Live 8 is bothering me...

Gunpowder Gelatine wrote:

The one thing that kind of bothered me about Live 8 (besides the disastrous coverage from MTV & VH1!) was that it was free to get in. If they charged even just $5 a person, it could do so much for to help with the debt.

Geldof was very clear that this was about raising awareness in the days before the G8 summit. He wants pressure on governments, not cash for charity.

Raising money would have been a small conflict of interest in addition to any headaches derived from having to administer it. Besides, charging 5 bucks a head would have barely netted 1 million for all of the shows. That's nothing when the debt is in the billions.

Well when you have a couple of billionaires attend the concert I think there should be some generous donations going out.

www.one.org

they don't want your money, they want your voice

iGSM wrote:

Well when you have a couple of billionaires attend the concert I think there should be some generous donations going out.

Fuckin' skank-ass whore Paris Hilton was at the London show. Who the hell allowed her in??

Mr.Jingles79 wrote:

iGSM wrote:

Well when you have a couple of billionaires attend the concert I think there should be some generous donations going out.

Fuckin' skank-ass whore Paris Hilton was at the London show. Who the hell allowed her in??

I dunno but my guess is: A middle-aged man.

Mr.Jingles79 wrote:

iGSM wrote:

Well when you have a couple of billionaires attend the concert I think there should be some generous donations going out.

Fuckin' skank-ass whore Paris Hilton was at the London show. Who the hell allowed her in??

That was nothing compared to Philly.

The Philadelphia Inquirer not only broke the story about the $12,000 gift bags,...
...but they talked about as they put it ''the freak show'' of Anna Nicole Smith posing for photos in the Philly VIP tent.

I am NO fan of Paris Hilton, but her family are multi-billioniares who DO contribute to the cause, (the International Hilton hotel chain and dynasty), and she whether we like it or not, is considered an A list celebrity.

Anna Nicole Smith, is a former stripper black widow who married a an 80 something Billionaire with one foot in the grave. She is a hanger on, and...the press said she was noticably zoned out on drugs (as they also said when she turned up recently at something like the Oscars or MTV awards I forget which).

She is always plastered. The Philly press said she refused to talk to the press, but kept preening and posing for photos and publicity.

Who the HELL let HER in the Philly press tent?...or did she gate crash?

I am SO glad I did NOT go to the Philly show. The artists sucked, it was organized like a circus. Ashamed the USA leg was such a joke.

Making people more aware about the problem won't really help...I don't think there are enough people passionate about the problem....instead of people wasting time attending a concert in which not even money was collected for charity(strange I thought poor people need money) they should have marched on Capitol Hill and scream from their rooftops about how they want change and how they're not going to stand for the genocide in Sudan or for the conditions the rest of the poor Africans live in....and to be honest, not all the money in the world would help that country...it's their government that has to change big time and to be quite honest, the government wants them dead....so, I guess only time will tell if this worked, I'm sure it will help somewhat...but how many people do you think left that concert and cared about the cause any more or even why they came?