U2 rock Cannes launching new film U2 3D

No doubt attracting interesting critique for the black limousined rock and roll lifestyle... U2 hit Cannes Film Festival to promote their new 1 hour doco on "Vertigo" in Latin America.

I have always wanted to get to the Cannes Film Festival as a film fanatic and in 1998 on our 9 week holiday through Europe we were 1 to 2 weeks from everywhere... Monaco the weekend after the Grand Prix and Cannes a week or so after the Festival [some merchandising was still around for both]!!

BUT this year U2 did a set on the expansive red carpet that by all reports was fun and lively as they promote what will hopefully make its way to IMAX in Oz... U2 3D!!

I have captured the clip of 'Where the Streets Have No Name' in case I use it this Sunday for Pentecost... my idea of the vision of that day when the gift of the spirit of God became available to everyone... assuming it trumps my other ideas around Missy Higgins song 'Steer' and scenes from 'Pay It Forward'

What do we make of millionaires weekend and the trappings of rock... well you'd never get to the stage if you walked the crowd, these boys tend to be aware of what tossers they can look like [hard to believe I know] and they do live in the south of France over the summer!!

Anyhow, not my job to be an apologist for the contradictions between Nice and world poverty!!

In 1998 we sat on the gravel beach for a few hours, resting after 3 harrowing days in Rome and watched private jet after jet take off across the coastline... headed straight back to LA no doubt!!

Just along from us were the private beaches of the area with banana lounges and umbrellas right there in the gravel or on an upper wooden deck... quite the resort feature in that part of the world. Still... we enjoyed our fresh baguette and cheese slices for lunch each day.