It’s a beautiful evening outside, so I’m going try and get away from my desk for a while. But before I go, I want to comment on Bob Geldof’s upcoming Live 8 concert. It undoubtedly has a great line-up, but I’m not sure it will have the same cultural resonance as the 80s Live Aid event. That concert pitched a very specific mission: feed starving Africans. This one seems to have a more amorphous message. Is it to promote debt relief in developing nations, bring pressure on G8 leaders to be more compassionate, or what? And will it really make any difference in the long run? And will the reunion of Pink Floyd really live up to the hype?
Regardless, I’ll dutifully TiVo the thing. I just hope Bono doesn’t get all professorial and does a ten-minute PowerPoint presentation on debt relief before launching into “Beautiful Day.”
