Fans of U2 will have to be patient for at least another 6 months before they can hope to see the Grammy Award winning band playing in their home countries.

This unfortunate delay has been caused by multiple reasons as quoted by the band members themselves in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Drummer Larry Mullen says:

"We've always needed collaborators to challenge us. We're slow learners. We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going, it's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work."

"The album won't be ready till it's ready. But right now, people are walking a little differently -- well, they're not walking, they're running as if to a finish line. There's a couple of songs that are part of the story we haven't quite finished. We know we have to spend a couple of years taking these songs around the world, so they'd better be good," says front man Bono to Hollywood Reporter.

One of the reasons for the delay in the completion of their new album, is simply because the band is getting older.

While it may take more time for them to finish the collection, they will strive to make it as magical as the ones before it.