Live 8 line-ups being announced, etc.
I was going to post on the Deep Throat story springing from the Vanity Fair press release, but I’m sure everyone’s got that covered by now, so it’s on to entertainment/activism/my birthday news:
Via Philly Future (and Promohthree), I stumbled across some news of the Live 8 (official site) performer line-ups, in Philadelphia (the one I could actually attend) specifically.
In looking at the multi-location listings at Stereogum, I’m thrilled to see that Philly has landed the second-most star-studded line-up so far—though it’s light years behind what they’ve got in London. But that might change, and at least they’ve got Stevie Wonder, Will Smith, Bon Jovi and Dave Matthews Band(only two of which I really have any interest in—but Will Smith playing in Philly will be a big boost to the free attendance). On the flip side, the Elton John fans in Philly will get a boost two days later, as he plays the July 4 show. Philly in early July is a pretty active place, as one would imagine; they always bring in at least on well-known performer to precede the fireworks show at the art museum. The last time I trekked down (with about a half million people) we had the pleasure of watching a Beach Boys show—woohoo…
Oh, and as I mentioned, this Live 8 event will be happening on my birhtday, so add it to my list of things to do this year.
UPDATE: For more accurate updating, refer to the line-up and Philly-related changes (which have already occurred in the past hour since I posted this), refer to the Philly Future post I mentioned earlier.
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