Tag: The Edge

No Line on the Horizon: New U2 Album

Posted on December 18, 2008

No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2, will be released on Monday 2nd March 2009. Written and recorded in various locations, No Line On The Horizon is the group’s 12th studio album and is their first release since the 9 million selling album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, released in late 2004. Check out an early release, “I Believe in Father Christmas”;

Sessions for No Line On The Horizon began last year in Fez, Morocco, continued in the band’s own studio in Dublin, before moving to New York’s Platinum Sound Recording Studios, and finally being completed at Olympic Studios in London. The album calls on the production talents of long-time collaborators Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, with additional production by Steve Lillywhite.

Great interview with the Edge that describes the new album in greater detail.The words: “innovative”, “U2”, “new”, “piano” all stood out. I’m excited!

Bonus: Listen to two leaked tracks here.

U2 Conference

Posted on September 5, 2008

May 13-15 2009, an academic conference on U2 will be held in New York: U2: The Hype and the Feedback

Scholars, teachers, students, journalists, clergy, musicians and intellectually curious U2 fans: for more than 30 years, U2 has asked us to look at the world, wrestle with ourselves and then dream out loud. From “I Will Follow” and “Running to Stand Still,” to “The Wanderer,” “Walk On,” and “One Step Closer,” U2 has charted the human heart and the ways of the world, calling out some of their more dynamic points of intersection. While doing so, they have created what Bruce Springsteen described as “some of the most beautiful sonic architecture in rock and roll.”

Bono and the Edge Do a Surprise Gig

Posted on November 24, 2007

In an unannounced four song acoustic set to support Mencap, a charity for those with learning disabilities, Bono and the Edge demonstrated once again what sets U2 apart from so many bands. The duo played four songs “Stay,” “Desire,” “Angel of Harlem” and “Wave of Sorrow,” the last song inspired by Bono’s 1985 trip to Ethiopia, recently released with the remastered version of Joshua Tree. See article here.