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Post by webm@ster on Jun 24, 2005 12:11:25 GMT -5
Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn ( - once bitter rivals during the dark retro days of Britpop - have both discovered they have something in common in the wake of Saint Bob Geldof's latest Live 8 Enterprise.
While the uber-gathering is undoubtedly for a highly worthwhile cause, both Noel and Damon have raised their hands like cheeky classroom scamps and announced that they have a few 'issues' with the whole thing.
Albarn's comments - that the concerts have taken on an almost apartheid line-up - are well-known by now. Noel Gallagher's Live 8 comments came courtesy of an interview in Sunday's Observer Music Monthly to step into the fray.
As hecklerspray has already attested, Oasis are past it. Quo-rocking dinosaurs, even more irrelevant than they used to be. We will, however, accept their continued musical presence so long as Gallagher Snr. keeps coming up with soundbite gems like these ...
Revealing that he enjoyed the original 1985 concert - "I watched it in a caravan in Wales" - the Noelster went on to highlight his reservations about the upcoming July super-event: "Are they hoping one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing 'Sweet Dreams' and thinks, "Fuck me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to fucking happen, is it?"
He further elaborated: "[Or] Keane doing 'Somewhere Only We Know' and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him ... we should really fuckin' drop that debt, you know'? It's not going to happen, is it?"
Amusing as he may be, Mr. Gallagher might have hit the nail on the head. Maybe the approach being taken by the organisers is completely wrong.
Maybe Keane (CDs) should play a bigger part in all of this. The numerous delegates could be rounded into the stadium, subjected to one or two songs before Geldof storms onto stage and announces: "Okay, boys. You know as well as I do - Keane have a whole album's worth of simpering middle-class shite to plough through. Either we drop the debt or they carry on playing. It's your choice."
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Post by Bizzle on Jun 24, 2005 12:14:16 GMT -5
Whichever vagina wrote that should be killed. Quo rocking dinosaurs, irrelevant? He should be murdered for dissing the best band ever.
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Post by Noel's Barmy Army on Jun 25, 2005 3:27:23 GMT -5
Maybe Keane (CDs) should play a bigger part in all of this. The numerous delegates could be rounded into the stadium, subjected to one or two songs before Geldof storms onto stage and announces: "Okay, boys. You know as well as I do - Keane have a whole album's worth of simpering middle-class shite to plough through. Either we drop the debt or they carry on playing. It's your choice." LOL!! ;D ;D |
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Post by chocolate st*rfish on Jun 25, 2005 4:11:08 GMT -5
Oasis are past it. Quo-rocking dinosaurs, even more irrelevant than they used to be. We will, however, accept their continued musical presence you wish, fucking moron. you can go and accept their musical presence while millions of others were having their time of their lives going to the gigs . |
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Post by dollylovesg on Jun 25, 2005 18:27:27 GMT -5
These are pessimistic times we live in aren't they? You try and do something good and people throw it back in your face. I'm a bit down on some other things happening around here, but Bob Geldof must know how I feel. So many people have been shouting him and the Live8 thing down in the past few days, he must be wondering why bother too. Someone said yesterday that without poor people he would be a one-hit wonder, forgotten pop star, which although perversly ammusing, is bollocks. I'm sure he sat there watching that news report on famine in Africa, rubbing his hands together, thinking this'll do wonders for my career! Can't people try and support people when they're trying to do something good for once? Everyone seems to help out when evil is going on. .... sigh  |
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Post by lyla on Jun 26, 2005 12:37:14 GMT -5
These are pessimistic times we live in aren't they? You try and do something good and people throw it back in your face. I'm a bit down on some other things happening around here, but Bob Geldof must know how I feel. So many people have been shouting him and the Live8 thing down in the past few days, he must be wondering why bother too. Someone said yesterday that without poor people he would be a one-hit wonder, forgotten pop star, which although perversly ammusing, is bollocks. I'm sure he sat there watching that news report on famine in Africa, rubbing his hands together, thinking this'll do wonders for my career! Can't people try and support people when they're trying to do something good for once? Everyone seems to help out when evil is going on. .... sigh yeah! everyone is so cynical about people who wish to help out - as if its impossible that people like bono may actaully genuinely care about these issues. and i find that article entirely annoying - firstly the disgusting disregard for Oasis, i mean sorry!! they just kind of are playing to hundreds of thousands of people! still making great records! only managed to stay around for over a decade when everyone else around them have seemed to have dropped off into oblivion! and secondly, raising awareness and giving ordinary people an outlet to show their support of such causes DO make a difference. sure george bush isnt gonna watch footage and go 'gee, we should do something now' but surely if politicians and their advisors realise that this is a major issue in the public conscience its in their interest to do something about it cos they are responsible to us, i mean we are the ones with the power to elect them. and thats the cynical take - cos i dont believe that politicans are merely power hungry people, i really think that at least some of them honestly want to use their position to do good and make a difference in the world, and by having the public support similar aims it makes it doubly worth their time to make changes. by celebrities and people attending these concert we are reassuring politicians that we care about social concerns and that yes, they SHOULD bother with these issues - rather than having them think that giving us tax cuts will make us satisfied enough to vote for them. although i must admit, the final comment about wither havign to listen to keane or drop the debt seems like a brilliant plan =P |
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