Live 8

[jarmo]

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?

Join the global experience: watch the LIVE 8 concerts live and on demand, only on aolmusic.com

You can find exclusive live coverage--including behind-the-scenes tidbits, special blogs, and all the performances--during and after the concerts on July 2nd. And log onto aolmusic.com now for breaking concert news leading up to the event.

Add or subtract the given number of hours to/from London time to get the time in these cities:


Amsterdam * +1 hour
Athens * +2 hours
Helsinki * +2 hours 
Los Angeles * -8 hours
Miami * -5 hours
Moscow * +3 hours
New York * -5 hours
Rio de Janeiro -4 hours
Sydney +9 hours
Tokyo +8 hours 
Toronto * -5 hours



/jarmo

[deliverthecow]

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.

I wish VR was at the Philly show, Def Leppard and VR on the same bill would be a dream come true.

[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?

Join the global experience: watch the LIVE 8 concerts live and on demand, only on aolmusic.com

You can find exclusive live coverage--including behind-the-scenes tidbits, special blogs, and all the performances--during and after the concerts on July 2nd. And log onto aolmusic.com now for breaking concert news leading up to the event.

Add or subtract the given number of hours to/from London time to get the time in these cities:


Amsterdam * +1 hour
Athens * +2 hours
Helsinki * +2 hours
Los Angeles * -8 hours
Miami * -5 hours
Moscow * +3 hours
New York * -5 hours
Rio de Janeiro -4 hours
Sydney +9 hours
Tokyo +8 hours
Toronto * -5 hours



/jarmo

Thanks... Now I just have to hope AOL can handle the traffic....

[jarmo]

Bands on the run for biggest show in town

Huge operation starts in Hyde Park
? Artists will play 15-minute sets
? More than 200,000 fans expected

Owen Gibson, media correspondent
Thursday June 30, 2005
The Guardian

As the last beats of Kasabian's headlining set ring out around Hyde Park at 10.15pm tonight, a team of 2,000 already exhausted staff will descend in an effort to rip the arena apart and rebuild it before midday on Saturday when the gates for Live 8 open.

Forty hours later, it will have been transformed from a festival site for 20,000 people to a space crowded with 205,000 watching Sir Paul McCartney, U2's Bono and Coldplay's Chris Martin open the show with Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.

The race against time is consistent with the last-minute feel of many of the preparations for Sir Bob Geldof's magnum opus - nine linked concerts in venues around the world designed to highlight the aims of the Make Poverty History coalition ahead of the G8 summit in Gleneagles.
The man responsible for ensuring everyone can see and hear either the stage or one of 12 giant screens in the park is Stuart Galbraith, the festivals director of Clear Channel Entertainment.

The concert promoter, an arm of the US media giant, has been charged by Geldof with staging the biggest ticketed event in UK history, as well as those in Philadelphia and Berlin. Aside from Live 8, the company is already promoting several other big concerts in Hyde Park, as it has for the last six years, featuring bands such as REM and Queen.

As such, bringing plans for Live 8 together has been a huge logistical challenge. Mr Galbraith said they only received confirmation that the event would take place 10 days before Geldof announced it to the world's media on June 1.

The stage, the same one used for the Wireless Festival that concludes tonight, will remain but much of the rest of the site will have to be completely reconfigured.

"The Wireless site was built inside the Live 8 site. The stage and backstage infrastructure will stay and be added to. But the mixing desks, disabled viewing platforms, the two other stages - they will all have to be stripped out," said Mr Galbraith.

The backstage area will have to be greatly added to in order to accommodate the 25 acts, who will play for a strict 15 minutes each.

The sound system, three mixing desks and giant screens will also have to be erected. The screens will be split between the stage area and the 55,000 fans who queued yesterday for tickets to watch the event in an area next to the Serpentine.

But the artists will have to compromise on the luxurious backstage treatment that they are used to. Despite the presence of renowned divas such as Mariah Carey on the bill, organisers say the artists have so far mucked in.

"The artists have all been as good as gold. Everyone is checking their egos in at the gate and won't be collecting them until well afterwards," said Mr Galbraith.

