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hmm , I didn't expect that, I thought that Redone was producing the club sounding album myself...
 
domo-kun said:
Bono Confirmed for Oprah in Australia

@U2, December 04, 2010
By: m2 / @mattmcgee​

While previous rumors suggested that U2 as a whole would headline one of two upcoming Oprah Winfrey TV specials in Australia,
there's only confirmation so far that Bono will be involved.
The Herald Sun reports today that Bono has confirmed his involvement at one of the two shows to be taped on December 14th at the Sydney Opera House.
U2 has a concert that same day in Sydney. The TV specials are supposedly being recorded early enough that the whole band could be involved, but in the past,
U2's connection with Oprah has really been only via Bono.
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Thanks for the info! Hope we get to see the show via YouTube!! :hyper:
 
BONO NAMED "DUB OF THE YEAR"

@U2, December 08, 2010
By: Tassoula / @tassoula



The Duibliner has announced they will name the U2 front-man "Dub of the Year" in tomorrow's publication. The editor, Paul Trainer, had this to say about the selection:

"Bono has inspired many of the articles we have published over the last ten years. Wherever he goes, he takes a bit of Dublin with him and in the last year he has taken our city to every corner of the earth. He is a Dubliner who makes us proud to be The Dubliner."

Bono was gracious when learning about the honor, commenting about Dublin, "I'm feeling very blessed and grateful, and deep down in my gut, I know this city has what it takes to be a world-beater once again. It already is, in my head."

Bono Named "Dub of the Year"
 
Andreianloth said:
BONO NAMED "DUB OF THE YEAR"

@U2, December 08, 2010
By: Tassoula / @tassoula



The Duibliner has announced they will name the U2 front-man "Dub of the Year" in tomorrow's publication. The editor, Paul Trainer, had this to say about the selection:

"Bono has inspired many of the articles we have published over the last ten years. Wherever he goes, he takes a bit of Dublin with him and in the last year he has taken our city to every corner of the earth. He is a Dubliner who makes us proud to be The Dubliner."

Bono was gracious when learning about the honor, commenting about Dublin, "I'm feeling very blessed and grateful, and deep down in my gut, I know this city has what it takes to be a world-beater once again. It already is, in my head."

Bono Named "Dub of the Year"
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wow :cute: That's nice :heart:
 
..Semi-retired Gold Coast businessman scores two unlikely golf buddies from U2 From: The Courier-Mail December 11, 2010 12:01AM Increase Text SizeDecrease Text SizePrintEmail Share
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A GOLD Coast man got more than he bargained for this week during a game of golf at the Hope Island course.
The semi-retired businessman was on the practice green when a foreign man approached him to ask if he and his friend could join him on his round.

The local man happily agreed and soon discovered he was talking to the stage manager for Irish rockers U2.

"Oh and does your friend work for U2 as well?" he asked.

"That's Bono, the lead singer," the stage manager replied.

The man enjoyed 18 holes with Bono and the stage manager, a beer or two afterwards, and scored tickets to Wednesday night's show.



Semi-retired Gold Coast businessman scores two unlikely golf buddies from U2 | Courier Mail
lol Bono and Rocko? Or was it Jake who was the stage manager? :giggle:
 
Woohoo, thanks for the info! :wave: Can't wait to see the footage and phots etc.! :hyper:

Talking of which I just found these on Zootopia....

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thanks Monica! :love:
 
Hey New Yorkers - serious stalking opportunities....

SPIDERMAN OPENING DELAYED

The lead producers of the new Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” have decided again to delay its opening night, now scheduled for Jan. 11, until sometime in February, two people involved with the musical said on Thursday. With preview performances now under way the delay is intended to provide more time for the creators to stage a new final number, make further rewrites to the dialogue and consider adding and cutting scenes and perhaps inserting new music from the composers, U2’s Bono and the Edge, who will resume working full-time on the show in late December.

