In just four days, the long awaited, and much beleaguered, musical Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark arrives on Broadway. In case you missed the drama associated with the production, Bono and The Edge of U2 have teamed-up with Tony award winning director Julie Taymor to create what has become the most expensive music ever staged on Broadway- more than $60 million.
Bono told 60 Minutes, in a special that followed the show for a year and a half and airs opening night, that: “It has been one of the funest (sic), more joyful rides of our artistic life, for sure,” We’ve moved out of the rock ‘n’ roll idiom in places, into some very new territory for us, There’s big show tunes and dance songs.”
Expect to enjoy the following artists on 10/4 @ Carnegie Hall (billed as ‘An Evening With Gavin Friday & Friends’): LAURIE ANDERSON, ANTONY, ELIZABETH ASHLEY, BONO, ADAM CLAYTON, ANDREA CORR, THE EDGE, FLO & EDDIE, JOEL GREY, BILL FRISELL, GUGGI, SCARLETT JOHANSSON, COURTNEY LOVE, LYDIA LUNCH, PATRICK MCCABE, MARIA MCKEE, SHANE MACGOWAN, ERIC MINGUS, LARRY MULLEN, JR., JG THIRLWELL, MARTHA WAINWRIGHT, RUFUS WAINWRIGHT.
Tickets go on sale Wednesday, 9/16 at 11AM EST.
For further info, head here.
MP3: Antony – Epilepsy Is Dancing
The Life & Times Of Allen Ginsberg was officially released last week around the globe. The 2+ hour (revisited) DVD documentary is available for purchase now via this link.
To view some short trailers from the interviewees, check here.
Extras on the film include a ‘Ballad Of The Skeletons’ music video, scenes from Allen’s last three days, a visit to Kerouac’s grave with Bob Dylan, the making of The Life & Times Of Allen Ginsberg and further interviews with Andy Warhol, & Hunter S. Thompson.
MP3: Beck – Movie Theme
I love it!
Via Uncut: U2 front man Bono is to star in a bizarre sounding new rock’n'roll movie, “Across The Universe.”
The Commitments’ writing duo Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais have scripted the film, and the script’s plot sounds, ahem, a bit bonkers. “Across The Universe” is directed by Julie Taymor, whose previous credits include Frida and the Broadway version of Disney’s The Lion King, and is an intense love story set in the 1960s.
Following two lovers, Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) and their musicain friends from Liverpool to Vietnam via a riot-torn Detroit and a psychedelic Greenwich Village – “Across The Universe” intends to explore emerging anti-war and counterculture movements.
Bono is taking on the role of Dr. Robert and comedian Eddie Izzard plays the part of Mr. Kite – both charcaters act as the star-crossed lovers guides on their travels. The film is due for simultaneous release in the UK and US on September 28.
MP3: U2 – City Of Blinding Lights
Not even at a place of worship!
Via NME: U2 have had their songs incorporated into church services. A number of Episcopal churches in the US have begun using music by the band into their communion services. Called the U2Charist, the service has spread to 150 churches in 15 US states.
The first U2Charist service was held at Maine’s York Harbor on July 31. The Episcopal priest at the service, Reverend Paige Blair, came up with idea. Blair told USA Today: “Bach and Handel were the popular music of their day, and they had trouble getting played in church. The Methodist hymn writers once wrote contemporary music. Are we worshipping Bono? Absolutely not.”
A key part of the U2Charist is also an offering for Bono’s campaign against poverty and global AIDS.
MP3: ‘So Cruel’
