4. Juli 2005, 17:19

Wow, what a weekend!

Well, it began on Saturday, when I was with another 200 000 people at the Berlin Live8-Concert, which took place between Brandenburg Gate and Siegessaeule.

So, but I was rather disappointed. Not that I haven't seen very much - this I have expected. I could see the stage rather good, when I was standing on tiptoes and I could see a monitor. I was about 500 metres away from the stage. And also not because of the bands, who have played - I knew, that mainly German bands would play, who I don't like very much.

But in the whole first hour, there were only two(!) bands, who have played two or three songs each! And it hasn't become better in the second hour. So, the breaks were just too long. I decided to leave after two hours of waiting and listening rarely to the German groups. The only bands I was just a bit interested in were Green Day and Audioslave. Well, they appeared right after I decided to go.

Well, all in all, the line-up in Berlin was not as good. I am not such a big fan of A-ha, Chris De Burgh or Roxy Music to wait all day, all the hours of happening nothing and to listen ten minutes from time to time some bad German newcomer bands... It was the right decision to go home and watching better bands on TV in other cities.

But what about the reason of these concerts? What about the "good intension"? I have watched the first "Live-Aid-Concert" in 1985 on TV. (This was the first time I have heard of a group called "U2".) But that twenty five years after it, there is a new campaign is necessary to stop hunger and poverty in Africa shows, that this first campaign already has failed - and so will the new campaign fail, too, in my point of view. Already today there is not much spoken about Africa here in Germany anymore.

It will not help the ordinary helpless starving people, when the African governments will be released of their debts. The problem of Africa is not the debts, the problem of Africa is their corrupt politicians and the civil wars. Give money to Africa and it will help the few rich leaders there to become even richer and to buy new weapons for wars...


At the evening I have gone to my parents, who spend the weekend in Berlin. We decided to meet the next day to go to cinema and to dinner.

...well, but all the time I really had more liked to be somewhere else...