MTV’s website has acknowledged U2’s existence with a video interview with the band here (on the right side of the screen). I would tell you more about this interview, but apparently I need to upgrade my player and I am too lazy to do that.

Elsewhere on that same page you’ll find an article that talks about the ways different bands select their setlists. Of note: several U2-uttered sentences. In the following snippet Bono reveals that for a while there U2 were toying around with the chilling idea of not including Where the Streets Have No Name in the Vertigo tour.

“We were wondering how you could play ‘Where the Streets Have No Name’ after the last tour, where we showed the names of those who died in 9-11,” Bono said, giving an example of the amount of thought put behind a single song. “Our show designer said we shouldn’t do ‘Streets.’ And then we started working on this idea of a suite of songs that joined the dots between what was happening in the civil rights movement in the U.S. in the ’60s and ’70s when Martin Luther King was taking to the streets, and what’s happening now in Africa.”

Do you think fans might go ballistic if they left that song out even once?