The above title is the name of U2s up and coming new album and a very a appropriate one at that! It's due for release at the beginning of March next year and when I heard about this, over the radio while I was at work on Friday (19.12), it was all I could do to stay calm enough to ensure I didn’t mess up the accounting program I was working on at the time!! And to top it off they played With or without you, my absolute favourite U2 song of all time, at which point I got up and went to put the volume up!! Luckily there wasn’t anyone else in the office at the time to hear my squeeeeling!!!!!

Also the timing of the release couldn't be more perfect, as far as I'm concerned coz I'll be back in Kuopio by that time and apart from the album itself, I will be able to buy all the singles and magazine articles that are bound to appear along with the release. Soooooo looking forward to March!

Oh and I forgot to mention in my last entry that at the end of August I finally got to see the U23D movie! I had arranged with a few other Finnish U2 fans to meet up and go see the movie together in Hämeenlinna, a town some 300 kms south of where I live. It just so happens that one of my Mums sisters lives in a town near Hämeenlinna, called Tampere and she's been wanting us to go visit her since our last visit a couple of years ago, so I thought it would be a good idea the kill two birds with one stone and take my Mum with me, so we could visit with my aunt and her daughter, my cousin, for the weekend and that I'll go on the Saturday evening, when I movie was being shown, to Hämeenlinna by train/bus. And it all worked out just fine!

And the movie itself, well I'm sure I don't need to tell anyone here who has been lucky enough to see it, what an amazing experience it was! Almost better the real thing! It was all I could do to stop myself from jumping up and down and singing along at the top of my lungs alá real U2 concert!! It was pure torture!!! And at times it felt like Bono was right there in my face and on my lap!! I would have loved to have seen it a second and even third time and if I'd had the time and the money, but I'm saving my cash for the real thing, i.e. the up and coming tour!

Finally I'd just like to wish all my friends here at live journal a very Merry Christmas and a joyful New Year!