Friday, January 29, 2010
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.
2010 GRAMMY Nominees CD Announced
The Recording Academy's GRAMMY Recordings has partnered with EMI Music to release the 2010 GRAMMY Nominees CD, the 16th edition of the best-selling series highlighting artists and songs nominated for the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards. he 20-song collection will be available Jan. 19 and a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the CD will benefit the MusiCares and the GRAMMY Foundation, two charitable organizations established by The Recording Academy.
Tracklist:
Coldplay ("Life in technicolor ii"), U2 ("I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight"), Eric Clapton And Steve Winwood ("Can't find my way home"), The Black Eyed Peas ("I gotta feeling"), Lady Gaga ("Poker face"), Kings of Leon ("Use somebody"), Dave Matthews Band ("You & Me"), Taylor Swif ("You belong with me"), Colbie Caillat ("Fallin' for you"), The Fray ("You found me"), Pink ("Sober"), Kelly Clarkson ("My life would suck without you"), Katy Perry ("Hot N’Cold"), Beyoncé ("Halo"), Adele ("Hometown Glory"), Zac Brown Band ("Chicken fried"), Sugarland ("It happens"), Lady Antebellum ("I run to you"), Rascal Flatts ("Here comes goodbye"), Green Day ("21 guns").
You can pre order the CD, here.
source:www.grammy.com
'Hope For Haiti' Album Debuts At No. 1 on Billboard 200 and topped $3 M
The "Hope For Haiti Now" charity album debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 171,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan, becoming the first digital-exclusive set to top the tally in its nearly 54-year history.
Total iTunes downloads of the “Hope For Haiti Now” special, including both full album sales and individual tracks, have now topped $3 million, with all proceeds benefiting Haiti relief funds. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Hope For Haiti also topped this week’s Billboard 200 chart with 170,000 digital copies sold, marking the first time in chart history that a digital-only album debuted at Number One on the charts. iTunes’ $3 million haul accounts for nearly all digital sales of the project.
In a statement, iTunes proclaims that Hope For Haiti Now was the service’s biggest one-day album pre-order in history, and that Hope For Haiti was the first special to lock up the Number One spot on their album, song and TV chart. At press time, the entire album remains Number One on iTunes Album chart.
Hope For Haiti Now featured unique and intimate performances by Madonna, Beyonce with Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Dave Matthews and the “Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)” collaboration between Jay-Z, Rihanna and U2’s Bono and the Edge. The telethon helped raise over $61 million for Haiti relief.
source:www.billboard.com//www.rollingstone.com
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
U2 Nominated for Echo Awards 2010
U2 has been nominated for the Echo Awards in the Best International Rock/Pop Group category. In the same categoy they're up against Black Eyed Peas, Depeche Mode, Razorlight, and A-Ha. The awards are scheduled for March 4th in Berlin.source:www.echopop.de
Killing Bono makes Belfast go back in time
More news about the making of "Killing Bono" based on Neil Mc Cormick´s " I was Bono´s Dopleganger".BBC News reports...
The filming of a new movie linked to the Irish supergroup U2 has taken part of Belfast city centre back by three decades. The feature film, entitled "Killing Bono", is being made in and around the city over the next six weeks. Waring Street and Lower Donegall Street have been dressed to portray a vision of London in the late 1970s. Traffic diversions will be in place on Sunday and Monday but rush hour traffic will not be affected by the filming. The film, which has been described as a "music-based comedy", is set during U2's formative years in north Dublin and London. It is based on the memoirs of Bono's schoolfriend, Neil McCormick, who is now a music critic for the Daily Telegraph newspaper. "Killing Bono" tells the story from the point of view of the rather less successful rival band which he set up with his brother in the late 1970s.(Neil and his brother) The film is directed by the Belfast-born director Nick Hamm and has received funding from Northern Ireland Screen, with help from Invest NI It is hoped the film will be released in the summer of 2010.
And The Belfast Telegraph...
Visitors to the Cathedral Quarter yesterday could be forgiven for thinking they had stepped back in time to the late 1970s/early 1980s, when new wave groups, red double-deckers, Ford Cortinas and pleated trousers were de rigeur.
Instead, it's a scene from music-comedy Killing Bono, being filmed in the city.
Starring Chronicles Of Narnia's Ben Barnes, the movie is set during U2's formative years in Dublin and London.
Based on the book by Neil McCormick, I Was Bono's Doppelganger, it tells the story of the less-than-successful rival band which he set up with his brother Ivan in the late 1970s.
U2 frontman Bono was a schoolfriend of McCormick's and while the young brothers struggled to find success Bono and his friends went on to achieve superstar status.
Barnes, better known as Prince Caspian in The Chronicles Of Narnia, plays Neil McCormick, and Irish actor Robert Sheehan plays his brother Ivan.
