U2 are recording new music with Larry Mullen, while The Edge, Bono and Brian Eno also make “sci-fi Irish folk music”

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U2 are back in the studio with drummer Larry Mullen Jr., guitarist The Edge has revealed – find out more below.Speaking to the BBC‘s Jo Whiley to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the band’s ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’, The Edge revealed new information about new music within the camp.Per the guitarist, longtime drummer Larry Mullen Jr. – who had to sit out of the band’s historic Las Vegas Sphere residency due to injury and recovering from surgery – is now “good” and “taking it easy but he’s back in the saddle on the drums” in the studio.The Edge revealed that U2 are now recording new music with Mullen Jr., which he described as “crazy”.

He eplained: “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.”The Edge continued: “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 still doing some recording with us and so we’ll be doing a bit more of that before the end of the year.”The update comes after Mullen Jr.

in 2022 cited damage to his “elbows, knees [and] necks”, which he “got a chance to have a look at” during the COVID pandemic.