have confirmed a huge stadium run for next year.

The Irish group are back, recently toasting 50 years together with a surprise show at their old school in Dublin.

New album ‘Carnival De Luz’ lands on November 13th, and it follows a pair of well-received EPs.

Taken from the album, new single ‘Greatest Show On Earth’ is out now, a surging piece of widescreen rock with a video shot by .

Next year brings a full international stadium tour – titled Carnaval De Luz presents: The Greatest Show On Earth, it opens in Sweden next summer.

U2 will play a pair of London shows at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on June 18th and 19th, with North London dwellers Wolf Alice in support – the band could probably walk home!

 say: “We can’t say too much about the next leg of The Greatest Show On Earth – we’re still figuring it out – but what we can say is, we’ll be wrapping it up in Ireland. There’s nowhere else we’d want to be for that party.”

The band add:

“The Greatest Show on Earth”? Now that’s a throwdown. It’s a dare, to ourselves as much as anyone, to try and have the best night of anybody’s life.
 
A bit of showman, a bit of shaman, a riot of colour, unreasonable guitar, bass and drums, and tunes you can hold onto.
 
Because if people are gonna show up, we certainly are.”