Upcoming Releases

This section collects information about upcoming U2 releases, their status, and provide news links to updates about these projects. It will also detail information about other projects that the band are involved in such as solo projects, and other expected appearances. Below the updates on each project are links to news stories about upcoming projects where you can find more information about these releases. As things are officially announced, they are moved to their own discography entries on the site.

Last Updated: February 6, 2026

Expected Dates:

2026-02 U2 Fan Club Offer due to go live
2026-02-26: Bono appears on EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert Soundtrack Album
2026-02-26: Bono will appear in Guggi a documentary by Ian Thullier
Summer 2026: First single from the new album expected.
2026-03-07: Adam Clayton’s Ballroom Boom debuts in US Theatre
Mid-2026: “Weightless”, co-written by Bono, may be included on Martin Garrix’s new album
Fall 2026: U2 expected to release a new album.
Fall 2026: Bono will play a hound dog named Plato in Outfoxed!
2027: It is expected that U2 will start their next world tour.

Note on rumours and unconfirmed material: There is some material referenced on this page which has not been officially announced. We endeavor to check the validity of such material as much as is possible, with more weight being placed on previous reliable sources. We do wait until we have multiple sources before publishing any material.

U2’s Next Album:

U2’s next album will be their 16th full length album of new material. Although there has been reports of work being underway as early as 2018, it appears that when Larry Mullen returned to the band full time in August 2024 a decision was made to work on an album of fresh material with new ideas, and new songs at that time. (Mullen underwent a series of corrective surgeries in 2023 and 2024 to allow him to return to drumming full time, and is reported in good health and fully recovered.)

We are told that work on the album continues, and the hope is to have the album complete and out in late 2026. No details about a title are known and nothing has been announced. A single from that album is expected in summertime if the album release is ready to go. A stadium tour would be expected to follow starting in early 2027, and at this time it appears that planning for the tour has started with multiple possible itineraries in development.

The following quotes are quotes from the band about a new album since the apparent full-fledged start of work in August 2024.

2026 Quotes:

2026-02-04: While speaking with Lenny Kravitz on U2 X-Radio, The Edge joked, that U2 are “locked in the proverbial tower of song working on tunes” for a new album and shared ‘It’s going great—slower than we would’ve wanted…we hope it’ll be out some time around 2037-2038.”

