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[HighReeve]

Any comments on Linkin Park?

 

[Groove]

my faves;
U2 and Paul McCartney (Fantastic)
McCartney by himself and with George Michael
Rob Thomas
Sarah McLauchlan
Dido
Robbie Williams
Destiny's Child
Madonna
Sting

watching Stevie Wonder right now; one of my favourite artists. please do well.

How was the Mcartney/George Michael performance? I didnt get to see it.

 

[Judd 4 Captain]

i would pay for a DVD set with a disc per concert from around the world, this would be fanastic. Great event the 1985 DVD was great.

Too bad Freddy is dead cause Queen was a mile ahead of any performer in 85.

Kudos to Bob.

Bono said 'we are not asking you to dig in your pockets but to raise your fists in the air"

 

[sp-mac]

I was impressed with Sting.
Has the best voice for an "ageing" star by a long way. Paul McArtney's is starting to wobble a bit.

Was dissapointed we didn't see more from the Killers as well.

As for something I would've liked to have seen I reckon Oasis doing Don't look back in Anger would've been great with the patriotic British crowd.

 

[Darealrath]

Bloody hell i went to bed just before Muse came on!

It would have been amusing if Ashcroft had sung 'the drugs don't work'.

 

[Ray Nolan]

As for something I would've liked to have seen I reckon Oasis doing Don't look back in Anger would've been great with the patriotic British crowd.

Geldof wanted Oasis to be in it but they had a gig in Manchester on the same night that they couldn't really cancel.

Did anyone see Snow Patrol? I went to bed before they came on and I missed 'em.

 

[Mr X]

What time was Crazy Frog on in London, I was hoping to watch a replay on the web.....

 

[music_2000]

forced to listen to it on MMM radio and I only saw the highlights show on tv don't they know MOST OF US DON"T have CABLE

 

[Angus1]

Geldof wanted Oasis to be in it but they had a gig in Manchester on the same night that they couldn't really cancel.

Did anyone see Snow Patrol? I went to bed before they came on and I missed 'em.

Yep I was glad to see them because before they came on there was about 40 mins of rap and dance type stuff that i don't like. Snoop dog, Will Smith etc.. That kind of stuff. So when Snow Patrol came on they kind of got me interested again.

Highlight for me was easily Pink Floyd. They were just so professional. Roger's voice isn't what it used to be as can be expected after 40 years but Dave is perfection. Gilmour is the ultimate professional he will only give 100 %.

Also realy enjoyed a song done by Keane. Can't remember the name of it but it was quiet moving and perfect for this event.
I too thought that Bryan Adams performance was excellent. I'm not really a fan but hey this is a live concert and some of them sound aweful outside a studio and the great ones shine through. Adams definitely is a great singer.

The Who were spot on and I was very surprised with how well Roger Daltry still sings. Once again the great bands can perform live whilst some don't stand up.

Greenday, Audioslave were Excellent although only 1 song was disappointing.

 

[Angus1]

Any comments on Linkin Park?

I'm not a fan however that guy with the Tats is a fantastic singer. As I've already said singing live is different to singing in a studio and that bloke gave it everything he had and i thought his voice was awesome. As for the other bloke who does the rap parts well.......why spoil what could be a good band. I say they could be a good band mainly because of that lead singer. What a voice. To manage to get that much power out of your voice in front of 250,000 people or whatever it was in an open air concert.....pretty special. Compare his voice to that of Pete Doherty I think his name is. That bloke that butchered Children of the Revolution with Elton John. Man, now that was crap singing. Elton sung crap to i thought.

So overall i thought one part of Linkin Parks performance was good whilst overall it was probably butchered by stupid rap crap which is not needed at all.

 

[Angus1]

part of a Queen song (think it was We Are The Champions).
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We will Rock you.
He sung the first verse then the chorus then moved into Let me Entertain You.

 

[Angus1]

I had better mention Keith Urban. They showed one song of his which is his latest single. He performed it flawlessly and didn't seem overawed by the crowd at all. He seemed like a natural out there actualy. Good to see an Aussie up on the big stage in front of the world and do us proud.

Tina Arena on the other hand was on stage with Craig David and for some strange reason they did a silly version of Come Together. I felt a bit sorry for Tina as this didn't suit her at all and Craig David tried to steal the limelight and kept adding his own silly parts to the song. He even added a rap verse to the song which was just horrendous. These 2 just didn't work well together and the song was terrible and done in a terrible way. Don't change a classic especially when the original isn't that good anyway.

 

[CarterS]

I had better mention Keith Urban. They showed one song of his which is his latest single. He performed it flawlessly and didn't seem overawed by the crowd at all. He seemed like a natural out there actualy. Good to see an Aussie up on the big stage in front of the world and do us proud.

Tina Arena on the other hand was on stage with Craig David and for some strange reason they did a silly version of Come Together. I felt a bit sorry for Tina as this didn't suit her at all and Craig David tried to steal the limelight and kept adding his own silly parts to the song. He even added a rap verse to the song which was just horrendous. These 2 just didn't work well together and the song was terrible and done in a terrible way. Don't change a classic especially when the original isn't that good anyway.

I agree Keith Urban was brilliant, his home made shirt just too good!

And Tina / Craig's effort was a very late inclusion after Tina's duet with some other guy fell through...hence the rushed and dodgy performance.

 

[sp-mac]

The channel 9 highlights were crap and anybody who saw it let me tell you it is not a true representation of what was a great nights viewing on pay.

Didn't show bands that kicked ass (eg Greenday) and showed some of the worst songs in each set that were played (eg Robbie Williams)

I'm just glad I hooked up to foxtel 3 months ago in time to see it all.

I hope for the sake of people without Fox that a full 10 hour DVD is released of the event.

 

[sp-mac]

We will Rock you.
He sung the first verse then the chorus then moved into Let me Entertain You.

Yep, Robbie did we will Rock you.

We are the champions was in fact performed as Greenday's finale.

Very impressivley too. I Wondered at the time if they may have cut Robbie's lunch though, would have been a powerful finish to his set in London especially considering how big Queen were at Live Aid 20 years ago.

 

[ManWithNoName]

The channel 9 highlights were crap and anybody who saw it let me tell you it is not a true representation of what was a great nights viewing on pay.

Didn't show bands that kicked ass (eg Greenday) and showed some of the worst songs in each set that were played (eg Robbie Williams)

I'm just glad I hooked up to foxtel 3 months ago in time to see it all.

I hope for the sake of people without Fox that a full 10 hour DVD is released of the event.

Could not agree more. Channel 9's "highlights" was more like 2 hours of ads with bits of Live8 here and there. It was a hack job.

 

[Mr Wong]

Didn't think she was that bad.

Worst act, made a fool of herself

 

[mandy]

I was impressed with Sting.
Has the best voice for an "ageing" star by a long way.

The voice may have been good, but changing the words to "Every breath you take" was not cool.