Yeah i know! i had to grit my teeth and buy "The Sun" today to get the CD coz on the advert it said there was REM feat. Chris Martin "Man On The Moon".
It was a pleasent surprise to find Morrissey on there (and as the first track!)
Pity he isn't doing any of the Live 8 concerts tho!!

what would be your ideal morrissey set list if he was performing @ live 8?..........
N.B they're only aloud about 4 songs each

Nice to hear that Morrissey's involved in Live8 in some small way. After all, both himself and Bob Geldof are committed to similar campaigns, working towards better quality of life for animals; in Bob’s case, the human animal. If anyone doubted Bob before, and I bet he even doubted himself first time round, the evidence is quickly diminishing now. Pop stars are becoming the new politicians – hurrah! We’re all tired of the needless tragedies, the hypocrisies, the greed, the mad rift between rich and poor, when the world has enough nourishing resources so that no creature need suffer preventable disease or privation. Such stupidity without effective intervention has turned many cynical, but fairness is a basic universal value waiting to be re-ignited. Will the world listen and let ‘love, peace and harmony’ reign, tomorrow? I for one, feel more optimistic than I did yesterday.

Make Poverty History........Abolish Capitalism!
Fuck Bush!
Fuck Blair!
Fuck Berlusconni!
G8 leaders everyone of them are war criminals!

Somehow, I don't think so.

'I'm not afraid to say that I think Band Aid was diabolical. Or to say that I think Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Many people find that very unsettling, but I'll say it as loud as anyone wants me to. In the first instance the record itself was absolutely tuneless. One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England. It was an awful record considering the mass of talent involved. And it wasn't done shyly it was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.'

Don't buy the fucking Sun 'newspaper'

justice for the 96

www.contrast.org/hillsborough

Hi, this has nothing to with anything but, can anyone access morrissey-music.com? I can't seem to connect to it.

You can boost the numbers in support of reducing poverty by signing on at: www.live8live.com .
A lot of us have probably voted unknowingly for worse.

C'mon guys, whether Moz supports this or not, it shouldn't really matter. Everyone has their chosen cause and Morrissey is more at home supporting animal rights. Besides, he's made comments before on the gap between rich and poor and how disgusting he finds the situation; he's not going to be against the message of Live 8. Also, whilst Geldof and Bono might be a bit in your face sometimes, nobody can doubt the sincerity behind this campaign. It's alright for us to sit on our lazy rich arses and criticise pop stars for trying to do something, but what the bloody hell have any of us done so far? Ok, we can be cynical about the simplistic idea that a bunch of concerts can change lives, but you've got to be simplistic for most people on this planet, because they have little or no awareness of anything beyond their immaculately manicured front lawn. Regardless of whether you think certain pop stars are ignorant fools (and i've watched some of the coverage and cringed a few times today) it's raising awareness that's the important thing. As a person concerned with animal rights, Moz can't be critical of that.

I waited hours to see PINK FLOYD and at the end of Comfortably Numb they cut to stupid comercials

I hate MTV

i have an idea how to do that:

stop releasing so many versions of the same Morrissey song!

After watching Live 8, who were the best? You might all kill me but Robbie Williams was amazing, and where did George Michael come from?! The Killers too. Oh just to add, put your name on the live 8 list!

Jo and Madonna on the sofa.

Jo Whiley: "So Madonna have you ever been to Africa?"

Madonna: "Well ermmmmmmh ammmmhhh ugh ermmmh, well though I'm the biggestfuckingmothersuperstardivacunt on this fucking shit hole planet; and though I bust my mutherfucking ass to fly to Israel for the Kabballah bollocks/nonsense annual convention recently; and though I've tirelessly toured every other continent on the fuckingplanet over the past twenty odd years; and though I'm one of the richest bitches in the whole wide fuckingworld; and though music originating from African Americans has influenced my entire music career; you know Jo I haven't actually managed to go there YET!"

(nice to see the Shamelss One actually looking embarassed and uncomfortable for once)

"...BUT I wouldn't just go there for the sake of it...you know I would have to know I WOULD actually make a difference to the lives of the African people before setting foot on that continent." (sounding not unlike Neil Armstrong six months before going to the Moon)"

Always knew Mrs. Ritchie was a superficial ole slapper. And BTW, whilst on the BBC sofa, she managed to PLUG her new album, her new kiddie books and the new documentary of her recent tour.

Fuck Africa and the five thousand kids who starve to death there every day!

We should all spend our collective disposable income on Madonna product. Long live the Ritchie family.

I'm suprised Hyde Park was able to accommodate her ginormous/humongous ego yesterday.

(And what does Nelson sing on that Sun CD? How many hits did he have exactly again? Apart from "jailhouse rock", I mean?)

What is it with popstars that every now and then they need to tell us what to do? What to eat? Who to care for? Who to vote for?

Do audiences consist only of irresponsible people who don't have a clue what's going on in the world?

Well, I don't know, but it seems to me the very people trying to guide us are amongst the less responsible on earth.
In this live 8 concert in various countries so far I've seen on stage (examples):

- a tax evader
- a man who will cause Sanctuary to go bankrupt if he goes on buying such expensive jewelry for his partner
-lots of people who are on drugs most of the time, (so I doubt they think about Africa that much)
-And even... a couple of guys who are so full of inspiration, they look for it on other artists' fansites.

