Perhaps the next round of tour dates can be centered around the band touring Songs of Surrender in small theaters?
Terry Lawless is headed to Dublin soon, as per his Facebook page. Make of it what you will.
Yea he's surprisingly accessible and quite friendly towards fans.Quick aside, I e-mailed Terry a little over a year ago to ask if he had any insight on specific synths used on MOFO (before his time with the band, but I thought he might have the scoop). I wasn't expecting a reply, but got one! He politely declined to give up any info, as he is under strict confidentiality, but it was still very cool to hear from him.
They released a JT 30 set the same year as SOE. This would be pretty similar. When you do the maths on sales numbers of new releases it’s a very insignificant part of the u2 business model anyway. Touring is where the money’s at. The latest rumours point more towards the next tour being in 2024 with vegas being the only shows in 2023 so not really a tour, more book tour shows look like being on the way though. Songs of surrender likely out very early 2023 and the new album at the end of 2023, Bono seemed to suggest he wants new material out before vegas but maybe just a few singles if AB is going to be the main focus of they shows. I wouldn’t even rule out the brand new material not being out until very early 2024, basically as long as it’s on time for a 2024 tour.2029 it is!
Tho it’s not like the band made any official release statement. It’s all been the rumor mill
I still don’t think we see this album. Isn’t 2023 supposed to be a new U2 album and potential tour ? Can’t see them risking lower sale numbers on new material competing with an album of old songs
So his comments to Billy Sloan on BBC Radio Scotland suggests the band have shelved and 'put aside' the material they've been working on the last few years in favour of 'uncompromising' guitar music, made for 'ourselves and our audience' and that it doesn't matter if it doesn't get played on radio.
So his comments to Billy Sloan on BBC Radio Scotland suggests the band have shelved and 'put aside' the material they've been working on the last few years in favour of 'uncompromising' guitar music, made for 'ourselves and our audience' and that it doesn't matter if it doesn't get played on radio.
Translation:
We’ll get an album of uncompromised guitar for one or two songs, and the rest will be trying to be radio hits. Oh, and that album will come out in 2024.
It could be 10-12 Acrobat’s, that would be scarily good.Scary the next album might just end up being 10-12 American Souls
So his comments to Billy Sloan on BBC Radio Scotland suggests the band have shelved and 'put aside' the material they've been working on the last few years in favour of 'uncompromising' guitar music, made for 'ourselves and our audience' and that it doesn't matter if it doesn't get played on radio.
Scary the next album might just end up being 10-12 American Souls
It could be 10-12 Acrobat’s, that would be scarily good.
He more or less admits that they can't do that anymore in the book.Translation:
We’ll get an album of uncompromised guitar for one or two songs, and the rest will be trying to be radio hits. Oh, and that album will come out in 2024.
It could be 10-12 Autographs, that would be scarily good.
Haven't parts of Songs of Ascent already made it onto other albums? Like Every Breaking Wave, just in different form?
An EP, eh?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/11/28/u2-kennedy-center-honors/
The new album, he says, will move away from the band’s recent work, which has been softer. He wants Edge’s guitar to drive the music, to turn the volume up. He does not sound tired or ready for the oldies circuit. He sounds hopeful, thinking that there could be no better time for his beloved rock band.
“The country’s changed for a group like U2,” Bono says. “But I have a feeling that we have something. That if we can distill it on these next sessions, this unreasonable guitar record that we all want to make actually, I just feel there’s a moment … I don’t know if you can capture people for a whole album. But what if it was just an EP or just one song that could burst through? We don’t need it on the pop charts. We don’t. But we need people to pass it around. I think we do want that.”
made for ‘ourselves and our audience' and that it doesn't matter if it doesn't get played on radio.