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i actually felt like taking the plane over to see it, but the Spice Girls, hope people throw shit at them when they perform.
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| JaggerLips |
Well this is certainly the longest thread I've ever started on this board. Keep it coming and for anyone who pitches up in Hyde Park for it post your experiences here.
I wanted to go but if it's unlikely the Stones are going I'm not going to go.
Could regret saying that, now could be huge, but probably could never eclipse THE Live Aid Concert, shame I was only 2 years old when that went off! |
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| Gazza |
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egon wrote:
the stones might no perform, but guess what....
the spicegirls will reunite for this special event!
No chance
That only gives them 5 weeks to learn how to sing "live" into a microphone
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quote:
egon wrote:
the stones might no perform, but guess what....
the spicegirls will reunite for this special event!
Are you kidding? All 5 of them, together, onstage, at the same time? Christ, I am getting exciting about this already and I already forgot who else is going to be playing there! |
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| blindedbyrainbows |
Philly, London to host mega ‘Live 8’ concert
Twenty years after Philadelphia hosted one of two Live Aid concerts that dramatized the plight of starving Africans, a second big-name benefit is in the works.
It will be July 2 on Ben Franklin Parkway, in the middle of the city's jam-packed Fourth of July festivities, according to Deborah Bolling, Mayor's Street spokeswoman.
A news conference is set for Tuesday at City Hall to announce "Live 8," which would coincide with a show in London, said Laura Perez, the publicist who is handling the news conference.
Perez declined to elaborate yesterday - other than to say that a simultaneous news conference would be held in London with promoters Bob Geldof and Midge Ure. Geldof organized the 1985 Live Aid concert, which attracted 100,000 people to the old JFK Stadium.
Perezwould not divulge the names of performers.
"We'll have all the big names we can find," Ure said at an Ivor Novello awards awards ceremony Thursday.
"Live 8" was so named to dovetail with the G8 summit, an annual economic and political meeting of the world's leading industrialized nations, to be held in Scotland in early July. Geldof, a longtime activist, has said he wants the nation's wealthiest countries to contribute more to impoverished African nations.
For weeks, published reports have mentioned several U.S. cities, including New York and Washington, as hosts for the shows. But it was unknown yesterday how many cities, besides Philadelphia and London, will host Live 8 shows.
It also unknown how the concerts will raise money - through ticket sales, sponsorships of other methods - for the African nations.
The city already is preparing for a July 4 AIDS-relief concert on the Parkway that will headline Elton John, as well as concerts by the Philadelphia Orchestra (July 1 on Penn's Landing), Ruben Studdard and Stephanie Mills (July 2 at Penn's Landing), and salsa performers (July 3 on the Parkway).
"This will really enhance our Fourth of July," Bolling said yesterday, acknowledging that the July 2 Live 8 show would require as-yet-uncalculated overtime pay for city employees. On the other hand, she also said tourists might extend their stays in Philadelphia to attend both the Live 8 and Elton John shows.
Philadelphia impresario Larry Magid, who organized the 1985 Live Aid with Geldof, is believed to be involved with the latest venture. A spokesman for Magid's Electric Factory Concerts had no comment.
It was July 13, 1985, that about 100,000 people poured into the old JFK Stadium, which stood on what is now the site of the Wachovia Center, for Live Aid. A worldwide audience estimated at a billion people saw Mick Jagger, Joan Baez, Madonna and Tina Turner. A companion concert was held at Wembly Stadium in London.
The event raised at least $80 million for African famine relief.
"What started 20 years ago is coming to a political point in a few weeks," Geldof, who has held details closely, told the BBC Thursday. "There's more than a chance that the boys and girls with guitars will finally get to turn the world on its axis."
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| blindedbyrainbows |
Posted on Sun, May. 29, 2005
Phila. to host Live Aid sequel concert
The July 2 show, called "Live 8," will coincide with one in London to help African countries.
By Michael Klein
Inquirer Staff Writer
Twenty years after Philadelphia hosted one of two Live Aid concerts that dramatized the plight of starving Africans, a second big-name benefit is in the works.
It will be July 2 on Ben Franklin Parkway, in the middle of the city's jam-packed Fourth of July festivities, according to Deborah Bolling, Mayor Street's spokeswoman.
A news conference is scheduled for Tuesday morning at City Hall to announce "Live 8," which will coincide with a show in London, said Laura Perez, the publicist who is handling the news conference.