American Krysten Ritter plays McCormick's girlfriend and Belfast actor Marty McCann takes the role of Bono. The film also stars Pete Postlethwaite.
Yesterday much of Lower Donegall Street was sealed off for filming. Heartthrob Barnes was instantly recognisable despite the dodgy wig.
Also sporting flamboyant outfits and Adam Ant hair were local musicians Ciaran Gribbin (Joe Echo) and Paul "Hammy" Hamilton, who have provided the soundtrack for the film.
The pair double up as extras, playing buskers.
Ciaran said: "The songs range from punk to new romantic to a stadium rock vibe and U2 have also given clearance for an unreleased song of theirs, 'Street Mission,' to be included. It's been freezing standing alround all day but it's a great experience."
Grammy-nominee Ciaran was surprised at how well the main characters could sing.
"Ben and Robert are really good singers and Marty McCann is brilliant as Bono."
Producer Mark Huffman who, like the film's director Nick Hamm, comes from Northern Ireland, said: "We're delighted to be filming in Belfast. This city lends itself better to period pieces and budget restrictions made it easier to film here than in London or Dublin.
"We've got a brilliant cast and director, so we're confident the finished product will be really good."
Filming will continue in and around Belfast for four weeks. Killing Bono, funded by Northern Ireland Screen, will be released later this year.
The film sounds like a lot of fun , can´t wait to see it!!
source:www.news.bbc.co.uk//www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Monday, January 25, 2010
The 20 Greatest Frontmen in Rock
Spinner posted their selection of The 20 Greatest Frontmen in Rock...
" What is it that makes a man a great rock frontman? A rare mixture of style, swagger and charisma – and having the vocal chops to back it all up certainly doesn't hurt, either. But this isn't a list of the greatest singers of all time here – and things like No. 1 hits or platinum album sales don't even factor. Instead, let's look at those male vocalists who just exude cool every time they take the stage and see if it is possible to pinpoint what sets them apart from the also-rans."
Who do we find in number 17 (though he could have been in a higher rank)?
Bono, of course!
"It is hard to find anyone in music who has so seamlessly adapted to the changing face of the industry as well as U2's leader. In the angst-ridden early '80s, Bono was the dangerous, edgy revolutionary. By the end of that corporate-controlled decade, he had taken up the mantle of the soulful rocker. In the '90s, he morphed into the cool hipster with a conscience. And in the '00s he became a child of the times with a sociopolitical agenda. Bono has managed to not only himself not only vital, but stayed out on the bleeding edge of what it is to be a great frontman."
In number one we find Elvis Presley and number two the great "king of Queen", Freddie Mercury. Others in the list include:
Robert Plant, Ted Nugent, Rob Zombie, Robert Smith, Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Dickinson, Steven Tyler, Alice Cooper, Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop, Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons, Axl Rose, David Lee Roth and Mick Jagger.
source:www.spinner.com
2010: Album but no South America for U2
Last week, Edge spills details on their new album whne he attended the Golden Globes ceremony, where the band was up for a Best Original Song award for “Winter,” their contribution to Afghanistan war drama Brothers.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY asked him some questions:
How’s the new U2 music going?
THE EDGE: We are working on a lot of new songs. Some of them are really, really happy. We’re convinced that we have something really special. It’s like deciding whether we are going to release the album before the tour starts or leave it for a while, we don’t really know yet. Literally, within a day of getting off the road, Bono and I were working on new songs. On a roll.
Are you incorporating any electronic influences?
We try and keep things moving forward. We are experimenting with a lot of different arrangements, and electronic is one of the things we are playing with. But there are other songs that are very traditional, almost folk. In some ways, that’s the thing we haven’t figured out yet, is where this album is going to end up. We’re having fun with the process.
What’s it like being nominated for a Golden Globe?
It’s a great honor to be nominated for the movie [Brothers], because I really believe it is one of the more important movies to come out over the last couple years. Tobey Maguire is also nominated. There are many reasons why this should be awarded. It’s kind of humbling to be the one that is nominated. [Director] Jim Sheridan is a close friend of ours and showed us the script. Then we saw various rough cuts. It was a very intimate relationship we had going with Jim on the creative side of it.
Are you feeling competitive about the award?
I have no expectations today. I don’t think we have a particularly good shot at winning, but you never know. (Note: Winter did not get the award)
Meanwhile Paul Mc Guiness talked to newspaper "El Mercurio" from Chile and almost confirmed that U2 won´t be playing South America in 2010. He said the show is one of the biggest and most expensive in the show biz, which implies that the 3 stages would have to travel by ship in 200 containers; the daily cost of each show is 3 million dolars. However he said they would do the utmost to be there at the beginning of 2011.
source:www.music-mix.ew.com//www.mer.cl
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