Proud Galleries in London is hosting an exhibit of Colm Henry’s U2 photos, U2: The Early Years, from April 14-May 2, 2010.
The exhibition charts the group’s beginning: from their first gigs and photo-shoots, up until the filming of Rattle & Hum. A freelance photographer working on emerging Irish music magazine Hot Press, Colm Henry came across a young and unsigned U2 when they were featured in the publication. Gaining the band’s trust Henry was asked to photograph them on a regular basis, and was afforded a unique insight as they grew from an enthusiastic local band into one of the world’s most recognised names in music.
Henry says: “We were both learning together really, honing our trades. I was just starting out and so were they. I wasn’t a pushy kind of person, I think they appreciated that. They trusted me to get a good shot.”
Presenting a cross section of unseen work including early images of the band on stage, candid backstage shots, studio based photo shoots and much more, this specially selected exhibition shines new light on a band that continues to take the world by storm…
Colm Henry photos via colmhenry.ie
The bottom two are from Point Depot/Rattle and Hum period. The top shot is captioned “Bono & Larry of U2 in Italy.”
ALSO: If you click on the “U2 Edition” thumbnail in the gallery portion of Colm Henry’s website, you’ll see some more U2 images from the above era, including a few I’d never seen before. (Hint: It’s the thumbnail directly to the right of Tom Waits’ head.)
The Bono during an interview in Nairobi on March 17,2010. Photo/LIZ MUTHONI
The accompanying article says Bono is in Kenya to attend the Pan African Media Conference. It also refers to Bono as “… the 50-year old singer…” (Noooooo. Not yet!)
Rock star Paul David Hewson, popularly known as Bono, is in Nairobi to familiarise himself with the challenges facing ordinary Kenyans.
The 50-year-old singer, scheduled to participate in one of the Pan African Media Conference sessions as a panellist, met a group of women on Monday night and also visited a youth group in Kibera on Wednesday. “I am happy to be in Kenya and also participate in the Pan African Media Conference since there is so much to learn, share and speak about in Africa,” said Bono, who spoke to the Daily Nation at a city restaurant.
His trip has been organised by a group of young entrepreneurs, among them the former anti-corruption czar John Githongo. Bono, the U2 band lead vocalist, welcomed the media conference that begins on Thursday, saying the meeting would provide a platform for top leaders in Africa and abroad to discuss topical issues about the continent…
A member of U2 is now 50. Woah.
Adam can handle it.
Unrelated:
A.V. Club Interview: Super-producer Steve Lillywhite. Great read.
One.org: One Listening and Learning Tour in Senegal, Ghana, Mozambique and Kenya… I’d guess this is what Bono is up to in Africa at the moment.
Reeve Carney in Interview Magazine. This is Spider-Man. (If/when there is a Spider-Man.)
- xo -
Sorry for the blogging absence. Expect more regular posting here to resume … NOW.
Important News: Bono and his still growing hair are in Ghana.
Also, I have started a little offshoot tumblr site of Scatter O’ Light here, which will probably just have some little random audio and video stuff, not really as U2-ish as Scatter O’ Light. So far, it’s just some brief recaps of recent shows I’ve been to: Evan Dando / Muse / Editors / Daniel Lanois’ Black Dub / more … Those posts will also show up in a feed in the upper right corner of this blog.
Why don’t I just post that stuff here? I’m not sure. It has to do a bit with these tiny little puzzle pieces in my brain that need to be placed in just the right spots in order for the brain itself to function. And, so I think that tumblr site (B-Sides) will have a jumble of different things, but Scatter O’ Light here will be pretty much just U2 going forward. And hopefully it can all be a little demented, and not, like, totally serious, man. Because otherwise, I just tend to lose interest.
Anyway, thanks for sticking around. Here’s your prize:
Be back soon.
Peace
Via atu2, that video is from the upcoming Music of Ireland documentary.
King of Trash from Carnegie Hall? (Yeah we enjoyed that.) I would love to see Bono singing more songs in this genre, with or without U2.
And I love that last part at the end from Liam Clancy.
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In Case You Were Wondering Exactly What Bono’s Hair Is Looking Like At This Very Moment
Thank you WWD: Bono crashes Rodarte’s after party.
(Tuesday night, NYC.)
You may have noticed that Scatter O’ Light has been having some technical difficulties lately. Sorry about that. My blog had a little scripting coding meltdown or something. I’m working on eventually working on fixing that. Bear with me, stay tuned. Tell Bono I still love him. All that …
And you can find me on twitter.
Scatter O’ Light will be back to (ab)normal soon.