Meticulous planning will also be required to ensure that artists can arrive and leave quickly - U2, Coldplay and others will have to fly off immediately after their performance to appear at other gigs.

"Some will stay and revel in the atmosphere. Some will come, play and go. U2 have a show in Austria and I for one will be making sure they leave the park as fast as possible," said Mr Galbraith, whose company is also overseeing the Irish group's world tour.

The entire park will be sealed off to those without tickets, with no access from Park Lane. Ticket holders will be given instructions on where to queue, with those heading for the arena and those watching on the big screens entering from different gates on the west side of the park.

The Metropolitan police and Westminster city council have been liaising with the Royal Parks and Clear Channel over transport arrangements. With the Gay Pride march and the Wimbledon women's final in London on the same day, patience is likely to be tested.

Hyde Park Corner and Marble Arch tube stations will be shut but Mr Galbraith was confident that the crowds would funnel away relatively quickly after the 9.30pm finale.

Most of the 150,000 main crowd, it is predicted, will end up watching the event on the big screens. The area in front of the stage has been reserved for 15,000 "gold circle" ticket holders. While some of these will be drawn from those who entered the text message lottery for tickets, most will be taken up by corporate hospitality. Companies have paid up to ?799 per person, plus VAT, to impress clients at the event, with the proceeds going towards the estimated ?20m cost of staging the global event.

The BBC, which will devote hours of its television and radio schedules to the event, has faced controversy over the fact that its big-name presenters will be paid to appear. Jonathan Ross, who will present from Hyde Park in a glass pod over the stage, is believed to be getting ?50,000, forcing his agent to announce that he was giving the money to Comic Relief.

Thirty cameras will follow proceedings in Hyde Park but the BBC, which paid around ?2m for the broadcast rights, has admitted that it too will have to "wing it a bit on the day". Because it is not staging the event itself, co-director Richard Valentine and his team will be at the mercy of the concert organisers for prior information on the set list and running order.

http://www.guardian.co.uk



/jarmo

[snakepiter]

live 8........who is broadcasting in usa???

[mrlee]

So when are VR gonna be shown and which day is it on TV in the UK?

[Malcolm]

 According to CTV.ca, AEROSMITH drummer Joey Kramer and bassist Tom Hamilton, along with BUCKCHERRY frontman Josh Todd, are among the artists that will be joining DMC (part of the iconic rap group RUN-DMC) on stage at Live 8 Canada on Saturday.

A veteran of Live Aid, the rapper said he is pleased he can add his voice to the fight to stamp out poverty in Africa. "I was happy to support Bob Geldof at the original Live Aid in 1985 with RUN-DMC and it's really amazing to have the opportunity to make another contribution nearly 20 years later for such a worthy cause," he said in a release.

The show takes place July 2 in Barrie, Ont., joining concerts in London, Moscow, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, Philadelphia and Johannesburg.

[Malcolm]

M?TLEY CR?E bassist Nikki Sixx spoke to the Toronto Sun earlier this week about the group's participation in the Live 8 Canada concert in Barrie, Ontario this weekend.

"It's funny because my sobriety (anniversary) date is July 2," Sixx said. "So that will be great to be doing something like being up on stage, playing a few songs and having a blast. It's going to be a great day."

Sixx said Barrie was the only Live 8 location the band was asked to play.

"I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that M?TLEY CR?E had just toured Canada a few months ago," Sixx said. "We are not a Canadian band, but we manage to draw a lot of eyeballs and ears to us. So I think that was one of the main reasons."

Sixx says the band will hit the stage around 6 p.m. They'll play about three songs without the eye candy displayed on their headlining tour.

"Everybody is just doing a few songs so we're not bringing the freak show with us," Sixx said.

Regarding the success of the band's reunion tour, Sixx said, "I'm very grateful. When we were putting the band back together, we were hoping that it would be what it is now, that the band was focused on putting on the best show. And also that we were getting on with each other, putting on the best show and getting on with rock and roll without all the drama of the past.

"We always knew we were high energy and exciting to watch, but it was sort of like watching a car crash. You would watch and go, 'Wow that's really cool!' and then go back home. Meanwhile the guy that is in the car is in the hospital. None of us was really excited about that concept. We're excited about it being a kick-ass experience, but not at our expense."

