Countdown to Live8 Begins

[Vanhalen 0]

Im just going to sit in front of the tv all day, shame I havent got round to buying a DVD recorder yet, man, what a fucking event this will be. I think honestly, no matter what taste your music, there will be a band for everyone, whats the tv showings in the US like? Here in the UK they are just showing the full 14 hour show on BBC 1 and 2 with no commercials and completly uninterrupted, on second thoughts, I think Im going to go down and buy a DVD recorder today, fingers crossed for Bob Geldof shouting on the TV, "Give us your fucking money" now

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4640203.stm

Countdown to Live 8 shows begins 

 

Bob Geldof officially revealed plans for the follow-up to Live Aid today, confirming that five massive free concerts will take place around the world on July 2.

 

Called Live 8, the event will see all-star line-up shows taking place in Philadelphia, Paris, Rome, Berlin and London's Hyde Park.

 

Speaking at a packed press conference this afternoon, Geldof confirmed that U2, Madonna, Coldplay, REM, Robbie Williams and Sir Paul McCartney would all be performing at the London leg.

 

Acts playing in Philadelphia include Will Smith and Bon Jovi while big-name artists such as Brian Wilson, Lauren Hill and Duran Duran are all set to perform at the other European venues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The event, for the Make Poverty History campaign, which is backed by the Mirror, comes 20 years after the first Live Aid in 1985 which raised £60million for the starving of Ethiopia and was watched by 1.5billion around the globe.

 

 

More than 100,000 tickets for the Hyde Park gig will go on sale next Monday - and will be available by texting a number which which will printed in the Mirror on that day.

 

 

Giant screens will be put up in squares and parks in around 20 cities and towns around Britain for those who cannot get into the concerts.

 

 

The event, aimed at banishing Third World debt, comes on the eve of the G8 Summit of rich nations at Gleneagles, Scotland, on July 6-8.

 

 

For the first time in 35 years, the Wimbledon women's tennis final, which many fans hope 17-year-old champion Maria Sharapova will take part in, will be switched from BBC1 to BBC2.

 

The stage is all set for Tokyo's Live 8 show

Final preparations are taking place at venues around the world for the Live 8 series of anti-poverty concerts.

U2, Pink Floyd and Madonna will play to 200,000 people in London's Hyde Park on Saturday, along with Sir Elton John, Sting, Coldplay and REM.

 

Other cities hosting shows include Paris, Rome, Berlin, Tokyo, Moscow and Philadelphia, while Cornwall's Eden Project will host African artists.

 

The shows are timed to coincide with Wednesday's G8 summit of world leaders.

 

Organised by Live Aid founder Bob Geldof, they will call for more aid for Africa, debt cancellation and fairer trade.

 

A further concert will take place on Wednesday as the summit begins.

 

In London, all police leave has been cancelled, with 1,000 officers on duty to manage the crowds.

 

Alcohol ban

 

Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Helen Ball said it would be one of the biggest policing operations of recent years, on a par with the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002.

 

"There has been a lot of planning by all agencies involved. We are working closely to make sure we create a safe environment in which people can relax and be part of this unique event," she said.

 

Alcohol will not be on sale at the event, and ticket-holders will not be able to take any inside Hyde Park.

 

London's stage has already been used for mini-festivals 

Some 2,000 crew members are working on the show, and the stage has already been used for the Wireless Festival series of concerts.

 

Police will also be on the lookout for ticket touts, and have appealed for people without tickets to stay away from the event.

 

"They will not be able to get into the park at all and they will not be able to see or hear anything from outside," Chief Superintendent Ball added.

 

Tokyo's show will be the first to start, at 0600 BST. Icelandic singer Bjork, UK boy band McFly and US rock act Good Charlotte feature at the Makuhari Messe arena.

 

Acts including 4Peace Ensemble, Jabu Khanyile and Bayete Lindiwe will feature at Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, from 1200 BST.

