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U2 song featured in ‘The Diving Bell & the Butterfly’

By on March 13, 2008 in Funnies & Oddities

Whilst watching the new French film The Diving Bell & the Butterfly last night I was delighted to find that ‘Ultraviolet (Light My Way)’ was being played in one of the scenes. The film is superb regardless though, and I urge anyone with an appreciation of independent cinema to see it. It follows the life [...]

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Bono in Pearls Before Swine

By on February 14, 2008 in Bono, Funnies & Oddities

Bono made an appearance recently in the comic ‘Pearls Before Swine.’ Links are here: www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20080208.html www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20080209.html

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Bono and Live Aid on the Biography channel

By on February 13, 2008 in Bono, Causes & Charities, On TV & Radio, Tours & Live Shows

On Saturday 16th February the Biography channel will be showing a programme at 9 pm entitled “Live Aid: how music changed the world,” which is bound to include a U2 mention, and then a biography of Bono at 10 pm.

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U2 and the Onion

By on February 12, 2008 in Funnies & Oddities

Whilst trying to avoid doing any work I recently discovered that some amusing things come up if you type ‘U2′ into the Onion’s website. Hope it helps you to procrastinate as much as me……. http://www.theonion.com/content/search/onion/advanced?search=U2&restrict=

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U2 video on Billboard.com

By on February 3, 2008 in Events & Appearances, Funnies & Oddities, Video/Audio/Photo

 Billboard.com asked me to put up this amusing U2 3D video from the Sundance festival on @U2. It’s short, but amusing; and I like Bono’s Russian accent. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/video/index.jsp?bclid=1276249299

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Bono speaks about lost friend Pavarotti

By on September 7, 2007 in Bono, Events & Appearances, In the News...

The BBC Radio 4 programme PM interviewed Bono yesterday about his experiences with the recently deceased tenor Pavarotti. You can listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the link on the right that says ‘Full list of programmes available to listen again.’ All the programmes available will then [...]

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