U2’s Next Steps

In an interview with Rolling Stone, The Edge and Adam “I don’t have a cool nickname” Clayton, revealed some of their plans for the next year or so for U2, as well as their upcoming tour.

There’s still a substantial number of No Line On The Horizon songs in the setlist, but at this point it doesn’t feel like the No Line tour necessarily.

Yeah. It is unfortunate. We would like to be playing more of the material from the album. It got great reviews. There’s great material on the record, but there’s no point banging away songs to people who don’t get it. It didn’t catch fire. It’s old news now. The single didn’t work, and when the single doesn’t work people don’t have a way into the record.

[PHM: I’m glad U2 sees that their new album hasn’t been well received by the majority of the public, and aren’t force feeding the songs into everyone’s throats. Respect!]

You had ‘Songs of Ascent,’ the RedOne record and at some point there was talk of putting out the Spider-Man songs as a U2 record – so there’s these all these phantom albums. It’s unusual for you guys.

I think that’s a good thing, conceptually, for Bono to focus on, because as a writer he needs to have these scenarios going on – but my view tends to be, when the record is finished, we’ll know what it is.

[PHM: Give the fans an album, already! Although 3 albums in quick succession would also be awesome!]