Auction - 2017 Les Paul Standard T Guitar – signed by U2’s The Edge

 

2017 Les Paul Standard T Guitar – signed by U2’s The Edge auction 
We are thrilled to be auctioning a USA 2017 Les Paul Standard T guitar, which has been very generously donated by Gibson Guitars UK to raise money for Help Musicians UK.
This amazing guitar was signed by U2’s The Edge, at the Q Awards at London’s Roundhouse, in November 2016, for which HMUK were charity partner. It’s an opportunity for you music loving public to bid on a fantastic auction piece and own a special piece of rock and roll memorabilia!
Go to our eBay page, place your bid and help us to support musicians across the UK!
Happy bidding!
HMUK







 www.helpmusicians.org.uk

Auction has The Edge with acoustic guitar sale

A simple-looking Spanish guitar that might not otherwise be worth €30 could be worth more than 100 times that thanks to the signature of its previous owner: U2’s The Edge.

The Hokada nylon-string instrument may well have been the first used by a young David Evans, but it had served its purpose by around 1980, when his mother Gwenda sold it to a teaching colleague in Scoil Íosa in Malahide, Co Dublin.

U2 only had one single under their belts at that stage and neither party to the sale could have imagined they would become the world’s biggest rock group.

More than three decades later, and her own guitar lessons well and truly behind her, the purchaser has placed it for sale in auction later this month. The acoustic guitar is estimated to fetch €3,000 to €5,000, — helped by the fact that The Edge signed it years after his mother sold it for around the same price she had first paid herself.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/

U2 contribute to new Irish Hospice Foundation book

Celebrating the "unique relationship" between a man and his child, Sons+Fathers is a new book from the Irish Hospice Foundation with a large number of A-list contributors.

It takes its inspiration from Bono, who has donated drawings of his father towards the end of his life for the anthology. Also offering personal contributions from the world of music will be the other members of U2, Paul McGuinness and his son Max, Paul McCartney, Bob Geldof, Julian Lennon and Gavin Friday.

From film and stage: John Boorman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Gabriel Byrne, Neil Jordan, Paul Cusack and Colin Farrell. 

Writers include John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Robert Fisk, Paul Auster, Mick Heaney, Colum McCann, Joseph O’Connor and Salman Rushdie, while Colm Tóibín pens the introduction.

From the political world there are contributions from President Clinton, Alastair Campbell and Bobby Shriver.

Sons+Fathers is set to be published this summer to coincide with Father's Day (Sunday June 21) and proceeds will go towards The Irish Hospice Foundation’s Nurses for Night Care Programme, a service which provides over 1,400 nights of free nursing care at home annually to people with a non-malignant terminal illness.

Irish Hospice Foundation CEO Sharon Foley says:

"Bono planted the seed for this book with his generous gift of the drawing he made of his father when he was dying.  He asked if they could be used to raise money for The Irish Hospice Foundation, so we decided on a book, and the net was cast wide and far. We were blown away by the response and generosity of the participants, all who are very busy, well-known people."

 http://www.hotpress.com

The Edge’s first guitar to be sold at Dublin auction

U2 guitarist learned to play on ‘modest little’ instrument expected to fetch up to €1,800

A classical guitar that launched one of the most successful careers in Ireland’s musical history has turned up at auction.

The “learner’s classical guitar” was originally bought by the late Gwenda Evans, a Malahide primary school teacher, in the 1970s for her son David. He later joined a band called U2, styled himself “The Edge” and became one of the best-known rock guitarists in the world.

But, according to Whyte’s auctioneers in Dublin, “he left his first guitar behind at his mother’s house”.

Teaching colleague

Stuart Purcell, a spokesman for Whyte’s, said “around 1980, when a teaching colleague of Gwenda’s in Scoil Íosa, Malahide [a community school in north Dublin], mentioned that she needed a guitar, as she was beginning lessons, Gwenda offered to sell her The Edge’s old one for the price she had bought it for”.

Mr Purcell said the unnamed woman, who paid about £20, later abandoned the lessons but kept the guitar.

Then, “years later she met The Edge who signed the guitar”.

She has now decided to sell it and consigned it to auction. It will go under the hammer in Whyte’s sale of “Rock, Pop & Movie Memorabilia” in Dublin on March 15th and has been assigned an estimate of between €1,200 and €1,800.

David Evans (53), of Killiney, Co Dublin, and known as The Edge or, simply, Edge, was born in England but moved to Ireland with his family during early childhood.

‘Mrs Edge’

He joined the band which became U2 while a pupil at the Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Clontarf in 1976.

