U2 have released footage of the band filming the video for their upcoming single ‘Street Of Dreams’ in Mexico City – watch below.
The group have long been thought to be working in the studio on their 15th album, and they have released two EPs of new music already this year, but Rolling Stone now report that their new album will be released later in 2026.
It looks like the lead single will be ‘Street Of Dreams’ and now the band have shared footage of the video shoot, with a crowd of fans gathered around a bus in Mexico City as the band play the song on the roof.
With the crowd clapping and punching the air, Bono sings, “La calle, calle de los sueños / All the doors are open on the street of dreams”.
“Hopped a bus in Mexico City, destination: Street of Dreams,” the band captioned the footage. “Justice an obsession, love is procession down the street of dreams”.
Watch the clip here:
In a subsequent post, U2 revealed that heavy rain and thunder “crashed the generator for the film shoot”, and a “bewildered by welcoming neighbour” let the band use their balcony to lead the crowd in singalongs of ‘Vertigo’ and ‘Desire’ while they waited for the shoot to recommence.
Notably, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. is in the video, having missed the band’s Las Vegas Sphere residency in 2023 and 2024 after undergoing back surgery.
U2 released the six-song EP ‘Easter Lily’ on Good Friday (April 3), the follow-up to the previous EP ‘Days Of Ash’, which was released to coincide with Ash Wednesday.
Bono said at the time that ‘Easter Lily’ came out: “We are in the studio, still working towards a noisy, messy, ‘unreasonably colour xerox’ album to play LIVE… which is where U2 lives.”
“We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens. These are for sure ‘wilderness years’ for so many of us looking at the mayhem out there in the world. It’s a time that has our band digging deeper into our lives to find a wellspring of songs to try to meet the moment…”
The band have been teasing a new album as far back as 2024, when The Edge said that it would not be “a straight-up rock thing”, while last summer, Bono shared that he was “ready for the future” with U2, with the band having written “25 great songs”. Earlier this year, while discussing the writing process, the frontman said that U2 were overcoming the past to make “the sound of the future”.
It will be their album of new music since 2017’s ‘Songs Of Experience’, which NME awarded two stars and noted: “There are brief flashes of ‘Vertigo’ vitality, notably when they bemoan the current political s**tstorms on ‘The Blackout’. But overall, U2 have built a stadium rock cruise liner they’ve zero interest in rocking, and ‘…Experience’ is 50 minutes of very plain sailing indeed.”
They also released ‘Songs Of Surrender’ in 2023, a record of re-recorded songs from the band’s back catalogue, released as a companion to Bono’s memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
