U2 Appreciation Thread..

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 9/14/2005, 6:12 pm

here is an interview that the NEW YORK TIMES did with BOno. It will be in the Sept 18th paper . you can read all here. Warning this is 14 pages ong.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/magazine/18bono.html

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 9/14/2005, 6:12 pm

here is an interview that the NEW YORK TIMES did with BOno. It will be in the Sept 18th paper . you can read all here. Warning this is 14 pages ong.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/magazine/18bono.html

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 10/5/2005, 4:42 am

Fro anyone who cares Conan is dedicating the whole hour this Thursday to U2..(Oct 6th) :love:

..I wonder if it will be form NYC or taped all ready..

2 more days till I see them.. They did release some tickets but the 160 seats. They are releasing for Philly now.. DC shoudl be next. Come n LA> I need the 2nd night..

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 10/5/2005, 6:09 am

Tattooed Angels wrote:Fro anyone who cares Conan is dedicating the whole hour this Thursday to U2..(Oct 6th) ..I wonder if it will be form NYC or taped all ready..

Woah, nice!

Hmm, I think I don't work, too. Sweet, maybe I can actually watch it if I remember. $\m/$

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 10/5/2005, 10:12 am

nikki4982 wrote:
Tattooed Angels wrote:Fro anyone who cares Conan is dedicating the whole hour this Thursday to U2..(Oct 6th) ..I wonder if it will be form NYC or taped all ready..

Woah, nice!

Hmm, I think I don't work, too. Sweet, maybe I can actually watch it if I remember. $\m/$

you will forget probably then go OH WAIT who was on COnan tonight.. :lol:

I just read tha tBono is at NYU tonight speaking with Dr Jeff Sachs about Poverty. If not too much I am going ot go. It is between $25-4$0.. WHy couldn't i Know any students there.

Can;t wait to see them. Hope they leave in Crumbs for my show..

2 more days and counting. Damn I am still not over OLP and Interpol..

been a great week for me.. :love:

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 11/14/2005, 6:16 pm

U2 Vertigo tour Live In Chicago comes out on Tuesday Nov 15th..

this will ve released in either single disc( concert only)
or double disc( concert disc and extra-makin of show, plus different views, disc)

this is was recorded on May 9th and 10th of this year..

Neil · Post by **Neil** » 11/14/2005, 6:58 pm

Sweet.......gotta get! Slane Castle DVD rocked my pants off.

Wait....

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 12/20/2005, 6:17 pm

Here is a Thank YOu from Bono:

Dear Friend:

Thank you for starting a movement to save lives. Thank you for asking your friends and family to join ONE.org. Thank you for calling on the President, Congress and the heart of America to do more for the world's poor.

Thank you for being one of the first 2 million of us crazy enough to say America won't stand for global AIDS and stupid poverty. And thank you to the people who joined campaigns in other countries to make their governments come to the table and do more for the world's poor.

Thank you for the concrete results that came from calling on America to invest more in fighting poverty and disease in Africa and around the world. In July, the whole world heard you: the leaders of the 8 richest nations - the G8 - pledged an additional $50 billion annually to poor countries by 2010, half of it for Africa.

Already our money is getting results. Thank you America for putting over half a million people on life-saving AIDS medicines and leading an effort that has provided 8 million anti-malaria bednets and treated 1 million people with TB. And thank you for pushing our governments to use this money to provide AIDS drugs to everyone who needs them and basic schooling for every child.

Thank you for being part of a campaign that will cancel the crushing debts of up to 36 countries, and more to come.

Thank you to the people who called on government to act and thank you to the people in government, who started to listen and who will have to make sure we keep these historic promises and build upon them.

We must keep the positive pressure on our leaders if we want them to follow through. Americans must give these leaders permission to invest just a fraction more of the budget in what we know works, from $5 mosquito nets to drug treatments that cost pennies apiece.

If ONE thing is certain for 2006, this campaign will keep growing, your voice will grow louder, your compassion and thirst for justice will keep saving more lives. By 2008, ONE needs to have 5 million supporters, each of us doing what we can, learning more, telling friends, calling Congress.

Take one minute and ask three friends to join ONE and make the impossible possible with you in 2006.

Beating AIDS and extreme, stupid poverty, this is our moon shot. This is our generation's civil rights struggle, our anti-apartheid movement. This is what the history books will remember our generation for — or blame us for, if we fail. We can't afford to fail nor will we.

We've come a long way, and we've got a long way to go. Now let's really get started.

Thank you,

Bono

BOno along with the Gatese was named as Time MAGAZINE personsof the year.. I love how the Gatese are one of the richest people int he world, yet are so giving of their money. Plus you never hear stories on them or se their kids in thepapers etc. It is nice to see this. Take note TRUMPS AND HILTONS>. :nod:

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 1/16/2006, 5:07 pm

lots of talk going round that in a recent interview The Edge hinted that this is the last tour the band will be doing... The band are finishing up their tour for Veritgo.. Rumours going around this may be their last tour forever. :crying:

I am hoping they got the info wrong. There has been no confirmation on this. Only the same quote over and over again printed in several papers..

