There’s a song called “Soon”, there’s a song called “Every Breaking Wave”. There’s one song called “Mount Zion,” that’s beautiful. But it’s a real stained-glass window of a record, elegiac, I think you could describe some of the songs, beautiful. We have Songs of Ascent, which is a kind of ecstatic album, ambient, very beautiful songs.

In a May 2011 interview in Hot Press magazine with writer Olaf Tyaransen, conducted in early May, Bono revealed some information about a few of the new songs that the band has been working on: No, actually we’ve got a few going (laughs). “Every Breaking Wave” was played three times on the U2360 tour, making its debut on August 21 in Helsinki, and last being played on Septemin Zurich. And on October 3, 2010, U2 debuted “Boy Falls From the Sky” at Estadio Cidade de Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal. “Mercy” made it’s tour debut on Septemin Zurich, Switzerland at Letzigrund Stadion. (“Glastonbury” had been soundchecked August 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (five times!), “North Star” had been soundchecked on August 2, 5 (twice), and “The Return of the Stingray Guitar” was soundchecked on August 4 and 5.) Another song debuting was “Every Breaking Wave” on Augat Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland. “Glastonbury,” “North Star,” and “Return of the Stingray Guitar” were all introduced for the first time on August 6, at the opening show of the tour in Turin, Italy.

Or A Love Supreme would be a point of reference, for the space it occupies in people’s lives, which is to say, with that album, I almost take my shoes off to listen to it.”ĭuring the 2010 leg of the U2360 tour, U2 introduced a number of new songs to the set throughout the leg. “It will all have a clear mood, like Kind of Blue. “We’re making a kind of heartbreaker, a meditative, reflective piece of work, but not indulgent,” Bono says. Songs of Ascent will be quieter than No Line in many ways, it’s that ghost album of hymns and Sufi singing. Bono already knows the title - Songs of Ascent - and the first single, a surging anthem called “Every Breaking Wave” that was left off No Line at the last minute. In the article “ U2: Hymns for the Future“ by Brian Hiatt in Rolling Stone Magazine, the band provides some insight into the album No Line on the Horizon, as well as song songs that will be used for the next album: That idea will come to the forefront on U2’s next album - a sister release to No Line on the Horizon, Zooropa to its Achtung Baby, which the band plans to put out in the next year. In that article Bono says “We might be on to something special there” in regards to this new song. “Every Breaking Wave” was first mentioned in a December 2008 preview of the album published in Q Magazine. Eventually Songs of Innocence came next and “Every Breaking Wave” was the second single from that album. “Every Breaking Wave” was a song originally worked on during the sessions to record No Line on the Horizon, and was eventually held back from that album for the album called Songs of Ascent. I remember very vividly what it was like to grow up when there were bombs going off and army everywhere so I did draw on a lot of memories.'Every Breaking Wave' (2008) Demo Song Background Information Violence was inescapable on your doorstep. 'All the different pressures on you, the pressures of friendship, of falling in love for the first time, and all that in the face of huge troubles. 'I wanted to make a film about what it was like to be a teenager in the early '80s in Northern Ireland,' McArdle had said in a statement. Friendly mosh pit action and romantic moments are juxtaposed against bombings, political arrests and more. Protestant sentiment running through Northern Ireland. As you'll see down below, the video presents the difficulties of a couple's budding relationship, as framed within the complex and violent Catholic vs. A scaled-down version of a recent short film supporting U2's Songs of Innocence presents the love story of a pair of young skins trying to work it out during the political strife of early '80s Ireland.ĭirector Aoife McArdle's Every Breaking Wave originally showcased both the titular track and fellow Songs of Innocence number 'The Troubles,' but a trimmed-down vid supporting the former's recent radio edit truncates the short film while preserving the passion and pain.

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