Posted August 17, 200915 yr The latest on the new album according to atu2.com is that the band will be recording it in Vancover in November, for a late Dec/early Jan release. Bono said a while ago that the first single would be a song called 'Every Breaking Wave, which I recall Q Mag reviewing prior to NLOTH being relased.
August 17, 200915 yr Strange time of the year to release an album. :blink: Ideal for my birthday of course. :banana:
August 22, 200915 yr We just HAVE to all send Jups a copy for her birthday..... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: ;)
August 22, 200915 yr :dance: I think it's great news having another new album to look forward to. And Jups, :lol: no way will you wait until your birthday to get it if it's realeased beforehand
October 23, 200915 yr Author Bono said he wanted a big hit in the Spring with 'Every Breaking Wave', so prob an October 2010 release :lol:
December 7, 200915 yr Where is this new album? It was promised to be out in time for my birthday :angry:
December 29, 200915 yr http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/ne...um-1990160.html U2 make fans' Christmas as they reveal plans for their next album The biggest band in the world is planning a release by June before taking to the road on tour, writes Niamh Horan Sunday December 27 2009 IRISH rockers U2 have delivered a late Christmas present to their loyal fans this weekend by promising to release a new album by June. :w00t: Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Independent at Leopardstown Races yesterday, U2 frontman Bono revealed the band had been working hard on new material in the run-up to Christmas and are hoping to have a new chart-topping album on shelves before the summer. Speaking about the upcoming release, Bono described how the band had been putting in the hard work in the studio in recent weeks: "We are working away and we have a couple of yearlings in the stables that could really turn out to be thoroughbreds in the future," he said. "As a band you are always trying to work on new material and we had some unfinished material from the last album. "I would love to elaborate a bit more but unfortunately it is a democracy -- and sure isn't that the world that we live in?" One person who had no problem elaborating, however, was U2 manager Paul McGuinness. The legendary music mogul described how the world's biggest rock group are confident of having the album released by June. "I have heard some of the stuff the guys have played and, yeah, it is great. Bono is always an optimist but he seems confident of getting a new record out by the end of the next six months. They're talking about June. By that time we will be ready to go back on tour and I think that will give it a different flavour." Mr McGuinness also described how sales of concert tickets "have been incredible" for the band -- despite the current recession. "Most of the shows left are either sold out or close to being sold out, which is terrific. We're defying gravity at this stage -- it's incredible." He also took some time out to offer his support to bassist Adam Clayton following reports last week that he is involved in a court case with his former housekeeper who has allegedly misappropriated €1.8m. "It is very upsetting for him, especially because it is someone that he trusted and let into his life and his home. I didn't council him or advise him or anything like that. "For Adam to discover that someone he had trusted had let him down like that. . . well, it is disappointing. "I suppose though that is life and it could happen to anyone. But I can't really say too much about it because of the legality of it but that the courts are dealing with it." Meanwhile, speaking about his time off over Christmas, Bono said: "We have had a really great Christmas, very homely and lovely and we had a great time. In fact, we have just had the most amazing year." The Irish rocker was continuing what has become an annual tradition for him an his pals, by spending St Stephen's Day at Leopardstown races with his wife Ali. "I did have one bet today but it was more of a sentimental flutter for the year that is ahead of U2. "I put some money on a horse called Happy Reunion but unfortunately it was no good so I can only hope that we will have a bit more success."
January 23, 201015 yr From http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/01/21/u2-edge-new-album/ U2's the Edge spills details on their new album: The Music Mix Q&A by EW staff U2’s the Edge attended last weekend’s Golden Globes ceremony, where the band was up for a Best Original Song award for “Winter,” their contribution to Afghanistan war drama Brothers. (The trophy ended up going to Crazy Heart’s “The Weary Kind.”) We caught up with the guitarist on the red carpet to get the scoop on U2’s planned follow-up to last year’s No Line on the Horizon. —Interview by Nicholas White ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How’s the new U2 music going? THE EDGE: We are working on a lot of new songs. Some of them are really, really happy. We’re convinced that we have something really special. It’s like deciding whether we are going to release the album before the tour starts or leave it for a while, we don’t really know yet. Literally, within a day of getting off the road, Bono and I were working on new songs. On a roll. Are you incorporating any electronic influences? We try and keep things moving forward. We are experimenting with a lot of different arrangements, and electronic is one of the things we are playing with. But there are other songs that are very traditional, almost folk. In some ways, that’s the thing we haven’t figured out yet, is where this album is going to end up. We’re having fun with the process. What’s it like being nominated for a Golden Globe? It’s a great honor to be nominated for the movie [brothers], because I really believe it is one of the more important movies to come out over the last couple years. Tobey Maguire is also nominated. There are many reasons why this should be awarded. It’s kind of humbling to be the one that is nominated. [Director] Jim Sheridan is a close friend of ours and showed us the script. Then we saw various rough cuts. It was a very intimate relationship we had going with Jim on the creative side of it. Are you feeling competitive about the award? I have no expectations today. I don’t think we have a particularly good shot at winning, but you never know.
February 2, 201015 yr Author Might not be released till after the tour now :cry: God, they are so slow at making albums :lol: HURRY UP!!!!!!!! :smoke:
February 13, 201015 yr http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?i...xpected_In_June New U2 Album Expected In June by Paul Cashmere - February 13 2010 photo by Ros O'Gorman Bono is saying the next U2 album will be called `Songs of Ascent’. He should know. In an interview with Sean O’Hagan, Bono called ‘Songs of Ascent’ the sister album to ‘No Line Of The Horizon’, similar to how ‘Zooropa’ and ‘Achtung Baby’ were bookends. Atu2.com says the album is expected to be produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois once again, with additional work by Steve Lillywhite. Some of the songs are expected to be the leftover tracks from ‘No Line On The Horizon’, but some are older. Songs expected to be used include ‘North Star’, an unused track from ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’. ‘Winter’, the song that didn’t make ‘No Line On The Horizon’ but was used in the movie ‘Brothers’ is expected to make the new album and ‘Kingdom Of Your Love’, heard in part of the intro music of the U2 360 Tour is also expected on the album. Other tracks we might find there are “Every Breaking Wave’, ‘If I Could Live My Life Again’, ‘Love Is All We Have Left’, ‘Mercy’, ‘Lead Me In The Way I Should Go’ and ‘You Can’t Give Away Your Heart’. Bono told the Irish Independent that the album may be out in June.
Create an account or sign in to comment