AS I’m writing this, Eskimo Joe is playing at the Aussie Stadium in Sydney, Australia as part of the round-the-world Live Earth Concerts for a Climate in Crisis.

Nope, I didn’t fly to Sydney, heh You can watch the Live Earth concerts in Australia, Japan, China, Germany and other countries online via MSN.

While you can use other browsers, for the best experience and to watch all the concerts in one player, you need Internet Explorer.

Here’s a promo video courtesy of Soapbox on MSN Video.

Video: Live Earth Concert 07.07.07

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By Agence France-Presse

SYDNEY–Australia kicked off a round-the-world series of music concerts designed to highlight climate change Saturday with a traditional Aboriginal welcome ceremony.

Six Aboriginal performers danced across the stage at Sydney’s Aussie stadium in front of a crowd of several thousand before former US vice president Al Gore appeared on video screens to launch the worldwide initiative.

“Thank you for coming today,” Gore said, as he reminded concert goers they were the first in the world to take part in the Live Earth concerts.

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By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net

IT was a fun-filled night on June 30 at the Mag.net Café in Bonifacio High Street, but Filipino pop rock band Orange and Lemons, which was expected to play during Saturday night’s grand launch, walked out, an organizer of the launch confirmed with INQUIRER.net.

“Bong (Baluyot, Orange and Lemon’s manager) was very apologetic but it was quite unprofessional for them to do that,” said Quark Henares in a telephone interview, referring to the band’s unexpected walkout.

Henares, one of the Mag.net Café business partners, said there was tension between Clementine Castro and the other band members. (Editor’s note: This was the latest blog entry, dated June 29, on Clementine’s MySpace profile. The band’s MySpace profile is at www.myspace.com/orangeandlemons:

I WILL NEVER LEAVE ORANGE & LEMONS….
Current mood: numb

THEY JUST WANTED TO KICK ME OUT.

ABSURD AND OUTRAGEOUS.)

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