireland.com ,you can also see a trailer of the video and some words from Bono.


source:www.billboard.com

Special Scenes from "It Might Get Loud"

The Deluxe edition of the DVD "It Might Get Loud" has some deleted scenes as extras. They are Edge´s very interesting moments.

U2.com reported a couple of weeks ago, special formats of The Unforgettable Fire will feature bonus audio material and a DVD including music videos, a documentary and unreleased live footage from the Amnesty International Conspiracy of Hope Tour in 1986. Here's the 16 track listing for :

The Unforgettable Fire Bonus Audio CD.

Disappearing Act
A Sort of Homecoming (live)
Bad (live)
Love Comes Tumbling
The Three Sunrises
Yoshino Blossom
Wire (Kervorkian Remix)
Boomerang I
Pride (In The Name of Love)
A Sort of Homecoming
11 O'Clock Tick Tock
Wire (Celtic Dub Mix)
Basa Trap
Boomerang II
4th of July
Sixty Seconds in Kingdom Come

The Unforgettable Fire - with the arrival of Brian Eno and Danny Lanois in the studio - has a special place in the heart for many fans and a lot of the tracks on this bonus CD have been unavailable for a long time.

Two of the titles from those Slane Castle sessions have never been available: 'Yoshino Blossom', and 'Disappearing Act', which the band recently completed. A Sort of Homecoming and Bad are live versions, from The Unforgettable Fire Tour that were on the highly sought after collectors item EP Wide Awake in America.

The version of 11 O'Clock Tick Tock was the b-side to 'Pride (In The Name of Love)' while Wire (Celtic Dub Remix) was previously on 7" vinyl given away free with NME in May 1985.

And The Unforgettable Fire DVD Collection looks like this:

The Unforgettable Fire
Directed by Meiert Avis

Bad
Directed by Barry Devlin

Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Directed by Donald Cammell

A Sort Of Homecoming
Directed by Barry Devlin

The Making Of The Unforgettable Fire - documentary
Directed by Barry Devlin

Additional Material

U2 at A Conspiracy Of Hope Concert
1. MLK
2. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
3. Bad
Recorded live at Giants Stadium, New Jersey, USA, 15th June 1986

U2 at Live Aid
1. Sunday Bloody Sunday 2. Bad

Recorded live at Wembley Stadium, 13th July 1985

Pride (In The Name Of Love) - Sepia version
Directed by Donald Cammell

11 O'Clock Tick Tock - Bootleg version
Live from Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, 29th June 1985


Looks like a great collection to go with the remastered album.

source:www.u2.com

Under a Red Blood Sky (part 2)

Second part of our review on the DVD of the famous concert at Red Rocks, Denver ,Colorado, 1983.


The band quickly moved into the next song, ‘Twilight’ and then one of my favourite earlier songs, ‘An Cat Dubh/Into the heart’, followed. The Edge’s guitar in this song is so seductive … and you can feel the mood of the song, remembering that Bono said this song is ‘definitely about sex’ … oh yes, it is!

The band´s performances was so energetic and I had the impression that it was tangible and real..and when I saw the stream emanating from their mouth as they breathed, I gathered maybe they were also trying to stay warm!

Before "Surrender" could start, Bono had something he wanted to share with the crowd:

"What can I say, really? What can I say? You know, at first we wanted to make this film in the sunshine, here at Red Rocks, and then we realised that would be very wrong for this group.This is what´s right for this group, this film.This film is going right across the world as a record of tonight. You wanna say hello to Japan? Say hello to Japan! From an LP titled, "War", a song titled "Surrender".Would you dance with me?"

And of course,who could resist?

"Two hearts beat as one" is another of my early favourites, and seeing them performing this live, was absolutely amazing!"Seconds"was a crowd favourite, and youcould see them singing along with Bono, despite the cold and the drizzly rain.

Under a Red Blood Sky (Part 1)

Surely among the U2-related things that brought aobut 2008 the release on DVD of "Live at Red Rocks" together with the lauching of U23D was to be highlighted.

Here is our review of the famous concert in Denver,Colorado,US,5ht June,1983.


"In the shadows, boy meets man".That line from "Twilight" on U2´s 1980 debut album, "Boy"captures so much about the mstery and intensit of U2´s early years.
Viewing the seventeen performances on"U2 LIve from Red Rocks", which was filmed on June 5, 1983, one can see a band straining beyond everything it had previously achieved to propel itself to a new ,unexplored place.

The words of Anthony De Curtis in the DVD booklet, was already an indicaiton of what awaited me when I bought the "Red Rocks" DVD. The first time I had an idea of this particular concert (before reading it in depth in U2 By U2) was the music video "Sunday Bloody Sunday" on the U218 Singles DVD.
When I read that the concert,previously released on VHS, (remember those?), would be re-mastered and released on DVD, I held my breath,hoping that I, living in the southern tip of Africa, would be able to buy it.
The DVD starts with a little documentary (aprox. 3-5 minutes long) showing air shots of Denver, Colorado, and Bono talking about he found Red Rocks a beautiful place, a place to make a statement...how righ he was! The camera shows what the amphitheatre looked like amidst the drizzly rain and fog...absolutely stunning!The fans were very optimistic, saying that the band should feel comfortable in the weather conditions, so much like Ireland.
The band was introduced, “good evening, a warm Red Rocks to a band from Dublin, Ireland … U2!” They ran onto stage, something I’ve never seen them do before! They start off the concert with a song from the ‘Boy’ album, ‘Out of control’, and immediately, I was captivated & drawn into their energetic performance willingly … the atmosphere was one of excitement and expectation, just waiting to see what U2 would come up with next. Bono rushed to the microphone, a huge smile on his face, and greeted the crowd with, “Good evening!” During the performance of this song, Bono & Edge move to the front part of the stage, and Bono asks the crowd: “Do you know who this is? This is The Edge!”