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U2 FILMS DVD IN LISBON

Ed note: This article has been translated into English by Google Translation services

The U2 Irishans had passed last the three days in the zone of Lisbon to make photographs destined to the layer of the next album, with date of edition set appointments for October, and filmings for the DVD that will follow the record. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr, the photographer Anton Corbijn and more ten people, between seguran?as and equip technique, had arrived Portugal in the thursday, the particular airplane of the band, and had left to the end of the afternoon of yesterday.

"VERY LIKEABLE"

In accordance with what the cm obtained to select, the Great Beach, in Sintra, was one of the places visited for the group. Anteontem of morning, the four elements of the U2 had been photographed in the place for Corbijn and one of the elements of the comitiva, that Portuguese says, was in the restaurant House of the Galley, in the Great Beach, where it marked lunch for 20 people. A source advanced to our periodical that the chosen plate was estufadas squids to the Galley with cockles, that cost only 9,75 euros. However, the reserve finished for being annulled and the group headed to the Park of the Nations, where it was to the afternoon.

To the night, the U2 had had supper in would cafetaria of the Pipe of the Shoe - the cheap zone most relaxed and of the restaurant, that serves ' nouvelle cuisine ' -, and had followed later for the discoteca Lux, to the side, where they had been during little time.

From there, the group was directed for the Hotel Lapa Palace, where in ' of 15 rooms to the midnight made ' check. Bono, Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen had occupied, each one, the four more expensive suites of the hoteleira unit, that cost between 1200 and 2250 euros. The remain equips took up quarters in normal suites, whose daily it oscillates between the 950 and 1100 euros.

"Very likeable" it was as a source of the hotel classified the elements of the band and comitiva remain, that if had directed directamente to the rooms, of where they had not come back to leave until 10h30 yesterday. All had taken the small-lunch in the respective rooms, after what they had abandoned the hoteleira unit lisboeta.

Estimates made for high indicate that the Irish band - that made the reserves through a travel agency - will have left in the hotel about 17 a thousand euros. None of the elements of the comitiva used other services as, for example, ' spa ', the solarium, the gymnasium or the swimming pool.

In diverse carrinhas rented in the Portuguese capital, the band came back later the a zone of Sintra to catch plus a series of photographs and images, concretely in the Handle of the Roca.

Of afternoon, the group was seen in the Mire, a complex manufacter, where to carry through more filmings from there, following directamente for the airport of the Portela.

All the material caught in Portugal, including images of Lisbon, will be for ' in lay ' of the new record of the U2, without heading still known, and respective DVD, with date of edition foreseen for October.

Photographer, ' to designer ' and producer of ' videoclips ', the dutch Anton Corbijn (that he also prepares a fotobiografia of the band) collaborates with the U2 since ' 87. Corbijn, that only works the black person and white, is loving of Lisbon, having already photographed, equally in the Portuguese capital, one another Irish band, the Therapy?

HOTEL OF THE LAPA

Hoteleira unit of cincoestrelas, must have received the U2 in 1993, aquando of?PopMart Tour, but to the last one of the hour, however, the group decided to after come back to Ireland the concert in the Stadium of Alvalade. Catherine Deneuve, Cher and Sting already had passed for there.

PIPE OF THE SHOE

One of the proprietors is the actor John Malkovich. It is divided in three zones: it would cafetaria, restaurant (reverse speed-do-soil) and?sushi bar? (first to walk). It detaches -- for the excellency of the service and the gastronomia and for a magnificent one seen that if it can enjoy of the River Tejo.

PARK OF THE NATIONS

Constructed to receive the Expo?98, it is transformed into one of the places apraz?veis of Lisbon, with bars, restaurants and spaces of leisure. It is there that the Atlantic Pavilion is placed, that has received some from the biggest names of national and international music.

Alexandra Ferreira/Carlos Menezes/F?tima Villages-B?as

http://www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?id=105113&idselect=13&idCanal=13&p=0

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