Caution: Irony overload ahead.

Fans hoping to catch a glimpse Thursday of U2's free concert celebrating 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall will have to "scale these city walls" after organizers threw up a barrier to block the view for those without tickets.
The move has triggered outrage from Berliners and tourists alike, all of whom see the irony in building wall around a concert dedicated to the wall that has come down.
"It's completely ridiculous that they are blocking the view," said Louis-Pierre Boily, 23, who said he came to Berlin even though he failed to get tickets.
"I thought it's a free show, but MTV probably wants people to watch it on TV to get their ratings up," said Boily, a native of Quebec City who was among several hundred people who gathered Thursday against the roughly 12-foot (2-meter) metal fence, draped with a white tarp that blocked off the view of the stage from the street.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue about having a free concert and then walling it off from view. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that MTV is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the big media conglomerates. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that MTV is an evil network, but it permits us to sell our products. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.