The Edge teases new U2 material “very soon” with band “hoping to get to do some shows”

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The Edge has hinted that new material from U2 will be arriving “very soon”, and that the band are looking into organising some live shows.The guitarist gave an update about new music from the band during a recent interview on the Sodajerker on Songwriting podcast, and confirmed that a new single may be dropping imminently.“There might be a new song happening very soon, which you’ll hear about.

Can’t say any more than that. We’re in a great place creatively,” he said.He also added that the band have gotten into the habit of presenting finished sections to one another during the writing process, so they can focus on material that can be fully fleshed out rather than something that is “never going to work”.“I sort of tricked myself.

I was going, ‘OK, this is for The Edge solo album, so [I] can’t be, like, leaving these things half-finished. It doesn’t have to have finished lyrics, but it needs to really hang together.

And that extra discipline, I think, has been very useful,” he said.“I’ve been just working on so much material, and now that we’re doing some U2 sessions with that material, it looks like it’s paying off,” The Edge continued. “We still might end up changing it around a lot, but we’re not gonna be wasting our time on an idea that was never going to work.”The last new music U2 shared arrived in 2023 in the form of the standalone single ‘Atomic City’.