If you've come here for Live 8 coverage, please head on over to Philly Future where I will be covering the event live complete with photos.
Just in case you missed my post over at Philly Future, I thought I'd repost it here. Live Aid will be coming to Philly! Awesome. I may have to take my laptop out into the field with me to d/l all of the photos I'm sure to take that weekend.
Performers: [as of 6.29.05]
Will Smith, Bon Jovi, 50 Cent, Maroon 5, P. Diddy, Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, The Dave Matthews Band, Sarah McLachlan, Il Divo, Rob Thomas, Keith Urban, Kaiser Chiefs , Linkin Park, Destiny's Child , Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Josh Groban, Ludacris, Def Leppard, Jars of Clay, Toby Keith, Kanye West, Rita, Ziggy and Stephen Marley.
And celebrity presenters: Salma Hayek, Natalie Portman, Chris Tucker, Jennifer Connolly, Jimmy Smits, Kami, the HIV-Positive Muppet, Brad Pitt, Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Naomi Watts, Rev. Al Sharpton, Ashley Judd, Jack Nicholson.
It was previously rumored that Philadelphia would not host one of the Live Aid concerts celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 1985 concert that raised $80M in African famine relief. Now, this Inky story says otherwise.
Twenty years after Philadelphia hosted one of two Live Aid concerts that dramatized the plight of starving Africans, a second big-name benefit is in the works.This concert will be called Live 8 to go with the annual G8 Summit to be held in Scotland in early July.
It will be July 2 on Ben Franklin Parkway, in the middle of the city's jam-packed Fourth of July festivities, according to Deborah Bolling, Mayor's Street spokeswoman.
A news conference is set for Tuesday at City Hall to announce "Live 8," which would coincide with a show in London, said Laura Perez, the publicist who is handling the news conference.
This concert will only add to the amazing spectacle that is Philly's Fourth of July celebration.
Live 8 in Philly will start off at 9a on the Parkway with nine big big big screen TVs broadcasting the events going on in Europe through Noon. The Philly portion of Live 8 starts at Noon and goes on officially until 6p. It would be great to see the concert go on afterwards, but we'll see how it all happens.
See you there.
***UPDATE[s]***
Philly Future will have plenty of up to date information on Live 8 from the people and by the people of Philadelphia. I urge all of you who have found this post to head on over there and bookmark the site. I'll surely have more info here, but I am only one person, we have just under 200 people signed up over at Philly Future who are all very interested in Live 8 who all have their own take.
hey this is just a question about live 8. i hope you have an answer. is it like most of the fourth of july stuff here wheere you just go or do you need a ticket beforehand? i know its free but i didnt know if you needed tickets. please get back to me!
thanks, marie
Posted by: marie | June 19, 2005 at 03:29 PM
its free
Posted by: | June 22, 2005 at 04:21 PM
PhillyLive8.com just added Alicia Keys, Black Eyed Peas, Ludacris, and Justin Timberlake to the lineup! I'm really getting psyched for the show. 8 days to go!
Posted by: Christy | June 24, 2005 at 04:24 AM
FREE, so you just show up? What time does the show start
Thank You Jenn
Posted by: jenn | June 25, 2005 at 10:23 PM
ROC 4 LIFE!!!!!
JAY-Z
We be big pimpn in philly all weekend!
Posted by: | June 30, 2005 at 11:12 AM
I Luv Linkin Park there awsome! All of them r HOT! lol
Keepin doing ur thang LP! Luv all of u!
Posted by: Crystal | July 01, 2005 at 06:27 PM