Pink Floyd were awesome, the best today by far. Wish you were here they did expertly and, wow, that was good.
I wish they closed it rather than Macca.
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Pink Floyd were awesome, the best today by far. Wish you were here they did expertly and, wow, that was good.
I wish they closed it rather than Macca.
Pink Floyd....not the best act on the roster at Live 8. only know one of their songs, not interested in anything they played, i prefer scissor sisters version of comfortably numb as well.
No idea why all of you guys think they are gods gift...there has been and still are bands that are much better than them(QUEEN...)
Bah!!!
Listening to Breathe now... Awesome. Awesome.... ~D
I have come over all dizzy and I think I am going to be sick.... Oh dear that version is poor. :help:Quote:
i prefer scissor sisters version of comfortably numb as well.
perhaps it is because they released four of the most influential albums ever (Dark Side, Animals, Wish You Were Here, The Wall)Quote:
No idea why all of you guys think they are gods gift
and its not just us, try this Best Bands Ever
or this Rate Your Music
or this Wanderlist
Who are the Scissor Sisters? sounds like a daytime homemaker talk show
ichi :bow:
i allways hated the beatles with a passion so sir paul whatever didn´t impress me...either....
the who were good and so were pink floyd.....it wasn´t THAT good as some people are saying, but hey the joy of seeing them play for the first time in 20+ years is bound to do that to the fans..
as for the best performance i´ll go with Sting.
Pink Floyd was amazing. I think it had to do with the fact that I listened to it on the radio, without any annoying talking heads.
I only got to saw a stupid clip show of only a few decent clips: U2, Floyd, Who and Dave Matthews. McCartney was ok, but from what I saw of Hey Jude, it was disapointing.
Oh, and there was only one African, that I could tell in the preformances: Dave Matthews, who is from South Africa.
I wish Clapton, Bruce and some other regulars of this sort of thing had been able to come. I had hoped to see Neil Young, but I know he's very shy around the camera...
Pink Floyd was awsome! Best act in London, although Madonna was good too and Robbie Williams managed to make the security guards spaz out, so one up for him too.
Whilst flicking through them all I also got to see Beyonce or whoever discretely pulling down her stupidly short skirt at every opportunity. Someone didn't realise the cameramen were almost directly beneath her!
Pink Floyd live. Yay!
So..did anyone get to see Neil Young? I haven't managed to...seems they were completely ignoring the Canadian show. hmmm...anyone got any useful links to files or suchlike?
GAH! Velvet Revolver were totally awesome, the kicked the place roundly in the ass after that boring cow Joss 'I Can't Believe It's Not Soul Music' Stone, and the audience is stood around like they didn't even wanna be there! WTF? The best act by that point had been Paul McCartney and U2 right at the start, but VR blew them outta the water!
And then later The Who come on (Peter Kay was hilarious introducing them and doing the Amarillo singalong - "Hmm... What shall we sing?" ~D ) and do 'Who Are You' fantastically, and then 'Won't Get Fooled again' even better. Rock 'n' Rolling at 60 years old?! Too bloody right!
But it was Floyd's night. The audience didn't understand, but by god they were brilliant. Amazing. Superb. Add a thousand more superlatives, cuz they were just that great.
And the final singalong had even my ultra-cynical fmaily going "La-la, lalalalaaaa... lalalalaaaa..." - fantastic.
Oh, and there was only one African, that I could tell in the preformances:
Did you miss Akim El Sikameya , Angelique Kidjo , Ayub Ogada , Bayete , Chartwell Dutiro , Coco Mbassi , Daara J , Geoffrey Oreyama , Jabu Khanyile , Lindiwe , Lucky Dube , Mahotella Queens , Malaika , Maryam Mursal , Modou Diouf , Orchestra Baobab , Oumo Sangare , Pascal Obispo ,Shikasha , Siyaya , Thomas Mafumo , Tinariwen or Zola ?
