Live 8

[Malcolm]

Live 8 in Barrie was sould out in about 10 minutes

[J?]

Ya the promotion code fuck us it was working at all.

So when we finally got it , it was to fucking late!

If anyone has extra barrie tickets if you mind sending me a couple it would be awesome!

[Mr. Dick Purple]

Any one think that there would be a top band like in 1985 when Queen did that excelent show?

[mrlee]

Maybe VR? Did bob geldof write knocking in heavens door, cause if he did, Vr could play that and he sings or something.

[J?]

Bob Dylan wrote Knocking on Heavens Door.

Bob Geldof was in a band called Boomtown Rats

that bands biggest song is "I dont like Mondays"

Bon Jovi covered it on their live greatest hits album.

[redarmy76]

I know it's a long shot, but if anyone's 2 extra tickets for the show in Barrie, P.M. me or e-mail, I really want to go, I'd be willing to negotiate for any costs incurred, wink, wink

[Malcolm]

I think the coolest thing would be if Heart got up there and belted out 'Crazy On You'

[Malcolm]

LONDON  ? Producers of the upcoming Live 8 concerts said Saturday the shows will be shown around the world in what they billed as the largest-ever broadcast of a live event.

Broadcasts on television, radio, the Internet and even mobile phones will be accessible to a potential audience of 5.5 billion people, or 85 percent of the world's population, the producers said.

"This monumental live broadcast is without doubt the largest global live transmission in history, spanning the entire world, and importantly will be the first to truly embrace the powerful broadband Internet," Live 8 executive producer Kevin Wall said.

The 2004 Olympic Games in Athens captured a global audience of 3.9 billion people and 2.5 billion people watched or heard Princess Diana's funeral in 1997.

The eight July 2 concerts, in cities including London, Paris, Tokyo, Rome and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will be broadcast in more than 140 countries. Artists scheduled to perform include Madonna, U2, Paul McCartney and Coldplay.

The shows are meant to pressure leaders gathering for the July 6roup of Eight summit of the G-8 group of wealthy nations to take action to reduce poverty in Africa.

At another concert in England on Saturday, the Glastonbury Festival, an audience of 100,000 people urged the G-8 summit to raise the money needed to one day end poverty.

Led by Bob Geldof, an organizer of Live 8 and its predecessor, the Live Aid concerts 20 years ago, the crowd joined hands and yelled the slogan, "Make poverty history."

[Malcolm]

DEF LEPPARD have been confirmed to play at the Live 8 festival, taking place around the world on July 2. Live 8 is organized by Bob Geldof, with eight free concerts that are held with the cream of international rock and pop artists performing in London (U.K.), Paris (France), Berlin (Germany), Rome (Italy), Philadelphia (USA), Barrie (Canada), Tokyo (Japan) and Johannesburg (South Africa). Hundreds of thousands will attend with billions more watching the international broadcasts, seeing artists such as U2, ELTON JOHN, MADONNA, PINK FLOYD, DIDO, BRYAN ADAMS, M?TLEY CR?E and many, many more.

DEF LEPPARD are performing at the Philadelphia show, where they will be joined by artists such as BON JOVI, DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, STEVIE WONDER and many more. No further details about DEF LEPPARD's performance are available at this moment. Fans will not need tickets for the show, but details of how to attend have not yet been released by the organization.

[noonespecial]

dude you just show up...I live in cc philly and the only thing our mayor is seeing is free publicity and an estimated 3 million people showing up for that weekend...Between Live8 and the Elton John show...that's what they are counting on...all the hotels are already booked...you can get special public trans passes
(for 8 bucks) for that will get you anywhere you want to go...they're closing down the art museum area-street wise (just an open area really there is no way to control that area...it's widdddeee open) I really pity the folks that live up that way though, they are going to get trashed...literally

[Malcolm]

EMI has inked a deal to release the the worldwide Live 8 concerts on DVD in November. The company will tailor the content of the releases to each market. Artists who will perform at the concerts include DEEP PURPLE, M?TLEY CR?E, LINKIN PARK, VELVET REVOLVER, DEF LEPPARD, PINK FLOYD, and BON JOVI.

Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof said: "I hope this will be the biggest selling DVD of all time. It deserves to be. More importantly perhaps, it should be, for it will help us achieve our goal of changing the lives of the extreme poor for the better and making our generation the one that helped end the disgrace of poverty. We are very grateful to EMI for their financial contribution which helped to make the July 2nd concerts happen everywhere on the planet and thus nudge the world a little closer towards our shared aim."

The concerts are being held ahead of the G8 summit in Scotland on July 6 where eight world leaders will be presented with a workable plan to double aid, drop debt and make trade laws fair to stop 30,000 children dying needlessly of extreme poverty every single day.

[Steve McKagan]

When is VR going to play? Early or late? I must be ready with my video recorder.

[Dot]

I?ve always has a bad image of Bob Geldof, he looks really mean...but maybe he isn?t since he?s doing all this huge benefit show.

[Jagged Little Pill]

I live close to barrie..so it's gonna be hell..theres gonna be no point in goin anywhere around barrie that day...gonna have to stay home.

[Mr. Dick Purple]

I don't think that VR would be the Queen of this live 8, Maybe U2 or pink floyd but VR still doesn't make a hit song around the world just like queen did at 1985. 

[Malcolm]

Rocker Neil Young added to Live 8 lineup

CTV.ca News Staff

Fans at Live 8 will be rocking in the free world with music icon Neil Young.

Young is the latest act added to the Live 8 concert in Barrie, Ont. which will be held on July 2nd.

Known for classics such as "Cinnamon Girl," "Heart of Gold" and "Harvest Moon," Young will bring an electric presence to the concert in Park Place, formerly known as Molson Park.

Like many of the artists involved with Live 8, Young was one of original performers in "Live Aid" 20 years ago, and shared the stage with Crosby, Stills and Nash.

The last year has been difficult for Young; he lost his father Scott Young, a well-respected journalist and author, earlier this month.

Young himself also suffered a brain aneurysm that forced him to cancel his appearance at the Juno awards, held in his hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba last March.

However, the "Godfather of Grunge" has been busy.

In early May, Young began recording a follow-up to his 2003 album Greendale in Nashville, Tennessee.

This year's Live 8 concerts are taking place in eight major venues around the world, and are orchestrated to put pressure on the G-8 nations' leaders to come up with more aid for Africa.

The July 2 concert in Barrie will be held at the city's 35,000-capacity Park Place venue, and will broadcast live on CTV.

[Malcolm]

Live 8 organizers want Canadians to urge Prime Minister Paul Martin to think about his legacy and continue the initiative Lester B. Pearson started to end world poverty.

Singer Tom Cochrane, who will be performing at Saturday's concert in Barrie, Ont. says he wants Martin to commit to a target for aid spending of 0.7 per cent of gross national income.

"I think that Paul Martin has been a wonderful finance minister, but history will tell whether he's a great prime minister," Cochrane told CTV's Canada AM.

"If he goes to these G-8 meetings and tables a plan to meet the 0.7 per cent world relief contribution figure, then indeed I think he'll be on his way to becoming a great prime minister."

"We once had a very, very proud position through the late '50s and into the '60s of being a country that had fairly strong diplomatic position in the world," Cochrane later told a news conference in Ottawa.

"I'm very proud of Lester B. Pearson? and I'm proud of the fact that he introduced the idea of 0.7 per cent. If all the developing nations reach that figure for relief contributions by 2015, we can eradicate poverty."

Commons calls for hike in aid

It appears some Canadian politicians are listening.

On Tuesday, the House of Commons unanimously called for an immediate hike to annual aid to the 0.7 per cent level. But the motion is non-binding and there is no guarantee Ottawa will act on it.

