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So another concert cancelled, sorry postponed. I would not be surprised if there are more, after my experience today. I was walking past Edinburgh's largest ticket agency this afternoon and perused their lists of forthcoming gigs for the whole of Scotland in their window. Did I see Bob menti...
It is World Aids Day tomorrow.
I received this from Oxfam...
Tomorrow, December 1 is World AIDS Day. World AIDS day 2005 is
particularly significant. At the G8 Summit in July, World Leaders
promised to have universal access to treatment for all people living with
HIV/AIDS by 2010. Th...
Dear all
Last week I saw a little bit, in a Portuguese channel (SIC Noticias), a program of Panorama BBC named "Dead mums don't cry". This program speeks about the mums and future mums helth, on the Central Hospital in N'Djanema (capital of Chade or Tjade). I was chocked with the
Dr Grace Kodindo...
We have three signed copies of this compilation album available on the Official Bob Geldof website. Note, this is not an album of Geldof's music, it is a compilation of some of his influences and a very good album it is too! Ian
Under The Influence: Bob Geldof The fifth in the Under the Influence ser...
Anyone like this series? I love it and have tickets to see them in Oxford on 29 November. Something to keep me going between my mini Geldof season
If you haven't watched it, I recommend it.
Have you seen any good live comedy shows?
I would just like to say congratulations to Midge Ure, co founder of Band Aid and organiser of Murrayfield's Live 8 show, (which was one of the best). on his Lifetime Achievement Award at the "Scottish Brits"last night. Well deserved and great to be given recognition for his hard work, I don't think ev...
Hi,
If anybody is interested, I've written an article about Bob that is now up on the high profile website www.thisisull.com
I hope you might find the time to check it out.
Thanks. x
Steve Rudd @ www.kidjuxta.tk
Hi folks
Bob is coming to Perth Concert Hall, Scotland on Monday 5 December. We thought it would be nice to do a wee ticket offer for all you fans.
So, the first 10 people who email tickets@horsecross.co.uk will win a pair of tickets to the gig. Put "Bob ticket competition" in th...
I was reading recently that Princess Peaches is doing a doco on "inside the mosque" to inform and build awareness about islamic faith etc. in a bid to alleviate some of the concerns regarding this religion and fundamentalism. Isn't she turning out to be a little Celtic Warrior...
Is Bob religious? meaning does he believe in God or Not? I was reading the other night and although I'm quite aware that talk is cheap and all. I was readling that he turned away from being catholic. huh? I dont believe it myself at all. But, does he believe in God?
Bob Geldof - Great Songs Of Indifference: The Bob Geldof Anthology 1986-2001 - Box Set
Track Listing
CD One - Deep In The Heart Of Nowhere
1. This Is The World Calling 2. In The Pouring Rain 3. August Was A Heavy Month 4. Love Like A Rocket 5. I Cry Too 6. When I Was Young 7. This Heartless Heart 8. The Be...
Colin James is an awesome Canadian singer from Vancouver British Columbia... He is also a huge Van Morrison fan and his new cd has Into The Mystic on it fantasic job. you can hear it on www.colinjames.com
cheers
C'mon ladies! Tell every last detail! And I mean EVERY detail!
WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!!! LOL
(I'm so friggin' jealous I can't stand it!) -- Edited by ArrGee at 23:21, 2005-09-15
Hi, I'm italian.(sorry the english not so perfet....)Today a great news.
Geldof man of the year.He was (is?) in Rome...with all the family....
I'm in Milan...
Do you know that???
http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/g/geldofbob-sex.shtmlSir Bob is one of the unluckiest bastards in rock. He wasn't able to age gracefully like Paul Weller, or even Joe Strummer. (John Lydon would have folded like a cheap card table had he been in Geldof's shoes.) The Boomtown Rats a...
People, I don't know if this is any good to anybody but there are tickets on ebay for the Shepherds Bush concert and some for Newcastle, and no, it is not me selling them! Just trying to be neighbourly
Will x
.... I have been waiting to see what happened when Jules went over 1000 posts, but her status remains unchanged.