Perez declined to elaborate yesterday - other than to say that a simultaneous news conference would be held in London with promoters Bob Geldof and Midge Ure. Geldof organized the 1985 Live Aid concert, which attracted 100,000 people to the old JFK Stadium.
Perezwould not divulge the names of performers.
"We'll have all the big names we can find," Ure said at an Ivor Novello British music awards ceremony Thursday.
"Live 8" was so named to dovetail with the G-8 summit, an annual economic and political meeting of the world's leading industrialized nations, to be held in Scotland in early July. Geldof, a longtime activist, has said he wants the nation's wealthiest countries to contribute more to impoverished African nations.
For weeks, published reports have mentioned several U.S. cities, including New York and Washington, as hosts for the shows. But it was unknown yesterday how many cities, besides Philadelphia and London, would host Live 8 shows.
It is also unknown how the concerts would raise money - through ticket sales, sponsorships or other methods - for the African nations.
The city already is preparing for a July 4 AIDS-relief concert on the Parkway that will headline Elton John, as well as concerts by the Philadelphia Orchestra (July 1 on Penn's Landing), Ruben Studdard and Stephanie Mills (July 2 at Penn's Landing), and salsa performers (July 3 on the Parkway).
"This will really enhance our Fourth of July," Bolling said yesterday, acknowledging that the Live 8 show on July 2 would require as-yet-uncalculated overtime pay for city employees. On the other hand, she said, tourists might extend their stays in Philadelphia to attend both the Live 8 and Elton John shows.
Philadelphia impresario Larry Magid, who organized the 1985 Live Aid with Geldof, is believed to be involved with the latest venture. A spokesman for Magid's Electric Factory Concerts had no comment.
It was July 13, 1985, that about 100,000 people poured into JFK Stadium, which stood on what is now the site of the Wachovia Center, for Live Aid. A worldwide audience estimated at a billion people saw Mick Jagger, Joan Baez, Madonna and Tina Turner. A companion concert was held at Wembley Stadium in London.
The event raised at least $80 million for African famine relief.
"What started 20 years ago is coming to a political point in a few weeks," Geldof, who has held details closely, told the BBC on Thursday. "There's more than a chance that the boys and girls with guitars will finally get to turn the world on its axis."
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| corgi37 |
And in 20 years, when Africans are still starving, who is gonna organise Live Aid 3?
Oh, yeah, Peaches, FiFi Trixibelle and the other one!
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| Soldatti |
quote:
corgi37 wrote:
And in 20 years, when Africans are still starving, who is gonna organise Live Aid 3?
Bono? |
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| Gazza |
quote:
corgi37 wrote:
And in 20 years, when Africans are still starving, who is gonna organise Live Aid 3?
Oh, yeah, Peaches, FiFi Trixibelle and the other one!
Pixie!
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Bob Geldof to launch Live 8
9.28AM, Tue May 31 2005
Twenty years after the first Live Aid concert, Sir Bob Geldof is set to announce plans later for a second worldwide concert - to be known as Live 8.
He will also call on protesters against poverty to march on the G8 summit.
The concert is believed to be planned for Hyde Park on July 2. The G8 summit takes place July 6-8 at Gleaneagles in Perthshire.
According to rumours, the line up for the London leg of the worldwide concert could include The Rolling Stones, U2, Madonna and Robbie Williams.
Sting and Duran Duran, who played at the original event, have both agreed to take part. Travis frontman Fran Healy is also involved, and Coldplay have been approached.
Geldof believes Live 8 could pressurise the leaders of the world's richest nations into dropping Third World debt.
Speaking at the Ivor Novello Awards last week, he said: "Once more into the breach.
"What started 20 years ago is coming to a political point in a few weeks.
"There is more than a chance that the boys and girls with guitars finally get to tilt the world on its axis."
Geldof insists the concert will not be "Live Aid II".
Midge Ure, who co-wrote the Band Aid hit Do They Know It's Christmas?, revealed some details about the event.
"It's big," he said. "And it's as petrifying as the build-up to Live Aid, if not more so.
"We'll have all the biggest names we can find. But it's not just about big names. It's about making a point."
Meanwhile, The Spice Girls will not perform at the follow-up to to Live Aid because their music does not "fit in" with the event's political theme, it was reported.
The group have been dropped from the line-up because their music is incompatible with the serious political message the event wants to get across, according to a tabloid report.
