Saturday 2nd July, 2005.
THE DAY THAT ROCKED THE WORLD!
An estimated 3 BILLION PEOPLE watched LIVE 8 the greatest, greatest show on Earth. Add you name to the millions who've already done it and sign the LIVE 8 List now.
Nine Live 8 Concerts were staged around the world and performed almost simulaniously
on Saturday July 2nd in:
UK Hyde Park, London
USA Museum of Art, Philadelphia
France Palais de Versailles, Paris
Germany Siegessule, Berlin
Italy Circus Maximus, Rome
Canada Park Place, Barrie
Japan Makuhari Messe, Tokyo
South Africa Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg
The Russian Federation - Red Square, Moscow
The Hyde Park concert was one of six performed around the world. Also on July 2,
On Saturday July 2nd. consecutive Live 8 shows were staged around the world in and another in Edinburgh Scotland on July 6, the day the G8 summit kicked off. It was hoped that the concerts would put pressure on leaders of the G8 and Russia to do more to fight poverty and AIDS in developing nations.
Hyde Park, London, England
Concert Time: 400-2130 BST(1300-2030 GMT)
Tickets for this special concert have already been allocated via a free text
competition.
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Palais de Versailles, Paris, France
Concert Time:1500-2315 French time(1300-2115 GMT)
TV broacast from 17:40
Siegessule, Berlin, Germany
Concert Time:1400-2000 local time(1200-1800 GMT)
This is a free concert
Museum of Art, Philadelphia USA
Concert Time: 1200-1800 local time(1600-2200 GMT)
Presenters:
Artists:
Park Place, Barrie, Canada
Concert Time: 1100-2000 BST(1200-0000 GMT)
Presenters: Dan Aykroyd and Tom Green
Artists performing include:
Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan
Concert Time: 1400-2200 local time(0500-1300 GMT)
Artists performing include:
Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
Africa Standing Tall Against Poverty
Concert Time: 1200-1730 local time(1045-1730 GMT)
With Johannesburg's stunning backdrop the concert will launch "Standing Tall Against Poverty" a series of pan-African concerts - with further shows in Kenya and Ghana in August and September respectively.
Artists performing include:
Red Square, Moscow, Russia<BR> Concert Time: 1900-2230 Local Time(1600-1930 GMT)
Artists performing include:
In the UK, the BBC is the host broadcaster for LIVE 8 London with coverage across BBC ONE, TWO and THREE, with radio broadcasts on Radio's 1 and 2, the BBC World Service and across the BBC's regional stations.
Commercial Radio will also be broadcasting live from backstage at Hyde Park and The Museum of Art in Philadelphia, with reporters at every LIVE 8 gig across the world, to an estimated audience of over 28 million listeners across 200+ stations.
Partner TV and Radio broadcasters, such as MTV, will be be working to bring this huge international event to the whole world.
Watch online
Relive the global experience - watch the LIVE 8 concerts on demand, only on:
www.aolmusic.com
www.aol.co.uk
www.aol.fr
www.aol.de
The Eden Project
Africa Calling
The concert will be held on the stage in the Eden arena with the worlds biggest greenhouses. The event will be programmed and presented in association with WOMAD and its co-founder Peter Gabriel, together with Senegalese superstar Youssou NDour.
Concert times: 1300 - 2300 (BST) / 1200 - 22 00 (GMT)
Other artists performing include:
Edinburgh 50,000 (Scotland)
The Final Push
This is the final moment; this is the eve of the biggest meeting ever in the fight against poverty.
As the leaders fly into Gleneagles on the evening of Wednesday 6th July, a very special event at Edinburghs Murrayfield Stadium will signal the end of the Long Walk To Justice and the beginning of the G8 Summit.
Hosted by Lenny Henry and Peter Kay, the event will include some of musics biggest names such as Annie Lennox, Snow Patrol, Travis, The Sugababes, Ronan Keating, Beverly Knight, The Corrs, Natasha Bedingfield, Proclaimers, Texas, Youssou NDour, McFly, Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and African artists from Peter Gabriels WOMAD plus a line up of very special speakers.
When: Wednesday 6th July
Where: Edinburgh - Edinburgh 50,000 - The Final Push
Tickets for this special event have already been allocated via a free text
competition.