PET SHOP BOYS - TENNANT SLAMS BENEFIT CONCERTS

PET SHOP BOYS star NEIL TENNANT has poured scorn on this summer's (07) Live Earth gig, insisting benefit concerts make musicians "look arrogant". The singer has mixed feelings about bands who mix music with politics, fearing they don't know what they're talking about. He says, "The Princess Diana concert is fair enough, but I feel more uneasy about the Al Gore thing (Live Earth). "I've always been against the idea of rock stars lecturing people as if they know something the rest of us don't - it looks arrogant. "It's not as if they have a private source of information. To state the obvious as if you are the only person that knows it is intellectually weak. Like Bono - he uses his celebrity, but in doing so he increases his celebrity. I'm never even totally convinced that the rest of U2 feel comfortable with that."