Saturday, July 02, 2005
Favourite Live8 performances
Over 150 bands performed at today's Live8 concerts. Here is a list of what I considered to be the outstanding performances of the day.
What were your favourites?
PS: This is probably the first concert where the complete inadequacy of television for this sort of format was revealed, especially when compared with AOL's superb Internet coverage with feeds from everywhere. TV kept cutting to ads, thereby missing half the performers and even when they weren't showing ads, one had to deal with annoying VJ's displaying their ignorance for the most part. I ended up watching the entire concert using AOL's Internet broadcast. Here's hoping that many more live events will follow AOL's lead.
*U2/Paul McCartney doing the first ever live version of Sgt. Pepper.
*U2 -- Beautiful Day
*Coldplay and Richard Ashcroft's (ex-The Verve) phenomenal performance of Bittersweet Symphony.
*Dido/Youssou N'Dour's duet of Seven Seconds.
*Snow Patrol -- Run
*Scissor Sisters -- Take Your Mama.
*Sting -- Message In A Bottle and Driven To Tears
*The Who -- Who are you and Won't get fooled again. On the downside, the absence of the Ox was clearly felt.
*Pink Floyd -- I am tempted to say everything, but Comfortably Numb, in particular, really showed what the band could do, if all 4 members were around.
*Maroon 5 -- Rockin in a free world
*Stevie Wonder and Rob Thomas -- Higher Ground.
*Green Day -- American Idiot
What were your favourites?
PS: This is probably the first concert where the complete inadequacy of television for this sort of format was revealed, especially when compared with AOL's superb Internet coverage with feeds from everywhere. TV kept cutting to ads, thereby missing half the performers and even when they weren't showing ads, one had to deal with annoying VJ's displaying their ignorance for the most part. I ended up watching the entire concert using AOL's Internet broadcast. Here's hoping that many more live events will follow AOL's lead.