2025 Quotes:

2025-01-05: The Edge appeared on the Sodajerker podcast and shared, “We’re working on a lot of new songs. There might be a new U2 song happening very soon, which you’ll hear about, I can’t say anything more than that.” (The song in question was a charity-type single we are told, and in the end was not released.)
2025-03-07: In a podcast recorded in late January, Adam Clayton joined the hosts of “Is Breakfast Included”, sharing “We’re going to get back in there in a few weeks and work up to the summer. Once we’ve got our stuff in order, we’ll look at it and decide on a release date in early next year. But I’m not saying there’s a release date yet, because we’re not at that position. If we can do it, that’s what we want. That’s our ambition.”
2025-04-18: The Edge joined U2 X-Radio host Jenny Huston to share, “We’re always looking to the next project. We’re really focused on new stuff. During lockdown that’s what I did. I went into my studio room and just played and worked up some new music. So I had like 100 potential songs in the works. So this period is really dedicated to writing and recording songs so we’re in the right headspace I think is what I’m getting at.” The Edge also shared, “We’re very excited. We’ve so much material to choose from. We’re sort of choosing the best ideas, the best songs, our problem is narrowing it down. So we’re playing around with underlying themes that will help us I think. It’s the spine. Once we have the thematic spine of the lyrics and the ideas, then we can sort of fit the songs into that over arching story and we’re at that phase where it’s time to really start going with the certain songs and putting others to one side. Not that they’re not good also. But we want this to be a really cohesive collection. And we’re also very excited about getting in the room together as a band and playing, sometimes as a four piece, sometimes a three piece, we want the recordings to have the band sound, the band chemistry in it. So that’s kind of a focus as well. Which is great. Our band is kind of limited in some ways, but really has a lot of character. When we play together, when we’re making music, it just sounds like us, it’s a remarkable thing, no matter where the songs started out in terms of early recordings or demos, when we play together there’s a certain U2 thing that happens.” (We’ve been told that Bono has had to miss sessions due to promotional duties for “Stories of Surrender”.)
2025-04-18: Other highlights from Edge’s conversation with Jenny Huston on U2 X-Radio included, “It’s important that you go in with a strong point of view. The point of view is what we’re kind of developing now, as the songs are coming into focus. That’s what everyone may not understand every aspect of it, but they can sense it. Our audience, they kind of understand intuitively that there’s ideas behind this, beyond just the initial impression that they get, there’s a resonance beyond that. So it’s important. It’s in our history, always those records, those ideas, that we look back and go yeah ‘we hit on something there, that was a good set of ideas, and a good direction for us’, and then if it hasn’t quite come together we also notice that. So It’s a crucial moment. But we’re having a lot of fun. We’re working together in the studio in various parts of the world with Jacknife Lee at the controls. We don’t have anything finished yet, so it’s too early to start telling people what it is, but we’re making good progress.” He also shares “I think one song doesn’t feel substantial enough, but if you got a collection of songs that allows you to move into a new territory musically and thematically I think it permissions a lot of creativity and inspiration. That often will feed not just the album itself, but then the tour that will inevitably follow. You start to be able to think about how these songs will look in a live context, what’s the presentation going to be like, down to what kind of shoes will I be wearing?”
2025-05-01: Speaking with RTE, Adam Clayton shares, “The only thing I can say is it’s a work in progress. We do not have a deadline as such. But I would hope by the end of the year we’d have some information to share, and perhaps we could suggest something for next year.” Asked if the band was working on “Sci-Fi Irish folk music with Brian Eno” Adam replies, “That sounds about right. I think we’re heading off in that direction.” He also shares an update about Larry Mullen’s condition, “He’s absolutely back behind his kit. He’s got his sticks out. He’s great. He’s great. Better than ever,” and also shares that Larry didn’t want to do the Sphere shows if he couldn’t be at full strength and the band told him “get right, get fixed. We’ll keep your seat warm for you.”
