U2 in cahoots with NASA

U2 are have teamed up with space body NASA to produce a commemorative video of which will highlight their year’s worth of collaboration. NASA first approached the Irish band last year to begin dialogue about the possibility of incorporating a video segment of NASA astronauts into the band’s 360 Degree world tour. The band then introduced a clip [...]

U2 extending world tour to Australia

Bono is making a speedy recovery after undergoing spinal surgery in May, with U2 announcing they have plans to extend their world tour to Australia. The singer was left with partial paralysis in his legs after he was diagnosed with a herniated disc and the group was forced to cancel a string of concerts. Bono returned to [...]

U2 album before the end of the year?

A new U2 album is potentially on the cards before the end of the year.It is the kind of news likely to have the top dogs at Universal Music rubbing their hands in glee. And it has been confirmed to Hot Press by U2 manager Paul McGuinness.”I hope there will be another record pretty soon,” Paul told Olaf Tyaransen. [...]

U2 Debut New Songs at 360 Tour

With just 3 days until U2 resume their 360° Tour in Torino, Italy, fans are camped out near the gates of Olympic Sports Hall stadium listening to rehearsals and posting audio and video online — and it appears the group plans to play at least one brand new song during the tour. It’s hard to [...]

U2360 the fever is raising! The Claw in Turin

The U2360 circus is coming to town! Bono’s back injury has been left behind and U2 are ready to rock this summer across Europe. The tour will start the 6th of August in Turin, if you want to to keep an eye on The Claw as it’s being built you must check this Turin webcam. There [...]

U2 tour dates rescheduled

The U2 summer concerts that were postponed after Bono’s back surgery have been rescheduled for the spring and summer of 2011. The band was supposed to start the second U.S. leg of their “360″ tour on June 3 in Salt Lake City, but Bono had to undergo emergency surgery in May. Live Nation announced Tuesday that the [...]

U2’s Bono has surgery, tour date postponed

U2 lead singer Bono had emergency surgery on his back in a Munich hospital on Friday after being injured while preparing for the next leg of a world tour, the first date of which has been postponed. The 50-year-old from Ireland had been getting ready for the North American leg of the “360 Degree” world tour [...]

Ten for the Next Ten

IF we have overindulged in anything these past several days, it is neither holiday ham nor American football; it is Top 10 lists. We have been stuffed full of them. Even in these self-restrained pages, it has been impossible to avoid the end-of-the-decade accountings of the 10 best such-and-suches and the 10 worst fill-in-the-blanks. And so, in the spirit of [...]

U2 movie Killing Bono to be filmed in Belfast

While Northern Ireland was in the grip of the Troubles in the late 1970s, something was happening south of the border which would have a global impact on music. In 1976, a band was formed in Dublin after a young drummer posted on the school noticeboard looking for other musicians to join him. That band was [...]

U2’s 2010 outing continues to take shape

U2’s 2010 North American tour continues to take shape, with the Irish rock icons unveiling a new stop in the Midwest and locking in a venue for a previously announced Montreal stop. The tour–which, as previously reported, gets underway with an early June two-night stand in Southern California–now includes a June 27 engagement at Minneapolis’ TCF [...]