Manchester Terror Attack

The line up for the concert is diabolical. If it was for the people of Manchester it would be great but it seems to be a benefit for Arianna Grande.

Wrong Brekkie ....

The concert is for the Victims. The Demographic of those who attended the concert are being served perfectly. Indeed those who were at the concert and are able to attend are getting free admission too.

Yes, the demographic is young boys and girls so the line up is perfectly suited.

.... and I'll add, it enables Ariana Grande to get a 'closure' of sorts and to resume her career. It wasn't her fault just awful co-incidence that her concert was the one attacked, so perhaps this will be a cathartic act too. Yes she'll get a benefit from it, something I and I'd hope others in the circumstances, don't begrudge one iota.

Well said. I find the original comment wholly distasteful.

And they have Coldplay for the parents, so no issue at all.

Personally spending a night watching Bieber and Grande would be a no, no, but considering the context of why we're having this event, I'll be watching as I'm sure many others who wouldn't be interested normally.

It's a line up though that puts her above Manchester. I've no issue about her being on the line up at all but I think after what kind of became a celebration of all things Manchester in the wake of last weeks awful events it's a real shame to see Manchester so poorly represented on the line up.

There are other events that you describe such as this ....

MANCHESTER: A CITY UNITED

Raising money for affected families THIS SUNDAY @DeafInstitutehttps://t.co/LNFEGU4mzl pic.twitter.com/oUWAnkUacl

— Peter Hook (@peterhook) May 29, 2017

This Concert isn't the place to showcase Manchester acts. It's an attempt to get those who went to the concert, and others, at ease in a highly secure environment, mostly in natural light ,used to being in crowds at music events again. It's therapeutic and with familiar faces on the bill. It will raise money, yes, but that's by far not the only reason for its happening.

The first time I got this story about the Manchester Arena bombing was from Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN HD from about 2am in the morning Irish time. I was flicking around on certain news channels to see if there was any news bulletins available that night as I hadn't seen any news bulletins for several hours that night.

When watching CNN & seeing the words like Suicide Bomber, Manchester Arena & UK police; I just felt shocked after getting my head around the story for about a minute. The coverage from CNN was great for that hour. I then switched to BBC News HD for another hour of coverage from 3am to 4am. That coverage was good. Ed Thomas coverage with the live broadcast from nearby the arena was excellent as per usual.

Euronews was very slow in not showing any news coverage on the bombing before I went to bed by around 4am. I thought that was very poor form from the likes of them. NBC, who own the channel, should have covered the story with a live simulcast of MSNBC to give some early frequent update coverage of the incident to give some sense of credibility to the Euronews output. When you think about it; in the 6 and a half hours since the story a like that broke on the news wires with fast moving amounts of information available going out nearly every minute since it broke; MSNBC coverage on Euronews up to a certain time of the day should have them well covered for adequate news coverage for that incident.

All that aside; I do send my sympathies to the families & friends of those who died in Manchester that night. I hope you will find peace in this terrible tragedy. May they all rest in peace.

I think there also an element of making a statement that high profile international acts are prepared to perform in Manchester and haven't been put off by the terrorists. That's a powerful message in the circumstances.

I'm sorry, but you don't get to decide who should be on the line-up and what the concert is supposed to be like. The people spending time and money organising the event get to do that. If you'd like to do something yourself for the city and those affected, you can decide what it's like.

I don't think it was a co-incidence that the target was a concert that attracted young people.