I'm not sure about you, but I feel relieved that all has gone quiet on the U2 promotion front. Over

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According to the forums I have recently read it seems that the band is back in the studios, with various sightings at Hanover Quay in Dublin. It's still early days, and it may be the case that the band might be merely creating demos and exploring songwriting at this point, but it is inevitable that there will be a high level of expectation for the next U2 album following the relatively cumberland hotel marble arch london disappointing reaction to No Line On The Horizon from fans and critics alike. I always felt that the performance of some of the songs when played live on the 360 tour didn't connect with the audience, and only two songs from NLOTH made the cut on the "voted by the fans" U2.com CD U22 .
In addition to the new direction that U2 may take with their next album, it will be interesting to see what they intend to do for their next tour. Following almost 20 years of genuinely innovative tours, what do U2 do to follow cumberland hotel marble arch london that? The peak of creativity and stage engineering has surely hit its peak with the 360 Claw, and I suspect the band may want to go back to basics for the next tour, perhaps keeping to indoor arenas only. The band certainly have nothing more to prove within cumberland hotel marble arch london the live setting -- who knows, they may even want to take a break from touring and follow cumberland hotel marble arch london the route that R.E.M. successfully did in the early '90s and not tour at all in support of album releases.
Certainly over the last three years, the number of CD and DVD releases, as well as the record-breaking 360 tour, has done no harm to the band's wealth. In the U.K., the Sunday Times has published its "Rich List 2012," and despite these times of austerity, U2's position in the Ireland's Top 250 listing has risen to 10 (from 13 in the 2011 listing) with a disclosed wealth of 514m/ 619m/$825m, an increase cumberland hotel marble arch london of 13 percent cumberland hotel marble arch london from the previous year. Accordingly, it is thought that the recent tour generated a profit of 20m. Not bad, eh?
Jul 01 Column: off the record..., vol. 12-521 Jun 30 Like A Video: The Unforgettable Fire Jun 29 U2 star Adam Clayton's PA guilty of embezzling €2.8m Jun 24 Column: cumberland hotel marble arch london off the record..., vol. 12-520 Jun 24 Like A Song: Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses Jun 24 U2's Adam Clayton cumberland hotel marble arch london 'rattled' by PA's (EU)15,000 spend Jun 21 U2 bassist Adam Clayton gives evidence against cumberland hotel marble arch london PA Jun 19 Senate panel rejects bill that could boost U2 guitarist's plans Jun 17 Column: off the record..., vol. 12-519 Jun 17 Court hears how Clayton's PA, on a joint salary of (EU)48,000, spent (EU)1.5m on credit