BONO IS DETERMINED TO RUIN THE DUBLIN SKYLINE
EYESORE WILL FOLLOW
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Published on Thu 04 October 2007 by IanMcShane
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BONO IS DETERMINED TO RUIN THE DUBLIN SKYLINE |
There's nothing worse than a small man with big ideas and an even bigger ego. Right on cue, here comes Bono, tottering his thick neck along on his stack-heeled shoes (the inspiration for the song 'Elevation') and his plans to build a huge dome atop his gaudy Dublin hotel.
It's just what the local Georgian skyline needs, a huge glass construction on top of the Clarence Hotel, which the singer modestly describes as "a skycatcher" and "a hovering white halo". How about 'a great fragile tit you'd love to smash to bits'? That applies to both Bono and the dome, by the way.
The Sir Norman Foster designed dome will almost be large enough to house Bono's monstrous ego, and the tiny singer will be able to stand importantly in the windows and look over the ant-like inhabitants of his city.
Unfortunately, the dome is not certain to get planning permission, with environmental groups describing the proposed erection as a "bastardisation" and "a Fosteresque 21st Century rock star bubble", though can Dublin Council stop a man like Bono? He'd be on the phone staright away to Bob Geldof and they'd arrange a huge charity concert, spanning the globe. And then fuck all would happen, as usual.
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