Thought I\'d post the timetable for any of you interested. It\'s happening just down the road from me and you can watch it on a live webcast at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tsunamireliefcardiffEDIT: Times are obviously GMT - I think CT is 5 or 6 hrs behind us.
Not really my sort of acts on the whole, but someone may be interested:
15.15 Pre show - Camera (video montage )
15.30 Katherine Jenkins
15.50 Keane
16.20 Raghav
16.30 Charlotte Church
16.45 Lemar
17.10 Craig David
17.30 Snow Patrol
18.00 Goldie Looking Chain
18.20 Badly Drawn Boy
18.50 Aled Jones
19.00 Brian McFadden
19.15 Embrace
19.40 Kelly Jones (of Stereophonics)
20.00 Manic St. Preachers
20.30 Heather Small
20.50 Feeder
21.15 Liberty X
21.30 Lulu
21.45 Jools Holland
Eric Clapton
Finale
Show Ends 22.30
i heard roger waters with eric clapton..is this true?
Concert\'s just finished and no roger waters - sorry freddie.
Watched a fair bit of it over the day and though commendable - even Midge Ure, co-organiser of Live Aid, made an appearance - it was no Live Aid. As for the bill, most of it isn\'t worth commenting on.
Best act for me were Feeder, even if they looked petrified at playing to such a large crowd. They\'re not a band I know much of outside the hits like Buck Rogers. MSPs were OK, but have seen them quite a few times and James\' throat infection showed on the vocals, though he hasn\'t half improved his lead playing since I saw them last about two years ago. EC just did a blues set as that is what Jools Holland\'s group does all the time - competent, but not that awe-inspiring.
Surprise act for me were Goldie Lookin\' Chain - a rap act. Yes, you read me right, boombox aka Rap-hater #1 enjoyed some of that particular genre. It may be that their lyrics are particularly pertinent to South Wales, but they are often very funny. "Guns Don\'t Kill People, Rappers Do" was a surprise hit over here, though I don\'t know whether it will travel well to the States.
What p***ed me off the most was the BBC, who turned the volume down every time Kelly Jones and James (MSPs) spoke. They are known for their use of shall we say colourful language, but the beeb was very slow. They\'d use it, Auntie would turn off the sound until the song started, then would show a notice on screen apologising for bad language. Yes, both these acts were on before the 9pm watershed, but why didn\'t the Beeb put a thirty second delay on the transmission and just bleep out the expletives, rather than everything they said.
Oh well, I\'m just wondering how long before some or all of it turns up on EZT, hopefully in small chunks so I can avoid the Lemar/Craig David!
yo fred i saw that
****, it was clapton and waters acoustic they played wish you were here, and timmy played that
**** at alex\'s party it ,was so hot!!
Originally posted by stabmasterarson
yo fred i saw that ****, it was clapton and waters acoustic they played wish you were here, and timmy played that **** at alex\'s party it ,was so hot!!
different benefit concert bud.
Originally posted by boombox
Jools Holland.......so I can avoid the Lemar/Craig David!
Speaking of Jools Holland, did you ever get into Squeeze? I do like some of their early 80\'s songs.
What ever happened to Craig David? He was a big hit over here when his album came out a few years ago but I haven\'t heard much of him since.
Squeeze were a great band, though I don\'t have anything by them - Cool For Cats, Up The Junction etc. Difford and Tilbrook make albums only sporadically now. Jools Holland plays a lot of boogie woogie type blues with a huge band - the Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, who are all great musicians in their own right. He has a late night TV show called Later...with Jools Holland. Gets all sorts of acts on there doing a couple of songs, either as themselves or with him on piano. He\'s an arrogant git (met him once in a music shop) but he can\'t half play the joanna.
Craig David has disappeared into the background here, thank the Buddha! Is trying to reinvent himself doing a lot of acoustic guitar backed stuff as he did last night, but usually blows it when he starts his half-arsed rapping over the top.