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Posted by Myrk- on Sat Jul 2nd at 1:07pm 2005

Its on now, just started... Opinions?

I think its the worst start song ever! Paul Mcartney singing like s**t and a crap song. If its the greatest rock show you want something legendary and amazing, not some old man old of tune!

Edit: Arg no! Cliche almight! Releasing doves...




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Posted by Myrk- on Sat Jul 2nd at 1:40pm 2005

First Bono explains how Aids is curable, then Coldplay lead singer says everyone working on g8, is g8?! Gate?


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Posted by rs6 on Sat Jul 2nd at 3:14pm 2005

G8 is some kind of big international meeting where all the world power discuss how they can fix stuff like poverty, hunger, and aids



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Posted by Myrk- on Sat Jul 2nd at 6:59pm 2005

Yer I know, but the fact that the Coldplay said everyone from it is g8, instead of saying gr8. You have to see it really, and you would of seen what asses everyone made of themselves.

Ricky Gervais aswell <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_eek.gif"> Well out of order, his jokes were just distasteful, not funny.




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Posted by Loco on Sun Jul 3rd at 7:23am 2005

Watched a fair bit of it. I reckon The Who were the best, and of course Peter Kay. For those who didn't watch, Peter Kay refused to go off the stage even when security had been called, as he was leading the crowd in a rendition of "Amarillo". <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Natus on Sun Jul 3rd at 9:53am 2005

normaly i like linkin park, but that perfomance was just s**tty, the guy cant sing at all x(

green day in berlin was pretty good, too bad they cant say "danke sch?n" right smiley



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Posted by Dietz on Sun Jul 3rd at 10:09am 2005

? quoting Myrk-
Its on now, just started... Opinions?

I think its the worst start song ever! Paul Mcartney singing like s**t and a crap song. If its the greatest rock show you want something legendary and amazing, not some old man old of tune!

Edit: Arg no! Cliche almight! Releasing doves...

...or you could stop whining about how bad it was and enjoy the good aspects of it? Its not like you were forced to watch it or had to pay a penny.





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Posted by Myrk- on Sun Jul 3rd at 10:36am 2005

There wasn't much good stuff, highlights for me were the bad parts and Coldplay playing Bitter Sweet Symphony- now that was good!

It's just that because not many of the bands were on tour, the ones which weren't didn't sing very well (obviously haven't been warming thier voices much). I have to agree with the Linkin Park performance, it was very poor- I've seen them live before, and that performance in Philidelphia was way under par for them.

Its just amazing how I can see right through most of the bands- not many of them actually cared at all, they were just in it for publicity!




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Posted by fishy on Sun Jul 3rd at 12:36pm 2005

take it for what it was, not what you'd have liked it to have been. it wasn't a rockfest for the terminally insensitive, it was a charity gig to help save millions of people from dying of poverty.




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Posted by Dr Brasso on Sun Jul 3rd at 12:41pm 2005

pink floyd baby.....brought a tear to my eye.....id still drive 1000 miles to see em..... woot!

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Posted by Leperous on Sun Jul 3rd at 1:27pm 2005

I heard bits, though I'm sorry that I missed the sound of 200,000 people booing Mariah Carey for her shameless plug ("here's my new single..."). Another comedy highlight was Robbie Williams chatting up Fern Cotton (I think?) in an interview, obviously whilst stoned/wasted, and telling her how much she's blossomed and how they should get it on <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_redface.gif">





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Posted by Myrk- on Sun Jul 3rd at 1:40pm 2005

? quoting fishy
take it for what it was, not what you'd have liked it to have been. it wasn't a rockfest for the terminally insensitive, it was a charity gig to help save millions of people from dying of poverty.

If you wanna do something like Live8, then they should do it properly. I just think the bands weren't putting in the effort (well most of them) and as lep said, Mariah Carey obviously was just promoting.




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Posted by Agent Smith on Sun Jul 3rd at 2:00pm 2005

And of course while these events do some good, they only target the popular problems, ignoring the ones that actually cause the basic problems in Africa. I'm not knocking the idea's or motivations behind it, I just find it annoying when they quite happily attack the currently unpopular offender, but let other just as important issues slide, because they don't want to look bad.

