Music & Messages

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Music & Messages was the motto of a Rostock music festival, which took place on June 7, 2007 parallel to the 33rd G8 summit meeting in Heiligendamm . It was a counter-event to the G8 summit, with which pressure was to be exerted on the heads of government so that the rich industrialized countries undertake a stronger development policy commitment and comply with the UN Millennium Development Goals from the year 2000. Herbert Grönemeyer initiated the concert as part of the “ Your voice against poverty” campaign. Other names for this campaign were Grönemeyer's Rock Summit or P8 Summit, where P8 stands for Poor Eight , which means eight of the poorest countries in the world.

The six-hour show led by Roger Willemsen and Sarah Kuttner took place from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the former IGA site in the Rostock district of Lütten Klein . 70,000 visitors paid an entrance fee of € 2.50.

In addition to internationally or Germany-wide known artists such as Seeed , Sportfreunde Stiller , Silbermond , Die Fantastischen Vier , Die Toten Hosen , Bono , Youssou N'Dour , 2raumwohnung , Bob Geldof , the Beatsteaks and Herbert Grönemeyer , musicians from the poorest countries in the world also performed, like Bangla from Bangladesh , Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba from Mali , Leo Muntu from Zambia , Mo 'Some Big Noise from Mozambique , Peter Miles from Uganda or Perrozompopo from Nicaragua .

Each artist was allowed to perform a maximum of two songs. In between there were video recordings about poverty in Bolivia, Uganda, Nicaragua, Zambia, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Cambodia and Mali. In strong messages, politicians were repeatedly asked to keep their development aid promises to developing countries.

Speakers were Bob Geldof , Wim Wenders , Nora Tschirner , Bono , Michael Mittermeier , Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh), women's rights activist Flor Martinez (Nicaragua), environmentalist Vandana Shiva (India), Theary C. Seng (Cambodia), Paulino Guarachi Huanca (Bolivia), Margaret Kawooya (Uganda), Salomao Monyana (journalist, Mozambique), Charity Musamba (peace researcher, Zambia), Kumi Naidoo (spokesman for the Global Call to Action Against Poverty GCAP, South Africa), Bishop Toribio Porco Ticona (Bolivia) and Jan Josef Liefers .

In their speeches, Bono and Geldof, in particular, were deeply disappointed with Angela Merkel , because instead of the € 1.5 billion she had hoped for, she promised only € 700 million in development aid for Africa.

Order of appearance

Herbert Grönemeyer, the initiator of the concert
Muhammad Yunus made a passionate appeal to the G8 countries
Joint appearance by Campino and Bob Geldof

Solidarity in advance

The German punk rock band Die Ärzte had called on the audience to attend the P8 concert during their appearance at Rock am Ring , where they had headlined on June 3rd.

transmission

The concert was partially broadcast live by ARD , and the entire concert was broadcast unabridged at night on Phoenix in a repeat. The concert was also shown on MTV Germany. And AOL , one of the main sponsors of the event, the concert transferred via podcast .

P8 and LIVE 8

Herbert Grönemeyer , Michael Mittermeier , Silbermond , Die Fantastischen Vier , Wim Wenders , Cherno Jobatey , Die Toten Hosen / Campino , Bob Geldof , Youssou N'Dour , Bono and Kumi Naidoo were involved in both P8 and LIVE 8.

Bob Geldof , Bono and Herbert Grönemeyer (together with the band for Africa ) were also part of Live Aid in 1985 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zeit.de: "Music & Messages": Rocking for the Poor 8 countries

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