English football star caught in the act…

… of singing along to U2.

A video of former England striker Alan Shearer has turned up on video sharing site bebo.com. Apparently the clip was posted by Shearer’s daughters Chloe and Hollie. The clip, entitled ‘dad lmao’, shows him whistling and singing along to Elevation.

• Watch the video
• Telegraph article

He’s got a question, you’ve got the remedy

Bono’s posted a question for you on Yahoo! Anwers, a question and answer community. He wants to know your solutions to end poverty.

What can we do to make poverty history? Because of people like you, leaders of the world’s richest countries met in July 2005 and made a number of historic promises to help end the kind of extreme poverty that is needlessly killing 9,000 people a day in Africa. Millions of lives and the future of a continent are at stake.

Watch a video and post your suggestions on Yahoo! Answers. And when you’re done, Stephen Hawking has another question for you.

Flag day the Polish way

On the 5th of July 2005 at the Slaski Stadium in Chorzow, U2 played their only second ever concert in Poland to the 70’000 excited fans. Never mind the heavy rain, minutes before the showtime, what happened when The Edge hit the first notes of New Year’s Day meant that not only “The sky fell in Poland”.
The Audience stunt – the “White and Red campaign” caused lots of mouths to fall open, including the Band’s and Willie Williams’ himself.

Polish fan Zbych tells ‘The Story of the Flag’ on U2tour.de.

When they were young

Rare ‘Christian’ Recording Featuring Three-Fourths of U2 for Sale

U2 tower greenlighted

U2 get vertigo as Dublin’s ‘twin towers’ given go-ahead

‘He did the talking’

Ali Hewson – Her heart’s on her green sleeve – People – Times Online

Buy Bono’s Merc

eBay.ie: Bono’s Mercedes. ‘Will arrange for local pickup only (no postage).’

Rock Werchter: The Who in the Attic with a couple of Kooks

It’s been a very long time since there was an update in the Transit section. I suppose it could be blamed on the gig overdose we had after the full U2 tour, or the lack of funds as a result. But none of this is true. It’s not that we haven’t been out much, we just haven’t written about it.

Yesterday, however, we were lucky enough to be at Rock Werchter. The lineup of the festival is pretty impressive with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Depeche Mode, Muse, Live, Scissor Sisters, The Who, Placebo, Franz Ferdinand, the Arctic Monkeys, the Kaiser Chiefs and another favourite of ours, Sigur Rós.

We kicked it off with a little Editors and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (go buy their album, it rocks!) and gradually drifted towards Muse and The Who. Mindblowing, a bouncing audience, swinging guitars, arms and microphones. Strictly no crowd surfing at Rock Werchter, yeah, right.

The Who? Aren’t they, like, old? Greying geezers talking about My Generation? Damn right. And these icons of rock are the ones toting cutting edge technology which is worth a mention. Mouthwatering to us techno geeks.

Insert a mobile home studio, a satelite uplink and a website which offers streaming video technology at the little cost of $.99 to charity per session. Throw in an aging rock star, say, Pete Townshend and his girlfriend Rachel Fuller. Then add some very diverse guests, randomly picked up from around festival sites. The result is a webcast that borders on reality tv, talk show and just plain old entertainment with a spontaneity that you just seldom see on television anymore.

Last night saw a band called The Kooks in their studio, which set off some jamming between them and Pete Townsehend and eventually resulted in Rachel Fuller and co presenter Mikey Cuthbert breaking out in Bowie’s Kooks. And maybe then that’s the best way to sum it up. A couple of kooks, enjoying themselves, on the road, from the road with a flurry of guests that make these webcasts well worth the $.99 you have to pay for them.

http://thewholive.tv/frontdoor/
http://www.intheattic.tv/