Scattered Thoughts: This Photo Begs for a Caption

Nothing quite like seeing the L.V. behind the wheel of a sports car. And it’s an electric one, at that. This photo is from the Top Marques Monaco “supercar show” which was held April 24-27. More info on the car Bono is sitting in can be found on AutoblogGreen. -This post brought to you by Scatter [...]

Own a piece of U2

Would you like to own The Edge's Gibson Explorer? Well, you can if you have deep pockets. The Edge and U2 have donated some extraordinary stuff to the Music Rising auction and you can have a look at the items now on Auction Network.

Other items on auction include a hat worn by Bono, one of his leather jackets, another one of The Edge's Gibson guitars, a worn pair of Edge's Converse sneakers, his Popmart cowboy suit... and much more. See for yourself.

Own a piece of U2

Would you like to own The Edge's Gibson Explorer? Well, you can if you have deep pockets. The Edge and U2 have donated some extraordinary stuff to the Music Rising auction and you can have a look at the items now on Auction Network.

Other items on auction include a hat worn by Bono, one of his leather jackets, another one of The Edge's Gibson guitars, a worn pair of Edge's Converse sneakers, his Popmart cowboy suit... and much more. See for yourself.

Glen Campbell covering U2 on new album

Editorial Note: Okay, I was pushed back in my chair when I saw this news item come across the U2 Exit News desk, but should we surprised by much these days?! I guess not.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Rhinestone Cowboy is trying on some more fashionable threads.
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Country singer/guitarist Glen Campbell is following in the footsteps of artists such as Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond by recording a new album designed to inspire a new generation of fans.

“Meet Glen Campbell,” due in stores on August 19, features covers of tunes originally performed by the likes of the Foo Fighters (”Times Like These”), U2 (”All I Want Is You”), and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (”Walls”), his Capitol Records label said on Tuesday. (more…)

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April, You’re So Cruel

April is National Poetry Month here in the U.S. Yeah, it’s still April for about 48 more hours. T. S. Eliot’s opening lines from “The Wasteland” are April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. That’s one main reason for why the [...]

Henry’s At It Again

It’s been a while since we’ve had the pleasure of mentioning Henry Rollins anywhere on @U2, but as sure as the changing of the seasons, Henry’s back talking about U2 again. In his defense, anxious journalists just love to bring up the name “U2″ to get a reaction out of the guy. And he’s always [...]

Give Me A Beat

There’s only a few things in life that rank right up there for me as ‘great ways to wake up in the morning.’ This morning, I log into U2.com to find Adam’s video of Larry hard at work in the studio. It’s 49 seconds of pure Mullen with a hint of Clayton. You have [...]

U2 Scrap Work And Start Again

Rockers U2 are scrapping all the tracks they have written for their next album to start all over again - ditching a year's worth of work.

The band has been working on the follow up to 2004 LP How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb for the past 12 months, but they're far from happy with the results.

Guitarist The Edge reveals bandmembers have mostly messed around in the studio - and they have now decided to get stuck in and finish the record.

He tells CMUMusic.com, "We went into this project allowing ourselves the indulgence of making music without thinking about where it was going to end up. We're starting to get serious now".

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Get Well, Paul McGuinness

Just stumbled on this while keeping up-to-date on material for an updated version of U2: A Diary (which I hope will happen, but don’t know for sure): According to the Ardmayle blog, Paul McGuinness hurt himself a couple Sundays back in a fall off a horse. Ouch. It happened before McGuinness gave a speech opening a new [...]

Boston U23D Snapshots

I know it’s been a few months since the @U2 event in Boston to celebrate U23D’s release, but I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to share some photos taken from it. Special thanks to Ayaz for sharing his photos with us. Check them out on his site.

Round 3: Name That Photo

You guys are so good at this, we’re gonna do it again. Sarah at Omnibus has sent me a bunch of photos that don’t have a date. These might be included in U2: A Diary, but we really need to know when (and where, if possible) the pictures were taken.

Some of these are quite obvious in general — “Oh, that’s the Joshua Tree Tour” — but we need to be as specific as possible so photos can be placed at the right spot in the diary/timeline.

If you can help us narrow down the dates on any of these photos, please reply in the comments of this post. And be sure to include the FILENAME so I know which photo you’re talking about.

Sound good?

Here they are: http://www.u2diary.com/pix1/

Thanks in advance!

Bono is one of the “People to Know Today”

We had a fun time reviewing the new Bono biography.  This one, though, is the first for kids.  My 8-year -old daughter, Madeline, writes book responses as school assignments in which she has to tell something she learned from the beginning, middle and end of the book.  So she wrote down the facts she learned [...]

U2 still Ireland’s richest entertainers with €618m

U2 are reportedly top of the rich list of Irish entertainers for the 12th consecutive year.

Reports this morning say the Dublin super-group have a combined fortune of €618m.

Michael Flatley is the second-richest entertainer with an estimated €465m.

This year’s overall Sunday Times rich list is reportedly headed by Dublin-born model Hilary Weston, who married into a retailing dynasty in Canada, giving her an estimated fortune of €7bn.

- Independent News & Media

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U2 SCRAP WORK AND START AGAIN

Rockers U2 are scrapping all the tracks they have written for their next album to start all over again - ditching a year’s worth of work.
The band has been working on the follow up to 2004 LP How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb for the past 12 months, but they’re far from happy with the results.
Guitarist The Edge reveals bandmembers have mostly messed around in the studio - and they have now decided to get stuck in and finish the record.
He tells CMUMusic.com, “We went into this project allowing ourselves the indulgence of making music without thinking about where it was going to end up. We’re starting to get serious now”.

- ContactMusic.com

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Man Crushes

I know the ladies out there have a crush on our Hitman, but more and more guys are coming out and admitting they have a crush on him too - and it’s not just Boy George this time! In Sunday’s Irish Independent, Brendan O’Connor admitted that he has a man crush on Larry as well. [...]