FRANCE: BOB GELDOF ENCOURAGES THE FRENCH TO TAKE PART IN "LONG WALK TO JUSTICE" ,TRAVELLING TO G8 SUMMIT IN EDINBURGH AFTER LIVE8 CONCERT

Record ID: 584826

  • Title: FRANCE: BOB GELDOF ENCOURAGES THE FRENCH TO TAKE PART IN "LONG WALK TO JUSTICE" ,TRAVELLING TO G8 SUMMIT IN EDINBURGH AFTER LIVE8 CONCERT
  • Date: 17th June 2005
  • Summary: (BN13) PARIS, FRANCE (JUNE 17, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF THE NEWS CONFERENCE 0.01 2. PAN FROM THE AUDIENCE TO THE PODIUM 0.07 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVE8 ORGANISER BOB GELDOF, SAYING: "After the concert, come to the ports of Normandy and Brittany, and the English will sail in their private boats across the Channel, and they will pick up the French people in Cherbourg at the moment, at the moment, and they will take them across to England, where the English landladies in their bed and breakfast houses will offer them hospitality at cost. And then they have to get up to Edinburgh. And this new Dunkirk fleet will be led by Ellen MacArthur." 1.04 4. WIDE OF JOURNALISTS LISTENING 1.08 5. CLOSE OF JOURNALIST'S FACE 1.11 6. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIVE8 ORGANISER BOB GELDOF, SAYING: "600 million people in dire poverty. Every year Europe gives the poorest people in Africa 65 cents each. Every cow in Europe gets 848 euros. A human being, 65 centimes, an animal, a surplus animal, 848 euros. We have a problem." 1.55 7. WIDE OF THE PODIUM AND APPLAUDING JOURNALISTS 2.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 2nd July 2005 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA70ZE7XAL7V8J4Y4X69KOLABLT
  • Story Text: Bob Geldof tells the French to travel to Edinburgh
    after the Paris Live 8 concert.




    Bob Geldof, the Irish organiser of the Live8 charity
    concerts encouraged the French people to take part in the
    "Long Walk to Justice" and to travel to Edinburgh in
    Scotland after the Live8 concert in Paris on July 2, 2005.

    Announcing the initial line-up for the French Live8
    concert, to be held at the Palace of Versailles just
    outside of Paris, at a news conference on Friday (June 17,
    2005) in the French capital, Geldof stated:
    "After the concert, come to the ports of Normandy and
    Brittany. The English will sail in their private boats
    across the Channel, and they will pick up the French people
    in Cherbourg at the moment, at the moment, and they will
    take them across to England, where the English landladies
    in their bed and breakfast houses will offer them
    hospitality at cost. And then they have to get up to
    Edinburgh. And this new Dunkirk fleet will be led by Ellen
    MacArthur."
    Geldof illustrated the amount of money given to the
    poor in Africa by Europe:
    "600 million people in dire poverty. Every year Europe
    gives the poorest people in Africa 65 cents each. Every cow
    in Europe gets 848 euros. A human being, 65 centimes, an
    animal, a surplus animal, 848 euros. We have a problem."
    Geldof is hoping that one million people from all
    around the globe will travel to Edinburgh following the
    Live8 concerts. He is also hopeful that former South
    African President Nelson Mandela will also be able to
    travel to the Scottish capital to address the crowd
    assembled there.

    Around 200,000 people are expected to attend the French
    leg of Live8, where the concert will feature French stars
    including Yannick Noah and Axelle Red and international
    artists such as Shakira, Placebo and Craig David. Tickets
    for the event will be allocated by a text-message lottery
    beginning on Monday (June 20, 2005).

    Twenty years after the original Live Aid shows, Geldof
    has co-ordinated 8 concerts on four continents to take
    place on July 2, 2005. In addition to the main five
    concerts to be held in London, Paris, Berlin and Rome in
    Europe and in Philadelphia in the United States, Geldof officially
    anno
    unced during the news conference that
    concerts will also take place in Toronto, Tokyo and
    Johannesburg.

    Geldof's aim is to raise awareness about African
    hardship and poverty and to pressure the Group of Eight
    leaders meeting in Scotland on July 6-8 to help tackle the
    problem.


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