Pride (In the Name of Love)

It will be the definitive U2 story. It will have stories never before told and photos never before seen. It is ‘U2byU2’ and worldwide publication is just two months away, on September 22nd.
For the first time each member of U2 – and manager Paul McGuinness - has told their own story from their earliest childhood memories to their first meeting with each other, from those opening chords in Larry’s kitchen to becoming the biggest band in rock’n’roll.
Ever wondered what it’s like being in a band with your school friends for your entire adult life?
Ever wanted to have a conversation with the band themselves ?
‘U2byU2’ is the ultimate conversation with Adam, Bono, Edge, Larry and Paul McGuinness in which they tell their own side of the U2 story.
Featuring more than 1500 images including previously unpublished photographs from the personal archives of the band, this hefty 350-page tells the U2 story from the perspective of those who know it best – and it brings it right up to date in 2006.

This is a picture of Melbourne's Colosseum , The MCG, taken from the Penthouse of The Clarion Suites at about 8am last Sunday.

Our prince of prog pop.

Silverchair are finishing up their fifth studio album (and their first for four years) and they’ve chosen to showcase it at the biggest Australian festival of the year, Sydney’s Homebake on December 2. Tickets go on sale August 21.

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Solo Album for Jim Moginie

By Paul Cashmere

Midnight Oil’s Jim Moginie will release his first ever solo album in September.
The album ‘Alas Folkoric’ was co-produced by Moginie, with Wayne Connolly and Brent Clark and recorded in his own studio which he calls Mums.

Moginie has written everything on the album, including one collaboration with Something for Kate’s Paul Dempsey.
Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst and Martin Rotsey guest on some of the tracks.

In a statement, Jim says-
“The album kicked into gear after the Oils broke up late in 2002 . Some lost songs were rediscovered and new ones came along. The themes of the songs aren’t all disaffected 70’s leftie agitprop although inevitably some of that is in there. There’s a gentler, more folkloric nature to what I do here, one that didn’t really fit into Midnight Oil’s sound. It’s all about the songs for me but I love also mucking around with sounds and the potential of the recording studio on this record and working with other artists. It feels like a joyous thing of beauty to get this thing out of my system and onto a CD, and I’m over the moon to be on a label with such great artists and bands. I’ve done lots of solo gigs in the interim, and I’ve been doing my frontman moves in front of the mirror”.

‘Alas Folkoric’ will be released on September 16th.

'Fahrenheit' Marine Killed in Iraq

A US Marine who appeared in Michael Moore's award-winning documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has been killed in Iraq. Sergeant Raymond J. Plouhar, 30, died in a roadside bombing in Iraq's Anbar province on Monday.
Plouhar appeared in the 2004 movie attempting to recruit young men in a Flint, Michigan, shopping mall parking lot.
Plouhar's father Raymond said his son did not realize Moore's movie was critical of the war.
For those that don’t know, Plouhar is the Marine recruiter that said “It’s better to get them when they’re in ones and twos and work on them that way,” as he and a fellow recruiter cruised the parking lot of a mall for potential recruits.
He is survived by a wife and two children, ages 5 and 9. They live in Arizona.