'Scaramouche'...you watched the wrong concert!! Get yourself to the link about in Countess Richard's post and watch some highlights of the right one! Diane....thanks for the 'Africa Calling' Eden link. I watched that last night, tuned in just as Tinariwen were playing. It was fantastic! By the time Daara J had finished I was so angry about the lack of TV coverage they'd been given from Eden. That concert should have been filmed and shown in its' own right. Those musicians were just incredible!

We tried to get tickets, but to no avail.

This morning they were showing highlights on the internet, so I got to watch even more acts that I'd missed last night. There are 7, out of 21 who took part, that BBC Cornwall is showing over the next few days. I was so impressed by Geoffrey Oryema. What an incredible voice he has and he's a superb guitar player. Hearing him sing his song 'Bombs keep falling' just bowled you over! Also Thomas Mapfumo talking about Zimbabwe and how we have to get rid of all the Dictators in this world. What an impact he would have had in Hyde Park. The BBC should be ashamed of the miniscule amount of coverage they gave Eden on mainstream television. And to hear and see Shikisha playing inside the Domes of Eden was spectacular! While I'm sitting here typing this I'm listening to Modou Diouf and his family...ALL drummers and the sound is just...well....you HAVE to listen to them...in fact you HAVE to listen to EVERYTHING on here!

Eden was Live 8 to me. Hyde Park was egos.

Wouldn't it be great if 'Africa Calling' now became a major programme to be screened to coincide with July 6th.

Don't give me Elton John EVER again...OR Velvet Revolver!!!.....Just give me Geoffrey Oryema singing these words of his, which he sings with such conviction:

"Bombs are falling, our nations are burning

Bombs are falling and leaves are drying

Bombs are falling, what a careless world

Our mothers are crying, where are all the children?

The wind keeps blowing, expensive bombs keep falling

The wind keeps blowing, it will blow your worlds away

Give me your number I will call you tomorrow

I don't want your number, we have to talk face to face

Bombs keep falling, people keep dying

Fields are burning, mothers keep crying

Bombs keep falling, mothers keep crying

Fields are burning, mountains are falling"

And the way he sang that would have had more impact than almost all those Hyde Park egos rolled into one! Go and listen to him...second song in his act...and that is followed by Peter Gabriel and Johnny Kalsi joining him for a song about exiles. "In this land of another...." Very, very moving.

And finally....Radio 3 are playing two hours of highlights from Eden's Africa Calling, tomorrow, Monday 4th July 7.30 to 9.30pm on their 'Performance on 3' programme.....here's the link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/performanceon3/pip/v2br5/index

Hope you enjoy it all.

Lizzie :0)