Live 8 as it happens....

Dinner · 02-07-2005 11:14pm

Brilliant.

RVN10 · 02-07-2005 11:16pm

Excellent im lost for words

gandalf · 02-07-2005 11:18pm

I am nearly crying here, Comfortably Numb is one of my all time favourite songs !!!!!

Thank you Bob Geldof for allowing me to experience this !!!

RVN10 · 02-07-2005 11:19pm

Bob geldolf is the man i applaud him

KdjaCL · 02-07-2005 11:20pm

Superb

Better do a tour , tbh would have paid to see them.

kdjac

MisterAnarchy · 02-07-2005 11:20pm

I never was a Pink Floyd fan and to be honest I am not impressed with them tonight.
Cant see the attraction.
Talented musicians but poor song writers.
The Who were good though

RVN10 · 02-07-2005 11:21pm

Wasnt a fan either i must say but hey they are gr8

zokrez · 02-07-2005 11:22pm

Were U2 playing a gig tonite ? Is that why they were 2nd up ?

MisterAnarchy · 02-07-2005 11:23pm

U2 are playing Vienna tonight.

RVN10 · 02-07-2005 11:23pm

Ya their tour , its nearly over quite an experience

deckie27 · 02-07-2005 11:26pm

man they were amazing

RVN10 · 02-07-2005 11:27pm

they certainly were

Giblet · 02-07-2005 11:28pm

Wow!

RVN10 · 02-07-2005 11:28pm

Outstanding

Dinner · 02-07-2005 11:29pm

The whole thing was pretty good from Angels on. Especially The Who and Pink Floyd.

I still cant help wishing that Freddie was there.

EDIT: Also Fern is something else altogher. Whats her surname. Briton or something?

RVN10 · 02-07-2005 11:30pm

Best concert ever

deckie27 · 02-07-2005 11:35pm

watching repeat on rte2

Dinner · 02-07-2005 11:36pm

Aha. Here comes Macca again.

Giblet · 02-07-2005 11:45pm

Arabel wrote:

The whole thing was pretty good from Angels on. Especially The Who and Pink Floyd.

I still cant help wishing that Freddie was there.

EDIT: Also Fern is something else altogher. Whats her surname. Briton or something?

Fearne Cotton

Dinner · 03-07-2005 12:13am

Excellant.

baby*cham*bell · 03-07-2005 12:34am

Zeppie wrote:

Wow ...wud love to see Slash! Was only 11 then tho :rolleyes:

oooooooo the jealousy

i was only 5 then! slash is just..........................mezmirising (can't think of a better word!)

RasTa · 03-07-2005 1:08am

gandalf wrote:

I am nearly crying here, Comfortably Numb is one of my all time favourite songs !!!!!

Thank you Bob Geldof for allowing me to experience this !!!

Exact same way I felt, oh god let them do a tour again.
How perfect did it sound !

Kazaanova · 03-07-2005 1:45am

Mariah Carey did so much damage, who ever decided to get her should be hung in public.

It was an outstanding event, brilliant all round, but it lagged so much and ruined the live atomosphere momentum that was build up towards the end by having Mariah Carey do her soppy ****ing love songs. Plus Peter Kay didnt help either. It could of been streamlined a lot better, and then it would of had a much better impact. I know they wanted to please everyone, but really, come on, who the **** goes to Live 8 to see Mariah ****ing Carey play? There were a few others who put a damper on it too, still though, great event.

krattapopov · 03-07-2005 1:45am

maroon 5 went up in my opinon with a great version of rockin in the free world

LundiMardi · 03-07-2005 6:33am

MisterAnarchy wrote:

I never was a Pink Floyd fan and to be honest I am not impressed with them tonight.
Cant see the attraction.
Talented musicians but poor song writers.

Poor songwriters? ha ha, that is literally the funniest thing i have ever heard. Pink Floyd have written some of the most amazing songs in history, FACT.

Now be gone.

PLEASE TOUR, PLEASE!!!!!!!!

shuushh · 03-07-2005 11:35am

I never was a Pink Floyd fan and to be honest I am not impressed with them tonight.
Cant see the attraction.
Talented musicians but poor song writers.

im all for people having opinions and all but please just shutup

didnt see pink floyd performing im sure theres a video floating about on the net somewhere

Crucifix · 03-07-2005 12:07pm

I missed it last night, but I taped a good chunk of it. After some frantic rewinding and fast-forwarding I found the bit with Pink Floyd and oh my god. They were fantastic. Really fantastic. The solo of Comfortably Numb had to be the highlight of the concert.

As for song writing, it's an abstract concept, but I maintain that the bit in comfortably numb that goes "There'll be no more 'aahhh' " is a master-stroke of song writing.

gary the great · 03-07-2005 1:18pm

i must say Placebo were the best for me, really good especially with the build up and anticipation before they came on due to all the fans shouting "placebo" all day. Brian Molko was on fire.
There so big in france the, the french just cant get enough of them!

