06th Mar 12, More site changes: I've been thinking about adding a couple of new sections to this site...nothing earth shattering but hopefully something you'll find interesting. I'll likely ditch the mp3 page too because a) there are no mp3s on it and b) no one ever requests files by email any more either. If I really get my act together, I might try to add in some sort of comment functionality - for some pages, at least. I know there are blogging platforms out there that'll do exactly that much better than I could but it'll be much more fun to try to do it myself. Not sure if anyone'll want to comment but you never know.
29th Feb 12, Bono in demand: Apparently Andrew Lloyd Webber wants Bono to be a judge on his upcoming talent show which will be looking for someone to play Jesus Christ in a new version of his musical 'Jesus Christ Superstar'. As if Bono didn't have enough of a God complex as it is..! Can't see it happening though. I think the B-man has enough on his plate without getting involved in the latest wannabe search.
09th Feb 12, Three Chords and the Truth on Twitter: After pretty much ignoring social media until now, I've finally given in and created a Twitter account for this site (@U2ThreeChords). I don't know if anyone will want to follow my sub-140 character U2-related ramblings but I suppose stranger things have happened. If for some bizarre reason you'd actually like to follow this site, click on the Twitter icon on the right.
03rd Feb 12, Site updates begin to go live: I've finally uploaded the first few redesigned pages for this site. So far only this homepage and the band biography pages have been updated but the rest of the pages will follow in due course. Hopefully the changes are a bit more visually appealing - they will certainly make the site much more maintainable in future. On the U2 front, it looks like Bono is about to cash in on his stake in Facebook to the tune of about $800 million. Not too shabby.
26th Jan 12, U22 results announced: U2.com has been running a vote among members to decide which songs should appear on the new U22 CD. The results have now been announced and can be seen on the U2.com site. The biggest surprise for me is that there are so few pre-Joshua Tree songs on the list, with only The Unforgettable Fire and Out of Control making the cut. It would have been good to see something like Party Girl or Electric Co on there but unfortunately a lot of U2 fans don't even know songs like those. I remember sitting in the nosebleeds in the Boston Fleet Center in 2001 when Party Girl was played and it was obvious that most of the crowd didn't recognise it. Shameful!
09th Jan 12, Site changes still ongoing: I'm still pottering about with the design and layout of this site and hope to make the changes live fairly soon. Watch this space. On the U2 front, I see there's finally some good news about the Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark musical. It's just had the most successful week of any show in the history of Broadway, taking $2.9 million (£1.8 million) in ticket sales in the last week of 2011. Perhaps Bono and Edge won't give up on their $70 million investment just yet.
31st Oct 11, Happy birthday Larry: Today is Larry's 50th birthday, which takes me back to this day 10 years ago when I was lucky enough to share in Larry's 40th birthday celebrations...along with 15,000 other people at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island. I'd recently finished my Masters degree at university and decided to treat myself to a trip to the US to see U2 on the 3rd leg of the Elevation Tour. Thanks to some great friends who hooked me up with tickets and places to stay, I got to see several shows in New York, New Jersey and Providence. The last of these was on 31st October so we all got to sing Happy Birthday to Larry and wish him many happy returns. We were lucky enough to be on the front rail that night, so we had a great view as fans handed him a giant birthday card and Bono presented him with a cake. You can see a few photos of that night here. I only wish I'd had a better camera with me.
20th Oct 11, Site changes: I'm in the process of changing all my pages to php files instead of htm. Hopefully it should happen seamlessly but if you happen to come across any broken links, please let me know.
13th Sep 11, Is it really 20 years since Achtung Baby was released?!: Apparently you will soon be able to buy a special deluxe edition of Achtung Baby, which is being released on 31st October to mark the 20th anniversary of its original release. You'll need pretty deep pockets if you want one though, as it'll cost you £385 (or about $630). For that you get copies of Achtung Baby and Zooropa, CDs of unreleased material, DVDs of the videos for the singles from the album, vinyl singles, a book, art prints and DVDs of 'ZOO TV: Live From Sydney' and 'From The Sky Down', the recently released documentary film that charts the band's history during the period around the recording of Achtung Baby. You'll even get a pair of Bono-style sunglasses. For that price, perhaps Bono will come round and deliver them himself.
18th Aug 11, Billionaire Bono?: It seems that the investment company which Bono co-founded (Elevation Partners) has made a killing on shares in Facebook. Their stake in the social networking site is now valued at $975 million, a pretty handy return on the $210 million they paid for it in 2009. That should keep the B-man in sunglasses for a while...
04th May 11, Rare U2 video clip: A friend of mine recently discovered an old VHS video of U2 accepting the Best International Group award at the Irish Music Awards in 1988 (which were sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board) and he's now uploaded it to YouTube. It's very rare footage - in fact I haven't been able to find any other mention of U2 even winning this particular award, let alone video of them accepting it. You can watch the video here.
13th Apr 11, U2360 tour breaks world record: U2 have now broken the Rolling Stones' record for the highest grossing tour of all time, after their recent Sao Paolo concert took them past $558 million in ticket sales. They still have 20 concerts to play, at the end of which they'll have grossed a whopping $700 million. Nice work if you can get it.
24th Feb 11, U2 confirmed for Glastonbury: Gigwise.com are reporting that U2 have confirmed that they will be headlining this year's Glastonbury festival on Friday 24th June, after being forced to cancel last year when Bono injured his back. Edge made the announcement on a video played at last night's NME awards, at which Glastonbury won the award for best festival.
17th Jan 11, Adam becomes a dad: Wonders never cease...it seems Adam has become a father. The Irish Independent is reporting that he had a baby boy with an unnamed French woman early last year. Despite Adam's reputation as the most 'rock'n'roll' member of U2, he's reported to be deleriously happy with fatherhood. Who can blame him?!
01st Jan 11, PS!: I suppose I should have mentioned that of course the answer I was looking for was that U2 played the Superbowl half time show in 2002. If you didn't win the book, don't forget you can always buy it on Amazon.com.
01st Jan 11, Competition winners: Congatulations to Dawn and Cynthia who have each won themselves a copy of the U2FAQ book in my recent competition. Thanks and commiserations to everyone else who entered...better luck next time! I hope everyone out there is having a happy new year and as someone once said, "may the best of 2010 be the worst of 2011".
"With a mouth full of teeth, you ate all your friends and you broke every heart thinking every heart mends" - Crumbs From Your Table
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