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“Bono and I are working on some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music”: The Edge confirms new U2 activity, with Larry Mullen Jr back and Brian Eno "involved", is afoot

Band haven’t released a new album for seven years

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“Bono and I are working on some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music.” U2 guitarist The Edge says the band are recording with Brian Eno, but not on the “noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album” Bono promised

U2 are working on new music, but not the kind of raw, rowdy music they've been talking up over the past few years

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The Edge recalls performing at Las Vegas karaoke bar

The Edge has revealed that he recently performed at a karaoke bar in Las Vegas.

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Larry Mullen Jr 'back on his stool' after neck surgery

Adam Clayton has revealed his U2 bandmate Larry Mullen Jr. is "back on his stool" after undergoing neck surgery.

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“We had sausages and salad and margaritas. Noel wouldn’t eat the salad.” That time Australian dance crew Confidence Man invited U2 and Noel Gallagher to their house for dinner, and were confronted by an angry neighbour on their doorstep

Fast-rising Australian dance quartet Confidence Man recall the evening they had world-famous rock stars drop around for a home-cooked meal, and things got “rowdy”

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"We were just looking for a hit. And we heard the beginnings of a new kind of sound": Inspired by Australian pubs and riding a wave of optimism, Simple Minds made the album that sent them soaring

As the 80s dawned, Simple Minds were in crisis. But, believing that life was without limits, they recorded the album New Gold Dream and the dream became reality

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Band Aid 40: Where the original singers are now as Do They Know It's Christmas? returns for 2024

A new refresh of the song, which combines vocals from three past versions, will be released on November 25

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“It sounded so amazing that people said to me, ‘I can hear the bass’, which usually they don’t say to me very often”: U2 bassist Adam Clayton contrasts the live audio mix in the Las Vegas Sphere to “these sports buildings that sound terrible”

“We rehearsed, we built the show outside of the building, turned up day one, did a couple of rehearsals and said, ‘Well, I don’t know if it’s going to work, but let’s go’”

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The Edge says that U2 are wading through material for new album

U2 guitarist The Edge has revealed that the 'Desire' band have an "awful lot of material" to condense into a new album.

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“You know the way drummers get, they get a bit weird when they start singing”: watch a drunk U2 completely rinse Phil Collins at an awards ceremony

The Genesis frontman was tasked with presenting to an inebriated Bono & co. in 1992 and they were in a cheeky mood

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Dave Keuning’s uncanny ability to craft huge songs like Mr. Brightside from simple melodies is at the heart of the Killers’ blockbuster sound – here’s how you can use his rhythm approach and hook-filled lead style

There are many lessons to be taken from Dave Keuning’s work with the Killers, not least that an appreciation of melody, a diverse musical vocabulary, and an ear for hooks makes for a crowd-pleasing set

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U2's Adam Clayton had 'prejudice' about playing in Las Vegas

U2's Adam Clayton had "prejudice" about playing in Las Vegas before the band got excited about the opportunities The Sphere offered.

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“Bono said, ‘Everyone is blowing smoke up our arse, will you come watch a few shows and help us make it better?’”: Gavin Friday on how he became U2’s Creative Director

The former Virgin Prune and solo artist has been U2’s official Tell It Like It Is Correspondent since the mid-80s

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“Robert Plant said we captured the spirit of Zeppelin. I think he meant we were as debauched as they were”: The chaotic story of The Mission, the goth band who wanted to be Led Zeppelin

Sex, drugs and hanging out with former members of Led Zeppelin – The Mission proved goth was anything but doom and gloom

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“The world's most authentic amp models, no UA hardware required”: Universal Audio takes its Edge-approved amp pedals to the digital realm for the first time with $299 plugins

The UAFX Dream ’65 and Ruby ’63 pedals – which The Edge used during U2's Sphere residency – have been digitized alongside the Marshall-inspired Lion ’68

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"You guys definitely have to be the first band into the Sphere, because this is the future": U2's live sound engineer on how he persuaded Bono and The Edge to be the Las Vegas Sphere's first resident band

"I tried my level best and I couldn't break it" Joe O'Herlihy on the prep behind U2's astounding residency

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"I went into my personal archive to see if there were any unreleased gems and I hit the jackpot": U2 announces a new 'shadow album'

The Edge reveals he found unreleased tracks from the How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb sessions

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Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody: ‘20,000 people were giving me the finger’

The Northern Irish frontman talks embarrassing love stories, legal run-ins and meeting royalty – both musical and literal

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The Independent UK

The real ‘star’ of UFC 306 isn’t even a fighter

UFC president Dana White thinks Las Vegas’s Sphere could get the event ‘nominated for an Oscar, an Emmy and a Grammy’

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TIFF 2024: For Gen Zs and beyond, cinema is about authentic live experience

While movie premieres and A-list celebrities attract most of the attention at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the future of film is debated in the TIFF Industry conference.

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“In the indie world, you’re not meant to be successful.” Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody on dealing with superstardom after being written off as “damaged goods” by the music industry

Snow Patrol are back with their first album in six years, The Forest Is the Path. Their time in the music business has been a rollercoaster, as frontman Gary Lightbody acknowledges

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The 10 best cover versions by Smashing Pumpkins

Billy Corgan and crew's renditions of hits by U2, Hole, Fleetwood Mac, Depeche Mode, The Cure and, umm, Natalie Imbruglia

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“I was sitting in a bar and a friend came in and said, Bono from U2 just phoned my mother trying to find you.” How Depeche Mode/Nine Inch Nails producer Flood got to work with U2, and why working with Brian Eno made him “reappraise everything”

When U2 came calling for British recording engineer Mark 'Flood' Ellis, he assumed it was an April Fool's joke

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“After all these years, I get to see a U2 show”: The Edge in the director’s chair for new U2 concert film

The Edge directs new U2 concert film

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