2025-05-10: Speaking with The Observer it is shared that Brian Eno is working with the band on their new album. Bono shares, “We’re busy writing another reason to exist as a band. I still find Brian an extraordinary inspiration and I’m sure he still finds me quite frustrating. But I know he will keep on defending our right to be ecstatic in our music.” Bono also talks about his activism and recently stepping back from it, “Let me put it this way: I won’t go to my grave thinking I wasted my time in terms of my activism. I might, however, go to my grave thinking there was that one U2 song I let go of, when it was so close and I went out the back door before it was finished.” And he ends the interview talking about returning to looking forward instead of back, “Yeah, we have been involved in some nostalgia. But I would say, you have to know where you came from in order to be more effective in the present and the future. That’s the case in a different way with the book, the stage play and now the film. I have a record of it all, but now, I have to move back into the future, which is where U2 always lived.”
2025-05-10: In conversation with Corriere Della Serra Bono shares “Larry has recovered from his back injury. He, Edge and Adam are 100 meters from where I am now and are making amazing music, as if their lives depended on it…And that’s because music, like football, is not a matter of life and death, it’s much more important. In recent years we have experimented a lot. Edge and I immersed ourselves in a folk world that we had been following for some time. Then we worked on some things with Brian Eno and when we make music he and I always end up in another place…”
2025-05-14 : Bono shares with Deadline: “Turn up the volume, I say. I promise you this, we’re working on something quite extraordinary at the moment, Edge, Adam, Larry and myself, so we’re not going to let you down.”
2025-05-16: Asked about the delay between albums, and the fans getting restless Bono shares with Rolling Stone, “Well, they’re right. 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 the future to me. We had to go through some stuff, and we’re at the other end of it.” He also updates on Larry Mullen, “We’ve been playing in the room together, the four of us. And I can tell you he is completely through whatever storm of injury he has 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.” He also shares, “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.” Asked if Bono knows when the album might be released the reply is a simple “No”.
2025-05-19: Bono tells USA Today, “I think I’m done now singing about my dead ma and my dead da, all the dead people I was close to. Edge says, ‘Nostalgia is a thing of the past, Bono.’ And I agree. U2 are getting ready for the future and this is, well, a privilege to be given a chance to record this most intimate story that, in a way, the band wrote. Edge wrote this story. Larry, Adam, (wife) Ali wrote this story, not just my father and mother. So now it’s time to face the future and dance.” He also speaks about Larry, sharing he’s “back from his injuries, that’s for sure, I’ve never seen him play like this. He’s at his most innovative, I would say.” Of the others he shares that The Edge is “determined to take the guitar into the future” and that the band has to make another album “just to get Adam off Gardeners’ World.” The article mentions there’s no timeline for the new album.
2025-05-22: After the Ivor Novello awards, Larry Mullen shares with the BBC, “It was difficult being away because of injury, so I’m thrilled to be back in a creative environment, even if I’m not 100% there and I’ve got some bits falling off. It’s just the most extraordinary thing, when I was away from the band, I missed it, but I didn’t realise how much I missed it.”
2025-05-22: Bono was also interviewed after the Ivor Novello awards, and shared, “It was just the four of us in a room, trying a new song and going, ‘What’s that feeling? Oh right, that’s chemistry.’ We had it when we were 17. We’ve had it over the years but you lose it sometimes. The way music is assembled these days is not friendly to that chemistry. But isn’t it strange that it’s just got to the moment when just bass, drums, guitar and a loudmouth singer sounds like an original idea. That’s where we’re at in 2025.”
2025-05-24: In a lengthy interview with Brendan O’Connor on RTE, Bono shares, “I can’t wait for the next U2 album. And I know some of the songs. I’m very excited about it. I’m excited about the future. Perhaps dealing with the past gets you to the present. We have to get back to now, in order to think about the songs of the future.” He continues, “It sounds like four of us in a room at times. And at other times it sounds like something I’ve never heard before. The opening song, if it stays the opening song, is called ‘Go’ it’s an extraordinary introduction, I would want to be at that gig, I certainly want to be in that band.” Bono also updates on Larry’s progress with recovery sharing he’s “more interested in being in the studio for long hours. Just going over his parts. Realizing that’s how he speaks. He was very funny at the Ivors, very deadpan humour and all that, but his real conversation is the way he plays. I was saying are we ok? Are we ok here? And he goes ‘yeah. I feel amazing.’” Bono also speaks about a possible early release of some of the music from the album, “We want to release some of this album. Why it might take more than a week to come out. We want to play some of it live. We’ve promised ourselves that since our first album. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could just play this live? Maybe even play it live first, and then put out the album. That’s another thought we’re playing with.” This leads to O’Connor asking if they have a release date for the album and Bono shares, “That’s what I’m saying. We don’t know.” Bono is then asked if it will be out next year and replies “I don’t know.”