I guess it'll be a few months before she makes 2000
name of event: reaching out for freddie time / date :thursday 24th november from 7pm place: owston Park - Doncaster Road - Doncaster - what will be happing DJ + Dancefloor + Karaoke + Exchanging collector materials + Showing of rare and unseen dvd's all + Talking about what we could organize for the 15t...
Hey whats everyones worst bob solo ....
heres three to get started,love like a rocket,this is the world calling and.....love or something arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh -- Edited by ArrGee at 10:06, 2005-04-01
As many of you might know, an online vote is being held by the local authority in London to find a name for the footbridge into the new Wembley Stadium. The organisers are looking for names which are synonymous with the stadium. Obviously, footballers spring to mind immediately but nobody seem...
There's one track on SAD which I always skip: Birthday Suit. As I've writen somewhere else, it always makes me cry and has even done so when I heard it live. Quite embarrassing to cry at a concert...
Shortly after SAD was released, I heard BG play Birthday Suit live in the studio during a radio sh...
Just wondering if anyone had heard anything really excellent latley, something new, or old, that you have never heard before??? ive got a few!
Jonathan Richman, Sun Kil Moon, Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club, Arcade Fire, Ed Harcourt, Martha Wainwright, Devendra Banhart!
Anyone else?
i went to see this last night and it is excellent.not as good as lord of the rings but still its the best of the four so far.iv read all the books and seen all the films and i was impressed.this is the first of the films that i really enjoyed.a must see
Does anyone know how the Gateshead date is selling?... Hope to god this one isn't cancelled too!!!!!!.... Will be flying over from the states for this one... Was originally hoping to see the Wimbledon show (but guess that was never an option).... Anyone know WHY the cancellations???
All the best,...
Hi,
i received the new "Great Songs Of Indifference" (pretty bad promotion up****, there was a Bob & Rats Best Of with the same title years before, but well....)
And there are many differences in the tracklist compared to what this site is telling me. Are there multiple versions each f...
As everyone know Bob hates email and has been shooting his mouth off about it in the last day or two. I came across this article:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27762
by some idiot. 'Normally unopinionated' is that some attempt at sarcasm?? 'Rare public appearance' What??? 'And g...
... do any of our American cousins have this on CD?
YEAH DEFINITELY (Not THE SOFT SOIL) is on one but not the other.
Is it any good? If so, any chance of an MP3?
（ORIGINAL ORDER) 1. ROOM 19 (SHA LA LA LA LEE) 2. ATTITUDE CHICKEN 3. THE SOFT SOIL 4. A HOLE TO FILL 5. T...
HI GANG! JUST TO LET YOU KNOW JUST GOT BACK HOME AFTER ONE MAD WEEKEND CARDIFF FRI/PETERBOROUGH SAT. I MUST JUST SAY SAT WAS A GOOD NIGHT EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE OF PEOPLE WHO DECIDED TO HAVE A CHAT AND LAUGHING DURING BOB,S SONG BIRTHDAY SUIT THEY TRIED VERY HARD TO SPOIL WHAT WAS ANOTHER GREAT SHOW&nb...
Well, I hope this isn't too blasphemous, especially since it was meant with the best of intentions, but...
A few years ago, a friend and I had a little bar-band that played mostly covers, or humorous originals, and we were called THE BOOMTOWN FAT KING COLE DUO, and we came up with a parody of "I D...
Hello to all,
WHEW! Finally got an email from A1 for those doggone Wimbleton Tickets!
This is my email reply;
Subject :
Order A1-20050975 - Cancelled Concert - Bob Geldof - Wimbledon
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Though I'm pretty interested in it as far as the previously unrealeased stuff is concerned, I am a bit disappointed that like the Rats re-releases, it doesn't quite cover everything.
And I found this on ebay as a track listing for Crazy. Is this version of Looking After Number One from...
It is my wedding Anniversary today Guess what my wonderful hubby got me YES TICKETS FOR LEICESTER cheers chris your the best Any one else got tickets for this gig? Chris you know how to make this girl smile Kaz
Hi folks, this is my very first post. I am about the same age as Bob, (am I the oldest here?) and have grown up along side him. I admire Bob for his music and his humanitarian efforts. He has a huge heart and really cares about inequalities and what kind of planet we are leaving for the next generation. He may...
