G8 - it's gr8, or something ...

oooh! ooh! It's the G8 concert!

Apparently we're supposed to be over the moon because loads of people are doing something to end world hunger which revolves around watching a load of musicians "entertain" us for hour after painful hour.

The Irish tramp Geldof has gone to great lengths to promote this event (see also: revive flagging career) as he considers it to be the most important thing in the world, ever.

But I can't help thinking that rather then getting people to piss tens of thousands or pounds away on travel to the gig, food at the gig, tickets for the gig, the t-shirts etc etc he money would have been better spent on food to send to the starving millions.

Geldof caused a huge fuss when people who got free tickets to G8 promptly tried to sell them on Ebay - apparently this was unethical. But what about the food and drink vendors inside the stadium today selling vastly overpriced goods because they've got a captive audience to flog it to - who will complain about that?

Still at least we all know what the 8 in G8 stands for. It's a reference to the number of bands who can actually play live while the rest mime to tapes in an effort to keep the world's "yoof" happy.

In the long term however, everything will work out fine - all the acts who play today will receive a major shot in the arm for their careers and Geldof will be hailed a saint (again) .

Oh, and some fly-covered, AIDS-riddled starving black people might get a few quid too if they're lucky ...