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U2 Shoot “Street of Dreams” Video in Mexico City as New Album Takes Shape
U2 are filming the “Street of Dreams” video in Mexico City, previewing a new album due later in 2026.
U2 have turned up in Mexico City to film the video for “Street of Dreams,” the first visible sign of a new studio album that the band says will arrive later in 2026. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. were photographed in the Mexican capital on Tuesday, May 12, performing atop a school bus graffitied by local artist Chavis Mármol, with hundreds of fans gathered around the scene.
Mexico City gets the U2 treatment again
The image fits neatly into the band’s long habit of making public space part of the spectacle. U2 have done this before, and with more than a little cultural memory attached. In the late ’80s, they staged a rooftop performance in downtown Los Angeles that fed directly into Meiert Avis’ video for “Where the Streets Have No Name.” That clip went on to win best performance music video at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards, while its parent album, 1987’s The Joshua Tree, helped harden the group’s reputation as both stadium giants and a defining force of its era.
This time, the backdrop is not Los Angeles but a city that is also hosting the 2026 Street Child World Cup. The tournament, which began May 6 and runs through Thursday, May 14, has brought 30 teams from around the world to Mexico City. Mullen framed the organization in practical terms, calling it “a little NGO with a big kick for kids with all of the talent and none of the access.” He added, “Our band are proud supporters.”
The new album will follow 2023’s Songs of Surrender, which debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart. U2 have kept busy since then. In April, the band released the Easter Lily EP, and Bono used that moment to offer a blunt update on where the record stands. “We are in the studio, still working towards a noisy, messy, ‘unreasonably colourful’ album to play LIVE… which is where U2 lives,” he said in a written statement.
He also cast the project in broader terms, describing vivid rock music as “an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens.” For Bono, the world outside the studio is reason enough for urgency. “These are for sure ‘wilderness years’ for so many of us looking at the mayhem out there in the world,” he said. “The Dublin fourpiece will attempt hoopla and fanfare at a later date to remind the rest of the world we exist but in the meantime,” he continued, “this is between you and us.”
That low-key re-entry comes after a career that has already stacked up the sort of numbers few bands ever touch. U2 have placed 34 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including two No. 1s, and collected eight No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 and later became the first band to play Sphere in Las Vegas, where they launched the U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere residency in September 2023.
