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  1. As Gerard already mentioned a few days ago:

    Originally posted by RTE.ieU2 Tower development now on hold
    The Dublin Docklands Development Authority has put on hold the development of the U2 Tower for 12 months to allow property and financial markets to improve.

    The Geranger consortium had been selected as the provisional preferred bidder to design, construct and finance the U2 Tower late last year.

    Geranger consists of Ballymore Properties, Patrick McKillen and August Partners (U2 band members and management).

    The Authority said that negotiations on the deal were suspended "to allow for an improvement in the current uncertainty surrounding the property and financial markets".

    It added that it continued to have "full confidence" in the project, which is an important element of its master plan for the docklands area.

    The Tower was to have included a hotel and residential and retail areas, as well as a recording studio for the band.
  2. More from the AP.....

    Originally posted by AssociatedDUBLIN, Ireland – Plans to build the tallest building in Ireland — with new recording studios for Irish supergroup U2 on top — were suspended Friday because of Dublin's slumping property market and slide into recession.

    The Dublin Docklands Development Authority said it remains committed to building the long-planned U2 Tower, but a souring economy at home and abroad means the project must be shelved. It expressed hope of reopening negotiations with potential developers within 12 months.

    "The objective is to see this landmark project completed. However, given the current unfavorable economic environment, more time is needed at this juncture," the Dublin development agency said in a statement, adding it was "confident that these economic uncertainties are short- to medium-term."

    The project shelving caps a six-year struggle and three rounds of architectural competition to build a U2 Tower. It raises doubts about whether the current lavish design, by world-renowned British architect Norman Foster, will ever get beyond the draftsman's board.

    The projected 200 million euro ($250 million) construction would have dominated the low-rise skyline of Dublin, where conservationists have successfully shot down other skyscraper projects.
  3. Yesterday's Music Industry Trust Awards in London



  5. According to atu2, the band just attendend the event praising Lucian Grainge (niversal Music Group International chairman/CEO).
  6. Boys are looking healthy and happy... maybe the album is ready
  10. I love the math. Guinness + cigarettes + religion = great voice!
  12. "It Might Get Loud" --coming to a theater near you next summer! (in North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa):


    Sony Classics Picks Up It Might Get Loud
    Source: Sony Pictures Classics November 17, 2008


    One of the more popular documentaries that screened at this year's Toronto Film Festival in September was Davis (An Inconvenient Truth) Guggenheim's It Might Get Loud, a rock doc that brought together three guitar greats, Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin, The Edge from U2 and Jack White of The White Stripes. The three of them met in a studio where they talked about the history of their bands and their love of the electric guitar, while jamming on each other's songs. (You can read what we said about the film from the festival here.)

    ComingSoon.net just received word today that the film has been picked up for distribution by Sony PIctures Classics for North America, Latin America and several other regions.

    You can read the official press release below:

    Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed the acquisition from Producer Thomas Tull (Chairman and CEO, Legendary Pictures) of “It Might Get Loud,” by Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”). The Company has acquired the film--which played to packed houses and acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival--for North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

    Bringing together, for the first time, three legendary musicians, The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White, this documentary celebrates the electric guitar by examining the creative process of these virtuosos through their own words and music.

    “It Might Get Loud” was the conception of Producer Thomas Tull, who sought out director Davis Guggenheim. They eschewed the clichés of typical rock films for

    something more probing about the magic of the electric guitar and what makes it the enduring symbol of rock. The film is a musically and visually uplifting love letter to the electric guitar told through the experiences of these three major figures across three generations of rock ‘n’ roll.

    Sony Pictures Classics released the following statement: ”It Might Get Loud” is a music lover’s dream. The film covers three generations of guitar players (The Edge, Jimmy Page, Jack White) and our plan is to attract the three generations of fans when we open the film next summer. We are pleased to be in business with director Davis Guggenheim and producer Thomas Tull, whose obsession with the subject has brought so much to the high quality of the film.”

    “We are very proud of the film and impressed that Sony Pictures Classics has shown the same passion for the project,” says producer Thomas Tull.

    “It Might Get Loud,” is a Thomas Tull presentation of a film by Davis Guggenheim, produced by Lesley Chilcott, Peter Afterman, Thomas Tull and Davis Guggenheim, with Bert Ellis and Michael Mailis serving as Executive Producers. Directed by Davis Guggenheim.

    http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50621


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