Party Girl, the day before Edge’s birthday, August 7, 2005, Camp Nou, Barcelona.

Futbol fans take note: Edge dons a Barcelona jersey. Teleprompter fans take note: does Bono even read the words coming across that thing? Ever?

There’s a little Bob Marley thrown in at the end of this one. And some champagne poured down the guitarist’s throat by the singer during the guitar solo. As if Edge doesn’t already have enough trouble with that part! Hee.

Happy birthday Mr. Evans.

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(photo of The Edge, Jimmy Fallon and Steve Schirripa courtesy and (c) Wireimage.com)

Perhaps I’m behind the times a bit, but I’ve only just realized there’s some really cool photos available through www.imdb.com. For example, there’s a nice slideshow from the 2007 Food Bank of New York Can-Do Awards Dinner on April 23.

There’s also some photos from the Music Rising “Icons of Music” auction from April 21. Adam looks particulary suave in his shades of gray attire. Notice that Edge looks just as thrilled to be stood next to Christy Turlington at the auction as he was to be with Jimmy Fallon and Steve Schirripa. Come to think of it, based on the variety of photos available here, it looks like Edge only has one style of smile!

(Photo courtesy of Berklee College of Music website)

Today marks a historic occasion for The Edge as he receives an honorary doctorate from the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

Last night, Berklee students gave their traditional performance at the Agganis Arena in Boston to honor those receiving the honorary doctorates. Joining The Edge with this accolade are Gloria Estefan (Berklee’s Commencement speaker) and Jazz pianist, the late Andrew Hill. According to Berklee’s website, the students performed Van Diemen’s Land and Pride.

The Edge is in some pretty good company - check out the full list of honoraries from Berklee here.

If anyone happened to be at that performance, please let us know if any other U2 music was performed, and what you thought of it.

Formed in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in September, 2005, Music Rising supports the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast’s seminal music community following this environmental crisis.

Last year saw their mission dramatized by U2 and Green Day’s powerful video and their live performance for the reopening of the Superdome. On April 21, Music Rising co-founder The Edge rallied his colleagues in New York City to donate instruments and memorabilia for a special “Icons of Music” auction that raised $2.4 million. MSN Entertainment was there for exclusive interviews with The Edge and other participants, conducted by veteran music journalist Alan Light.

See videos: http://music.msn.com/music/musicrising?GT1=9988

… who’s a worse dancer than me.

(Thx Declan!)

Interesting few days for the U2 boys, no? Didn’t anyone tell them it is the “off season?”

As if the vision of the band selling off all of their musical instruments for charity and dedicating themselves to a lifetime of writing broadway musicals wasn’t hard enough to handle, there is that other thing to grapple with: American Idol + Bono.

Now, it has been suggested by some of our friends that perhaps this whole American Idol appearance means that Bono is not exactly “The Cool.”

To this, we say: “Whaaat?!”

The Bono, not cool? Noooo waaaay. In other news, the Easter Bunny might not be real.

Seriously, let’s get this straight. Appearing on a show that has 30 million-plus viewers. Using the appearance to influence said viewers to focus their attention on those less fortunate than them. THIS makes Bono uncool? Really?

Funny, because I always thought it was things like
this that sent him spinning into “uncool” territory. (I think dude stole that jacket from the set of the Golden Girls.)

Let’s face it: being cool is not on the Bono’s agenda. In fact, I actually saw his daily planner yesterday and this is what it said:

1) Work on finding words that rhyme with spider
2) Make sure facial hair color matches hair on top of head
3) Save world

See? “Be Cool” did not even make the list.

Edge, on the other hand, now this cat we know is cool! I hope this whole Mr. The Edge in the spotlight thing isn’t just a fad or a phase. It would be so nice to have a cool guy as the official band spokesperson for once. (Even though we are pretty sure Edge is totally fibbing about that whole “we’re working on our new record” thing.)

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