New U2 album SONGS OF INNOCENCE

[Aaron]

http://www.538.nl/programma/14/ruuddewild-nl/nieuws/1411/ruud-interviewt-exclusief-u2
Very interesting video of Bono and Larry being interviewed by a Dutch interviewer.

The first top discussed is Larry's tattoo.  He's had the tattoo for 18 years now.  He got it when his son Aaron was in the womb.  They symbol is a native American symbol for protection of the innocent.  They put the symbol on cradles of the new borns to protect them.  Larry only told the band of the meaning of the tattoo post-photo shoot.  Interesting for sure. 

[slaneman]

Nov 17-21, U2 will be on Fallon. I hope they do full band versions, maybe some songs they haven't done live yet.

I guess Conan O'Brien is not big enough anymore to start their US promos, which is a shame. Conan let them take over the whole show back in 2005, and btw, he's still Irish. He had the funniest take on the SOI /  Apple reactions...killer sarcasm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAxmGAZBBtY

[morgan1098]

U2 and Tears for Fears on the same night!  Love it!!!!

[u2hmtmkmkm]

For anyone who might be interested, I'm making a mashup of sorts of the two versions of Sleep Like a Baby Tonight. I like the original in full but I liked the intro of the alternate version and added that to the beginning of the original. As well as one of the verses in the middle. It's not perfect, but if anyone would like to hear it, PM me and I'll send a copy.

[morgan1098]

Not sure where else to post this... Larry, Adam and Edge will be performing as "U2 minus one" for the World AIDS Day Concert in Times Square tonight... with vocal duties handled by Bruce Springsteen and Chris Martin!   

http://www.u2.com/news/title/u2-minus-1-live-in-new-york-tonight

[morgan1098]

The Edge confirmed in an interview that U2 will have to pull out of the KROQ Acoustic Christmas concert due to Bono's injuries. 

[morgan1098]

Releasing that obscure white label vinyl paid off, as Songs of Innocence just got a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. Woot!

[slaneman]

The show is Feb. 8th, hopefully Bono is doing his therapy every day. That's going to be here pretty quickly.

[Aaron]

Releasing that obscure white label vinyl paid off, as Songs of Innocence just got a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. Woot!

Obscure and in a secure location in my collection   Thanks to you asking me about it and suggesting i call Amoeba to find out more...

[morgan1098]

Every Breaking Wave single cover art

[miryclay]

Kinda looks like something from the HTDAAB Portgual photo shoot but good nonetheless.

[morgan1098]

Kinda looks like something from the HTDAAB Portgual photo shoot but good nonetheless.

I was thinking the same thing! It looks like a lot of photos in the HTDAAB booklet.

[Aaron]

anyone know where that image came from?  Because it's reading HTDAAB to me as well. 

[miryclay]

I saw it first on https://twitter.com/U2UKFanfeed but it could have been easily 'shopped. A couple of dubious promos are on Ebay.

[Brad]

We've been discussing this on Twitter a bit.

Every Breaking Wave has definitely been released to radio as a single. There is a Billboard article on U2's relationship with iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel) and their selection of EBW as the next single. Judging from what is on the iHeartRadio app, this seems to be the album version and not an edit.

That cover art is on U2's official press photo page, so that's definitely legit. I agree that it looks like a HTDAAB era photo.

I think that those promo CDs on eBay are probably legit. It's interesting that the sticker on them refers to a release date of January 12. I presume that date is for a single, though Aaron's sources are apparently telling him that any release will be digital only. I guess we can hope for a different mix/edit or some b-sides at least.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6386064/u2-iheartmedia-hit-single-songs-of-innocence
http://cdn.u2.com/rmpphoto/U2_EveryBreakingWave_single_AW.jpg