Following the death of Gwenda Evans in 2012, U2’s lead singer, Bono, referred to her as “Mrs Edge” and recalled she was the band’s “first roadie” who had driven the schoolboy rockers to various gigs in her orange Volkswagen car.

In 2007, The Edge donated a cream-coloured Gibson Les Paul guitar to a charity auction in the United States, held to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina, which sold for $240,000.

Whyte’s said that guitar had been regularly used in live U2 performances and had been seen by millions of concert-goers worldwide, whereas the Malahide instrument was “a modest little guitar”.

http://www.irishtimes.com/

Bid on a Signed Guitar From Bono

Gretsch Electromatic "(RED) Zero Generation" Bono "Signature" Guitar 
Retail Value:$ 1,500.00 
ACTUAL VALUE: PRICELESS

Gretsch Electromatic "(RED) Zero Generation" Bono "Signature" Guitar



Description: This is the G5623 Gretsch Electromatic "(RED) Zero Generation" Bono “Signature"

Guitar created along with Bono’s direct input for his founded “RED” campaign to bring awareness of Bono’s support of Product Red and their humanitarian efforts
in the battle against HIV/AIDS. Up to 50% of the proceeds from each sale of this instrument are donated directly to the global RED fund.

“Imagine a world without aids” is the sales anthem here. The idea and first prototype Bono RED guitar was made in 2013, played by Bono on the new U2 “Songs Of Innocence” recordings and auctioned at the Nov 23rd SOTHEBY’S “RED” New York event….it commanded a winning bid of over $250,000. Another of his guitars, the Green Falcon, sold for $450,000 at Sean Penn's Haiti benefit a few years ago.

The guitar has Bono’s Signature in black on the back of the headstock. It also has a beautiful White pick guard on the front of the instrument bearing the (RED) Logo as well as a white (RED) logo on the truss rod cover at the top of the guitar.

The on board electronics of this amazing instrument begins with (2) Gretsch “Black Top” Filter Tron pickups along with a (3) position toggle switch, a master volume control and master Tone control then anchored with an Adjust-o-Matic(Tm) bridge with “G” cut out tail piece and Silver deluxe tuners and chrome hardware…..other features include a bound fret board and sides and sound holes as well as a 22 fret rosewood fingerboard with Neo Classic(Tm) “thumbnail” inlays…. Thus creating a full and uncompromising sound.

The guitar is accompanied with a deluxe thin line case.

Wood composition of this very styled guitar are a Spruce Center-Block, Arched Laminated Maple Top & Back, Laminated Maple Sides and finally the guitars finish is of Gloss Urethane.


100% of profits to benefit Para Los Ninos and Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center.

More on the auction here.

Rare U2 recordings from 1980 go up for auction

A rare U2 live recording and audio from an interview are set to go up for auction.

The recordings come from an early concert from the band, which took place at the Vera venue in Groningen, Holland on October 16, 1980. The live recording is made up of four songs, and the previously unheard interview audio is 15 minutes long and consists of frontman Bono and guitarist The Edge discussing their plans for the band. 

Stockport's Omega Auctions have said that the interview includes quotes from the pair in which they say: "We don't like England". They also show their ambitions for the group, commenting: "U2 wanna be the biggest group in the world." In addition they add their thoughts on the United States, saying: "America is sick and wounded and has a lot of bad groups".

The sale takes place on May 30 and the recordings are expected to sell for £1,000. The recordings also come with previously unpublished photos, shown above, which come complete with copyright, as does the interview audio. However, the live recording is being sold as an artefact and is therefore for personal use only. 

A spokesperson for U2 recently denied that the band have pushed back the release date of their 13th studio album to 2015. Investigations by Billboard suggested that the band would now be releasing their new LP next year. It reported that the band had booked further studio time with producers Paul Epworth and Ryan Tedder, who would join the project's main producer Danger Mouse. 

Speaking to The Guardian, a spokesperson for the band flatly denied the claims, saying: "U2's album is planned for this year (2014), is still on track and touring plans haven’t been confirmed yet."

http://www.nme.com/

Adam: 'I Wore These Shoes...'

"I wore these shoes in the spring and summer of 2013... 

We were recording in Electric Lady in NY and they walked 

the West Village with me…and brought me back to Dublin 

in September for my marriage to Mariana..." 

Adam Clayton 

Adam has donated a signed pair of his Jimmy Choo shoes - with a note for the buyer explaining their personal significance. 

The shoes are now part of the 'Celebrity Shoe Auction' for Walk in My Shoes, raising funds for the works of St Patrick's Mental Health Foundation in Dublin. (Last year Adam's shoes were the highest seller and went to a bidder in US.) 

