U2 has announced the date of it’s latest album:
No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2, will be released on Monday 2nd March 2009.
Written and recorded in various locations, No Line On The Horizon is the group’s 12th studio album and is their first release since the 9 million selling album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, released in late 2004.
Sessions for No Line On The Horizon began last year in Fez, Morocco, continued in the band’s own studio in Dublin, before moving to New York’s Platinum Sound Recording Studios, and finally being completed at Olympic Studios in London.
The album calls on the production talents of long-time collaborators Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, with additional production by Steve Lillywhite.
They will also be touring in 2009. Definitely have to go since I’ve never seen them live.
As the post is on U2, may I mention that I’m not comfortable calling U2 a Christian band. Don’t know them personally, but if they *are* Christians, then they practice a strange Christianity indeed. Just one example: in one of their publicised set lists for their current 2011 tour, they honor Sgt Pepper — icon of destruction, rebellion, drug-induced (pharmacopeia) thoughts and lyrics and an album which heralded icons such as Satanist Aleister Crowley — author of and the Rolling Stones, who released “His Satanic Majesty’s Request”. This link lists the U2 set list for Chile: bit.ly/e9sYWR. Steve Stockman seeks to vindicate them in his book, in which he dotes upon them — but Stockman is quite a liberal (perhaps even a capital “L”) Christian indeed. The following page illustrates quite a bit about who Crowley was: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A9736851; Sgt Pepper album pointed him out as a ‘hero’ and U2 is paying tribute to Sgt Pepper which was a pursuit into all that is wicked and unholy.
Again, as I mentioned, I’ve never met the members of U2, but having researched U2 and Bono for several years, they present very serious questions about their supposed faith.