WOW.

only an hour or so of the 8 hour broadcast of the live 8 concerts all over the world have been shown here and it's already been absolutely amazing.

richard ashcroft and coldplay playing bittersweet symphony!?! AHH that was so freaking awesome.

it's a great cause. i already have the banner for makepovertyhistory.com which is tied in with the live 8 cause, and my mom said i can order a bracelet for it.

if you don't know why the live 8 concerts are going on, it's to ensure that the leaders of the better-off countries who in a few days are going to discuss how much money will be given to the cause will make their money count and give as much as they can to help.

some acts that are involved are:
coldplay
paul mccartney
u2
the who
pink floyd
kanye west
destiny's child
alicia keys
mariah carey
audioslave
jay-z
the killers
dave matthews band
good charlotte
justin timberlake
madonna
motely crue
rob thomas
lauryn hill
sarah mclachlan
kaiser chiefs
and many many more.

there are 9 stages throughout the world in america, the UK, canda, japan, south africa, france, germany, italy, and russia.

discuss!

I love it!! it's amazing...i saw u2!! i love them

My dad is watching it.
It's pretty awesome so far.

u2 just finished. aw it's cute.

Dude, that duet with Coldplay and Richard Ashcroft was fantastic. I like how Coldplay added their little touches without taking away from the Verve-ness of the song. Kanye was really good too. I never knew he had such great stage presence.

I have the makepovertyhistory band on my xanga too, but I really want the ONE bracelet. It says they sell them at the Body Shop stores in the UK, but I wonder if they sell them at the ones in the US. Eh, I can always order the 10-pack online.

The whole concept of Live 8 is awesome. While Live Aid was great, I dunno, something about this time around seems like it's better than the other.

Edit: OMG, I love "Like A Prayer!!!"

Madonna is doing a GREAT job! I'm surprised.Wow!

Yea, it's OK, but I prefer to be at it than watchin it on tv.

What sucks about Live 8 is that it is only to raise awareness...not MONEY. The previous Live Aid raised millions of dollars for the cause, but Live 8 only raises awareness? Like starving children in Africa can get food on awareness. And the celebrities get gift baskets? Come on, what is the use of awareness only?

Very true.
Anywho, I'll be watching the whole thing on tv soon. (;

PINK FLOYD! WOOT! They got back together for it. Kick butt groups. woot.

But it's true. Awareness does nothing. Money is something they need. People might send money if they knew it was going to the kids, not the people who are head of it buying these million dollars homes and cars. Eh. Warped soceity.

I agree with rockstermonkey though. Awareness won't make the children in Africa stop dying. What's the point of snapping your fingers with Will Smith? A child is dying every three seconds and we're wooping it up in Philly, Berlin, London, Paris, Toronto, and Rome. Do most of the people at these concerts really care?

They've already raised over 14 million dollars.People hear what's going on and they contribute money.

I've been watching it since it started earlier.

I'm watching it right now and it's really great! Right now it's Green Day!

watching it now. its awesome. everyone's performances were amazing imo. lp jz was hella tight as usual, and i dun even wana start on the U2 performance

Im watching it now and Linkin Park and Jay-z was so spectacular. They killed it.

they're all there to pressure those in charge of the G8 countries to give more aid. and the bracelets etc. , all that stuff dealing with live 8, goes towards africa.

they cut off the killers :[

i wish i was in london right now...

yeah i wish i was at one of those concerts...its so amazing and its for such a great cause. we discussed it in my christian ed. class in june. (i go to a catholic school)

my friend amy is there, in hyde park, right now

for the record there are 10 stages, two in britain.

i've been watching it live all day. this is f**king amazing.

oh and sammi, the killers only played one song, so you didnt miss that much if it helps

Yeah! I've been watching it since early today. It's awesomee

Holy effing crap, Jay-Z and Linkin Park were off the meter! Fantastic performance.

To those who think awareness means nothing: Education is the first step into creating a solution.

