'It Might Get Loud' is now officially released in Ireland and the UK and Edge dropped by for the Irish premiere... along with some friends.

'Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me, I really don't enjoy it.' Edge doesn't jam.

'(Jimmy Page) came from the blues whereas we started U2 as a reaction against all of that.' Edge has been talking about guitarists like Jack White, Keith Richards, Tom Verlaine, Nick Zinner... and Jimmy Page.

'So here are 10 ideas that might make the next 10 years more interesting, healthy or civil. Some are trivial, some fundamental. They have little in common except that I am seized by each, and moved by its potential to change our world.' Bono is stargazing in his latest column for the New York Times.

We've been through our 2009 archives and come up with ten of the best from U2.com over the past year. Take a look, tell us what you think... and what we missed.

It's the end of a decade which saw the band write and release three studio albums. But what was the single finest song they composed between 2000 and 2009.. and why ? You tell us.

U2 by U2, the band's story in their own words, is just published in a new paperback edition in the US.

'They said there'd be snow at Christmas...' A year ago the band recorded a cover of the Greg Lake classic 'I Believe in Father Christmas'. This seemed like just the moment to bring back that very atmospheric video. Take a look.

You can now listen again to last night's BBC Radio 2 broadcast of the 360°show from Wembley Stadium in August.

'We're still capable of doing our best-ever album.' Edge has been talking to Rolling Stone about the decade passing... and the one arriving. They've made No Line on the Horizon their 'Album of the Year' and Moment of Surrender their 'Song of the Year'.

U2 Live From Wembley, on BBC Radio Two. Monday December 21st, 7pm to 8pm. Presented by Chris Evans.

Winter', the track the band wrote for Jim Sheridan's movie 'Brothers', is in the running for a Golden Globe award. 'Working with him is always interesting, he pushes and we like to be pushed.'

'I drive everyone crazy trying to get the sound I hear in my head to come out of the speakers.' It Might Get Loud, starring Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White, premieres in the UK and Ireland - and arrives on DVD in North America. Watch our clip.

New look and new site for Music Rising, the campaign dedicated to preserving the rich musical heritage of the Gulf Coast region.

Elvis Costello and friends return for a second season of 'Spectacle' and guests on tonight's opening episode are Edge and Bono.

The band are taking the 360° Tour to Russia next year, with a show in Moscow. Presales for U2.com subscribers begin on Wednesday this week.

To mark the premiere of Jim Sheridan's movie 'Brothers' take a listen to a new U2 track 'Winter' - from the movie soundtrack.

Nominations for the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards have been announced in Los Angeles tonight and U2 are in the running in three categories.

It's World AIDS Day and Bono's been hanging out with some very fine footballers in London to kick off a new initiative designed to fight AIDS in Africa. Lace up...

The 360° Tour is set to land in Turin and Rome in 2010. Presales for U2.com subscribers begin tomorrow, Tuesday.

'The most magical experience I've ever had in a studio'. It was pretty fine on the road too. Brian Eno talks to us about how Moment of Surrender came together during the recording of No Line On The Horizon.

Voting is open in France's 2010 NRJ Awards. U2 are nominated...

'Incredibly powerful, the equivalent of an English person seeing the Clash at the 100 Club or something.' Adam remembers the first time he saw Stiff Little Fingers in Dublin. He and Edge have contributed to a new biography of the seminal Belfast punk band, published this week.

San Sebastian in Spain has been added to the European leg of the tour next year, with presales for U2.com subscribers beginning tomorrow.

U2, Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin... the line-up was stellar for the 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert. Catch it this weekend on HBO.