Songs Of Experience - General album discussions

"THE DEADLINE FOR THE ALBUM IS THIS WEEKEND"

Over the last weeks social networks filled pages with lots of rumours regarding U2's new single, new album and new leg of the tour.

We usually don't spread those rumors basically for two reasons:

1. This is a place linked to a book that is focused on U2 story and news always related to Spain.There are many pages doing an amazing job by updating U2 news basically every day. That's not our "business".

2. We prefer to wait until that "rumour" is officially confirmed unless we get the information personally and from what we consider a reliable source.

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Having said that, we got some news we would like to share. We had the chance to have a conversation this weekend with two people directly linked to the band. When we say directly we mean very linked, and that means very linked. Also both of them worked on the design of Innocence & Experience tour.

We basically did not ask anything directly but what we got can be summarized as follows:

1. "Deadline for the album was this weekend"...hence the crazy activity that the band has had for the last three weeks when they have been working at Rick Rubin's Shangri-la studio in Malibu.

2. "Album will for sure be released very soon, before the end of the year".

3. "Band will take August on holidays as usual but after summer they will resume the tour that as you know had the Innocence part and now the Experience part". Those people didn't share if this new leg will start in September, October or when. They didn't share if it was US leg or not.

So, apart from the "deadline" thing, the rest is not new but it's quite aligned to the information we have been reading on internet recently. For us is more than that...it is almost a confirmation coming from the source that it comes.

The band have been working on their next album that should be called "Songs of Experience" since the "Songs of Innocence" recording sessions. They even mentioned in an interview that they took a studio on tour so they could "take advantage of the energy they got on stage". The truth is that recording sessions got more frequent once the tour was over and after Christmas (and January) holidays.

They have been doing sessions near Dublin and in California since then. The schedule has been as follows:

February: Three weeks in Dublin (2 final weeks of Feb + 1st week of March).

March: Off....except those first days mentioned above.

April: Three final weeks in Dublin.

May: Two first weeks in Malibu. Then the 2 final weeks in Dublin again and some days at the beginning of June.

June: Working there since the second week of June till now.

Dublin sessions are said to have taken place at Danesmoate (Adam's house) and Strathmore House (near Bono's house) (both not confirmed).

All those Malibu sessions took place at Rick Rubin's Shangri-la studio.

So, this is it.... album and tour seem to be very close so announcement should happen also very soon.

They are ready to rock again....

Originally posted by Andrew_C:exciting times