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very quiet on the U2 front these days.. very quiet.. no news on album, remasters, or the band in general, only a couple blurbs on the tour.
things are usually only this quiet when there's an announcement pending.
I don't think there's been any decision regarding a June release yet. I think the fact that there's been no news is good news..
you know, i was just thinking about that this morning too. things are not just quiet, but extremely quiet. in the last month, we've gotten no news, no band members saying anything...nothing, other than the reposting of the Irish Independent article from December.
i honestly have no clue what to think of this. it could be this quiet simply because there's no album in the works and the band is just simply vacationing before the tour resumes......or they could be hard at work completing the album.
of course, Daniel Lanois is working with Black Dub, Lillywhite just entered the studio with Evanescence, meaning that U2 are now only working with Eno.. or Rubin... or... someone new? if they are indeed working
I hope you're right.very quiet on the U2 front these days.. very quiet.. no news on album, remasters, or the band in general, only a couple blurbs on the tour.
things are usually only this quiet when there's an announcement pending.
I don't think there's been any decision regarding a June release yet. I think the fact that there's been no news is good news..
I don't know how experienced Edge is as a producer but perhaps they're confident enough to fix the little things themselves this time around if they do in fact have sufficient amount of more or less complete songs left over from the No Line On The Horizon sessions and the more recent recordings in France/New York.
well, there's Zooropa, to Edge's credit.
though he's probably got less time on his hands these days
of course, Daniel Lanois is working with Black Dub, Lillywhite just entered the studio with Evanescence, meaning that U2 are now only working with Eno.. or Rubin... or... someone new? if they are indeed working
Maybe it is wishful thinking but it does kind of sound like the situation is the same right now. Then again, U2 always come up with lots of material that doesn't make the intended album before starting the next recording session - Stir My Soul, Mercy, Every Breaking Wave etc.3:30
We already had some material that we had been developing before he (Brian Eno) arrived.
The second time he came over we got him to devote more of his energy towards taking the songs that were already nearly ready, nearly finished, and helping us to finish them out so that they were ready to mix.
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4:20
I guess I ended up taking on more stuff just because of the way the project worked out.
Flood arrived after we had already started and left a little before the end and Brian was in for a couple of 2-3 week periods so it was all down to me.
It was a kind of babysitting job almost.
YouTube - Interview Adam Clayton (in a skirt!) and The Edge (1/3)
"Stir My Soul"?? where's this from??
The song is called, for this moment, anyhow, "Stir My Soul." As it exists at around a quarter past six on a Friday evening in May, it is delicate and beautiful, driven by a hypnotic piano motif, over which Bono murmurs a mixture of words and melody before launching into a chorus largely consisting of the phrase "stir my soul" repeated over and over.
U2 have an idea that "Stir My Soul" will be the song the band needs to open its new album, in the works for two years and scheduled for release this fall. "Some sort of opening gambit," Bono explains. "Sometimes you dream one up, and sometimes you find one on the floor."
A year ago, Bono says, this song was called "Jubilee," and he had it all worked out. It leaped off from the Old Testament concept of a jubilee year.
U2 marked it as a song they should get back to, but when they replayed it a few days ago, all that jubilee thinking was cast aside. Bono wrote an entirely new lyric. He sings me the opening lines -- "Speak to me of the supernatural things/I will listen if you can tell me why the songbird sings" -- and shows me a printout of the rest from his computer, almost as if he wants to prove that the new U2 album is not being delayed simply because the singer has failed to complete his homework. But even that version is history now. "Beautiful tune, beautiful melody," he says, "but it wasn't what we wanted it to be. We were looking for more of an invocation."
Full story: U2Station.com | U2 News | U2 Stirring Their Souls in the Studio
Actually, there are a couple of things in the description of the song that makes me think it could've become No Line On The Horizon:
1. Fuzz guitar? - "The Edge tries to add some guitar. "I like that," encourages Bono. "It's dizzier."
2. I'm a traffic cop? - Bono worries about a part of the song at the end of the chorus where it stops and regathers itself. "It's a little professional when it stops," he says to Lanois. "We might have to mess it up a bit."
3. "I watch her changing every day for me. Oh yeah, oh whoa oh whoa"? - Bono picks up the microphone and sings some heavenly "oh-whoa-oh-whoa's" onto the track.
Is there any news about where the band is at the moment?
Is there any news about where the band is at the moment?
Adam: Meteor Awards, Dublin (Feb. 19th 2010)
Bono: Fashion week, New York City (Feb 18th. 2010)
Edge: "Ghost Writer" premiere, New York City (Feb. 18th 2010)
Larry: ??
^^^ Definitely not good we don't know where Larry is
Yes, but as we stated yesterday, Steve is currently working with Evanescence for their upcoming album. Amy Lee tweeted on the 21st that they were about to begin the recording process:Lillywhite has been tweeting from NY recently as well.
Tomorrow we go into the studio to begin recording our new album. I am so ready!
12:09 PM Feb 21st via web
Source: Twitter / Amy Lee: Tomorrow we go into the st ...
Adam: Meteor Awards, Dublin (Feb. 19th 2010)
Bono: Fashion week, New York City (Feb 18th. 2010)
Edge: "Ghost Writer" premiere, New York City (Feb. 18th 2010)
Larry: ??