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Bono says U2 have for a deal with their fans - two crap albums and they're out.

The singer told XFM: "There's a real deal. A real deal, between us and our audience.

"Which is we don't have to worry about where our kids are going to school, paying a hospital bill, paying the mortgage, in return we don't make a crap album.

"Two crap albums and you're out. That's our deal with our audience.

"Whether it's catholic guilt or whatever it is, it's not on to have this life that we've been given - this amazing life - and be crap... And have a fish farm in Wales. It's unacceptable."

Bono said the band would be happy to tour again to support new album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, because of the quality of the new songs.

"For the first time we've made an album that we like," he joked, "which could mean the end of our band.

"Cos normally we find the songs, when we go out and play them, that you step inside them. And you want to find some really good reasons to leave home.

"We've all got some nice houses and family and friends and it's hard to leave. We had to find some really good reasons to leave home and I think we've found eleven."