Pork Pie Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 All I can remember about the event is the Hey Jude performance and I've done my best to never see it again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted June 8, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted June 8, 2020 2 hours ago, IANdrewDiceClay said: She swore as well. On a Saturday afternoon! It was less Bill Grundy and more my auntie on New Years. Silly old moo. Didn't Chris Rock walk out and after his opening line didn't get a laugh say "come on, liven up motherfuckers" as the BBC cut quickly to the studio, or was that something else? Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanky316 Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Think that was also Live Earth. According to Wikipedia... The BBC, which televised the concert in the United Kingdom, received a total of 413 complaints because coverage of Metallica's live set was cut short, and approximately 130 complaints concerning swearing as the BBC had shown the concert before the watershed time of 9pm, this includes Chris rockjokingly calling the crowd "motherfuckers".The BBC later apologised for cutting away from footage of Metallica, and both during and after the concert for the bad language. On 12 April 2008, an Ofcom broadcast was shown on BBC1, apologising again for the 'offensive language.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted June 8, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted June 8, 2020 3 hours ago, SuperBacon said: No one in a crowd of 1 billion people: Gervais: "Eh, what's that? Do the dance?" I was so fuming at how staged it was. Christ, I don't think I've ever seen this before. Or maybe I did and erased it from my memory, like I seemed to do with Live 8 entirely. I forgot it even happened. Anyway here is the cringey Gervais bit I just found  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pork Pie Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 4 minutes ago, PunkStep said: Christ, I don't think I've ever seen this before. Or maybe I did and erased it from my memory, like I seemed to do with Live 8 entirely. I forgot it even happened. Anyway here is the cringey Gervais bit I just found  To be fair he got a pretty good reaction from the crowd. Not that it makes it any less terrible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 7 minutes ago, PunkStep said: Christ, I don't think I've ever seen this before. Or maybe I did and erased it from my memory, like I seemed to do with Live 8 entirely. I forgot it even happened. Anyway here is the cringey Gervais bit I just found  If you're going to do the dance, fine. But don't be all fake about it. "No, I'm NOT going to do the dance". You are, clearly. Reminds me of the time I saw legendary freestyle rapper Supernatural live. He is without a doubt a superb freestyler, but when he asked the crowd to shout out words and he would rap about them, gave it the old "What's that? Weed? You got it" , as it's an easy topic, when a guy next to me was screaming at the top of his voice "Benny Hill" and was literally the only person that could be heard. I lost my point a bit but that annoyed me massively too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 "Was that originally about Biggie?" "Originally, but it fits perfectly doesn't it?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cousin Jim Bob Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 I love that at 4 mins of that video P Diddy is doing his awful "if you miss Diana make some noise". Then it cuts to the royal box and they are all dancing like goons including Prince William except Harry. Who is stood there staring, obviously thinking what the fuck is this guy doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators neil Posted June 8, 2020 Moderators Share Posted June 8, 2020 38 minutes ago, PunkStep said: Christ, I don't think I've ever seen this before. Or maybe I did and erased it from my memory, like I seemed to do with Live 8 entirely. I forgot it even happened. Anyway here is the cringey Gervais bit I just found  Thats how you work a crowd, BritWres workers take note. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamp Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 I remember bits and pieces. Them cutting away from Metallica and someone, possibly Davod Tennant, saying "Enter the Sandman" was the only Metallica song he knew (probably reflecting everybody but those who complained). There being a discussion about looking in your toilet bowl because if it was piss you shouldn't flush the toilet and if it was shit you should. You'd have to be pretty pissed to not be sure which one you'd done. Robbie William's openly admitting that he was disappointed no one knew the words to one his songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted June 8, 2020 Moderators Share Posted June 8, 2020 4 hours ago, Pork Pie said: To be fair he got a pretty good reaction from the crowd. Not that it makes it any less terrible That just means they're a bunch of cunts as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted June 8, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted June 8, 2020 The Who put in a performance that put Pete Townsend in the "maybe it was research?" catagory. They were fantastic. Also have this memory of thinking McCartneys drummer was fucking brilliant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshC Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 Best drummer in the world. Watched it all day on a big screen in Cardiff. Missed the last train. Barely heard anything about it again after what happened the next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted June 9, 2020 Awards Moderator Share Posted June 9, 2020 I met McCartney’s drummer on the Tube once. I’d seen them live at Hyde Park earlier that year but I also remember him being fantastic at Live 8. He was very nice in person - he was on his way to a meeting at one of the megaposh London hotels to plan their South American tour. This is nothing to do with Live 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted June 9, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted June 9, 2020 Me & my mate Joe went to watch the Lions test in the pub, so I was proper pissed by about 11am.Then we went to another pub. Then we went back to Joe's flat and watched this shite from beginning to end with his missus and a couple of her mates. Pretty sure the only acts I didn't shit all over were Floyd, Velvet Revolver and Metallica, but the BBC did that bit for me. You knew what sort of day it was gonna be pretty early when Chris Martin tried to shoehorn the chorus of Rockin' All Over the World into whatever bland number Coldplay were doing despite the fact it didn't scan in any way, shape or form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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