Live 8

Live 8 I'm still here by the way. Great finale really, with 'Hey Jude' having the desired effect. Just hope it does the job. Can't wait to see what happens in Edinburgh over the next couple of days. Currently watching the heavily edited pre-record of Philadelphia, which gave me the opportunity to see Mum meet the Kysor Chiefs: "He'd better be careful he doesn't fall over..."
[updated: Yes alright ... Kaiser Chiefs ... but it's late ...]

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Live 8 I love that Pink Floyd were just as chilled and cerebral as we remember them being... ooh the finale ...

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Live 8 'And now ladies and gentlemen, the penultimate act of the night. The Spice Girls!' Yeeah! 'What? The Who?' Ooooh ...

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Live 8 I don't like Peter Kaye much either, but why would you turn away from 200,000 people singing Amerillo to interview George Michael? Sorry Jo but we don't care that he's touring ...

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Live 8 No Robbie, not all the crowd know the chorus to 'Feel' without prompting. Funny that. Now how about singing a song yourself rather than leaving it to someone else.
[Disclaimer: I don't like Robbie Williams too much. I think you probably noticed. It's the whole ego thing. Plus -- Fern Cotton!?!]

Don't you think.

Music The Wikipedia has an excellent discussion of ironic or lack of nature of Alanis Morissette song 'Ironic':

"Some of those familiar with the song and the usage debate invoke Morissette's name in reference either to the sloppy usage, or to the subtly self-referential usage of the word ironic. It remains to be seen whether phrases such as "Morissettian irony" will enter the common lexicon."

I always sing 'It's like meeting the girl of my dreams and meeting her beautiful wife....'

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Live 8 As always Suw makes a lot of sense ... hey look, it's Sting ...

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Life 8 No Ricky Gervaise. Telling 205,000 people you won't do the dance isn't going to work. Yes, you are their monkey.

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Live 8 We finally get to see some of the Eden Project and World Music and they cut away to hear some more about Jeremy Clarkson's slipped disc and what Neil Morrisey is thinking. This BBC tv presentation really isn't really about the music is it?

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Live 8 Look, it's not that I've had a sense of humour bypass, and lord knows music is not be beyond satire or reproach, but which twonk thought Jonathan Ross was the man to introduce this event? Dido and Youssou N'Dour give a great performance of Seven Seconds in one of the highlights of the show and he comes on at the end with -- 'I thought it went on a bit too long at the end.' Who cares what you think? You're not funny and your hair's too long.

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Live 8 It might have been 2 o'clock in London, but at about 1:20 Bono managed the first nob gag of the day. Jo Whiley asked him about how he made his entrance at Live Aid. He said that it was by helicopter, and he could see the headlines. "U2 go down on Noel Edmund's chopper." The real joy was his realisation half way through that he was live on BBC Two on a Saturday afternoon but that he'd already committed himself with Jo joining in at the end to lessen the impact. Priceless. Ooh look -- Coldplay are on ...

High.

Film Woody Allen's in the country again filming his fall project 2006 (talk about forward planning). Someone at flickr has photos of the set with shots of Scarlett Johansson during a coffee break.

Are we live?

Music Forty-five minutes to go before Live 8 and I'm wierdly looking forward to it even though it'd probably be more fun watching one of the other ones. Moscow have Aha and the Pet Shop Boys on the same bill. We have Snoop Dog. Somehow Dido is playing London and Paris, busy woman. Just noticed that the Technocrati site is higher than the official in a Google search for Live 8.

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