Oh the Ironic Irony

U2 fans are outraged — outraged, I tell ya — because the band has constructed a metal wall around the site of their free concert in Berlin to commemorate . . . wait for it . . . the 20th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. Now, when I say ‘the bank has constructed’ I don’t actually mean the members of U2 built the wall. It’s not as though Bono was out all night at the Brandenburg Gate, “Edge, be a luv an’ pass me that spanner before I land in ‘ospital wif me wee bollocks in a sling!”

Frankly, I don’t understand the controversy. U2 has always been adept at separating itself from its fans when it comes to live performances, whether it be on a barge, in the snow, on a rooftop, on another rooftop, on a horsedrawn carriage, or in the horrible city of Las Vegas.

In searching through most of the U2 vids on YouTube (‘U2 on YouTube,’ is that confusing?), I did come across this gem, Improv Everywhere’s spoof of U2’s rooftop fetish. Funny stuff, but maybe the hoax would have lasted longer than one song if the band hadn’t sucked so bad.