Thursday, February 18, 2010

Property and U2; the old rock'n'roll

Some time ago, I started a music company with my partner Melanie O'Reilly


Free downloads!

It has been successful beyond our expectations, with sales in the hundreds of thousands, and many award nominations. The only problem is this; we have been paid royalties for only about 2% of our earnings, and this is the subject of an ongoing federal case in the USA;

Anatomy of the music scam


We cut our litigation teeth on U2's dissolved “Record services” which the Irish corporate enforcement authorities allowed to continue to trade for years after its dissolution. U2's links with property development in Ireland continued to the point that they thanked the “builders” McKillen, Mulryan and Qunilan on their 2009 album. Imagine our lack of surprise when all 3 names ended up on the list of the miscreants whose reckless trading has sunk the Irish economy;

The taxpayer gets the bill for Deborah Harry etc

To safeguard their privileges for the next world after this one, all three contributed, Borgia style, to a Vatican refurbishment;

Sicut fuit in saecula saeculorum


Is it not about time that someone thoroughly investigated U2?

27u nollag 2011 - The good news; Dave Marsh has now taken up the story

http://davemarsh.us/?p=951

The bad; Looks like bono has successfully angled to replace Gabriel Byrne as cultural ambassador for Ireland