One of the leading members of the U2 band group and guitarist Edge has recently announced the Icons of Music Sale II that will be held on May 31^st to benefit Music Rising. This mega auction event is to be held at Hard Rock Cafe in New York Times Square and the entire range of music memorabilia and the auction is to be televised live. Julien’s Auction is playing host to this event and it is expected that many loyal U2 fans will be bidding for the U2 memorabilia.

Music Rising is a movement that is co-founded by U2’s the Edge, Gibson Guitar as Chairman, Henry Juszkiewicz and well-known produced Bob Ezrin in 2005 and was started with the sole purpose of helping the musicians along the Gulf coast region to regain their livelihood after the Hurricanes Rita and Katrina caused havocs in their lives. Aaron Neville, will be performing in the evening session at the Icons of Music Sale II and has pledged his support for Music Rising.

The Edge, U2’s guitarist extraordinaire has emerged to announce that he will be hosting the Icons of Music Auction II on the coming May 31, 2008. This auction is expected to feature some of the most sought after music collectibles ever to provide much needed help to MusicRising.org, a charitable campaign that was also co-established by The Edge himself. This organization was created with the aim to assist musicians who originate from the Gulf Coast Region to get back on their feet after the terrible Hurricane Katrina and Rita tragedies. Aaron Neville, renowned for winning the Grammy four times throughout his career, will also be doing his part to support the auction by performing at the high profile event.

Among items belonging to The Edge that are up for auction include a 1976 Gibson Explorer Guitar and a blue colored Gibson Les Paul. Bidders are also expected to take home a bass guitar belonging to Kurt Cobain, Slash’s Gibson Les Paul guitar as well as a Johnny Cash guitar.

The Edge, a popular guitarist of the U2 band and one who will be easily recognized by any ardent U2 fan, has revealed that it is the friendship that each of the band mates have among themselves that is a major contributing factor to the longevity of the U2 band. The guitarist has said that the camaraderie among the band members is the sole reason for the band to last for three decades and this has led to the band coming up with distinct music and sounds in their albums.

The U2 guitarist feels that it might be due to the fact that all the members of the U2 band were friends before forming the band group that they have succeeded for three decades in this challenging music world. He felt that the bonding among the band members were so strong that even in terms of adversities and huge conflicts, they were able to evade off the big conflicts very easily.

Edge and Bono have been interviewed about seeing ‘U23D’ and how work on the new material is coming along. 
Edge sspeaks out about his favorite part of the film being Miss Sarajevo, a song including a short opera part sung by the now deceased Luciano Pavarotti.  The Edge quietly nods his head, as Bono goes on to say that even though he does not like listening to alot of his bands song on the radio he really likes Miss Sarajevo. The movie has given the band a wider perspective and clarity about what the other members of the band do onstage as well.. Bono is amazed at bassist Adam Clayton’s newfound presence on stage , while The Edge was left pondering if bassist Larry Mullen Jr. felt left out all alone up there with his drums on the top platform. Bono said that Adam really came into his own on this tour and was very assertive compared to his hermitlike ways on their last tour.

U2’s new record will be influenced by the trance dance sub-genre of music. According to the band’s frontman, it will also feature “hardcore” guitars. U2 fans can expect a “dance floor shock” on the new record. The album contains some trance influences. There is “some very hardcore guitar coming out of The Edge”. Bono said the new album is not like anything they had ever done before. The band does not think the album sounds like “anything anyone else has done either.”

Bono and The Edge have made a surprise appearance at a charity gig in London last week, when they played a 4-song set for two hundred and fifty people at Mencap’s Little Noise Sessions at the Union Chapel situated in north London. The musicians opened their set with the composition “Stay,” from 1993’s “Zooropa,” and then performed “Angel of Harlem” and “Desire”. They closed the set with a 1st-time performance of “Wave of Sorrow.” This composition was originally written for their ‘87 album entitled “Joshua Tree.”