Live Late

It was an amazing concert! And far from stopping at 8pm, Live 8 went on late into the night...

Artists that even I have heard of were there - Madonna and Sting...

and Pink Floyd played on as it got later and later...

and darker and darker... and the time of the last trains got closer and closer (for a major city, London does seem to close early).


They were still playing when we left!

It was an amazing concert! I'm not sure how much direct benefit there was to the starving in Africa, but it certainly raised public awareness of the problem, and of the make poverty history campaign. Hopefully the demands for action won't be frustrated by greed and politics at the G8 conference (or in legislatures back home afterwards, when its time to honour the pledges), or by the corporations which seem to have a lot of control over where the aid goes.