 

Security will be tight in Hyde Park

Green Day, Chris De Burgh, Roxy Music and Audioslave will play at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, while James Brown, Dido, The Cure and Craig David are on the bill at the Palais De Versailles, Paris.

 

The London show starts at 1400 BST, while half-an-hour later will see the first acts on stage at Circus Maximus in Rome, where Zucchero, Tim McGraw, Duran Duran and Articolo 31 are due to play.

 

Canadian performer Bryan Adams will appear at his country's Live 8 show in Barrie, Ontario. African Guitar Summit, Deep Purple, Motley Crue and Run DMC are on the bill there.

 

The Pet Shop Boys lead the Moscow line-up, while Will Smith hosts the Philadelphia show, which features Stevie Wonder, Maroon 5, Kanye West, Destiny's Child and Jay-Z.

 

Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour will be appearing at three venues - Hyde Park, the Eden Project, and Versailles.

 

Joining him at the Eden Project will be Kenya's Ayub Ogada, South Africa's Shikisha, and Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited from Zimbabwe.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Alcohol will not be on sale at the event, and ticket-holders will not be able to take any inside Hyde Park

 

pointless.

[Vanhalen 0]

....post

 

Yes, I agree

[Red Baron 0]

I didn't know Run DMC was playing at Barrie.

 

Edit: I'm surprised that Rush or Neil Young is not playing at the Canadian show as well.

[King Kamala 0]

I heard somewhere that Neil Young actually is playing at the Barrie show. Ah here it is, from the man himself, http://www.neilyoung.com/tour.html

Don't know about Rush though.

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

Fuck this ego fest. I'd rather there was one than wasn't, cos there's at least some good to come of it, but I could not watch this.

[therealworldschampion 0]

Just for anyone going to the Philly show, WMMR said this morning that the Pink Floyd performance will be beamed in to Philly from London...

[DMann2003 0]

I've got the DVR set to record the MTV broadcast and the ABC highlights- I'm sure Pink Floyd's set will pop up somewhere there.

[snuffbox 0]

Its nice to see that America's horrid state of mainstrwam music is well-represented in Philly.

[Guest Ransome]

Here's the apparent London setlist (from http://drudgereport.com/flash8.htm):

 

Paul McCartney & U2

'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'

 

U2

'One'

 

Coldplay (introduction by Bono)

'In My Place'

'Fix You'

'Better Sweet Sym'

 

Elton John (introduction by Little Britain)

'Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting'

'The Bitch is Back'

'Children of the Revolution'

 

Dido

'Life for Rent'

'White Flag'

'Thank You'

 

Stereophonics

TBA

 

REM

'The One That I Love'

'Losing My Religion'

'Imitation of Life'

'Everybody Hurts'

 

Ms Dynamite

'Dy-na-mi-tee'

'Judgment Day'

'Redemption Song'

 

Keane

'Everybody's Changing'

'Somewhere Only We Know'

 

Travis

'Sing'

'Turn'

'Why Does It Always Rain On Me'

 

Annie Lennox

'Walking on Broken Glass'

'Sisters are Doing It For Themselves'

'Sweet Dreams'

 

UB40

Medley

 

Snoop Dogg

TBA

 

Razorlight

'Somewhere Else'

'Golden Touch'

'Vice'

 

Madonna

'Like a Prayer'

'Music'

'Ray of Light'

 

Snow Patrol

'Chocolate'

'Run'

 

Joss Stone

'I Had a Dream'

'Super Duper Love'

 

Scissor Sisters

'Laura'

'Take Your Mama Out'

 

Velvet Revolver

TBA

 

The Killers

TBA

 

Sting

'Message in a Bottle'

'Desert Rose'

'Every Breath You Take'

 

Mariah Carey

'Vision of Love'

'Make it Happen'

 

Robbie Williams

'Let Me Entertain You'

'Rock DJ'

'Feel'

 

The Who

'Won't Get Fooled Again'

'Baba O'Riley'

 

Pink Floyd

'Money'

'Confortably Numb'

'Wish You Were Here'

 

Paul McCartney

'The Long and Winding Road'

 

All-star

'Do They Know It's Christmas'

 

Clearly, London is the only must-see lineup. They're promising surprise guests as well. This is definitely as big as concerts are going to get in this day and age.

