The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Anti-poverty campaigners praise the government's promise to eshrine its international development spending in law He may have been showered with cries of electioneering from opposition parties and a mixed bag of reactions from unions, but Gordon Brown managed to get the thumbs up from Bono and Bob Geldof for including a "wonderful thing" in his last batch of bills before the general...
The Third Estate (Free subscription) | yesterday
... a meticulously researched critique of the grossly smug Live8 concerts, which will doubtless have Bob Geldof’s apparatchiks vetting Youtube for years to come. Ultimately, however, the film’s guiding thesis, that celebrity is used by the media to control the masses, is both too obvious and too reductive to be especially interesting. At a cinematic level it also suffers from a grating voiceover,...
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
There's a snarky piece in the News of the World this week. The paper has caught up with Marilyn, seemingly just to point and laugh: HE urged us to Feed The World - but 25 years after Band Aid, Eighties star Marilyn seems only to have fed his FACE. For the slim, 10st gender bender who recorded Do They Know It's Christmas with Bob Geldof and a host of other pop idols has ballooned to over 17 STONE....
DVD Movie Maniac (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Print: VHS Quality - Sound: Good - Label: MIA - Year: 1985 - Cover: OK - Format: 16:9 - Length: 1h46m/1h37m - Before: No - Again: No - Price: £1 - Rating: 6/10. Number One , a gritty British movie follows a snooker hall hustler Harry Flash Gordon ( Bob Geldof ) trying to survive in the world of snooker halls, small-time crooks, hookers and corrupt cops. Billy Evans ( Mel Smith ) wants...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
It's Christmas time (nearly) and quite soon it will be impossible to switch on the radio without being bombarded by the preachy strains of a slightly shambolic Christmas song recorded 25 years ago in an effort to feed the world.Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", written in haste by Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats and Midge Ure of Ultravox, was unprecedented. Shocked by the BBC newsreader...
ONE (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Guardian—Bono and Geldof laud Queen’s speech commitment to global poverty relief Bono and Bob Geldof welcomed Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s decision to include in his legislative agenda the enshrinement in law of international development spending, which would put the government’s commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on development from 2013 on to the...
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In 2000, this is what was hot on showbiz. Anorak's reviews of the decade in pictures - with Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Michael Cain, Jude Law, Sir Richard Branson, Billy Bob Thornton, Leonardo Di Caprio, Giselle Bundchen, Dame Shirley Bassey, Victoria Beckham, Model Kelly Brook, Madonna, Sir Bob Geldof, Paula Yates, Big Brother, Robert Downey Jnr, Guy Ritchie and Halle Berry...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Vintage characters from The Woodentops, Thunderbirds and The Wombles have lined up with more modern shows such as Postman Pat and Bob The Builder for Children In Needs's 2009 single.
The Laughing Wolf (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Photo by Chewy Chua… and there’s no need to be afraid. Or so wrote the inimitable, and not at all tramp like, harpy marrying, ridiculous child naming, humanitarian and all around do-gooder..Bob Geldof Now yes, I realise that it isn’t Christmas time yet…despite what the shops and TV adverts are telling us. However, I have now confirmed [...]
Entertainment & Sports Safari (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
... participation from celebrities such as Hugh Jackman, Ringo Starr, David Copperfield, Seal, Sir Bob Geldof, Baz Luhrmann, Her Roayl Highness Michael of Kent and Jack Thompson, among others. Over three years, filmmaker Peter Rodgers traveled across 23 countries asking the simple question, "What is God'," to see what this entity that goes by the name of God means to individuals --...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... symptoms are that I have trouble keeping my dinner down sometimes when I listen to Bono or Bob Geldof. My queasiness isn't caused by the double standards of excessively paid rock stars mouthing off about poverty (those contradictions aside, both have paid a valuable role in raising awareness about issues like debt and Aids that are too important to be left to "experts"). It is...
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... television commercials for Kleenex, featuring celebrities like Sven, Emma Bunton, Tom Hardy and Bob Geldof letting loose like we have never seen them before.He said he just wants to try his hand at as many different projects as he can to see what he, and long time collaborator Chris Cottam who also worked on the Kleenex ads, can get away with.Rankin said: “We don’t have any specific plan,...
GreyKodiak (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... see why was he chosen over the heads of other worthies such as Sting, Fish or even, dare I say it, Bob Geldof who was the more visible partner in Band Aid. I suppose at least Midge managed to do more than spend his life riding along on a one hit wonder band and thumping tables at charity gigs.Another odd entry is Fred Scott the BBC cameraman at number ten. He’s the award winning cameraman...
