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Who Remembers........Live 8 - London?
Remember when the world's biggest music stars gathered for a purpose, but somehow the cultural impact vanished like morning mist? Live 8, the 2005 global concert extravaganza meant to pressure G8 leaders on African debt relief, should have been remembered as one of music's defining moments. Instead, it's become the charity mega-event that time forgot.
The lineup reads like a who's who of music royalty, yet lacked the magical moments that define truly memorable concerts. Why did an event with Pink Floyd's first (and final) performance since 1981 register as barely a footnote in music history? Was it the questionable energy flow between downbeat performers like Keane and Coldplay? The controversial ticket distribution system? Or something deeper about how charity events had changed in the twenty years since Live Aid?
Join us for this nostalgic exploration of a massive cultural moment that mysteriously slipped through the cracks of our collective memory. Whether you watched Live 8 and forgot about it or never knew it happened, this episode uncovers what went wrong when the world's biggest stars gathered for a cause that should have been unforgettable.
Hello and welcome to who Remembers the UK nostalgia podcast. And today we are asking who Remembers Live 8? Britain's first mass-produced electrical car is something called the.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, before we start, actually it's from tom. Cheers tom for emailing us. Uh, outlook, uh, what is it? He remembers pod out outlookcom if anyone else is interested in getting in touch. Uh, and he sent his message saying I think you should remember the live eight concerts from 2005 because I'm not sure that many other people remember it. I think it's really weird that such a huge global event, with some of the biggest musical performance, had such little cultural impact, especially when compared to that of live aid, he said. Even weirder is the live earth concert that took place a couple of years, uh, later. But we might do live earth at a later date. But I agree with this guy. I agree with tom. Yeah, live eight. I've asked about four people since, like, oh, we're doing Live Aid tonight and they've gone. What Live Aid? No, no, no, live Aid, what? No? Why weren't they big?
Speaker 2:It's weird, isn't it? Because obviously, the people I would imagine even of the younger generation who don't remember it live, which includes us actually. But Live Aid is a true cultural phenomenon. It's referred to, there's moments from it, there's Freddie Mercury, there's Phil Collins playing on.
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Speaker 1:What are they the?
Speaker 2:Continents or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he played in front of Led Zeppelin, didn't he?
Speaker 2:But yeah, there's the sort of famous Bob Geldof gives you fucking money.
Speaker 1:Geldof, obviously giving me loads and loads of big things. Obviously, state is quote starting it off. And, yeah, and we, as we, obviously I, I I was the one who opened this email and I said that's a great idea. And I said to you what do you remember about it? I thought you could remember with ricky gervais doing a dance, and that's literally the same as me as well well, I didn't even remember his dance.
Speaker 2:All I remember is from the xfm shows that there's one that they finish early because he's off to introduce. I had it in my head, it was keen, but it's not actually we'll. We'll get to that when we, when we get there, so with as your face, but yeah yeah, I mean the main thing is like yeah, if you listen to this and it's perfectly what's the word? Perfectly understandable and excusable. If you don't remember, live eight, because a lot of people don't no, I told our mate earlier on.
Speaker 1:Well, yesterday this way, I said I was doing live eight and he just looks so confused and he's younger than us. This should be in his. I do remember watching this. I do I don't know if you were. It were at my house and we had a few people around. We had a couple of mates around I don't know if you were there or not actually and we watched it all the way through and it was quite an entertaining day on on the whole. But no one talks about it. I couldn't, before I started looking up what they were raising money for.
Speaker 2:If you'd have asked me.
Speaker 1:I thought it was to raise money against global warming, but that must have been Live Earth. If I were a quiz and it said, oh, what were Live Aid raising money for? I'd have gone global warming or whatever climate change, something like that. But or whatever climate change, not like that. But now it was exactly the same as Live Aid. It was just well. It was trying to support the aims of Make Poverty History campaign and the global action against poverty, but I don't know if some of the stuff I read suggested it was again kind of themed based on helping Africa.
Speaker 2:I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was exactly the same sort of thing as Live Aid. Really, the politicians were having a meet I think a G8 summit, whatever the G12 summit, whatever it's called at the same weekend, and it was done to put pressure on them to drop the debt and all that sort of stuff. Like I say, it was just basically to support the aims of the global call against poverty.
Speaker 2:Really, so, yeah, what we're going to do. I mean, I think you've got a few bits to say. I don't know if you've covered a lot of it. But one thing I did find interesting. So instead of buying tickets, they did like uh you had to text in. I think it was one pound 50 a text or something, but ultimately they straight in Geldo's pocket.
Speaker 1:I'm a joke. I can't say that If you won it they were really cheap.
Speaker 2:So it was only something like yeah, the 150 a ticket if you got it, or something. But there was a lot of controversy because people ended up selling them on eBay and people were kicking off about that. But eBay said, well, they're not actually doing anything wrong. There's nothing in there that says they can't be resold. Ebay offered to donate money that would have made up for ticket sales. There was some kind of they tried to make a deal around it, but basically I think it sounds like in the end people sabotaged it by just putting in like million pound bids that obviously they were never gonna.
Speaker 1:they were never gonna pay and ebay ended up taking them off sale, so yeah, wow, yeah, so a bit of a bit of a shambles really. I mean we're going to concentrate on the the high part one for us, because that that's the one that I mean the bits that we do remember, but they've been from that because I'd say we're on TV all day. But before we start, liam, can I tell you a few people who didn't go, didn't attend, refused to play, including our old mates from Waston and Blur, noel Gallagher said before are they hoping the guys from the G8 see Annie Lennox singing Sweet Dreams and think, fuck me, she might have a point? You know it's not going to fucking happen. Is it Keane doing somewhere? Only we know, and some Japanese businessman going ah, look at him. We really should fucking drop that debt. You know it's not going to happen, is it?
Speaker 2:That's NG do you agree with him? Yeah, I do. But ultimately the aim because the first one was never going to make a businessman cancel a debt, was it? It was just to kind of raise awareness as well.
Speaker 1:Give me your fucking money. Don't go to the pub. We'll have to do Live Aid at some point.
Speaker 2:Ultimately, I think he's right, but I don't think his reasoning is necessarily. I don't think it had the impact people wanted, but I don't think it was getting Mr Yakamoto to cancel his debt. I think it was more about let's raise awareness for the fact that there's crippling debt on these people who can never pay it off almost.
