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My Deep Throat in U2 tells me Bono and the Simon Carmody Community had a small party last weekend in a secret location in Dublin. Where the streets have no name? No – up in Killiney, sillies, on the Friday. Presumably the band were toasting the near-completion of their taxing, if long-awaited, new album.
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U2’s new song, “Ordinary Love,” will be available as a 10-inch vinyl release on November 29th. That’s according to the Record Store Day website, which lists it among a long list of “special releases” that’ll be available on Black Friday, usually the …
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U2 queues for ice-cream on Bray seafront. Photograph: Jason Forde
Film-producer Jason Forde had no camera, only his iPhone, to hand when he came upon four men (Bono, Edge, Larry and Adam) casually enjoying 99s by the seafront of his hometown this week.
Forde, from Bray, Co Wicklow, saw some activity and a film crew along the shore on Tuesday and realised it was U2. “Nobody was stopping. They did not realise it was U2 as it was very small and low key,” he said.
U2 had been in Bray Head Hotel when they came out and did a song and a shoot along the shore, Forde said.
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U2’s “Ordinary Love” to be unveiled on Youtube and U2.com October 30th. This the first song for the band and is part of a movie “Mandela biopic A Long
Walk To Freedom.”
An excerpt from the song
indicates Ordinary Love is a mid-tempo piano-driven ballad. It features
the lyrics: “We can’t fall any further and/We can’t feel ordinary love/
We can’t reach any higher/ We can’t deal with ordinary love.”
The song was specially written for the movie, so it is unclear whether or not it will appear on the new U2 album. A Long Walk To Freedom producer Harvey Weinstein
said the band were asked to contribute a song to the film. “It was the
fastest ‘yes’ I have ever received. The band saw various cuts of the
film over the summer and worked diligently to write a song that truly
reflects Nelson Mandela. I think they did a brilliant job, honouring the
man and the leader they have known for over 20 years,” he said. The film stars Idris Elba as Mandela and Naomie Harris as Winnie Mandela,
and is based on the former South African president’s bestselling
autobiography about his time in Robben Island as a political prisoner.
The boys spotted this week filming in Bray, CO Wicklow yesterday with fans praying that the band would be shooting a new album cover. The band has been held up at teh Bray Head Hotel before filming a segment. “Desire” could be heard along the seafront.
The boys performed an impromptu set for select passerby who just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Locals may be included in the video.
As we reported earlier in the week the back released their first song in three years. The
track appears in the trailer for the upcoming biopic movie on the life
of Nelson Madela called ‘Mandela: Long walk to freedom’. However the track may not appear on the band’s new album, as it was specifically written for the Mandela movie.
