Live Earth (This weekend, apparently)

Jimster

I hadn't heard about this until today. Has this been publicised in the US?Anyway, was reading this article about it:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/07/05/nosplit/bmearth105.xml And they mention:"JOHANNESBURGName of venue: Coca-Cola DomeCapacity: 18,000The buzz: The African leg of Live Earth was originally going to take place at the Cradle of Humankind outside Johannesburg, where australopithecus africanus, a precursor to homo sapiens, lived between two and four million years ago. It would have been resonant for an event promoting the idea that humanity is in peril to be held there. Then it was moved to Johannesburg's suburbs. The promoters insist this is because of a lack of high-speed telecommunications at the site, but poor ticket sales are a more plausible reason.Is anyone going? Tickets cost from ??14 to ??26, and were still available yesterday. The pricing puts them way out of reach of most South Africans: 43 per cent live on less than 59p a day.Local favourite Joss Stone and UB40 are the biggest names on the bill, with local talent represented by the Soweto Gospel Choir and Zola, a singer in the kwaito genre, which blends house, hip hop and African samples.[/b]"Is this the same Zola of an earlier thread this week (clon the laziness) and if so, is this sound as good as it might look in print?

volumen

Yea, it's been all over MSN if you have hot mail. And of course on the news last night when Al's son got busted for drugs.

captainplanet

Is this the same Zola of an earlier thread this week (clon the laziness) and if so, is this sound as good as it might look in print?

not sure about an earlier thread, but Zola's got some good tunes. Expect more house and less hip hop and african samples. Mandoza has some heat too if you can dig the kwaito sound. "Nkalakatha" has been workin wonders on unsuspecting heads for years.