Bono is now worth something in the region in $2 Billion. The GDP of Liberia is $1.5 Billion. Do the maths.

Adele needs to keep being sad to be successful and we curse the new theme tune to MIB III. Still, Black Francis and Jesus H. Foxx are good...

Releases shown: Pitbull - Back in Time (out now); Paloma Faith - Picking Up the Pieces (out now); John Mayer - Shadow Days (out now); Black Francis - You're Gonna Pay (from the album The Golum, out now); Jesus H. Foxx - Permanent Defeat (from the album Endless Knocking, out now)

*Musical note: the Scotch Snap technically consists of a stressed (ie on the beat) sixteenth note, or semiquaver, followed by a dotted eighth note or quaver. Usually dotted rythms have the longer note first; it is that reversal of expectation that makes the snap so distinctive. It is a key rhythmic signature of Scottish traditional music.

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Previously on Scotch Snap...

May 14th: Britney the judge, Squarepusher and laser light probing.