Live 8

[johno]

I watched the original LiveAid.

I watched Live 8 today.

I'm watching the ABC recap right now.

I'm also watching the Paris Web feed (rebroadcast).


I'm very disappointed.

MTV & VH1 had the exact same feed, they showed 1 partial song from each performer. Cutting to "talent" who told you who you were watching, how good they were and how cool it was to be there. 1 or 2 performers then commercials, commercials, commercials. Bah!

Edit to add: The newspaper today had a story about the Live 8 coverage and they declared the MTV/VH1 coverage "Lame" and "Filled with hosts who seemed more concerned with telling you how good the event was, rather then showing you."


And the feed from Paris... I feel for the folks who paid to be in live attendance. 1-2 songs per performer then it takes 5-10 minutes to change over to the next performer.

Edit to add: The AOL feeds were uninterrupted and had no "talent" to interrupt, the flow. My issue was the short sets and long delays between them.

It's an important event, raising the visibility of an import issue, but damn it seems to been hyper commercialized and badly run.

Comments

[qdot.livejournal.com]

The AOL online feeds were great. Totally uninterupted.

[johno.livejournal.com]

Granted the AOL feed from france (I was waiting for Shakira) were uninterupted.

That was what I refering to when I wrote about 1-2 songs, 5-10 minutes wait.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

I thought the AOL feed from London was uninterrupted.
The setups between bands was taking awhile, no surprise.

[succ33d.livejournal.com]

I've never even heard of the Live 8.... What is it/

[johno.livejournal.com]

It was massive 8 venue concert series to raise awareness of the mass poverty and hunger in Africa, and to send a mass message to the G8 meeting this coming week.

Live8 occured this weekend (Sat)

For more details see: http://www.live8live.com/

[mythemeiscarbon.livejournal.com]

I was at the Berlin Live 8...it was run pretty well, except for everything running much later than expected.