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| maumau |
"Meanwhile, The Spice Girls will not perform at the follow-up to to Live Aid because their music does not "fit in" with the event's political theme, it was reported."
well if this is true it is a sign of the "openmindedness", tolerance and good sense of those who organize this: that is between involving more people that would be interested in the reunion of a pop group that, think what you want, had a certain kind of success (...) and they're own political/"art" ideas they chose the latter which i think is pretty stupid
also a reason why i would not mind if the glimmers say no
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| maumau |
...well...just took down this from Timesonline.com
Bob Geldof unveils Live 8 line-up
By Simon Freeman, Times Online
Bob Geldof, the rock-star turned anti-poverty campaigner, was today unveiling details of Live 8 - the 20th anniversary follow-up to 1985's Live Aid.
Paul McCartney, Sting, Duran Duran, the Rolling Stones, U2, Oasis, Coldplay, Madonna, Pince and Robbie Williams have all signalled their intention to take part in the event at Hyde Park on July 2.
In what some music fans may perceive as a further filip, the Spice Girls' threatened re-union will not be taking place.
Mr Geldof, who declared "never again" after the global success of the original Live Aid, will today give full details of the concert which is being held just ahead of the G8 summit in Scotland.
Mr Geldof hopes that the pressure from the rock establishment will help to sway the minds of the leaders of the world's richest nations gathered in Gleaneagles into dropping Third World Debt.
There will reportedly be simultaneous events in Washington DC at which the controversial rap star Eminem is reported to be the headline act.
Mr Geldof said: "Once more into the breach. What started 20 years ago is coming to a political point in a few weeks. There is more than a chance that the boys and girls with guitars finally get to tilt the world on its axis.
"What we do in the next five weeks is seriously, properly, historically, politically important."
Midge Ure, the one-time Ultravox singer who co-wrote the Band Aid hit Do They Know It’s Christmas?, said: "It’s big. And it’s as petrifying as the build-up to Live Aid, if not more so.
"We’ll have all the biggest names we can find. But it’s not just about big names. It’s about making a point."
The event is being organised at the last minute, according to the U2 singer Bono - also a noted campaigner on development issues - who is helping to persuade acts to take part
He said: "Geldof has been telling me 'no' for two years [about organising a Live Aid sequel] and only finally agreed to it six weeks ago. Now I have to spend every spare minute hitting the phones to try to drum up support. American stars tend to plan six months ahead, not six weeks. It has been incredibly difficult."
Live Aid, was held on July 13, 1985, at Wembley Stadium, and raised £40 million for famine relief. Almost half of the money was spent immediately on food aid for Ethiopia.
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| maumau |
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2005/05/31/1064687-ap.html
no stones... |
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| Hannalee |
Live 8 concerts: The line-up
The Live 8 concerts are taking place on 2 July in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Philadelphia. These are the musical acts set to perform at the free events.
Hyde Park, London
Mariah Carey
Coldplay
Dido
Keane
Sir Elton John
Annie Lennox
Madonna
Muse
Scissor Sisters
Sir Paul McCartney
Joss Stone
Stereophonics
Sting
Robbie Williams
U2
REM
Velvet Revolver
Bob Geldof
The Killers
The Cure
Snow Patrol
Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Will Smith (host)
Bon Jovi
Maroon 5
P Diddy
Stevie Wonder
Jay-Z
The Dave Matthews Band
Sarah McLachlan
Rob Thomas
Keith Urban
50 Cent
Kaiser Chiefs
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Jamiroquai
Craig David
Youssou N'Dour
Yannick Noah
Andrea Bocelli
Calo Gero
Kyo
Placebo
Axelle Red
Johnny Halliday
Manu Chao
Renaud
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
A-ha
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Brian Wilson
Lauryn Hill
Bap
Die Toten Hosen
Peter Maffay
Circus Maximus, Rome
Duran Duran
Faith Hill
Irene Grandi
Jovanotti
Tim McGraw
Nek
Laura Pasini
Vasco Rossi
Zucchero
I think London's well ahead so far 
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| Gazza |
quote:
maumau wrote:
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2005/05/31/1064687-ap.html
no stones...
no surprise! |
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| Mel Belli |
Actually, this report says the Stones are signed on, but not yet to a particular venue.
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,16658,00.html?eol.tkr |
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| swapwoodfortaylor |
I do hope that they don't get involved with this tacky rubbish. |
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| Moonisup |
quote:
swapwoodfortaylor wrote:
I do hope that they don't get involved with this tacky rubbish.
agreed 100% |
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| Dan |
quote:
Matt Lacroix wrote:
i actually felt like taking the plane over to see it, but the Spice Girls, hope people throw shit at them when they perform.
You're a dick. You don't deserve a free concert. |
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