The group recently earned a plaque on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

"We like that fact that it wasn't something that we bought and paid for," Sixx said. "You see a lot of actors and actresses get one right around the time of their big premieres. It was something that happened because people voted for us."

M?TLEY CR?E's two-CD "greatest hits" collection, "Red, White & Cr?e", has sold 383,306 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

[Malcolm]

Canada's good rep at stake: Live 8 musicians

Canadian Press

TORONTO ? Top Canadian musicians set to play at Saturday's mammoth Live 8 show say the country's reputation as a global Good Samaritan is at stake.

The star-studded shows are designed to pressure leaders of rich countries -- including Prime Minister Paul Martin -- to do a better job of helping the poor in Africa.

And while the PM has expressed skepticism about making promises that are hard to keep, singer Bruce Cockburn and Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida -- who will both take the stage in Barrie, Ont. -- say he has an obligation to maintain Canada's humanitarian legacy.

"The history has a lot of resonance but unfortunately right now it's just history," said Maida during a break in rehearsals with his band.

"We're not prolonging that tradition that we've had."

Thanks, in part, to former prime minister Lester Pearson, who developed the idea of putting 0.7 per cent GDP toward foreign aid, Canadians have long prided themselves as keepers of peace, equality and justice, said the Ottawa-born Cockburn.

"He put the whole notion of development aid on the political map . . . but we never made it to 0.7,'' he said.

Canada's aid rate is hovering between only 0.2 and 0.3 per cent of the GDP.

"Historically we can be proud of a lot of what we've done internationally. But we have to be vigilant at the same time to make sure that the image that we have of ourselves is still being kept alive by the people who are acting in our name,'' Cockburn said.

Also on the bill for the Canadian event, which will entertain roughly 35,000 concertgoers and a massive TV audience, are Neil Young, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion in a hook-up from Las Vegas, the Barenaked Ladies, Gordon Lightfoot, Great Big Sea and many others.

Shows will also be held in London, Philadelphia, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Tokyo, Moscow and Johannesburg.

Cockburn believes that the images of millions of the world's citizens taking part in concerts for a single cause will evoke a strong emotional response to make a tangible change.

"The sense I have is that the leaders of the G8 countries are teetering on the brink of something meaningful to address the problem of poverty in the world,'' said Cockburn, who has championed social causes since the late 1970s, and often travels to Third World countries like Cambodia and Mozambique.

"The hope is that the massive public outcry of concerts will convince them to take the step in terms of debt reduction and better trade rules.''

Spearheaded by musician and anti-poverty activist Bob Geldof, the concerts are a public call to the leaders of the G8 countries to double aid, cancel the debt of poor countries and rework unfair trade laws.

Already, a number of European countries have promised to spend 0.7 per cent of their GDP on foreign aid by 2015.

But Martin has lashed out at these commitments, calling them weak because the leaders who made them won't be in power when it comes time to make good on the promises.

Martin's not the only one criticizing the notion that throwing money at Africa will solve poverty.

Pointing to Sudan, where rebels and Arab-dominated governments violently clash over resources like oil, Maida says a hefty cash infusion won't help those caught in between who live without any shelter and are forced to drink contaminated water.

"Obviously just giving them money is not the right answer. There's specific problems within each country in Africa,'' he said.

"I can't stand it when people just say `We need to save Africa.' It's like saying we need to save the Middle East.''

But while conceding that there are no simple solutions, both Cockburn and Maida note that Live 8 has prompted the world to sit up and take notice.

"Whether it's criticizing the event or trying to help the cause, it's in the news and it's taking time away from some idiot like Paris Hilton talking about a diamond ring,'' said Maida, who got a first-hand look at the troubles in Africa on a trip to war-torn Sudan last year.

He recalled how as a 17-year-old four Irish rockers pushed him to become environmentally savvy.

"I remember when U2 got on the Greenpeace boat in those white suits,'' he said. "I knew nothing about Greenpeace but I loved U2. Automatically I went out and found information and joined.''

And that's the strength of Live 8, say pop culture experts.

