Having successfully made poverty history with Live 8, it's hoped the great and good of planet pop can now fix that other tricky problem, global warming, with another big gig.
This one is being organised by the increasingly in vogue former US Vice-President Al Gore (who got one of the biggest cheers of the evening at the Grammys this weekend) and will be very much built around the Live 8 model - taking place in the first week of July (7 Jul) and with events around the world. It will even be called Live Earth. A full announcement is expected soon, though rumour has it Kylie, U2, Madonna, Robbie, Coldplay and Oasis will all appear.
There's even more talk about a Spice Girls reunion in relation to this event. Such a reunion was, of course, much rumoured to be happening at Live 8 prior to the event. Depending on who you believe it didn't happen because Mel C wasn't interested or Bob Geldof never actually asked them. Whether there is any more credibility to those rumours this time I don't know, though presumably Emma Bunton will be very pregnant by July.
Anyway, that's not really the important bit of this story - more on the other Live Earth plans when we get them.