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U2 Headlining Coachella?
With U2’s next album supposedly due out sometime in 2014, fans are hoping that there will be a tour to go along with it. Maybe that yet to be determined excursion will include a stop at Coachella. A local Southern California newspaper talked to Bono about the possibility.
A reporter for The Desert Sun, which serves Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley, met up with Bono backstage at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Saturday. Bono and The Edge were at the awards to accept the Sonny Bono Visionary Award on behalf of U2 for the band’s humanitarian work and recent contribution of the track “Ordinary Love” to the film “Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom.”
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Sun Life Stadium, Miami, Fla.
The U2 frontman told The Desert Sun that he was in the audience at 2013’s Coachella and that he would like the chance to play the festival.
Bono said, “We don’t usually play festivals, but that’s definitely on our radar.” The Desert Sun noted that Bono asked who was in charge at the festival and that the reporter gave him the 411 on founder Paul Tollett.
Well, what do ya know – Tollett has been asking about U2 as well. The Desert Sun reporter said that when he told Tollett Jan. 3 that he might be talking to Bono, the festival founder said, “Ain’t no crime in asking him about Coachella.”
Coachella returns to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., April 11-13 and April 18-20. We’re still waiting on the lineup to be announced.
U2 hasn’t revealed exactly when the follow-up to 2009’s No Line on the Horizon will be released. In October Adam Clayton told Irish station 98 FM’s Dermot and Dave show (via Rolling Stone), “We are still at it. We hope to have it finished very, very soon. And it will be out, oh . . . sometime early next year.”
The bassist added that the band was trying to get the 12 tracks “absolutely right and get them finished by the end of November.”
U2 last toured in July 2011.