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  4. Read this article today on http://www.stuff.co.nz, it made me very happy!


    Irish rock stars U2 are working on a new album while they are in New Zealand.

    The band, who are performing two Auckland shows today and Friday, were using their time while they were in the country wisely. The band's manager, Paul McGuinness, said U2 had a deadline looming for their latest album and were working on finishing it while they are here.

    "We are trying very hard to use this time in New Zealand and Australia to finish an album that will be released in the spring," he said.

    McGuinness said while the band were not actually recording in New Zealand, they were working hard on the finishing touches.

    "It's not so much recording as editing and polishing up lyrics and trying to getting it done by the date it needs to be delivered to the record company for release in May. It's sounding great: lots of hits."

  5. Yes, it was posted in the Latest Sightings topic yesterday. Great great news.
  6. Lots of hits. Don't want that.


  7. You don't want songs like North Star and Every Breaking Wave? To me that's what he means. Plus, you can't expect him to say "not really any hits, just a great set of songs". How much worse does that sound? (If it's not obvious, a lot worse).
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  9. Sounds like a new album next year is really going to happen. Awesome. Hopefully before NA
  10. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]

    You don't want songs like North Star and Every Breaking Wave? To me that's what he means. Plus, you can't expect him to say "not really any hits, just a great set of songs". How much worse does that sound? (If it's not obvious, a lot worse).


    I prefer stuff like Unknown Caller over North Star and EBW which seem very HTDAAB ish. North Star and EBW don't sound like radio hits frankly, Vertigo, BD they sound like hits - those two are too slow.

    What I want is either great pop/rock (like PD or Vertigo) or something musically interesting (like UC, Being Born, MoS, NLOTH etc) ideally a mix of both.

    Actually - to tell you the truth it doesn't so much matter what they do as long as they do it well.

    That was the problem with NLOTH - execution, songs like GOYB, SUC were great in concept but the end product could easily have been better (in most cases this is due to Bono's cringeworthy lyrics making the song sound stupid).


  11. I think definitely before X-mas 2011
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