Friday 21 September 2007

Day 96 - "Peace - what is it good for? Absolutely nothing"

Totally enjoying the editing... Seb & I are goofing about in the suite getting some really good stuff done... it's an enjoyable & pretty stress-free exercise.

The evening was quite different though..

"Communism" & "peace" are great concepts... & if the people who believed in them could get them to work, then I am all for it... but when you see people doing a hash-ob on them... (Stalin etc)... then its quite depressing.

I bought tickets to the "peace one day concert" at The Royal Albert Hall... I wish I hadn't.

Actually some of the music -Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) and Annie Lennox were fabulous but it was the "politics" and self-promotion in the middle that stood out like a discarded tuna carcass at the Squegee Fish Market (!) in Tokyo.



It was awful, toe-curling and painful. People like Shimon Peres saying that he was up for peace and Jude Law spreading his peace message. One thing I noticed is that while they had "celebs" endorsing the idea that 21st/9 is an international peace day & some fellow from the UN - and we KNOW how useful the UN are! There wasn't a senior politician from the UK, US, Russia, China... etc etc endorsing this and in the end they are the main protagonists in the global war scene!

It has to be said that Ben & Jerry - the ice-cream kings - came on to point out that the US spends 300 billion a year on arms a year and that just 15 billion of that could save all the children who die of hunger annually... ironically, there was no Chunky Monkey or Cherry Garcia on sale at the RAH - just some poor effort from Cornwall...



The music - well - Corinne Bailey Rae was happy, Mr Islam was depressing (but fabulous), Kate Nash (brilliant & so humble ... it was funny how her rude rap was followed by Cat Stevens ... a duet would have been the mismatch of the century), James Morrison (who?) and finally Annie Lennox - with the most beautiful female voice on the planet.



I was left very unsatisfied ... after my U2 experience of 2005 - basically dodgy politics wrapped up in a bad performance - wrapped up in £100 a ticket - wrapped up in more bad politics - I vowed never to go a "political" concert again ... I love music, I just don't like the preaching in between ... last night's was truly awful.

Back to the edit this weekend. who-hoo!

Songs of The Day: Saturn (Yusuf Islam) and Peace one Day (St Peter's School)

Weather: Fresh

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think it would have been worth it just to see Yusuf! He was so great at the "Live Earth" Germany concert. Have you see any of his performance from that event? He did "Saturn" there also, and it was fabulous. Try YouTube if you're interested. He had his full band at "Live Earth".

I'm just so happy that he is back performing again.

Thanks for your review and photos!

 
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