July 7, 200718 yr He got the loudest response by a huge margin. They did a decibel test of the crowd on all the acts that day. He was way out in front in 'screaminess'. ^_^
July 7, 200718 yr Indeed. This brings back memoried of Live 8 when Mariah was performing and bored the crowd to tears (no offence to any of her fans but it clearly was the case), they were all bored it seemed and tired from standing all day long and did'nt seem to have much energy left. But once Robbie came out the place completelly exploded, I have never seen anything like it, the bouncing was something else. It was just amazing to see a crowd reaction change in such a huge way within seconds. He got the loudest crowd responce marginally out of all the acts, and the highest viewing figs. Oh memories. :( :P Someone tell me he is urgently needed to wake Wembley up :P I renember staying up just to catch Robbie. :o Believe it or not, I was very tired but it was worth it. ^_^
July 7, 200718 yr It's a very difficult thing to do I think. Carry a stadium. Particularly when the majority in the crowd won't necessarily be 'fans' of the act and won't know the songs. A lot of acts crash and burn. There certainly ain't been much 'bouncin' today :(
July 7, 200718 yr you ain't kidding, the crowd look bored sh*tless when I was watching. I missed James Blunt, I did want to see him and, everytime I turn over there is some dire act on that I cannot be bothered to listen and then I look at the crowd :cry: and end up turning it off. lol where is :yahoo: there hasn't been any :yahoo: while I have been watching. Give me Rod Stewart and Bryan Ferry please, they rocked the Diana concert.
July 7, 200718 yr The Foo Fighters were generating a great number of :yahoo: 's. They were great. RawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwK :lol:
July 7, 200718 yr James Blunt is on now, putting me to sleep :zzz: :P I liked Wiseman. :P :wub: Was there Madonna, I didn't see her... :unsure:
July 7, 200718 yr Yes. Madonna closed the show. Really good performance with the strangest version of La Isla Bonita I've ever seen. :lol:
July 7, 200718 yr you ain't kidding, the crowd look bored sh*tless when I was watching. I missed James Blunt, I did want to see him and, everytime I turn over there is some dire act on that I cannot be bothered to listen and then I look at the crowd :cry: and end up turning it off. lol where is :yahoo: there hasn't been any :yahoo: while I have been watching. Give me Rod Stewart and Bryan Ferry please, they rocked the Diana concert. Well if they were bored when you were watching then I can only imagine what you would think of them when Blunt was performing, :P Well you must've missed The Foo Fighters and Madge then, the place was electric, nothing at the Diana gig was anywhere near as good. It was just brilliant. But due to it being so long there were very boring parts (James Bland whailing and moaning being one :P ), but the same can be said for Live 8. 10 hours is a long time, and although the start was very good, it got boring then, but really REALLY picked up towards the end. AMazing performances fromt he Foo's and Madge. The FF were just brilliant, the pest 20 minutes of rock I've seen in a long long time. She was shockingly good, really just fantastic. She may not have the best voice, but jesus she knows how to put on a show and put the young pop stars to shame. ^_^
July 8, 200718 yr I missed Madonna :cry: METALLICA really kicked a** :wave: And I´m seeing them on 15th ... :yahoo:
July 8, 200718 yr From The Sunday Times via Purerobbie/ July 8, 2007 Live Earth fails to pack large-scale punch Robert Sandall It did what it said on the poster – but no more. The British leg of Live Earth started at 1.30 pm sharp with a thunderous five-minute drum fanfare by a 20-odd troupe of flailing percussionists, battering a miscellany of ethnic skinned instruments. Led by Roger Taylor, formerly drummer with Queen, and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, their SOS pattern, hammered out in morse code, was a cute way of flagging up the Live Earth message: environmental calamity ahoy. But it couldn’t disguise the problem that regularly threatened to becalm this Wembley show. As a concert, Live Earth was not the repeat of Live Aid/Live 8 it clearly wanted to be. Unlike the events organised by the charismatic Sir Bob Geldof –upon which this one modelled itself closely, right down to its choice of name –the acts who answered the call from Al Gore’s people to play at Wembley Stadium were a bit short on superstar clout. It was Geldof’s legendarily persuasive powers which got Pink Floyd to abandon a 20-year feud and re-form for Live 8 in Hyde Park in 2005. There was nothing on the Live Earth London bill to command that level of anticipation and potential drama. With the exception of the closing act Madonna – who played next door at Wembley Arena only last summer – there was nobody on