{"id":602491,"date":"2026-07-24T19:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/602491\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:18:12","slug":"u2-news-fireflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/602491\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 > News > &#8216;Fireflies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"selectedImg js-lbImage\" data-fullpath=\"\/\/cdn.ontourmedia.io\/u2\/non_secure\/images\/20260724\/fireflies_cover1784895628\/fireflies_cover1784895628.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784920692_53_large.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Fireflies&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Released today, Fireflies is a collaboration with chart-topping DJ and producer Martin Garrix.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The track premiered live during Garrix&#8217;s headline set at Belgium&#8217;s Tomorrowland last weekend \u2026 including a surprise appearance from Edge.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ffm.to\/fireflies-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LISTEN HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A powerful track fusing Bono&#8217;s unmistakable vocals, U2&#8217;s classic sound and Garrix&#8217;s signature production, the song marks the first time all four members of U2 have appeared on a track with Garrix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A longtime friendship and creative partnership has brought Martin and U2 together many times. Earlier this year\u00a0 Martin produced\u00a0 &#8220;Scars,&#8221; on the band&#8217;s Easter Lily EP and back in 2019\u00a0 he collaborated with Bono and Edge on &#8220;We Are The People,&#8221; for the UEFA Football Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Fireflies&#8217; has a very unique mood,&#8217; Martin explains. &#8216;It&#8217;s a special song we started working on six summers ago. It felt electrifying and very surreal to finally debut it at Tomorrowland with The Edge.<br \/>&#8216;I&#8217;ve worked with Bono and Edge before, but working with the whole band I got to get a glimpse of their chemistry and why U2 are who they are. They are incredible friends and collaborators, and it has been an absolute honour to work with them again.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We go back a long way with Martin,&#8217; added Edge. &#8216;There&#8217;s always a sense of adventure whenever we get together. Playing Fireflies for the first time at Tomorrowland, in front of one of the most passionate festival crowds anywhere, was such a rush&#8230; in fact I might have enjoyed it a bit too much. It reminded me of why I love playing outdoors. I like it better when there&#8217;s no ceiling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fireflies&#8221; is the latest in a string of exciting collaborations from Garrix. Most recently, he collaborated with Madonna on &#8220;Bizarre&#8221; for newest album, Confessions 11 and in May, he teamed up with Ed Sheeran to release their long-awaited collaboration &#8220;Repeat It&#8221; as well as the acoustic version.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U2&#8217;s latest single, &#8216;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.u2.com\/news\/title\/street-of-dreams---the-new-single-is-here\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Street of Dreams<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;,\u00a0is the first release from the yet-to-be announced new studio album, their first in 9 years, due for release later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fireflies&#8217; Released today, Fireflies is a collaboration with chart-topping DJ and producer Martin Garrix.\u00a0 The track premiered live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[74155,74157,74154,74169,47916,45923,3377,74172,37215,18,117,74161,8634,33806,74163,19,17,48175,20391,10140,337,74171,74162,9936,74159,12368,74168,74158,3379,71995,74153,74156,74160,19690,19691,3380,74166,74165,74164,74167,7887,74170],"class_list":["post-602491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-u2eitour","tag-u2ietour","tag-2019experience-innocence-tour-2018","tag-achtung-baby","tag-adam","tag-band","tag-bono","tag-concert-tickets","tag-edge","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-every-breaking-wave","tag-fans","tag-gigs","tag-how-to-dismantle-an-atomic-bomb","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-larry","tag-live","tag-merchandise","tag-music","tag-new-years-day","tag-no-line-on-the-horizon","tag-one","tag-ordinary-love","tag-show","tag-song-archive","tag-songs-of-innocence","tag-the-edge","tag-the-joshua-tree","tag-the-joshua-tree-tour","tag-the-joshua-tree-tour-2017","tag-the-miracle-of-joey-ramone","tag-tour","tag-tour-dates","tag-u2","tag-u2-music","tag-u2-news","tag-u2-tickets","tag-u2-video","tag-vertigo","tag-with-or-without-you"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602491","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=602491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}