Speaker 1:Well, david Albarn said the lack of black performers was the greatest oversight by the organisers, while Senegalese musician Baba Marl I've seen him live actually wrote in the Independent. I do think it's very patronising as an African artist that most of us aren't involved. Live Aid actually did add black artists such as Snoop Dogg and Miss Dynamite. Miss Dynamite, she's still going, not the proper massive that way.
Speaker 2:I don't know who remembers.
Speaker 1:Who remembers Miss Dynamite? Yeah, so they did get added. Rolling Stones turned it down. Mick Jagger said he thinks the connection well, he thought the connection between Geldof and the Labour Party was too tight. He says who's this gratifying? And where are the Africans? What's their say in all this? He said he thought it was stuck together too fast and he said he had never had so much pressure in his life from so many knights of the realm. I love knights of the realms. I love that, obviously, sir Mick and DJ, andy Kershaw and DJ and the Kershaw, and I think we might touch on this a bit.
Speaker 2:David Beckham's going to be a knight of the realm, isn't?
Speaker 1:he yeah, sir Beckham, can you do a?
Speaker 2:David Beckham impersonation, because I think I can. So let's see if you can do an accent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll try and do Beckham. Well, it's just not as greasy, isn't it? Well, I don't know, I can't.
Speaker 2:Here's the answer Go on. Victoria, I've been told I'm going to be a knight.
Speaker 1:It's great, Victoria that they're going to make me a knight of the realm. I'm trying to do a Victoria impression but I don't even know. Has she got an accent?
Speaker 1:David Fuck off David, fuck off David. I don't think she's ever said Well, she must have said at one point fuck off David. The show said I am coming reluctantly to the conclusion that Live 8 is as much to do with Geldof showing off his ability to push around presidents and prime ministers as with pointing out the potential of Africa. Indeed, geldof appears not to be interested in Africa's strength, only Africa on its knees.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think yeah, we might as well sort of touch on it now. It's kind of more of a summary, but I think this is part of the problem. So we're gonna we're gonna remember some of the artists and see if you can remember the artist it's gonna get a lot funner than this.
Speaker 1:This is where we go in on gala party started, isn't it?
Speaker 2:but I think that's that's what I remember about this and that's seemingly the vibe that it's given off that this one wasn't about people doing altruistic deeds to to generate money and awareness. This was agenda driven. People were kind of trying to boost their own profiles. Maybe geldof was, I'd done nothing, so he's kind of trying to get himself back in the public eye a little bit.
Speaker 1:We'll get into that later on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so yeah, I think that's the the memory of it before we go through it, because I don't remember all the artists but but in terms of remembering, I do remember a slight sort of cynical feel to this one.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, some people say it was a success, but it only actually raised £2.7 million in profit, which is better than nothing.
Speaker 2:I don't understand this why are they rashing out tickets on a ballot for £1.50 each? Why don't they just sell them for £30 each, or whatever for £1.50 each? Why don't they just sell them for £30 each or whatever? I don't get that. And then they paid. I read somewhere they generated £3 million through ticket sales, but then they had to give £1.6 to the King's charity because the cancelled party in the park or whatever it is, his charity runs. So they didn't raise much money and then they gave a big chunk of it to a different charity. It seems a mad sell from the start.
Speaker 1:You're going to have to ask Bob on that one, aren't you, mr Geldof? Shall, we get on with the acts.
Speaker 2:Let's get on with the fun stuff.
Speaker 1:I'll let you lead this in terms of the acts that played, because we've got the line up here.
Speaker 2:Okay, so first of all, it's the introduction from one of the Jonathan Ross brothers, and it is Jonathan Ross himself imagine if you were paul ross, though that'd be brilliant when I yeah, I would like that. I don't know how many people would know he is, because he only does radio these days. Don't know, and he does the thing as well.
Speaker 1:Do you know? Like in the first, another thing that's famous about live aid. I can't remember who it is, is it? Uh, tommy vance? I want to say he introduces live aid by saying it's one o'clock or whatever, it's london and welcome to live, and that's like quite a. It's that famous. I can't remember it, but it was that. And he does exactly the same. Jonathan Ross, it's 2pm, it's Hyde Park, london, welcome to live 8. And then, obviously, bang, we're straight onto the music with it. This is why this is mad that no one remembers it, because do you want to tell you, the first two artists on stage are yeah, I mean crazy, huge, huge acts to start the day off.
Speaker 2:I mean I wonder if that's some of it. Maybe these should have been later in the day. But first of all, mr Ego himself, I think, who probably just decided he's got to be first. It's U2.
Speaker 1:Mr Bono. Mr Bono comes on Actually featuring Sir Paul McCartney. Imagine that U2 and Sir Paul McCartney, especially at this stage. I think they just released Beautiful Day. They played it actually, didn't they? You'll love that song, don't you? Or?
Speaker 2:do you not?
Speaker 1:or you just, like you, think it's a great football song.
Speaker 2:I love the ending before football da da, da, da, da da yeah.
Speaker 1:I like it. I think it's a really good song. Beautiful Day. I know it's overplayed and stuff, but they did Sgt Pepper, a band with McCartney, so that kicks off the day straight away.
Speaker 2:That feels like that should be huge, doesn't it, you two? Yeah, you've done Sgt Pepper, you've got McCartney. Beautiful Day, blackbird, vertigo I hate Vertigo, by the way.
Speaker 1:Hello, hello Hula. I hate that bit so much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Untrained.
Speaker 1:Melody, Not with Robson and Jerome, unfortunately I might have got my carton out on them and you'll not believe who we've got next. It's Robson and Jerome. Oh, my love.
Speaker 2:I wonder if they started with them. That might have been a better vibe to start the day. Start off with Robson and Jerome when the rivers flow to the sea.
Speaker 1:And then they did Up on the Roof, Got some fucking hits. Those Well, they're not their own hits, obviously. But yeah, I hate Vertigo. I just hate that bit where he goes hello, hello, Hola. I just hate, I hate. Why, why?
Speaker 2:would you? I just hate. This is a place called Vertigo. Was that on the album that they forced onto everyone's iPhone?
Speaker 1:Was that? Get a lot of stick. You too. I know you're a big fan. You're a bigger fan than me.
Speaker 2:I'd say I'm not so much these days, but yeah, I think in the prime. They were excellent. I don't like the sort of later end of that they sort of fizzled out into I watched some of the concerts from the early 90s.
