Tijdens een interview met Rolling Stone’s Andy Greene op een persdag van het filmfestival van Cannes heeft Bono gezegd dat U2 volop aan het opnemen is voor een nieuw album.
Daarbij moesten ze blijkbaar afrekenen met spoken uit het verleden. Hij zei daarover: ‘And nostalgia is not to be tolerated for too long, but sometimes you’ve got to deal with the past in order to get to the future and to the present. To get back to now is our desire. Get back to this moment we’re in. We’ve been recording. And it sounds like future to me. We had to go through some stuff, and we’re at the other end.’
Of de vraag of drummer Larry Mullen Jr. bij die opnamen is, antwoordde Bono:
‘We’ve been playing in the room together, the four of us.
And I can tell you [Mullen Jr.] is completely through whatever storm of injury he’s been through. His playing is at its most innovative. He’s just all about the band. He doesn’t want to talk about anything else, which is kind of amazing.
By the way, being a band in a room where each individual musician has a role that’s singular and collective is so rare because music is assembled these days.
And even some of our music we have assembled, and we’ll do that again, but to try and capture a moment of a rock & roll band in full flight is at the heart of this record that we’re making that we’ve recorded, but we are not finished.’
Of hij weet wanneer die opnamen klaar zijn, antwoordde Bono simpelweg ‘nee’.
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