Live 8

[pretzel]

Like others I thopught The Who (with or without the late Mr Moon) showed most of the newer bands how it should be done. Pete Townsend being particularly energetic.

My personal favourite moment though was Pete Doherty's rendition of T. Rex's Childern of the Revolution. Not a good advert for recreational drugs.......

[Lawnmower Man]

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**cking idiots.

Yes it does make these statment seem a bit hollow.

IMHO,  It would be totaly wrong for "The Who" that played at Live 8 to release a new Record/Album as 'The Who'. However, I also think it would have been equaly wrong not to have had the act.  

It was real people playing real music.

t.

[Bobblehat]

Daltry sounded fantastic but Pete was looking old, did think at one point that  his Strat was too heavy for him I wounder if he now regrets writing "I hope I die before I get old......"

The Floyd sounded great, and I caught the shot of Batersea Power station, though my beer googles.

But dont you think that it sums the UK music that the closing acts were "The Who" (half of them) Pink Floyd and Sir Paul Macca the combined age must run in to the thousands!!!!!!!!

And am I the only one that thinks the Live 8 logo looked like a scalectric track???

[Bob U]

Yeh no doubt they were right to be there and I suppose to younger people who had never seen them, or possibilly never even heard of them they were the real Who. They were to me a very important part of my teenage years. I well remember doing my paper round with my tranny turn up high, listening to Radio London playing stuff like "I'm a boy" and "Happy Jack", f**k*ng brilliant. Even at 25yrs I was close to tears when Moony died, and to me The Who died with him.Neverthe less it was still great to see Daltry swinging the mike and Townsend "windmilling his arms, It certainly brought back a few memories. It will interesting to see if the likes of Travis and Coldplay are still around in 40 years time, matter of fact it will be interesting If I still am.

[Andy Zarse]

The voice of dissent (again).

Yes I saw quite a bit of it and enjoyed much of the music on offer, simply for what it was. The Who were the Who, but then again I was never into them until after Moon had died and Kenny Jones had taken over on the drums. And yes, The Floyd were tight as a torniquet.

But at the end of the day, Live 8 fed nothing more than a handful of has-been pop stars' egos. Sad but true, and I'm no expert, but it seems to me only a change of attitude, politics and regime will ever release the huge latent energies now straining for expression in sub-Saharan Africa. All that is happening at the moment is the poor of rich countries are being taxed to further line the pockets of the rich people from poor countries. As that old, up-tight, reactionary Tory sour puss Simon Heffer wrote yesterday (and much as I hate to agree with him): Live 8 was nothing more than a "massive exercise in well-meaning, albeit ultimately mindless, sentimentality." And I do not need to take condescending lectures on poverty from hair-brained, muddle headed, multi-millionaires with their conspicuous consumption, extravegant lifestyles and who fly around the world in private jets.

Far more appropriate for me would have been to have a concert of contemporary African music, along with some Afro-inspired drum & bass, rather than the whiteman inspired has-beenism of the Live 8 acts.

That's what I reckon anyhow.

PS did anyone else think poor old Macca looks like he's being driven into an early grave by his domineering one-legged wife?

[Robbo SPS]

I missed the entire concert. i heard one bloke run into a pub shouting Paul Mccartneys on. Thats the sum of my involvment.

Hopefully they will do a highlights DVD, then i'll be able to watch it !!

Since LM i've had 1 day off. Just going to scotland now for G8 and a week of work. 16 hour days !!!!!

[pretzel]

Just going to scotland now for G8 and a week of work. 16 hour days !!!!!

Just think of the overtime  

[jpchenet]

Just going to scotland now for G8 and a week of work. 16 hour days !!!!!

That should be great!!!  As Ricky Gervais said on TV on Saturday, I thought they were great and really should have won X Factor instead of that Steve Brookstein chap  

[Steve Pyro]

I spent Saturday evening at my wife's employers summer party (BIG bash).
Appearing on stage in the big tent were Madness (the actual, original line-up, Suggs et al) and Basement Jaxx.

I reckon I had the better night out.  Rather than staring at the TV for hours on end, I was getting down to the Nutty Sound and shaking my booty - all fueled by copious complementary booze  

[Kate Shaw]

Our "Live 8" concert was held in Barrie, a cottage country town north of here (although from what I hear, the people on TV continually referred to it either as "Toronto" or "Ontario", which hacked the locals off considerably.)

I didn't listen to any of it because I was busy, and besides looking at elderly rock stars makes me queasy (not being that young myself).  However, many of us were astonished that the Barrie charitable organizations were denied permission to do voluntary donation boxes for local charities during this "Live 8" concert in which Geldof was demanding that Canadian tax money be sent to Africa rather than being used to help Canadians.

When I was a little girl, 100 years ago, I was admonished to eat my beets because "children in Africa are starving."  Well now I am 10 lb. overweight and children in Africa are still starving.  What exactly has been accomplished by eating all those beets?

[Steve Pyro]

...... What exactly has been accomplished by eating all those beets?

Embarrassing flatulence?  

[Matt Harper]

Only got to see MTV highlights. Made me smile to see Roger Waters playing with the rest of the band.
I agree with everything Andy Z stated (there's a first). well said, that man. Nice sentiment - but pointless and the sanctimonious lecture from that f**k*ng bog-trotter in the daft sunglasses, I can well do without.
f**k off Bono.    

[Black Granny]

Missed it on TV as I was out working. Managed to listen to some of it on the radio. Over in Toronto they had a real "Old School" Rock band on Deep Puple. Would have gone down well with the other oldtimers at Hyde Park.
I'll try and get some info on the cost of the overrun as one of the Tarquins works for Westminster Council.

[smokie]

I'll try and get some info on the cost of the overrun as one of the Tarquins works for Westminster Council.

20,000 people stranded in London cos the trains shut down on time apparently. Maybe someone forgot to tell them that it was on... Amazing how they can shut down on time but can't run a service on time innit?

[Barry]

My personal favourite moment though was Pete Doherty's rendition of T. Rex's Childern of the Revolution. Not a good
advert for recreational drugs.......

I think Mr Doherty regards it as professional career, rather that recreational use.