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Bono: “This Is Our Chance To Defy Gravity Again”
U2 are feeling mightily confident about the fruits of their new album progress, following sessions in the South of France, Morocco and Dublin.
U2 front man and all-round humanitarian, Bono, has told the band’s official website, U2.com, about the progress of the band’s much-awaited new record.
The follow-up to 2004’s ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’ has been in the making for the last year, with sessions taking place in Monaco, Morocco and their hometown of Dublin.
“This is our chance for us to defy gravity once again. We have what it takes, we have the songs, new rhythms and a guitar player who is not ready to re-enter earth’s atmosphere until he’s taken a slice of the moon!
“We’ve hit a rich songwriting vein,” he explains. ”It gets a bit dark down here but looks like we’ve found diamonds not coal. I thought a while back we might have the album wrapped by now, but why come up above ground now if there’s more priceless stuff to be found?”
If 2008 is the year of Coldplay then slightly-bigger rockstars U2 want 2009 to be their own.
“I’m always the one who underestimates how easy it is to simply ‘put out the songs now’, if it was just up to me they’d be out already! But early next year people will be able to start hearing what we’ve been doing. We want 2009 to be our year, so we’re going to start making an impression very early on…”
An exact release date for next year is yet to be confirmed.
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