This year the bidding starts here.

http://www.u2.com/

Bass & Guitar

Some seriously collectable band equipment and memorabilia coming up for auction later this week, raising funds for Music Rising. 

The stage backline bass rigs that Adam used on U2360°, donated by Aguilar Bass (and signed by Adam), are up for auction, along with a With or Without You MTV Award, a platinum disc of The Joshua Tree and a signed guitar from Bono. 

Adam's bass rigs, donated by Aguilar, include two DB 750 heads (which have been autographed by Adam), two DB 410 cabinets and two DB 115 cabinets. These are being auctioned as separate lots - not complete rigs. 

The 'Music Icons, Legends and Rebels' auction takes place on May 17th and includes memorabilia from The Beatles, The Stones and Michael Jackson as well as U2. Details of the U2 related items on pages 220/221/222 of the online catalogue.

http://www.u2.com/

Auction 4 Christy

A slew of Irish musicians signed this Jasmine guitar to be auctioned in aid of Christy Dignam, Aslan’s legendary performer, who was diagnosed with cancer in March 2012. Music fans can get their hands on the guitar here.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/

Bono, Benedict and Whoopi among secret offerings at Affordable Art Fair

U2 singer and actors Goldberg and Cumberbatch and other celebrities turn artist for postcard sale to raise funds for school.

Bono's postcard. Photograph: Affordable Art Fair/Rex Features

The work will appear along with equally distinguished ones by  Benedict Cumberbatch, and Julian Lennon in a silent auction to raise funds for a primary school in north London at the annual Affordable Art Fair.

Cumberbatch and Bono have gone for self portraits – the Sherlock star's a Byronic profile, the U2 frontman's a quick slash of blue marker conjuring up his trademark sunglasses. Lennon has sent a sweetly traditional landscape in red marker on cardboard, complete with duck pond and cottage with smoking chimney, which any of the pupils might feel they could at least match in art class. Goldberg's is more a message than a painting, a cheery greeting to "all students everywhere".

The bidders will know which celebrity they're aiming for, but more starry names will be hidden among the hundred little works on sale. The comedians David Baddiel and Morwenna Banks; Jeff Kinney, the author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid; and Babybird singer, Stephen Jones, are among those providing their artistic juices.

The postcards will be on sale for £45 each, but the buyer will only learn the name of the artist after the money is handed over – a fundraising scheme modelled on the postcard fair at the Royal College of Art, which now has buyers queueing round the block every year for bargain works by artists including Tracey Emin and the Chapman Brothers.

This time all the works at the fair, which opens on Thursday for three days on the edge of Hampstead Heath, are being sold to raise funds for the New End primary school. The fair, now an international event aimed at art lovers with lighter pockets than those who flock to Frieze or the great auction houses, has attracted more than 1.2 million visitors and sold art worth more than £180m over the past 14 years.

http://www.guardian.co.uk

Collectors set to flock to Ireland’s first ever rock and pop memorabilia auction

A pop and rock memorabilia auction in Dublin at the weekend includes rare acetate and vinyl records, autographs, photographs and other items from artists including Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Buddy Holly, U2 and Rory Gallagher.

Organised by Whyte’s Auctioneers, the 200 lots – due to go under the hammer at the RDS on Sunday – span 60 years of international and Irish pop and rock ’n’ roll. Almost all the items were sourced in Ireland.


An original copy of the first press mention of U2 in the Evening Press in March 1978, when the band was known as U2 Malahide, is estimated at €500-€700. All the names of the band members are misspelled in the photo caption apart from Adam Clayton.

Items from Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott, Van Morrison, Rory Gallagher, Christy Moore, Clannad and the Corrs are also included.

A chair designed by Stephen Colgan for Imelda May, signed by the singer, is being offered on behalf of the Parkinson’s disease charity in |Ireland. Other customised chairs signed by Nick Seymour, Michael Flatley and Daniel O’Donnell are being sold for the charity.

Ian Whyte of Whytes ’s Auctioneers said the collection had something for all music lovers.
“The items start at €100-€150 and then go up to the highest at over €50,000, but there’s something for every budget. It’s nice for fans to have a memento of their favourite music act, but there’s plenty of items for the serious collectors.”

Items are on show at the RDS from today until Sunday ; the auction tak es place from 2pm Sunday. See whytes.com/.


http://www.irishtimes.com// http://www.whytes.ie

Edun promotes auction for the victims of Hurricane Sandy

Ali Hewson

EDUN , Bono and Ali Hewson`s clothing brand participates in the creation of a platform for charities RE/CREATE New York to help victims of Hurricane Sandy, in the United States. 
EDUN joined efforts with artists and celebrities  like Marc Jacobs, Kate Moss, Anne Hathaway, Dita Von Tese, Donna Karan,  Michael Stipe,  Roman Coppola, among other to donate items such as clothes, perfumes, shoes, books, etc.to auction them in benefit of the victims of the hurricane.
All proceeds of the auction will be donated to New York Cares.
 EDUN participates with  a Mudcloth Heavy Twill & Denim Parka

Description

Aboubakar Fofana specializes in the dyeing techniques of West Africa in Mali, using natural indigo dyes and minerals to create beautiful and unique textile designs. Foufana lends his stunning work to EDUN’s SS13 collection, including this one of a kind Mudcloth Parka see on the runway. In preserving the indigo plants of West Africa, he keeps the traditional Malian practice alive while protecting Africa’s rich continent through his sustainable practices.

 "This is a perfect protective piece for the indeflatable New Yorker - a rough exterior and a soft underside. Panels of mud cloth from Mali complete the exterior for a look that has an element of global influence, but yet is distinctly urban - like New Yorkers."

Ali Hewson


Bid on  e-bay 
Donate through NY Cares


http://www.recreatenewyork.org
http://www.nycares.org/
http://www.edun.com/

AWF Launches Got Water? Auction

The African Well Fund's eighth annual Got Water? online auction kicked off  on Nov. 5, at noon Pacific time and will run through next Monday, Nov. 12. Proceeds from the auction will benefit clean water and sanitation projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

This year's auction features more than 30 items, including signed CDs from Glen Hansard, Patti Smith and Sara Groves, a signed Wilco tour poster, a signed copy of John Taylor's memoir, and a "No Line on the Horizon" box set featuring a book signed by The Edge.

To place a bid on any of the items featured in this year's auction, click here.

http://www.africanwellfund.org//http://www.ebay.com

Bono Contributes to "Tosca Pops-up" Auction Event

A Bono-autographed copy of the "Uber Deluxe Edition" of the recent Achtung Baby re-issue is being auctioned as part of the Tosca Pops Up charity event this week in Dublin. 

A truly unique pop up to benefit the work of Self Help Africa and help people across Africa to lift themselves out of poverty.

“We’re delighted to be popping up for Self Help Africa. They’re all about empowering people to grow more food, giving people a help up, not a hand out and we’re proud to be doing our bit. It’s gonna be a cracking night, a real celebration of the very best of Irish – music, food, people, and all with a bit of Tosca attitude. It’ll be fantastic to see all the old crew and customers again after 10 years! I’m really looking forward to it.”- Norman Hewson, Tosca.

Tosca Pops Up refers to the one-time re-opening of Tosca, a popular Dublin restaurant that Bono's brother, Norman, used to own. The restaurant crew is re-opening for one night to raise money for Self-Help Africa 

Achtung Baby, 20th Anniversary Ultimate Collectors’ Edition signed and donated by Bono

Reserve Price: €300

Market Value: €800+

Tosca’s best known patron and little brother of Norman has donated this one-off collectors’ item – a must have piece for dedicated U2 fans!

Recorded over 6 months in 1991 in Berlin and Dublin, Achtung Baby was U2's seventh studio album. This limited, numbered Über Deluxe Edition is a magnetic puzzle tiled box and contains: six CDs including the original Achtung Baby album, the follow-up album, Zooropa, B-sides and re-workings of previously unheard material recorded during the Achtung Baby sessions; four DVDs including "From The Sky Down", Zoo TV, all the videos from Achtung Baby plus bonus material; five clear 7" vinyl singles in their original sleeves; 16 art prints taken from the original album sleeve, an 84-page hardback book, a copy of Propaganda magazine, four badges, a sticker sheet, and a pair of Bono’s trademark "The Fly" sunglasses.

http://www.selfhelpafrica.org//http://www.selfhelpafrica.org/selfhelp/Main/tosca-auction.htm//http://www.atu2.com/

Bono`s Birthday Coming Soon!

The African Well Fund has 36 U2 concert photographs up for bid in honor of their 9th annual "Build A Well For Bono's Birthday" fundraiser.

A gallery featuring the 36 U2 concert photographs that will be featured in next week's U2 Live Photo Auction is now available on the African Well Fund website. A flash version of the gallery can be accessedhere. An HTML version of the gallery can be accessed here.

AWF's fourth U2 Live Photo Auction will run May 1-10 and benefits the 9th Annual Build a Well for Bono's Birthday fundraiser. The previous three photo auctions raised over $20,000.

