{"id":305723,"date":"2026-02-19T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/305723\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:49:09","slug":"u2s-days-of-ash-review-a-band-full-of-political-fire-this-is-their-best-release-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/305723\/","title":{"rendered":"U2\u2019s \u2018Days of Ash\u2019 review: A band full of political fire, this is their\u00a0best release in decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From schoolgirl uprisings in Iran to the war in Ukraine, six new tracks prove Bono and the boys still have plenty to say\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"U2 surprised fans yesterday with the release of a new EP 'Days of Ash'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5a093d0c-4841-4382-9f44-86e28db0161f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">U2 surprised fans yesterday with the release of a new EP &#8216;Days of Ash&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s tricky, if not near impossible, to keep things under wraps in this information-saturated age, but U2 just about managed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Devoted fans were aware they\u2019ve been working towards their first release since the Atomic City single that emerged while they were inventing the future of live entertainment in the Las Vegas Sphere, but an email out of the blue, in the hour before the worldwide release of Days Of Ash, caught this supposedly well-informed admirer on the hop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From schoolgirl uprisings in Iran to the war in Ukraine, six new tracks prove Bono and the boys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[26016,93,97,61,11829,60,278,660,2040,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-305723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bono","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gaza","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-u2","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}