Live8 commentary from around the blogosphere (add your favorite quotes and links in the comments!)
"The EU has promised to double aid by 2015. Tony Blair has promised to
reach the UN target of 0.7% GDP by 2013. If he unilaterally brought
that forward to 2010, we could save an extra 7.5 million lives."
Matthew Tempest quoting anti-globalisation activist Noreena Hertz
Dido did, however, duet with Youssou N'Dour, the first black artist of
the day to set foot on stage. And even she couldn't dilute the shivery
impact of the beautiful Seven Seconds.
Ouch! commentary on the various artist in London
The month of July? How about San Antonio, Texas? 900,000 dead children
each month. 12 MILLION each year. Needlessly. And that's only children.
The overall human count is staggering.
The Rabbi Report trying to conceptualize the 30,000 people a day
They didn't come to talk politics. They didn't come to exchange pleasantries. They came to ROCK. And so, for a few brief moments, I was back in high school, sitting in the bucket seat of a bright green, bitchin' Camaro, at 3AM, on my way to White Castle. And then I puked. Just like the good ol' days.
Dimitri Ehrlich live from the show
It may be the spirit of the occasion that has taken me, but I think
that if the G8 summit does not get a result next week - and by that I
mean a substantial and immediate improvement on the commitments made to
date regarding Africa - the nature of the relationship between the
people of the G8 countries and their governments will be radically
altered.
Graham
1. I think ABC is going to get therir butts fined by the FCC. They managed to block out David Gilmour singing "bull----" in "Money", but they didn't clip out Roger Daltrey singing "Who the f--- are you". Let's see how perceptive the audience and FCC are on that one.
Posted at 9:19PM on Jul 2nd 2005 by Jim Brock