Live Earth

Way back in March I registered for Live Earth tickets, I thought that given my luck with Glastonbury tickets I didn't have a hope of getting anything and sure enough I didn't get a text saying I was lucky enough to get tickets. Then last Saturday I got a text message saying that I could buy tickets, must have been a second round or something. Anyway, Peter and I were pretty stoked (I think I was a little more excited then Peter) that we would be going. We even managed to get pitch tickets which means that we could get into the thick of it, so to speak!

What can I say, it was a totally cool event. I loved most of the acts and thought the short films that they played on climate change and what we can do were awesome. I watched Al Gore's film, an inconvenient truth on the plane to NZ (a little ironic perhaps) and found it inspiring and very scary as well. I would love to have a job that means I could do more for climate change and generally do more good for the world, perhaps a good step is to find something that doesn't involve sending me to the other side of the world three times in 6months! (Yes I am still bitter about my last trip!)

There are so many things we can all do to help so check out http://www.liveearth.org/ for more info, and next time I come to your house you better have energy saving light bulbs and no plastic bags, not to mention a solar panel on your roof and a tank for collecting your rainwater to reuse in your garden and toilets! Peter and I are doing a little bit extra and leaving our flat with it's energy saving light bulbs, so hopefully the next people save as much on power as we did and do their bit for the environment!

So anyway, on to the concert...

Now being green, can be a little bit of a pain, especially when you live in Oxford, you're looking at houses the morning of the concert in Reading and going to Wembley for the concert in the afternoon and can't stay in London as there are no hotels with a room for the night. SO our journey was a little long, a combination of car, train and tube, but we got there in the end. When we arrived we took a seat in the pitch seats (not a bad view) and enjoyed some of the first acts. My goodness there were so many I can't recall the first ones we saw, but we did miss Genesis which was a little annoying. Highlights from the seats were the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and the Black Eyed Peas (although they did have sound problems which wasn't so great).


Now I know Wembley probably isn't as big as the huge stadium that Nivi saw, way back when, but it was the biggest stadium that I have ever been to (that I can remember). This was the view from our pitch seats, amazing!

Peter, enjoying the music :-)

After we had rested our weary old feet we moved on to the pitch and made our way to the front to enjoy the music. Metallica were awesome, I have never seen them live and so that was very cool and Peter and I were singing along and jumping up and down. I was too busy enjoying it to take a picture. The Beastie Boys made an appearance, see below, but were also hindered by sound problems. The Foo Fighters and Spinal Tap were awesome and it was really cool when Spinal Tap got all the bass players from all the bands on stage and did a bass homage really. Then for the amusement of the boys in the crowd were the Pussycat Dolls, who really weren't wearing much, they can move I'll give them that much, not my favorite though.


My favorite by a long way was Madonna, she is such an awesome performer. What can I say, she was totally cool!

Just before she came on they turned all the lights off in the stadium and that was very cool, SO many camera flashes indeed! It was certainly the highlight of the weekend.