U2 will play at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles next month.
The 51st annual Grammy Awards take place on February 8th and there's plenty of other great acts lined up including Kid Rock, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Rihanna, Coldplay, Jennifer Hudson, Lil Wayne, Paul McCartney, Radiohead and Jay-Z.
It will air on CBS from 8–11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).
The band have already confirmed they'll be performing the new single ‘Get On Your Boots’ at the UK's BRIT Awards at London's Earls Court, ten days later on Wednesday 18 February. And a few days after that they'll be in Berlin to play at Germany's ECHO Awards
New Single #1 in Irish Play charts !
U2's new single "Get On Your Boots" has shot straight to No. 1 in the Irish airplay charts.The single -- the first from the band's hugely anticipated No Line on the Horizon album -- has already been greeted with widespread critical acclaim, significantly raising expectations for what is destined to be one of the year's big records. Originally titled "Sexy Boots" the track is a thoroughly contemporary, intense electro grunge exercise, with Adam Clayton's powerful bass to the fore, which mixes hip hop influences with shades of the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and The Beatles."We came up with 'Sexy Boots,' and everyone got very excited by the idea and we pursued it, but in the end we just thought it was a bit limiting, and so we took it in another direction. That's the way it often happens with U2," Edge told Hot Press. Edge also waxed lyrical about the video for the single, made by French director Alex Courtes, who was also responsible for the video for "City of Blinding Lights." "It's based around the idea that men have fucked things up so badly, politically, economically and socially that it's really time we handed things over to women. We had our doubts when we saw a rough cut -- but the finished video is brilliant. He's really nailed it."Officially due for release as a digital download on February 15, the track was made available on iTunes on the same day as Dave Fanning gave it its worldwide premiere on the Colm and Jim Jim Show on 2fm."'Get On Your Boots' is a great opening salvo from what is a brilliant album," Hot Press editor Niall Stokes commented. "No Line on the Horizon is a huge record, full of big songs, powerful riffs and superb musicianship. It's more musically diverse that any U2 album since Rattle and Hum, mixing hard rock, psychedelia, pop, electronica, dance, folk, country, spiritual music and orchestral shadings in what is a fantastically heady brew. It will certainly challenge U2 fans, but my guess is that they'll ultimately be inspired. It's going to be a massive record. I can't wait to hear the songs live."The single has also won the approval of radio in the U.K., where it is currently at No. 6 on the airplay charts. No Line on the Horizon is released on February 27 in Ireland and March 3 in the U.S.
Walk On
"Walk On" (Hallelujah mix)
And if the darkness is to keep us apartAnd if the daylight feels like it's a long way offAnd if your glass heart should crackAnd for one second you turn backOh no, be strongWalk on, walk onWhat you got they can't steal itNo, they can't even feel itWalk on, walk onStay safe tonightYou're packing a suitcase for a place none of has beenA place that has to be believed to be seenYou could have flown awayA singing bird in an open cageWho will only fly, only fly for freedomWalk on, walk onWhat you've got they can't deny itCan't sell it or buy itWalk on, walk onYou stay safe tonightAnd I know it aches, how your heart it breaksYou can only take so muchWalk onLeave it behindLeave it behindYou’ve got to leave it behindAll that you fashionAll that you makeAll that you build All that you breakAll that you measureAll that you dealAll you count on two fingersAnd all that you stealHalle, halleHalle, hallelujahHalle, halleHalle, hallelujahHalle, halleHalle, hallelujahHalle, halleHalle, hallelujahHalle, halleHalle, hallelujahHalle, halle
is singing "And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for one second you turn back
Oh no, be strong"
Which direction are you going
Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
You begin to wonder why you came
Stuck in the moment.........
I thought to start of the week I would say get out of your moment !
I'm not afraid
Of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me
That I haven't already heard
I'm just trying to find
A decent melody
A song that I can sing
In my own company
I never thought you were a fool
But darling look at you
You gotta stand up straight
Carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere baby
You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
I will not forsake
The colors that you bring
The nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing
I am still enchanted
By the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears
Through your eyes I can see
And you are such a fool
To worry like you do
I know it's tough
And you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now
My, oh my
You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
Oh love, look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm 'til you discover how deep
I wasn't jumping, for me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all
You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass
And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along this stony pass
It's just a moment
This time will pass
I'm not afraid
Of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me
That I haven't already heard
Get your Boots On!
Future needs a big kiss
Winds blow with a twist
Never seen a move like this
Can you see it too
Night is falling everywhere
Rockets hit the funfair
Satan loves a bomb scare
But it won't scare you
Hey...Sexy Boots
Get on your Boots
Yeah...
Free me from the dark dream
Candy bars, ice cream
All the kids are screaming but the ghosts arent real
Here's what you gotta be
Love & community
Laughter is eternity if the joy is real
You don't know how beautiful
You don't know how beautiful
You are...
You don't know
You get it do you
You don't know
How beautiful you are...
If someones into blowing up
Were into growing up
Women are the future
All the big revelations
Ive gotta submarine
You've got gasoline
I don't wanna talk about wars between nations
Not right now
Sexy Boots
Get on your Boots
Yeah...
Foxy boots
You don't know how beautiful
You don't know how beautiful
You are...
Sexy Boots
I don't wanna talk about wars
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
My God I'm going down
I don't wanna drown now
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Get on your Boots
Get on your Boots
Yeah...