AUGUST 11: Youth Club / Uniondale / Salman Rushdie joins U2 on stage / "Kite" to Bob Hewson / Bono on 'Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde'-DVD / Duet Bono with Andrea Corr to Wim Wenders / 59th 'VERTIGO' show: Spanish eyes are smiling-'Ole Ole'-Niño Jesus-What night!-Great Edge's performance-Edge so right-Tommy-Sgt Peppers / ZOOTV - DVD * studio´s sessions / Bono to be a featured speaker at the Willow Creek Association Leadership Summit...via video / Jack Johnson, Bono Talk Allen Ginsberg!

"Early Ireland" - august 11, 1979 / Dublin, Ireland - Youth Club.

"The Joshua Tree" tour - august 11, 1987. U2 perform in Uniondale, New York at Nassau Veterans' Memorial Coliseum.

"ZOOTV-Zooropa" tour - august 11, 1993. U2 performs in London, England at Wembley Stadium. On the first night, controversial author Salman Rushdie joins U2 on stage in front of 70,000 fans. Fans cheer his appearance wildly and the story is picked up by media around the world. In later interviews, Rushdie would thank U2 for their "gesture of solidarity and friendship." He would also admit to being a music lover and say that standing before a crowd of 70,000 people was an extraordinary occasion for a writer. Tonight's show would also mark the last of about ten satellite hookups with Bill Carter in Sarajevo.


"Elevation" tour - august 11, 2001 - Manchester - England - MEN Arena - Kelis. U2 vocalist Bono made an emotional tribute to his father Bob Hewson -- who is believed to have cancer and is said to have "just days to live" -- at the first U.K. show of the band's world tour. "Kite" is dedicated for Bob Hewson. "This is a song for my father who has only a few days to live. This is for him the tough old fella." The U2 vocalist also called for peace in Northern Ireland as the political situation reaches a critical stage with the Stormont Assembly reconvening to discuss ongoing problems in the country. He told the cheeing crowd during the band's famous hit "Sunday Bloody Sunday": "Compromise is not such a bad word after all. Our prayer is that this week brave people make brave decisions and this little island across the little channel does not go back to war." Edge wears this night burgundy#7.

Bono on 'Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde'-DVD - August 11, 2005 - Artists throw a party for Oscar Wilde's 150th - Oscar Wilde's literary legacy is so enduring that, more than a century after his death, artists from all over the world breathed life into his words in celebration of his 150th birthday. Now, in a two-hour documentary available on DVD this summer, Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde (Kultur, $19.99) delivers lines written by the Irish poet and playwright in the late 1800s and spoken by an all-star cast, including Bono, Annie Lennox, Frank McCourt, Geoffrey Rush, Fionnula Flanagan and Liam Neeson. The documentary is the realized dream of Irish independent filmmaker Bill Hughes, who has the same birthday (Oct. 16) as Wilde. The project began last year when U2's Bono agreed to participate and Amnesty International became its beneficiary, part of its Art for Amnesty program....A shorter version of Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde was shown in Britain and Ireland this year. Hughes says PBS will run it in time for Wilde's 151st birthday.

Duet Bono with Andrea Corr to Wim Wenders - U2tour.de reports that Bono has written the title track to Wim Wenders' new film 'Don't come knocking', starring Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Eva Marie Saint and Tim Roth. (IMDB) Wenders has recently received the song from Bono, in time for the film's German release (25/8) and Wenders' 60th birthday (14/8). The song is said to be a duet with Andrea Corr. Wenders' management has informed U2tour.de that there will be a movie soundtrack, which will include the duet. A release date is as yet unknown.