I've got the following Rats tour programmes:
Tonic for the Troops tour (1978)
Christmas Turkey Tour (1978)
Fine art of Surfacing Tour (1979)
Bongos over Britain (1980)
V Deep (1982)
In the Long Grass (1985)
Now, where there any others. Particulary to support the first album
...
Ok, that`s my first time here, and i am practising my bad english, so i ask for all your patience. I have seen the great music concentration five 8 and i want to congratulate Bob about that. I have heard that the record is in the shop for christmas, good idea. Christmas is the best time in year! I dont want to...
Hi everyone, I have just put a few pictures from cardiff up for you to view. Unfortunatly we had problems with our camera, just like jules, so the stage pictures were no good. So only the pictures from after have come out (new camera on order). Pic. 6 is Jules with her hubby Howard, jules has the stage set l...
I have quite an ecclectic taste in music from Geldof to Glam, Classical to opera, cajun to ambient. And as I am typing this I am listening to the best version and the orginal version of I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton. But one of my great loves since my teenage years has been Northern Soul which...
Official BBC press release follows:
'G8, Can You Hear Us?'
9pm on Tuesday 15th November on BBC4
BBC4, 60 minutes, documentary.
We hear a lot these days about political apathy among the young. This
film begs to differ. There is political life in Britain, but not as most
of us know it. '...
It's odd this Shepherd's Bush gig is seated. I was looking at getting Blondie tickets a week or so later, and that's standing. And checking through all the gigs there, pretty much all are standing. So why are Geldof gigs sit down affairs?
PS Quite imp...
My day was always going to be a little bit strange. Before I could get too excited about the gig I had to go for an interview for a position at Oxfam. I couldn't really think about Bob until this was over. Or maybe I could. Whilst I was waiting in reception I spotted a huge advert/poster about the Make Povert...
Jordan and Bhagdad, haven't we had enough now? Isn't it time to stop? Utterly sickening. More lost lives . Unnecessary. -- Edited by Jules at 18:34, 2005-11-10
When I was at the Limehouse gig the other week we spotted an advertisement for a band called the Dirty Earth Band. My Lizzy friends had seen these before. Apparently they do covers of classic rock bands including T-Rex and are excellent. They're playing here in Oxford on 3 December. I just looked up the...
Nice review Jules, sorry we missed you. Tina had her own gig and I had to do the merch there. Got back on track last night, was a great gig sound was brilliant. We will do a full review at the end of the tour. Cheers Ian
Apparently 'Is That It?' is going to be republished as an 'updated' version later this year. I'm not sure what they mean by updated, whether anything new will be added? But if you haven't managed to get hold of it before, here will be your chance!
Do you get the blues between Christmas and New Year. If so check out the following link http://www.elonetwork.com/news.htm This Elegant Chaos event features a superb four course dinner and music of the highest quality in a fabulous setting. Those of you within travelling distance o...
I got the Lust for life album today, and even though I liked mr Pop before...now there's no way back...
Lust for life is simply brilliant! I was a bit surprised to hear him singing Tonight, thought that it was Bowie who wrote it. but apparently not, well..iggys and daveys versions are quite different...
Live 8 organiser SIR BOB GELDOF has blamed his constant depression on his long-standing battle to make poverty history.
The campaigner and former BOOMTOWN RATS star is desperate to eradicate starvation in the developing world, but insists it is taking its toll on his personal life.
He says, "I...
Well it isn't surprising at all to see that Bob is one of them.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2134062005
"These are people of real substance and solid achievement rather than temporary fame," said Men's Health editor Morgan Rees.
"The people on our list have used their t...
Over the next few weeks there will be quite a few magazine articles about Bob's activities. Next weeks radio times has a nice three page feature on Bob. And there is a nice Brits magazine currently out, and the good thing about it is that it is free and can be got hold of at places like HMV, Virgin, Wo...
Charles & Camilla are currently touring NYC, DC, New Orleans and San Francisco. Thing is, no one in the US cares. Why are they doing this? Is it truly an attempt to build goodwill and keep the UK/US bond close, or is it really a backhanded way to get the UK public to take C &a...
Here 's one
Bob Geldof bounds through the tall, mahogany, double doors in the Harold Pratt House, an old-money mansion on New York's Park Avenue, rushing from one microphone to another without missing a syllable. The tall, rubber-limbed Irishman and ex-Boomtown Rats singer -- decked out like a r...
it seems that he is!