The producers and creators are still weighing the extent of the changes that they believe the musical needs before theater critics see it during the week before opening night, according to the two people involved with the show, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the producers and their spokesman are supposed to make the only public comments. The spokesman, Rick Miramontez, declined to comment on Thursday.
Michael Cohl, one of the lead producers, is expected to announce the new date for opening night on Thursday or Friday, the two people said. It will be the fourth major delay in performances since January 2010, when previews were originally supposed to begin; the first two delays were due to problems raising money to mount the $65 million show, while a two-week delay in November, caused by the need for more rehearsal time, also pushed back the opening, which had been set for Dec. 21.
“Spider-Man” is one of the most highly anticipated shows on Broadway in years, given the talents of the director, Julie Taymor (a Tony Award winner for “The Lion King”), and Bono and the Edge, who are making their Broadway debuts, as well as the potential for a live musical about the popular comic-book superhero. Adding to the expectations is the show’s price tag, more than twice as much as “Shrek the Musical,” previously the most expensive musical ever.
Reflecting the view of some audience members who have criticized the show on blogs, Twitter and Facebook, Ms. Taymor and the producers have concluded that Act II has storytelling problems that need to be fixed. While Act I is a familiar rendition of Peter Parker turning into Spider-Man, Act II is largely the invention of Ms. Taymor and Bono, and includes some major reversals that can be hard to understand in the fast-moving show.
Bono and the Edge have been on tour with U2 in New Zealand and Australia since Thanksgiving; they have yet to see a performance of the musical, which they began working on nine years ago. They will be returning to New York before Christmas and are expected to become regular presences at the Foxwoods Theater through mid-to-late January, when they have to prepare for February concerts in South Africa. Bono and the Edge are not believed to be at work on any new numbers for the show, but the two people said that they might write some once they assess the show and huddle with Ms. Taymor.
Ms. Taymor and the playwright Glen Berger, who wrote the book together, have been inserting revised dialogue at almost every performance to clarify the action, with special focus given to Act II as well as the four characters who serve as a so-called Geek Chorus, comic-book devotees who serve as narrators. The two people involved with the show said that no decision has been made about hiring a script doctor to work on the dialogue and plot; some executives close to Mr. Cohl, the producer, have been urging him to bring in an outside set of eyes to work on the story. But the two people said that Ms. Taymor was fully aware that the musical has problems and had not been defensive about the criticisms of the storytelling.
Snags in the ambitious technical production have been largely smoothed out since the first preview performance on Nov. 28, when the show had to stop five times. Still, new elements are being added. At Wednesday night’s performance, for a scene toward the end of the show, a large net deployed to serve as a web where the villainous spider-woman Arachne and Peter Parker have their final confrontation.
Just pulling off that moment with the deployed net took a significant amount of time to plan, design and rehearse, the two people said; still to come is inserting a major final number, which is now in the works, but the two people said they could not guess how long it would take to perfect — one of the reasons for delaying the opening night.
The actress who plays Arachne, Natalie Mendoza, returned to the production on Wednesday night after a nearly two-week absence to recover from a concussion that she suffered backstage at the first preview performance, when a rope struck her in the head.
 
And finally a reason to watch Carson Daly...

Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj and the rock band My Chemical Romance will be Carson Daly's guests as he hosts NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly on December 31st. In addition to musical performances from those three acts, U2's Bono and The Edge will also appear on the show to chat about writing the music for the new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. In a statement, Daly said, "Sitting down and drinking champagne with Bono and The Edge is on my 'bucket list' -- so getting to do that is awesome!" The show kicks off at 10 p.m. Eastern time on December 31st.
 
Sad to say but the Spiderman musical is turning into a bit of a nightmare.

And now they are saying that Bono and Edge will go write more music?

That does make me worry a bit about the new U2 album were were supposed to get in April.

But I will try to think positive... Hopefully Spiderman will come together as will the new album.



