Hace unas horas se realizó el ensayo general de lo que será el U2 360° Tour que arranca de manera oficial el día de mañana 30 de junio en Barcelona, España.

Este setlist contó con un pequeño tributo a Michael Jackson cantando un fragmento de Man in The Mirror.

Setlist:

1. Breathe
2. No Line On The Horizon
3. Get On Your Boots
4. Magnificent
5. Beautiful Day / Blackbird (snippet)
6. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
7. Angel Of Harlem / Man In The Mirror (snippet)
8. In A Little While
9. Unknown Caller
10. The Unforgettable Fire
11. City Of Blinding Lights
12. Vertigo
13. Crazy Tonight
14. Sunday Bloody Sunday
15. Pride
16. MLK
17. Walk On / You’ll Never Walk Alone (snippet)
18. Where The Streets Have No Name
19. One

Encore:
20. Ultra Violet
21. With Or Without You
22. Moment Of Surrender

Via: U2Tours

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.

Lista de anciones:

1. Mysterious Ways (Angelique Kidjo)
2. Bullet The Blue Sky (Vieux Farka Touré)
3. Sunday Bloody Sunday (Ba Cissoko)
4. Sometimes You Just Can’t Make It On Your Own (Vusi Mahlasela)
5. Where The Streets Have No Name (Tony Allen)
6. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Cheikh Lo)
7. One (Keziah Jones)
8. With Or Without You (Les Nubians)
9. Pride (In The Name Of Love) (Soweto Gospel Choir)
   
10. Seconds (Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars) VIDEO
11. Desire (African Underground All-Stars)
12. Love Is Blindness (Waldemar Bastos)

Lo recaudado por las ventas será destinado a la “Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria”.

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.

U2 apareció junto a otros artistas en The Late Late Show de RTE 1, para la primera presentación en vivo de la canción homenaje a Ronnie Drew.

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