DublinWriter · 03-07-2005 1:36pm

Kazaanova wrote:

Mariah Carey did so much damage, who ever decided to get her should be hung in public.

Yeah, like Pink Floyd, it was nice to see her get back together for the event.

Highlights for me were The Who and Pink Floyd.

I was 15 when Live Aid first happened, and believe me, it wasn't a patch on the Live8 show in terms of the music. The Who were attrocious at Live Aid, and I think that was the reason they totally rocked last night. Led Zep were so bad that they've prevented any footage of their set ever being shown publically.

I've just one small critism of what was a very, very good show, and that was the weakness of some of the links, in particular Ricky Gervais and Peter Kaye. I initially thought the whole thing with Gervais slagging off the sound man was a sketch.

I don't think they used the 'revolving stage' concept of the original Live Aid, so band set-ups took much longer.

However, I wouldn't expect the reformed Pink Floyd to tour any day soon - the body language of Gilmour and Waters was obvious with the two not even making eye-contact. It was good to see that Nick Mason can still actually play the drums and not depend on a live back-up drummer. It was also great to see Wright playing keyboards with them - his contribution has always been overlooked.

mike65 · 03-07-2005 1:41pm

Anyone spot Pete Townshends tremolo arm give up the ghost during Who Are You? Quick guitar change at end of song!

Also Tessa Jowell who's the Cutlure minister was threatening to pull the plug at 10 pm, citing crowd problems if things dragged on too long. She'd proberly seen Carey and decided the show could end.

Mike.

Blisterman · 03-07-2005 2:54pm

I was at the Hyde Park concert last night.
I gotta say, for anyone who thinks the atmosphere was crap, the reason was, all the TV showed was the private VIP area, which was full of reporters and stuff. Further back, the crowd was more into it, even the songs from the other concerts on the screens.
Some bands didn't get much of a response though , like Ms Dynamite (who I think was only there because, she's Black) and unfortunatly, Velvet Revolver, who were one of the acts, I most wanted to see.
Mariah Carey got Booed, after she started being a Diva, and shouting at the stage hands, so she deserved it.
As soon as the Who came on, the crowd were into it again for the rest of the show.
Peter Kay Sucked. I don't know why he was there.

Hopefully they'll release it one DVD, like they did the last one.

weemcd · 03-07-2005 3:44pm

my favourite were

but seriously tho, really not, he sucks balls.

Velvet Revolver were good, i also enjoyed the stereophonics and thought U2 and Paul McCartney was a very good way to start the show.

Anyone else think pete doherty is a total bollix?

DublinWriter · 03-07-2005 4:02pm

Blisterman wrote:

Velvet Revolver, who were one of the acts, I most wanted to see.

I saw them and thought WTF? At least we now know what happened to Slash.

They sucked, or maybe I'm just getting old. Mind you, the singer did say that he was 17 when Live Aid happened, which makes him 37, two years older than me!

BrianD3 · 03-07-2005 4:53pm

Have to say I was really impressed by yesterday even though I was cynical beforehand and thought it wouldn't live up to the hype.

Stayed up till around 4 am watching the full BBC broadcast. Even though I wouldn't be into a lot of the music, I thought most of the performances were great. It was also a great show and a great feat of organisation. It made the Live Aid event seem small and quaint and shambolic. Remember all the technical hitches and gaffes at Live Aid - power cuts, Simon Le Bon's squeak, Sting forgetting his lines, no sound for McCartney and Geldof, poor performances, poor sound etc.

Still I suppose it's not fair to compare the two, things have moved on a lot in 20 years and I'm sure the experience of setting up Live Aid really stood to Geldof and co. for organising Live 8.

I'd say there were a lot of DVD and video recorders in action yestersday

Got the full BBC broadcast on 4 VHS tapes myself. Didn't see much of the RTE coverage but from what I saw it was patchy and not live.

Johnny Storm · 03-07-2005 5:58pm

DublinWriter wrote:

.......However, I wouldn't expect the reformed Pink Floyd to tour any day soon - the body language of Gilmour and Waters was obvious with the two not even making eye-contact. It was good to see that Nick Mason can still actually play the drums and not depend on a live back-up drummer. It was also great to see Wright playing keyboards with them - his contribution has always been overlooked.

It seemed like that to me too. When Waters said something about being so emotional to be on stage with his 3 old friends Gilmour did'nt even look over at him as far as I could see.
Dave's guitar sound was pretty amazing though ... and I'd like to thank Pete Townsend for his efforts on behalf of middle-aged air-guitar-playing Dads everywhere.

mike65 · 03-07-2005 6:13pm

I would'nt read too much into body language, the Floyd were never touchy feely with each other at any time. They are/were a working band not a bunch of school mates, for Waters to have got that emotional was a suprise for me.

Mike.

flangeman · 03-07-2005 8:58pm

I was there meself (2 heads from Ardee representing!!)

