{"id":510898,"date":"2026-04-03T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510898\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:24:08","slug":"u2-easter-lily-the-becomes-bands-second-surprise-ep-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510898\/","title":{"rendered":"U2: Easter Lily the becomes band&#8217;s second surprise EP this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clark added: &#8220;It sounds like they are being very productive and maybe a little liberated because [before] they were a band that had to plan an album release, tour it for an X amount of years, then repeat the cycle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the return of Larry Mullen Jr &#8220;in fearsome form&#8221; was significant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s always been the four, rarely have bands been so deeply rooted in friendship,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You thought if for some reason Larry wasn&#8217;t able possibly to continue, you do wonder would they have had the same appetite they obviously have at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the band&#8217;s ability to avoid leaks ahead of the release of the two EPs was impressive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In an industry with so much scrutiny and so many people around the place with camera phones, they&#8217;ve been really good at keeping things secret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When those tracks came out earlier this year &#8211; normally you get a bit of advance warning, the fan sites, hints &#8211; but they really have managed to keep these two collections of songs coming under the radar.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clark added: &#8220;It sounds like they are being very productive and maybe a little liberated because [before] they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-510898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}