[Paul Stanley 0]

Saw Deep Purple last nite at the Taste of MN and it was awesome, so they should rock Live 8.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0]

http://music.aol.com/live_8_concert/live_now

 

Every stream from each concert. Get it while it's hot.

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

MTV outdoes themselves once again, doing the impossible by broadcasting a CONCERT where they show less musical performances than backstage interviews with bands and celebrities, and other pointless non-music segments.

[1234-5678 0]

When exactly do I get to see Pink Floyd?

[snuffbox 0]

Is it really that hard for vh1/mtv to just show the entire fucking songs?

[DMann2003 0]

When exactly do I get to see Pink Floyd?

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My sentiments exactly

[Youth N Asia 0]

I've had it on in the background today.

 

They only got to edit about half of Snoop's "Motherfuckas."

 

And was I the only one that found this funny...

 

They were doing a bit where a celeb would snap their fingers every 3 seconds to show how quickly people were dying in Africa...and Brad Pitt and 50 Cent got huge cheers...I think it was meant to be a somewhat serious piece

[Guest Fook]

Right now Sting is onstage in London. There's still Mariah Carey, Robbie Williams, and The Who to perform before Pink Floyd gets out there.

[snuffbox 0]

All day long its been songs cut off short by the vh1/mtv people, wearing expensive looking clothes, and jabbering about ending world poverty. This shits pathetic. Im sure its totally better live, but the televised show today is a joke.

 

And I cant wait to see 3/4 of Comfortably Numb.

[Slickster 0]

Well, our Canadian brethren at CTV are showing entire songs from all the shows and doing minimal backstage stuff. They're focusing on the Barrie, ON show and interviewing people as soon as they come off the stage. Deep Purple and Gordon f'n Lightfoot kicked everyone's asses. They do the Barrie sets, then show earlier segments from the other shows while they change the stage.

[Ravenbomb 0]

watched the Pink Floyd set on AOL.com. Awesome

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

Pink Floyd's performance was one of the greatest of all-time.

[King Kamala 0]

Pink Floyd, Green Day and Kanye West were the best performances of the day.....odd trio there. Still, I think, two more acts at the Barrie, Ontario show; Neil Young and Barenaked Ladies.

[RedJed 0]

Pink Floyds stuff was just unbelievable, watching the Green Day homage to Queen right now, also good stuff. In fucking Berlin to boot.

 

This is a definate historic event(s) with so many huge shows in so many places. Anyone know if they are doing a CD or DVD of these events?!! Something tells me no but I hope I'm wrong....

 

Been alot of language during the performances that MTV didnt even get close to catching. Even during a replay on MTV of the Snoop performance, they still missed a ton of f-bombs.

 

Thought Coldplay doing BSS was cool, generally too many notable things to all note of. Hope the ABC show tonight gives it justice.

[MrRant 0]

This whole event pisses me off.

 

I don't want my tax money going to Africa. If people want to give money, fine but don't use my money just so the warlord fucks can take it.

[Adam 0]

I'm hoping that individual performances are soon available for download on TorrentSpy or something, because the tape I recorded Live8 on is shit quality.

 

So Pink Floyd was really THAT good? Wow, I can't wait.

[Guest *KNK*]

The ABC show seems to be doing it better, taking the 2 hour block and showing non-stop acts.

[cbacon 0]

The Neil Young performance was fucking great. Still need to get ahold of the Pink Floyd and Green Day sets.

[CanadianChick 0]

I thought Muse was performing in London...are they not?

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0]

I thought Muse was performing in London...are they not?

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Paris...I don't know why.