The Big Day

[liam88]

Live8 will be starting in hours. Today rock can change the world. There have been criticisms of the concerts regarding African Acts (now playing at the Eden Project for anyone who lives nearby), acess for diabled, bandwagon jumping.....
But at the end of the day something great can come out of this-but Live 8 needs to be the start not the end. I went to a make poverty history protest in London a good few months back. These were arguably part of the build up to today G8/Live 8 but if all the build up cumulates today and then people pack up and go home then mabye it won't work. But if today starts something big then I really believe we can make poverty history!
What do you think?

[sligoman]

What do you think?

To be honest Liam, I wish it would help but I cant see this concert making much of a difference, unfortunately

[superfrank]

Who cares? They should have made people pay for the tickets in the first place and given that money to charity.

PS I HATE BOB!!!!

[Superhoops]

Who cares? They should have made people pay for the tickets in the first place and given that money to charity.

The money for charity has already been raised from the calls @ £1.50p a pop made to apply for tickets. They didnt need to sell them. There were so many application calls made that they probably have raised more money than had they charged £50 a ticket.

[sylvo]

They should have got more acts from Africa to take part, Elton John, Sting and Phil Collins thats an original line up.

[Cosmo]

Have no interest in it, couldnt be a**ed watching it - hope its not on in the pub in the afternoon

[Ruairi]

watching it on tv now.. nothing too special so far.. althugh i have to admit the u2/paulmccartney rendition of "Sgt. Pepper" was pretty cool..

looking forward to snoop dog the most for some reason.. going to fecking miss Pink Floyd, really annoyed over that

[CollegeTillIDie]

Dido is singing with Youssou N'Dour from Hyde Park as I write this.
She got her band to perform his hit song 7 Seconds.. fair play to her... sure aren't her people's origins Irish?...

They did a nice job on it all the same. Looking forward to Pink Floyd later tonight and hoping to see Roxy Music from Berlin.

And Bob may be a gob from Dun Laoghaire but he has put it to good use to be fair.

[sylvo]

The crowd in Hyde Park could look a bit more up for it, most of the time when the camera's pan into the crowd most of them look half asleep, then again Keane have just been on.

[hamish]

Those with BBC interactive - Deep Purple live from Toronto soonish. Oh the good old days of headbanging

[Green Tribe]

The crowd in Hyde Park could look a bit more up for it, most of the time when the camera's pan into the crowd most of them look half asleep, then again Keane have just been on.

The crowd did look a bit morbid earlier, they've livened up a bit now

[jjppc]

The crowd in Hyde Park could look a bit more up for it, most of the time when the camera's pan into the crowd most of them look half asleep, then again Keane have just been on.

Thats because they can't get any sherbert, if what's in the papers is true, the booze is restricted to those in the "golden circle" at the front. These are guests of the company sponsors, the great unwashed are behind them. As someone who as tried to put my natural cynicism about the whole thing to one side and tried to support it as a step in the general direction of good ,I think this smells strongly of ****e.

[Drumcondra Red]

I've been trying to find the band times, anyone know where you'd get them???

[sligoman]

Am I the only one on here who thought U2 weren't that good at Live8? I know they are a good band but today was a big let down for me, they sounded terrible

[Frank Blue]

Am I the only one on here who thought U2 weren't that good at Live8? I know they are a good band but today was a big let down for me, they sounded terrible

I thought they weren't that bad. From Berlin i saw Green Day and Juli. The German band Juli were awful as she can't sing, but Green Day gave it a good go.
As for other acts I saw REM and U2 seemed OK. Dido was bloody awful, so true to form in my books.

However, not bothereed with it for several hours and I only wanted to see Pink Floyd.

As for what Live 8 hopes to achieve, I think it'll once again fail. Good intentions and all that, but there is so much to change in the world and so many influencing factors, it is an impossible task.

[Cosmo]

I must admit despie my pessimism on this whole thing i actually did watch a bit of it earlier and must say i was impressed - especially with the demo yoke in edinburgh.

Also with that chick that was nearly dead as a baby that was on the stage when madonna came on - that was a pretty cool story

For music wise though, germany seemed great craic!!!

[hamish]

Jesus, BBC Interactive have just shown Shakira singing "Whenever" and she looks better than even in her videos - awesome and she's lost wait too. Fcuking hell, as we say down these parts -"She'd give a horn to a grasshopper"

On the downside we were supposed to see Purple from Toronto and got five seconds while the fecking Pet Shop Boys got near an hour.

[sylvo]

The crowd did look a bit morbid earlier, they've livened up a bit now

Like the way all these heads who looked half asleep when Bono and co were giving their speechs on Africa and poverty and then suddenly came too life when Mr S Dogg from Inglewood LA landed on stage with his Grandad shouting the words n***** and mudder ******, and all of a sudden all those heads soon came too life.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Conor74

Factual errors
1/ Roxy Music ARE NOT from Sheffield
The original lineup included Paul Thompson( drums) and Bryan Ferry (Vocals/keyboards) from The Newcastle On Tyne Area.
Andy Mackay ( sax/oboe/clarinet) and Phil Manzanera(guitar) from down South in Blightey.
Oh and Brian Eno (synthesizers) from Cambridge.

2/They are performing in Berlin in the Live 8 Concerts... which is what I was referring to.

[sylvo]

Thats because they can't get any sherbert, if what's in the papers is true, the booze is restricted to those in the "golden circle" at the front. These are guests of the company sponsors, the great unwashed are behind them. As someone who as tried to put my natural cynicism about the whole thing to one side and tried to support it as a step in the general direction of good ,I think this smells strongly of ****e.

All those people down the front when being interviewed saying ''whhhoooo i'm here to see Robbie'' did sound like daddy had dropped them outside Hyde Park in the Range Rover.

I'd say the concept is maybe lost on them all right.