Even though the Danesmoate sessions were the backbone of the tonality of the record – we got a lot of the drums done in there.”Ģ. “Probably the bulk of the record was done at Edge’s house. “That’s where songs like ‘Mothers of the Disappeared’ and what ended up as ‘Bullet the Blue Sky’ were born,” co-producer Daniel Lanois told Hot Press in 2007.
Though U2 occasionally used more traditional venues like Windmill Lane and STS Studios, many of the background tracks were recorded live at Danesmoate before being completed at the Edge’s newly purchased seaside home, Melbeach, in Monkstown, South Dublin. “When you hear that big drum sound on The Joshua Tree, it’s the sound of that room,” says Clayton, who later purchased the house after recording was complete (“Perhaps to get up the noses of the establishment next door, although he would never admit to that,” the Edge jokingly speculates). With hardwood floors and a double-height ceiling, the space boasted oversized acoustics. Massive double doors were removed and replaced with a glass screen looking into the elegant drawing room, which would serve as the live room. By January 1986 the dining room had been converted into a control room, complete with tape machines and mixing desk.
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Believing Danesmoate to be much more inspiring than a sterile professional facility, the group decided to construct a fully functional studio inside the old walls.
U2 had recorded much of their previous album, 1984’s The Unforgettable Fire, in County Meath’s Slane Castle. The plan was not completely without precedent. So we set up in this big old Georgian house in the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains, about half a mile from Columba’s College where Adam had been infamously expelled.” “We decided it wasn’t for us, but later I had the idea that the owner might rent it to us to record in,” he says in the band’s autobiography, U2 by U2. The Edge had viewed the residence while house-hunting with his then-wife Aislinn several months before. While the album’s title and cover evoked the American Southwest and the lyrics expressed Bono’s outrage over human-rights atrocities in Ethiopia, South Africa, Chile and El Salvador, U2’s globally minded fifth studio LP was largely recorded in a two-story Georgian mansion located in Rathfarnham, South Dublin – within sight of Adam Clayton’s former school. The early sessions were recorded in a Georgian mansion – which Adam Clayton later bought. In honor of the album’s 30th anniversary, and in advance of an upcoming tour celebrating the LP, we look back at 10 little-known facts about its creation.ġ. Decades on, The Joshua Tree remains the band’s highest-selling album and a touchstone among legions of fans.
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