Speaker 1:I'd have loved to be one of those concerts. Unbelievable like live at that stage, like incredible in their sort of pomp.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were absolutely phenomenal as a live band. But yeah, then they just kept doing it and sort of weren't what they used to be anymore and it became a little bit sad, as a lot of acts do, I suppose I can sort of see why it's failed a little bit this in a way, because they start with you two and it's quite a downbeat.
Speaker 2:Start beautiful days, obviously in vertigo, quite upbeat, but they do one, one brilliant song and then coldplay come on, and they're not the most, no, they're quite downbeat, although they do sort of try to get things going with a version of uh uh rocking all over the world, although they only did the chorus, apparently hecky and stewart mccall. Yeah, uh well ahead of the time, weren't they like 18 years before with hecky and stewart?
Speaker 1:mccall. Uh bit of Sweet Symphony, didn't you, Richard Ashcroft?
Speaker 2:Which, again, I love that song. That'd be in my top 50 songs, but it's not necessarily one to get everyone going, is it?
Speaker 1:No, and I think at this point as well, ashcroft had been off the scene a little bit. I mean, you've got to remember the Verve had not. I don't think they'd had an hit since like 97 or whatever, and he weren't really successful as a solo artist. Some may say he's not, he's sporting oasis, actually isn't he? But so they're quite a big thing. Them like using one of their because I think every act hits three or four songs like the same as Live Aid for them to use one of their songs, one of them to be Eckie and Stuart McCall and the other one to be Bittersweet Symphony quite accommod, accommodating, from Chris Martin and the Boys.
Speaker 2:It's absolutely fine. We'll play your songs, not mine. Is that? Who's that?
Speaker 1:I don't know that sounds like McCartney, but like if he's got a sore throat. Yeah, go on anyway, Liam, if you want to carry on.
Speaker 2:All right, so next up we get David Wellams and Matt Lucas, but as Lou and Andy from Little Britain, yeah, massive at the time, Little Britain yeah, yeah, they do another. I would imagine they do. What do you think they did?
Speaker 1:They'd have probably said he'll have run around on stage. Yeah, there'll be something where he said I don't like it.
Speaker 2:Just sit yourself down. I'm going to go and have a chat with that sound man over there and while he's got his back turned, he'll have picked up a guitar and rolled his back and stuff. If, and rolling his back and stuff, if anyone can remember this, I've not seen that yeah because that's what I'd have predicted as well.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, david Walliams, matt Lucas, I think you'd have said, oh, we're at Live 8. I don't like it. You said it was one of the greatest things. I'm just going to have a look. Yeah, that's exactly what will have happened. It's coming back, isn't it? Somehow, Is it?
Speaker 1:Hmm, imagine if it had to be avoided. The shade of cloud then. Well, everyone who's listened to our former podcast, Living With May, they still get it. You can still get it. Yeah, we've found something. Well, we haven't found anything about Williams. We've just looked at his Wikipedia page and it's a bit weird.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but fair enough, fair play. I mean, they've gone big early, haven't they next?
Speaker 1:We've got Elton John. Although this is I'm just looking at his set list here, elton John's think about it incredible hits, mind you. At least he's trying to get the party started.
Speaker 2:I suppose so, but I'm a I'm a massive Elton John fan. It's a weird two songs to start with. So because the bitch is back first, which I get, he's trying to get the energy going. And the same for Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting, but they're not, I don't know. They're not like anthemic getting everyone going on there's so many other songs and then we get the I do remember this bit we get the bumbling.
Speaker 2:Pete Doherty comes on with him to sing Children of the Revolution. It might not have been quite so bumbling back then it was.
Speaker 1:Can you remember this? I remember this happening.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was shocking.
Speaker 1:I remember Ren and me put it in the gigs of the year because they said he played it like he was just in a pub and he was playing at this massive event, obviously being screened worldwide, and he just turned up. It's Children of the Revolution. I remember people after saying Elton's going to knock him out backstage. I can't imagine that at all, but yeah, it was terrible, absolutely terrible.
Speaker 2:You're a fucking pig, you're a fucking lazy freak.
Speaker 1:You're a fucking disgrace. And this was like the height of Pete Doherty's fame, I'd say just after the Libertians had split up. But it was tabloid gold, weren't it? And this didn't do anything to help his reputation with them anyway.
Speaker 2:No, although he probably was off his head on drugs. So, hmm, maybe, as was Elton, to be fair.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I don't think. Yeah, he can't. I reckon Elton I imagine Pete Doherty could not touch Elton John on his prime to go and then again, I don't know, boo, what did he boo the villain of the piece.
Speaker 2:I don't remember it. I do remember something about him. I'm not sure We'll wait till we get to it, but this isn't the bit where he does the most irritating thing no, don't, whoa don't.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, don't ruin that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because that's coming. Yeah, I'll keep that cat in the bag. So next up, we've got another mad one. So we've got a host as Bob Geldof, and then, presenting, we've got Bill Gates.
Speaker 1:Bill Gates pushing his vaccines? No doubt, yeah, I think. Yeah. I mean I don't know why he came out. I presume he put a couple of quid into it and I would have thought Bill Gates Geldof got a brown paper envelope that day, didn't he?
Speaker 2:Yeah? And then we go to probably the bit I would have enjoyed the most so far, purely because the song's out in shows. So next we go to Dido Another low-key one though, isn't it Dido? Yeah, but I can imagine on it. I don't know what the weather was if on a sunny afternoon, I think I'd quite like to chill out today. Get what you mean that they're struggling with the weather, going with the energy levels, but we get white flag first, uh, and then we get thank you and seven seconds, but that's with uh, you sue and door.
Speaker 1:I don't know, you know you know the song well, seven seconds away yeah just as long as I stay. I never liked it.
Speaker 2:I'll be waiting.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So again, you know, I know you're a big fan of Dido. You're one of the first to discover actually pre-M&M, weren't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I was there right in front of the queue, early doors. Yeah, Her and James Blunt, we all two when we used to go on our whole weekenders.
Speaker 1:We died. Imagine that shit they sound. We died doing James Blunt blasting out of the stereo.
Speaker 2:Goodbye my lover.
Speaker 1:And then on the way back, we were a bit on go right, we used to put Smiths on, didn't we? Some girls are bigger than others. Depressing times. After that you get the stereophonic. So I'm actually seeing in France uh festival later on this year. Um, yeah, these are a good, like upbeat sort of band, aren't they?
