Wonder if this event will be going ahead and if so will Ed and Tom be playing. I would love to see a few dance bands there!



Taken from NME site.........



GELDOF GIVES 'LIVE AID 2' THE GO-AHEAD



BOB GELDOF has confirmed that he and MIDGE URE are planning a huge gig to coincide with the G8 summit in July, although it will not be called LIVE AID 2.



Acts rumoured to appear include U2, Paul McCartney and Madonna, who also took part in the 1985 Live Aid concert organised by Geldof. There have also been mutterings of a Spice Girls reunion.



?What started 20 years ago is coming to a political point in a few weeks," said Geldof. "There's more than a chance that the boys and girls with guitars will finally get to turn the world on its axis."



?We'll have all the big names we can find," Ure said. ?It?s big, and it's as petrifying as the build-up to Live Aid, if not more so."

Yeah, you know, I've got a good idea, why don't they make it good and not have crap artists like the spice girls and madonna.

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Ej Madonna kicks ass :D

I can see it now?



Coldplay, U2, Paul McCartney, Madonna, Phil Collins etc etc?



Yeah - can't wait?



?NOT!!!!!!!!!

there was also rumors of a pink floyd reunion for this.

Paul McCartney, I'm tired of The Beatles, not their music, but what they've done with it these last years.



Madonna, dear God, why make them suffer?

She S U C K S live, she doesn't have the voice to sing live, without all that she has at the studio she CANNOT SING.

I remember the first Live Aid... I got up at 4am on a Saturday so I could watch the live broadcast on Mtv from Wembley Stadium!



It was awesome to see Queen reunited and Freddie Mercury on stage after a long time being out of the spotlight. I think his lungs collapsed or something, and he'd given up performing until Live Aid happened.



Plus seeing U2 my favorite band at the time. It really was such an incredible performance, quite arguably one of their best. It was a definite show of how the music can overtake you even when you're on stage performing it. I'll never forget watching that.



Anyway. A second Live Aid has been a long time coming. I think with as much global awareness nowadays and people being more news savvy than before, a project like this can have a more profound affect on the areas a concert like this can benefit.



Sorry, but I've got some amount of respect for Madonna as an iconic performer of my time, and as someone who has a lot of clout in the industry. You don't have to like her - I don't dig her music more than half the time - but there's no denying she is an outstanding performer. (although admittedly, she is a lot older now than she was in her heyday and her shows aren't what they used to be) Her voice is not the best and her style isn't everyone's cup of tea, but first and foremost she is a performer. An entertainer. Her live shows have always entertained and have always drawn a crowd. If it takes Madonna to pull people into raising money for Live Aid, then so be it. The bottom line is money for the cause.



And I would be surprised if U2 did not hop on the charity bandwagon with this event. Anything to help the African cause in some way.



Also, I know some of you don't like the rumoured line up. I admit it's not something I'd rush to turn the television on at 4am again for. However, Live Aid is a day long event and there's soooooooooooooo much opportunity for so many other bands to get into the action. Plus, if it's anything like the last Live Aid, there might even be a United State-side Live Aid concert that corresponds with the UK performances. More money to be raised, more opportunity for bands to get in on the cause. Win-win all around.



Now - as far as the Chems go. It would be really cool if they could get in on something that's so buzz worthy, and something that already has a lot of musically historical weight. They've done smaller charity gigs before, including, including spinning an opening set for U2 a few years ago... wait, I *think* that was a charity gig? Anyway.



We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Well, if it comes lets just hope it won't be such a disaster as that Woodstock celebration.

Madonna had a good voice, HAD, now she cannot sing live.

She sounds nice in all her new CDs because she's getting a lot of help from the studio equipment.

Might have been iconic or whatever you want to say, but you cannot say that NOW, TODAY, she's a good live performer when she doesn't have the voice to do it right.

I'd love if the Chems got involved, but I'm sure the TV broadcast would find a way to cut out their performance...... TV bastards! :'(

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I'd love if the Chems got involved, but I'm sure the TV broadcast would find a way to cut out their performance...... TV bastards! :'(

Well i think they would be to scarred and ed and tom wouldnt come on until after the 9 watershead.

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I'd love if the Chems got involved, but I'm sure the TV broadcast would find a way to cut out their performance...... TV bastards! :'(

Why do you say that?

Pink Floyd reunion? With Roger Waters? Well now that would be worth going to. (Surely they'd play their own gig as well though).

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I'd love if the Chems got involved, but I'm sure the TV broadcast would find a way to cut out their performance...... TV bastards! :'(

Why do you say that?

Every time Glastonbury performances are broadcast over here in Canada, they never show the Chems, or if they do, they might show one track at best.

Every year the BBC do a big thing about being live at Glastonbury and do they ever show the Chems?!?



Maybe half a track? if we are lucky!!!



Then they go back to showing so bohemian fella playing a wooden instrument in a chuffin bonzai garden for 10 minutes and have to listen to shit from Phil Jupitus and some other clueless muppet for another 10 mins!!



Even if the Chems were part of Live Aid 2 - unless you actually went to the gig, there's not a 'cat in hells chance' you'll see owt of it on telly!!

[quote name="RobboMagic"]Every year the BBC do a big thing about being live at Glastonbury and do they ever show the Chems?!?

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????

the beeb broadcast 4 tracks of 2000 glastonbury and 5 tracks of 2004 sets. not bad considering the the amount of music there is to cover at glastonbury!!!

and they had get yourself high and acid childcren and star guitar live on radio from glasto 2004 as well and include the fact they will be playing some of the chems set from sonar music festival in 2 weeks time as well.

DUNNO WHY THE CHEMS AINT PLAYING IT.... whoops had cap lock on X-D

The Spice Girls won't be there either!! However I think it will be more of a tragedy for the Spice Girls than for anyone else....