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Published Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 1:06 AM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 5:30 PM

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The 3 Dimensions of U2

U23D, the new movie of the world's favorite Irish band shot using the latest 3D technology, wouldn't have happened without the American connection.

Story by Veronica Blake.

The crowd gathering outside Cineworld on a freezing cold night in February is eagerly awaiting the arrival of U2 who chose their home town of Dublin to premiere their new film U23D.

As they stroll up the red carpet, sporting 3D specs, the one time Bono's glasses are not out of place, they remain as unaffected and amiable as they were as punk rockers back in 1975 when they would drink in a little dockside pub called the Clarence - the only pub that would serve Bono's pal Gavin Friday whose kilts, Doc Martin's and studded dog collars managed to get them barred from just about every other pub in Dublin.

"The elderly barmaid Agnes was stern but she took pity on us and would serve us a pint so long as we sat in the snug out of sight of the other drinkers," says Bono, who liked the Clarence so much that years later, he bought it and refurbished it into one of Dublin's most stylish hotels.

Friday, who gets a "creative consultant" credit on the film, is one of several friends from that era that Bono and the band have stayed close to, and worked with over the years.

"There is an overriding aspect which is [U2's] creative generosity," says Bono's friend, long-time collaborator, video artist, and director of the film, Catherine Owens. It was Owens who introduced the band to the concept of 3D and to John Modell, whose father Art Modell owned the Baltimore Ravens. ("This film would never have happened were it not for a great American football team, the Baltimore Ravens, Art Modell, and one of our oldest friends, Catherine Owens," Bono tells me.)

Bono and Owens go back almost 30 years to when she fronted the all-girl punk band the Boy Scoutz. "I recall a night many years ago lying in O'Connell Street being questioned by the Garda Sochna," Bono says, smiling. In fact, Owens said he and she were introduced by The Edge when she was waiting for a cab on O'Connell Street.

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