'Right now there is so much fear about the future, people losing their jobs, people getting angry... but Get On Your Boots opens with the line 'The future needs a big kiss' and I hope that our optimism as a band is the right tone for now, it is a defiant tone...'
Cool video interview from the good people at Pitchfork.
As Dublin welcomed President Obama to receive the freedom of the city last week, here's how U2 honoured the incoming President at the Washington DC Inauguration Concert in 2009.