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U2 Offers ‘From The Ground Up: U2360° Tour’ Fan Subscription Packages
Famed rock band U2 will be releasing a From The Ground Up: U2360° Tour, a 260 page large-format hardback photobook with text from Dylan Jones and photography by Ralph Larmann. For U2.com subscribers, this book will come with a great many extras, depending on the package you choose.
For the regular subscription, you get a year subscription to U2.com, the tour book, a 15-track live CD, live downloads, four lithographic prints, four bookmarks, and a 25% discount to anything in the U2 store.
Those who choose the subscription + bundle will receive all of that PLUS the U22 double live CD set (in a deluxe booklet with notes from bassist Adam Clayton), 11 instant U22 downloads plus a bonus track, and the Zoo2Live double CD set (U2 live in Australia in 1993). For those interested, all of the information on how to subscribe can be found here.
Keep in mind that these music editions of the book will only be available through U2.com and not through any online or retail outlet. First copies will ship out in December.
Below you can see photos of the two bundles as well as read a quote from the introduction of the book from U2’s manager Paul McGuinness.
“The story of the U2360° tour is as epic as the numbers, from the seven million people who bought tickets to the logistics of moving three identical sets around continents each one taking 150 trucks to transport. Above all it was an epic experience led by the music and the show. This is the story of U2’s biggest tour to date and biggest tour of all time.”
– Paul McGuinness (U2 manager) From The Ground Up
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It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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