{"id":348751,"date":"2026-02-21T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/348751\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:20:11","slug":"u2-their-creative-coma-and-the-new-songs-on-days-of-ash-that-are-fizzing-with-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/348751\/","title":{"rendered":"U2, their creative coma and the new songs on \u2018Days of Ash\u2019 that are fizzing with fury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe band\u2019s new EP caught the music world on the hop this week. With little in the way of new original music for almost a decade, could we be about to see the veteran rockers finally stage a renaissance?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long wait: U2 haven\u2019t played live in Ireland since 2018. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/91U2 The Joshua Tre.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Long wait: U2 haven\u2019t played live in Ireland since 2018. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It has been almost two years since U2\u2019s last live performance. It was March 2, 2024, and the occasion was the 40th and final show of their residency at the newly opened Las Vegas Sphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As the band walked off-stage, having just finished 40 \u2013 the final song on their 1983 album, War \u2013 the roar of the crowd ringing in their ears, they must have felt that they had achieved yet another milestone: delivering an audio-visual spectacular in the world\u2019s most hi-tech concert venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The band\u2019s new EP caught the music world on the hop this week. With little in the way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[3377,18,117,19,17,17689,337,2519,3380],"class_list":{"0":"post-348751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bono","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-john-meagher","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-review-magazine","16":"tag-u2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116107885307308818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}