Danish fan admits to leaking 2 songs from U2 next album thanks to Bono

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New U2 tracks leaked by fan after Bono played them on holiday
Tracks from rock band U2’s new album have appeared on the internet
illegally after singer Bono played them too loudly at his holiday
villa on the French Riviera.

A Dutch fan of the Irish super group heard the music blaring out of
the beachside home in the village of Eze-sur-Mere, near Nice, and
recorded them on his mobile phone.

He then boasted about his achievement on U2 fan site Interference.com
before putting them on YouTube.

Although U2 has now managed to remove the four leaked songs from
YouTube because of ?copyright violations?, they have not been able to
stop people trading them via email.

The quality is said to be poor - the noise of waves crashing on the
beach and seagull cries can be heard in the background - but the new
development in the world of pop music piracy is said to have
concerned U2 greatly.

?They see Eze as a place where they can get away from it all, and
play music as loud as they like,? said a near neighbour in the village.

?Bono had the tracks playing on his stereo and people heard them
outside, but nobody expected them to be recorded.? The new album,
which is expected to be titled No Line on the Horizon, is U2’s first
for four years.

It has been recorded in conditions of absolute secrecy, with the band
even hiring an isolated house in the medina of Fez, Morocco, to
finalise some of the tracks.

Based on the information available on the web yesterday, the leaked
tracks were called Moment of Surrender, For Your Love, Sexy Boots,
and No Line on the Horizon.

In January U2’s manager Paul McGuiness attacked music pirates,
claiming internet service providers (ISPs) had ?enjoyed a bonanza?
over the past few years by accepting fees from illegal downloaders
while doing nothing to prevent them from stealing music.

Mr McGuiness called on ISPs to disconnect users caught obtaining
music illegally.

?Their snouts have been at our trough feeding free for too long,?
said Mr McGuinness.

It is not the first time that U2 has been at the centre of a piracy
scandal.

In 2004 tracks from the band’s last album, How to Dismantle an Atomic
Bomb, were leaked after a CD was stolen from one of their photo
shoots in the south of France.

U2, which was formed in Dublin in 1976, has sold more than 170
million albums worldwide, and has won more Grammy awards than any
other band.

Lead singer Bono, whose real name is Paul Hewson, is also well known
for his campaigning for human rights and social justice.

Eze-sur-Mere is hugely popular with holidaymakers because of its
position on a beach below a medieval village dating back to the 12th
Century.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2580346/New-U2-tracks-leaked-by-fan-
after-Bono-played-them-on-holiday.html

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