Speaker 2:to be fair, they're so like middle of the road, aren't they like they're a great. If you do I don't know if you're putting the grass and you've got your headphones on and stereophonics come on, you'll think it's not bad, good festival band, though, like you know, just see for for an hour. I know what you mean, but I can't imagine being wowed by the stereophonics.
Speaker 1:The bartender and the FIFA lovers. Maybe tomorrow on Local Boy and the Photographs. And then we come to the most memorable moment, don't we, of the entire day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so this is Ricky Gervais in his I don't know kind of where this would be. This would be post the Office roundabout extras time, would it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, just as he's doing extras, yeah.
Speaker 2:Before he went drove headfirst over the cliff. So he's still all right in these days. Yeah, it's a lot of dignity in these days. Yeah, it goes on. I mean I think it's funny how like he was always sort of jibed at for being fat and actually I've seen it since this and he just looks like a normal man.
Speaker 1:He's not, were he by any chance, dressed in a plain white black T-shirt, black trousers and shoes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he went jogging bottoms plain white T-shirt Very plain yeah. Yeah, just simple colours. He comes out, he does a bit of a chat. I know this because this is the one bit I've watched since I did remember it, but I didn't remember what he said, but I've watched this fairly recently. He comes out and makes some sort of joke about Geldof and Midge. I've spoke to Blair and George Bush and they've agreed to quadruple aid. So that's it, it's finished, you can go home. Nobody really reacts. And then he says I'm joking you.
Speaker 1:Really ridiculous. You're making a impression yeah, no.
Speaker 2:He says no, I'm joking, so You're making this impression. Yeah, no. He says no, I'm joking, so you can all stay. And then I mean, don't get me wrong, I get it, they're trying to get the crowd going, but he does, and what will become sort of a theme is this thing of. So he's just finishing up. He says, right, All right, right, see you later. And then he goes what's that? Do the dance. Oh, come on, I'm not doing the dance. Nobody said do the dance. So he sort of says no, no, I'm not doing it, I'm not doing it. He goes to walk off and everyone then, because he's putting the idea do the dance. He's then genuinely saying come on, do the dance, boo. So he goes oh my God, leave it. I can't even remember it.
Speaker 1:And then he does a, a rehearsed version of his dance that he's learned very recently but does in a way that he didn't know it. Yeah, yeah, that dance, yeah. And then he introduced which, to be honest, at the time, were really, really funny.
Speaker 2:At the time it was still fresh when it wasn't like yeah, to be fair, I'm not like, I'm not sort of you can't judge him on afterlife then, because it hadn't happened, so it was still no, no no, maybe that's how he started.
Speaker 1:That's pretty full. I'm not doing this anymore. I'm just going to go for the lowest common denominator shit, yeah maybe His eyes changed. He might have just thought because he got that much cheer from just doing a shit dance. He thought this is fucking easy.
Speaker 2:What I've been doing, trying to put all this effort in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not writing good stuff anymore. Yeah fuck that.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it would have been funny at the time. But yeah, he introduces.
Speaker 1:They should have got Limmy Sorry before. They should have got Limmy on, you know, doing his DJ thing, if anyone's ever seen that off of Limmy's show.
Speaker 2:Oh fantastic, yeah, it's absolutely amazing. It's brilliant, Brilliant, but a band I've never seen live. I think me and Tom Jolly are in agreement on this that this is one of the few bands. Dc loves more than me, but that I would love to see live.
Speaker 1:that haven't, and this is REM Me and Tom, our biggest regret is Prodigy and REM at T in the Park clashed and I said, prodigy, just come back, because REM will be around forever. Rem will be around forever. We'll go and see Prodigy. You know, because they've only just come back, they might not stick around. Well, he obviously has passed away, but I've seen him since. After Fucking REM split up about a week after Gutted.
Speaker 2:Yeah, energy levels again, I'm repeating. But Imitation of Life, yeah, fair enough, everybody Hurts. It's a classic which is quite downbeat. And then the bit I would have absolutely loved If you believe, they put a man on the moon.
Speaker 1:A man on the moon, brilliant song REM is one of them. Genuinely as well. That was another album we used to play in our whole baby. You know, automatic for the people. Another upbeat album.
Speaker 2:I think it's a good hit per there's not many skips on that album.
Speaker 1:No, it's a good hits per. There's not many skips on that album, to be fair. Nah, it's a good album. They're not one of my favourite bands, are they, but that?
Speaker 2:is a really, really good album.
Speaker 1:Try Not To Breathe Quite depressing, but it's a fantastic album Try Not To Breathe, yeah, and obviously your favourite Night Swimming. Deserves a quiet. Deserves a quiet life. Yeah who's next Liam? Who's this?
Speaker 2:This is Kofi Annan, who I believe Is. Head of like NATO or Some sort of like global.
Speaker 1:I thought you were of Radio 1 DJ.
Speaker 2:Like peace leader or something. Weren't he Secretary General of the United Nations at the time, Fair play to him. And then next we get Previously mentioned Miss Dynamite at the time, Fair play to him. And then next we get previously mentioned Miss Dynamite.
Speaker 1:How do you do it, miss Dynamite?
Speaker 2:I don't know how to pronounce her name.
Speaker 1:And she does Redemption Song by Bob Marley as well. Yeah, probably not as good. Fair play, bit of Marley. Never heard anyone did it, liam Marley.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good, and then next we get. I think this is a misstep here, because, well, I loved Keane, but they only get two songs and I bet these were absolute belters Somewhere, only we Know, followed by Bed Shaped. I bet Bed Shaped was absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1:I don't think I've heard Bed Shaped you have.
Speaker 2:With the sun in your eyes and I will be bed shaped. It sounds like it, but I don't think.
Speaker 1:I know it. What would I know, god, this were a bad era for upbeat songs. We've gone from REM to fucking Keane. Keane were good, no, no, no, no. I'm on about in terms of getting the crowd going. So you've got, obviously.
Speaker 2:REM, but they're anthems, then they're stadium anthems. I bet they were good.
Speaker 1:Why? Because they didn't do. This Is the Last Time. This is the last time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right, I would have given them probably five or six songs. There's a few on there. I got rid of early doors.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what. I saw them at Leeds Festival once. Cade, I'm not a big fan. They were one of them bands that were on it middle of the day, so I went to see them. They were really good really good.
