Live 8- Make Poverty History

[boogieordie]

The money would be given to create an infrastructure for these countries to despense aid to their own people, to educate their people about things like aide, better ways to farm, better ways to take care of their animals to use them to make more money... that's not at all like that "give a fish" thing. It's seriously about creating a way for them to take better care of themselves.

I realize the political pressure/raising awareness part of it all.. but that people are profitting off of the concert and none of that going to charity, is simply bull. Like someone told me today, it's people making large amounts of money under the veil of a charity event.

The number was the number of people that signed the petition to show support for the plan to give aid for Africa.


Also, the G8 is not only about debt relief but also giving money in the form of grants, that's what Blair is pushing for... there is no way that we can be just relieve debt and expect everything to be fine and dandy there.

[Nikki]

It was an amazing show to watch! The line-up in London was great!
Too bad Ayumi didn't participate...

[elaniel]

Do As Infinity were there. They didnt perform much though.

[Hachimitsu]

I haven't seen much of Live8. I was watching a movie I had recorded the night before, so I kind of forgot about the concert.. If I would've known there were going to be Jpop artists I would've watched it, but all I heard about the Tokyo concert was that Björk and Good Charlotte were going to perform.. I guess I should've paid more attention.

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by Lieke

I haven't seen much of Live8. I was watching a movie I had recorded the night before, so I kind of forgot about the concert.. If I would've known there were going to be Jpop artists I would've watched it, but all I heard about the Tokyo concert was that Björk and Good Charlotte were going to perform.. I guess I should've paid more attention.

They only showed a minute of Björk's performance. They mainly showed performances from London and Philadelphia.

[Hachimitsu]

Originally Posted by Nikki

They only showed a minute of Björk's performance. They mainly showed performances from London and Philadelphia.

Really? But did they show the Japanese artists?
I don't understand how they could only show a minute of Björk's performance, when they did show Madonna singing the same line about a hundred times..

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by Lieke

Really? But did they show the Japanese artists?
I don't understand how they could only show a minute of Björk's performance, when they did show Madonna singing the same line about a hundred times..

I know, it was stupid. I haven't seen one single performance from Moscow or Rome and I haven't seen any Japanese artists... They only showed Björk's performance in Tokyo. Furthermore they mainly showed performances from London and Philadelphia.

[Corybobory]

^you could watch them all live on the internet, I dont know if you still can... go to aol music they might still have them.

[LEOyumi]

I only watched to see Madonna as well, but before her performance there was a video.. Very touching. Then there was an african woman at the stage, that was in that video.. She was almost dead and everything, but she was helped and now she's healthy, it was really really nice!

[Hachimitsu]

I don't think it's still working.. Maybe I'll just buy the dvd.

[*hearT_Place*]

When they brought the African girl that had been dying in the documentary out, that was really touching. She was really beautiful! And she looked so happy to be there. It made me glad because she showed that there was hope, but it also made me kind of sad, because how many lives that could grow to be as vibrant as she was are snuffed out unecessarily.

[nmskalmn]

Excerpt:

Japan ticket confusion
By Deborah Cameron
Tokyo
July 4, 2005

The Tokyo concert was added to Live 8 two weeks ago because Geldof wanted to put pressure on Japan, the only Asian member of the G8, to lift its aid to Africa.

As late as the day before the concert, Japanese internet bloggers were saying they had only just heard about the concert and did not know where to get tickets, which were issued in a lottery. A further complication was that the concert started on Saturday afternoon and ended at 8pm, a strange arrangement for Tokyo's night owls.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/...?oneclick=true

[norain]

Oh wow, that's really stupid, just like the same thing Geldof did to the spice girls, but the whole spice girls thing was a publicity stunt for geri's new album

[*hearT_Place*]

wow, talk about last minute. No wonder they didn't have a better lineup

[AyuGAME]

i read it in my newspaper too..
its a concert that held in 8 countries
dreams come true perform in this concert too