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Is anyone else watching this? Just kicked off, Bono et al giving it some. Sergeant Pepper was a nice start, and Beautiful Day finally waking the dopey crowd who've been sleeping there since 1976. Unfortunate moment having Wossy introducing 'the biggest wock concert ever...'...Oh God, they've just released a flock of white doves, presumably fresh from the triumph of their appearance at Michael Jackson's trial.
Let me know if you're there people, we've got a crate of Becks and some left over mushrooms. Could be fun.
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I am painting the neighbour in the flat downstairs ceiling. She hasn't moved anything from the room and I keep falling over assorted rubbishy knick-knacks. As I try to get paint on the there. White dosn't cover 'mild coffee' very well. I can't use the roller because:
1.) there isn't enough dust sheet to cover the area
2.) I can't find the tray
I've just flicked on the telly and Wossy is on interviewing Sting. Either that or Gordon Ramsay, I can't tell them apart. Bollix! Now Keane have showed up, those moon-headed bore-scores. Jo Wiley's not my cup of tea, but she makes for a mum of yum-ness.
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What have you done Scrawny? I'm watching Coldplay. The next beer you open, could you dedicate for me as I've another hour before I can officially kick back.
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I'm waiting for a band to come on that my Dad doesn't like, so he can drive me into Bournemouth for this wretched Hen Weakend.
"I thought it was a bit strange," said my Dad, "all the bands that are playing are ones that I like."
A concert for middle-aged men: official.
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They're onto a winner with this collaboration thing, means that every time someone comes on you're waiting to see what song they're going to sing and with whom. Highlights so far:
Coldplay and Ashcroft doing Bitter Sweet Symphony. Great song, amazing vocal duet between Martin and Ashcroft. Made me almost believe for a moment that music could actually change the world. 'Fix You' was also kind of beautiful - by far the best song on the otherwise mediocre 'X + Y'.
Dido and Youssou N'dour - 7 seconds. Ditto. Aces son, we all sang along with the obligatory 'Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeellion voices' bit.
Bizarrely, the fucking Stereophonics. Obviously still have mass appeal, as the crowd is finally starting to get moving. Miserable fuckers. Shame you can't pick the audience at these things.
Veep, couldn't agree more. NWoD, we're a few beers in and have the mushrooms soaking, still trying to decide what to do with them...
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ok, we've done the mushrooms...
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There is a reason most concerts are held in darkend buildings...the sight of the Great British Public waving their palid, podgy arms around and being sincere to 'Everybody Hurts' is burned into my brain.
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Richard Ashcroft so fucking totally blew Coldplay off stage. It was like, hi I'm Chris Martin and I have no personality and am limp and lame and rubbish and look! I am going to get Richard Ashcroft on stage with me just so I can look even more limp, lame and rubbish in comparison. I love Richard Ashcroft.
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scoopy dog dog did lots of swear! and big ones too!
oo! razorlight!!
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Urggh....just surfacing after a few hours of quiet shrooming. Razorlight were aces. As was Madonna predictably enough. Close as they're going to get to a Radio Ga Ga sort of moment.
Snow Patrol, on the other hand...RUBBISH
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Mariah Carey with her fucking entourage - enough to keep me spitting venom at having someone so obviously insipid and unaware of the whole situation, yet would do anything to increase her exposure - anyone else notice she fell flat on her arse after glitter?
Fuck her, and fuck the organisers for thinking she could contribute anything worthwhile.
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My god I thought Madonna was really embarrassing. That moment after Like a Prayer when she yelled 'are you fucking ready?' actually made me turn the TV off.
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I liked it when Sir Bob brought out the woman who was the starving childe in the Band Aid 'Drive' video, now I know why I want to save the poor hungry Africans, it's because one of them could grow up to be hott mamma cutie pie.
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Have just got back from being there - got 2 tickets from the text vote and then got back from Glastonbury in the early hours of Monday to find two tickets in an envelope on my doormat, which resulted from one of the few postal entries I also made.
So herein find the viewpoint of the crowd on the various performers. Please take as read that of course they all gave up their time for nothing and are really like totally right-on people, like, OK?
Mariah Carey: just...why? WHY??? Ditto: Joss Stone and UB40. Fuxxake. The Killers only got one song to start off with and then Snow Patrol were cruelly foreshortened in order to accommodate these nonentities.