the Stadium bill with the cross-generational appeal, and catalogue of monster hits, to supply the great unifying moments which event gigs need to make their message stick in the mind. Queen singing We Will Rock You at Live Aid, or Robbie Williams leading the 80,000 Live 8 crowd through a giant karaoke session of Angels, are worth far more in this context than the 20 minutes per hour of worthy exhortations dished out on screen or by guest celebs at Live Earth. Genesis were the first band to take the stage, playing a four-song sample from the set they performed in its entirety later in the day at Manchester as part of their current British tour. The middle-aged-male contingent in the crowd were delighted to welcome back Phil Collins’ recently reformed band of pop-rock veterans. An element of surprise entered an otherwise solid performance when Collins appeared to let out a rare ‘f **k’ during Invisible Touch. But with latecomers still trickling into the stadium, Genesis landed a few punches – notably with the environmentally incorrect Turn It On Again – without knocking anybody out. Razorlight fared better. Their music hasn’t yet acquired the dimensions to suit stadia but the predominantly under-40 demographic of the audience seemed more attuned to Razorlight’s brand of fizzy guitar rock than the more ponderous Genesis. As the sun continued to make a long overdue comeback over London, Belfast’s finest, Snow Patrol, went down well with the arms aloft faithful on the pitch at the front. Further back though, as well as up on the terraces, the audience seemed to be enjoying the sunny afternoon as much as indie anthems such as Open Your Eyes. A similar atmosphere of music-as-wallpaper surrounded the performance of the next couple to take the stage; the beardy singer-songwriters, David Gray and Damien Rice. Their fiercely shouted duet of Que Sera, Sera, specially worked up for the occasion, may have had some bearing, lyrically, on the future of the planet; but it sure didn’t sound like the kind of music we might be listening to in our putatively greener future. With the arrival of Kasabian, launching into the swaggering title track of their latest album, Empire, the decibel level in the stadium went up noticeably. So did attention levels. Even the tee-shirts queuing for drinks at the bars interrupted conversations to shout their approval. Kasabian have been touted as the new Oasis and while this showing didn’t represent a breakthrough, it showed they can rise to a big occasion. They even remembered why they were there, enthusing bizarrely about how they wanted “to save the polar bears”. Paulo Nutini was another newcomer who injected a sense of urgency into a concert sagging under the weight of its own worthiness. Following Al Gore’s televised lecture on climate change, Nutini’s youthful rocking r'n’b vocal reminded us that politicians need musicians more than musicians need them. Just when it appeared that this concert was developing into a rather earnest, all-male affair – onstage if not out in the 50/50 audience – Stacy Ferguson of the LA hip-hop band Black Eyed Peas saved the day. Her soulful account of Big Girls Don’t Cry was the most nakedly emotional moment so far. Next up, the Peas’ signature hit, Where Is The Love, became the first song to get the entire stadium shouting and waving along. A big moment at last, and a hard act to follow. Too hard, sadly, for John Legend. One of the most sophisticated new talents in American r’n’b came and went in a blink, performing just one song alone at the piano before most of the crowd noticed his arrival. As the halfway point beckoned, the event needed a serious lift. What it got was Geri Halliwell, flagging the return of her old group later in the year and introducing, right now, Duran Duran. Like Genesis, but with more modern haircuts, Simon LeBon and co turned in a thoroughly professional 20 minute resume of four of their old hits. The audience applauded but soon afterwards were seen amusing themselves with Mexican waves. If anybody could raise the temperature of an event that needed a bit of old fashioned warming, it was Red Hot Chili Peppers. Capering about the stage with an abandon which shamed the static efforts of the younger bands, the LA four-piece’s explosive punk-funk had the energising effect of a double espresso. By The Way got a roar of recognition comparable to that accorded to Black Eyed Peas. But then, again, the pace flagged. More indistinct rocking, this time from the British band Bloc Party, led to a soul-lite performance from Corinne Bailey Rae, which cruelly exposed new Wembley’s brutal acoustics. Three robustly melodic songs from the keyboard trio Keane interrupted the snacking which had replaced rocking as stadium favorite, before a concerted sonic assault from the American heavy-metal band Metallica. Screen images of elephants plodding along behind them, designed to assist the ecological