Irish rockers U2 are set to release the follow-up to 2009’s ‘No Line On The Horizon’ next spring, the band’s manager Paul McGuinness has confirmed.

“I would expect a new U2 album sooner than anybody thinks,” McGuinness told the Irish Times. “I would guess early 2011 before the next leg of the American tour, which starts in May.”

The band have already been previewing new material as part of their ongoing '360 Degree' world tour.

Watch U2 perform ‘Where the Streets Have No Name’ below: