VIDEO: 9 Minutes of Bono at the Desert Music Festival in Mali

By on January 25, 2012 in Bono, In the News..., Video/Audio/Photo

We’ve already posted several videos on the main website from Bono’s recent appearance at the Desert Festival in Timbuktu, Mali, but this one below is by far the longest and best of all. It’s from the festival organizers and features about nine minutes of non-stop Bono — the first seven minutes are from his performance, [...]

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Paul McGuinness and U22 Final Tally

By on January 21, 2012 in U2 Fans, U2's Music, U2.com & the Fan Club, Video/Audio/Photo

Yesterday’s announcement of the final votes for the U2.com fan club gift U22 was both surprising and enlightening. U2.com reported that “tens of thousands of votes” were cast for this year’s subscribers gift. Over the three months of voting, U2.com asked a handful of guest contributors to offer their list of 22 songs they’d like [...]

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U2 at Giants Stadium: A Look at The Live Nation Concert Contract

By on January 18, 2012 in In the News..., Tours & Live Shows

After a nearly three-year legal battle, a court order has forced the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority (NJSEA) to make public hundreds of contracts that it signed for concerts that have been held at the Meadowlands complex — the stadium and arena. You can read more about the court fight on NJ.com. Also on [...]

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U2 Still In “The Story of Christian Rock”

By on January 13, 2012 in In the News...

Bleed Into One, a film telling the story of Christian rock music, is still in development and now has a Kickstarter campaign to raise $60,000 to pay music licensing fees and post-production costs. Producer Tim Hudson has cut a new trailer for the film (which you can watch at the Kickstarter page), but U2 fans who [...]

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VIDEO: Band-Aid, Minus Bono, Sings “Do They Know It’s Christmas”

By on December 28, 2011 in Video/Audio/Photo

Here’s something I’ve never seen before: Band-Aid singing (err, lip-synching) “Do They Know It’s Christmas” on Top Of The Pops, but without Bono. And yet, despite not having all of the singers there, they go on lip-synching right over Bono’s line as if there’s nothing strange about it at all. I don’t know the exact [...]

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VIDEO: U2′s Tribute to Metallica’s 30th Anniversary

By on December 17, 2011 in Events & Appearances, Video/Audio/Photo

I think we mentioned somewhere on the site already (or maybe it was just on our Twitter account) that U2 did a short video skit in honor of Metallica’s 30th anniversary. Metallica did a series of concert “parties” earlier this month in the Bay Area and all kinds of artists gave video tributes that played [...]

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