Renowned Irish fiddle collective U2 spent last night in the cells after being arrested late yesterday evening.

The arrests came after they climbed on to the roof of a London home and started making what onlookers described as a ‘cacophonic racket’.

The police were called and the debacle was stopped after 20 minutes but not before the band had had time to plunder through three songs in an ear-shreaking twenty minutes.'

A police spokesman told Gobshout: ‘It was awful, you can’t just climb onto someone’s roof and start playing loud music.  They knocked about fifteen slates off the roof and if one of them slipped they could have killed themselves.  And they didn’t even have a busker's licence the cheeky cunts!

The house owner Mrs Merton was furious. 'They must have scaled up the drainpipes the little bastards.  I told them to come down and they just started singing some bollocks about streets having no name.  Well I live here and let me tell you this street does have a fucking name and they have no right to be telling people that it doesn't!  

U2 were doing it in a shameless attempt to promote their new single ‘Fill Your Boots’.

Posted In Gobshout News, Feb 28 2009. Words - The Ginger