{"id":1160,"date":"2005-07-06T20:08:55","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T20:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/07\/live_8_again\/"},"modified":"2005-07-06T20:08:55","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T20:08:55","slug":"live_8_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/live_8_again\/","title":{"rendered":"Live 8 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what&#8217;s the final verdict on the weekend? A great concert, certainly. Some great performances (and some pretty terrible ones).<br \/>\nHundreds of thousands of people giving their support to a great cause that has truly got the country behind it.<br \/>\nBut, but, but. Still the doubts linger. Full credit to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/music\/4655283.stm\">Pink Floyd (and The Who and Keane)<\/a> for donating revenue to charity, from their increased album sales that result from their performances. But of course they can easily afford it &#8211; probably true of every artist playing on Saturday. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/NewsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&#038;storyID=2005-07-04T172400Z_01_N04724310_RTRIDST_0_ENTERTAINMENT-GROUP-LIVE-SALES-DC.XML\">HMV<\/a> for those stats about how well the Floyd did, and had badly Pete Docherty did.<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s worth reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.private-eye.co.uk\/\">Private Eye&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Eye TV&#8221; column from today&#8217;s issue (not online) for a view that&#8217;s not a million miles from my own. And much as I think Jonathan Ross is a great presenter, I don&#8217;t think anyone could argue that it was a poor show from that point of view at the weekend.<br \/>\nFinally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medialifemagazine.com\/News2005\/jul05\/jul4\/2_tues\/news1tuesday.html\">this<\/a> is worth a read, for ammunition next time someone tells you that x billion are watching your telecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what&#8217;s the final verdict on the weekend? A great concert, certainly. Some great performances (and some pretty terrible ones). Hundreds of thousands of people giving their support to a great cause that has truly got the country behind it. But, but, but. Still the doubts linger. Full credit to Pink Floyd (and The Who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}