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Yes, that's Bono & The Edge of U2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Found this picture... interesting to see the previous album covers displayed behind them
Not gonna add much but here goes.
A good friend was at the event in Half Moon Bay. As the newspaper account said, it was the annual meeting for Elevation.
They played 2 tracks off of the new album and spoke about the creative / song writing process. Bono and Edge were being interviewed (a la a fireside chat) by a music journalist (my friend didnt recall who the journalist was). They did say at the event the album would be out "in the early part of 2009"
Elevation's limited partners (ie, the people who give Bono and Roger McNamee and the group their money - usually endowments and pension fund managers) were in the room.
Despite working closely with Elevation, my friend is shockingly/disappointingly not a huge U2 fan so he didnt have much detail on the new songs that were played over the PA system other than to say they were "mid-tempo" and sounded "cool".
As an aside, Bono supposedly is pretty active at Elevation - including dialing in to their weekly investment review call on Mondays...even when he is on tour.
The whole thing lasted a couple of hours.