The next U2 album now won`t be heard until 2009.
Bono has announced that the album has been pushed back to next year because “we`ve hit a rich songwriting vein”.“When we set out on this record it was Larry who came up with the plan not to have a plan,” Bono says at u2.com. “He put up this idea that wouldn`t it be great just to make music for its own sake, not for the purpose of a live show or on album but just to see what we`re capable of...`”
“It`s an idea that`s paid off. Following sessions in Morocco, in Dublin and through the summer in France, the band have written `fifty or sixty` tracks. And counting”.
“`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'”
The u2 recording sessions are currently underway in France. Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno have been producing the tracks are various times. Steve Lillywhite is also involved with the sessions.
Bono says he wants 2009 to be U2`s year. “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 ...”
