Live 8 2005

Someone seemed to think the same as me and did start pumping the crowd noise into the studio eventually! Gave it a better atmosphere IMO.



Yeah, Rossy started the "It's 2 o'clock in London..." just before 2pm after seemingly padding for a while and was then told to stop before they played a VT of 1985 ending with the globe shot and the pips, just sadly with Big Ben showing after 2. I'm guessing that was out of the Beeb hands and they just had to wait until the stage was ready?

This is probably a record that none of today's BBC News was as billed.

The lunchtime news went out 25 minutes early, the early evening news almost 2 hours late and the late news on BBC2, add to that the fact that News 24 will also start late, not often all this happens on the same day!

OH YES!! I knew they'd finish with "Hey Jude"! Fantastic!

Sorry to sound really thick, here, but who is the oldish women with white hair? I have not been able to watch it all, and just wondered who she was.

Well it looks like the concert is beginning to come to an end - a good few hours after when it was supposed to.

For those not near TV sets, they're having a big singalong to Hey Jude by the Beatles - which is strangely reminiscent of what they did at the Queen's Jubilee concerts.

Annie Lennox?

Thanks for that, Pootle5.

Which, purely on the basis of the concert, was much better imo. I found Live 8 London somewhat underwhelming.

But then again the Jubilee concert wasn't thrown together in a few weeks.

I thought that was a bit of a poor ending from Ross, just a tiny chat with Fearne and co and straight into the recording from the US. I expected some credits to wrap it up fully!

It's commonplace in Europe but for UK viewers I guess this is a bit of a shock to the system.

I didn't see much of Beebs coverage but a few encrypted channels had the UK, Philadelphia and Rome feeds in Europe, not too sure which german channel covered the German leg.

Think the thing was, it wasn't really "produced" as such by the BBC, they were just there to cover it - and clearly weren't exactly sure how it was going to end. I think if it had been a BBC production the timings would have been a lot tighter - I also wonder if they might have used more than one stage to reduce delays for rigging etc.

I too was hoping for some credits.
Anyway. That's that over with...

Why didn't they sing FEED THE WORLD at the end as scheduled?