U2 France

They have entertained his warblings in the past but rockers Arcade Fire refused to meet Bono when he attended their gig in Dublin last week.

According to an MCD mole, the achingly hip Canadian band sent our Bono packing after he requested to meet them after their triumphant set in the Olympia last Tuesday.

"The band said they were too tired and didn’t want to meet him," she revealed to People.

"U2 are big fans of Arcade Fire and The Edge attended the first night of their two-night stint in Dublin."

The blatant snub must have been a blow to Bono, who used Arcade Fire’s song Wake Up as the entrance music for U2’s Vertigo tour and gave the group the support slot for three concerts during the tour.

Arcade Fire also donated their song Lies to promote Bono’s Aids charity campaign, Project Red, last year.

Frontman Win Butler last month criticised the marketing strategies of U2 for "forcing" people to like their music.

"In the UK there’s this kind of rock star competition," he said. "I don’t know if U2 started it or The Stones or Oasis but a lot of bands think in terms of: ’I’m going to be the biggest band in the world. F**k all those bands who’ve got no ambition’.

"Some bands are just manipulating people to buy music."