Kevin D. posted an article on U2 Exit - Nov 16, 2011, 9:55 pm
TORONTO: BBC Worldwide Canada has licensed the U2 documentary From the Sky Down to Super Channel in Canada. From the Sky Down became the first documentary to ever open the Toronto International Film Festival. The doc marks the 20th anniversary of U2’s 1991 album, Achtung Baby, which won a Grammy ...
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Kevin D. posted an article on U2 Exit - Nov 16, 2011, 9:51 pm
U2 Box Set   SPIN celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, and released a definitive list of the 125 Best Albums of the SPIN era, from 1985-2010. Among many worth candidates for No. 1, we chose U2′s 1991 game-changer Achtung Baby to top the list. Now, to celebrate the album’s 20th birthday...
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Kevin D. posted an article on U2 Exit - Nov 5, 2011, 11:33 am
LEGENDARY rockers U2 are thinking “very seriously” about breaking up, one of their closest friends believes. Artist Derek ‘Guggi’ Rowan, a childhood friend of U2 frontman Bono, says the band are weighing up their options, and a split remains very much on the cards. Bono fuelled frenetic sp...
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Kevin D. posted an article on U2 Exit - Oct 22, 2011, 6:37 pm
Bono says U2 are under more pressure to make a good album now than they were when they recorded the career-defining Achtung Baby 20 years ago. Echoing his “we need to dream it all up again” words when U2 played Dublin’s Point Theatre on New Year’s Eve in 1989, he told The Irish Times: “It...
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Kevin D. posted an article on U2 Exit - Sep 14, 2011, 6:28 pm
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:59 PM U2UK is set to bring its awesome multimedia stage show, that honours 30 years of the Grammy award winning rock legends U2, to Seaton. The group has appeared on Netherlands TV, on the radio stations in Cyprus, Amsterdam and in the UK, and had a double-p...
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Kevin D. posted an article on U2 Exit - Sep 14, 2011, 6:28 pm
Achtung! That’s German for “Attention!” Have I got yours? … Good, let’s blog it out. In case you missed it, documentarian Davis Guggenheim’s It Might Get Loud is a film about guitars and the men that love them. In it, Guggenheim pulls an eHarmony on Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White ...
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Kevin D. posted an article on U2 Exit - Sep 14, 2011, 6:29 am
In this look behind the scenes of the “Rise Above” music video — in which Bono, the Edge and Broadway star Reeve Carney come together — there’s a lot of hot topic. U2 has been in the headlines over the last few days not only for their documentary “From the Sky Down,” but for the front...
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Kevin D. posted an article on U2 Exit - Sep 14, 2011, 6:29 am
The William J. Clinton Foundation and Yahoo! today announced on Saturday, October 15, 2011, an all-star group of the most influential and socially responsible artists in music, film, and television will come together to celebrate the work and impact of President Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. ...
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Kevin D. posted an article on U2 Exit - Sep 14, 2011, 6:28 am
Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) — During a press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival, U2 singer Bono was asked how close the band came to breaking up while recording the album “Achtung Baby” in the early 1990s. “Very,” he replied. Pressed to rate it on a scale of 1-10, B...
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Kevin D. posted an article on U2 Exit - Sep 13, 2011, 6:28 pm
Updated: 08:21, Wednesday September 14, 2011 Bono worries U2 will be remembered as a ‘very good’ band rather than a ‘great’ one. The ‘Even Better Than The Real Thing’ rockers are unveiling a new documentary, ‘From The Sky Down’, which focuses on their struggles to cope after p...
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