Posted July 1, 200520 yr comment_2725088 London: African Children's Choir Annie Lennox Bob Geldof Coldplay Dido Elton John Joss Stone Keane Killers, The Madonna Mariah Carey Ms. Dynamite Paul McCartney Pink Floyd Razorlight REM Robbie Williams Scissor Sisters Snoop Dogg Snow Patrol Stereophonics Sting Travis U2 UB40 Velvet Revolver Paris: Andrea Bocelli with the Philarmonie der Nationen Amel Bent Axelle Red Calogero Cerrone / Nile Rogers Craig David Cure, The David Hallyday Diam's Dido Disiz La Peste Faudel Florent Pagny Kool Shen Kyo Louis Bertignac Matt copora Muse Placebo Raphael Shakira Sheryl Crow Tina Arena Yannick Noah Youssou N'Dour Berlin: A-ha Audioslave Bap Brian Wilson Chris de Burgh Crosby Stills & Nash Die Toten Hosen Faithless Green Day Herbert Groenemeyer Joana Zimmer Juan Diego Florez Juli Katherine Jenkins Reamonn Renee Olstead Roxy Music Sasha Silbermond Soehne Mannheims Wir Sind Helden Rome: Antonello Venditti Articolo 31 Biagio Antonacci Claudio Baglioni Duran Duran Elisa Faith Hill Francesco De Gregori Gemelli Diversi Irene Grandi Jovanotti Laura Pausini Le Vibrazioni Ligabue Max Pezzali Negramaro Negrita Nek Noa Piero Pelu Pino Daniele Povia Renato Zero Tim McGraw Tiromancino Velvet Philadelphia: presenters: Will Smith Salma Hayek Natalie Portman Chris Tucker Jennifer Connolly Jimmy Smits Kami artists: Alicia Keys Black Eyed Peas Bon Jovi Dave Matthews Band Def Leppard Destiny's Child Jay-Z Josh Groban Kaiser Chiefs Keith Urban Linkin Park Maroon 5 P Diddy Rob Thomas Sarah McLachlan Stevie Wonder Toby Keith Tokyo: Bjork Def Tech Dreams Come True Good Charlotte McFly Rize Johannesburg: 4Peace Ensemble Jabu Khanyile and Bayete Lindiwe Lucky Dube Mahotella Queens Malaika Orchestre Baobab Oumou Sengare Vusi Mahlasela Zola Barrie (Canada): African Guitar Summit Barenaked Ladies Blue Rodeo Bruce Cockburn Bryan Adams The Bachman Cummings Band Deep Purple DMC DobaCaracol featuring Kna'an Gordon Lightfoot Great Big Sea Jann Arden Jet Les Trois Accords Motley Crue Our Lady Peace Sam Roberts Simple Plan Tegan & Sara The Tragically Hip Tom Cochrane Moscow: Agata Kristy Aliona Sviridova B-2 Delphin - TBC Garik Sukachev - TBC Jungo Linda Moral Code X Pet Shop Boys Red Elvises Eden Project: The concert will be held on the stage in the Eden arena with the world?s biggest greenhouses. The event will be programmed and presented in association with WOMAD and its co-founder Peter Gabriel, together with Senegalese superstar Youssou N?Dour. Other artists performing include: Angelique Kidjo Maryam Mursal Salif Keita Thomas Mapfumo Tinariwen Daara J Shikisha Ayub Ogada Modou Diouf & O Fogum
July 1, 200520 yr comment_2725312 What exactly is this? A tour? What for? Will all of those names be performing on every show?