2025-05-27: Bono appears on Jimmy Kimmel, Live! and tells Kimmel, “We’ve been in the studio and you know, I think you’ve sometimes got to deal with the past to get to the present, in order to make the sound of the future, which is what we want to do. It’s the sound of, I would say, four men who feel like their lives depend on it…and I remind them, they do! You know, nobody needs a new U2 album unless it’s an extraordinary one. And I’m feeling very strong about it.” He also shares that the album will be filled with “Songs for the kitchen, songs for the speedway, the garage, you know, for every part of your life. Songs to make up to, songs to break up to. U2 makes a very unique sound when we play together, and I think, yeah, the sound of a room is what we’re going for.”
2025-05-28: Bono appears on the cover of Esquire and reveals within, “We were a little broken, There was a period of reflection where we had to figure out, do we have anything to offer?” Bono shares that the answer was yes. “We’ve got a band unlike any other—good or bad—but unlike any other. You have a guitar player who’s clearly otherworldly, you have a drummer who has returned from agony who is now in ecstasy, and Adam Clayton, who is the only member of U2 with enough courage to have an almost handlebar mustache at this point.” Bono shares that the band is working with Brian Eno, and he can’t believe how good it sounds. “Everyone in the band seems desperate for it. It’s like their lives depend on it. And, as I tell them, they do.” Bono shares he will consider the album successful “if it provides us with a reason to leave home. You want to have some very good reasons to leave home.” And shares his hopes that the fans are “going to still be there for us. We’ve pushed them to their elastic limit over the years. And now it’s a long time that we’ve been away. But I still think that we can create a soundtrack for people who want to take on the world.”
2025-06-17: The press tour surrounding “Stories of Surrender” wrapped up with a podcast with Zane Lowe. Bono tells Zane, “I’ve been in the studio, I’ve heard these men. They’re remarkable musicians and… Larry has been staying late, working on his parts. Edge last time, he said ‘I have 300 songs!’ I said ‘They’re not songs, Edge. They’re just guitar parts.’ He said ‘Well, I have 25 great songs’. I said, “Actually, yeah, we’ve worked on probably 25, but 15. They have to be whittled down. I don’t like long albums, so we have to get it. It should be 10 songs, but I don’t have a timeline on that. And they don’t either.” Bono talks about his voice, “At some point you have to let go of those demons. And I feel like I’m walking a little different now. I feel free-er and I feel like my voice has come into something different. I feel like my voice has got to a place where I’ve never been before and I thank the project of writing the memoir and the play and the book and the film all the rest of it for getting all that out, ready for the future and the sound of the future.” He finishes talking about Brian Eno working with the band, “There’s something about Brian Eno being in the room. He has been and there’s something about the room itself, and by that I mean great rock and roll records, you feel the room. A lot of music is made on the grid now, so you can tighten things up. The Beatles tighten things up in their own way, they stuck together, different takes and whatever. It’s great for electronic music but you know the Black Keys or whatever, they’re amazing at keeping things loose, but Rock and Roll has gotten quite tight. We got quite tight for Songs of Innocence / Songs of Experience. Then I thought I want to feel the room. I want to feel the way these musicians bump up against each other. With Nirvana you feel that. Wunderhorse. Cause you hear them in the room. So that’ll be part of our future, it doesn’t have to be all of it, because there’s moments when you want to disappear into sounds that you’ve never heard before, but this, but at the heart of our band it is three musicians and a salesman.”
2025-10-21: During acceptance of the Woody Guthrie Award Bono shared, “Songs come out. We can’t write them to order. We thought about, we had a song that we were going to share, tonight, to play, but without Adam and Larry we couldn’t. But it’s an example of how a song comes about, if you call it a protest song.” Bono read lyrics from this “new song” at the award ceremony for the 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize in October 2025. One of the people involved in the 2024 film No Other Land was Awdah Hathaleen. On July 28, 2025, Hathaleen was killed by an Israeli settler in the South Hebron Hills. The director of the film shared “they’re trying to erase us, they are trying to wipe us off the earth ‘one life at time’.” That inspired Bono to write the lyrics which he started writing the same week as the funeral. The Edge shares that the song is not yet finished.

