KUEFC09U2 said:
well they never released a new album for the popmart tour, and personally i cant see them coming back to europe or the U.S., but i do think they will go to aus, new zealand, south america etc, and then few months of, and back in working on ideas for a new album
The difference is this:
End of Popmart 3rd Leg: 12 December 1997
Start of Popmart 4th Leg: 27 January 1998
Difference: A month and a half.
End of Vertigo 3rd Leg: 19 December 2005
Start of 4th Leg: This could potentially be as late as mid-March 2006
Difference: Potentially three months.
As much as U2 like to holiday, I hope they do some recording (or new song rehearsal) in that time, maybe get some ideas going for when the tour's fully over and they can focus on a new album for, say, 2007.
I'm thinking maybe some rehearsals is more likely than recording new songs, actually. Look at this:
End of ZooTV 4th Leg: 28 August 1993
Start of ZooTV 5th Leg: 12 November 1993
Difference: Roughly two and a half months.
In that time, U2 brought out a number of songs and made setlist changes. Of course, this was to accommodate new Zooropa songs, but we still haven't seen Electrical Storm, A Man And A Woman, and One Step Closer, and U2 are still rehearsing older songs for this tour, i.e. the Mofo, Wanderer, and Unforgettable Fire reports.
I'm going to hope this is a good song, but I won't get any expectations up. It's better to hope and be pleasantly surprised when it happens than to expect and be disappointed when it doesn't happen.