Madonna: you people might think that she did a good show but you weren't there. The Band Aid survivor woman looked quite embarrassed to be clutched patronisingly by her at the beginning of Like A Prayer for FAR too long, Madonna's swearing felt unnatural and for effect and then she totally milked Music for far too long: "I'm not stopping till each and every one of you is singing!" 3 minutes of one phrase later...she finally stopped, thank God.
Razorlight: the singer doesn't really have the credentials to pull off that sort of grandstanding.
Stereophonics totally rocked, as did Snoop Doggy Dog in a completely different way.
Velvet Revolver was a complete waste of time.
Annie Lennox was absolutely magnificent, and seemed the least consumed by ego and most sincere of all of the performers.
Dido's duet with Youssou N'Dour was excellent but her voice didn't really hold up for the other songs.
Scissor Sisters were cool, as always. Maybe not the best occasion to premiere a new song but it was catchy and people were singing along by the end of it.
Robbie Williams totally got the crowd all together and all involved - there wasn't that much boogieage going on most of the time but he got absolutely everyone going - "put both hands in the air... now bounce! Bounce! Bounce!"
The best performances of the day though, by FAR, were The Who and Pink Floyd. Partly because of the rarity but mainly because, by Christ, do they know their shit. They played most of the upstart newcomers completely out of the park.
All in all, I'm totally today, and I'm back in Bristol and it's a beautiful sunny day.
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By the way, apparently 20,000 people were caught out by the concert running late, missed last trains etc. and ended up sleeping in Hyde Park. My friend Mad Cornish Richard ended up sleeping at Paddington and getting the 8am train, whereas me and Lovely Claire were shacked up in our hotel room at Lancaster Gate.
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quote:Originally posted by Nina: My god I thought Madonna was really embarrassing. That moment after Like a Prayer when she yelled 'are you fucking ready?' actually made me turn the TV off.
Dude! that means you missed the Madonna / Jo Whiley interview, in which Jo earnestly chastised Madonna for not having done good things for Africa then made a little film about it! Truly uncomfortable watching, but quite entertaining...
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Was it possible for Chris Dreary Martin to wear any more plastic wristbands?
I had to lol at Sting saying without a trace of irony, "well, I'm going to be playing the same two songs as I did 20 years ago." That's because you don't have any other songs!
The proceedings induced a whole new facial expression: the cringe/dry-heave combo brought on by cleb-cnuts like Chris Moyles hanging round backstage saying things like,"yeah, this is a really important moment in history. I really care about the poor blacke people."
I watched the horseracing on the little telly upstairs and got a lift into town after Dido. Doesn't sound like I missed much.
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I ended up watching most of it - we wheeled the tv out into the garden and cracked open a few cold ones. I was completely baffled by the appearance of Bill Gates and was left troubled by his apparent playing up to the geeky stereotype; I dunno, maybe he is just a geek.
One of the - no doubt - little-seen highlights of the day was tmo fave George Monbiot talking on BBC news about how counterproductive the whole event was and that Bono and Geldof are actually causing 'more harm than good' by giving Bush credibility. Maybe he's right maybe what the world really needs is more of that Monbiot-brand hand-wringing every week in the pages of a mid-selling liberal broadsheet.
Yeah. That'll save some African childes, so it will.
Highs
Razorlight
Madonna
Sgt Pepper
Brief footage of Brian Wilson in Berlin
Aerial photography of the crowd
Chris Martin cruelly mocking the non-appearance of teh Quo
Lows
Only one Killers song?!?!!!?
Disappointingly on-message Jimmy Carr
Robby 'Oh, but he's such a fantastic entertainer' William
Disturbing lack of flies in the eyes of Mariah's African childe-ren
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So that woman holding hands with Madonna really was a token blacke? I saw that bit as I was pottering about at home and thought ho hum...looks like Madonna has got a token African up on stage...no, no that would just be too crass, she must be a singer maybe she will sing in the chorus...
Also Madonna being interviewd was excellent!