2024 Quotes:

During 2024 talk consisted of discussion of a few projects, one a sci-fi Irish folk album was being worked on with Brian Eno and Jacknife Lee, and would potentially feature a number of Irish guest artists. The Edge even compared it to a Passengers 2. The second album was the sound of four men in a room and was the U2 project. The Edge was hopeful that the two would be combined (and at this point it appears that they have.)

2024-09: Adam Clayton tells Zane Lowe: “If all the world is a loop, I think we’ve kind of got to the point where we’ve pushed things as far as we can in terms of adding extra things into the band. Now we kind of want to go back, and kind of take the layers off, and get down to what the band does really well. Which is to play live in a room. There’s a freshness to that now, and i don’t know if there’s many bands that can still make records that way. That’s what we want to explore.”
2024-09: The Edge shares with Zane Lowe: “Music made in real time in a room with musicians interacting with one other – it just has a narrative, a sonic narrative, which you just cannot create using a different approach — using layering, drum loops or whatever — I love that as well. Don’t get me wrong I’m not a purist in any sense. I feel that the culture shifts and morphs based on what feels fresh, what’s been overplayed, what’s been underplayed. I do feel music that’s been made in real-time has been underserved. It’s starting to feel really fresh again. We’re in a good place to make an album like that, because that’s what we started out doing.”
2024-10-24: Gavin Friday tells the Irish Times: “They’re working on an album. They’ll disappear into the making of it, the writing of it. I’m much more involved when something is happening, so when they come back I’ll be called in.”
2024-10-31: Bono tells Record Collector magazine: “Edge has likened Re-Assemble to a throwdown, in terms of where U2 might go next…Fresh paint…you have to be fit to play first touch football…I want to hear the sound of our band in a room…to feel a performance get away from us and be better for that…I experienced it last month with Larry, Adam and Edge, and I want more.”
2024-10-31: Bono tells Record Collector magazine: “I think of ‘City of Blinding Lights’ as the first song of innocence…with the exception of No Line on the Horizon that period continued for 20 years – Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, they’re all retrospective. It has stopped, you’ll be pleased to hear…You’ll never have to listen to me raging and whinging about my mother or father ever again…Though I do have this opera coming out, haha!”
2024-11-05: The Edge tells the Toronto Star: “And then there are some other more experimental projects that Bono and I are working on — there’s this sort of Irish sci-fi folk thing that we’re kind of playing around with, which may end up on the next U2 album. We’re not sure yet, but we’re excited about that.” Later he also mentions, “And then I’m fascinated with the folk revival happening in Ireland and North America, artists like Hozier. There seems to be something new and fresh about that music.”
2024-11-08: Larry Mullen tells Deadline: “I’m recovering. It’s just slow. And yeah, I’m anxious to get back, and this was a very good way back in. You know, there’s, there’s plans to go back into the studio and that. So, yeah, it’s exciting, but it is slow.”
2024-11-11: The Edge told Rolling Stone: “We’ve done a session with Larry. We’re going to do another one in a couple of weeks, and we’re having a great time. So yeah, obviously we don’t want to be over-doing it, but yes, it’s going great and he is in great form. It’s lovely to spend time with him in the studio in a creative environment.”
2024-11-11: The Edge tells Rolling Stone: “We can’t really think much about the tour. There’s been some conversations about what we might do. But for us, again, as I was saying earlier on, it’s like how one album seems to respond to what has happened before. So I think we’ll respond in some way to what we’ve just done, which is the Sphere, with something quite different. But what that is, we’re not really sure just yet.”
2024-11-11: The Edge tells Rolling Stone: “We’re working away with Jacknife [Lee] and I’m really enjoying working with him. And we have other sessions booked for potential different projects, which will probably all end up being folded into the U2 project, but we are working with other people and enjoying that. We’re really at that phase of just experimenting, letting the music tell us what to do. It’s just a lot of fun right now.”
2024-11-14: The Edge tells the Los Angeles Times: “I wouldn’t rule out doing something for the Sphere in the future. But we’re itching to get back to regular concerts. Next thing we have to do is a new record, of course. This project was a celebration of Achtung Baby, so we’re anxious to do something that’s about new work. We’re already actively developing new material for what will become a U2 album in the future, and we’ll be back to touring. As much as we loved being able to rely on the sound being great every night, there’s a great momentum to being on the road. And seeing local fans, as opposed to relying on them coming to us – it’s different. We miss it.”
2024-11-20: Bono shares with David Fricke on SiriusXM: “I’m with Edge on the lyricism that’s required to negotiate these modern times. I’m presently listening to epic Irish ballads. I’m listening to folk music. And the lyricism of that. I’m really. It was really hard for us to see, to live with Shane McGowan’s departure, knowing what a gift he had. His punk roots. His lyricism. His understanding, and indeed the Pogues’ in general understanding of a great riff, and a directness. The lyricism is not an invitation to vagaries.”
