Talk:Live Earth (2007 concert)/Archive 1

Japan's first singer
What's the name of the first singer in Japan? The girl in the projection, I really like the songs.

Terrorist attack commemorations??
I don't believe for a second that the 7/7 date has anything to do with commemorating the London tube bombings of 2005. I'm not even going to put a in there... it's just gone. KriZe 16:05, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Mana
Which Mana are we talking about? Mana or Maná? KriZe 17:16, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The accent mark makes a huge difference! Wasn't sure if I'd watch or not, but now... KriZe 15:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Criticism?
The criticism section should be changed. Heavily. Or, just be done away with. Right now, it just sounds like an angry global warming skeptic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Timmocollins (talk • contribs) 23:00, 11 March 2007


 * Deleted the mess. A criticism section may be warrented, but not that poorly written, unsourced diatribe. Source it and rewrite it or leave it out. Vsmith 01:59, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Why do people believe this doesn't belong here? Now that the date is here, someone should add the concrete definite goals that presumably (I have not been able to find them) Al Gore has announced.

I think people should be very interested in knowing what these goals are--and specifically where all the money is going to go. Why no interest in this?


 * But it should not be the main point of the article. As it is, the criticism section is giant.

GUNS N' ROSES?!?!?!
I added a statement from their official website regarding why they are not playing live earth. people may want to know this. it is on there. www.gunsnroses.com and i explained that so WHY IS IT GETTING DELETED????????!!!??

who gets the money?
Al Gores hedge fund? how much the capitol rent for? CorvetteZ51 09:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! I was wondering as well... 71.227.162.34 03:56, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Like most environmentalism, the money goes straight into the pockets of the leftocrats in government--IworkforNASA 22:59, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

The Who
Are NOT appearing. See Pete Townshend's blog - April 2nd 2007. http://www.petetownshend-whohe.blogspot.com/

Davidpatrick 18:09, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Confirmed Bands
Wouldn't it be smarter to list them by venue rather than in overall alphabetical order?

To be announced by the organisers/Rumoured
Somebody can edit the list of "To be announced by the organisers/Rumoured" by the venue they may be preforming at? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 38.117.149.162 (talk) 19:13, 25 April 2007 (UTC).

Venues in Australia
There seems to be a fair bit of POV issues there, and no sources to show that Melbourne is at the forefront of acting on greenhouse emissions in Australia. This needs to be changed unless it can be verified. It smells too much of Melbournite parochialism. -- Permafrost 08:09, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

After reviewing the edit that inserted this contentious segment of information, I shall promptly remove the entire paragraph bar the capacity information in one week if there are no sources to back up the views expressed in it. The editor is most likely a Victorian due to their previous editing history and may have had predisposed views in adding that information in. -- Permafrost 08:21, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * All of the points in the "Melbourne" section can be dismissed, as shown below. The entire paragraph should be deleted.

- "There has been major critisism" (sic)? I haven't heard a peep and I've been following this quite closely. - "Traditionally hosts"? How many events like this have been staged before? Make Poverty History, Wave Aid ... any others? So that's one each by my count. - "Far deeper history for this type of event"? See above. - Yeah, the MCG holds 100,000, and Telstra Stadium holds 80,000. So what? If it was about numbers, why didn't they pick Telstra Stadium instead of Aussie Stadium? Other factors at work perhaps? - "Melbourne leads the country in terms of global warming and climate change awareness"? According to what measure? And even if this were true, then the logical choice would be the "less aware" city in order to bring awareness to the uneducated populace. - "Regularly draws larger crowds to music events than anywhere else in Australia"? Eh? U2's Vertigo tour had 3 shows at the 80,000 capacity Telstra Stadium, while Melbourne had 2 shows at the 55,000 capacity Telstra Dome. How many music festivals does Melbourne have compared to Sydney? Why does the BDO sell out in Sydney in 12 hours but takes days or weeks for Melbourne? Why didn't V Festival kick off in Melbourne as well as Sydney and Gold Coast? Lots of evidence against that statement, but I'm sure if you looked at crowds for recent concerts they would be more or less comparable between the cities. - "far larger local music scene" ... larger, granted perhaps, but only marginally so. But Sydney has picked up in recent years. Certainly not "far larger". - "Many argue that it would have been suitable to not only have a concert in Melbourne, but also one in Sydney, and it is not known why there is no event in Melbourne scheduled to begin with" - simply because there is only 1 concert for each continent. That's the whole concept. (Chock)


 * Thanks for your input. I agree with pretty much all the points there, but we should let people have a fair go by being democratic and leaving this up for debate for another few days before it's all removed. -- Permafrost 01:34, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Lack of Ticket Sales?
- I've deleted the little line at the top of the article stating "However, unlike Live Aid and Live 8, a strong lack of ticket sales has been noticed." There is no citation on this statement, so I've deleted it from the page. --alexdeangelis86 15:35, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Antarctica Show
Where is there confirmation of this? I did not see it listed on the official website. StarIV 20:47, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

they must have changed it because i do remember seeing "7 concerts on 7 continents" at one point 70.232.68.252 21:54, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Pictures
Do we really need the pictures of the stadiums etc. at the moment? Maybe actual concert pictures after the event would be better suited, and nothing for the time being other than specific Live Earth pics.

