http://www.live8live.com/
When I saw the Boomtown Rats playing at the Apollo Theatre, Oxford back in 1979 I never in my wildest dreams thought Bob Geldorf would end up being knighted and using music as a force for good.
It’s very easy to knock ‘worthy causes’ but if millions (billions?) of people can make enough noise to send a message that extreme poverty can be iradicated and should be iradicated. Then I for one am all for it.
As ‘Sir’ Bob said “It’s not about politics it’s about morality.”
Update 2022:
Good intentions – didn’t make any real difference though – but the music was great.
Railway Stations of the World takes us to the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Luang…
The Wucai (五彩）Porcelain shown above is all from the Qing dynasty and dates from the…
Requiem, 奠 Mozart's Requiem in D Minor, K 266 (1791) Jack Villano Villano · Mozart…
I has mostly been reading: Iain M Banks, Charles Stross, Isaac Asimov and Terry Pratchett…
November is a great time to visit Taipei. 'Goldilocks' weather (not too hot, not too…
This website uses cookies.