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[julian_w]

Live Earth is happening here.

(Looks like Microsoft have rigged it so that other browsers can't follow the feed so well. Firefox just isn't working well enough.)

... Jeeze, Jack Johnson's pianist and drummer are excellent. I had heard them before, but not quite noticed them. They're flippin brilliant.

Ohhh... That was nice. He just asked if everyone was excited to see Crowded House tonight, and then said: "So are we!"

Did anyone catch the website Jack Johnson mentioned?

I think it was this one, but not sure.

[julian_w]

Wow, Crowded House just keep getting better, and I don't just mean Neil's voice.

Hah! The power to the lights to the whole of Aussie Stadium cut out half way through Something So Strong... but Neil's so cool they hardly blinked, and then just kept going.

Excellent, wonderful, bloody amazing production quality. Cameras everywhere, great shots of the whole stadium, and the sound quality is crystal... Crowded House's acoustic guitarist is bloody good - not just his big bushy beard - and every mike is clear. The singing at the end of Something So Strong was beautiful.

[Ethan Allen Hawley]

That 'Blue King Brown' band is a good band. Never heard of them before.
They play together really well, which is great for a big group of people. The lead singer's voice is pretty mellow, and the songs are pretty simple really. She's a good leader though, and a good guitarist. How come it's playing now, and it's daylight, but it was dark for Crowded House? Was it recorded earlier in the day?

[julian_w]

Yeah, they're repeating the whole schedule, it seems. The production blips are more evident on second viewing: the Crowded House keyboards are loud enough ... except when doing one of the solos. But it was cool to see it all again; including realising it ... was John Butler ...[edited] - carrying his baby daughter - on stage at the end of the last CH song. And seeing Neil again - so smooth and professional when the entire stadium house-lights go out - and yet at the start of another song looks visibly moved and barely inches from tears.

Germany had this guy with a big bushy grey beard scheduled, named Yusuf. Didn't know who it was... until he started playing and singing: "...We've come a long way, Growing day by day. So tell me where do the children play-ay ay-hey hey hey hey-ay aye...?" Cat Stevens: Yay! He does a couple of his classics, and a couple of new numbers that continue to live up to his style and quality nicely.

I enjoyed Sneaky Sound System back in Australia again. Hadn't heard of them before. The female singer is one real, true, genuine singer with healthy lungs. The lyrics were fairly inane... okay, for the most part very inane; but the singing? Impressive.

[wylies99]

Yeah, hippies dropping acid and Moby singing a couple of songs will really make a big difference in the world! Enjoy the MUZAK, but realize this will have no impact on the environment.

[just alittlecrazy]

[Unposter]

Oh man. Somepeople just want to rain on everyone's parade. If nothing else, people are talking about the environment.

I think the story here is that the Hub of Asia is not involved. In Tokyo, they have a venue with all Japanese acts. In Shanghai, they have venue with all Chinese acts. But, in Korea not one single act is performing. Nothing. No one.

Korea should be ashamed. Do Koreans only care about international sports?

[julian_w]

Cool, the whole show is on constant cycle repeat.

Jack Johnson has ClimateCounts.org on his guitar. That was the site he had on his T-shirt (... which he forgot to wear...!)

Caught the tail end of the Wolfmother set. Never heard of them before. Pretty good. Tight rhythm-based three piece. Want to catch them from the start next time, soon.

Beastie Boys were good. Punchy short set, dressed in ties, dark suits and shades, bouncing around the stage with as much energy as ever.

I was busy avoiding Madonna on another continent, but was chatting online with a friend who said she - Madonna - was playing guitar. Sure enough, she was playing an adequately passable, distortion drenched, two-chord, basic rock rhythm to Ray of Light. It was okay... although skipping around in high-heels while playing guitar near the end for me kinda spoiled any cool-effect she'd borrowed from the Gibson. Heh... especially when she had a specially planted guy sitting on her amp to twiddle her knobs for the feedback at the end.

After that song, having lost the strings, she actually started to say something mildly sensible about the climate and global warming and the whole reason for the shows. She strung a couple of good sentences together... and then tried to link that to introducing a couple of 'authentic' looking gypsy musician guys on stage to help start the next song. They were quite a hoot, and excellent to see and exciting to hear play, even with her jumping around them like a demented sparrow in a black frock.

I seem to keep running into Sneaky Sound System on the Aussie channel. They're growing on me real quick. That singer's name is 'Miss Connie'.

The drummer is this band is a viciously sharp player, and makes an impression cos he looks about 17 years old, and also like he could play this stuff in his sleep. He's actually 27 or so, and is an experienced and award-winning jazz drummer, having won awards around the country. His playing is so beautifully sharp it's mesmerising watching and listening to his precision. And as inane as their lyrics are on some of their numbers, the band has actually also won an award for the writing of one of their songs. But I'd predict that any band with Felix Bloxsom driving the rhythm, and Connie Mitchell leading vocals will be catching international attention before long, whatever the lyrics.

Happily discovered the scientists group in Antarctica [edited], too, as I was heading out last night. They were really good! I'd like to see the rest of that song, and their set. They are hilarious - a full jam-out rock-on band, fully clad in rugged outdoor winter gears - surrounded by ice, snow and arctic sunshine. ... That's the spirit!