Speaker 2:Well, him the lead singer, the best Freddie Mercury replacement I've ever heard in his dying days. It is good I don't want to keep singing because I'm doing farting. It's a hard life, that's it. That's what I'm trying to think of.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's brilliant, keane N, by the way and Will Smith comes on, but instead of doing one of his songs, he's just presenting Getting jiggy with it. Yeah, he just comes on. I can imagine he did like a joke. He'll have known how to work a crowd. He won't have done a dance and fucked off.
Speaker 2:No, like yeah, I can't imagine what he sort of oh yeah, don't make he didn't sing Fresh Prince, although I bet that would have been good actually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's just presenting. I think if he'd have sang it he'd have said sang, he's just presenting. He might have done keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth. It's a geldof Did you manage. I find it funny that Will Smith introduces Travis of all bands.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're polar opposites, aren't they?
Speaker 1:So this is where it gets good, though, by the way. So Travis, travis do sing side terrible song titles. They're just staying alive, which I can't imagine, and why does it always rain on me? Obviously. And then, immediately following travis's performance, bob geldof comes on and he says he tells the audience he could not resist playing on this stage. And guess what he played? Liam.
Speaker 2:Ah, it's such an tell me why've got one song.
Speaker 1:Tell me why he has actually got two. He's got Rat Trap as well, which is A number one but. Earlier in the day, geldof had said he didn't deserve to play Alongside the schedule artists. But as he was watching it and I've seen the back, because our mate Tom had this on DVD and I've only seen Little bits of it and he's backstage going, I have to fucking go on.
Speaker 2:I have to fucking go on, yeah but it's bullshit because the band know the song yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So he goes on because the killers he's so clearly pre-prepared Like there's no way you could do that and have everybody just pick. Well, I'd love it if he started doing it and the band just said I don't know it, Bob, hardly anyone knows what is it?
Speaker 1:What's it called? Don't Like Choose, choose Mondays, is it?
Speaker 2:Who don't you like what's it called?
Speaker 1:Yeah, who is it you don't like? I just play the. Forgive Me, your Fucking Money? He's yeah. So he comes on and he tells the killers you can only do one song now because I'm on. Who in their right mind would rather hear?
Speaker 2:I Don't Like Mondays than absolute disgrace, but for two it's obviously a free plan that way. There's no way that, because if I was aiming Killers man, I'd have said I won't do any, you do some more. Have you got any other songs? Or just play that twice if you want, and I won't do any.
Speaker 1:He could have said breaking my back, just to know I'm playing. Yeah, so they're going to play one song Killers because they did a big long version and we'll get to it later.
Speaker 2:Killers should have done the same song.
Speaker 1:Everyone after as a protest should have done. I Don't Like Mondays, don't Like Geldof.
Speaker 2:Oh tell me why. I don't like Geldof.
Speaker 1:The best thing about that video and I don't know if you've mentioned it on here before is how bad his acting is. You know when he acts really short, when all bands shout him on the video or the Boomtown Rats version Tell me why and he jumps back into his chair. I don't like Mondays. It's not a bad song. I like the lyrics and stuff. What?
Speaker 1:I hate especially when he does it. I think he does it on here when he goes. The lesson today is how to die and he of getting really emotional because obviously talk about the africans, but it's about a fucking, a woman who went, a girl who went and shot up a school, so it don't work that you know what I mean. Not good enough get out. But then obviously he's followed by someone nearly as famous in mr brad pitt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, lots of. I don't know if the first one had this, to be honest, live aid, so I can't compare it but lots of people popping up just to sort of like, hey, it's me, look, it's me, you like it? Yeah, why would you? I don't like Mondays by Bob Geldof, and obviously he doesn't. He doesn't even get the rest of the Boomtown Rats to get a kind of bit of attention, does he? Because to get a bit of attention, does he Probably fall out with them because he keeps doing this?
Speaker 1:They're probably saying can we do another hit? No, we've got to do. I don't know why he's Scottish. We've got to do. I Don't Like Mondays again. I can only sing one song and then anyway, brad Pitt puts Annie Lennox on. I know you're a big fan of Annie Lennox.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I bet this will go certainly agree with the first song. Why, hmm?
Speaker 1:Little Bird. Do you know? It's like placeholder lyrics when you think I've got this thing for chorus. Yeah, that's perfect, aren't I? That's absolutely. Yeah, don't bother with that Little.
Speaker 2:Bird. Good song, but that got the crowds going. And then Sweet Dreams, so Sweet Dreams made of these yeah good, that is a good song. I bet that was good it reminds me of the Simpsons.
Speaker 1:Though I am watching you through a camera, I can't listen to it now without singing that.
Speaker 2:What have we got next? So we go from Annie Lennox into UB40. So you'd have enjoyed this.
Speaker 1:Now we're cooking. Cool, now we're cooking. We've got Annie Lennox and UB4. This is 2005,. By the way. We've got Annie Lennox followed by UB4.
Speaker 2:It's not 1989, by the way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ub4, do Food for Thought. Great song, what You're Fighting For. Never Heard Of it. Reasons, never Heard Of it. Red Red Wine, shit and Can't Help Falling In Love, which is shit. I like, ub4.
Speaker 2:Their early stuff's good, but then they just went down this. I think their version of red red wine is fucking terrible. It is awful, and if you're gonna drop a song, if it's genuine, you don't tell the killers not to sing a song. Red red wine's just gone in, it's just yeah, take it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he's fucked up. They fuck off. I can't remember them at all, didn't know they were playing. And then I do remember this a little bit snoop dogg comes on and it cuts to beckham, dancing like side, you know, in the backstage area to him oh right, no, I knew he was there, but I don't remember the Beckham incident.
Speaker 2:No, yeah drop it like it's hot he goes down really well.
Speaker 1:I remember watching it at the time. I can't remember you before it being there, but I remember, with that sort of afternoons, what we're talking here seven o'clock. You've been watching music quite a long time and it's sort of dropping off a little bit, even if you're into it. And then he comes on and it's completely different to everything that's gone before. It's dropping like it's the next episode and all that and really really good, and obviously he's followed by razor light, which is the next obvious step. Yeah, just deflates.
Speaker 2:I mean, I quite like razor light, but that's not the next step, is it no?
Speaker 1:they do. They do somewhere else Golden Touch in the city. Then it was this with Geldof. Now Geldof's back on.
