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.