I don't really see a problem with that. It's even a nice bit of info, IMO, since people can take a look at the sites for the concerts. I'm for reinstating them. The real problem, as I see (more on it down the page) is people putting line-ups which aren't official and helping spread misinformation through the internet. If you can help me stopping that... :-) Cheers. JimboB 14:33, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay, leave them off for now I reckon - reinstate if many people agree :) I'll help with the line-up mixups, very bad to see many citations required. Antman102 07:04, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, what is relevant is Al Gore's picture from a Futurama still? --Hourick 22:41, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Snoop Dogg
I removed Snoop Dogg's name from the list of performers for the Brazilian concert and someone reinstated it. I just wish people were more careful about what they do and check the history page. As I stated there, you just need to check Snoop Dogg's official website to see he's gonna perform in Spain on Live Earth day. Never mind the reference to his presence in O Globo's article: that is a few weeks old, already. If he announces he changed his mind, then we can change it here. JimboB 23:28, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I removed the news references regarding the Brazilian concert. One was a newsflash, with merely a few lines of text. The other was already dated, since it reported as confirmed artists which are still rumoured to be in the concert. The line-up isn't official yet, so it's better to have the news references removed, so people don't do wrong edits based on them. JimboB 13:33, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Concert line-ups
People insist on adding concert line-ups which are not official. How hard it is to understand that Wikipedia is not a place for unofficial info (I don't even think there should be a "Rumored" section, by the way)? For the fourth or fifth time - I really lost count - I deleted every line-up but the American, British and Aussie ones, the only ones which were OFFICIALLY announced, therefore the only ones which should be featured here. I'd be very grateful if people stopped adding confusing info. I suggest you add names to the "Rumoured" list instead, stating where is it that they're rumoured to appear at. JimboB 14:15, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Why do people keep deleting the Bucharest and Robert Plant entries when they're as cited as any other entries that don't get deleted ?
the first person who deleted my work couldn't even be bothered apparently to google about the item because its all over Google news. I didn't add a citation because I didn't see citation links for any other entries. Now somebody reentered the information with a cited link and that gets deleted too.
 * It's not at all confirmed, it's just rumours, nothing about that on the official liveearth-site.--NSX-Racer 13:34, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It's being reported by half a dozen mainstream news sources that he has signed on to perform there. That isn't a "rumor". The only rumor involved with is the notion that it will actually be a Led Zeppelin reunion (IE, Page and Jones will join him). Robert Plant is different than Led Zeppelin. A Led Zeppelin reunion is a rumor, Robert Plant at Live Earth is not.

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=180642160&p=y8x64z74x http://www.showbizspy.com/2007/05/20/robert-plant-to-headline-romanian-live-earth-gig/ http://www.earvolution.com/2007/05/robert-plant-to-headline-romanian-live.asp http://www.mediafax.ro/english/articole-free/Romanian-Live-Earth-Sees-Robert-Plant-Concert-668227-9.html Stephen&#39;s black friend 20:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The truth is that Robert Plant has a long planned gig on july, 8th in Bucharest, that has nothing to do with Live Earth and is not mentioned on any of the official sites. Period.--NSX-Racer 09:09, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Other confirmed acts
It has been reported that Metallica, Kasabian and Pussycat dolls have also been confirmed does anyone have a source that can confirm if this is true?

- Confirmed, thanks to whoever added it to the main page 82.4.197.8 03:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Turkey?
The picture appears to show a concert in Istanbul; the article says no such thing - what gives? 84.68.7.22 19:10, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
 * AFAIK the concert in Istanbul has been canceled - source is in the version history.--NSX-Racer 10:11, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

German show additions?
I'm going to remove some names from the German list. I cannot find any official confirmation of the following performers on either the LiveEarth site or their personal websites. In some cases, these artists are scheduled to perform elsewhere. The artists being removed: Maria Mena MIA Samy Deluxe Stefan Gwiblis

Also removing "Strings" from the US list, the link leads to a disambig page and the only band listed on that page is from Pakistan, so they are unlikely. Risker 16:57, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

energy consumption
Are there any figures on how much energy is being consumed by these concerts, viewers? Intangible2.0 17:25, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Layout
What the heck happened to the layout of this page?  Sala Skan  15:20, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Amsterdam Concert
Not part of the official concerts lineup but the performances at Live Earth Alert in Amsterdam will be part of the show somehow. Artists: Ali B. - Jeckyll & Hyde - Fedde le Grand featuring Ida Corr. http://www.liveearthalert.nl/page/actueel/215978%20