message, did nothing for the thick trudge of their music. After six hours of non-stop seriousness, humour in the form of the re-convened joke prog-rock band Spinal Tap offered welcome relief. Christopher Guest and his absurdly wigged associates were undeniably funny, particularly when they were joined by a dozen pointless bass players from the other bands on the bill. But you had to be in on the joke when it was originally cracked in the 1980’s to get what was going on in 2007. Most of the Wembley crowd looked bemused rather than amused by the Tap’s antics. James Blunt’s performance was a Wembley wallpaper moment, uniformly pleasant and in tune, but notable only because he didn’t play his theme song, Beautiful. Nobody could accuse the Beastie Boys of singing in tune, or indeed singing at all. The inclusion of this arty, whiny, faux-rap band so high on the Live Earth bill appeared to be an example of the organisers outsmarting their broadly middle of the road audience. Swerving to the other extreme, next to appear were Pussycat Dolls, an all-girl American group who came on like lap dancers, strutting and writhing down the apron stage with their big hit Bet You Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me. That’s ‘hot’ in a good way presumably, rather than an environmentally damaging one. Foo Fighters fared best of all the numerous guitar bands on the Live Earth bill. The Foo’s front man, Dave Grohl, formerly of grunge Nirvana, had as many women jumping in the air as men, and his frantic but vulnerable vocals on Best Of You brought the entire stadium to its feet. The ear-splitting cheer that greeted the end of the FF set left no doubt that Grohl was Man Of The Night. The Woman of the Night award was a shoe-in. Not for the first time in her career, it fell to Madonna to rescue pop – or this concert anyway – from the grasp of bloke-ish noiseniks. As the only artist to have written a song specifically for the event - Hey You – Madge stole the show with a typically slick routine, punctuated with moments of complete darkness. A dystopian preview of a carbon-positive future which made Live Earth's point more vividly than all the preceding hours of slogans and lectures.
July 8, 200718 yr I could'nt agree more with that highlighted part. Madonna was the only one who had songs everyone knew and could sing to, old or young people. It was nowhere near as good as Live 8, but there is simply no denying that not a single one of the performances at the Diana gig were anywhere near as good or memerable as the 20 minutes of gold that was the Foo Fighters and the excelllent and extremly impressive performances by the Queen of pop imo. Rod Stewart got everyone singing along to 'Sailing', and although he did do a great job of getting the crowd going, he by no means delivered a 'wow' sort of performanes by any stretch of the imagination for me anyway.
July 8, 200718 yr Damn I missed Madonna ;) The US tv coverage sucked big time and I didn't feel like sitting in front of my computer all day. Oh well, I'd have liked to see Madge. Not a big fan but going by the line up for this concert she was the biggest there. A true star. I'll need to check out YouTube. I did catch the Foo Fighters which I thought were great as did the Chili Peppers. Duran Duran I thought were horrible. The sound was c**p once again. Is it them or is it Wembley ?? You'd think it took them that long to build the damn stadium they'd have great sound :rolleyes: One thing about the London concert though, I thought it came off looking better on TV then the Diana gig. It actually looked like a concert and not some school assembly :lol:
July 8, 200718 yr Damn I missed Madonna ;) The US tv coverage sucked big time and I didn't feel like sitting in front of my computer all day. Oh well, I'd have liked to see Madge. Not a big fan but going by the line up for this concert she was the biggest there. A true star. I'll need to check out YouTube. I did catch the Foo Fighters which I thought were great as did the Chili Peppers. Duran Duran I thought were horrible. The sound was c**p once again. Is it them or is it Wembley ?? You'd think it took them that long to build the damn stadium they'd have great sound :rolleyes: One thing about the London concert though, I thought it came off looking better on TV then the Diana gig. It actually looked like a concert and not some school assembly :lol: I agree. It was a much more credible show than the Diana gig imo, more my type of music, but parts were boring. Here it Madge's performance. I am not a big Madge fan by any means but she puts the majoty of young pop stars to shame and out performs them all with ease even at near 50 :lol: The performance of Hung Up was the most impressive, but La Lsla Bonita was so entertaining I thought, and very amusing.. :P Hey You (a tad boring I felt) _6gSLR729ys Ray Of Light ZJWt0kN9NL0 La Lsla Bonita TV3An4Y_xYE Hung Up -ILhHmdOV20
