Updated 01.24.17 with a full-length excerpt from In Concert by Billy McGrath, 1st University College Dublin Ents Officer, Students Union 1975/76; Manager of the Atrix and Stagalee; RTE television producer and documentary maker. McGrath was a key figure in the development of the U2-era Irish rock scene. He worked for the 1980 Sense of Ireland festival in London at […]
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Taste And See That The U2 Feast Is Good
Gary Stevenson wants you to eat Lucifer’s Hands. They will taste like chicken – devilishly delicious Korean-spiced chicken – but he’s hoping they send you on a journey from mouth to head to heart. You’ll start with Cedarwood Road. Along the way he’ll offer you a McPhisto Hot Lemon Tonic. You’ll end, sweetly, with Streets. […]
“Terryworld” offers chance to win U2 tickets
Terry Lawless (Bono calls him “Terryworld”) has been playing with U2 in the “underworld” (under the stage providing supporting instrumentation) for 15 years, and his keyboards are prominent throughout No Line On The Horizon. While not on tour with U2, Terry performs with a number of different groups on the Central Coast of California, and […]
CEDARWOOD Children’s Book Coming Soon
Have you heard about CEDARWOOD: A FAIRYTALE OF iNNOCENCE? It’s out on September 26, and here’s a look at Adam, in a new image from the book the authors wanted to share first with our @U2 readers. Adam’s lost his glasses in the grass, and Bono has stopped to help look for them. There are so […]
Gift-Giving Idea: Bono’s Gretsch Irish Falcon
If you’re interested in some last minute gift ideas for that special musician and/or U2 fan in your life, you might want to consider this. Christie’s is including one of Bono’s custom Gretsch Irish Falcons in a London auction on December 16. This is the iconic green hollow body guitar that Bono has used on […]
PHOTOS: Adam Clayton's Donated Shoes for Walk In My Shoes 2013
Great thanks to Gary Paul for sharing a few photos with us of the shoes/sneakers that Adam Clayton has donated to this year’s Walk In My Shoes campaign. This is part of a display of celebrity-donated shoes that’s currently at St. Patrick’s Hospital in Dublin. Adam has autographed both sneakers, as you can see below. […]
Bono as an Egg (and You Can Bid on Him)
That list of the weirdest U2 crafts that Rashas wrote about a few days back was obviously written before anyone saw this. That’s Bono done up in the shape of a giant egg … an egg that also happens to be up for auction this month. If you’re in Dublin during the next couple weeks, […]
World AIDS Day, December 1
Today, December 1, is World AIDS Day. It’s a good time to remind ourselves that ONE.org is working diligently for and with the poorest of the poor in the fight against AIDS. These are perilous days for international aid programs as governments around the world consider austerity plans, which usually include a reduction of foreign […]
Bono's TEDTalks Playlist
I’m a fan of TEDTalks and one of my favorite is Bono’s talk, “Action for Africa.” In it, he recalls his initial foray into activism through Live Aid, his work in Ethopia with Ali, and his journey into becoming “a rock star with a cause.” It’s a beautiful and timely speech from February 2005. It […]
Aung San Suu Kyi: "Walk On"
This past weekend, Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), an opposition party to the ruling junta in Burma (officially known as Myanmar by the government there) won an astonishing 43 out of 45 seats up for grabs in a general election. Suu Kyi herself will now sit in one of the parliamentary […]