2024-11-20: The Edge shares with David Fricke on SiriusXM: “It’s very much where our heads are at right now. This music made in real time, by a band in a room. All things add an inherent value that you just cannot achieve, other than being a band, and other than being a band that’s recording in real time. But the tightness, the discipline of the ideas is really a throw down.”
2024-11-20: Bono shares with David Fricke on SiriusXM: “If we’re looking for revelry and revery, we’ve a lot more work to do in U2. That is an inspiration for us. How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb in its directness, in its present tense-ness. You’re in a room with this band. And I think that won’t inform all of our music. But I think we’ve come out of a period of experimentation with electronic music, which we still love and adore, there’s always going to be a place in us for that. But right now we’re all about the moment, and if you’re in the moment, if you’re living in it, you have to be really fit for it, there’s no hiding. So that’s where Edge, Adam, and Larry are. And everyone feels as strongly as I do about this.”
2024-11-20: Bono, speaking with David Fricke, shares on SiriusXM: “That was a through line and set us off…Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, they are all retrospective. This bomb that went off set us for the first time looking into what made us who we are. I think that period, with the exception of No Line on the Horizon, that period has been continuous for 20 years, and has stopped you’ll be pleased to hear. Cause, you will never have to hear me sing about my mother or father ever again. OK?”
2024-11-21: Adam Clayton told Virgin Radio: “During the time we were in the Sphere, Larry had some surgeries. He has made a full recovery. We recorded some songs with him after the summer. So we have started the process of the next record. We’re not sure when we’re going to be finished, we’re not sure when its going to be released. But we’re doing some more work this month, at the end of November, and in the beginning of December we going to be back in the studio. I think by the middle of next year, we’ll have a very good idea of how many songs we have to finish, and when we want to release it. And then a tour will follow on from that. We feel like, it was very hard for our European fans that we were playing shows in Las Vegas. We realize that for most fans that’s a very, very expensive ticket. And that’s a long way to travel. We know that we have to make it up to our European fans when we come out and tour next time.”
2024-11-21: Adam Clayton shares on RTL Radio: “When we know what that record is we’ll go out and tour it. I don’t know which year. It may be 2026, it may be 2027.”
2024-11-22: Steve Lillywhite told The NY Post: “They’ve been in the studio, and apparently they’re all excited by how it’s going.”
2024-11-23: The Edge shares “We are producing material without having to think about deadlines, exploring possibilities, working with different collaborators under the guidance of Jacknife Lee, a producer we’ve worked with for some time.”
2024-11-23: The Edge tells O Globo that some of these collaborators include Cormac Begley, Colm Mac Con Iomaire and Dermot Sheedy. Begley plays the concertina, Mac Con Iomaire plays fiddle, and Sheedy is on bodhrán. Colm Mac Con Iomaire joined Bono and The Edge for the A Sort of Homecoming special, where they performed U2 songs with other Irish artists and Jacknife Lee and Kate Ellis.
2024-11-23: The Edge shares: “Since albums like October and War we haven’t really looked at the Irish influence. Since then we’ve gained an outside perspective and become more aware of the uniqueness of Irish Music. Now it seems like a new place for us to go. It could yield a U2 album, a side project like Passengers. We’re not thinking too much about where it will lead.”
2024-11-23: The Edge speaking with Billy Sloan on BBC Scotland shares: “Right now there’s a bunch of projects in line, there’s a new U2 album that we are working on, that’s what we are working on with Adam and Larry. There’s a kind of mad sci-fi Irish folk project that Bono and I are working on. Various different solo recordings, that we have no idea where they will go. And don’t need to at this point. We’re enjoying the opportunity to just create. We can think about where these songs belong after the fact. It’s all for us a part of the curiosity that’s always driven us, I don’t think that’s ever going to let up.”
2024-11-23: The Edge speaking with Billy Sloan on BBC Radio Scotland shares: “Right now there’s a bunch of projects in line, there’s a new U2 album that we are working on, that’s what we are working on with Adam and Larry. There’s a kind of mad sci-fi Irish folk project that Bono and I are working on. Various different solo recordings, that we have no idea where they will go. And don’t need to at this point. We’re enjoying the opportunity to just create. We can think about where these songs belong after the fact. It’s all for us a part of the curiosity that’s always driven us, I don’t think that’s ever going to let up.”
2024-11-23: The Edge also shares with Billy Sloan on BBC Radio Scotland: “We were in the studio with Larry a couple of weeks ago. We are going to be in the studio with him in another week or two. He’s taking it one step at a time, he doesn’t want to over do things. He’s playing well and enjoying it. It’s great having him back in the studio. There’s a chemistry when the four of us play together that’s unmistakable. We’re delighted to have Larry back.”
