U2 on Schedule for 2013 Release

 

Pretty much since the early part of promotion for the ‘No Line on the Horizon’ album, U2 has hinted that there’s a wealth of material that could result in multiple projects, but so far there’s been no mention of an actual release date.

 

However, the band’s U.K. label Mercury Records let it slip that the group is on their release schedule for 2013. The U.K.’s Music Week reported the news in a pair of tweets. The first stated, “New Metallica, U2, Arcade Fire and Noah and the Whale album coming next year, Mercury Records has confirmed.”

 

The second tweet added a quote for Mercury’s U.K. label chief Jason Iley, who stated, “2013 could be one of the best years Mercury’s ever had.” Iley has a long-running relationship with U2, and lured them over to Mercury after the split with Island Records several years ago.

 

While fans wait for a new album, they recently had a hand in picking the music for a record that’s bridging the gap. The ‘U22‘ live disc was recently issued for fan club members, with the entire track listing being chosen by fans of the band’s following and taken from material performed on the ‘U2 360′ tour.

 

Fans should likely be able to forgive the band if they’ve been preoccupied in recent months. Guitarist The Edge has been mourning the death of his mother, and bassist Adam Clayton just ended a trial in which his former assistant was sentenced to jail for embezzling funds from him.

 

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I'm not holding my breath.... <_<

New album = new tour............. hopefully :w00t:

I thought Bono said their days of big tours are over?? :unsure:

 

 

Or did I make that up? :lol:

Ok, this is funny. A total wind up but it made me snigger :kink:

 

 

 

From

 

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2012/10/25/u2-t...ocre-new-album/

 

 

U2 talk down ‘mediocre’ new album

 

Irish rockers U2 have been unusually candid in a round of interviews given on the eve of the release of their latest album, There’s Worse Ways To Kill 50 Minutes. Tired of thinking up increasingly extravagant hyperbole to make what is essentially the same as their last three albums seem like the Second Coming, the band have decided to be more realistic.

 

‘We realised people who want exciting, revolutionary, important music aren’t buying latter-day U2 albums are they?’ said Bono frankly, And that’s how we came up with the first single, ‘Dad-Rock Doldrums’.

 

Atypical critic quotes such as ‘No surprises here’, ‘What you’d expect’ and ‘Are you sure this isn’t a compilation?’ are proudly emblazoned upon promotional materials. And the strategy is paying off with crowds of frightened middle-aged men up and down the country clamoring for the album.

 

‘It’s the least adventurous album we’ve ever made’ says Edge. ‘Over the last few albums I’ve added more and more guitar pedals to find new sounds, the pedals were beginning to look like a keyboard. Asked about his lyrical direction on this release, Bono blows a rasberry and laughs while the rest of the band make armpit fart noises. ‘Really now’ says Bono ‘if you’re concerned about my lyrical direction then I’m concerned about you. If you must know I wrote this on a bit of paper: 
’Soaring angels take flight on the wings of love in the early light . 
A new day begins in the breath that floats from a child’s eye.’
 Then cut the individual words up with scissors and shook them around in a hat.’ :D

I wish they would hurry up with the bloddy album :unsure:

From

 

http://www.spinner.com/2013/03/18/u2-danger-mouse-new-album/

 

 

 

U2 & Danger Mouse Together: Band Working With 'Grey Album' Creator on New Record

Posted on Mar 18th 2013 12:45PM by Jason MacNeil

 

 

U2 bassist Adam Clayton says the group is working with producer Danger Mouse on a yet-to-be-titled album that could be out by year's end.

 

According to fan site Atu2.com -- which cited a new interview Clayton did with Irish publication Hot Press -- the musician said U2 "very much want to have a record out by the end of the year, September, October, November. That kind of time." :rolleyes:

 

Clayton also revealed the group is working with Danger Mouse, (Black Keys, Beck, Norah Jones) describing him as a "smart guy." "He's on it. He's excited," Clayton says. "It's a great team and feels very liberating at the moment -- anything goes. We have an abundance of riches, we could make three or four different records and justify that to ourselves, but to make the best record you can, you have to steer away from the ones you can make easily. We're really trying to get into territory that we're not comfortable in. If that makes sense..."

 

Previous reports indicated the band might be working on different albums for multiple releases including one with the working title The Songs of Ascent but it appears those plans are at best on hold for now.

 

Meanwhile, Bono's wife Ali Hewson also shared some information on the record in an interview with The Guardian.

 

"They're well down the road on the new album and it sounds good," Hewson said. "That's all I'm saying." :D

 

U2 released No Line on the Horizon back in 2009 and toured to mid-2011 in support of it. Danger Mouse recently worked on the Rome album with Daniele Luppi which also included appearances by Jones and Jack White.