Beach Clip minus the beach - new audio
This is audio was posted on the Interference forum, it’s being posted to quench some thirst for new U2. Turn it up, and listen close.
3:00 + minutes - 5/17/2008 - Dublin, Ireland
Pete The Chop
U2 News Aggregator
U2 MANAGER HURT IN HORRIFIC HORSE FALL
Irish rockers U2’s longtime manager PAUL MCGUINESS narrowly escaped paralysis recently after he was involved in a horrific horse riding accident.
The music mogul, who also manages the careers of singer PJ Harvey and New York rockers The Rapture, had to be taken to hospital after being thrown from a horse while riding near his estate in County Wicklow, Ireland.
A source tells Ireland’s Sunday World newspaper, “It was a pretty bad fall and Paul broke his collarbone. He was rushed to hospital and was in absolute agony.
“He’s still getting over it and knows he has had a lucky escape.”
- Contact Music
Bono urges Japan to lead African development
TOKYO, Japan — In his first lecture as “Dr. Bono,” the rock superstar, social activist and freshly minted intellectual on Tuesday urged Japan to double its aid to Africa by 2012 and recapture its position as the global leader in overseas development.
Although Japan gave the most overseas aid in the early 1990s, its generosity has steadily fallen since then, the U2 frontman told students at Tokyo’s prestigious Keio University, where he received an honorary doctorate of law earlier in the day.
“The world is watching Japan as the G8 (summit) approaches, and it’s not good news,” he said. The summit is scheduled to take place in Hokkaido, northern Japan, in July. Japan’s net official development assistance in 2007 was US$7.7 billion, down 30 per cent from the previous year and dropping the country to fifth place among foreign aid donors, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Bono, in Japan this week for the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, called it a “monumental error” to ignore Africa or write the continent off as a lost cause. Japan’s development model for Southeast Asia led to the emergence of the so-called ’Asian tigers’ and could prove similarly successful in Africa, he said. “I believe in this country,” he said to an auditorium of nearly 900 students.
“The world needs your involvement.” Bono said his interest in Africa extends back to the Live Aid concert in 1985. Since then, he has become one of the most effective, though sometimes controversial, crusaders against poverty and AIDS in Africa.
The Irish rocker and Nobel Peace Prize nominee is scheduled to speak at the African development conference Thursday and meet with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda later this week. Michitake Watanabe, a first-year graduate student at Keio, said Bono’s words opened his eyes to issues he had never considered.
“He is an amazing person,” said Watanabe, who admitted he isn’t a fan of Bono’s music. “It’s really incredible that he doesn’t seem to be confined by traditional frameworks like race or religion.”
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bono joins tree-planting drive
Bono the gardener?
Bono hams it up with a shovel on Tuesday while planting a tree as part of the Tokyo metropolitan government’s “Green Island” project at Odaiba, part of a sprawling man-made island in Tokyo Bay.
(ITN - Tuesday, May 27 02:05 pm) U2 singer Bono has taken part in a tree-planting project with schoolchildren in Tokyo. The rocker, who’s known for his humanitarian and philanthropic work, led the event which is part of the city’s environmental initiatives project.
He encouraged the attendees to become more environmentally friendly, saying: “I do believe that politicians like Governor Ishihara need to hear from you that this is important to you. It’s your money that they are spending. “That is what I’ll be doing over the week as well as planting this tree today. Finding out how much support there are for these issues of environment and extreme poverty.”
Nearly 100 children sang together with the legendary rock singer at The Sea Forest where a total of 480,000 trees are due to be planted, creating an 88 hectare forest floating off Tokyo bay. The city hopes the forest when completed in 2016 will help cool the city down during the hot summer months.
Bono also plans to attend the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, where he will be among 43 leaders of African nations to discuss poverty, conflict, the food crisis and disease in the continent.
“Walk On” Subject Detained Further
Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who was the inspiration for the U2 song “Walk On” has unfortunately had her house arrest status extended for what could be up to a year by the Burmese government.
Read the full story at CNN here.
I can’t help but wonder when this world will turn right-side up…
Daniel Lanois on The View
Daniel Lanois will appear on a special of The View, this Tuesday May 27th, midnight on RTÉ One television (Ireland).
Lanois is currently working on U2's new album in Dublin and the South of France,and will talk to presenter John Kelly about the influences that have shaped his influential musical career.
More on the RTE website. And you can view an earlier performance by Lanois RTE's Other Voices on the show's website.