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 1/23/2006, 3:38 pm

U2 ranked #1 on the US charts as top money makers of 2005.

from rte.ie entertainment.

23 January 2006
U2 top of Money Makers chart in US
U2 have taken the top spot in Billboard magazine's inaugural Money Makers chart in the US with income of $255,022,633.35.

Billboard reports that the chart compiles album and digital sales with box office receipts during 2005.

U2, says Billboard, ranked 27th in album sales, ninth in digital sales and No 1 at the box office.

The Rolling Stones were in second place with $152,356,754.50 and Kenny Chesney was in third with $87,731,463.50.

Post by **faninor** » 1/23/2006, 7:57 pm

Tattooed Angels wrote:U2 ranked #1 on the US charts as top money makers of 2005.

from rte.ie entertainment.

23 January 2006
U2 top of Money Makers chart in US
U2 have taken the top spot in Billboard magazine's inaugural Money Makers chart in the US with income of $255,022,633.35.

Billboard reports that the chart compiles album and digital sales with box office receipts during 2005.

U2, says Billboard, ranked 27th in album sales, ninth in digital sales and No 1 at the box office.

The Rolling Stones were in second place with $152,356,754.50 and Kenny Chesney was in third with $87,731,463.50.

I've always found it strange that someone who enjoys being filthy rich, like Bono, would care so much about poverty. Not to say that if you're rich you can't care, but just that with how unneccessarily expensive their concert tickets are, it's pretty clear that the band enjoys people's wealth and excessive spending. I hope he donates a lot to charities!

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 1/24/2006, 4:38 pm

faninor wrote:
Tattooed Angels wrote:U2 ranked #1 on the US charts as top money makers of 2005.

from rte.ie entertainment.

23 January 2006
U2 top of Money Makers chart in US
U2 have taken the top spot in Billboard magazine's inaugural Money Makers chart in the US with income of $255,022,633.35.

Billboard reports that the chart compiles album and digital sales with box office receipts during 2005.

U2, says Billboard, ranked 27th in album sales, ninth in digital sales and No 1 at the box office.

The Rolling Stones were in second place with $152,356,754.50 and Kenny Chesney was in third with $87,731,463.50.

I've always found it strange that someone who enjoys being filthy rich, like Bono, would care so much about poverty. Not to say that if you're rich you can't care, but just that with how unneccessarily expensive their concert tickets are, it's pretty clear that the band enjoys people's wealth and excessive spending. I hope he donates a lot to charities!

he does. He could of financed his charity D.A.T.A with his own money but thought people would find that wrong so he got corporations to donate money to it..

YOu know BONO never ever said he didn't enjoy his riches. it has allowed him to live a good life all these years. Plus his family.. But nobody has done the work he has done.. Except The Gates, and A few others. At least he is doing something.. Most celebs turn their backs on alot of things.. Will do it at the moment then forget about it as time goes by..

Onto more postive news. U2 will be performing with Mary J Blige at the Grammys in Febuary..

Post by **faninor** » 1/24/2006, 5:16 pm

Ah. Well, as long as he's a little bit like Robin Hood with what he makes from their crazy ticket prices, I have nothing against him.

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 1/24/2006, 5:22 pm

faninor wrote:Ah. Well, as long as he's a little bit like Robin Hood with what he makes from their crazy ticket prices, I have nothing against him.

now the Rolling Stones are OUT OF THIS WORLD EXPENSIVE> Do they really need the money. Seats in NYC were $450 for decent seats. THat is why I didn't go.

Post by **faninor** » 1/24/2006, 5:38 pm

Clearly, they need money for the hundreds of illegitimate babies they probably made over the years.

Tattooed Angels · Post by **Tattooed Angels** » 1/24/2006, 6:22 pm

faninor wrote:Clearly, they need money for the hundreds of illegitimate babies they probably made over the years.

Probably. They had an item in the paper today about MICK being at some gallery with a young blonde female. They said it could be his daughter but with Mick you never know. OUCH. Probably was his oldest daughter with Jerry.

Neil · Post by **Neil** » 1/29/2006, 7:03 pm

I have a friend that works as an agent for Interscope Records (well, like a secondary office in Minneapolis) and the rumor is running rampid....

U2 is done after the Vertigo Tour.......supposedly, people all over the place are getting hints dropped supposedly from Edge and Larry.

They are claiming a similar thing that Eminem stated.......they feel that they have completed everything they wanted to, musically, with the release of Vertigo. Larry was even "supposedly" quoted stating something to the effect of that the design of the Vertigo CD kind of shows how the band feels.......they have "come full circle".

I dunno........

So......I'll be bitter. We all know it would happen sooner or later though. I'll keep ya's posted if I hear anything else.

It's all still a rumor........and I'm tired. Love ya'll!

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 1/29/2006, 7:08 pm

Neil · Post by **Neil** » 1/29/2006, 7:13 pm

Just a rumor still, Hope! But I noticed the talk about it........figured I'd let ya all know what I heard, too.

Love ya guys! Stay safe and I'll stop by again soon.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 1/30/2006, 6:10 am

I'm gonna be really pissed if that's true cos I didn't get to see them live.