October 20, 201311 yr From http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2013/1020/48153...-for-new-album/ U2 revisit Ramones and Talking Heads for new album Sunday 20 Oct 2013 Bono says that U2 have revisited their punk roots on their upcoming new album, namechecking Talking Heads, The Ramones and electronica as influences. Speaking to The Sunday Independent at the launch of his niece Leah Hewson's art exhibiton Cusp, the I Threw a Brick Through a Window singer said: "At the start of making this album we listened to the music that made us want to form a band in the first place. "We visited everything from punk rock, The Ramones, Talking Heads, right through to electronic stuff, so it's all the stuff that made us want to be in a band."And the sound of the new album? Well we kind of put it in a blender. When we make an album, usually it still ends up sounding like us, which I guess is a good or a bad thing depending on where you stand." "But with this one, this is not a version of us you have ever heard before, that's for sure." The band have said the new album, which will be their 13th studio collection, is due for release early in 2014.
October 21, 201311 yr Author 'We're going back to roots for new album' U2's Bono doesn't feel the pressure of the upcoming release but just wants to please the fans, says Niamh Horan As die-hard fans all over the world flood online forums to predict what the new sound will be like, the singer has decided to reveal the inspiration the band has been tapping into. And it all goes back to the beginning. "At the start of making this album we listened to the music that made us want to form a band in the first place," he told the Sunday Independent. "We visited everything from punk rock, The Ramones, Talking Heads, right through to electronic stuff, so it's all the stuff that made us want to be in a band. "And the sound of the new album? Well we kind of put it in a blender. When we make an album, usually it still ends up sounding like us, which I guess is a good or a bad thing depending on where you stand," he joked. "But with this one, this is not a version of us you have ever heard before, that's for sure." The singer and global aid activist said the maxim that is driving the band to work so hard on the record is the feeling that: "We don't want to let the people down who have given us this life." So does the band feel pressure from the anticipation that has built over the four years since the last album release? "No," is his quick reply. "I don't feel the pressure. The only pressure to make music now is for ourselves in a sense that we don't want to let down the people who have given us this life. It's not really about how many songs we put out, it is all about how great they are." The band has been hard at work in recent months on their first album since 2009's No Line on the Horizon, scheduled to be released early next year. The album will consist of 12 songs and will be finished by the end of November. U2 have been in New York, working with top US producer Danger Mouse on the new album at Electric Lady Studios. Bono was speaking at The Picture Room on Dublin's Wellington Quay at the launch of his niece Leah Hewson's exhibition 'Cusp'. Remarking on the unsettling paintings his niece produced, he joked: "I don't know what they had in the water in Rathfarnham where she was growing up. I guess nowhere is as familiar and nowhere is as strange as the suburbs. That's what she seems to be stumbling on and, to quote John Cleese, "families and how to survive them". "She's a really gifted woman. And she is interested in the thing that made her an artist, I guess. She's asking all those questions kids do. Just play without fear. She has turned her childhood into a big kind of sandpit and that seems to be her canvas but it's not all sweet because when you're a kid you get spooked easily too so it's Disturbia as well as suburbia." Among those in attendance were his wife Ali, artist Jim Fitzpatrick and developer Harry Crosbie, who is hotly tipped to receive the freedom of Dublin. irish independent
October 21, 201311 yr His niece is an artist? Talented family. By the way, did we ever get an update on Bono's errant cock? Is he still terrorising the neighbourhood I wonder? :unsure:
October 23, 201311 yr Author His niece is an artist? Talented family. By the way, did we ever get an update on Bono's errant cock? Is he still terrorising the neighbourhood I wonder? :unsure: I had never heard of her http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/p...ut-me-1.1557790
