Live 8 Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

superb..................

this dvd set is superb. Two decades after Live Aid addressed the issue of poverty in Africa, which still remains a blight on our planet, activist Bob Geldof staged an even more ambitious, series of continent-spanning concerts, dedicated to raising funds and public consciousness about international debt relief.

this 4 disc set of the fantastic live 8 concert, has the following on the discs.

DISC 1

Paul McCartney & U2 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

U2 - Beautiful Day

U2 - Vertigo

U2 - One

Coldplay - In My Place

Coldplay with Richard Ashcroft - Bittersweet Symphony

Coldplay - Fix You

Elton John - The Bitch Is Back

Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting

Elton John with Pete Doherty - Children Of The Revolution

Dido & Youssou N'Dour - 7 Seconds

Stereophonics - Bartender And The Thief

REM - Everybody Hurts

REM - Man On The Moon

Ms Dynamite - Dy-Na-Mi-Tee

Keane - Somewhere Only We Know

Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love

Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get It Started

Black Eyed Peas with Stephen Marley - Get Up Stand Up

Duran Duran - Wild Boys ( Rome)

Bob Geldof - I Don't Like Mondays

Muse - Time Is Running Out ( Paris)

Travis - Sing

Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot

Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I Love You Less And Less

UB40 with Hunterz & The Dohl Blasters - Reasons

UB40 - Red Red Wine

Green Day - American Idiot ( Berlin)

Snoop Dogg - Signs

Snoop Dogg - Who Am I (What's My Name)?

Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer

Annie Lennox - Why

Annie Lennox - Sweet Dreams

DISC 2

Destiny's Child - Survivor

Destiny's Child - Girl

Razorlight - Somewhere Else

Razorlight - Golden Touch

Bryan Adams - All For Love

Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone

CBC Ethiopian Famine Film

Madonna - Like A Prayer

Madonna - Ray Of Light

Madonna - Music

Will Smith - Getting' Jiggy Wit It

Will Smith - Switch

Will Smith - The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air

Brian Wilson - Good Vibrations ( Berlin)

Snow Patrol - Run

Toby Keith - Stays In Mexico

The Killers - All These Things That I've Done

Dave Matthews Band - American Baby

Daniel Powter - Bad Day

Linkin Park - In The End

Linkin Park with Jay-Z - Numb

Joss Stone - Super Duper Love

Joss Stone - Some Kind Of Wonderful

Jars Of Clay - Show You Love

Scissor Sisters - Laura

Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama

Alicia Keys - For All We Know

Velvet Revolver - Fall To Pieces

Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me

Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl?

Sarah McLachlan & Josh Groban - Angel

Sting - Message In A Bottle

Sting - Driven To Tears

Sting - Every Breath You Take

DISC 3

Mariah Carey - Make It Happen

Mariah Carey - Hero

Vusi Mahlasela - When You Come Back ( Johannesburg)

Roxy Music - Do The Strand ( Berlin)

Maroon 5 - This Love

Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved

Neil Young - Four Strong Winds ( Toronto)

Pet Shop Boys - Go West ( Moscow)

Robbie Williams - We Will Rock You

Robbie Williams - Let Me Entertain You

Robbie Williams - Feel

Robbie Williams - Angels

Keith Urban - Somebody Like You

Placebo - Twenty Years ( Paris)

Rob Thomas - Lonely No More

Faithless - We Come 1 ( Berlin)

Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin')

Stevie Wonder & Rob Thomas - Higher Ground

Stevie Wonder & Adam Levine - Signed Sealed Delivered

Stevie Wonder - So What The Fuss/Superstition

The Who - Who Are You?

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

Pink Floyd - Speak To Me

Pink Floyd - Breathe

Pink Floyd - Money

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Paul McCartney - Get Back

Paul McCartney & George Michael - Drive My Car

Paul McCartney - Helter Skelter

Paul McCartney - The Long And Winding Road

Finale - Hey Jude

DISC 4 EXTRAS

EDINBURGH CONCERT

The Walk to Edinburgh - Highland Fling

The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around

1 Giant Leap - My Culture

George Clooney

Annie Lennox - Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves

Bono

Nelson Mandela

Bob Geldof - The Great Song Of Indifference

The Thrills - Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)

Herbert Gronemeyer & Claudia Schiffer

Midge Ure & Eddie Izzard - Vienna

Texas - Say What You Want

Katherine Jenkins - Nessun Dorma

Travis - Why Does It Always Rain On Me?