Or would you like to see bigger list of African bands who played ? There are a few more ~:cheers:
that is because the Canadian show, for the most part, was abysmally badQuote:
Originally Posted by jimmyM
worst i saw, was two French girls pretending to be African whilst banging on bongo drums and constantly letting out hideous fake yodels akin to Xena Warrior Princess
it was shamefully embarrassing. seriously. you are better off for having missed that crap! ~D
about the 15 minutes thing: on the Canadian show the interviewer was interviewing Deep Purple after their set (one of the few good acts Canada had) and he said to them: "sounds like the crowd is screaming loudly for an encore, are you guys up for it?" then the Deep Purple guy said: "they already took our gear down. and besides, this is not about us."
so it seems even the interviewers didn't know about the whole behind the scenes scam of only giving the good bands 15 minutes
those aforementioned bongo girls sure seemed to take a lot longer than 15 minutes though. it seems they were on for an endless, agonizing eternity. ~:grouphug:
I heard Neil Young playing Rockin in the Free World on Q 104.3 But they played all the Who songs, and all of Floyd, yet only one of Neil, and I think it was an ending sing along song, because the sound was off from too many extra mikes...
Did he play any other songs do you know Nav? I wonder if he alloyed them to video tape him... He didn't allow it at Woodstock, and numerous other things, but he has done Saterday Night Live, so mabye he did let them tape him...
I did get very sad at seeing Natalie Portman looking like a skin head... :embarassed:
Tribesman, I didn't know. I only got to see the (abysmal) clip show that focused on almost all popular people that I don't like. The American show looked horrible, with only Dave Matthews being decent from what I saw. But thanks for letting me know that at least some bands were from Africa. :bow:
I was one of the lucky few that actually attended live8 last night, with my sister whom had won the lottery ticket and decided to take me (luckily for me her boyfriend had dumped her a month previous, but enough of that ~D )
Anyyyyway, i was EXTREMELY disappointed when i found out we were not able to be right by the stage. My sister and i queued for 4 hours before they opened the doors just to get a good view, and then we find out about this "Golden Circle" where celebs, and a bunch of rich ponces like Paris bloody Hilton had paid £600 a ticket (So much for the NON commercial gain) so they could stand there and look bloody idle and pathetic for millions of people around the world. We managed to get as far as we were allowed, which was a fence just before the golden circle, just in front of the second speaker crane on the right hand side if your intrested.
At this point it was becoming pretty packed, and we could not move for the loo or refreshments, which my sister was a bit bothered about but i didn't care as all i wanted to do was see the great names on show. I thought the show was marvelous, and i enjoyed every performance, especially REM, Stereophonics, U2, robbie, and pink floyd. Unfortunately at the end we had to leave before the final few sets as the show was running tremendously late, and our train was leaving from London Bridge at 12:10. So we practically did a Linford Christie down Oxford Street, which considering we had stood up since 9am to 11pm and not sat down once or even had anything to eat (apart from a sweaty zinger burger from KFC), i think we did ok!!
All in all though, a great day! Very tiring but well worth the effort! Ill write more later if anyone wants to know more, but i've just got back home off the train and i some need serious R n R!
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I'm glad you got to make it! And I'd like some more info, if you can get a chance later. Who is this Robbie guy? Never heard of him...
This is a good thing. Trust me on that.Quote:
Originally Posted by S.teppe Merc
very very nice, well playedQuote:
Originally Posted by Divine Wind
ichi :bow:
believe me, on this he is rightQuote:
Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
Sounds like a 'life event' there DW...
(I had 2 musically speaking...one was when I slept in Joe Strummers bed....(I did post it) and the other...(which strangley was before)..was when I saw the Sex Pistols. Buzzcocks and Slaughter and the Dogs at the Lesser Free Trade hall in 1976)
Trust me...times like this will live with you forever.
Edited out due to legal concerns
Pink floyd torrent, for those interested.
I've just began my transfer now, and i'll let you know what it's like when it's finished.
I'm not sure how that link fits with our piracy policy-I'll check with my superiors.
Edit-No, it's not I'm afraid. Still, I'm sure anyone who wants it can PM Cygnus.
Sure, i'm happy with that. The link wasn't any good anyway, and now i've procured an .avi version ~;)
The Band Aid format is to shove as many diverse bands through the media spotlight as possible to gain the widest audience possible, hence the estimated 8/10 (80% of the Earths population were aware of the event..to some degree) rating.If you want to see a Floyd gig youll just have to go an see a Floyd gig.
Personally Id a been happy if they played Seamus The Dawg.
Cannot understand how people can have enjoyed Velvet Revolver's set though......
There isn't any such thing, that's the point!Quote:
If you want to see a Floyd gig youll just have to go an see a Floyd gig.
Agreed. But they at least played instruments, as opposed to Madonna or almost all of the American entertainers (since most weren't real musician or bands...)Quote:
Cannot understand how people can have enjoyed Velvet Revolver's set though......