U2 manager Paul McGuinness may this year have become one of the music industry’s biggest advocates of action against ISPs and social networks, but not all of his comments have been supported by the band he represents. Earlier this month, McGuinness told BBC 6Music Radiohead’s pay-what-you-like In Rainbows release had “to some extent backfired” because “60 to 70 per cent of the people who downloaded the record stole it anyway even though it was available for free”. Read more »

According to the french website Voir which interviewed Daniel Lanois there’s an interesting news about the new u2 album, one of the new tracks is called “The Cedars of Lebanon” and it draws inspiration from Jimi Hendrix. Could be a good album name too?

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Activist rockers Bono and Bob Geldof challenged French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday to increase aid to Africa, saying France was failing to live up to commitments it made at a summit of leading industrialized countries in 2005.

The U2 frontman and the former Boomtown Rats singer, who played an active role in the Live 8 concerts in support of aid and debt relief ahead of the Group of Eight summit, said failure by G8 leaders to keep their promises to the world’s poorest was “a disgrace.
The G8 had agreed at Gleneagles, Scotland, in 2005 to double aid to Africa by 2010. But according to a report by advocacy group DATA launched by the rockers in Paris on Wednesday, the G8 has so far delivered just 14 percent of what was pledged. Read more »

U2 manager Paul McGuinness has been dropping hints about the release of the new U2 album, which is provisionally planned for October.

Paul McGuinness has told the BBC that the release date for the new U2 album is “not clear yet but I would think towards the end of October. We will obviously work with whatever technology is available to make the release as interesting as possible. But for U2, physical sales are still an enormous part of our business and we still sell a lot of actual CDs.” Read more »