Albarn hits out at 'Anglo Saxon' Live 8

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Sarah Left and agencies
Friday June 10, 2005

The organisers of the Live 8 concerts added Snoop Dogg and Ms Dynamite to their Hyde Park line-up as Gorillaz musician Damon Albarn today insisted he would not take part in the "Anglo Saxon" event.

Albarn criticised the Live 8 organisers for neglecting to sign up black performers, calling it their "greatest oversight". "If you're holding a party on behalf of people, then surely you don't shut the door on them. It's insensitive," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

The musician said he wanted to see record labels donate money from the increased sales their artists would enjoy by playing Live 8, and hoped performers would "put this pressure on their record labels to genuinely show this is an altruistic act, and that there is no self-gain from it".

After heavy criticism of their largely white London line-up, Live 8 organisers have now lined up the British R&B singer Ms Dynamite and US rap star Snoop Dogg for the July 6 show.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g8/story/0,13365,1503801,00.html

[emad]

1. So. No African musicians. No fundraising. Minimal access to

seeing concert broadcast in African countries. BUT...a serenade to Bush and Blair to smokescreen away pesky unanswered questions about Iraq, missing Oil-for-Fraud $$$$$$$$$$s, 9/11 etc etc...

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2. line up for Philly

http://live-eight.org.uk/philadelphia/

Don't know who Damon Albarn is but the line up for the Philly part seems pretty diverse.