GraceRyan said:
Hey New Yorkers - serious stalking opportunities....

SPIDERMAN OPENING DELAYED

The lead producers of the new Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” have decided again to delay its opening night, now scheduled for Jan. 11, until sometime in February, two people involved with the musical said on Thursday. With preview performances now under way the delay is intended to provide more time for the creators to stage a new final number, make further rewrites to the dialogue and consider adding and cutting scenes and perhaps inserting new music from the composers, U2’s Bono and the Edge, who will resume working full-time on the show in late December.

The producers and creators are still weighing the extent of the changes that they believe the musical needs before theater critics see it during the week before opening night, according to the two people involved with the show, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the producers and their spokesman are supposed to make the only public comments. The spokesman, Rick Miramontez, declined to comment on Thursday.
Michael Cohl, one of the lead producers, is expected to announce the new date for opening night on Thursday or Friday, the two people said. It will be the fourth major delay in performances since January 2010, when previews were originally supposed to begin; the first two delays were due to problems raising money to mount the $65 million show, while a two-week delay in November, caused by the need for more rehearsal time, also pushed back the opening, which had been set for Dec. 21.
“Spider-Man” is one of the most highly anticipated shows on Broadway in years, given the talents of the director, Julie Taymor (a Tony Award winner for “The Lion King”), and Bono and the Edge, who are making their Broadway debuts, as well as the potential for a live musical about the popular comic-book superhero. Adding to the expectations is the show’s price tag, more than twice as much as “Shrek the Musical,” previously the most expensive musical ever.
Reflecting the view of some audience members who have criticized the show on blogs, Twitter and Facebook, Ms. Taymor and the producers have concluded that Act II has storytelling problems that need to be fixed. While Act I is a familiar rendition of Peter Parker turning into Spider-Man, Act II is largely the invention of Ms. Taymor and Bono, and includes some major reversals that can be hard to understand in the fast-moving show.
Bono and the Edge have been on tour with U2 in New Zealand and Australia since Thanksgiving; they have yet to see a performance of the musical, which they began working on nine years ago. They will be returning to New York before Christmas and are expected to become regular presences at the Foxwoods Theater through mid-to-late January, when they have to prepare for February concerts in South Africa. Bono and the Edge are not believed to be at work on any new numbers for the show, but the two people said that they might write some once they assess the show and huddle with Ms. Taymor.
Ms. Taymor and the playwright Glen Berger, who wrote the book together, have been inserting revised dialogue at almost every performance to clarify the action, with special focus given to Act II as well as the four characters who serve as a so-called Geek Chorus, comic-book devotees who serve as narrators. The two people involved with the show said that no decision has been made about hiring a script doctor to work on the dialogue and plot; some executives close to Mr. Cohl, the producer, have been urging him to bring in an outside set of eyes to work on the story. But the two people said that Ms. Taymor was fully aware that the musical has problems and had not been defensive about the criticisms of the storytelling.
Snags in the ambitious technical production have been largely smoothed out since the first preview performance on Nov. 28, when the show had to stop five times. Still, new elements are being added. At Wednesday night’s performance, for a scene toward the end of the show, a large net deployed to serve as a web where the villainous spider-woman Arachne and Peter Parker have their final confrontation.
Just pulling off that moment with the deployed net took a significant amount of time to plan, design and rehearse, the two people said; still to come is inserting a major final number, which is now in the works, but the two people said they could not guess how long it would take to perfect — one of the reasons for delaying the opening night.
The actress who plays Arachne, Natalie Mendoza, returned to the production on Wednesday night after a nearly two-week absence to recover from a concussion that she suffered backstage at the first preview performance, when a rope struck her in the head.
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Jeesh , why are they so uncertain about the musical,
I get Taymor's thoughts about perfection,
but changing up every minute doesn't necessarily say that things get better.
Start making up your mind about it and play the damn musical.
 
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