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Music producer David Guetta has admitted his planned collaboration with U2 has still not happened.

The 43-year-old French DJ revealed he had talks with U2 frontman Bono last year about working together.

However he has now told UK newspaper Daily Star: “We met in Paris and said at some point we should do something together. But it has not happened yet, maybe one day.”

Guetta added that fans can still expect some great collaborations on his new album.

He said: “There’s some very big surprises. People keep asking if Leona Lewis is on the record, it’s a very strong rumour.”

Source: MSN uk / Celebrity

According to reports, U2 are “gutted” that they won’t have a new album finished before next year.

The ‘With or Without’ you group had originally planned to release new material by the end of their 360 degree tour this july, but their commitments have made it impossible to finish sessions for the record leaving them disappointed.

Bass player Adam Clayton said: “We had to have a meeting and look at the schedule to see if we could pick up any extra time to work on it, and we just realised that we couldn’t.”

He further stated: “To be honest, everyone was a bit gutted. But it was the only sensible decision.”

The Irish group have been working on a number of different projects, with singer Bono and guitarist The Edge overseeing the launch of and creating the soundtrack to their ‘Spiderman: Turn off the Dark’ musical, and the whole group have completed sessions with producers Danger Mouse and RedOne.

While, Bono has been talking about the band writing a “club sounding” track, Adam thinks they are more likely to focus on their sessions with Danger Mouse, rather than those with Lady Gaga collaborator RedOne.

Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine he said: “We have to focus on what we do best, and the work we did with Danger Mouse came closest to that.”

He further added: “We want to be in the clubs and make pop music as well as the thing U2 does, but in the end, the thing we did with RedOne doesn’t feel like the right fit.”

U2 are now aiming to release new material in the second half of 2012.

Source: RTE

NEW YORK — Despite an unharmonious start that turned the “Spider-Man” musical on Broadway into a late-night talk show joke, a cast album will go on sale Tuesday, June 14.

The 14-song album, “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” written by U2’s Bono and The Edge, will be produced by Steve Lillywhite and will be released by Interscope Records.

The songs will feature Reeve Carney in the role of Peter Parker, Jennifer Damiano as Mary Jane, T.V. Carpio as Arachne, and Patrick Page as the Green Goblin.

They’ll be backed by a 20-member orchestra.

The first single, “Rise Above 1,” was made available last week.

The show recently restarted after a three-week hiatus following the firing of Julie Taymor as director and with rejiggered music and a smoothed-out script.

It officially opens June 14.
Read more: http://newsok.com/broadway-spider-man-album-set-for-release/article/3573566#ixzz1OBlUcz9X

By The Associated Press    Published: June 3, 2011

It’s been a year of collaborations for DANGER MOUSE; the recent BROKEN BELLS EP Meyrin Fields, co-written and co-produced with James Mercer of THE SHINS; last year’s effort with the BLACK KEYS on the album Brothers; and later this year, the release of a U2 album tentatively titled Songs of Ascent, in which it is hoped Danger Mouse will help the band not suck as much as they have in the last decade. But the collaboration that I most look forward to is this month’s release of his collaboration with film composer Daniele Luppi for a project called ROME. Rounding out the roster on this project, JACK WHITE and NORAH JONES will be handling vocal duties. Rome promises a lamenting soundscape somewhere between a spaghetti Western and a Tarantino flick, fused with a wet, bluesy swagger. Based on the strength of the three songs leaked on the internet—“Rose With a Broken Neck,” “Black” and “Two Against One”—it’s a safe bet Rome is going to be a worthy release, certainly more favorable than the aforementioned U2 thing. The recently released 30-minute BEASTIE BOYS video “Make Some Noise” a.k.a. “Fight For Your Right Revisited” gives whole new meaning to the term “pissing match” as the younger B-Boys, portrayed by Elijah Wood, Danny McBride and Seth Rogan, take on their future counterparts portrayed by Will Farrell, Jack Black and John C. Reilly. Debuting last month on MTV, the ambitious and star-studded narrative features a ridiculous supporting cast of celebrities including Steve Buscemi, Amy Poehler, David Cross, Rainn Wilson and Mike Mills of R.E.M. to name few.
In an unforeseen twist, producer POLOW DA DON has partnered unique talent M.I.A. on a track with professional douche-bag CHRIS BROWN. Honestly, that’s like the time I went to a party and some culinary retard made bacon wrapped water chestnuts as hors d’œuvres. Bacon is basically one of the greatest foods ever and water chestnuts are just nasty little nuggets of shit that will ruin anything they are combined with. This collaboration makes me think of exactly that. Thank you, Polow Da Don, for your heart-felt attempt to save the career of a water chestnut.

And in High-Tech-What-The-Fuck News, this month ALICE COOPER will be headlining the Jägermeister Ice Cold Event in South London . . . from a studio in Hollywood. In what is billed as “U.K.’s first holographic 4-D rock gig,” Cooper and his band, consisting of the surviving original members, will perform a set in real-time in Hollywood and their performance will be projected over the Atlantic in hologram form onto a stage in South London. Giving the event a sense of tangibility, items such as balloons will shower the audience, and during a sequence where “snow” is falling on stage, icy blasts will chill the crowd. Cooper’s first experience with holograms was back in 1973 with the aid of legendary surrealist Salvador Dali. Now, in celebration of the release of his recent box set entitled Old School: 1964-1974, Cooper finds delight in the marriage of past and future. The event is limited to 800 exclusive tickets, which can only be obtained by winning them on Jägermeister’s U.K. Facebook page, and are not available to U.S. fans.
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE will be doing a “reunion” show with MUSE and RISE AGAINST on July 30 in Los Angeles. Or at least, various news sources report this as being a “reunion show.” While this is bound to be an event of extreme excellence, didn’t Rage Against the Machine already do a reunion show? Or maybe a dozen? How long can we milk this “reunion” thing? Honestly, they’ve been “reuniting” since Coachella 2007. They “reunited” again at Rock The Bells . . . and then went overseas to “reunite” some more in Europe and South America. And they reunited in a protest concert against Arizona’s SB1070 law. I think we can honestly stop referring to it as a reunion at this point and acknowledge that Rage Against the Machine is in fact solvent and existent. This of course follows rumors that the band is in fact working on a new album, due to be released later this year. Hopefully the rumors are true, and RATM has a reunion tour in support of the new album. And hopefully they break up again so that they can reunite a few years later. And that concludes my rotten column.
source: CULTURE BLOGS (written by) By Hans Fink / Photo credit: Peter Neill Photography

Some of the many pedestrians chose to ignore the requirements of equipment and instead of waiting for it to end the recording, they decided to cross the bridge, perhaps with the goal of appearing in the shots.

Trabi, utilities that were popular at the time of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) and turned into objects of worship, led to Bono from the Berlin Cathedral to the bridge.

Car, green, also appears in the video in a nod to the past, when U2, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, spent several weeks in the city to record various themes of his album ‘Achtung, Baby! ” Hansa studies in the popular district of Kreuzberg.

On this occasion, Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton revisited several of the places they frequented for 20 years.

So Clayton was seen on May 2 at night in the studio and at the Italianrestaurant located in the basement of the building, where was the Falstaff pub, which also went regularly.

BERLIN, GERMANY 
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http://youtu.be/CnOJcfFvdZI Video shot by U2gigs/ Photos source= U2gigs/U2tours.de