The Edge has hinted that new music from U2 will be arriving "very soon", with the band also keen to organise some live shows.
The musician spoke about this in a recent interview on the Sodajerker on Songwriting podcast, where he added that a new single could be released very soon.
“There might be a new song happening very soon, which you’ll hear about. Can’t say any more than that. We’re in a great place creatively", The Edge said.
Elsewhere, The Edge also explained that the band have been presenting finished sections to one another when putting the songs together, in order to focus on material which can be completed, as opposing to focusing on something that is "never going to work".
He said: “I sort of tricked myself. I was going, ‘OK, this is for The Edge solo album, so [I] can’t be, like, leaving these things half-finished. It doesn’t have to have finished lyrics, but it needs to really hang together. And that extra discipline, I think, has been very useful".
“I’ve been just working on so much material, and now that we’re doing some U2 sessions with that material, it looks like it’s paying off,” The Edge continued. “We still might end up changing it around a lot, but we’re not gonna be wasting our time on an idea that was never going to work", he added.
Last November, The Edge said that U2 were recording "sci-fi Irish folk music" with Brian Eno.
"Bono and I are working on some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music. Which could end up becoming a part of the new U2 album. We're not sure yet, we'll see," he said at the time.
"Part of our kind of process is to go so widely away from, off track, and the sort of the process of bringing things back on track is kind of how you get sort of unique sounding music".
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