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OK, I've missed all the UK media coverage of Live 8
Was the general opinion that Pink Floyd were the best thing to happen to live music in the last 20 years?
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:20, archived)
I've not seen any of it either

(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:21, archived)
The reviews I read this morning
said "meh" about PF.
(I helped save b3ta! Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:21, archived)
Yes, but you read
Just Seventeen.
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:23, archived)
I only saw bits and pieces as I
was moving house ALL CUNTING WEEKEND. But PF did seem pretty damn good :)
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:26, archived)
Paul McCartney and U2 doing Sergeant Pepper
was great.
My phlegm-spouting housemate refused to let me try and watch Def Leppard though.
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:29, archived)
I'm amazed that not one presenter
on Radio 1 or the TV had any idea who the lead singer from Velvet Revolver was. He used to sing for Stone Temple Pilots, now I don't expect everyone to know that but these guys that work in the music industry really should have a clue!
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:32, archived)
Scott Weiland?
People don't care who's singing because IT'S FARKIN' SLASH PLAYING GUITAR!

Everyone's too busy watching the man in the hat to notice the bloke that used to sing in the Stone Temple Pilots.
(I helped save b3ta! Johnny Catfish - Yowsa!, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:34, archived)
Ah come on
he's ace (despite being a bit of a twat). Slash is just a guitarist :P
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:41, archived)
Most amusing bit of TV coverage
Jonathan Ross hands over to vacuous bint with microphone doing D-list 'celeb' spotting among the backstage crowd.
"Look who's over there," says VBWM. "Jonathan Ross!"
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:37, archived)
Fearne Cotton?
She is quite, quite awful and is the very definition of "Wittering Tart".

She's the new Davina McCall, aparently.
(I helped save b3ta! Johnny Catfish - Yowsa!, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:42, archived)
She kept asking people in the crowd
"It's not just about the music, is it?"
Most of them said yes, it was. Which was disappointing, but funny.
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:45, archived)
Heh!
You can lead a horse to water etc.
(I helped save b3ta! Johnny Catfish - Yowsa!, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:50, archived)
I managed to miss all of it.
But teh Floyd would have been good to see. They have not been same without Waters' vitriol and general pessimism.
(I helped save b3ta! Lonewolf - O R'lyeh? Ya R'lyeh!, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:27, archived)
PF rocked my bells, they were fantastic
Then McCartney managed to pick the worst Beatles song recorded to end on (The Long and Winding Road), saving it only by segueing into Hey Jude.

And I've got nothing but total
respect for,
Aaaaann-ie Lennox.
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:33, archived)
Ooooh there are worse Beatles songs than that.
Within You Without You.
Dizzy Miss Lizzy.
Her Majesty.

I thought they were going to close on the Sgt Pepper reprise for a nice bit of continuity.
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:35, archived)
None as turgid and MOR
as TLAWR, I fear. Sgt. Pepper's would have been a good idea.
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:46, archived)
I heard an interview with Macca
and he said that he'd been asked to play The Long and Winding Road because L8 had put together a special film to play over it.

Annie Lennox - she doesn't seem to have done anything for 10 years and comes back looking younger and singing better than ever before.
(I helped save b3ta! Johnny Catfish - Yowsa!, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:37, archived)
She ages backwards.
She and Carol Vorderman both.
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:38, archived)
Am I the only one to think that Paul McCartney
is vastly over-rated. He's like the goody 2-shoes, didn't inhale, Beatle.

Annie Lennox is definitely still worth a poke.
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:46, archived)
I haven't liked much (any?) of his stuff written outside the Beatles,
but he's still good when he does Beatles songs.
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:49, archived)
Maybe it's just because I'm getting older or my standards have lowered
but ten years ago I wouldn't have touched her with a bargepole. At the weekend - the idea didn't repulse me.

Not a fan of Macca but 'Live & Let Die' is my favourite Bond theme tune.
(I helped save b3ta! Johnny Catfish - Yowsa!, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:54, archived)
"because I'm getting older or my standards have lowered"
I don't think the 2 things are seperate events :P
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:59, archived)
I fell asleep
sometime around Joss Stone, and woke up at Robbie Williams. The Who were excellent, but then I turned over to watch Dog Day Afternoon instead :D

'Ning all
(I helped save b3ta! Dekazer, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:28, archived)
I've still noty seen that
any good?

I ache like I've been a victim of a gang prison rape today :(
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:33, archived)
Dog Day Afternoon
is fucking incredible.

Ning!
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:34, archived)
I always mean to watch it
I will have to get my hands on it soon :)
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:42, archived)
Bloody excelletn
one of my favourites.

Jalapenos on pizza again?
(I helped save b3ta! Dekazer, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:35, archived)
No
not round the bottom. Just hurt a lot from carrying all my stuff down 3 floors, 300 yards to the van and back up some more stairs at the other end. It was an incredibly long, sweaty and knackering weekend.

Anyway I'm in now and just need to unpack *sob*. The next bit of furniture I have to take apart twice because I did it wrong is going out the fucking window/
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:38, archived)
You will be sleeping on the floor tonight
AICMFP
(I helped save b3ta! The Teviot Moose major 5th., Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:42, archived)
No I managed to get the bed up
on Saturday night thank fuck. I've spent 2 nights in my new place so far. As I am sharing with 3 women I will let you know if I start ovulating.

They keep using my (rented admittedly) 32" widescreen TV to watch Big Brother :(
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:44, archived)
Ahahahahaha
You'll be hooked to all the soaps before you know it!
(I helped save b3ta! Dekazer, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:47, archived)
Broadband is getting put in on Thursday
I will be back on a diet of porn and online gaming very soon ;D
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:50, archived)
Gah!
Foiled again.
(I helped save b3ta! Dekazer, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:52, archived)
Floyd were good in my opinion

As I said yesterday, it made me want to dig out my Floyd CD collection and relisten all over again. Wifey had never heard their music before and wanted to hear more.
I think the main attraction was watching to see if Waters would have a fight with anyone.
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:32, archived)
I liked the review that said
"Pink Floyd — looking like the reunion of a secondary head teacher, the owner of a dry-cleaning company and the Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Department of Transport"
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:39, archived)
They were quite good
but it's The Who who stole the show
(I helped save b3ta! Reid got it going on like Donkey Kong, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:36, archived)
'ning everyone, long time no see
Live 8 was good for the last 40 minutes or so, The Who, PF, and McCartney.
The rest was very meh.
U2 / McCartney singing Sgt Pepper was really bad, imho, they would've been better getting the Quo to open with Rocking all over the world again.

any opinions on PF touring again on the back of such an astounding appearance?
(I helped save b3ta! just mike, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:37, archived)
No, but I have an opinion
that if Chris Martin ever attempts to sing any song with "rocking" in the title again, we tie him to a large stake and burn him
(I helped save b3ta! Reid got it going on like Donkey Kong, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:43, archived)
that was embarrasing to watch
almost as bad as seeing Peter Kay get the crowd to sing that song.
And was it just me, or did almost every band try and do a Freddie Mercury-esque crowd participation bit, and all fail miserably
(I helped save b3ta! just mike, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 9:50, archived)
Robbie Williams managed it
In fact, he got the audience to do his set for him.
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 10:06, archived)
I'm not a Robbie fan but I would've been pissed off with that.
You would want to hear him perform, not watch him with that smug grin on his face holding a mic into the crowd watching you singing his songs back at him.
I don't buy a CD of backing music so that I can sing the fucking songs, I want to hear the artist goddammit.
*clears throat*
sorry
(I helped save b3ta! just mike, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 10:19, archived)