On walking onto the stage he asked the whole audience to 'shush' be quite, after a couple of minutes the eager audience gave him his wish, standing there with baited breath they watched the singer go into a very slow overhead hand clap, each clap was filled with a three second gap, and after a minute of this Bono walked up to the microphone and stated, 'each clap represents a death of another child in Africa', at that a raised voice from the front of the standing audience shouted back, 'well stop clapping then'.