On the other hand, Danger Mouse, aka Brian Burton, is the in-demand producer who has worked with Gnarls Barkley, The Black Keys, and who's just finished producing U2's new album.
(...)
"I was into exploring on this album. Brian is really versatile and he has a lot of areas he's interested in musically," Jones says. "He really loves dark, quiet music as well and we were both drawn to that."
He's almost finished producing U2's new album but Norah is simply not going to talk about that. "You'd need to ask him. He told me loads about it, not that I'm going to tell a journalist from Dublin! There's no gossip, nothing juicy to tell you anyway."
To be honest, I give more credibility to this few words of my dear Norah than to any of the last-3-years' gossips and rumours by our boys themselves.
Sounds interesting for once. Adam did say in November that they were taking Christmas off then hitting the studio again, but a lack of actual news regarding this seemed to have put those rumours to bed. Now that it's sparking up again, in line with what Adam actually said, it's starting to sound promising.