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"Live 8 - The Best Bits?"

What are you Live 8 best bits?

I've been watching since Snoop Dogg, but not sure how much I missed before that.

Top of the list is Velvet Revolver. Bough the album today as a spur of the moment thing, hadn't heard a single track off it, but it had been recommended to me.

By their performance tonight, I won't be disappointed - I thought they were amazing.

Second is Joss Stones drummer. A huge black bloke with a funky hat just going for it like mad - and thoroughly enjoying himself by the looks of things - and fair play to him!

Third - The Killers. Can't believe they only did one track but what they did was spot on!

I'm currently downloading their set from one of the fansites. I hope a mega DVD gets released, say with all the English concert on, and all the other good bands that performed around the world. Why the hell were Greenday playing in Berlin?

Memorandum! wrote:
> they were in gay Paris. I watched it on the internet stream.

They got moved along with the Cure...

they were in gay Paris. I watched it on the internet stream.

I thought Muse were playing but didn't see anything about it. :(

No they didn't.

I went out at half six and missed the rest of it. Did they actually bother to show Muse's Paris set? All I saw was about 20seconds of them playing whilst JR and Gervais were commenting that they didnt know who the feck half the bands at the other concerts were.... :@

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Even though I can't be bothered to do any research, I'm sure you'll
> find that people like McCartney, Madonna etc. all give loads of money
> to charity. You don't sit on a £500m fortune and not give a bit
> to people who need it. And Coldplay not doing it out of good
> intentions? Christ, they barely shut up about Make Poverty History
> and all that jazz. Razorlight also. I'm pretty sure there was no
> extravagance backstage, it was all portakabins and portaloos.


From what I've read there was free food and wine laid out for the artists, many were arriving in stretched limo's, and apparently the people who performed at one of the shows (American one I think...?) walked away with 'goodie bags' with seven grands worth of stuff in them... Hardly sounding like a cheap affair...

I thought the parading of that African woman who survived from the first Live Aid video went a bit too far. Good idea, Bob, well done and all that, show what you've done, but when Madonna made her stay on stage during Like A Prayer, she literally looked scared out of her mind.

Annie Lennox was fantastic. My favourite, by far. Dang, I was wishing so badly she would sing Walking On Broken Glass and Don't Let It Bring You Down. :(
Coldplay, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Stereophonics, Scissor Sisters. There were plenty more..
Bob Geldof's song was great. I love it when they pause.

Best song: Bitter Sweet Symphony
Chills AND tears! Richard Ashcroft rules.

Pete Doherty ruined the whole thing.

Even though I can't be bothered to do any research, I'm sure you'll find that people like McCartney, Madonna etc. all give loads of money to charity. You don't sit on a £500m fortune and not give a bit to people who need it. And Coldplay not doing it out of good intentions? Christ, they barely shut up about Make Poverty History and all that jazz. Razorlight also. I'm pretty sure there was no extravagance backstage, it was all portakabins and portaloos.