LIVE EARTH CONCERTS

M & C just posted nice article with some more information about Live Earth Concerts. One of the questions is “what will happen with money raised by Live Earth concerts?” According to Live Earth communications director Yusef Robb the Live Earth is charging for tickets and does seek to gain financial support from corporate sponsors. Robb says the bulk of this income will go to underwriting the massive expense of staging the concerts, easily in the multimillions of dollars.

Beyond paying for the event, “all proceeds will go to the Alliance for Climate Protection, chaired by Al Gore, which is going to start a new global program to combat our climate crisis,” Robb says.

The endgame, Robb says, is to make Live Earth more than a one-day event. “We want to make sure the message we issue on 7-7-07 echoes for the weeks, months, years and decades to come.”

Interesting news related to the Al Gore’s documentary movie An Inconvenient Truth. This movie about Global Warming won Oscar in best “documentary feature” movie category and another Oscar goes for best music (song) - Melissa Etheridge: “I Need To Wake Up”. Congratulation.

Rolling Stone magazine confirmed other three names of artist to be involved in Live Earth concert. Police, Genesis and Kanye West confirmed to be in. “While big names like Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and U2 have not yet signed on for the concert, organizers say they’re still in negotiations with a score of musicians and expect the final lineup to include more than 100 top acts,” comments Rolling Stone.

There are few information about places where each Live Earth concert will be held. One of known places is in United Kingdom where you can visit the concert in London at Wembley Stadium on the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed 52 people on the city’s trains and buses.

Spokesman for the show Yusef Robb said: “We want to fill Londoners with hope on that date.”

There is a line up for Live Earth Concert in London:

MSN is offering archived video of the Live Earth launch press conference. See the video here. Or visit http://liveearth.msn.com to see the video in lower quality.

Ex-Vice President Al Gore and a host of celebrities gathered on February 15 in Los Angeles to reveal plans for Live Earth - the Concert for a Climate in Crisis, a series of seven concerts set to take place across the globe July 7.

The first 25 confirmed performers include the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bon Jovi, John Mayer, Fall Out Boy, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, Foo Fighters, Snoop Dogg, Lenny Kravitz, Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, John Legend, the Black Eyed Keas, Akon, Enrique Iglesias, Mana, Keane, Kelly Clarkson, Korn, AFI, Paolo Nutini, Bloc Party, Damien Rice, Corinne Bailey Rae and Melissa Etheridge, among others. 75 more are expected to be announced.

The shows will be held in Brazil, Shanghai, Johannesburg, London, Sydney, Japan and an East Coast U.S. city to be announced. They will be broadcast across the world to approximately 2 billion viewers via TV, radio and the Internet.

The concerts will be produced by Kevin Wall, who won an Emmy Award for producing the Live 8 concerts in 2005.

The initiative is part of the Save Our Selves (SOS) campaign, designed to raise awareness of global climate control. Kevin Wall, CEO of Control Room, a provider of live digital entertainment, is producing Live Earth. Wall, who also won an Emmy as the worldwide the executive producer of Live 8, said “this is a launch event to move the planet forward …the media campaign we’re going to launch is unprecedented.”

Wall added that Live Earth venues should be announced within the next month, and that ticket on-sales should begin in mid-March. Among the broadcast partners is MSN, who is also a major event sponsor. (Source: Billboard.com)