The reviews of the new album are coming thick and fast, here's some of the latest.

'They don't think that any forum is unworthy of their attention.' Brian Eno on the secret of U2's success.

The band played a surprise set high on the seventh floor balcony of Broadcasting House in London tonight. Nobody knew about it, except the 5,000 fans who showed up and stopped the traffic. Again.

No Line on the Horizon is released in Ireland today... and then worldwide from Monday and Tuesday.

'And now performing Breathe, please welcome U2...' If you're in the UK, Friday is U2 all day.

The reviews of the new album are starting to arrive... pouring off the presses actually. Here's some of the early ones from the UK.

'I'm running down the road like loose electricity / While the band in my head plays a striptease'. Watch the debut of 'Breathe' in Paris last night.

Welcome to a new U2.Com, just days ahead of the new album. We've moved the furniture around and given the place a lick of paint.

'It's good to be back...' said Bono, at the end of a full-throttle performance of 'Get On Your Boots' to open up tonight's 2009 BRIT Awards in London.

Get On Your Boots is officially released. Links here to download the single. In the UK you can even buy it on 7".

As well as Fez, Morocco, the new album was written and recorded in three other cities.

That's the verdict of Sean O'Hagan of The Observer, describing 'White as Snow' from the new album as 'a hymn to a dying soldier.'

In the early summer of 2007, Brian Eno, Danny Lanois and U2 travelled to the ancient Moroccan city of Fez.

Here's Beautiful Day from their Grammy set in 2001.

'We came up with 'Sexy Boots' and everyone got very excited,' says Edge. 'But in the end we just thought it was a bit limiting so we took it in another direction.'

Get On Your Boots, the first single from U2's new album No Line On The Horizon, will be released as a digital download on February 15th.

Heard the single ? Wondering about the lyric ? Here's what you need.

'On this spot where we're standing, 46 years ago, Dr King had a dream. On Tuesday that dream comes to pass.' U2 performed Pride and City of Blinding Lights to an audience of 400,000 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington tonight.

He'll be the first to play it on Monday, so what does Dave Fanning think of the new single ?

No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2, will be released on Monday 2nd March/3rd March 2009

'It doesn't sound like anything we've done before and it doesn't really sound like anything that's happening at the moment...' Edge has been speaking from the studio to Mojo Magazine about how the album is coming together.

U2 join a stellar line up of artists at The Lincoln Memorial in Washington this Sunday for 'We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration'. Don't miss it. It's open to the public and aired on HBO.

A new track from the studio... sort of!

'Fully inhabiting the moment during that tiny dot of time after you've pressed 'record' is what makes it eternal.' What Frank Sinatra taught Bono.

'It's very raw and very to the point.' The band have been talking to Rolling Stone about the new songs.Rolling Stone visited the studio in London a few weeks before the end of recording. The new issue, on sale this week, has the low-down... but here's what they made of some of the tracks they heard then.