Dave Gilmour says all bands and labels should donate Live8 profit

Ha - I was just wondering if this had happened to anyone. Should Africans compensate the Libertines accordingly?

While I do appreciate his sentiment, if Pink Floyd does a reunion tour, all future money made will in someway be touched by the fact that they first publicized the reunion at Live8.

I'm kind of intrigued by this line: Universal Music said it would give its profits from digital downloads of Sir Paul McCartney's performance to Live 8. As I'm not sure what Live8 would do with the money, as they've never asked for any before.

I'm sure Live8 will think up something to do with the money once it starts arriving. The fact that they haven't got a clue what they're doing from one minute to the next is probably down to the fact that this was just a big ego-wank for that cunt Geldof rapidly changing political situation.

Otoh if it's money they wouldn't otherwise have earned - and after all, I doubt if any of the artists who appeared are living an existence that's quite as "hand to mouth" as the average inhabitant of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan....

(of course if anyone can come up with an empirical method of identifying the amount of income that any of the participants would otherwise have earned, so as to differentiate that from the additional earnings generated as a direct result of their appearance, I'd be fascinated to hear it; and I can't help but wonder how Dave Gilmour's proposing to do it).

I posted the full list in the other thread, just before this one was started.

No, stew, obv not compared to the Somaliam, more compared to Gilmore.

- bear in mind HMV/virgin are selling all these at knock down prices at the moment ..

i mean all RW's albums are currently a fiver ..

so thats going to sway the last remaining few as well as Live8 success or otherwise ..

(mark e xpost)

ah yes - i see the wall, dark side and wish you were here have all suddenly been appended to the hmv sale. crafty.

did i once read that the reason Beatles never do the mid price thing is down to a request from the band members themselves ?

along with the fact that the Red and Blue cd versions are still packaged as double cds as opposed to putting out single disc versions

ie maintaining the sanctity of the product ?

don't get it with the floyd, though. there's no real reason why even things like piper and saucerful should still be retailing at 14 quid, unless it's to ensure that syd gets a bigger cut of the profits. who knows?

I remember after September 11, Rosie O'Donnell (of all people) hit up her celebrity friends for $1 million dollars each to give to charity, and virtually nil ponied up. It's in this regard that I think Bono deserves more credit than people generally give him. He actually donates a great deal of his (valuable, I suppose) time to lobbying. Meeting with world leaders and/or Oprah may not seem like much, but I think he did a great deal of good talking about the eradication of international debt for impoverished nations. I mean, the WTO didn't just decide to do this all out of the goodness of their hearts, right? There had to have been some kind of mounting pressure courtesy their constituencies.

All these other opportunistic Live8 choads seem to vanish or go mute for years at a time, and while they may be out feeding babies in Africa, I somehow doubt it.

Well, Coldplay didn't. Or did they? I was disappointed in a way, I like their latest hit single, I find it quite rousing. And neither did Joss Stone, I think, although I harrumphed when I saw her album being advertised on the telly the next day.

I did not know there was a Best of Sting and The Police at the same time. What an excellent marketing gimmick.

it does in the US!

where did you hear this?

although this leads some credence to it....

How did Dido get more popular? Even the tone-deafest of the tone-deaf were surely sent running for cover by her live 'singing'. Mybe her appearence has reminded a nation of mums to dig out 'No Angel' from the depths of their people-movers. But they couldn't find it among the crisp packets and wet-wipes, so bought new copies instead. Just a suggestion?

Hi, Doc!

New single is the biggest pile of shambolic amateur rubbish ever released.

Yet NME and 6 Music churn out the media coverage every soddin week.

It is nice to agree.

That's all fair and dandy for starters, but then how long do you continue this for (i.e. how many weeks do you expect the Live 8 apearance to effect sales for) and what do you use a base (i.e. the theoretical sales that would have been achieved without the influence of Live 8) for later weeks?

There's a diminishing effect to be considered over the passage of time; but there's also a compounding effect as some of the people who wouldn't otherwise have bought Echoes find that they like it and move on to buy Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here and Animals and Meddle and The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn?

If the band decide to reunite for a full tour on the back of this, interest in the band will have increased so ticket sales will increase, programme sales will increase, T-shirt sales will increase so the initial effect will be boosted and re-compounded....

Easy enough to adopt a simplistic approach if the objective is to make a gesture; but if you really genuinely wanted to do this exercise properly it would not be simple by any means.

Dave Gilmore was 'involved' in the Reading Am-aid (basically amateur bands putting on a live-aid spectacular, back 20 years ago minus a couple months).

I remember the programme had his autog printed in the inside cover, along with Sam Fox and some other more minor celebs. Presumably so they wouldn't get hassled on the day by autog hunters. (A more effective way was not actually turning up of course)

And why weren't we invited?

bluddy spacebar!

it does in the US!

This weekend I bought The Piper at the Gates of Dawn for $17.99 at, um, Barnes & Noble. And no, I'm not happy with myself. And at B&N and Best Buy, I noticed that every Beatles album was priced around $15.99.

Perhaps they should do it and give the money to Live 8?

Sorry for the quality of the source but it's the only place I could find the story on-line: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005310119,00.html

What is 1343% of fuck bugger all?

I noticed during that performance that Pete Doherty is a bit flabby round the midriff.

Thanks Mark, that would be interesting if only for the memories it will inevitably evoke.

I suspect it may be a little too late to protest about the omission of West One from the proceedings 'though.

(nearly typed clucky there)

Rumour had it that Aswad (in town for a record signing at "Listen") and/or the Pogues (playing that evening at the uni) played a short set inpromteau like, but that maybe total bol. Mungo Jerry (I believe) were the 'headline act', but who hung around long enough to see, I don't know. history proves with this kind of thing, people hang around for their mates' band(s) and then leave...

No wonder they didn't want West One!

We've done our bit (although not very much) say Razorlight, so we're pocketing the cash.

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*that's* global justice.

Echoing Pink Floyd! Get it?

anyhow, I wondered previously, when they have these "what's on your Ipod" celeb pages in the music mags, howcome everybody has one.

Blimey, Keane must have about 60 by now.