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Bits & BytesA collection of the latest U2 news and announcements posted by our staff.
Bono Supports Matt Damon's 'Toilet Strike' Pledge (wink-wink)Posted: May 22, 2013Bono has pledged to join actor Matt Damon's "toilet strike" as a way to help raise awareness and money for improving clean water and sanitation around the world. And by "toilet strike," they mean they're pledging not to use the toilet "until everyone has access to clean water and sanitation." That could seriously impact U2's ability to finish recording its album and go on tour, so ... whew! ... good thing it's a joke about a serious topic. Damon's "strike" is part of his StrikeWithMe.org campaign and Bono appears in a new video supporting it. You should probably watch Damon's original video first so that the Bono/Branson/Wilde video makes more sense.
Final Wrap: U2 Conference 2013
We're pretty sure now that all of our collateral from last month's U2 Conference is now online: all the videos, all the photos, all the articles, etc., have been posted. And, to make it easy on anyone wanting to remember it all -- or see what you missed -- we've added a dedicated conference page to our Events section: On that page, you'll find links to our session videos, session recap articles, other articles that we wrote about the conference (before and after), and two sets of photos: our own and the 300+ photos in the official U2 Conference photo album. That's new and definitely worth checking out! If you need to reach this page in the future but don't remember the link, just click the CALENDAR link up above in our main site navigation and choose "Events" below it. That leads to our U2 Events Coverage page where it's listed with several other past events from U2's and @U2's history.
Poll Results: 22% of Fans Say U2's Next Album Will Be 'Okay' (or worse)Posted: May 21, 2013A good portion of U2 fans aren't optimistic about the band's next album. In a recent survey here on @U2 asking fans to describe their expectations, about 22 percent said they think the album will be "okay," "bad" or "terrible." Even among the other 78 percent, fans seem divided. About 33 percent figure the album will be "good" and 45 percent are expecting it to be "terrific." Considering that a fan site like ours is likely to attract only the band's biggest fans, those numbers seem a bit "low" -- i.e., that fans' expectations aren't as high as I'd expect. The survey ran for most of April and more than 3,500 fans around the world voted. Here are the results in chart form:
We've just updated our poll question, asking for your guess about what the highest priced ticket will be on U2's next tour. You can vote now on atu2.com.
Vintage U2Posted: May 18, 2013With over 7,000 items in our news archives, it's a safe bet you haven't read all of them! This month we start our look at 1989. With and Without U2, Hot Press
The group that were once, by their own admission, the "world's worst covers band," now inspire a thousand cover versions by garage combos across the globe, while the fab four themselves, collectively and individually, continue to expand the limits of their own musical ambitions by collaborating and conspiring with the greats of rock 'n' roll past and present and by covering whatever -- or whoever -- takes their fancy.
The Edge in Russia, Propaganda
The Edge was one of a number of Western rock artists to visit Moscow on behalf of the campaigning environmental organisation Greenpeace. The occasion was the launch of an album of songs aimed at raising funds and awareness in the fight against global destruction. "Russia was a both a lot freer in some areas and restricted in others than I thought," Edge comments.
Adam Talks, Propaganda
"What's happened in the Irish music scene since we started out is great. There is an infrastructure and there are Irish bands producing records all the time. It just wasn't so when we started out and it's very satisfying, much more so than maybe a lot of the other stuff people feel we ought to be pleased about. The fact that there's a real industry and people don't have to go away to England -- that's exciting."
Video: Bono's interview with Charlie RosePosted: May 17, 2013Bono appeared on Charlie Rose's PBS show on Thursday in a full-length interview that ran close to an hour. (Clips of the interview also aired on CBS This Morning, where Rose is a co-host.) Rose and Bono taped the interview Wednesday in New York City. If, like me, you missed the interview on TV, you can catch the whole thing via the show's YouTube channel ... and embedded below.
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