2024-11-23: The Edge tells Radio-Canada: “We are working a lot on new songs at the moment. We did a couple of weeks with Larry and Adam a month ago. We’re going to do a couple of weeks with them in three weeks. But also Bono and I are also working on some side projects, that could end up being part of the U2 album, we’re not sure yet. We’re calling it a sci-fi-folk record. We’re working with some really fantastic Irish traditional musicians. It’s really the groundwork for where things will go next for us. I think we got fascinated with the intimacy that the Sphere venue allowed us because of the sound system. Literally things that we’d never consider to do in the live context, were suddenly possible and we really reveled in that kind of simple arrangement. We’ll see. But we’re having so much fun. We’re writing so much material. And we’re just excited to see where it leads us. The songs are always the boss.”
2024-11-23: The Edge tells O Globo: “The next thing you’ll hear about from U2 is a new studio album. After which we’ll see what the tour will be like. There’s never 100% certainty. We’ve spent a few weeks in the studio playing with Larry. He’s recovering well, taking it easy, one step at a time. We’re not asking him to do too much, but I think he’s playing really well. And enjoying playing, which is important.”
2024-11-25: The Edge tells Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2, “We were in the studio the other day just working on some crazy new music. He’s good. We’re at that great phase where we don’t have to overthink it we’re just making music and loving that process. We’ll figure out where things belong after. There’s a couple of different projects.” He then talks about recording with Larry for the new U2 album and his recovery, “Bono and I are working on some crazy sci-fi Irish folk music. Which could end up becoming part of the U2 album. We’re not sure yet. We’ll see. Part of our kind of process is to just go so wildly away from off track, and the process of bringing things back on track is kind of how you get some unique sounding music.”
2024-11-25: Asking for more information on where the Sci-Fi Irish folk material might end up, The Edge also tells Jo Whiley, “We have Brian Eno involved, and a bunch of…some beautiful Irish musicians, some incredibly talented…Colm Mac Con Iomaire who is this fiddle player, and Dermot Sheehy who is this bodhrán player, they came in the other day. They’re astonishing players. We’re excited about that.”
2024-11-25: The Edge speaks with Tracy Clifford on 2FM and shares: “Larry is doing good. He’s taking things one step at the time. Which is the correct thing to do. We’re playing a little bit with him in the studio. He’s playing great. We’re enjoying being all together for the first time in quite a while. It’s great to get Larry back in the studio.”
2024-11-25: The Edge tells Jo Whiley, “We’re at that great phase where we don’t have to over think it, we’re just making music and loving that process and then we’ll figure out where things belong afterwards, so there’s a couple of different projects. Definitely U2, with Larry, which is wonderful. We’ve got him in the studio… he’s good, he’s taking it easy, but he’s back in the saddle on the drums, doing some recording with us, and so we’ll be doing a bit more of that before the end of the year.”
2024-11-26: Adam Clayton shares on RTL: “We are recording, we are in and out of the studio. We really want to get a record of new songs to our audience. When we know what that record is, we’ll go out and tour it. I don’t know which year. It may be 2026, it may be 2027. It depends. First of all we had to find out if Larry could play. We found out that Larry can play. We went into studio with him, we did 3-4 weeks at the end of the summer. We have 3-4 songs from that, which is really, really, good. We are going back in 2 weeks time to do more recording with Larry. I think before Christmas we’ll have 6-7 songs to consider. We’ll finish those songs off, and then we’ll have a record to release, the end of the year [2025], or the beginning of the next year [2026], I’m not sure how long it will take…”
2024-11-27: Adam Clayton tells Triple M: “I wish i had a crystal ball that could tell me that. I think we’re just going to work away on it. We’ve done a couple of months, no…actually not, we’ve done about a month on it already. We’re going to do another month in the next few weeks. We’ll probably do another month early next year. Then we’ll know what we’ve got. It’s a little bit like the mining process. You kind of start digging until you have a few songs. You say ok, what would fit well with that, where are we going with this. And that’s where we are in the process.” (He was asked where they were in the process of finishing a new album.)
2024-11-30: Adam Clayton tells RTÉ: “Larry’s taken a lot of advice. He’s gone through a lot of physical re-education and all those sorts of things to get him into the sort of condition he’d like to be in to be able to perform again. We’re taking it one step at a time. He has done some studio work with us, and he’s going to do more studio work with us, and we hope that leads to a completed album with Larry playing drums on it.”
2024-11-30: Adam Clayton also tells RTÉ: “I am excited about going into the studio with the other three members of U2 because I think, yet again, that none of us would be in the studio if we didn’t think we had something to offer. I think we’re ready. I think we know a lot more about what we do and a lot more about ourselves to make a record that we think represents where we are and what our view is on the way things are. That’s why we make records. And we think we’re in a pretty good position to do that right now.”
2024-12-12: Larry Mullen told Times Radio: “I imagine we will be recording next year. I would hope that we would tour at sometime in 2026. I don’t think it will be what we normally do. I would hope it would be something different. But I’m excited to get back in some capacity.”