Wow. No wonder I look up to them so much.

Now, all I want to know is, (without even talking about Africa), do these people, who, I'd like to remind you, are human beings like you and me, do everything they can to protect their OWN environment?
Do they recycle? Do they try not to waste water? Do they buy products with as little packaging as possible? Do they use public transportation? etc etc etc.
You know something? I don't think they do much.

And that pisses me off.

I don't know. I'm tired of people like that telling me that I should heal the world. When they're not busy sleeping with little boys. (No, I don't mean you this time, Bono.)

And the whole thing reeks of evangelization and neocolonialism, even when they try to make it sound like it's not that at all.
It always comes out wrong.
Like that guy at Africa live who, to make us see how great some part of Africa was, told us they "spoke very good English" there. (He did) (never improvise speeches, that's a lesson, kids)
Like all those well meaning Catholic singers who think they're gonna save us all. Yes, even me. lol. (Good luck.)

See what I mean?

Seen any African bands on those stages, by the way? I didn't. Could be a good idea to get them involved next time?
But I'm sure you all saw Coldplay? You know? Zambia's finest quartet? (Their English is very good. Handy.)

So if Morrissey had chosen to stick to saving little pigs instead of adding his name on the list...For once I wouldn't have blamed him.
(Ha..But Bono...When he looks into your eyes and tells you about the bible, it's so hard to resist, eh, Morrissey?)

By the way, I read somewhere U2 are going to sue someone who used to work for them and who tried to sell one of their bibles? Oh what an evil person indeed! Trying to make a few bucks out of U2's good name! Now, that's shameful!

If they win, will they use the money to build a church in Africa, I wonder?
Stay tuned for more good intentions.

Oh my. I'll never be introduced to Morrissey's mates now, will I? (Shame. Stipey made me laugh today with his Robin impersonation! What is he on at the moment?)

Africa needs my support indeed.
but Pop stars don't. I'm sorry.

(Oh, yes, I do know it's Christmas time. I think Bono is knitting me a pair of socks actually. He can't help it! He's so giving!)( He hardly ever takes anything, really, the blessed holy man!!!)

And, you know, he's going to save Morrissey, too.

"Viva live hate."

Why couldn't Moz just play the gig?

granted the majority of live 8 was cringeworthy (eg. mariah carey singing with a choir of african kids, Geldoff parading a scared african woman on stage, u2 releasing birds during their set - why?!)
you gotta admit without live 8 the g8 thing would have passed by unnoticed by most people like 80% of all politics.
so if it does raise awareness we should restrain our instinctive cynical reaction.

Oh yea and listen to Kristina and put ure name on the list www.live8live.com

Well, shame on anyone stupid enough to stoop so low as to buy a copy of The Stun because it had a song they already own in 17 different formats already.

Live8. Hhmmmmm...

What I found
annoying from the parts of Live8 I managed to catch [I missed 98% of the event as my wife was up in Edinburgh (apparently telling agroup of spotty 'anarchists' to grow up) and I had 5 sons to shepherd], was the inarticulate pronouncements of self-important (sometimes
quite badly faded) rock-stars, who seemed incapable of speaking in measured tones,
instead lapsing time and again into needlessly overblown hyperbole. "This is
the greatest song ever written by the greatest singer ever," exclaimed
Coldwater's Christ Arsin, but instead of bringing on a resurrected John
Lennon to sing 'Imagine', or Elvis singing 'Blue Suede Shoes - or whatever
tickles your fancy - he introduced Gary Spit from The Valve, singing a song
whose entire refrain is a 4-bar sample from an old Stones song.

I could do without Sir Elton Fatboy lecturing me on making poverty history,
when he spends more on fancy dress in a week than I will earn in a lifetime.

Managed to catch a glimpse of Annie Lennox. When did she last have a hit?
How crap to be part of the world's largest gig purely on the basis of being
Bob Gettoffthestage's mate. Also saw Geldof
'singing' "I Don't Like Being a Has-Been". Why? Couldn't he have had the
grace to realise that his slot was as anachronistic as having a Thompson
Twins set.

Paul McCartney should have drowned in a Scottish boating accident in 1971
while he still had a shred of dignity. What was so nauseating about him nodding his head out of time and pretending to dig Snoopy Dog, was that he
would have been aware of the tv camera on him (being in the media spotlight
for 43 years will do that to you) and he was therefore trying to look cool.
What a sad, shameless tart.

The concert was about raising awareness. Don't people watch the news on tv or read newspapers?

Looking forward to seeing the sales figures of artists involved in Live8 the weeks leading up to live8 and the weeks following Live8.

Missed the evening section as my band had a gig. Got back only to see Bon Jovi on the tv.

Very depressing.

Post Script: If all of the food which was used to fatten animals up for the West's greedy over-consumtion of flesh, then the left overs would could end world hunger, if not poverty, in a flash.

Anyone watching ITV in the UK?

I don't get it. If the CD is free how does it help starving people?

Sounds like it's just promoting music acts to me.....