Macphisto.net have a good stream and download of Adam Clayton’s interview at the Brits. He takes another shot at explaining General Admission to the masses. ‘We want to put the rock back in it.’ Other than that, he’s aiming for another lifetime achievement award in twenty years time.

If you sign up for Electric Artists ‘street team’ you’ll receive mailings with unexpected treats such as this picture. Click on it to download it giant size.

We tried to sign up… but Electric Artists’ e-mail address bounced. Oh well.

SLANE BY U2
MCD (Irish concert promotors) have announced U2 at Slane Castle on August 25. Tickets for the 10 hour, one day music festival are priced

BRIT AUDIO
You’ll find U2’s performance and acceptance over at U2tours.com. Mp3s of the songs at U2wanderer.org.

VAMPI-AH
If you’ve listened to Bono’s acceptance speech at the Brits you may have noticed him callling Chris Blackwell (founder of Island records) a ‘vampire’ in a Jamaican accent. In case you didn’t know… ‘Vampire’ is a song by the great Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry… who was convinced Blackwell was a bloodsucking fiend: “You know, that Chris Blackwell disgusts me, makes me want to vomit. He invited me to the opening of the Compass Point studio in Nassau and there I saw him drink the blood of a freshly killed chicken.” So now you know.

AUSSIES: 60 MINUTES
The Nine Network’s 60 Minutes is running promos for the Bono story — aired recently on 60 Minutes II in the US — for this Sunday evening.

U2LOGPAPER
….Not the toilet kind!
You can already buy the merchandise. And now for a limited time only, for the obsessive U2log fan who must have everything, the all new and exclusive U2log.com wallpaper! In two exciting desktop sizes!
[800×600] , [1024×768]

READER INPUT
Yajur seems to have caught the U2log virus, he sent us this link to his handiwork.

Martin Kristiansen from Denmark reports: You can buy generel admission to the shows in Copenhagen at www.billetnet.dk but obviously not yet!

WATCH THE BRITS
MSN are showing live footage backstage at the Brits and boast “an utterly exclusive talk with U2”. Starts at 3 p.m. GMT. [ thanks Allard ]

More Brits at the official site. Cor, blimey.

Bono blamed an airline’s lack of humidifiers for his dodgy Grammy voice. It’s not like he didn’t have a warning. It’s just that no one reads airline safety brochures any more.