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    Yvonne Judge ‏@yvonnejudge
    @U2Valencia Larry Mullen Junior reveals to @DaveFanningShow #2fm Brian Barton Dangermouse producing new U2 album; September release.
  2. @yvonnejudge
    And there's more; Larry Mullen Jnr reveals another album on the way soon after; #U2 hope, as told to @DaveFanningShow on #2fm, tx Sat 10am
  3. now if it's true he's begun to open his mouth too much
  4. I fairly optimistic about the September release date, I think we all knew an album was coming, it was just a matter of when. I'll take the second album comment with a pinch of salt though.
  5. Larry should have said they're aiming to .. not they're going to ..
  7. Originally posted by fabian:This may sound as complete bullshit, but think of it for a second.

    U2 albums are never released in summer. Album were released in February (2), March (2), October (5) or November (3 studio + 3 compilation). Only exception is Zooropa (July 1993) , but that one was released during a tour and no-one does an arena tour during winter.

    So why change? A better question would be 'Why always the darker months?'. I think U2 songs are more suitable for the radio during these months. During summer, the big public wants easy music with Spanish lyrics no-one but Sergio understands.

    That said, I think U2 is pretty confident they can be relevant this time. A big hit single may be coming up. Not sure if that's a good thing, though.



    LOL AT THAT COMMENT
  8. But I think it'll be a mesh of them all I don't think they'll save "amazing dance songs" for another album, I feel like they'll pick the best songs as per usual. I don't believe the three album hype...
  9. MORE INSIGHT.

    Mullen reveals new U2 album details
    Thursday 10 January 2013

    In an interview with RTÉ 2fm's Dave Fanning, Larry Mullen revealed that U2 are hoping to "have something released by September".

    Larry Mullen with RTÉ 2fm's Dave Fanning
    Speaking about U2's first album since No Line on the Horizon four years ago, he said: "I'd say we will be finished by the summer - and hopefully we will have something released by September.

    "Hopefully what we will be able to do is release September this year and shortly afterwards, release again. That's what we want to do.

    "We are working with [producer] Brian Barton at the moment of Dangermouse, no will.i.am is not there, just Mister Mouse!

    "We have been working for the last couple of years mostly in Ireland which has been great, we have been here for a long period of time. There's lots of music which is great."

    Mullen also spoke about own personal projects, outside of being the drummer of one of the world's biggest bands: "I have spent 30 years sitting behind something...looking at men's arses!

    "I've enjoyed it and it's been great but I looked at Bono and Edge in particular when he went to Broadway, I kind of felt you know I'm not punching high enough.

    "I need to actually move out of this place and actually do other things, and have different conversations and sit at different tables, because everybody else was, except me."

    Mullen also spoke to Fanning about how he embarked on an acting career. In 2011 he filmed the remake of Man on a Train alongside Donald Sutherland, which will be screened in the IFI tomorrow night, Friday, January 11.

    He said: "I just took the ball and ran with it.

    "I met Donald Sutherland the day before and at 6am the next morning and there we were doing it.

    "Failure wasn't an option."

    On working the legendary actor, Sutherland, he said: "You are standing there and this is the guy from Don't Look [Now], Klute and Mash. I just threw myself into it"

    Mullen will also appear alongside Maria Doyle Kennedy in the new film A Thousand Times Good Night and he also has a wish list of directors he would like to work with: "When I see the Coen Brothers films, and I don't say this in an arrogant way, but I always think I know I could work with these guys, I know they'd get me, they do something that I really like.

    "I'd love to work with Danny Boyle and I'd love to work with Quentin Tarantino but that's a pretty high aspiration but that's what I'd like to do."

    Listen to the full interview with Larry Mullen on The Dave Fanning Show on RTÉ 2fm this Saturday, January from 10am until 12pm.

    http://www.rte.ie/ten/2013/0110/mullenl.html
  10. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]

    I asked myself the same yesterday. I pretty much agree with Fabian above... I would like to see U2 getting a big hit single just for the sake of it and for the sake of hearing our favorite band on tne radio with any song that's been recorded after 1991


    That would be awesome. A real kick in the ass to the music industry.
  11. Thanks much for the post, Sergio - well-worth reading! I'm glad Larry is moving on, and great to hear about the band's projects. If Larry talks of two albums, it might well mean we'll get at least one in the next 12 months or so. But I'm taking this with so many pinches of salt that you're likely to find a salt mine in my place by the time the album comes out (if it comes out!). I enjoy reading all this stuff, and I'll enjoy reading all the stuff that's to come (and it will come); but I won't actually believe a word of it until I actually hear the material.
  12. I'm actually less skeptical than past experiences might suggest. If all that stuff was coming from Bono would be a much different story, but coming from Larry in an interview with their long term friend Dave... I truly BELIEVE it. Not Believe that it will happen, but believe that they've got a true determination to try. And that's something!
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