Forget Live 8, Here’s Sail 8
June 6th, 2005 at 15:30 by Stuart Heritage
Bob Geldof has unveiled the latest Live 8 ruse to make the leaders of the world stop ignoring him. And it goes by the name of Sail 8.
The plan to have Annie Lennox warble a bunch of nonsense at thousands of people in Hyde Park in a Live 8 concert has critically backfired, even though it’ll probably draw lots of positive long-term attention. So now Geldof is starting to concentrate more on the march in Gleneagles four days after the concert.
He’s already asked pupils and teachers to skive off school for the day, and now comes Sail 8 - a plan for south-coast boat owners to sail across the channel and pick up European protesters.
Geldof is hoping that more than a million protesters will march on the Gleneagles G8 summit, in what he’s calling ‘The Long Walk To Justice’.
And to accomplish that, he wants people in the southern ports to pop
over to France in a rejiggle of the Dunkirk flotilla of World War II,
load up their boats with "French cousins" and return to the UK.
According to the BBC website, Geldof has said "It will be many
hours of sailing and it will be picking up some people they may not
even be able to communicate with but the symbolism of that around the
world will be one of great effort, great friendship, great solidarity."
Today also saw the unveiling of the text lottery for the Live 8
concert tickets. People wanting to see the geriatric displays of
musicianship in Hyde Park must answer the following multiple entry
question. Which city is nearest to the G8 summit in July? A) Berlin; B) Moscow; C) Edinburgh. Then they should text a, b or c to 84599. Calls cost £1.50 plus standard network rates, and the draw will take place on June 12th.
If you’re a hecklerspray reader
and you get tickets for the Hyde Park Live 8 concert, then let us know
what you thought of it. If, on the other hand, you can think of nothing
worse than watching a live representation of a Classic Gold drivetime
radio show, then you can still show your support by getting to
Edinburgh for the protest.
[story by Stuart Heritage]
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June 7th, 2005 at 10:03 am
re : “to have Annie Lennox warble a bunch of nonsense”
If you don’t understand what Annie says, why don’t you buy a good dictionary, Stuart ? Really, it wouldn’t hurt !
June 7th, 2005 at 12:32 pm
stupid machista
Annie Lennox is involved in all this for years
and she speaks perfectly clear