Dear Daniel,
'There's been a lot of recording going on, but we're coming to an end, which is good.'
That's the word from Adam, speaking on Irish radio to promote 'Walk In My Shoes' day earlier in the month.
As patron of the campaign, Adam was in Dublin helping raise funds for mental health support for young adults. 'It's ok to ask for help and Walk In My Shoes is working hard to remove the stigma around mental health difficulties...' (Update: you can now bid for Adam's Jimmy Choo shoes...)
Music Rising, another great cause the band support, launched a specialist website at Tulane University and Edge spoke by video at the launch.
Edge has also been recalling how DJ producer Howie B first came into the band's orbit. 'It must have been the mid-1990s. We were making an experimental record called Passengers, with Brian Eno producing...'
Were you one of the 3 million who downloaded Invisible in February? Here's the T-shirt.
'I was on the lookout for a young band that would have the potential to become internationally successful.' That's Paul McGuinness recalling his earliest days in the music business and how he first came across U2.
The interview is taken from North Side Story, the special publication from Ireland's Hot Press which captures the band's rise and rise in Dublin, from 'Out of Control' to 'Under A Blood Red Sky'. We've just posted another extract from this limited edition title, with Bono speaking in 1982 to the German magazine Music Express.'We give something to the crowd and they give us something back. Everyone pushes themselves until they sweat - and through that, a type of force or power is created by the people.'
You'll find everything you need to know about a U2.com subscription here - and how to give one to a friend as a gift.