59th 'VERTIGO' show - august 11, 2005 - Madrid, Spain - Estadio Vicente Calderon - The Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand - Spanish eyes are smiling / 'Ole Ole' / Niño Jesus / What night! / Great Edge's performance / Edge so right / Tommy-Sgt Peppers ! **** Spanish Eyes are smiling in Madrid: For the final night in Spain on Vertigo//2005 the band kick off the Madrid show with a bang....The police in Madrid got the band to the stadium on time with a fine ability to get 10 vehicles through the Madrid grid lock. Were they inspired by the gig? With Electric Co. tonight The Edge joined Adam facing Larry on the main stage to rock out at the end of the song. Elevation saw the audience get completely behind the singing and added to the whole experience and sound. Full of enthusiasm the Madrid audience went into their own 'Ole Ole' at the end of Beautiful Day and beautiful it was. 'Grandous cahones, we're a band from the north side of Dublin called U2 and its good to be here in such fine company, And we're just getting started alright'...During the day off Edges birthday was celebrated with a great night in Canne and a great birthday cake too. 'One of the great nights of our life was a concert in Madrid in 1987 Long time ago And its great to feel that feeling once again' 'This is a song about the future and its dedicated to the scientists who are Dreaming up the future' 'There's a hospital here in Madrid A children's hospital - I cant remember the name' Bono then put his ear to the audience and the microphone to the audience too. With that the chant starts from the audience, they know the name 'Nino Jesus, nino Jesus' Edge then starts into Miracle Drug, followed by Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, and Love & Peace which again features many of the audience on shoulders enjoying seeing the full band on the b-stages. Tonight Larry plays the drum in a different position enjoying seeing his fans so close up....'It says Coexist / A Beautiful piece of graffiti / Coexist / Something to hold on to / Especially in the city of Madrid' / 'Please, please get up of your knees / Oh America / Safe Home Johnny' As the band started Miss Sarajevo 'We'd like to dedicate the songs to the families and friends who lost loved ones in London, Egypt and Turkey, But especially in the city of Madrid (huge applause) Our Prayer is we do not want to become a monster in order to defeat a monster.' When the human rights text starts it is in Spanish, captivating the audience. This is the first time the text has been in Spanish as it was in Catalan in Barcelona, Basque in San Sebastian and now Spanish in Madrid. During Streets Adam and his low riding bass move around the stage as does Bono and while walking back on the b stage to the 'ole oles' the audience were singing again, he pulls up two ladies with the Spanish 'Make Poverty History' banner - Pobreza Cebo....Before One Bono speaks to the audience about the Make Poverty History Campaign...'Send a message to you Prime Minister Azanar' 'Thank you thank you for listening to a rock star whack on Matthew Freud for working on the campaign Thank you' When One ends, all the band gather on the front of the stage and take a bow to huge applause. Madrid is likely not to forget this concert for a long time. The gig ends with Yahweh and another rendition of Vertigo to end the night on a high.**** Great work of Edge: ....Also, the great work of The Edge. The guitarist of U2, as a sideman, constructs the basics of U2´s sounds...abc ****El grupo irlandés arrasó en Madrid con el último de sus tres conciertos en España...."What a night!" ...Bono, católico no practicante pero pastor mediático, tuvo antes de la eficaz 'Miracle drug' uno de sus momentos de gloria/homilía: "Uno de los conciertos más grandes de mi vida fue en Madrid en 1987", dijo en inglés, con consiguiente bramido del público. "Esta canción está dedicada a los médicos y científicos, y especialmente a un hospital de aquí cuyo nombre no recuerdo". El griterío en las primeras filas era tal que Bono apuntó hacia allí con el micrófono y todo el campo pudo oír: "¡Niño Jesús!"....un The Edge tan certero... **** De Madrid al cielo: ...También hubo homenajes, ya que Bono intercaló entre sus propias canciones fragmentos de otras ajenas, como una de la ópera rock "Tommy" de The Who, "Sgt. Peppers" de The Beatles y "Send in the clows" de un musical de Stephen Sondheim. Tras "Vértigo", dieron un gran salto al pasado con "I will follow" y "Electric Co.", con está última Bono demostró que también tiene su mal genio y tras golpear el micrófono contra un bafle cuando éste le empezó a fallar, terminó arrojándolo contra el suelo enfurecido....Some photos on U2-Vertigo-tour

ZOOTV - DVD * studio´s sessions - August 11, 2006 - Originally released on VHS in 1994, U2's "Zoo TV -- Live From Sydney," will make its DVD debut Sept. 19 via Island/UME. The release will be available both as a single-disc version and a double-disc package with a host of extras. The main body of the concert includes 23 songs and goes heavy on "Zooropa" album tracks such as "Lemon," "Numb," "Dirty Day" and "Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car" but also features a cover of Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love" and vintage favorites such as "New Year's Day," "Angel of Harlem" and "Pride (In the Name of Love)." Throughout, the band performs avid a visual spectacle captured by 28 cameras. The bonus disc features the previously unreleased songs "Trying To Throw Your Arms Around the World," "Desire," "The Fly" and "Even Better Than the Real Thing," three behind-the-scenes documentaries and even a karaoke version of the Edge-sung "Numb." Billboard

Bono to be a featured speaker at the Willow Creek Association Leadership Summit...via video - August 11, 2006 - Willow Campus, Barrington, Illinois: Bono features speaker at the Willow Creek Association Leadership Summit...via video. Bill Hybels, a friend Bono met on his African travels, conducted the interview about relief efforts and presents the video during Session 6 of the summit. toledoblade * newsobserver

Jack Johnson, Bono Talk Allen Ginsberg - August 11, 2006 - Singer-songwriter Jack Johnson and U2's Bono are among the artists interviewed in the Allen Ginsberg Movie, "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg." ... The Jerry Aronson-directed film offers an intimate portrait of Ginsberg, the radical and renowned poet who was a founding member of the Beat literary movement in America. Ginsberg's works include the ground-breaking poem "HOWL." "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg" began filming in 1982 and now is complete, updated and re-mastered. The deluxe 2-disc DVD set contains the Director's cut of the award-winning documentary.