July 1, 200520 yr Author comment_2725416 It's a one day worldwide show, just like Live Aid was in 1985. These concerts will all be at the same time, and MTV and VH1 are airing 12 hours of coverage. I think ABC has 2 hours of coverage tomorrow night too. http://www.live8live.com/
July 1, 200520 yr comment_2726582 Geldof wanted to raise people's awareness and support for debt cancellation and thought having lots of musicians singing songs from their latest albums and doing a few duets would somehow make the politicians change their minds. Geldof is fucking stupid and deluded, just like Bono but even moreso. It's going to be little more than a world wide showcase for lots of bands to get international attention and flog more CDs, none of the proceeds of which will go to the Make Poverty History camapign but into the artists bank accounts. It's all a bunch of PR bollocks so musicians can delude themselves into thinking this is 40 years ago when music actually could change the world and was meant to, rather than sound good and include gratuitous use of the word "baby" "love" "need" and "hot" to ensure dipshit consumer downloads it from iTunes. Nice effort, won't change a fucking thing. 50 cent, the biggest star in music today has dropped out to continue shooting his movie and Michael Jackson's offer to appear was turned down even though his name alone would jack up the audience numbers, he's done big numbers on charity singles in the past and it would have been a great comeback platform. Oh, and if we're lucky we'll get to hear Chris "I warble like a fucking girl and I name my kids after fruits" Martin and Richard "pass the skag, where'd my career go?" Ashcroft piss all over "Bittersweet Symphony" as a duet.
July 1, 200520 yr comment_2726829 I would have had Sting in Moscow instead of London, just so he could do "Russians".
July 2, 200520 yr comment_2739601 Let me Clairfy: Theres a political event called the g8 summit. Long story short all the worlds political leaders (Bush, Blair etc) gather together and decide where a whole rack of money goes, and how its spent The powers behing Live Aid the 1985 concert for famine relief decided they should do something similar to benefit the people dying in Africa, which once again is a very large number. The concept is that if you get damn near every popular music act around today, it will raise awareness for the cause AND show the political leaders that the world cares about poverty. Whether itll work and wheter the politicians will listen remains to be seen. Its fucked up that the increasingly assholeish 50 cent didnt want to perform and even more fucked up that they didnt accept Jacksons offer. Regardless of what is thought of him, he still has a huge fanbase and a tremendous amount of respect in his community( at the BET awards aftershow everybody and their mama was like "how about mike, hes innocent, we love him, yay!". So far the Philly concert portion has gathered an unexpected amount of people. MTV and VH1 were expecting like 100,000 and(supposedly) got somewhere in between 600,000 and 1 million.
July 2, 200520 yr comment_2740348 Our set was unspectacular save Elton John, Madonna (I'd like to know how those two got on backstage since they bothed bitch each other out) and the finale superband. I missed a lot of the acts as I am not fans, have a life, and had to coach a grappling class this afternoon after kickboxing. I await the multi disc DVD so I can see Bjork in Japan.
July 3, 200520 yr comment_2743270 I'm surprised David Hasslehoff wasn't doing the Berlin show. That would have drawn a crowd.
July 3, 200520 yr comment_2744057 I'm catching the replay on XM Radio, so I can catch the Pink Floyd reunion I missed yesterday.
July 3, 200520 yr comment_2744381 Celine Dion also performed in Canada, via satellite from Las Vegas. She got booed for not bothering to fly over to Barrie. It was funny.
July 9, 200520 yr comment_2809260 Sat July 9th VH1 will air unedited,unhosted,commercial free footage of the bands at 10am Then MTV will do the same at 3pm. Some of the bigger performances will air on both. But for the most part it will be different acts.
July 13, 200520 yr comment_2852198 From the 500,000 letters you sent to President Bush to Live 8 in Philadelphia to the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, you called on eight men to do more to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty, and they heard your call. In Scotland this past Friday, overcoming the shadow of a tragic day in London, President Bush joined G8 leaders in an unprecedented deal to cancel debts and double aid to Africa. For African nations fighting poverty and corruption, this means a $25 billion increase in aid and wiping out 100% of their debts. With this funding, Africa can halve deaths from malaria, put millions of children into school, and 10 million people across the world will have access to lifesaving AIDS drugs. Behind each of these numbers is one person, one life that will be changed forever.
July 14, 200520 yr Author comment_2861867 This site here has links to clips from AOL's coverage of Live 8 in Quicktime format. If you're interested, I'd advise grabbing them soon, their webhost doesn't seem to understand he's just providing links to files made available free by AOL and they think he's some warez d00d.
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