The band are lined up to perform at the 51st annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles next month. Seriously good line-up includes Radiohead, Coldplay and Jay-Z.

If you're in Ireland, the single and album will be with you ahead of everyone else in the world.

'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.

Get On Your Boots, the first single from No Line on the Horizon, will make its debut tomorrow morning - on radio and on U2.Com. Here's the details.

Catch the band performing at 'We Are One', the Obama Inaugural Celebration on Sunday.

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.

'I think it's some of the best music we've ever written.' That's Larry, speaking in the new issue of Q, which carries four in-depth interviews in a monster thirty page focus on the new record. Highlights from the interviews which took place at Olympic Studios in London, in the final weeks of recording