Bob Geldof has been busy questioning the point of Al Gore's Live Earth concerts which, of course, are kind of modeled on Geldof's Live 8 venture, only with global warming rather than global poverty as the 'message' underlying the music. Speaking to Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, Geldof said he hoped Gore's gigs were a success, but asked "Why is [Gore] actually organising them? To make us aware of the greenhouse effect? Everybody's known about that problem for years. We are all fucking conscious of global warming".
He continued: "I would only organise [Live Earth] if I could go on stage and announce concrete environmental measures from the American presidential candidates, Congress or major corporations. They haven't got those guarantees, so it's just an enormous pop concert or the umpteenth time that, say, Madonna or Coldplay get up on stage".
Live 8, of course, were able to announce they'd made poverty history within hours of their London concert kicking off. Oh, wait. No, they weren't.