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Live Nation, empresa californiana promotora de eventos musicales, anunció hoy un acuerdo para gestionar las giras y el marketing de la banda irlandesa U2 durante los próximos 12 años, según un comunicado de la compañía.
El trato incluye los derechos de explotación de la marca del grupo para la venta de productos, aunque no afecta al contrato que tiene U2 con Universal Music para la grabación de sus discos.
“Hace mucho que teníamos la intención de consolidar y ampliar nuestra relación con U2, así que éste es un acuerdo muy excitante para nosotros”, aseguró Michael Cohl, directivo de Live Nation.
La alianza con la banda de Bono tiene lugar después de que en 2007 Live Nation firmase con Madonna un compromiso de 10 años para producir los discos, las giras y el marketing de la artista.
“Hemos estado citándonos durante los últimos 20 años y es tiempo de anudarse la corbata”, afirmó Bono, que explicó que la unión con Live Nation mejorará la calidad de la página web de U2.
El representante de la banda, Paul McGuinness, declaró que la “integración de los puntos de vista sobre el futuro” de ambas partes encaja y amplía lo que hasta ahora ya estaban haciendo en colaboraciones más puntuales.
Live Nation gestiona productos y contenidos de más de mil artistas en la actualidad.
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U2.com informa que The Edge será entrevistado este 31 de marzo en el programa de la televisión irlandesa The View .
21.03.2008
Edge In View
‘There’s something about performing our songs in front of a large crowd which works…’ Music, life work and inspiration as RTE’s The View Presents… The Edge.John Kelly of RTÉ’s arts show The View, discusses creativity and longevity with Edge next week, in an exclusive one-on-one interview. Edge says that things now are as they were in the beginning, explaining how the four band members have managed to maintain such an unusually cohesive unit for over thirty years.
“Maybe it’s because we were friends before we were a band,” he says, “so in a sense the friendships were solid, so when it came to those moments of conflicts or difficulty, we kind of were able to skirt around the big conflicts and diffuse the situation and so we’re operating in pretty much the same way now as we always did.”
Whatever comes with the band’s success, everything always comes back to the music – and playing live.
“There’s something about performing our songs in front of a large crowd which works and it’s to do with the fact I think, that a lot of those people at those shows are there to celebrate not just their favourite band, or a favourite band of theirs, but part of their history, their life and the music they’ve grown up with, that has meant a lot to them, so in some ways, as much as we’re getting applauded, I think people are also applauding themselves and their experiences in their life.”THE VIEW PRESENTS … The Edge, Monday 31 March 2008, RTE, 11.30 pm
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Daniel Lanois habla sobre del nuevo álbum de U2, que se espera salga a la venta a finales de este año:
Producer Gives Update On U2 Album
By: Don Kaye
U2 has been working on its new album since late February at its recording complex in Dublin, Ireland, where the group has once again turned to longtime producer Daniel Lanois to sit behind the sound console. Lanois recently described how the sessions were going: “It’s going well. Very inventive, a lot of hopes and dreams in the room. (Singer) Bono’s a hell of a fighter, and as long as he’s got me in there, I’ll fight along with him, you know. It’s just quality, innovation, better songs, choruses that will communicate in a stadium setting…he wants it all. He wants great bass riffs. There’s still mystery in the room and they really want to do their best. They want it out for the fall as well.”
Lanois recently described the band’s new songs as “very hand-played but still very electro” to Sun Media, adding, “Everyone has an appetite for breaking new ground and everybody wants to make a masterpiece.”
Lanois has a long history with U2. He teamed with Brian Eno to produce the band’s 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire and 1987′s multiple-Grammy winner The Joshua Tree. Lanois was also behind the control board for 1991′s Achtung Baby and 2000′s All That You Can’t Leave Behind.
U2 frontman Bono recently raised $42 million for the fight against AIDS through his (RED) charity, which held an art auction last month in New York Thursday (February 14th) to raise money for the Global Fund of the United Nations Foundation, which works to fight AIDS in Africa.
U2 will also team with Paul McCartney, Queen, Keane, Eminem and others this summer for a concert in London’s Hyde Park celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday.
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Este 1 de abril sale a la venta el álbum “In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2″, en el que varios artistas africanos interpretan canciones de U2.
Este proyecto de Shout! Factory, fue anunciado como un álbum para celebrar la música, la cultura y el futuro de África, y de la misma forma rendir tributo a Bono y a U2 por su incesante lucha humanitaria.
El álbum se compone de covers de canciones de U2 interpretadas por artistas africanos, entre los cuales se encuentran Angelique Kidjo, Les Nubians, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, Vieux Farka Touré, Vusi Mahlasela y el Soweto Gospel Choir.
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Lo recaudado por las ventas será destinado a la “Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria”.
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Universal Music Alemania reporta a U2tour.de que las fechas de lanzamiento de las remasterizaciones de los primeros álbumes de U2 se retrasan.
Se informa que los albums Boy y October saldrán a la venta el 6 de junio, y que War y Under A Blood Red Sky lo harán el día 20 del mismo mes. Estos saldrán a la venta en dos versiones, Regular con un sólo CD y Edición de Lujo con 2 CDs.
Asimismo reporta que el DVD de Under A Blood Red Sky saldrá a la venta en julio.