Live Earth: Linkin Park to headline Tokyo show

And start a green tour

Posted by Sarah van Schagen at 3:42 PM on 29 May 2007

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Live Earth organizers announced today that Linkin Park will headline the Tokyo show. They also announced that Japan will be the only country to have two events -- one in surburban Tokyo (the mainstage featuring Linkin Park) and one at a Buddhist temple in Kyoto (and I think you get the connection there).

The Kyoto temple event will feature the Yellow Magic Orchestra, an electropop outfit starring Ryuichi Sakamoto, who wrote the score for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and collaborated on movies including The Last Emperor.

Also playing the Tokyo stage are three top-selling female Japanese artists, Ai Otsuka, Cocco, and Kumi Koda, as well as RB artist Rihanna, famous for her song "SOS" (so meta!).

But back to Linkin Park ... the hard rockers have announced the lineup for their fourth Projekt Revolution tour and this year, they've decided to make it green. From the press release:

Projekt Revolution and Music For Relief have been working hard at making this event an environmentally conscious effort. Besides making the tour a "Green" tour Projekt Revolution and Music for Relief will be donating $1 from each ticket to give to American Forests for their Global ReLeaf program to plant trees to help reduce global temperatures.

I assume that by "making the tour a 'Green' tour," they mean offsetting the carbon emissions (a trend in music tours, these days). But it's cool that they're also donating to the ReLeaf program.

Also on the lineup for that tour: My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, and Placebo.

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great that Japan is hosting two events! you'd think the States would step up for a second as well. one on the West Coast? or Canada? there's lots of uncovered ground out there.

by zackk at 7:05 PM on 29 May 2007

"so meta"?

That is rather over my head. You mean, the lyrics of Rihanna's song are "meta"? As in Carly Simon's "You're so vain you probably think this song is about you"? Well, perhaps. I shall think about it, once I have read the lyrics of Rihanna's song, with which, needless to say, I am not acquainted.

Presumably Rihanna's "SOS" is not just another artist's redo of Abba's "SOS"?

It is a bit weak that all the sites for this Live Earth event are pretty safely secularized places, including Istanbul. Really, they should have done their best to bedazzle the puritanical fundamentalists, by organizing events in Riyadh, Cairo, Abuja, Mogadishu, Khartoum, Gaza City, Ramallah, Tyre, Damascus, Tehran, Kandahar, Karachi, Dhaka, Kuala Lumpur and Djakarta. And the promotional posters should feature shapely female models showing some flesh, without being outrightly pornographic; they would go up everywhere, in the middle of the night. And those posters should go up as well in Muslim neighborhoods in Europe. The text should include a beautiful calligraphic banner, saying something like "Allah loves his creation," or "Islam loves the Earth," or whatever, along those lines.

And it would not matter if the Live Earth events came to pass anywhere, given all the legal complications in those countries, so long as there were good, competent crews of documentarists recording the opposition.

And if people risked their lives in this effort -- well, that is what activism is all about, no?

Really, the very safe Live Earth program that has already been planned is quite boring. No?

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by caniscandida at 10:11 PM on 30 May 2007

Stupid Event of the Year

This has to be the most hypocritical thing a Grister can do -- even worse than going to Sasquatch at the Gorge.

A mega-media CO2 spewing hellion of washed up acts and wannabes, all whining about how bad having more summer weather is.

Take the money you'd waste on tickets, put it in a good green stock like FCEL (in which I own shares) or CMGI (in which I own shares) and let it appreciate so you can by a Chevy Volt in 3 years.

by jabailo at 9:20 AM on 31 May 2007

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