^^

exactly.

if the whole world shouts the same message loud enough, then 8 men will have to hear us.

wear a white bracelet with PRIDE

yea they cut off the killers..that's stupid.

but the who's on right now!!!!!! GAH i wanna be in london dammit..

and james, edinburgh isn't today. there's only 9 stages..

edinburgh is june 6th

tokyo
moscow
rome
berlin
france
johannesburg
canada
philly
london
and cornwall (which is the one you forgot)

ten

= )

they don't even have cornwall on the official live8 site. you sure they're for live 8?..

and..edinburgh..is july 6..not june.....

yep. their is a concert at the eden project. there are very few people there, maybe about 2000 from what i saw when they played a bit.... dido and yousse ndou;fkshsa (who's name i can SAY, but couldnt begin to write down) have played, as well as several other african artists

and yes. july. damn the j months

DAMNIT! i have gone all day and hadn't even heard about this!!

i'm watching it now! i hope i didn't miss all of the good performances.

it isnt a fund raiser that gets the public to donate. live8 is using this concert to get people together and teach them about poverty and enfluencing people to support the countries in poverty. so the governments from wealthier countries (us, japan, UK, etc.) will cancel the debt that countries such as africa has and give more money towards farming, landscaping, etc.


so basically this is about making our governments give more money to those countries in need. rather than using the money to create more weapons for warfare.

pink floyd's on. oooh.

whoa they're doing pretty awesome considering they haven't performed together for a while.

Holy crap, Pink Floyd sounds soooooooooooo good! And they haven't played together in freaking ages! God, this has been a great day for music.

i consider a while a couple of years..
not 24. lol

i think it's amazing they're having this concert!!it rocks
and plus they're doing a good deed!! and they're having like music from the old days and present too!

It's just a mystery on how stevie wonder does everything he does while being blind. Wow. He's always been great.Awww Rob Thomas is doing a duet with him.It's so cute.

PINK FLOYD REUNION

MAN.
Pink Floyd was frickin' awesome.
I just sat in awe, watching.

I am pretty sure that Jacques Chirac isn't thinking "ooh! we need to end poverty now!". I think that he is happy that Pink Floyd is reuniting. Do the people who bought the tickets to the show want to know how to end poverty? More likely they just want to see all their favorite bands perform. If lesser known bands came together and played to educate people about poverty, no one would care.

^ It was a free concert...

And you've just named the reason why they used such big names. If a celeb can use their fame to educate people and potentially save many lives, then Live 8 met its purpose.

thank you... someone gets it..

You'd be suprized how much some people care! And the people who don't are probally superficial, like people who DO EVERYTHING CELEBRITIES DO! So if the celebrities care about poverty, all those people will because the celebrities do. The same concept was applied to Vote or Die.

^ It's not like Vote or Die worked that well either. The number of overall voters went up, but the number of young voters (people that the Vote or Die campaign aimed at), stayed the same.

And you blame people for trying why? And actually this is better, because all it's asking you to do is go on www.one.org and sign your name. It's not asking to go out and do something, or to give money.

^Unless there is something I'm missing here, signing something doesn't feed the starving people...
I mean, they said that there was like 600,000 people in Philadelphia, if they charged people just like $1 to get in, that's $600,000 right there.

ahhh! i only saw the last 15 minutes of it because i was out all day and didn't even know that it was on is it on every day? or just today?

I get what your saying, but this is to raise awareness, maybe make other countries rethink africa's debts, and help out by giving money.

goddamn the man i missed it cause i was away..

People contributed a lot of money since they found out about the cause.
Towards the middle of it, they already had a little over 14million dollars.No joke.

does anyone know if today is the only day that it is?

I went to it today, in Philadelphia. I'm shocked. The music and the cause is just sooo amazing. I'm.. I can't even describe it.

edit.

It's just today, for who asked.


I saw Kanye live, and I'm so amazed. I saw BEP, DC, and Bon Jovi, too. (I was getting oxygen forced into me during Will Smith). I saw LP and Jay-Z on tv and they looked great, I wish I could've stayed.

Damnnnn, I'm just still in awe. This is a great cause.

the point wasn't to raise money they point was to raise awareness to get the G8 to drop all debts for Africa and help provide better aide.

believe me, public pressure works. i mean when congress was going to cut basically all of the funding to public braodcasting (PBS and NPR) millions of people signed an online petition that was sent to congressmen and they decided to not cut their funds. perfect example of how proper online petitions can make a huge difference.