)

Twas feckin great, Annie Lennox did a powerful slot and I was so surprised at The Who and Pink Floyd, I thought the crowd wouldn't have gotten into them but everybody was going mad. Snow Patrol played a blinder, the killers only did one song and the crowd really got into Bob doing his number (which wasn't a bad thing after all).

People were laughing at Mariah Carey alright though what a cow, Madge did well with the last slot and I was even impressed by the fresh prince and Jazzy jeff

The feeds from other countries was great on the day, old school Jovi, Roxy Music etc... very surprising how entertained they actually were.

But seeing a beatle, Paul McCartney was fantastic, I can't say I enjoyed Velvet Revolver but it was funny to see and hear Slash do a few words about the day.

I wondered about Mariah Carey, were they all new songs she did? instead of crowd pleasers? coz then she was just using the gig for publicity reasons.

The organization on the day was fantastic, all the big screens (although the 'delay' was a bit off putting, you would think they would improve the technology to reduce it, same at every big gig though), lots of food wagons and the crowd were well into it. I thought the non-drink thing was very important because they were lots of kids about and it was about the 'spirit and message' of the day.

Jez, I hated dido (for people who don't listen to music) and Joss Stone.

Feckin odd seeing Brad Pitt and Bill Gates on stage though, bit sureall.

dimerocks · 04-07-2005 12:37am

i am just home from it now.man it rocks talking irish in london when people have no idea whats going on!!the gig was ****ing **** hot, really really moving at times and pure rock at others.it was brilliant.and all the ****e was genereally over early too.well just keane and razorlight.

LundiMardi · 04-07-2005 6:33am

flangeman wrote:

The organization on the day was fantastic, all the big screens (although the 'delay' was a bit off putting, you would think they would improve the technology to reduce it, same at every big gig though),

Erm, i don't really see how they can come up with technology to break the laws of physics:D Light travels faster than sound ya know

carpothepunk · 04-07-2005 11:50am

oi flange i didnt know u were from ardee me too,what part,south central?haha

gandalf · 04-07-2005 1:41pm

Interesting article on the egos involved here.

flangeman · 04-07-2005 5:03pm

LundiMardi wrote:

Erm, i don't really see how they can come up with technology to break the laws of physics:D Light travels faster than sound ya know

LundiMardi you plinker, the images on the screen are a quarter second behind the actual amplified sound, so everybody looks like they are lipsyncing

tut its because of latency and everything is now digital which adds a lag when broadcasted locally to the screens. But as tech gets better I'm sure it will improve but never be spot on.

Or am I wrong people??

flangeman · 04-07-2005 5:05pm

carpothepunk wrote:

oi flange i didnt know u were from ardee me too,what part,south central?haha

Born and bred my lad.

Now in the Prodie city of London, Originally from Cappocks Green then Cornmill and yourself?

carpothepunk · 04-07-2005 5:41pm

beside college park cappocks green??right beside ya,im in irish street,beside bar indigo,capital of muldoontown

gandalf · 04-07-2005 11:00pm

You chaps are aware theres a London Beers on soon, check the events board out

mike65 · 04-07-2005 11:11pm

from mirror

1 Pink Floyd - Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd - 1343%

2 The Who - Then and Now - 863%

3 Annie Lennox - Eurythmics Greatest Hits - 500%

4 Dido - Life For Rent - 412%

5 Razorlight - Up All Night - 335%

6 Robbie Williams - Greatest Hits - 320%

7 Joss Stone - Mind, Body and Soul - 309%

8 Sting - The Very Best of Sting & The Police - 300%

9 Travis - Singles - 268%

10 Madonna - Immaculate Collection - 200%

11 Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters - 174%

12 Mariah Carey - Greatest Hits - 170%

13 Snoop Dogg - Rhythm & Gangsta - 166%

14 The Killers - Hot Fuss - 131%

15 U2 - Best of: 1990-2000 - 116%

16 Elton John - Greatest Hits: 1970-2002 - 111%

17 Keane - Hopes and Fears - 101%

18 The Beatles - 1 - 71%

19 Snow Patrol - Final Straw - 69%

20 REM - Reveal - 50%

21 Stereophonics - Language Sex Violence Other? - 36%

22 Coldplay - X&Y - 3%

23 The Libertines - Up The Bracket - - (minus) 35%

Mike.

Sandals · 04-07-2005 11:22pm

mike65 wrote:

from mirror

Mike.

Poor poor Pete Doherty!

goldenbrown · 05-07-2005 11:04am

relieved to see others appreciated pink floyd, 'wish you were here' and 'comfortably numb' sounded great and I think the floyd were pretty moved themselves - on a personal note I am still much impressed by their performance it could be an age thing :cool:

LundiMardi · 05-07-2005 12:25pm

mike65 wrote:

from mirror

Mike.

Pink Floyd also said they're going to give all the profits from the album sales to charity. They don't want to make any money off Live 8. I wonder if any of the other acts will be doing that.

Live 8 as it happens....

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