Interviewer: So, have you ever been to Africa? Madonna: No I haven't. I: Oh. Because lots of celebrities do go, dont they. As UN ambasadors and that kind of thing. M: Uh...well...yes I guess they do... I: So do you think you will be doing something like that? M: I..uh..um...well...no I dont want to! Its horrible there! AAAAggh!Posts: 2793
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quote:Originally posted by ben:
Only one Killers song?!?!!!?
Aha,m one of the great injustices of modern music. Joss Stone 3 - the killers 1.
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Thanks to you I've been entertaining myself by saying 'meeeeeeeeeelion voices' in a little quiet Kermit the frog voice and making myself chuckle all morning.
Did they really get loads of africans onstage? You're not all just winding me up? Because if they did, that has got to be the all time most comedy stereotype choreography ever. It's a bit like a school play of Scrooge where he has teh turn of heart at the end and the head of house orders the roughest bully in the 5th year to wheel a handicapped kid onto the stage via the the ramp and speak the final cue line of the entire play. I don't know why I think this is rubbish, but it seems that it wouldn't be out of placed if Bono suddenly announced 'Look, the people of Afrikaka heard our joyous love and pop rock sounds and have bum rushed the stage (peaceably) to show us how much they appreciate our efforts by smiling, not looking emaciated and dancing slightly'
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I had a glimpse of Hell on Saturday. We were booked months ago to go to a cousin's party in Salisbury. Her and her family are about to disappear to Australia and NZ for about two years or something so it was to be a big send off and we were quite looking forward to it. We listened to the early Live8 performances on the radio on the way down and it was all splendid fun.
We checked in at the Youth Hostel and the reception there had the radio on full blast. It looked like being a Live8 day through and through. Knowing the cousin was loaded and reasonably young I was already imagining walking in to her garden to see a giant TV screen, massive soundsystem and crates of beer and good company. This was going to be good.
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We got there, right, and there was this bizarre children's puppet show going on. It was the crappest children's entertainer I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them in the last 14 years I can tell you. A small glimmer of doubt and fear was appearing in the back of my head. S-surely... they... surely... no, wait till the kids have had a bit of a show and then they'll chuck the entertainer out and crank up the music.
They did crank up the music. A terrifying medley which almost had me in tears of rage and frustration. A "children's disco" with 'Show Me The Way To Amarillo', 'The Fast Food Song', 'The Okey Cokey' and many more. Many, many more.
I looked around me for the first time, the horror suddenly sinking in. We were surrounded by dull, fat, middle-class parents with dull, fat, middle-class children. Who were these people? How could we be part of this? No one mentioned Live8. They genuinely didn't seem to know what it was. On Saturday afternoon I saw Hell.
We stayed for food and a few drinks then pretended one of the kids was feeling ill and did a runner. Thank God. We could go back to the Youth Hostel and go in the communal TV room which would be packed with cool young people from many countries all sharing beers and laughter and watching the Greatest Show on Earth.
We got back and went into the TV room. There were two youths from an unidentified Eastern European country sitting there. They were watching Friends and they were laughing. They were laughing at Friends. Could this really be happening? I asked if they'd seen any of the concert. "Concert?" "Concert, yeah. Live8?" "Ah, concert. No. You want watch? [looking pleadingly at me]" "Well... No, you finish watching Friends. I'll come back in a bit."
We put the kids to bed and I went back down. The TV room was empty. I watched the rest of the show (Robbie Williams - the end) almost on my own. Occasionally a young person would walk in, stare at the screen, and say "What is this?" "It's Live8, the biggest concert ever staged in history." "Oh, really? Thank you." And they'd walk out again.
I suppose I was the sad one, for wanting to watch the telly instead of... what? Talk bollocks to another fat, middle-aged person? Maybe discuss tents and canoeing with the chap from Birmingham who I overheard at breakfast saying, "Yes, Dead Ringers has got better and better with each successive series." He then explained the plot of The Hitch-Hikers' Guide To The Galaxy, in detail, to the person sitting with him, who almost certainly knew it anyway.
I'm not sure I will ever go back to Salisbury again.
Thank God for Pink Floyd. They may have been forced to play the predictable hits instead of Careful With That Axe, Eugene or Main Theme From More, but they did a magnificent job with what they had, and Roger Waters, mad and damaged for all these years, and still looking little short of insane, looked as if the pain and vitriol of all those years was being washed away on the spot. Man, I hope they work together again.
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