Reaching that target would mean more than tripling the $3 billion a year Canada now spends on foreign aid. Martin has said that Canada's tight fiscal situation makes such an investment impossible.

Instead, Martin has pledged to raise foreign aid by 8 per cent a year until 2010.

But New Democrat MP Alexa McDonough, who tabled the motion Tuesday, dismisses Martin's assertions.

"Canada can afford it,'' she said. "That's not even the question.

"It's very clear that the money is there."

'An issue of justice'

Organizers of Make Poverty History say that 45,000 people have already signed an online petition calling on the prime minister to take action to eliminate Third World debt and increase foreign aid.

Musician and poet K'naan, who spent the first half of his life living in Somalia, believes that forgiving the debt of developing nations, many of which are in Africa, will do more good than simply sending relief money.

"These are issues of justice, they're not charity. And that's why I'm particularly excited about this situation to change things politically and economically in Africa from the root up, rather than try to quench a simple thirst for a moment."

"It's not complicated science. It's very simple. We have a surplus here in Canada. It's an issue of justice."

Concert organizer Denise Donlon says that she's particularly proud that so many of the musicians on Saturday's lineup are committed to global poverty issues.

"These are artists, by and large, who have been to Africa, who have worked there, who have seen the poverty that exists there and want to do something about it," she told reporters.

"From Jann Arden, to Jim Cuddy, Bruce Cockburn, Tom Cochrane -- Jim (Creegan) from the Barenaked Ladies actually left for Tanzania yesterday. Many of these artists have already been involved in world poverty issues and will continue to be."

[Malcolm]

As if the big guy doesn?t have enough on his plate these days ? He?s out on the Big Throwdown II Tour, he?s just opened his first ?I Love This Bar & Grill? in Oklahoma and now he?s off to Philadelphia to perform at Live 8. TOBY KEITH has been added to the list of stars who will perform at the Live 8 concerts on July 2nd. The concerts are taking place in cities across the world in hopes to encourage world economic leaders to forgive debts and increase aid to impoverished countries. Other country acts who are performing include TIM McGRAW and FAITH HILL who will be in Rome and KEITH URBAN, who will also be in Philadelphia. It?s gonna be huge, so throw that one down!

[Malcolm]

 Thousands are queuing in the U.K. Wednesday, after Live 8 organizers made an additional 55,000 free tickets available for the anti-poverty concerts in Hyde Park. The extra tickets will allow holders to watch the international event on giant screens at the London park, organizers announced Tuesday. The new batch is being distributed in pairs on a first-come-first-serve basis Wednesday at locations in Manchester, Southampton, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, London and Oxford.

The additional tickets for the London event, one of 10 concerts being staged on July 2, are being offered on top of the 150,000 already dispersed through a lottery system earlier in the month.

"This is going to be the biggest event in Hyde Park's history and the biggest ticketed event ever in the U.K.," Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof said in a statement.

"The park will be filled to the brim. In other cities around the country and around the world millions of people will be joining in to make poverty history," said the singer-turned-activist.

"It will be one of those defining moments that come around once in a generation."

British Live 8 organizers had already arranged for more than a dozen viewing screens to be set up in other major U.K. cities to broadcast the show, which will feature performances from the likes of U2, Joss Stone, Coldplay, a reunited Pink Floyd, the Scissor Sisters and Geldof himself.

The goal of the multi-nation concert event is to pressure the leaders of the G8 industrialized nations ? meeting just days later for their annual summit ? to erase the debt of poor African nations, boost foreign aid and pursue more equitable trade.

More than a million people are expected at concerts in London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Moscow, Cornwall, England and Barrie, Ont. Millions more are expected to listen to the concerts on the radio or watch them on TV or the internet.

[Eazy E]

Does anyone know how to watch this thing on the internet?  I know most of you fools have your TVs to watch it, but I have no other choice but to try and catch an online broadcast.

BTW, what is the time difference between London and Toronto? 7 hours?