Live 8

[Lancs Se7en]

Brilliant and thanks for a great nights entertainment Even the old rockers managed a thing or two.

[Chrisgr31]

Brilliant and thanks for a great nights entertainment Even the old rockers managed a thing or two.

Big bill for someone though.  Apparently if they overran Westminster Council were going to charge them £350,000 per hour!  So thats a £7000,000 bill for someone!

[Mr. Invincible Mou]

Better it goes into Westminster's coffers than Mugabe's pockets  

[RichUK]

I thought Pink Floyd were awesome.

[Barry]

Great entertainment, cursing that I didn't go , but gave my ticket to my son as it was his twelfth birthday on Saturday, not bad for his first gig .

Highlights for me were mostly the old rockers, Elton John , the Who, U2, but with special mentions to Madonna, Snoop Dog, Velvet Revolver and the Stereophonics, but the IMHO the stars of the night were Razorlight now thats what I call rock 'n' roll.

Can you watch the Micheal Buerk video with the Cars soundtrack without a tear in your eye? Can you believe that twenty years after you first saw it the situation in Africa is worse than it was then?

Forget the cynical comments,go to www.live8live.com, sign up for the petition to end poverty, 25 million people did today, be the 25 million and first, and email T Blair , the links there, let him have one hell of a mail box tomorrow.

I for one don't want to have to watch that video in another 20 years time, and think that that nothing has changed, I challenge you, forget the cynicism it won't cost you anything but 5 minutes of you time, you never know it might get the men in grey suits to listen for once, especially if they think that there is a sea change in public opionion and their jobs might be in danger.

Click, 3 seconds, click, 3 seconds, click, 3 seconds, in Africa that could be my entire family dead.

I'll put the soap box and the brandy bottle away now

[Lawnmower Man]

Big bill for someone though.  Apparently if they overran Westminster Council were going to charge them £350,000 per hour!  So thats a £7000,000 bill for someone!

Yes. I can belive that.  IMHO It time they got a life.

[Stu]

Whilst on the subject of music, check this out

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[smokie]

It's all very well to get the rich countries to help with financial aid but until the corrupt dictators and their families are removed from power this aid will only provide a fraction of the benefit to those who really do need it.

Also exploitation of the people and natural resource in those countries by the large multi-nationals should be stopped.

Having said that, anything we can do to help should be done.



I didn't watch a lot of the concert but weren't the Who awesome???

[Lawnmower Man]

It's all very well to get the rich countries to help with financial aid but until the corrupt dictators and their families are removed from power this aid will only provide a fraction of the benefit to those who really do need it.

I gave my contribution to Africa in Durban at knife point.

Having said that, anything we can do to help should be done.

Well I've done my bit.

I didn't watch a lot of the concert but weren't the Who awesome???

Very much so.   In fact I thought all of the acts I saw were brilliant.
Real people making real music.   Not this computer generated techno junk.

t.

[Ron Jeremy]

i keep being asked to hold on to several billion us dollars in return for a small fee - so someones got the cash

tackling corruption first might go along way to assisting rather then being told what to buy, eat and drink by plastic band wearing wealthy pop stars

[redstu]

Anyone else think that the camera direction during the Who set was abysmal - particularly so during "don't get fooled again" - either it was at the end of a very long day (it was) or the director didn't appreciate that a band that actually plays instruments requires a different approach visually.

Still having said that most enjoyable.


With regard to aid

Once I get my cut of the $120 million that I'll soon be looking after for a not unreasonable handling fee of £35K  I'll be making a considerable donation.

However I'm not sure when that will be as my e mails to Dr Ostentatius Gotusucaa have gone unanswered for the past 3 weeks!

[Bob U]

I didn't watch a lot of the concert but weren't the Who awesome???

Yeh, agree, they were great but with Moony dead and now Entwistle how can they stil be called The Who? I remember when Keith Moon died Daltry said "that is the end, we will never perform as The Who again" Obviesly trout farming is not as finacially rewarding as being a rock star. I know it was all in a good cause but they were still not The Who.

Whilst on the subject, how can those pricks Brian May and Roger Taylor tour as Queen when the greatest band frontman the world has ever seen is dead, f**k*ng idiots.

[Simes]

I thought Pink Floyd were awesome.

Agreed.

[Bob U]

I thought Pink Floyd were awesome.

Never thought I'd ever see Roger Waters back in the group.
I particulally liked the banner in the crowd----

Pink Floyd reunion? Pigs have flown over London.

Would have been nice if it was over Battersey Power Station again. The cameraman did manage to get a shot of it in during PF's performance which I thought was a nice touch.

[Doris]

Anyone else heard about Posh Spice having a bit too much champagne in the hospitality tent and calling Snoop Dogg 'Mr Snoopy'?