Speaker 2:Geldof's back on with Birhan Waldu. Birhan Waldu, that is an Ethiopian who has a child appearing in video footage taken while she was close to death. The footage was shown at Live Aid, so yeah.
Speaker 1:That's a really nice touch.
Speaker 2:so yeah, and then Madonna, but this is a massive black coupe yeah, I've lost my playlist for now, so can't see what well like a prayer which I think she over a personally one of my own unpopular musical opinions.
Speaker 1:I don't like it. Uh, ray of light. Again not a big fan of that and music and again I'm not a massive fan of that I have.
Speaker 2:I do think she's got some good songs with her, but she has, but then they're not any of them really, are they no?
Speaker 1:I know she has to play like I don't really like. I saw, right, maybe she's I really like, um, like a virgin, right? Maybe it's just I really like Like A Virgin. I think that's a brilliant song, pop song. I think Holiday's amazing and I love Material Girl.
Speaker 2:Material Girl I would play.
Speaker 1:I would play personally oh Father's, a fantastic song. What's?
Speaker 2:the. Oh fucking hell. I love Madonna. I'd play Frozen, but that's not the one I'm trying to think of. I'm trying to think of the one where the elephants dance around in the background. Baby face, don't grow so fast. Make a special wish that will always last.
Speaker 1:Oh, I do know what you mean, yeah.
Speaker 2:Dream something or sweet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, something like that. I love that song.
Speaker 2:I can't believe I forgot the name of it, but what a moment. Let's get ready for the big act. So at this time this would probably be the thing I was looking forward to the most. I would say, and this is Snow Patrol. And they did Chocolate and Run, which are again I bet that was just brilliant at the time. They're not necessarily the two that I would have played, but I think they both would work in this moment. I think not the best of Madonna, but we've had I bet Madonna was good and then we've had Snow Patrol. So I reckon around this time you'd be getting in the groove now.
Speaker 1:Well, after these, it'd kill us. It should have been better than it. They only did one song, which were all these things that I have done because all these things that I have done because, obviously, geldof had to ruin everything.
Speaker 2:If they were going to do go on other big hit. Well, I know they had a few, but the big one.
Speaker 1:Mr Brightside.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if they'd have done Mr Brightside after that, that would have been amazing.
Speaker 1:I don't know if they were out of it, but they've got loads of hits they could have done. Are we human? Are we dancer? Somebody told me you know what this really read my mind. But loads of hits.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I think Mr Brightside was perfect. Yeah, I mean, I really liked when we were young, but I think Mr Brightside would have been perfect there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but now Geldof says no, Then I think we go for a bit of a fucking dodgy spell here. Liam, to be honest. After them, Joss Stone, who were massive at time. But I don't know any of these songs. I can't remember.
Speaker 2:I kind of am aware of Joss Stone, but I can't quite picture her or think of any of her songs. None of these ring a bell. Super Duper Love. I had a Dream, some Kind of Wonderful. I'm sure if I heard them I'd recognise them, but by name I do not.
Speaker 1:This is where you should be getting your big hits out. For me, like you say, it's a bit.
Speaker 2:It's a bit front loaded when mccartney and you two and just should have started the day, since this is where we want elton and coldplay and yeah, you too even uh, we go to scissor sisters, to be fair, massive at time, yeah, and I don't love them, but they've had some good hits yeah yeah, I think. But yeah, I get it, I get that that's not too bad for me, and then you might prefer this more than me. Just the songs there, laura, take your Mama. Everybody Wants the Same Thing.
Speaker 1:And then we go Velvet Revolver which Velvet Revolver were like Slash as band after you left Guns N' Roses. Not for me, Don't work for me brother, I don't know. I don't like any of their songs, to be honest, and then in a desperate attempt to save the day.
Speaker 2:Lenny henry comes in as a presenter. It sounds like a joke, but he does. Lenny henry comes in. Do you reckon he went? Oh, I reckon he said um, I remember when I was a kid and I was talking about one day I'll host an event and my mom said what you talk about, you're not going to host no event.
Speaker 1:Ridiculous. But yeah, that is his act. Actually. Summed up, yeah, well done. And then he presents Sting and I read this after Sting does the same songs that he does at Live Aid. Exactly the same. You've got to freshen up sometimes, haven't you? Yeah, message in a bottle, message in a bottle. I bet that was good. Driven to tears. I don't know why I did that one. No, I don't know why I did that one. And then, obviously, every breath you take, yeah.
Speaker 2:It should have definitely done by David Brenton.
Speaker 1:You don't want to put on the red light, he's got a mad voice when he's got his mum's back. That's why he introduced it. Here's my mum's sting. You don't have to put on the red light. He did use the sing line and then, weirdly, actually, after Sting Dawn, french Lenny Henry's full of half.
Speaker 2:I don't think it is that weird because, yeah, the wife and husband turned up together. They said we'll do it, but we're not hanging around all day. We've got to do them quite close together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I suppose so yeah. And then she introduced Mariah Carey. I don't know if I know the songs, Liam.
Speaker 2:I know Hero actually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you would know we Belong Together I think, if you heard it, Not a big fan of Mariah you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's done some good songs, though I think I love the. The lyric to you'll always be a part of me thing, but, and we'll linger on. I love how it's sang with affection but that sounds like an awful thing to say.
Speaker 1:A relationship, and we'll linger on obviously most famous for one of Westlife looking at a boobies when they did Against All Odds. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I used to be a big fan of Mariah Carey.
Speaker 1:I think Fantasy is a really good song.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that was a song that I used to stop.
Speaker 1:My gym set to watch. Anyway, carry on Liam.
Speaker 2:I'm back. It's me Victoria. I'm coming back. I'm not Sir David yet, but I'm here Beckham introducing Robbie Williams.
Speaker 1:I'm back. It's me, victoria, I'm coming back. I'm not Sir David yet, but I'm here. Yep, beckham, beckham introducing Robbie Williams. What an unbelievable like at this era. Maybe a little bit past the pomp, actually, both of them.
Speaker 2:But although Beckham, I wanted to sum up a sort of Union Jack of this era. It would be Beckham and Robbie, and even possibly Peter Kay who follows robbie.
Speaker 1:But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, those three in a row david beckham, rob williams and peter k, this era's sort of I don't know what you know, I don't know who it is these days, that these days it's like I don't know that's like anything these days, can you?
