Interview: Andrea Morandi’s Lavoro D’Amore

An interview with author Andrea Morandi about his book on U2’s lyrics, U2:The Name of Love.

Busking on Christmas Eve & Driving to Midnight Mass

Thanks to Scatterolight for passing this along…Bono joining Glen Hansard on Grafton Street in Dublin earlier today to raise funds and awareness for the Dublin Simon Community, which “offers 13 services throughout the stages of homelessness. These range from emergency and treatment to supported housing and settlement.”

And here’s an oldie but a goodie – Bono [...]

Video: Bono accepts RFK Center award

A few days ago, the RFK Center For Justice & Human Rights (finally) posted videos from Bono’s speech last month when he accepted their Ripple of Hope Award. Here are the three videos that make up his full speech. Part one includes a funny story about walking on to the NetAid stage with Wyclef Jean [...]

Bono + VEVO = Uh-oh

Bono was in New York City Tuesday night to help launch VEVO, a music/video site that’s kinda like a Hulu for the music industry. It’s like YouTube, but more of an official source for music-related video content. It’ll eventually be monetized so the music industry can say it’s making money on the web and all [...]

Shadow Play : The Making of Anton Corbijn

In early September I blogged about a new film about Anton Corbijn.
Shadow Play has been doing the rounds of film festivals (not on general release) and I was lucky enough to see the film at the recent Cork Film Festival.
The festival has been going for over 50 years now, that’s some achievement for a city [...]

Subbing In

Wouldn’t it be cool if you found out that your substitute teacher was Mr. Bono? The National Education Association’s third annual poll found that Bono was at the head of the class when it comes to who people would like to have as a substitute teacher.
The NEA has asked Bono to serve as a teacher [...]