November 12, 201311 yr Author U2 aim to finish work on new album in November U2 are aiming to finish their new album by the end of November, bass player Adam Clayton has revealed. The band last released an album in 2009 when they put out 'No Line On The Horizon'. It is expected that their new record will appear in 2014 with Clayton confirming that the band are trying to wind up work and get the songs "absolutely right" prior to Christmas. Speaking to Irish radio station 98FM, Clayton said of the sound of the album: "I think it’s a bit of a return to U2 of old, but with the maturity, if you like, of the U2 of the last 10 years. It’s a combination of those two things and it’s a really interesting hybrid." He added: "We’re in the studio. We’re trying to get these 12 songs absolutely right and get them finished by the end of November, and then we can kind of enjoy Christmas." In the same interview, guitarist The Edge said: "We always try to bring out something different, every time we’re in the studio. But it’s the fans who decide that really." Earlier this year U2 were reportedly spotted entering a New York studio with Coldplay's Chris Martin, fuelling speculation that the singer may appear on the band's new album. All four members of the rock group were seen at the Electric Lady Studios in New York in May, where Danger Mouse was reportedly mixing the new material. Meanwhile, Bono had a newly-identified species of spider named after him in January. The trapdoor spider, which was one of 33 new species discovered by biologist Jason Bond of Auburn University in Alabama, can be found in the Joshua Tree National Park – the California landscape that the band's seminal 1987 album was named after. nme.com
November 13, 201311 yr Author Mark Cagney on TV3 said this morning that he has a close friend who is working with U2 on their new album & that it is due out in January, he said the album is going back to basics for U2 ... whatever that means ...their early days I guess which I really liked if I'm honest
November 15, 201311 yr Author U2 new album in April 2014. The ad during the Super Bowl !! Other rumors about the new U2 album, which is due out in 2014 and be announced during the Super Bowl. The album would also be at the center of important negotiations between Live Nation and two important management company. u2 new album in 2014. Continue to chase the rumors about the new solo album of U2 , whose last studio work, No Line On The Horizon , is dated 2009. This time it is the American magazine Billboard to add some detail. It seems that the band has plans to release the disc in April 2014, and that the announcement will be made no less than during the Super Bowl next February, probably the biggest event in American television. To affect these already delicate maneuvers, there would be no negotiations for the next tour. Negotiations involving on the one hand Live Nation - the colossus of the concerts organized the gigantic 360 ° Tour and would put on the plate well $ 30 million - on the other Principle Management and Maverik, a company that deal with U2 and Madonna and that are headed, respectively, Paul McGuinness (Irish band manager) and Guy Oseary (manager of Lady Ciccone). Both may be acquired by the promoter. In addition, to complicate matters, it seems that all those involved are trying to take advantage of the Super Bowl to secure entroiti also in terms of advertising . All this can only delay the release date of the album, originally scheduled by the end of 2013. According to other information that emerged in the meantime, the album would be ready and would have been entirely produced by Danger Mouse at the Electric Lady Studios in New York, historical studies strongly desired by Jimi Hendrix. onstageweb.com
January 10, 201411 yr From http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/With-new-a...-239510191.html With new album U2’s Bono says the best is yet to come 40 years on Dublin’s rock legend claims performing comes upon him like a twitch and song-writing is therapy By SEAN DUNNE, IrishCentral Staff Writer Published Friday, January 10, 2014, 5:00 l The best is yet to come for Irish band U2 according to Bono. With a new album due in April, Bono says things are only getting started for the aging rockers. "I'm humbled that in our little post-punk combo from the northside of Dublin, to think that maybe our best work might be to come, even if the odds are against us," he said at the Palm Springs Film Festival in California. "There's no one, no band, who has done their best work, who has been around for 30 years. That's not true for filmmakers, that's not true of a novelist, that's not true of a poet, so why should that be true of a rock 'n' roll band?" Despite the band being formed almost 40 years ago and members hitting their mid-50s, the Dublin rocker vowed the group still had the ability to forge classic songs. The Dubliner admitted that he used song-writing to fill a void within him, and that it was a form of therapy. He spoke of his ability to write and perform and how it depended on what was happening in his personal life. "Performing for me comes on like a twitch, really. I have no choice. The songwriting piece is different. It comes out in two ways: despair and attempt to put things right that have been wrong, or joy, just ebullience, you know, it's just overflowing." The band's new album, which is rumoured to be titled "Ten Reasons to Exist," is said to be a return to their roots with Talking Heads and The Ramones being mentioned as influences. The U2 musician caused a storm recently in Dalkey, Co Dublin by happily photobombing a wedding photo. Sinead O’Sullivan and David O’Connor were just finishing up their wedding photo shoot in Bono’s neighborhood when they bumped into the Irish rock star. Their photographer Carol Ryan told the Irish Independent the couple were “stunned,” but found him “very charming.” Ryan explained, "He was walking with his daughter (but) he was happy to jump into some shots." ^_^
