Official Live8 website launched
Live 8 has now his official online website. www.live8live.com is now online and features already two important updates.
The first one is a detail description of how tickets for the concert in London will be available and informs that the first £1.6 million raised from the text competition will go to The Prince’s Trust (that was usually helding their “Party in The Park” concert in the same day every year) which is sharing a proportion of the income with Help a London Child. The rest will go to pay for the costs of Live 8, as it is a free event. The Philadelphia, Paris, Rome and Berlin concerts, also free, do not require tickets.
The second news is about the internet live broadcast of the event that will be available through AOL.
“Tickets for the Live 8 London concert in Hyde Park will be allocated via a text competition.
For the chance to win a pair of tickets to the London event you will need to enter the text competition – you can enter as many times as you like – there are 72,500 pairs of tickets to be won.
Details of the text number and competition will be announced on the 6th June – via all UK radio stations & BBC Television. No entries will be accepted before 00:01 on the 6th June.
Each entry costs £1.50 plus your operator’s standard text charge.
The competition will close at midnight on the 12th June and winners will be chosen at random by computer and notified by text message after the 13th June with details of how they can collect their tickets – either online or from collection points around the UK.
Due to the tight deadlines we are working to, you will need to be able to collect your tickets within ten days of notification of winning, otherwise you will forfeit them.
The Live 8 concerts taking place around the world will be watched and listen to by more than 2 billion people.
In the UK, the BBC is the host broadcaster for Live 8 London with coverage across BBC ONE, TWO and THREE, with radio broadcasts on Radio’s 1 and 2, the BBC World Service and across the BBC’s regional stations.
Partner broadcasters in Europe and America will also be working to bring this huge international event to the world.
Online in the biggest interactive event in history, AOL will be broadcasting all the concerts live, delivering exclusive, interactive material. People around the world can learn more about global poverty, connect with a community of fans and make their voices heard at www.aolmusic.com, www.aol.co.uk, www.aol.de or www.aol.fr
For further information about Live 8, what is it about, the long walk to justice, the concerts and the artists involved and much more please visit www.live8live.com