Fixing a hole? Photograph: AP
A quick Observer blog post mortem on the gig before we turn our minds to the summit.
Blog ethics monitor flashes a stern glance over a fair trade latte.
If you want civilised debate over whether or not multi-millionaire rock stars and diamond-encrusted rappers should be centre stage in a Make Poverty History campaign try the comments on this post by Nosemonkey, or plenty more blogs out there.
For scathing satire on the whole Live8 concept, have a read of Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie's piece in Pambazuka News. To give you a sense of his style, it includes the call for African artists to collaborate on a special rendition of 'Do They Know It's Summertime'.
Meanwhile, 5 random Observer blog thoughts just on the performances in the Hyde Park:
1) Bono and Macca - A trick missed surely in failing to follow through from Sgt Pepper's staright into A Little Help From My Friends (which could only have benefited from not being sung by Ringo).
2) Bittersweet Symphony - What a great tune. When's someone gonna do the Cello-angst mash-up with Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack?
3) Razorlight - Wee band unphased by performance in front of 200,000 people. I bet their mums are proud.
4) Robbie - The man has charisma. It cannot be denied.
5) Pink Floyd - If you haven't played together for 24 years, I can see how you might need a bit more time to rehearse. Don't get me wrong. I've done my time listening a bit too intently to Dark Side of the Moon, and the whole old rockers thing was marvellous to behold. But I'm unconvinced that prog nostalgia was the right note to end on. For the funkier artists it was the billing equivalent of giving up your seat on the bus. And good manners are not very rock 'n' roll.
