After a 30-second leak of their new single early this weekend, U2 decided to stream the entire track of their up-tempo, new single 'Get On Your Boots' from the band's first album in 5-years, on RTE, Ireland's state broadcast station and later on the group's website for free. From the opening drums to fuzzed out riff, comeback single shows the band has gone very much the 'Vertigo' route.

For decades, Irish broadcaster Dave Fanning, a personal friend of Bono, since U2 rose to fame in the late 1970s, has had first dibs for broadcasting U2's singles on his morning RTE 2FM show. Praising 'Get On Your Boots', which goes on sale 13th February in Ireland and shortly thereafter worldwide, he called it 'a big song with lots of layers, but not overproduced'.

With their new album 'No Line on the Horizon', to be released 27th February in Ireland, 2nd March in other countries and 3rd March in USA, U2 have also listed 11-title tracks from the new album on their official web site.

Recorded over a two-years in New York , London , Dublin and Morocco , 'No Line on the Horizon', the band's 12th studio album, the first since 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb', their 2004's Grammy-winner, is widely forecast to be 2009's biggest-selling album.

Unprecedently, according to U2's web site 'No Line on the Horizon', will be sold in five formats i. e. standard CD case with 24-page booklet; in 'digipak' with fold-out poster and download rights to a U2 film; a 64-page magazine version; including a DVD and hardback book box edition and a limited-issue vinyl LP. (Pamela Sahi contributed to this report.)