ROCK ME LIKE A HURRICANE

Typhoon Yutu (pronounced U2) is currently battering Hong Kong. Chaos theory at work: Bono spouts out hot air in one location, it intersects a cold front in another and bam, you’re stuck in a weather pattern you can’t get out of — this is Hong Kong’s second typhoon this month.

WALK ON, BRASILIAN VIDEO

Brasilian TV channel ‘Globo’ recently aired the version of the Walk On video that was shot in Rio de Janeiro. Our reader Rosa Carvalho reports: It starts with the boys leaving the hotel, walking along the beach, playing football. They sign some autographs, talk to people in the streets

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN THIS, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN THAT

The media spin is all about Christopher Walken’s dance moves in FatBoy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” video. So much spin in fact that you wouldn’t realize that there were other MTV Video Music Nominations that came out Monday.

U2’s “Beautiful Day” is up for Video of the Year while “Elevation Remix” goes into the running for Best Group Video, Best Video from a Film, Best Editing in a Video and Best Special Effects in a Video

The MTV Music Awards will be Sept. 6 in New York. The band will perform live at the awards.

RONAN, YOU DON’T LEAVE ‘m breathless ‘EM

Several sources report how U2 got a fit of the giggles when Ronan Keating suggested he support the band on tour.

We think part of the story was omitted. It should read: “Bono and the lads have been friends with him for years so they had the decency to wait until he had gone away before bursting out laughing. Then they went and gave the gig to The Corrs, who have so much more streetcred“.