U2
Although U2 is still in the middle of their gigantic 360 Tour that won’t end until the middle of 2010, they are already planning their next album, Songs of Ascent, according to the Edge. The guitarist added: “It’ll come sooner rather than later” as he recently spoke to Rolling Stone.
He continued , “There’s a bunch of amazing pieces that we didn’t finish from the work we did in Fez [for No Line On The Horizon], and there’s the songs we started with Rick Rubin, some of which are amazing songs that I’d love to get back to at some point.
“The one thing is we’d love to follow this album up sooner rather than later,” Edge added. “I don’t think we’ll have over three years or whatever it was between the last two records.”
U2’s Drummer Larry Mullen Jr chimed in , saying, “I definitely think we should do something good as soon as we possibly can, as opposed to quickly. I’m feeling that it’s the unfinished songs from this record that we should be concentrating on. I think there’s a part two of this record. I would like to think that we would have a song that would end up on the radio.”
Bono’s take on Songs Of Ascent is “a very clear idea.” However, the singer was quick to point out “if we’re going to do another rock record, I want to do Spider-Man [the Broadway musical for which he and The Edge have written music]. I just haven’t talked Adam and Larry into that.”