Cooking With Bono

I was a bit bored this evening and was looking around on You Tube and found this,  thought it was quite funny, he actually does sound very like Bono!  It's a clip from an Australan show called The Wedge.  Enjoy.

Bad in Melbourne 1st December

This song never fails to send shivers down my spine, lovely version, great sound at that gig.  Roll on Canada next year!

Paint the World (RED) on World Aids Day

                                                                         

(Photo by Don Arnold/Getty Images AsiaPac)

On 30th November Bono (looking very smart) and Edge flicked the switch to illuminate the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge in red ahead of World AIDS Day 2010.  Adam was also there, Larry seems to have opted out or maybe he was just in the background.  With the lads at the ceremony were New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally, Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Chair of Pacific Friends of the Global Fund, Wendy McCarthy.  More than 80 iconic landmarks, (including Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament in the UK) across 13 countries will join (RED) to promote awareness of the ongoing fight against the AIDS epidemic, by turning red to mark World AIDS Day on December 1.   On the evening of the 1st U2 play their first concert of the 360 Tour in Australia in Melbourne.

(Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images AsiaPac)



Here We Go Again ....

Below is an extract from an interview Bono did recently with the Australian paper/website The Age.  Bono talked about some rather scary stuff re his back injury, and here's funny quote re his treatment whilst on tour:

Each day on tour, Bono worked with a German physio he refers to as "Hitler's doctor", who would "beat the shit out of me for 45 minutes", and a Finnish practitioner, "the Finnish fondler", who would "work me and try and unbuckle my body".

And then future album plans, you can read the full article here

First Spiderman, now Danger Mouse,  they've done Batman, so maybe the Bionic Man next? No, wait, Bono's the Bionic Man, Made in Germany now isn't he?  I'm giving up getting hot under the collar about some of U2's collaborations/plans.  All I am saying is three things:

1.   U2 is not a club band

2.   Focus

3.   Listen to Adam and Larry

They have spent much of this year working on an album produced by Danger Mouse, the alias for American production ace Brian Burton (Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz).


Due early next year, it will be preceded by a single in December.

"We have about 12 songs with Danger Mouse," Bono says. "It's the album we'll likely put out next because it's just happening so easily."

The singer adds that, in a stream of creativity, U2 are working on two other projects.

The first is a club-inspired album with Black Eyed Peas rapper will.i.am, French DJ superstar David Guetta and Lady Gaga collaborator RedOne.

Also, Bono and guitarist The Edge are attempting to sell their bandmates, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen jnr, the concept of a U2 album based on the 20 songs the two have written for a Spider-man musical that opens on Broadway next month.

Canine Crusoe

You know I'm a sucker for special animal stories and here's one that I found amazing, a true story of survival - a dog that was washed overboard a boat in Australia, swam five miles to an island, lived for four months by killing wild goats, was discovered by park rangers and returned home to its family. Interesting how quickly the dog reverted to a wild state to survive and then once home quickly became a domestic pet again.

Read the story here

A Heartwarming Video

I think we have all seen the news and pictures of the terrible destruction and loss of life in Australian bush fires and our thoughts are with those people. But amidst all the devastation it's lovely to hear of a heartwarming story of firefighters giving help to a distressed koala bear they came upon in the burnt out bush.

Phew It's Hot Out There!

A friend recently sent me this., I'm a softie when it comes to cute animal stories so I thought I'd share.

It has been so hot in SA for over a week…40+ degrees Celsius everyday, and very dry. A guy at work lives at Maude. His wife sent him these photos of a little Koala which just walked into the back porch looking for a bit of heat relief. She filled up a bucket and this is what happened!