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// Window In The Skies debuts on US radio

Newsflash!

The brand new U2 song 'Window in the Skies' has just been played on KROQ, a radio station in Los Angeles.

Missed it? No problem, listen to a short MP3 sample of 'Window In The Skies' here:

Here's a description of the song by an Australian newspaper that had an interview with Bono:

The other new song is Windows in the Skies. With Soaring strings and a haunting piano melody, this tune is remarkably different to the stadium rock sound of their smash hit album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. It’s huge but in a very different way for a very different reason; Bono is learning to play piano.

“I’ve been taking piano lessons with my kids and every time I took a piano lesson, I wrote a song. I had eight piano lessons and eight songs. They (the rest of U2) were all like, ‘He’ll never have any songs this time’, and I bring in eight. Whoa! Of course, they have much improved it.

“I think that is going to be our biggest song in a long time. It’s a psychedelic pop song with 6/8 timing. You never hear that, it’s very, very rare,” he says.

“It’s a song that every generation has to sing, it’s the eternal song. It’s about what’s possible and still everything is possible.”.

The song is one of the two new U2 songs on 'U218 Singles', the compilation album due for release on November 20. 'Window in the Skies' will also be released as a CD single.

See also: U2 - Window In The Skies lyrics

// U218 Singles tracklisting

The tracklisting of 'U218 Singles' has been revealed by U2.com:

1. Beautiful Day
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. Pride (in The Name Of Love)
4. With Or Without You
5. Vertigo
6. New Year’s Day
7. Mysterious Ways
8. Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
9. Where The Streets Have No Name
10. Sweetest Thing
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. One
13. Desire
14. Walk On
15. Elevation
16. Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
17. The Saints Are Coming
18. Window In The Skies

U2.com previously reported that the new song would be called 'Window on The Sky' but the correct title seems to be 'Window In The Skies'.

And scans of the packaging also show which 10 live videos from Vertigo Milan are going to be on the bonus DVD: (continued)

// The Sweetest Kitten

Look what i found on YouTube:

Aww. Aren't those kittens the sweetest thing?

While the video is cute, the audio is much more interesting: Isn't that Bono singing? It sure sounds like Bono to me... could this be an early demo of 'The Sweetest Thing'?

The guy who uploaded it on YouTube says he was a sound engineer sent to the U2 studios while U2 were working on the Joshua Tree in Rathfarnham:

this recording was made as a test of the recording system proir to the recording of Joshua Tree.
I was fortunate enough to watch and hear bono make up sweetest thing for the first time ever and as He ensured that I took a recording away with me I wanted to share it with you lot. enjoy my kittens.

What do you think?

Download the audio here if you want to.

// U2 arrives in Australia

U2 has arrived in Australia ahead of its rescheduled Vertigo tour.

Bono said the band was excited to be performing again to its Australian fans, with the band's last official visit being in 1998 during the Popmart tour. He told Australian TV:

It is the best pleasure to be here, we have waited a long time for this.

(More pictures here)

U2 were supposed to play Australia in March this year, but the tour had to be postponed due to a family illness.

After eight months U2 will resume the Vertigo tour again next week at the Queensland Sports & Athletics Centre in Brisbane.

Construction on the stage started a couple of days ago:

The band is currently staying at the at the five star Palazzo Versace Hotel on the Gold Coast in Queensland.

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