Speaker 1:these days, you can't say anything. Who's biggest? It's like jude bellingham it's to our younger listeners introducing Ed Sheeran, who then introduces I don't know who the biggest comedian is. Who's the biggest, like youngest comedian? What's his name? What's his fucking name? Who's the big young comedian at the moment?
Speaker 2:Anyway, you don't want to get it out. Joe Lysette, I don't think he is Joe Lysette. Yeah, whatever, no, I don't think he would be, would I?
Speaker 1:I think, he's talking, but he's a massive.
Speaker 2:Oh, go on him.
Speaker 1:Oh, widdicombe, he's not that fucking. He's not as big as Peter Kay. Peter Kaye's probably sold biggest one actually. Yeah, it might be Peter Kaye again. It might be another Peter Kaye, yeah. But Robbie Williams and I'm not a fan of this and I know if Major Charles is listening he's not going to be happy with this. He's a big Robbie fan. I've never been a big fan at all of Robbie Williams. It just didn't do it for me. I hate that. I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams. Clip more than possibly of all time. I just think he I don't know he got ahead of himself. I didn't think he was that good. I remember watching him on here and he was fucking brilliant. I have to take my hat off to him.
Speaker 2:I'm a big Robbie fan, not necessarily sort of his overly shouty stuff, but I think he's some of his sort of ballady stuff. I love Advertising Space. I think that is such a good song, really underrated, but we Will Rock you, let Me Entertain, you Feel. And then it finished with Angels, which will have been good because it well yeah, but it will have been good though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but then he got upstaged, obviously by Peter Kay coming on doing Is this the Way To Amarillo? Well, this was another forced moment.
Speaker 2:So you've got Gervais pretending everyone wants him to do the dance. You've got Geldof pretending anyone in the world wants him to ever sing I Don't Like Mondays and then you've got Peter Kay who kind of orchestrates this. Oh, come on, guys, we need to keep the energy up did he do Garlic Bread? Almost certainly yeah. Can I tell you what?
Speaker 1:I saw. I went to Leeds Festival and I went to see Kaiser Cheese in the time where Ricky Wilson looked more like you than you do you did at the time, and Ricky Wilson looked more like you than you do you did at the time. Anyway yeah, and PTK came on to present him and guess what he said. Can you guess what he said? To introduce him Red, we're garlic, Well, you're on the right lines, but he's introducing the Kaiser Chiefs Chiefs.
Speaker 1:Kaiser's Kaiser Chiefs, yeah he goes Kaiser chiefs, kaiser and chiefs, and then kaiser chiefs came on.
Speaker 2:So yeah, don't change, you haven't who remembers a big inspiration for this podcast oh yeah but yeah, he sort of talks the crowd up into singing this song, the only the bit I found funnier again, I've watched that bit fairly I don't know few last few days. He sort of seems to be in the wrong place on stage and a sound guy comes to move him across and I think this is genuine, not scripted, because he sort of starts moving him a little bit towards the center of the stage. But Peter Kay sort of says what's he doing? Are you sober? And like looks at him and Bloke actually starts laughing like as if he didn't see that coming. So I think that is improv. So Peter Kay is finest, he's a pro.
Speaker 1:He's a pro. He wouldn't have got that with Javace. I mean, obviously we've talked before. If people are new to this podcast, we're not Ricky Javace haters by any stretch of the imagination. You love XFM Office, arguably my favourite ever sitcom, brilliant. But you wouldn't be getting this with Gervais live on stage doing Adelaide. That's why he was forced to do his dance, wasn't it? Yeah he might be doing it now, as we speak somewhere.
Speaker 2:The who come on next, the who remember.
Speaker 1:I thought they should change the name too.
Speaker 2:Well, he makes a joke actually, peter Kay. He says, coming on, I've come to introduce Spice Girls. And then he turns and looks off stage and says you, what, who, the who.
Speaker 1:The who.
Speaker 2:Here we get the who. With who Are you? You like that who?
Speaker 1:are you? And then?
Speaker 2:the tribute to George Bush.
Speaker 1:We won't get fooled again. We won't get fooled again, won't get fooled again. Yeah, obviously, yeah, famously. And then the biggest thing, this was actually. This might be one of the reasons it sort of fell flat. So Pink Floyd are on and this was the first performance by the classic Dark Side of the Moon line-up of Pink Floyd, which is Roger Walters, david Gilmour, nick Mason, richard Wright Wright. Since their breakup in 1985 and this was their last performance were in 1981, like the last time they played together.
Speaker 2:wow, didn't they not?
Speaker 1:yeah, and this is the final time they played together because Richard Wright died. So this one massive Pink Floyd coming back for this one off thing and they play all the big hits or whatever. Wish you Were here, monet, obviously Comfortably no.
Speaker 2:I like Comfortably. No, I'm not really bothered about.
Speaker 1:I'm not a big Pink Floyd fan, but I felt it. I don't know if it went flat. I don't know if this sums the whole. Everyone was like fucking hell Pink Floyd about it, but were it too late?
Speaker 2:I think there's a few reasons there. Yeah, it's a bit too late Because I think that core base of Pink Floyd fans had gone, so I don't think the audience.
Speaker 1:Most of the audience would have been kids, I would have thought, or our age at the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you've probably only got one in 20 of the crowd actually really excited about. I mean people would be like they'd be told by the parents, oh, pink Floyd were great. But they people be like, oh, they've been told by the parents that Pink Floyd were great, but they don't really feel it and yeah it just, it just feels flat.
Speaker 1:I don't know because the way this is coming back seems massive, with the kids as well, but I don't know if that's because Liam Gallagher carried on. What did they do?
Speaker 2:here. So they do four songs, I think if, and obviously Travelling is probably furious, but I would kick them in early as the starter, Like wow, this is the moment Pink Floyd are back together. And then you want an Elton in here, or you want a Coldplay, maybe, or you want.
Speaker 1:I don't know, lenny.
Speaker 2:Emre, yeah, yeah, exactly. I don't like Mondays.
Speaker 1:There's got to be something bigger in here than Pink Floyd, I think. I don't know if it works at this event.
Speaker 2:I imagine if Pink Floyd reformed as a tour, it'd be fucking huge, in the same way I won Led Zeppelin, but it'd be like a cult classic, wouldn't it?