January 10, 201411 yr Author Bono has spent a lot of time in Ireland this year , hanging out & about in Dublin, we do not have that pap thing over here unless he goes to the races like he did recentky & then it's only the National press, they just take their pics & them move on , no chasing around over here
January 15, 201411 yr Author Bono Teases New U2 Single and Album Release Date News 01/14/2014 . (Radio.com) With U2 still basking in the afterglow of taking home the Golden Globe Sunday night (Jan. 12) for Best Original Song with the track "Ordinary Love" from Nelson Mandela biopic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, frontman Bono has dished out more details on the band's long-awaited new album. According to Showbiz 411, the ever-enigmatic Bono made the revelations while attending a post-Globes party thrown by the Weinstein Company. "We're still working some things out," Bono said of the group's thirteenth studio album, which he said was being prepped for a June release date. The frontman also revealed that the band's next single, "Invisible," will be out in the coming weeks. "It's not what you expect," Bono said of "Invisible." "It's not your typical love song. antimusic.com
January 17, 201411 yr [ The frontman also revealed that the band's next single, "Invisible," will be out in the coming weeks. "It's not what you expect," Bono said of "Invisible." "It's not your typical love song. antimusic.com Intrigued but excited! :cheer:
January 17, 201411 yr Very long gap between the lead single and the new album though if above statements turn out to be true. :unsure:
February 15, 201411 yr Author Bono wants U2's albums to be "interactive" Friday 14 Feb 2014 U2 frontman Bono has expressed his concern about the decline in record sales insisting that making albums "interactive" will solve the problem. The 53-year-old singer believes that by embracing technology, listeners will respond positively to the changes. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Bono said: "It's album artwork. Not videos, because videos demand your attention. You need to think it's supposed to be on in the background when you listen to the music - a much more ambient experience. People could watch while listening - the way we used to when you'd open up, say, The Clash's Sandinista! and get lost in the lyrics. 'Where are they? Where's Nicaragua?' "This format is coming - the relaunching of album artwork. A plasma screen, poof! Your phone, boom! While you're listening. Because music used to be an immersive medium, not just sonically, it was always the visuals, too. "Elvis is an audiovisual phenomenon. The Beatles were audiovisual. It's harder and harder to get people to pay for an MP3 file, but it will be easier when you're getting something much more interactive." Drummer Larry Mullen, added: "We've always needed collaborators to challenge us. We're slow learners. We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going, it's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. "I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by'. And that's just the way we work." http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2014/0214/50431...be-interactive/
February 15, 201411 yr From http://www.classichitsandoldies.com/v2/201...-is-relentless/ U2's Album Still a Work in Progress, Larry Mullen Says Process is "Relentless" 14 February 2014 U2 fans hoping for a definitive release date for the band’s new album-in-progress will need to wait a little longer. In a long interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the band members confirm that work is certainly coming along, but the process is slow. Drummer Larry Mullen says, “We’re slow learners. We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it’s really hard going, it’s relentless, and we’re relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, ‘I just don’t know what’s happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.’ And that’s just the way we work.” Bono hints that there’s an end in sight. The singer says, “The album won’t be ready till it’s ready. But right now, people are walking a little differently — well, they’re not walking, they’re running as if to a finish line. There’s a couple of songs that are part of the story we haven’t quite finished. We know we have to spend a couple of years taking these songs around the world, so they’d better be good.” Even though U2′s recent release of “Invisible” as a fundraiser for the (RED) charity was a giant success, Bono said in a recent USA Today interview that the band would be selecting a different tune as a first single from the new album. He explained that U2 picked “Invisible” to contribute to the AIDS fundraising campaign simply because “it’s the first one we finished.” U2 will perform its Academy Award-nominated song “Ordinary Love,” which the band wrote for the film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, live at the Oscars on March 2. :rolleyes:
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