1. Anybody saw much about this. Film based around Neil McCormicks book. Niel was at the same schools as U2 and was forming his own band at the same time Bono was going places with U2. Thats the gist. Quite a bit was filmed here in Belfast and I got to check out some of the sets hoping to see if one of the band made an appearance. Sadly not.

    The only reason i'm opening topic though is due to a story I read in the local press today. Bono and Edge have given an old unreleased song to the actor playing Bono to perform in the movie. Apparently never surfaced before and sounding just like a punk number. Film due to be released this summer so a new U2 song beckons, albeit performed by a band of actors but sure. A bit of news is a bit of news when things are quiet.
  2. Disgusting title for an appealing movie.


  3. thats what McCormick called the book.

    Had no camera on me that day, but I was in town and they had a huge Joshua Tree poster up on the side of one of the buildings. Slightly surreal
  4. It's Neil, Ger.

    I followed his tweets about this movie and although I haven't read the book (yet) it sounds interesting.

    And I quite like the title, it's kinda tingling.

    And oh yes, I saw that Joshua Tree poster on that theatre. Man, that looked great.
  5. Movie to be released world wide?
  6. should hopefully get an Irish premiere and i'd imagine some of the band would be present. Might try and go along


  7. Bono visited the set, so I think some of the band will appear on the premiere.
  8. that mega poster looks fantastic, I'd probably be standing there with my jaw dropped open if I'd see it for real

    I'm really curious about that movie, and thanks for telling the news about that song they used, Gerard I hope it gets a good use in the movie so we can hear bits of it (maybe there'll be a soundtrack, that would be cool).

    I'm not comfortable with the book/movie title though, for obvious reasons. makes me feel awkward
  9. Yep, heard about this and read about it a few weeks ago. The article I read it from mentioned the name of the unreleased song, which was actually Street Missions. So, if the article is correct, it's not that we haven't heard it. It just hasn't been released.


  10. It's a bit risky as someone might take it literally! But didn't Bono suggest that as a book title to Neil?


  11. A SECRET song composed by U2 around 30 years ago is to be revealed in the new film Killing Bono.

    The Herald can revealed that the song, "Secret Mission," was recorded by the band shortly after they formed but it has never been heard by the public before.

    Despite being three decades old, the song is only coming to light now because of the film's music producer, Ciaran Gribbin, who was given the thumbs- up by the band to rework some of their earliest material for the actors to perform.

    Dream

    The Derry singer said he was brought in as a music supervisor and producer for the highly anticipated film and found it a "dream come true" to work with the raw song.

    "Hopefully everyone will be really happy with it," he told the Herald. "It's an absolute dream come true. I've been writing music for a long, long time -- I did eight songs for the movie -- but it remains to be seen how it came out in the end. I hope the public will get it. I'm confident with what I've got though.

    "It was written before U2 ever existed. They never officially released it, they recorded it when they were teenagers and called themselves The Hype. They were probably 16 or 17, it's one of their first ever songs. You can hear where they were going with it though. It has that early punk angst that you would find in a teen band -- but there are hints of where they were going with October in there also."

    Gribbin said the majority of people involved in the film have close ties to the legendary band.

    "There's a strong U2 connection with the team actually making the film. One of the producers was U2's agent when they first got signed, so they obviously know and trust him," he added. He approached them saying they needed an early song for that first school gig scene, and they were happy to oblige.

    The singer, who performs under the stage name Joe Echo, said that he hopes his version does U2 justice.

    Killing Bono just been picked up by Paramount Pictures and is set for a national release here and in the UK by the end of the year.

    (c) Evening Herald, 2010.