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Dom | 13:35 UK time, Friday, 6 July 2007


Global warming and climate change. That's what the former US vice President Al Gore's been banging on about recently and i went to have a chat to him about it all. Here's a picture of me and him.

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It's Live Earth tomorrow. Big Al's the man organising it all. Lots of bands including The Foo Fighters and Razorlight are playing a big gig to tell everyone to use better lightbulbs and wash their clothes at 30 degrees...

We talked about lots of important global issues including what the weather's going to be like next week and whether i can call him Al. I could as it turned out.

PS - For the record Folkface were asked to perform at Wembley Stadium for the Live Earth gig - Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control we had to pull out. Dave's having a bar-b-q and we have house guests!!!!

Keep the planet safe and don't run with scissors!!!

Goodbye

Dominic A Byrne.

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  • 1.
  • At 09:15 PM on 13 Aug 2007,
  • John O'Sullivan BA Hon PGCE wrote:

Jeez! A few ill-informed, unscientific rock stars says 'Big Al' is the King! The whole global warming scam, I believe, raises serious issues about the way science functions in the real world, about the political bias of scientists, about censorship and intimidation within the scientific community, about the routine practice of scientists drawing false or inflated conclusions from ambiguous or uncertain data, about the manifest failure of the peer review process, about the extraordinary unwillingness of scientists who have invested time and reputation in a particular theory to consider evidence that directly contradicts it and about the elevation of speculation (models) to the level of solid data.

  • 2.
  • At 07:41 PM on 10 Jul 2007,
  • vicky wrote:

''You can call me Dom''...haha, you genius. x

  • 3.
  • At 12:40 PM on 08 Jul 2007,
  • wrote:

I was wrong: comedy and music can co-exist together int he same time and space, as anybody who witnessed Madonna's guitar playing at Live Earth can now testify.

Hopefully this'll put the final nail in the coffin of telegigathons. Live Aid caught the public's imagination despite the difficulties in turning it into a smooth and exciting TV presentation because it was new and at least somebody was doing something. Now the format is old and tired and no longer captures the imagination, while still having all the same problems Live Aid had over 20 years ago.

Surely Al Gore, the man who once said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet," could've utilised global communications in more of a "setting a good example" kinda way than Popstars on Jets, and given the message a more effective medium to do its job than yet more of the bloated consumption that is stadium rock TV.

The cynicism was loud and even expressed a lot on the Jonathan Ross couch. When Madonna's got a carbon footprint 100 times bigger than the average Brit, the cynicism is justified.

Although it could be argued Live Earth was huge success because a lot of popstars had their awareness raised that they're a shower of hypocrites who need to shut their mouths and do some serious thinking about their own culpability.

And you can tell 'em I said so!

  • 4.
  • At 03:31 PM on 07 Jul 2007,
  • Caroline Owen wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I know live earth is important to make everyone aware of global warming etc but why a concert? People will just listen to the acts and not care about the bigger picture and aren't we just adding to the pollution i.e. more electricity for the bands, noise pollution (not saying the bands aren't good coz they are), more rubbish and travel to and from the arena on private jets and so on.

I do love concerts and it is a great idea to get the msg across but do people listen to the underlying cause?

Sorry to be a massive party pooper but its true!

  • 5.
  • At 09:56 PM on 06 Jul 2007,
  • flo wrote:

loving your work, loving the show. Just one complaint, I cant get the song out of my head, and the only lyrics I know are "you can call me Al." Thanks for that.

  • 6.
  • At 04:05 PM on 06 Jul 2007,
  • Helen wrote:

Dom,

You look so harmless and sweet in the first photo and in the second one you look so menacing! What's going on?

  • 7.
  • At 04:01 PM on 06 Jul 2007,
  • Paul wrote:

"I turned out it could?" :o)

  • 8.
  • At 02:17 PM on 06 Jul 2007,
  • wrote:

Blimey, judging by that picture Al's going to have to save the world from the evil genius with island submarine base and satellite laser system, Dom Blowfeld.

When you say Al's organising it all, what exactly is Harvey Goldsmith doing, then?

I'm not sure Spinal Tap would appreciate Folkface trespassing on their satirical territory, especially as Guest, McKean and Shearer have already done folk in "A Mighty Wind."

  • 9.
  • At 02:11 PM on 06 Jul 2007,
  • amber wrote:

i dunno what am commenting for... but al comment on anyfink for da crqak.... wel is good n yaz r da best lol x

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