While I was away at T in the Park watching various artists, and having a brilliant time, there was Live Earth on in all continents. This also had some amazing artists, including Wolfmother, John Mayer, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (they only played one song though), Jack Johnson and many others. The great thing about this is that you are able to watch the concert online whenever and where-ever you want. This is really quite brilliant, as in my case I was away in the middle of a field, thus unable to watch it live on TV, so I watched all of the music that I thought looked good last night at my own freedom. This is a great idea as currently with T in the Park they don’t broadcast some of the artists… Brian Wilson in particular! which meant that I wasn’t on TV even though I was in the front row right against the barrier the whole time! It would be much better if they did this, giving me a chance to see a) myself on TV b) the concerts that I wanted to see again and c) and the concerts that I missed due to other ones being on at the same time… Then again if they did this in its entirety, then it would remove the need to go to the concert for some people, thus they would lose money and a downward spiral etc. But nonetheless it is a good idea AND wishful thinking…
One annoying thing about watching the Live Earth concerts on MSN video thing, is that they have so many adverts!!! Seeing as they are trying to save the earth with this concert, why have Chevy advertising. Fair enough they are advertising the ‘Hybrid’ models and an ‘Electric’ car that can’t actually be bought!!! (read the small print!), but they are also advertising that they have good fuel efficiency!! They state this good fuel efficiency as being better than 30MPG on most of their models. This is truly obscene. In Britain, the majority of cars have efficiencies over 30mpg, even if they run on Petrol as opposed to Diesel, but still, it is completely wrong to boast that cars get better efficiency that 30MPG when it is such an extremely meagre amount… Fair enough boast that it is more than 45 or 50MPG if it is petrol powered or more than 60 or 65MPG if it is Diesel. My last car, the Peugeot 106 Diesel got double that efficiency and it was at least 10 years old. If you read it closer too, it says that they have better than 30MPG HWY (which I assume means Highway), thus the European equivalent of Extra-Urban, the best/optimal figure that can be achieved. Most fuel consumption figures in Britain are quoted as the Combined Cycle, which is a mix of the two values (Urban (worst) and Extra-Urban (best)). Thus not not only is Chevy quoting a terrible value as being good, it is misquoting it, by stating an uncomparable figure. Absolutely terrible…