14th February 2011

Great evening, my friend came over again to get more done on the blog, have introduced highlights of this project and other works I've done.  All very exciting. Thanks again!  Well today all that people seem to be talking about is U2, personally I liked them when I was young, the new stuff, not so much and whats with those sunglasses Bono?  So todays story is the U2ness of it all.  Steve seemed a little upset on twitter and chucked his tickets in the river...seems like he may have got the wrong end of the stick to me?? 
the story-

Bono causes stir in SA

 Irish pop singer Bono has caused a stir in South Africa after expressing support for the singing of an anti-apartheid struggle song that includes the lyrics "shoot the farmer".

Johannesburg - Irish pop singer Bono caused a stir in South Africa on Sunday after expressing support for the singing of an anti-apartheid struggle song that includes the lyrics "shoot the farmer".
The song has been at the centre of a politically charged controversy in South Africa, where the firebrand leader of the ruling party's youth league is locked in a legal battle with a white lobby group over whether the song should be banned as hate speech.
The U2 front man, who is in Johannesburg ahead of a Sunday night concert for the band's 360 Degrees Tour, said in an interview with South Africa's Sunday Times that struggle music like the "shoot the farmer" song has a place.
"I was a kid and I'd sing songs I remember my uncles singing... rebel songs about the early days of the Irish Republican Army," he said, proceeding to sing a song whose lyrics spoke of carrying guns and readying them for action.
"We sang this and it's fair to say it's folk music... as this was the struggle of some people that sang it over some time," he told the newspaper.
But the rocker went on to say such songs shouldn't be sung in the wrong context.
"Would you want to sing that in a certain community? It's pretty dumb," he said.