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“Bono and I are working on some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music.” U2 guitarist The Edge says the band are recording with Brian Eno, but not on the “noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album” Bono promised

U2 are working on new music, but not the kind of raw, rowdy music they've been talking up over the past few years

Louder

“We had sausages and salad and margaritas. Noel wouldn’t eat the salad.” That time Australian dance crew Confidence Man invited U2 and Noel Gallagher to their house for dinner, and were confronted by an angry neighbour on their doorstep

Fast-rising Australian dance quartet Confidence Man recall the evening they had world-famous rock stars drop around for a home-cooked meal, and things got “rowdy”

Louder

Patti Smith’s coolest looks, from casual tees and jeans to her trademark oversized jackets

The artist, singer, poet and writer has a tried and tested style that never seems to date

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"You guys definitely have to be the first band into the Sphere, because this is the future": U2's live sound engineer on how he persuaded Bono and The Edge to be the Las Vegas Sphere's first resident band

"I tried my level best and I couldn't break it" Joe O'Herlihy on the prep behind U2's astounding residency

MusicRadar

“I was really delving into the nuance of why a guitar sounds the way it does”: One of The Edge's personal Strats is up for auction for a good cause

The Edge Strat is expected to sell for $75,000, benefiting Venice Family Clinic's mission to fund critical healthcare services in LA

Guitar World

“There’s an early No Doubt song which might as well be full-on heavy metal, if you want to hear Gwen singing for Black Sabbath. And there’s an absolutely shredding solo!” No Doubt’s Tom Dumont names 10 guitarists (and one genre) that shaped his sound

The No Doubt and Dreamcar guitarist attempted two Rush songs at a seventh-grade talent show, chunked up on Black Sabbath and later named his son after Ace Frehley – but reggae got deepest into his heart

Guitar World

How to play Edge-style rhythm guitar with four unusual chords from U2 songs

Pride (In The Name Of Badd4)

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“It's an elusive quality that hasn't been captured by modeling amps”: Steve Morse pinpoints the key traits that give tube amps the edge over their digital counterparts

Morse is a notable champion of the Kemper, but he's sticking to his ENGL tube amp for live shows for one key reason

Guitar World

“Edge smacked me. It was a full-on rumble.” The night that U2 guitarist The Edge punched Bono in the face onstage

U2's first US tour, in December 1980, was intense, not least when they stopped one show to brawl

Louder

"He knows very little about an awful lot, but it’s how he applies that knowledge - and it’s down to confidence, too": How Brian Eno became music's ultimate renaissance man

Producer, collaborator, hard-to-use synth champion, ambient maestro, app developer and chancer Brian Eno is certainly a pioneer, but of what? Well, how about everything?

MusicRadar

U2's Even Better Better Than The Real Thing live video showcases The Edge's UAFX amp pedals in full Vegas mode

The guitarist confirmed to us last year that he's using three UA amp modelling pedals for Fender and Vox tones at the Sphere

MusicRadar

‘Like the Three Tenors, but with drummers’: Budgie, Lol Tolhurst and Jacknife Lee on their supergroup rebirth

The drummers from the Banshees and the Cure joked about a collaboration until – with megaproducer Lee on board – they were soon jamming with The Edge and Bobby Gillespie. They talk pop, alcoholism and leaving the UK

The Guardian - UK

"We had no idea we were going to do it": That time Jimmy Page, Jack White and The Edge saluted the Band with a surprise campfire cover of The Weight

The impromptu acoustic jam closes out the 2008 guitar-themed documentary, It Might Get Loud

Guitar World

Tina Turner nearly didn’t sing GoldenEye theme after Bono sent her ‘the worst’ demo: ‘It was really rough’

‘This song, I didn’t even know what key to practice it in,’ singer recalled in 2018

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Louder

A happy Jimmy Page playing air guitar is today's fix of wholesome video goodness

In which Led Zeppelin maestro Jimmy Page plays the song that inspired him to become a guitarist, and does a giddy little dance

Evening Standard

U2 Achtung Baby Live at Sphere: Dates and trailer for Las Vegas residency

Celebrating 30 years of the Irish rockers’ acclaimed album of the same name, Achtung Baby Live starts on September 29

Louder

U2 reveal more details about revolutionary Las Vegas show inside a sphere

U2 will play five shows at the world's largest spherical structure, which promises 160,000 speakers delivering "headphones sound without the headphones"

Irish Mirror

U2: UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere - 100,000 tickets for Las Vegas concerts go on sale this week

The immersive concerts will be the world’s most high-tech ever with 360-degree spatial audio and 16K x 16K resolution displays

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U2 Creating New Experience with Sphere Las Vegas Concerts

U2 is familiar with rocking out in major sporting arenas and stadiums, but the legendary band will soon hit the stage to create a new immersive concert experience inside a high-tech, globe-shaped venue in Las Vegas. Live Nation and Sphere Entertainment announced Monday the dates for U2’s upcoming “U2:UV Achtung…

The Independent UK

U2 creating new experience with Sphere Las Vegas concerts

Dublin Live

Dalkey Book Festival returns this summer with world-famous celebs

The Edge will be chatting with Brian Cox about particle physics, dark matter, and guitar riffs

Guitar World

U2’s Adam Clayton: “The bass has to either be sexy or aggressive, or it shouldn’t be there as far as I’m concerned”

The bassist for one of biggest rock bands of all time on cramming a stadium-ready rig into Fender’s first-ever signature bass amp, what prompted him to play an Ibanez on one of the group’s most iconic songs, and why he’s only just started exploring five-strings four decades into his career

The Guardian - UK

‘We only agreed to do it if they shook hands’: Bono on the gig that helped end the Troubles

From Neil Hannon to Bertie Ahern, musicians, politicians and PR gurus recall the crucial part that a 1998 gig played in Northern Ireland’s peace process

Dublin Live

Daughter of U2 star The Edge marries in secret Ashford Castle wedding

Blue married husband Fiachra O'Shaughnessy at Ashford Castle last month

Irish Mirror

Daughter of U2 rocker The Edge marries in secret Ashford Castle wedding ceremony

Daughter Blue, 34, wed consultant husband Fiachra O’Shaughnessy - with U2 frontman Bono in attendance

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