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Topic: Live 8 from space
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paul prendergast
Member Posts: 360
From: crawley west sussex UK
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted July 01, 2005 04:31 AM
   
Just read one of the newspapers in the UK, one of the astronauts aboard the ISS will be introducing some of the acts for the concert in Hyde Park in London.
I hope it will be better than the concert, the cosmonauts name is Sergei Krikallev, he will introduce Elton John.
Paul |
John K. Rochester
Member Posts: 1238
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted July 01, 2005 11:54 AM
Hope it will be better than the concert!!??
I WISH we had the lineup here that you guys have!! Pink Floyd with Roger Waters.. THATS what I want to hear!! We're stuck with ..I don't know..Flock of Seagulls maybe!!Enjoy the show.. |
CJC
Member Posts: 95
From: Ireland
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted July 02, 2005 07:32 AM
Elton John?He's actually doing a concert in Dublin tonight. Is he onstage in London after the live 8 event kicks off? CJC |
paul prendergast
Member Posts: 360
From: crawley west sussex UK
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted July 02, 2005 11:52 AM
He was one of the first on stage he sung Saturday night is alright for fighting The bitch is back and children of the revolution. so i hope he is going to be better than he was in the concertPaul |
Philip
Member Posts: 3688
From: Brussels, BELGIUM
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted July 02, 2005 01:22 PM
Live 8 (LiveAid) Best moment was when Bob GELDHOF showed a 20-year old photo of a starving girl who was actually saved and appeared on stage as a beautiful and strong young woman ... it was so silent for a moment in LONDON !
:-O |
Dan Lorraine
Member Posts: 309
From: Cranston, R.I.
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted July 02, 2005 02:53 PM
Phillip,
You are so right ... I don't know how anyone with a heart couldn't have a tear in their eye!
Dan |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 490
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted July 02, 2005 03:48 PM
Hi there,
Yes, great stuff - the footage of Ethiopia to the Cars soundtrack moved you again after 20 years.
Scissor Sisters were great, disappointed The Killers only got to do one number!! Steve |
John K. Rochester
Member Posts: 1238
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted July 02, 2005 06:03 PM
What a great show, and what an urgent cause..we can only hope the G8 can come up with a better plan to fight the injustice of poverty not only in Africa, but throughout the world. ( And, yes..I thought the reunion of Pink Floyd was terrific.. Please tour again!!) |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 490
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted July 02, 2005 06:31 PM
Hi John,I thought the Floyd were great too - they havent played together for 24 years apparently!! As part of a cultural exchange  I saw our local band the Kaiser Chiefs whooping it up in Philly ! Steve |
paul prendergast
Member Posts: 360
From: crawley west sussex UK
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted July 03, 2005 10:50 AM
Best part of the show for me was The Who and Pink Floyd you can not better that. |
gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 1981
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted July 03, 2005 12:43 PM
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Originally posted by paul prendergast:Best part of the show for me was The Who and Pink Floyd you can not better that.
EXACTLY.
Who will remember Travis/Coldplay and the other M.O.R. acts in 20+ years? Paul |
paul prendergast
Member Posts: 360
From: crawley west sussex UK
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted July 03, 2005 12:51 PM
Not me that is for sure, i had a couple of people that i know working behind the scenes they said the older bands signed autographs posed for photos, but bands like the ones that you have mentioned wanted extras. this included champers and certain foods.
Paul |
Glint
Member Posts: 481
From: New Windsor, Maryland USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted July 05, 2005 03:14 PM
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Originally posted by John K. Rochester:
What a great show, and what an urgent cause..we can only hope the G8 can come up with a better plan to fight the injustice of poverty not only in Africa, but throughout the world.
Devil's in the details all right. As Wesley Pruden recently wrote, "Live 8 concerts are nice, and the photographs of starving children will break the coldest heart, but unless Europe and the West accompany aid with the kind of supervision nobody has the courage to impose, the aid will wind up in the usual Swiss banks, and 20 years from now another generation of children will die while naive hearts bleed."
Slaking a thirst with a fire hose
[This message has been edited by Glint (edited July 05, 2005).] |
issman1
Member Posts: 169
From: UK
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted July 06, 2005 07:01 AM
I watched the Hyde Park Live8 concert but cannot recall ever seeing the ISS crew.
Having said that, Sting was excellent with his re-working of "I'll Be Watching You" against a video backdrop of those G8 leaders. I also thought Mariah carey looked lovely. |
gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 1981
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted July 06, 2005 07:56 AM
The Wash Post needs to do its homework:"Tony Blair's No. 2 man, George Brown"
Let's make that "Gordon Brown". Amid all this pop-star back-slapping, self-congratulation and new album promotion, NO-ONE seems to care that the dictator Mugabe is slaughtering and starving his own people in Zimbabwe. I wonder why "regime-change" isn't on the agenda for the Western powers. Paul |
Glint
Member Posts: 481
From: New Windsor, Maryland USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted July 06, 2005 08:40 AM
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Originally posted by gliderpilotuk:
NO-ONE seems to care that the dictator Mugabe is slaughtering and starving his own people in Zimbabwe. I wonder why "regime-change" isn't on the agenda for the Western powers.Paul
The U.N. has taken action in that regard. Last I heard they had appointed an envoy (Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka) and dispatched her to Zimbabwe. Surely Mugabe will crumple under such intense pressure.  Or maybe not. |
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