(10 April 2007) - Seventeen of the headliners who will play Wembley Stadium in London as part of the 24-hour, 7-continent Live Earth concerts on 7/7/07 were unveiled today by Live Earth founder and Executive Producer Kevin Wall. Ticketing for the concerts begins at midday on Friday, April 13. This monster lineup will ensure Live Earth meets our goal of bringing together people from around the world to combat the climate crisis, Wall said.
Live Earth will not only span all 7 continents. The musicians who have answered our call span all genres and generations.
By attracting an audience of billions, we hope Live Earth will launch a global campaign giving a critical mass of people around the world the tools they need to help solve the climate crisis, said Live Earth Co-Chair Vice President Al Gore.
But ultimately, corporations and governments must become global leaders taking decisive action to stop global warming. Live Earth is a monumental music event that will bring together more than 2 billion people to combat the climate crisis. Live Earth's 24 hours of music across 7 continents will deliver a call to action and the solutions needed to answer the call.
Live Earth marks the beginning of a multi-year mass persuasion campaign led by The Alliance for Climate Protection to move individuals, corporations and governments to take action. Exclusive online media partner MSN has partnered with Live Earth to help it reach people in every corner of the globe. The concerts will be streamed live on 7/7/07 at liveearth.
msn.com. MSN's 39 localized web portals worldwide attract 465 million monthly users.
The concert will be broadcast on BBC Television in the UK and on more than 120 networks around the world. In anticipation of overwhelming demand for tickets and to ensure that everyone gets a fair opportunity to participate in Live Earth, and minimize ticket misuse, the event organizers will be allocating ticket sales by ballot. Registration for the opportunity to purchase two tickets per person will be done online.
Ticket applicants will also be given information on how they can help combat the global climate crisis. Registration opens from midday on Friday 13th April until Monday 16th April at midday. If your application is successful you will be notified how to buy your tickets on Weds 18 April.
All tickets for London will be priced at #xA3;55 EACH. All proceeds will benefit the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Group, Stop Climate Chaos and other international NGOs. The lineup and venue for the United States leg of Live Earth will be announced later today.
Wall also announced that Live Earth will also stage concerts at Sydney's Aussie Stadium; Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach; Johannesburg's Cradle of Human of Human Kind; Tokyo Stadium and the Steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai.
FLEA was the funkiest monkey in town - all bass and bounce - and the Red Hot Chili Peppers reaffirmed their status as the most legitimate rock act accepted inside, and outside, music's mainstream.
The Californian band's songs are built around social issues in urban settings.
They detail a gritty past and beating, or being beaten by adversity. Their punch-heavy staccato delivery has become trademark. FLEA was the funkiest monkey in town - all bass and bounce - and the Red Hot Chili Peppers reaffirmed their status as the most legitimate rock act accepted inside, and outside, music's mainstream.
The Californian band's songs are built around social issues in urban settings. They detail a gritty past and beating, or being beaten by adversity. Their punch-heavy staccato delivery has become trademark.
Again they proved to a sold-out audience there is weight in the adage, the harder you work, the better you get. Embraced frantically by the young and middle-aged, vocalist Anthony Kiedis's voice is at the top of his game; with more mood in his melody and true-to-the-record percussive embellishment. In the band's first Australian tour since 2000 (and shortly earlier in '96), the battle for volume made this crowd a contender in the first leg of the tour.
All the big song intros were drowned out by the audience frenzy: Can't Stop, Dani California, Californication and Under the Bridge. First on stage was Melbourne-raised Flea on bass - typically shirtless, with red pants white belt and white sneakers. He jumped and slammed with the funk-heavy trio including guitarist John Frusciante and true "backbone of the band" drummer Chad Smith.
And when Kiedis walked out, with long, black shorts, whiteT-shirt and suit vest, those speaker towers were overwhelmed by a pitch of rapturous applause. Six years away had obviously been too long. Old songs were pitted with new but a consistent seam runs through with Smith's manic beats and Flea's spidery bass lines.
His playing style is at home with power chords or lead work. He often sets the tempo, the mood and the changes in extended intros or jamming. And Kiedis knows exactly where Flea is headed, anticipating his every move with leaps and bounds and forever swinging that volatile microphone stand.
Unexpectedly, there was one extra player with the band on this outing, simply referred to as Josh. "No cause for alarm", says Kiedis, "It's just our friend Josh". Josh looked like a ring-in, wearing a white business-collared shirt, but he flexed and played guitar like a long lost cousin.
And with the band could stop on a note, such was his familiarity with the material which now spans two decades. Even more fascinating was his appearance in the infectious newer song Hump De Bump, where he doubled up with Smith on the one kit to unravel the tom-tom surf -like break in a flourish way underplayed by the audience. Flanked by a massive digital screen of kaleidoscopic graphics and inset images of the players (a great benefit for the seats in the nosebleed section), sound and visuals combined in a fittingly fractured montage depicting life's pace, even in pleasure.
At one point Kiedis dropped to his hands and knees with a permanent marker crossing out and changing song lists taped to the floor at the feet of Flea and Frusciante. We'll never know what those changes were, although an new song was tried, but how refreshing for ticket-holders to get a sense of genuine live input rather than rehearsed cash-grabbing (Flea even played some great sounds of the bush on a flugelhorn). Fittingly enough, the room holding us thousands was as red hot as the band; the floor in permanent pogo and the seats constantly jumping to their feet.
The exotic song intros, with Flea's textural bass as a centerpiece, and the wailing sci-fi outros will keep us going for months. Highlights among Scar Tissue, Throw Away Your Television, the sweet melody of Snow (Hey Oh), and the old classic Give It Away will prove a lasting glue that binds the music sub-conscious until their next sonic salvo.
celebrate its third year when the Hullabaloo benefit takes place Saturday, May 5, at The Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theater (6126 Hollywood Blvd.
). Created by Flea, bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Keith Barry, dean of the nonprofit Silverlake Conservatory of Music (SCM), which they co-founded in 2001, Hullabaloo raises funds for the SCM, including to provide scholarships to more than 100 Tickets will go on sale Saturday, April 21st and will be available only over Attendees at the festive event, which begins at 6 p.m.
, will be treated to a Zabrecky plus very special performances by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Charlie Haden, Ditty Bops, students and faculty of the SCM, and other special guests. Hors d'oeuvres, a light buffet, and an open bar with spirits, wine, beer and champagne will be served throughout the evening. There will also be a silent is limited to only 1,400 guests.
Ticket donations are 500 (General Admission), both of which include food, beverage and parking. VIP my Mickey Avalon. i am in brisbane, australia
i wonder how many hotel rooms i have been in in my life?
not as many as neil young or b.b. king
kurt vonnegut jr.
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