Cancelling debt and sending aid is important, as well as raising public awareness. But one of the key issues that needs to be addressed are these cultures themselves. Thousands of children die each day primarily because they keep having children when they can barely feed themselves. As well as rebuilding basic infrastructure and other things, they need to educate the people so they can help themselves. Send them condoms as well as food and money, it ain't hard or expensive. Once that is under control, it should be significantly easier to start fixing the problem because it isn't constantly growing bigger.

Not to mention the terminally corrupt governments in most of those countries, which is another hinderance. I'm sure most people wouldn't mind the US going in and kicking some arse in those places.

I might have over simplified the problem a bit, and no doubt someone may be offended, but thats how I see it. If you think about it, it does make sense, I'm sure of it .

And dammit, doesn't anyone else want to punch Bob Geldof in the face, tell him to stop whinning, learn to sing, and write some decent bloody songs <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">.





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Posted by French Toast on Sun Jul 3rd at 3:00pm 2005

I didn't watch much, only around 10 minutes of it. But I really enjoyed R.E.M for some reason. I've never really liked them when I see them live, but I kind of enjoyed there performance.




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Posted by Spartan on Sun Jul 3rd at 3:17pm 2005

There's not much I can say about Live8 that Myrk and Lep haven't already said.




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Posted by Mephs on Sun Jul 3rd at 7:57pm 2005

I enjoyed the whole thing, for the most part. Snoop Dogg swearing was humourous, but then Madonna do it afterwards was cringeworthy. But it'll never actually stick in your mind as one of those days where you know exactly where you were when you were watching it, something that the original had.

It was good but forgettable, but its the same as Comic Relief; it can be excruciating but its all for a good cause.






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Posted by SpiKeRs on Sun Jul 3rd at 9:23pm 2005

Was at work with this guy who remembered live aid, he was saying how memorable that was, that whole remembering where you were it happened thing. This didnt have any of that for me, not sure why, probably didnt help spending most of time at work just listening to some of it on the radio.

The 1st one was about raising money i understand, this was more about trying to get a message across, the fact you got everyone all over the world uniting, which is quite admirable in its own way.

Musically speaking, imo the problem was you add a mishmash of old bands and upcoming bands of different genres and diffferent length sets all playing seemingly in no real order (partly understandable given the huge and varied audience). But that doesnt really matter ultimately, it was never meant to be about the music, this isnt Glastonbury or Download. As a charity concert bringing people together i imagine it was hugely successful.

Btw did any of you think Razorlight looked nervous as hell?




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Posted by Spartan on Sun Jul 3rd at 9:39pm 2005

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Was at work with this guy who remembered live aid, he was saying how memorable that was, that whole remembering where you were it happened thing. This didnt have any of that for me, not sure why, probably didnt help spending most of time at work just listening to some of it on the radio.

The 1st one was about raising money i understand, this was more about trying to get a message across, the fact you got everyone all over the world uniting, which is quite admirable in its own way.

Musically speaking, imo the problem was you add a mishmash of old bands and upcoming bands of different genres and diffferent length sets all playing seemingly in no real order (partly understandable given the huge and varied audience). But that doesnt really matter ultimately, it was never meant to be about the music, this isnt Glastonbury or Download. As a charity concert bringing people together i imagine it was hugely successful.

Btw did any of you think Razorlight looked nervous as hell?

I bet they were nervous. There are millions of people watching. Did Live8 take place entirely in Philadelphia? I remember them saying there were a million people at the concert in Philly. Which is a huge number of people. Still not as big as the thing that India holds though. I can't remember what it is but it has several hundred million people that attend it. A lot of orphans come out of it too because they get seperated from their families.




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Posted by rival on Sun Jul 3rd at 10:04pm 2005

im in norway for the summer holidays and tv here sucks (even on digital satillite you still only get 15 channels) so ive missed it.



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Posted by Myrk- on Sun Jul 3rd at 11:12pm 2005

How could you miss it? It was broadcast to 85% of the globe?! Norway must have had it!


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