Can't avoid it can you? Its Live 8 and I'm currently watching Coldplay play In My Place. I really thought a minor miracle had happened and Chris Martin hadn't wrote something on his hand, but I was mistaken, never mind. One day Apple will get miffed her felt tips keep going missing.
I fully support the cause, see look at the Make Poverty History banner that is on the top right corner of this page. Click it if you want. I may not agree with the concert itself and see it as a narcissistic pat on the back for Bob Geldof, but that still doesn't stop me agreeing with the message. I say drop the debt, it'll make the world a better place, for a while at least until they begin to need to borrow more money and the reset button is pressed and we see all this again in 20 years when a balding Bono gets on stage again to go through Vertigo again. I suppose thats why the make trade fair cause is just as important. If the rich keep getting richer then the poor farmers, countries, banana growers and coffee planters are still going to be poor. The whole thing needs to be taken into a real context, looked at properly and not just have celebrity endorsement and pressure thrown at it.
Admittedly the likes of Chris Martin, Bob Geldof and Bono are infinitely more intelligent that the most powerful man on the planet George W Bush and would have more intelligent things to say at the G8 summit other than "I want to bomb more eyeraqees cos they bombded my big tower and now we got him, ha ha ha ha, look at my button it says boom and its red" but unfortunately they're not going to be there, all we can do is sign a petition like them, buy a wristband and use our voice. We'll see what happens next week. The papers will be full of it, the Internet will be crawling with it, you cannot escape, unless your name is Osama Bin Laden. Still Coldplay rock!
Back to business, Subterranean tomorrow night, Sky Digital 903 10pm, get a load of this for a night of tunes.
QOTSA – In My Head
Interpol – Slow Hands
Kasabian – Club Foot
Razorlight – Don’t Go Back to Dalston
Audioslave – Be Yourself
Kaiser Cheifs – Na Na Na Na Naa
Babyshambles - Killimangiro
Milburn – Lipstick Lickin’
Simple Plan – Shut Up
Hard-Fi – Hard to Beat
Snow Patrol – Spitting Games
Finch – Bitemarks and Bloodstains
The Kooks – Do You Love Her?
Bowie & Jagger – Dancing in the Street
Foo Fighters - DOA
The Killers – Mr. Brightside
Green Day – Are We The Waiting
Oasis – The Importance of Being Idle
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Bright Eyes – Take It Easy (Love Nothing)
Magic Numbers – The Mile
The Flaming Lips – Mr. Ambulance Driver
Diamond Nights – Destination Diamonds
The Cloud Room – Blackout
Gorillaz – DARE (With Shaun Ryder)
Willy Mason – Still A Fly
Arcade Fire – Cold Wind
Snoop Dogg – Gin and Juice
So we're at it again playing the best brand new music first. Just before Xmas last year I broke
Arcade Fire on my listeners playing a quality demo version of Power Out. Three months later, the UK music press and other influential types get involved and show the mad love for the Fire. Now a month or so ago, I played
Sufjan Stevens for the first time, I believe before any other UK DJ. We're back again tonight with
Diamond Nights and more
Sufjan Stevens, damn my show is cool! ;)
See you next week
