I'm not terribly excited about Rick Rubin for U2. Especially when he worked with Linkin Park and is known for a 'Back-to-Basics' approach. That's not where U2 needs to be right now. What they need more now is a Close Encounters of the 3rd kind. Some crazy alien s@$t to apply to the music. It's time to add some different ingredients! 

Maybe V will invade their studio and give 'em a new instrument from their distant planet.

Somebody freaking give Edge a shamisen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5rs7pfZuPs

I believe you shock but I don't see it anywhere on the new album news page

http://www.atu2.com/newalbum/

oh it must have been taken off, i remember it on the page for NLOTH though...

sorry for confusing you

I'm not terribly excited about Rick Rubin for U2. Especially when he worked with Linkin Park and is known for a 'Back-to-Basics' approach. That's not where U2 needs to be right now. What they need more now is a Close Encounters of the 3rd kind. Some crazy alien s@$t to apply to the music. It's time to add some different ingredients! 

Maybe V will invade their studio and give 'em a new instrument from their distant planet.

Somebody freaking give Edge a shamisen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5rs7pfZuPs

whoh...pretty wicked playing! 

I believe you shock but I don't see it anywhere on the new album news page

http://www.atu2.com/newalbum/

oh it must have been taken off, i remember it on the page for NLOTH though...

sorry for confusing you

thats okay dude 

I'm not terribly excited about Rick Rubin for U2. Especially when he worked with Linkin Park and is known for a 'Back-to-Basics' approach. That's not where U2 needs to be right now. What they need more now is a Close Encounters of the 3rd kind. Some crazy alien s@$t to apply to the music. It's time to add some different ingredients! 

Maybe V will invade their studio and give 'em a new instrument from their distant planet.

Somebody freaking give Edge a shamisen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5rs7pfZuPs

Can't you just see him trying to plug it in? 

They aint releasing anything before the new tour except whatever they do for Spiderman as that is priority #1.
All those that are saying, well, they still have 8 months- keep dreaming cause U2 doesnt move that fast.

Well..they certainly have us guessing! Bono & Edge writing songs for these past 2 weeks in France? Seems to me, based on recent comments they would be working on writing catchy Pop songs. They probably have much of SOA done except for final versions to be worked out and re-recorded. But, with the recent writing sessions it sounds to me, obviously just a guess, that they are going after a big radio single or 2 to add to SOA...so that the media doesn't call it DOA. 

I think if they release it, it'll be before the second leg of the tour. Wouldn't make sense to release it after the tour is over with, wouldn't have any promotion. That'd be like painting a masterpiece but not even trying to show it to anyone. What's the point, right? & the tour isn't doing THAT good that they'll do a third leg.. so. Either here within the next few months or not at all!

No way does U2 go on the road 7 months after their last show and not have new material, unless Spider-man becomes a full U2 LP.

Bono and Edge aren't songwriting for 2 weeks right now for nothing, they've got something up their sleeve.

 

I think if they release it, it'll be before the second leg of the tour. Wouldn't make sense to release it after the tour is over with, wouldn't have any promotion. That'd be like painting a masterpiece but not even trying to show it to anyone. What's the point, right? & the tour isn't doing THAT good that they'll do a third leg.. so. Either here within the next few months or not at all!

Just a correction - 2010 is the 3rd leg, not 2nd although it may have seemed 2009 was one leg. 

I'm sticking with March 2010 release but that's intuition based, nothing else. 

its a load of b******s now theyre headling glasto and not playing any other dates in the uk or ireland, they wouldnt release new material and not do shows here to promote it. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr