Yeah, I didn't really get anything out of the snippets :P

I think a girl is singing in the first snippet. :uhoh:

Get On Your Boots is avaible on iTunes US, on pre-order with the album !

:)

Get On Your Boots is avaible on iTunes US, on pre-order with the album !

:)

Not fully functional yet, however. The whole album does show up in iTunes as a pre-order, along with Get on Your Boots highlighted, but an error message pops up if you try to place a pre-order purchase. It will likely be activated Monday or Tuesday.

 

Stop getting me excited over nothing. :P

u2 - Beautiful Day!![ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlxVwCbljZo]YouTube - U2 Beautiful Day Live From Chicago[/ame]

That's what they need to play at Barack's Inauguration.

:)

That's what they need to play at Barack's Inauguration.

:)

 

I've heard that they will play Pride.

Pride would be a most excellent choice as well - and very fitting, considering the song is about self-sacrifice for the good of humanity; from the Normandy invasion to Martin Luther King Jr., to perhaps Jesus?

awesome picture from their website :cool:

 

 

 

Pride would be a most excellent choice as well - and very fitting, considering the song is about self-sacrifice for the good of humanity; from the Normandy invasion to Martin Luther King Jr., to perhaps Jesus?

 

Well if they do play Pride it'll be predominantly because of the many references to MLK, with Obama being the first black president. If there's time they'll probably play something like beautiful day as well.

Probably Pride, Beautiful Day, or even City of Blinding Lights....

 

Would be amazing if something from No Line on the Horizon was played though.

Spectacular Scene!:cool:

Gotta love the flooring too - quite an assortment of woods!

..Yes, I was thinking that as well - there could be no more fitting a tribute to our first president with roots in the African-American community...

I hope they get time for two songs - it would be worth it, considering the times were in.

No Line On The Horizon is set to be released on air Tuesday (Y/N). They might do just that!! Either way, I'm sure they'll play their hearts out for the event - I've noticed that when there's a need for it, U2 always pulls though.

:)City of Blinding Lights - I will need to refresh my memory on that one..

I actually believe "City of Blinding Lights" was used as the theme of a few Obama campaign rallies. Obama himself has placed it on his personal list of top 10 favorite songs.

 

Naturally, since I don't really like the guy, this may be the only part of the inauguration coverage I watch. :P I think two songs would happen if we're lucky, though.

^ There's gonna be at least two songs. Since U2 is so big and difficult to book, on the rare occasions they play tv shows, it's never only for one song.

awesome picture from their website :cool:

 

 

 

 

 

What a fantastic studio!:D

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117998406.html?categoryid=18&cs=1

 

Well, I don't know if they will play more than one song but, again, the executive producer is quoted as saying that they will play Pride.

Re: studio pic

 

its safe to say its the best that money can buy. an incredible sight. but i still think the pics of radioheads studio during the making of In Rainbows is just slightly cooler because everything in their studio is soo messy and wild with that post-modern touch.

Re: studio pic

 

its safe to say its the best that money can buy. an incredible sight.

 

Seriously! with that floor and those carpets that look like they were snatched straight from the taj mahal...

From atu2.com

 

NEW @U2 U2 ON STAGE FOR SOUNDCHECK

January 17, 2009

posted by: m2 Twitter user jackmjenkins posted a photo of U2's soundcheck about 15 minutes ago on Twitter. No word on what song(s) U2 was rehearsing, but it looks great in front of the Lincoln Memorial. (Click that link above for a larger version of the photo.) Here are some tweets from other people who saw the band's soundcheck:

 

 

UPDATE #1: Twitter member betternovembers tells us that U2 rehearsed "Pride" and "City of Blinding Lights" today.

 

UPDATE #2: "betternovembers," AKA Meg Linehan, will be posting photos from the front of the stage in this Flickr set. Thanks Meg!

^ It looks like it will be Pride and City of Blinding Lights. I expect U2 to be stellar. IMO, no band is better on the big stage than U2. It should be great.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ntB_9ItRS8&eurl=http://u2.interference.com/f195/u2-obamas-inauguration-192386-4.html

 

 

If anyone is going to give U2 a run for their money, I expect it to be Bruce Springsteen. It should be a great day.

well, there we go. Nice choice of "city of blinding lights", although a new track would've been sweet.

^Only thing is a new song would leave everybody but fans saying WTF.

^ Yes, these are good choices, especially Pride.

"Get On Your Boots" will be aired tomorrow morning on several radio stations around Europe.

 

(all times in CET!!!)

 

Ireland:

RTÉ 2FM: 9.10am (first radio station to air the new song)

 

Germany:

NDR2: 9.15am - 10am

WDR2: 9.15am - ?

SWR3: 9.15am - 12pm

N-Joy: 9.15am - 10am

(Private radio stations are allowed to play this song from 3pm)

 

Austria:

Antenne Steiermark: 10am - 11am

Ö3: 9.15am - 10am

 

Switzerland:

Radio Energy Zürich: 9.15am - 10am

 

UK:

Radio1: 9.15am - 10am

 

Belgium:

Studio Brüssel: 9.15am - 10am

 

:)

I was at the concert. I'd never seen u2 and they definitely didn't disappoint. What was disappointing was that I was one of the only people in the crowd who knew the words to the songs...or at least the people in my general area. It would have been awesome to get everyone behind them. I was belting away with Bono though. It was pretty amazing. Edge was in form. It was just fucking fantastic.

 

It was funny, cause at one point Bono tried to get the crowd going, but most of the people had no idea about the song...and it peetered out. I want to watch this on tv later, or hopefully just see a taped version at some point (you gotta believe they'll find a way to sell this - id definitely pay), because the awkwardness was unbearable.

 

All in all just tremendous. I wish I could have seen U2 with some real U2 fans around me, but as it was I'm pretty happy. I got to see The Edge do work, and that was pretty fucking brilliant.

 

(haha sidenote: wasn't just there cause it was a concert. been a legit Obama fan since '04.)

Cool, glad you had a good time!