GELDOF: WE’RE TOO LAME FOR LIVE AID
Today’s society ‘lacks rebellion’
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SIR Bob Geldof believes the internet and a lack of rebellion has ruled out any chance of a Live Aid-style concert in the future.
The Boomtown Rats’ frontman says today’s society is not prepared to force political change because we prefer to fire off angry tweets instead.
And as a result worldwide campaign concerts such as 1985’s Live Aid and 2005’s Live 8
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BRITAIN’S most useless armed robber removes his mask and hugs a barmaid after she recognised his voice.
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Luke Jones, 29, stormed into his local snooker club with an air pistol as staff cashed up will not be seen again. The 68-year-old said: “Something like Live Aid can’t happen now, but that doesn’t stop you raging against the dying of the light.
“It took 20 years of trawling around the chancelleries of the world and, as that Live Aid generation came to power – Clinton, Blair, Brown, Schröder – the doors opened and they caved.
“To change economics, you late at night. But barmaid Yvette Smith realised who it was and asked: “Why are you doing this, Luke?”
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Jones, of Blackwood, Caerphilly, admitted attempted robbery and was jailed for eight years at Cardiff Crown Court. must engage with the agents of change, talk to the politicians.
“The logic of the world wide web presupposes a hive society.
“We thought that it would animate an economy. In fact, it sped it up so the whole thing collapses with greed, puts millions out of work and we throw up our walls and our barriers.”