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2025-06-20: Breaking Waves…Bram, Gavin, Haim and More
There’s a new question and answer session with Gavin Friday in todays Irish Times. The questions dive into Gavin’s lifelong friendship with Bono and Guggi, as well as his relationship with the other members of U2. “I have a very strong friendship with Bono and we have a very direct communication. It’s not just with Bono, but the whole of U2, because I know them 50 years. I’ve always been...
2025-06-14: Breaking Waves…new portrait, Halsey tour, fan club gifts and more…
Artist Colin Davidson from Northern Ireland has shared his 2021 portrait of Bono. The artwork will be on display at the National Gallery of Ireland starting on June 17, 2025.
Davidson shares, “In 2021, I was invited to Bono’s house to make some portraits of him at 60 years old. The sittings were informal and intensely personal engagements, encompassing periods of drawing, reading from...
2025-06-04: Promotion of Stories of Surrender
Last updated: June 4, 2025
With each new project U2 release, a significant amount of promotion and press is done, and each time we attempt to collect links, videos, and more all in one location relating to the project. With the release of Stories of Surrender just a few weeks away, the press for this film has started. You’ll find links below to each item we find. The project includes a...
2025-05-24: Album / Tour Updates from Bono via RTE
Bono did an extended interview with Brendan O’Connor on RTÉ Radio 1 this morning. The full interview is available here. The interview focuses on Bono’s upcoming film Stories of Surrender, out next week on Apple TV+.
During that interview Bono was asked about what was next for U2. He replied, “I can’t wait for the next U2 album. And I know some of the songs. I’m very excited about it. I’m...
2025-05-22: Bono Speaks Out For Peace in Gaza
Contrary to what is being reported elsewhere, Bono did not “break his silence” at the recent Ivor Novello awards on the topic of Gaza. He has been speaking about it for some time. In fact he was one of the first artists to speak about it just hours after the hostages were first taken in October 2023.
His first comments came on October 8, 2023. The Nova music festival in Israel had been...
2025-05-15: Bono to release Stories of Surrender EP
Update: May 16, 2025:
Thanks to an always accurate insider, we can confirm that the “Stories of Surrender” EP will not only have a digital release, but will also be available in vinyl format. A 7-Inch vinyl copy of the EP will be sold. Pre-orders for the vinyl version will be launched when the EP is announced later today. The vinyl will have the same content as the digital version, and the...
2025-05-04: Breaking Waves…Mike Peters, Stories of Surrender, Live Aid 40…
We’ve had a number of questions about whether or not U2 have marked the passing of Mike Peters, former front man for the Alarm, and longtime friend of U2. To date, there has been no public remembrance, but today Jules Peters, the wife of Mike Peters shared “as the weeks unfold I’ll be sharing all the incredible tributes, including the incredible support in Michael’s last days from Bono & The...
2025-05-01: Adam Updates on Album, Future Plans
Adam Clayton was interviewed by Oliver Callan on RTE Radio 1 today. The conversation spoke mostly about his gardening hobbies, growing up, his home, and the upcoming festival he’s speaking at for “Fashion Farming” in Kinsale later this month. But Callan did ask Adam about current work with U2.
His first question was about the 50th anniversary of the band, approaching next year, and if the...
2025-04-18: Breaking Waves…Edge on the new album, Fake news, Record Store Day
Yesterday, The Edge joined Jenny Huston on U2 X-Radio for a short chat. They discussed the How to Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb release, Edge’s new feature on the station “Best Ever Guitar Sound”, and they talked about U2’s new album. The show can be heard on demand on U2 X-Radio, but as we know many of you cannot access the station where you live, we’ll provide some of the quotes pertaining to...
2025-04-17: Bono to appear on next Lil Wayne Album
In a new cover story in Rolling Stone today, it is revealed that Bono will make an appearance on Lil Wayne’s new album:
One big Billboard-chart swing I hear is “These Are the Days,” featuring Wayne’s son Kameron and Bono. The U2 vocalist sings about “counting the days,” while Wayne raps about being in a hospital bed after one of the numerous epileptic seizures he’s had since childhood. (As...
2025-04-16: Bono Co-Writes Garrix’s “Weightless”
Martin Garrix has teamed up with Arijit for a second single, released on April 11, called “Weightless”. Like their earlier song, “Angels for Each Other”, released in March, Bono is once again listed with a writing credit on the song. The credits for writing are Arijit Singh, Benson Boone, Giorgio Tuinfort, JUNO, Martijn Garritsen, Paul David Hewson and Simon Edmund Carmody. The song was...
2025-04-12: 5 Albums: Original Soundtracks 1
With the Passengers album Original Soundtracks 1 (OST 1) celebrating its 30th anniversary this year with a brand new vinyl reissue for Record Store Day, we thought it would be a good time to resurrect the 5 Albums series for a look at the team who first brought that controversial project to life back in 1995. Here are five Passengers-adjacent projects that you definitely need to check out!...