Live 8!

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Riiiight...on that note I am going to bed...

Good move. Can I chalk this one up as a 'win'?

[Brundlefly]

In Philly, they have added Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, Def Leppard, Toby Keith. Subtracted was P Diddy.

[Brundlefly]

Celebrity presenters at the show in Philly also will include actors Salma Hayek, Natalie Portman, Chris Tucker, Jennifer Connolly, Jimmy Smits and Kami, an HIV-positive Muppet from the South African version of "Sesame Street," organizers said Monday.

After the concert is over at 6, another one begins 6:30 at Penns Landing featuring Reuben Studdard. It's an R&B concert. It ends at 9:30 with a fireworks display over the Delaware River..

[Brundlefly]

The Ben Franklin Parkway - site of Live 8..

[Lawrence of Arabia]

The government's Operation Murambatsvina, or Drive Out Trash,

what a great euphemism.

[Brundlefly]

There is now a 10th venue of Live 8: Red Square in Moscow featuring The Pet Shop Boys...

[Brundlefly]

It's official: the Spice Girls and a newly reformed or re-formed Sex Pistols Band, will be performing at the Hyde Park Live 8.


Full lineup for Toronto (Barrie)

African Guitar Summit
Barenaked Ladies
Blue Rodeo
Bruce Cockburn
Bryan Adams
The Bachman Cummings Band
Deep Purple
DobaCaracol featuring Kna'an
Gordon Lightfoot
Great Big Sea
Jann Arden
Les Trois Accords
Motley Crue
Our Lady Peace
Sam Roberts
Simple Plan
Tegan & Sara
The Tragically Hip
Tom Cochrane

Revised lineups for Paris and Berlin

Palais de Versailles, Paris

Andrea Bocelli
Axelle Red
Calogero
Cerrone / Nile Rogers
Craig David
Cure, The
David Hallyday
Diam's
Dido
Disiz La Peste
Faudel
Florent Pagny
Johnny Hallyday
Kool Shen
Kyo
Louis Bertignac
Muse
Placebo
Renaud
Shakira
Sheryl Crow
Tina Arena
Yannick Noah
Youssou N'Dour

Brandenburg Gate, Berlin

A-ha
Audioslave
Bap
Brian Wilson
Chris de Burgh
Die Toten Hosen
Green Day
Joana Zimmer
Juan Diego Florez
Juli
Katherine Jenkins
Lauryn Hill
Reamonn
Renee Olstead
Roxy Music
Sasha
Silbermond
Soehne Mannheims
Wir Sind Helden

[General Ludd]

Toronto (Barrie)

[Wezil]

The Bachman Cummings Band

Surely this is not how they are being billed?


btw, Add Neil Young to the Barrie lineup.

[Wezil]

Ludd - The gnashing of teeth from Torontonians is hilarious.

[Brundlefly]

Live 8 Bootlegging has already begun

Last Saturday at the Manayunk Arts Festival:

This is how it went:
Among the shirtless cell phone guys, *****y CBS-3 reporters, and Mt. Airy earth mommas strolling down Main St. at the Manayunk Arts fest last Saturday was a guy selling Live 8 t-shirts. To these eyes, they looked about as official as that ARROWSMITH t-shirt I bought from the guy in front of the Broad & Pattison SEPTA stop in 1986. So’s I ax the fella with the goods,`Hey, are those officially sanctioned Live 8 shirts, aimed at raising awareness for the African debt?’
`No,’ he said calmly. Gotta admire his honesty..

Philly: Guardians of the mores of US society..

I still love it here, though..

[Brundlefly]

I know you've all been dying for another update:

Philadelphia's Live 8 lineup is growing.

Russell Simmons, now a producer of Saturday's worldwide consciousness-raiser, today said he'd obtained the rapping services of chart-topper Kanye West, as well as Rita, Ziggy and Stephen Marley, who will lend a reggae edge to Black Eyed Peas' performance. Also, DJ Green Lantern will spin between sets at the Art Museum.

The list of celebrity presenters has grown to include Natalie Portman, Richard Gere, Naomi Watts, Al Sharpton, Chris Tucker, Don Cheadle, Ashley Judd, Jennifer Connelly and Jack Nicholson.

The Live 8 acts will start running through sound checks and camera blocking tomorrow on the stage set up at the Art Museum. Though loudspeakers will be limited to the stage area and sets will be short, a production official says the music will be loud.

A production memo lists Keith Urban going on at 10 a.m., followed at 11 by Sarah McLachlan and Josh Groban, Bon Jovi at 12:15, Rob Thomas at 1:20 p.m., Def Leppard at 2:10 p.m., Toby Keith at 4 p.m., Will Smith at 4:50 p.m., Kanye West at 5:55 p.m., Linkin Park and Jay-Z - now that's a combo - at 7 p.m., and Stevie Wonder at 8:05 p.m.

Saturday - the day of - sound checks are due to begin with Destiny's Child at 7 a.m. Then it's Jars of Clay (7:30), Dave Matthews (8), Alicia Keys (8:30), Kaiser Chiefs (9), and Black Eyed Peas, with the Marleys (9:30). The big show is to start at noon.