Speaker 1:It wouldn't be like a I don't know if cult's the right word, but I think it doesn't work as a four-song thing. They're all about the atmosphere and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2:People who love them love them. But I can't imagine, like you're saying, and you go to loads of gigs, you like lots of music. I'm going to go and see Pink Floyd back together again. I just don't see it. I think it's a small but very loving fan base, I think.
Speaker 1:And then obviously, it ends with you don't like Monday. Now the last man on stage, as always, is Sir Paul McCartney, and we get all the big hits. He hasn't changed his set list for a while. Has he Get back?
Speaker 2:he starts with Drive my car with George Michael.
Speaker 1:I like driving in my car. That's a good point.
Speaker 2:that Is this when he got done for falling asleep at the wheel, George Michael. What did he do? He didn't run over himself. That was someone else, wasn't it that? What?
Speaker 1:did he do? He didn't run over himself. That was someone else, weren't it? That was Brian Harvey. But yeah, did he get done for smoking weed or something at his car? And I wonder if that's why he did? Because he liked poking fun at himself, didn't he, old George?
Speaker 2:Michael, yeah, possibly yeah.
Speaker 1:There might be driving my car with that Hell to Skelter Long Unwinding.
Speaker 1:Hey Jude, I don't think a day has gone by without him singing that hey Jude and that's it, and that is Live Aid and on paper. When you look at the acts, they're massive. I don't think it was, I don't think it went. You look at Live Aid, which we'll probably do, and they're like last sort of acts and stuff. They had Bowie Midday, then they sort of had Queen, obviously towards the. I think they were like Afternoon it sort of built towards something.
Speaker 2:I don't know if this did no and also like again, I don't know, or are people just more cynical now.
Speaker 2:Well, the event seems cynical and people are more cynical. I think the event seemed quite self-promoting, rather than this is all about Africa. We're all giving up our time, we're all sort of passionate about the cause. This just felt like, oh yeah, that that were good for some of their careers, weren't? I'll do that? Yeah, maybe not fair, I don't know, but yeah, it just didn't. And it didn't have that global feel either, which I know there were events going on around the globe, but I think, yeah, it was very rare, probably when live aid was done, that you got a chance to see anything from anywhere else, whereas, I don't know, things have moved on a little bit by this year.
Speaker 1:I'm just looking now how it ended, obviously and this is Live Aid, so the last few acts were U2, dire Straits, queen, david Bowie, the who, elton John, paul McCartney. That's just fucking. I'm just being like, oh, back in my day, because it was before my day. This is my day, 2005,. That is such a better run. And they've all got big like Pinball Wizard and Rebel, rebel and Heroes, and do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, but the who played again in this one near the end, I mean, this was who won the prime here. I think I asked you this as well. I seem to remember there being a rumour at this time that they'd had to change some of the chord patterns because Townsend could no longer play them, oh really.
Speaker 1:I don't know if that's true or not, but I remember hearing that, like I said, I don't want to ruin it, so we'll probably do a live video, but the Queen setlist, or whatever, is unbelievable. Here. Bowie raps in radio gaga.
Speaker 2:Then one of the songs he just says a-o, which is him when he goes. Oh, it's not part of set list, is it well?
Speaker 1:I suppose it is, that is so much more iconic as a moment than gervais doing a dance or geldof doing his old song like that. But I remember elton john on that doing uh, benny and the jets, or don't go breaking my heart with. Oh, in fact, what about, ladies and gentlemen? Mr george michael? With brilliant don't let the sun do. You know what I mean yeah, yeah yeah, I don't know amazing, amazing bit of washout, as uh, obviously the best people. But the best people did turn up other than you know, I don't know what.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I think there were too much softer stuff. Maybe that was just a sign of the times at that point. I don't know what, I don't know. I think there were too much softer stuff. Maybe that were just a sign of the times at that point. I don't think the artists picked the best songs to play and I don't know if there were too many has beens on there. So, like you've got the who in in live aid, who were past it, you know, 20 years after they started or whatever, but they were still more cool than I know. You like them, but like Annie Lennox and Sting, and do you know what I mean? Yeah, I wonder.
Speaker 2:I wonder as well, though it's like in this era you could get videos, maybe dvds of, of gigs of bands that you like, like, yeah you could see them playing live in other formats, whereas live aid. If you'd never actually been to see some of these bands, this would be the only chance you'd get. So I don't know. It felt like they tried to copy an event 20 years after it happened and didn't do anything to spice it up. Really, they just did the same thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, should I have hologram Tupac out there or something like that. That would have wowed the crowd.
Speaker 1:Oh, that would have been fucking unbelievable. I might actually do have to do a pod on that, because I weren't there, obviously, with Coachella, but I love the idea. When Tupac came out as an hologram, people were on drugs in that crowd, which they will have been just thinking they'd gone mad. Do you know what I mean? I've taken too much. It looks so lifelike.
Speaker 2:But just something. Whatever it was, whether it would have been a stunning light show or somebody doing a live gig while travelling from one continent to another, I don't know. It just felt like the world had moved on, but this didn't. They just tried to do the same thing.
Speaker 1:And where are we all man.
Speaker 2:Mr James Blunt. Best-selling album of the noughties.
Speaker 1:He might be serving in Iraq for his country. No, they were. After that, I just have a look who they could have had. Who were like the the best, uh, you know, the biggest artists of that in terms of sales? No, amy winehouse there, um, she'd have been in a peak at that point, uh to be fair, does you swap her for most of the artists?
Speaker 2:weren't't you, in that era, like her sort of stage presidents.
Speaker 1:Take that one back by this point. I'm surprised they didn't get involved.
Speaker 2:I don't know, eminem.
Speaker 1:I don't know, Like he, obviously Kings of Leon, they weren't there. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, maybe it was just not a vintage year, Bad vintage. Maybe Kaiser Chiefs weren't there actually Green Day they could have been there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Green Day could have been good. They didn't do the American version, did they?
Speaker 1:Craig David, he could have been there. No, michael Jackson was still popping at that point. Anyway wash out. Thank you, though, because I really enjoyed going in Any excuse to sing. So keep sending us your. We've got loads of requests, so if you have sent us something in, we will do it, but we're slowly making our way through.
Speaker 2:Yeah, unless there's sort of a reason why we don't think it works. We generally try and accommodate anything you send in, so you just might have to wait your turn.
Speaker 1:That's all. Yeah, just wait, stop being impatient, leave off, right, liam. Thank you very much and I'll see you next time for more remembering, certainly will.
Speaker 2:Yep.
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