G8 offer your support

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:34 am

OK Fg members lets do our part

live8live.com

Put your names on the list.

babygirl · Post by **babygirl** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:59 pm

Well my name is on the list

minks · Post by **minks** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:19 pm

ditto

pink princess · Post by **pink princess** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:53 am

im gonna be really controversial here and say i kinda boycotted live 8 a bit...... i saw some of it but i certainly made no point of sitting and watching it...

my reasons being, all those artists who lined up to play their couple of songs wont have benefited from this at all with they..... there albums wont begin to fly off the shelves again.....

im sure bob geldof, madonna robbie williams elton john etc etc will be donating there MILLIONS to those african kids..... i mean peaches geldof didnt get into the concert free at all did she.... she had to pay for her ticket...... im sure bob sat in his nice comfy mansion with his cleaners and aides etc etc last night and wrote a cheque donating all his millions to the cause......

oh and would you believe on the news this morning pink ffloyds album sales and increased 10 fold...... what a shocker...... they wont get anything from that at all will they itll all go straight to africa not in their pockets at all....

i so support the cause of course but i think this was a really rubbish way of going about it.....

im sure the african kids were well chuffed to know that while they were sitting in their slum with flying toilets (plastic bags) all those people were gathered across the world to listen to their favorite bands.......

hmmm......

end poverty but perhaps instead of buying their albums give that Ã‚£10 pounds to charity???

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:55 am

nothing to do with the thread just seen your sig pink & had to congratulate you on the news, hope your going to share the details of the actual proposal, did he go down on one knee & where was it? sorry so nosey of me

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:15 am

pink princess wrote: im gonna be really controversial here and say i kinda boycotted live 8 a bit...... i saw some of it but i certainly made no point of sitting and watching it...

my reasons being, all those artists who lined up to play their couple of songs wont have benefited from this at all with they..... there albums wont begin to fly off the shelves again.....

im sure bob geldof, madonna robbie williams elton john etc etc will be donating there MILLIONS to those african kids..... i mean peaches geldof didnt get into the concert free at all did she.... she had to pay for her ticket...... im sure bob sat in his nice comfy mansion with his cleaners and aides etc etc last night and wrote a cheque donating all his millions to the cause......

oh and would you believe on the news this morning pink ffloyds album sales and increased 10 fold...... what a shocker...... they wont get anything from that at all will they itll all go straight to africa not in their pockets at all....

i so support the cause of course but i think this was a really rubbish way of going about it.....

im sure the african kids were well chuffed to know that while they were sitting in their slum with flying toilets (plastic bags) all those people were gathered across the world to listen to their favorite bands.......

hmmm......

end poverty but perhaps instead of buying their albums give that Ã‚£10 pounds to charity???Pink Floyd will be giving profits to charity......http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainmen ... =y4833y3x6.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:45 am

buttercup wrote: nothing to do with the thread just seen your sig pink & had to congratulate you on the news, hope your going to share the details of the actual proposal, did he go down on one knee & where was it? sorry so nosey of me

DITTO!! congrats pink! God I love weddings! :-4

Post by **Betty Boop** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 2:46 pm

Congrats Pink, I'll never forget that date either!! It was the day I left! :yh_party

Glad to hear that about Pink Floyd, I also didn't watch it as it must have cost thousands to organise and don't understand why they don't just hand over the money in the first place.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:12 pm

It was'nt about raising money this time, it was about raising awareness & showing the members who were to attend the g8 summit, peoples feelings about third world debt.

pink princess · Post by **pink princess** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:46 am

i did think it was quite ironic this morning when i saw on the news about pink flloyd donating royalties and a few others are as well.....

however not everyone will

i understand it was about raising awareness but i dont believe the people in world today will respond how they did to live aid..... i dont believe that enough people will sit down and think about it and then actually DO something as well....

and i also dont believe that the world leaders will respond to a load of pop stars singing a few songs regardless of how many people attended or watched....

thanks everyone for the lovely weddingy comments

theres a thread in the members news bit with a piccie of the ring too!!