UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA CELEBRATES THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF U2’S THE JOSHUA TREE
UNIVERSAL MUSIC CANADA CELEBRATES THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF U2’S THE JOSHUA TREE
EXCLUSIVE EVENT TAKES PLACE ON MARCH 12 AT THE HARD ROCK CAFE IN TORONTO WITH SPECIAL GUESTS DANIEL LANOIS AND ACROBAT
14th February 2017 (TORONTO, ON) – On March 12th Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company, in partnership with the Hard Rock Cafe will celebrate the 30th anniversary of U2’s iconic album, The Joshua Tree at the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Toronto. The curated celebration will feature a conversation with and performance by Daniel Lanois’, the co-producer of The Joshua Tree. This 1987 chart-topping album, heralded as one of the world’s best-selling albums with over 25 million copies sold, brought us mega-hits such as, “With Or Without You”, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Where The Streets Have No Name”. The album won Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Rock Performance. The night will also include the U2 tribute band ACROBAT who will be performing The Joshua Tree in its entirety as well as many more hits later in the evening. In July of 2015, U2 fulfilled every tribute band members' ultimate dream by inviting ACROBAT onstage to perform "Desire" in front of 22,000 fans at Toronto's Air Canada Centre. Lead singer Gabriel Pate says, "The Joshua Tree unquestionably lands in the top albums of all time lists of not only U2 fans, but also music lovers in general. We are humbled and gratified to be able to present a tribute to the 30-year anniversary of one of the most beloved works of music of any artist in history." For more information on ACROBAT click here. The festivities will continue with a screening of ‘Classic Albums: The Joshua Tree’ and a music industry panel discussing The Joshua Tree and other U2 stories. Fans in attendance will be able to peruse and purchase U2 merchandise, deluxe editions of the band’s famous work, box sets, and vinyl at the U2 Pop-Up Shop on site. Doors will open at 5:00pm. Subscribe to the MusicVaultz newsletter for a chance to be one of the first 50 to get on the list! Subscribe here. For further event details go to the Hard Rock Cafe website. For media inquiries, please contact Julia Rambeau Smith at Universal Music Canada here.Listen to The Joshua Tree (Deluxe Edition)
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About Daniel Lanois Daniel Lanois is a name that deserves to be mentioned alongside the finest sonic experimenters of the 20th century – and the 21st century too. Yes, he's been willing to step back into the background as others take the limelight, but that shouldn't diminish his contribution, which ripples throughout practically every style and sound of the modern era. Whatever you're listening to – whether it be acoustic or electronic, roots or futurist, underground or pop – if you listen closely you'll hear traces of the sonic signatures of Daniel Lanois. And what's more he's still experimenting as eagerly as he ever has. At a point when most musicians with anything resembling his level of success would be resting on their laurels and playing on old successes, he still has more hunger for the new than people a third his age, and as a result is creating music as beautiful and new as ever before. His latest release, Goodbye to Language, is the perfect joining of the dots, from the music as a constant background of his childhood, through the world-changing experiments of his early days with Eno, through his flights through the most rarefied atmospheres of the mainstream of music. Constructed entirely from the sounds of the pedal steel guitar, Daniel on the pedal steel and his mate Rocco Deluca on the lap steel with compositional rigour that recalls the 20th century dreamscapes of Ravel and Debussy, with a sense of sonic futurism and yet also with the naturalness that can only come from someone rooted in centuries of grassroots music.