Known Recording Sessions:

The band returned to studio as a four piece, after Larry Mullen’s recovery. That work started in August 2023. The band has been working with two producers that they have worked with in the past, Brian Eno and Jacknife Lee, since that time. Sessions have been mostly taking place in Europe to date, with much of the work being done in Dublin, although some work has also been done near the summer homes in Eze, and in a few other more remote locations. In late 2025 sessions shifted to Los Angeles, and it appears they have been working in Dublin again of late. Bono has shared that the “Songs of” era is now behind the band and he hopes to move on with this next album, so a title is not known at this time.

U2’s Next Tour:

At this time a tour has not been announced. Rumours have started to reach us, suggesting although multiple itineraries are in development, it is likely the tour will start in 2027. Likewise, we are told the tour will start outside of North America. The band have made it clear they want to tour the new album, and to take the fan where fans are rather than do a residency again. And as part of that they want to take the early shows outside of the USA where the recent residency was held. Bono has suggested there may be some live dates before a potential album release, but it sounds like these would be one-off appearances and not a full blown tour.

50th Anniversary Projects

The band will be celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2026, and although Adam Clayton has confirmed that they will not necessarily celebrate with a tour, or an album that corresponds with the anniversary date, there are other projects coming that will look back on the history of the band in a variety of ways. When asked about the anniversary, Adam shared, “You know we know it’s there. We know it’s coming along. We are not particularly going to celebrate it though, but these things are very hard to predict. Whilst we might not be able to align an album or a tour to celebrate that moment, I’m sure we’ll be opening a bottle of champagne on the day.”

Netflix Biopic Series with JJ Abrams

A biopic series following the career of U2 was announced in 2022. The series is to be produced by JJ Abrams for Bad Robot, with writer Anthony McCarten writing the scripts. Delays due to Hollywood strikes had happened, but it appears that the series is still being written and is still in active development as of this time. Our early information on the biopic series suggested three seasons were under development. You can see more information in our original story here. A 2025 article in The Observer shares that the series will tie into the anniversary celebrations. The first season is said to look at U2’s formation in the 1970s. Scripts are still undergoing development, and we do not believe casting has begun.

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