James Brown - I Got You (I Feel Good)

James Brown & Will Young - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag

Bob Geldof, Bono, Midge Ure

Murrayfield crowd - Flower Of Scotland

McFly - All About You (Live 8 Tokyo)

Good Charlotte - Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous (Live 8 Tokyo)

Dreams Come True - Love Love Love (Live 8 Tokyo)

Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (Live 8 Tokyo)

Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying (Live 8 Roma)

Faith Hill - Breathe (Live 8 Roma)

Shakira - Whenever, Wherever (Live 8 Paris)

Audioslave - Black Hole Sun (Live 8 Berlin)

Audioslave - Like A Stone (Live 8 Berlin)

'Who Are You?' Film - The Who

'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?' film - Travis

Ricky Gervais - Enjoy the day

Backstage at Hyde Park

Pink Floyd rehearsal and interview footage

this is well worth renting out.

The Old Order Saves The Day

For the most part, Live8 was a complete pigs ear of an event. It was badly organised, with extremely questionable politics (several times I was subjected to images of starving children whilst I was wading through a deluge of discarded chips and fried chicken) and consisted of mainly crappy acts.

Take Mariah Carey for instance - a plastic person who does not even exist in the same dimension as the rest of human race (except on occasion when she comes back down to Earth to have a nervous breakdown), she somehow managed to churn out a piss-poor performance of her rubbish back catalogue and remain resolutely ignorant, naive and condescending all at the same time. Joss Stone was equally poor - a squawking tone deaf child with as much savvy as a toilet attendant, she wailed her way incomprehensibly through a couple of numbers dressed like Janis Joplins handicapped, destitute distant cousin.

It was worth the wait for The Who though - they came on stage and utterly blew the likes of The Scissor Sisters (crap), Coldplay (dull) and Madonna (pretentious, chameleonic gap-toothed menace) completely off the stage. Guitarist Pete Townshend announced his arrival on stage with a deafening roar from his Stratocaster, and then they tore into Who Are You and Won't Get Fooled Again (as a million kids watching shouted 'hey! These old guys are doing the theme tunes to CSI!'.

My advice - rent Disc Four and treat the other acts with the contempt they so rightly deserve.

Even disc 4 was disappointing

I took the advice on this page and rented disc 4. Unfortunately the DVD appears to be a mixture of sections from all the concerts across the world (primarily Edinburgh on disc 4) with barely a song per artist and doesn't appear to include the best bits near the end of the concert. It didn't include either the Pete Townsend or Pink Floyd performances.

The only good bit on disc 4 is an extra feature of Pink Floyd rehearsing 'Wish You Were Here'. The rest is all single songs from the likes of Annie Lennox and Wet Wet Wet (Even then not their best songs - 'Sisters are doing it for themselves' and 'Love is all around').

Dispite the poor content the disc is well edited and nicely indexed. You can choose sections by artist name.

The Old Order Saves The Day

For the most part, Live8 was a complete pigs ear of an event. It was badly organised, with extremely questionable politics (several times I was subjected to images of starving children whilst I was wading through a deluge of discarded chips and fried chicken) and consisted of mainly crappy acts.

Take Mariah Carey for instance - a plastic person who does not even exist in the same dimension as the rest of human race (except on occasion when she comes back down to Earth to have a nervous breakdown), she somehow managed to churn out a piss-poor performance of her rubbish back catalogue and remain resolutely ignorant, naive and condescending all at the same time. Joss Stone was equally poor - a squawking tone deaf child with as much savvy as a toilet attendant, she wailed her way incomprehensibly through a couple of numbers dressed like Janis Joplins handicapped, destitute distant cousin.

It was worth the wait for The Who though - they came on stage and utterly blew the likes of The Scissor Sisters (crap), Coldplay (dull) and Madonna (pretentious, chameleonic gap-toothed menace) completely off the stage. Guitarist Pete Townshend announced his arrival on stage with a deafening roar from his Stratocaster, and then they tore into Who Are You and Won't Get Fooled Again (as a million kids watching shouted 'hey! These old guys are doing the theme tunes to CSI!'.

My advice - rent Disc Four and treat the other acts with the contempt they so rightly deserve.

Live 8

I didn't watch this when it happened so I thought I'd play my part by renting the DVD. Some good performance throughout-Dido especially. The advert presented by Will Smith was extremely poignant. The only dissapointment was when Elton John brought out Pete Doherty, who did a crap performance and then they kissed on the lips before leaving stage. I didn't get it.