outside Hansa Studios. I paid homage to the place in 1995 being a big Bowie \ U2 n Cave fan and remember sitting outside this bar next door in this drab untarmaced street looking at the bombsite apposite with the wall still there. Just now it looked like any old city street.

Looks better than I thought it would. Feeling very nostalgic now for 1991 - looks like a date with the iplayer must be set and I'll watch it properly.

I loved that song. At the time the album came out I was involved in a dubious affair, a doomed fling of a thing with a mad Irish girl whose dad owned race horses. That song fit the times, especially as it was everywhere that winter.

You're dangerous 'cause you're honest
You're dangerous, you don't know what you want
Well you left my heart empty as a vacant lot
For any spirit to haunt

You're an accident waiting to happen
You're a piece of glass left in a beach
Well, you tell me things I know you're not supposed to
Then you leave me just out of reach

Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?

Blimey they're crap lyrics.

is all it took for my GLW to say that her opinion of Bono had cahnged from a prat to a self centred pretentious twat. We didnt watch any further.

Bono: The Little Twat with the Big Heart

always walk in slow-motion?

they still haven't found what they're looking for

Rattle & Hum making them look like a miserable bunch of bastards as there is plenty of footage of them mucking about and actually enjoying themselves but that hit the cutting room floor and ended up on boot DVDs. As they took over the edit they only have themselves to blame. There is a great film to be made out of the rejects.

Awful music.

Over the years I have come to find U2 intensely irritating. Having said that Achtung Baby is still their best album.

Bono is the Mother of all Twats though...

Can anyone figure out what the Alan Yentob introduction was all about then? I'm baffled why the BBC flew him to Berlin to film a pointless 2 minute introduction to this. Was it to pretend that this was a BBC film? (It's not, it's from, the new Actung Baby Anniversary Edition.) Or just for a free holiday? Odd.

The film itself: suprised to see them being so negative towards Rattle And Hum for it's earnesty, this new film was rather earnest itself. There were some interesting moments and I particularly enjoyed Edge doing a solo version of Love Is Blindness. I would have been interested in more song-by-song detail though, given that it's about an album several of it's songs appeared to go without mention.

What struck me the most though was how strange their method of songwriting seemed to me. Having written songs both alone and with other people, I can't imagine going about it the way they do (playing a simple musical phrase for ages while their singer mumbles wordlessly looking for a melody). It obviously works for them though and it's still an excellent album to my ears.