MetaFilter posts tagged with liveaid

What has the BBC ever done for us?

electriccynic — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:14:41 -0800

For those of us who thought the BBC's mammoth self- marketing campaigns were one of the symptions of modern marketing excess, a trawl on the Internet has turned up this John Cleese-presented advertisment on What Have the BBC Ever Given Us?. And it being the BBC, Spitting Image have the right of rebuttal... Hark back to a golden age when the licence fee was only £55, alternative comedy was cool enough to be mentioned on mainstream television (albeit from the toilet) - and more importantly, pubs weren't decked out in steel chrome. For all us TV archivists, can you tell me what year this was from? Bob Geldof witters on about Live Aid, so it's certainly post 1985...

Only sing about it once in every twenty years...

stupidsexyFlanders — Thu, 19 May 2005 13:00:55 -0800

Live Aid redux planning underway. Goal this time is raising awareness, not money. Sweet, unquantifiable awareness.

Live Aid 2003

PenDevil — Wed, 28 May 2003 04:35:38 -0800

"Clinton was a good guy, but he did fuck all" or so says Bob Geldof when it comes to Clinton getting aid to Africa. And he's just as critical about the EU as well ("The EU have been pathetic and appalling, and I thought we had dealt with that 20 years ago when the electorate of our countries said never again...") pointing out their tiny contribution to the recent aid shipments to Ethiopia. But what about the Bush government you ask? "You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical -- in a positive sense -- in its approach to Africa since Kennedy."