"The power (these celebrities have) is to get the media to devote a lot of air time or ink talking about it. Presumably even the least interested person will come away a little more educated than they went,'' said Rob Bowman, a music professor at York University, who's studied large-scale concerts like Live Aid and Woodstock.

And thanks to international groups like Coldplay, Black Eyed Peas and Pink Floyd who've committed to performing on the various concert stages Saturday, a few more people know what "0.7 per cent GDP'' means than did last month, adds Alan Cross, program director at 102.1 The Edge, a popular rock radio station in Toronto.

"It's not a very easy message to grasp,'' says Cross, who as host of the syndicated radio show Ongoing History of New Music has frequently examined the power of celebrity.

"We're dealing with things like fair trade, debts, debt repayments and a variety of unsexy technical issues. It's really hard to soundbite this whole thing. These are things that people write books on.''

"They may not be more schooled in the intricacies of international debt repayment or trade agreements than the rest of us, but celebrities are useful in creating a spectacle that draws attention. If we can get everybody to focus over here for just a second, maybe some of the message will get through.''

And even if Geldof's plan to bully politicians into forking over more money for Africans doesn't succeed, it's still a worthwhile event, says Cockburn.

"Events like this don't automatically stop bad things from happening,'' said Cockburn, who often sings about inequities around the globe through songs like Call It Democracy and Waiting For A Miracle.

"The fallback point for me is always 'Can we keep it from getting worse? If we can't make it better can we at least keep it from deteriorating. If nobody ever does anything like this then the world will go to hell in a hand basket.''

[Butch Français]

Damnit Barrie lineup sucks IM going regardless but fuck. It would kick ass if Guns N Roses did it. And they would so get to close the show, if axl was like yeah album dropping blah heres our first single, but? yeah that wont be happening fucking eh... come on foo fighters or red hot chili peppers for barrie!

RHCP won't be there for sure, they are already playing a free show in Vegas the very same day!

[Malcolm]

DEEP PURPLE lead singer Ian Gillan has told the Edmonton Sun that didn't hesitate to join the Live 8 lineup after he had sorted out the logistics of appearing. He does, however, tend to differ slightly from the views of Live Aid and Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof.

"It's not so much the overall thing, but just actually how to go about it," Gillan said.

"I agree with him totally in the basic concept of raising consciousness. This is a front-on assault at a time when an awful lot can be done. I think if you can put massive pipelines across Siberia and Alaska to extract oil then it wouldn't be too difficult to build a few pipes to get some water into places (in Africa)."

Gillan said staging several concerts on one day will not be lost on elected officials.

"No matter what the reactions of the politicians are, they must be aware that it's going to become an issue as much as green issues and social issues have become," he said.

"I think they have to stop underestimating the intelligence of the people in the countries where these concerts are taking place."

[sandman]

anyone going to the philly show? (or any other shows?)

i wasn't planning on it, but since it's in my hometown and the weather is absolutely perfect, i figured i'd go check it out.

[Axls Locomotive]

Anyone signed the live8 list?

http://www.live8live.com/list/

[Butch Français]

Anyone signed the live8 list?

http://www.live8live.com/list/

yep!

[jarmo]

Yeah....



U2 was great! 

Waiting for VR now. Wonder how many/what songs they'll do.......




/jarmo

[liquidvirus]

ah. good to see jarmo say something nice bout VR, anyone catch Pink Floyd ?

[Axls Locomotive]

ah. good to see jarmo say something nice bout VR, anyone catch Pink Floyd ?

nope they arent on yet

VR were fuckin excellent...fall to pieces was class

[liquidvirus]

OK cool, Post a review of floyd if you catch em.
And how were the scissor sisters ?? I kinda like them

[Axls Locomotive]

yea the scissor sisters were good but not fantastic, and not as over the top as i expected them to be...

overall this has been a fantastic event...i wish i was there...god im even think robbie williams is good

U2 singing "One" was the best performance ive ever seen them play...

of course mariah carey was pish but i dont hold that against her since its for a good cause

[Izzy]

Lol - i watched about an hour then switched it off

I have never seen such boring performances from band after band. Absolutely no energy whatsoever. Aren't they supposed to care about Africa - well that didn't come through on stage....