The 9th Annual Build a Well for Bono's Birthday campaign benefits a water and sanitation project that will be implemented by AWF partner Africare at girls' schools in Benin supported by Angelique Kidjo'sBatonga Foundation. For more information on the fundraiser, or to make a donation, click here.

www.africanwellfund.org//www.atu2.com/

More Unknown Early U2 Pictures

The British Auction House, Bonhams, holds a sale of several old photos, among which is  a whole set of U2 ones.

"An historic set of photographs of U2 at the Stella Ballroom, Limerick, Ireland during the Limerick Civic Week Pop '78 Competition, 17th March 1978, comprising thirteen strip negatives and a corresponding set of prints, 20.5 x 30.5cm (8 x 12in), to be sold with copyright"

The sale is on 23rd June and most of the pictures belong to the  event  in 1978 which marked the first time the band appeared under the name of U2. There was a prize of £500 and the promise of a record deal. They had entered the competition under the name they were using at the time, The Hype. However, they felt that if they did well in the competition, they would be stuck with this name and so changed to U2 at the last minute, a choice they had been considering adopting for a while.

On the evening of the event the band found themselves up against a number of other, seemingly more experienced entrants and felt there was little hope of success. As Bono recalled in the book 'U2 On U2', ''There were bands there that could play in time and in tune and with great confidence, all of which we couldn't pull off. But, you know, some bands have everything but 'it'. We had nothing but 'it'.'' They played three tracks, 'Sweet Missions', 'Life On A Distant Planet' and 'The TV Song' and, much to everyone's astonishment, they were awarded first place. It was a pivotal moment for the band and Larry has commented that ''...We had no real idea how winning in Limerick would change our lives.''

One of the images has been used in the photographer's own publicity material in the past but the remainder are unpublished.





source:www.bonhams.com

AWF Launching Eighth Annual Build a Well for Bono's Birthday Fundraiser March 22

To honor Bono's 50th birthday, the African Well Fund is aiming to raise $50,000 to fund water and sanitation projects in sub-Saharan Africa during a 50-day period beginning on World Water Day, March 22nd, and ending on Bono's birthday, May 10th.

To achieve this goal, AWF will be raising money in a variety of ways, including accepting donations through africanwellfund.org, selling specially designed T-shirts and merchandise through Zazzle, auctioning tickets to North American U2 360� Tour concert dates, and auctioning U2 concert photos. Stay tuned to the AWF homepage, Facebook and Twitter for updates on the Build a Well for Bono's Birthday fundraiser.

As in years past, all donors will be invited to leave their birthday wishes on a card that will be sent to Principle Management.

If you have a fundraising idea or would like to volunteer to help AWF achieve this $50,000 goal for Bono's 50th birthday, e-mail info@africanwellfund.org.

Since 2003, U2 fans have donated more than $170,000 to fund Build a Well for Bono's Birthday projects in Angola, Ethiopia, Liberia, Uganda and Zimbabwe that have benefited more than 28,000 people.

U2: Gotta Have It!!!

From 1 to 19 March Gotta Have It! will auction hundreds of memorabilia objects.
Featuring over 500 lots including stage worn and movie worn costumes, personal clothing, jewelry and accessories, handwritten lyrics, set lists and letters, signed and inscribed guitars and album covers, signed contracts, never-before-seen photographs, rare concert and movie posters, gold and platinum album awards, inscribed acetates, tour memorabilia, and much, much more! Covering the entire Rock and Roll spectrum, performers represented in this special online include: Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, U2, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Madonna, Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, Paul McCartney, Ray Charles, Lenny Kravitz, David Bowie, The Grateful Dead, James Brown, BB King, Prince, The Sex Pistols, and more!

A special collection of U2 artifacts(16 artifacts): it includes a rosary given by Bono as a gift, Bono signed and inscribed original photograph,Larry Mullen, Jr. Signed and Inscribed Personal Bible,:Larry Mullen Jr. Signed and Inscribed Worn Sneakers,Bono and The Edge Used Mugs, among others.

GOTTA HAVE IT!® has partnered with Sothebys for highly successful auctions such as The Beatles, Madonna (both record-breakers!), Baseball For America with Roger Clemens (benefiting the Twin Towers Fund) and Muhammad Ali. Auctions hosted on Gottahaveit.com include the extraordinarily successful Britney Spears charity auction, Kenneth Cole’s “Celebrity Help USA,” UGGs Australia (2003, 2004), Samsung’s “Four Seasons of Hope” and many more. Our charity auctions have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for such high-profile charities as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund, The Roger Clemens Foundation, VH1's "Save the Music," Muscular Dystrophy, and Long Island Jewish Hospital's Children's Medical Fund.


source:www.gottahaverockandroll.com