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Mad U2 fan

"No Line on the Horizon, No Line between the Earth and Sky.."

About Me

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My Interests

U2,Brian Eno,The New Wave period 1978-80 inc.Joy Division,Early Talking Heads,The photography of Anton Corbijn,and Kevin Cummins,Four5One,Roland Drum Kits,Yamaha drum kits,Yamaha DX 7 Synthesizers,FM8,The graphic designs and typography of Malcolm Garrett and Peter Saville, Reading,Art galleries and installations,exploring Cities,The early years of NASA and the Apollo space programme,The Office,The personalisation of technology in making a contribution to society,The potential of Photo Voltics,Plug in Hybrids,the Hydrogen economy and fuel cell development,the potential of Stem Cell Research in the interests of helping many people,Compassion towards others..Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela! London June 27th '08

I'd like to meet:

Bono, Larry, Adam,and The Edge,Brian Eno,Danny Lanois,Steve Lillywhite,Anton Corbijn,Steve Averill, Wim Wenders,Rick Rubin,Ali Hewson...the comedienne Jenna Fischer(Pam in NBC's 'The Office'),John Krasinski(Jim in NBC's 'The Office'),Martina Weymouth & Chris Franz of Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club.. Anyone who loves the band U2! Or any of the other artists that I have mentioned! Anyone who is interested in Art, photography, graphic design, typography, technology and how it can be developed to make a social contributionCourtesy of U2.Com'It's your world, you can change it..'

Music:

U2,Brian Eno,Daniel Lanois,early Talking Heads (up to 1979),Joy Division,Japan (1979-82),Sheryl Crow,Ryan Adams,Johnny Cash,Duffy,Rachael Yamagata,The Corrs,Nikka Costa,Gemma Hayes,She Keeps Bees,East Hundred,Herbie Hancock,Diana Krall,Mindi Abair,London Elektricity..New U2 album Feb 2009* *(provisional)

Movies:

Rattle and Hum,The Million Dollar Hotel,The Wings Of Desire,At The End Of The World,In America,Bring It All Back Home,The Gangs Of New York,14 Video Paintings,77 Million Paintings,Here is What Is,Walk The Line,Control,Joy Division-the documentary,Office Space,A Clockwork Orange,Broadcast News,The War Room,THX 1138,Two Weeks Notice..U2 The Fly Live From BOSTON 2004

Television:

Use television to speak up for democracy..not just become a media 'Zoo' of headlines you can do little about..

Books:

Bono on Bono with Michka Assayas,U2 & I by Anton Corbijn, U2 by U2,U2 Show by Diana Scrimgeour,U2 Faraway so close by BP Fallon,U2 At the end of the world by Bill Flannagan, U2 The road to Pop by Carter Alan,The Race of Angels by John Waters,On Some Faraway Beach-The life and times of Brian Eno by David Sheppard,The Life of Ian Curtis by Mick Middles & Lindsay Reade,Touching from a distance by Deborah Curtis,Martin Luther King by Sande Smith,The Words of Martin Luther King,Jr selected by Coretta Scott King,Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now by Maya Angelou,An Inconvienient Truth by Al Gore,Futureshock by Alvin and Heidi Toffler.

Heroes:

Bono,Ali,and the rest of U2,because they're about more than just music...Johnny Cash for what he believed in,Martin Luther King for speaking up for his rights,and Eno,for his theoretical observations and insight, as well as being a great conceptualiser and producer..And for all those who were an inspiration to U2 when they were starting out,you know who you are: Anton Corbijn,Martin Hannett,Kevin Cummins,Peter Saville,Paul Morley,Tony Wilson,Rob Gretton,Ian Curtis,Stephen Morris,Hooky,and Bernard Summner..

My Blog

Album is finally completed and promotional campaign gets ready to start soon..

  With co producer Daniel Lanois in NYC finishing off the final production mixes and track listing on the forthcoming album recently,while Bono was in town,the promotion of th...
Posted by Mad U2 fan on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:55:00 PST

First chance to officially win tickets for a show on the new U2 Tour..

Universal Music Group, in association with music community site Jamsbio have officially set up a competition for the chance for one lucky person to win 4 tickets for a show on the forthcoming new tour...
Posted by Mad U2 fan on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:40:00 PST

Final production tweeks on the new album..

Indications here from 'a good source' this week that the running order for the tracks that will make the final cut to the new U2 album 'No Line on The Horizon'* have been decided and mastere...
Posted by Mad U2 fan on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:22:00 PST

A video DVD to accompany the new album early ’09..

As with the previous album,HTDAAB, it appears that the band are to release an accompanying DVD with some editions of the new release..  Part of the video will be what band photographer and video ...
Posted by Mad U2 fan on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:11:00 PST

Rescheduled again?

Getting indications that there is a 'possibility' of the album being rescheduled and released in Jan' 09,and if this is the case, the band 'may' still release the debut single from it in tim...
Posted by Mad U2 fan on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:51:00 PST

New album pushed back to Feb or March?

It looks 'increasingly likely' that the new album has been delayed until the early part of '09, due to the band still reworking some of the tracklisting on the new release. ( Update: Bono has now...
Posted by Mad U2 fan on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:25:00 PST

"It has the potential to be our best" - Edge on the new album..

In a recent interview, for 'Q' Magazine,Edge has revealed a lot more about the new album, now provisionally being refered to as 'No Line on The Horizon',due for release in November.  In...
Posted by Mad U2 fan on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:18:00 PST

New documentry...It Might Get Loud..

Edge stars in the new documentry due to debut Sept 5th,entitled 'It Might Get a Bit  Loud', alongside both Led Zepplin legend Jimmy Page, and White Stripes guitarist Jack White..tracing the pivit...
Posted by Mad U2 fan on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:42:00 PST

First words on the new tour..from someone who has worked on previous U2 tours

In  a recent interview, Willie Williams, who has worked on many of the most successful tours that U2 have ever done,revealed this.."I think you will be quite pleased when you see what we are plan...
Posted by Mad U2 fan on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:09:00 PST

’Get on your Boots’..a future RED exclusive, or the new single?

'Sexy Boots' was a working title for what Edge has 'hinted' about a track called 'Get on your Boots'..still not clear if this will be the title of the new single due late Oct/early Nov as yet...(or if...
Posted by Mad U2 fan on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:25:00 PST