For those of you who didn't watch it (which includes me...) she presented him with the "free your mind" award at some MTV-award thing with the words "In 2005, my hero is someone who has never been afraid to speak his mind, to ruffle feathers, to get the job done, to get down in the tren...
You will notice I have deleted the entire thread, What's the attraction. I am getting a little fed up with the juvenile fantasies. There are quite a few websites out there that cater for this sort of nonsense. Any further postings of this sort will immediately be banned from further post...
Iran-EU: Thousands protest against Iranian government, call for tougher EU action against Tehran
Monday, 07 November 2005
Associated Press, BRUSSELS, November 7 _ Several thousand protesters on Monday took part in an Iranian opposition...
Please, please don't hijack this post and talk about anything else other than Cardiff or else no-one will respond.
Is anyone going next Friday. I've seen from another post Reevo is going and Kaz is sitting next to me. Anyone else?
And by the way I'm getting very excited, can't believe a week to...
TV here in glorious Sweden are now going to show Grumpy Old Men, so I thought I'd ask you if you liked it?
I'll watch it anyway I suppose, but still.... Any good?
I have just been to lobby my MP (Andrew Smith) with two other activists on the issue of Trade Justice for the Make Poverty History movement. He has agreed to write to the Trade and Industry Secretary (Alan Johnstone) on this issue. We have asked him to highlight import tariffs - developing countries re...
i'm so deppressed.......
my dear mother told me a couple of months ago that we could go to the lobby outside parliment.............but she went back on her promise on monday and said we couldn't gooooooooooooo.:fur...
... was on a course today, and was asked to name an influential person and though most other nominated parents and siblings, I nominated Geldof!
Well it's down to him I played the guitar, wrote album reviews and mod this MB!!! Too influential if you ask me
Another earthquake, this time affecting Pakistan, Northern India, Afghanistan etc. Whole villages have been wiped out, 1,000s of lives lost. If it isn't a man made disaster it is a natural one. And it always hits the poorest and most vulnerable (not that I wish it upon anyone at all).
If the frequ...
Just curious
I'm a full-time student at Virginia Tech, but I work part-time as an animal caretaker and veterinary assistant in a local small animal clinic. I hope to begin a career in animal welfare after I graduate this spring.
Today was set aside for a memorial of this horrific event. There have been a number interviews on TV today with survivors. I just wanted to acknowledge it on here. This hasn't been forgotten. One man in particular has stood out, he lost the use of his legs, but he is so positive and incredibly brave. He sa...
hello to you all, before i start this topic i would like to say that this is my own personal opinion and i do not wish to cause an argument here. One thing about the whole live 8 thing that really upset me was the fact that no "dance" act took part in it and this really was very hurtfull considering that this wa...
On Live Aid website competition to tickets to Live Aid DVD Launch with Bob Geldof.
Answer simple question and think of two questions you would ask Bob and you could win tickets
no it does not really matter how many black artists are going to be performing
just thought that this forum needed another post about the 'lack' of black artists. the point of the concerts is for awareness and for an impact on the members of the g8 summit...and already there has been, before the conce...
I know this is totally random but I was wondering if any of you guys in the U.S.A or any hollyoaks viewers have heard of johnny escobar.he's a model/actor, he played joe the builder and lisa's (who also went to my school) boyfriend in hollyoaks,mr peters in grange hill and has recently been in the...
For the last few weeks, at least, it seems that every Saturday I wake up to something really really awful. Yesterday there were bombs in Delhi. Nearly 60 people dead. What an unnecessary waste of life. I feel saddened and angry. Why? Again why do people hate each other so much they just want to scrub out s...
As we had a thread going here a few weeks ago which contained an exchange about Kate Bush, I thought I'd comment.
I heard this for the first time last week and was rather disappointed. Her voice hasn't altered, still beautfiul and unique, but the song itself seems rather wishy-washy and does nothi...
If you haven't watched it, I recommend it.
Have you seen any good live comedy shows?
)Today a great news.
Geldof man of the year.He was (is?) in Rome...with all the family....
I'm in Milan...
Will x
This is really an intere...
