IS THIS THE ROAD TO AMORALITY?

Peter Kay and fecking Jonathan Ross? Shit how bad were they? Live 8 was so bad. This was a concert so politically insipid, such a fucking huge wet blanket it made the original Live Aid look like the Pistols had reformed.

Apart from the jaw-dropping opportunism of Geldof jumping on the bandwagon of a twenty-year campaign against poverty and then causing havoc with everybody’s schedules, some of the line-up was just cack concentrated into a barrel and then stirred with pish.

The Vicar of Dibley introducing Mariah Carey saying “take a look at her tits”, and the abject humiliation of Birhan Woldu, brought on stage to stand like a Victorian freak show exhibit just about summed it up.

I felt soiled by the whole bizarre business. Still, at least the Make Poverty History went, er, without incident. Political protest is now neatly divided into two camps, the meaningless, sanctioned ordered type, which is then heaped with praise by the media for its very uselessness, and the spontaneous 'unofficial' ones. Give me anarchy and thew Clown Circus any day.

Perhaps the hidden story of the day was the police's over-reaction was not against the CIRCA Situationists but against young local people, far more threatening than middle class Germans with face-paint.

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and another bloody thing - what about the first 50 rows being a coralled area to keep the corporate freeloaders and the mildly famous away from the great unwashed!

left by gunit on 05 July 2005