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Tsunami
Aid Concert
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=Introduction=
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Charlotte
performed
at the Tsunami Appeal Concert from Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on
Saturday, January 22nd. The concert was arranged to raise funds
for victims of the wave disaster that took the lives of 250,000 people in
southeast Asia and India.
TV and Internet
broadcasting by the BBC provided the opportunity for those not lucky
enough to have a ticket to witness this unique event. Ticket and
merchandise sales have already raised in excess of £1.3M.
The complete list of
performers was as follows: Badly Drawn Boy, Camera, Charlotte
Church, Eric Clapton, Craig David, Embrace, Feeder, Goldie Looking
Chain, Jools Holland, Katherine Jenkins, Aled Jones, Kelly Jones,
Keane, Lemar, Liberty X, Lulu, Manic Street Preachers, Brian
McFadden, Raghav, Heather Small and Snow Patrol.
Charlotte's set
began with a brand new track, 'Show A Little Faith'. 'Fields Of Gold' and 'Over The
Rainbow' followed. Both the new
and familiar songs received a rapturous response from the 61,000
crowd.
Our
feature includes video of Charlotte's performance together with a
selection of captures and press coverage.
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"Show A Little Faith"
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"Fields Of Gold"
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"Over The Rainbow"
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=Pre-event Press = |
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16 January 2005 - Wales on
Sunday |
Charlotte: I'd have begged to play aid gig
by
Lucy Ballinger
CHARLOTTE Church last night revealed she
would have "got down on my knees and begged" to appear at
Cardiff's wave aid concert.
The big-hearted superstar - who can pick and choose where she
performs - was desperate to play Tsunami Relief Cardiff after
at least 157,000 people died in the death wave disaster.
Speaking a week ahead of Saturday's massive Millennium Stadium
fundraiser, the 18-year-old sexy soprano said: "As soon as I
saw there was a concert I wanted to be involved.
"There was a lot of speculation where it was going to be held
but when I found out it was in Cardiff I said to my manager,
'Get on the phone, I want to do this concert!'.
"I would have got on my knees to beg to do it, but thankfully
I didn't have to as they said yes straight away."
Charlotte watched in horror as the devastation unfolded on
Boxing Day TV.
"I was at my nana's when I heard what had happened," said
Charlotte.
"She turned on the news and I couldn't believe it as the death
toll just kept rising and rising.
"It was the biggest natural disaster I have seen in my
lifetime. Even though it has got nothing to do with me, it has
definitely affected me.
"It was important to me to do this concert. I was unbelievably
upset by the whole tsunami disaster. I have been watching the
news constantly."
The teen millionairess was most sickened by stories of
children who had lost their parents being kidnapped by
traffickers and paedophiles.
She said: "The coverage was hard to watch, especially when
people were stealing orphaned children.
"I can't see how someone can take advantage of a situation
like that. What those children would have to go through is
despicable."
The brunette beauty, who is due to release her new album this
year, was left thinking 'what if it had been me?' after she
planned a Christmas holiday in the earthquake-hit Maldives.
Instead, she brought it forward to October, when she visited
the Indian Ocean islands with hotel worker boyfriend Kyle
Johnson.
"Although it wasn't really badly affected by the tsunami, when
I went there I stayed in a water villa which floats on water,
and if any wave would have hit it at all, even a tiny one, it
would have been dreadful," she said.
The concert is expected to raise £1m for the Disasters
Emergency Committee on top of the £200m already pledged by
generous Britons.
Other big names include Eric Clapton, Jools Holland, Badly
Drawn Boy, Craig David, Heather Small, Keane, Lemar and Snow
Patrol, plus Welsh bands Feeder and the Manic Street
Preachers.
Charlotte, who lives in a luxury city centre flat close to mum
Maria and step-dad James, added: "The public has raised so
many millions and I hope this will help too.
"For people living in places like the holiday beaches on
Thailand, where tourism is their only economy, to smaller
villages, it will take years to rebuild their lives.
"The concert will be brilliant but it will be difficult to
balance.
"Everyone will want to remember the disaster, but they will
want to be entertained too. I haven't got a clue what I'm
going to perform.
"I want to sing something that means something. It has just
really affected me and this is a way I can do something to
help."
VIEWERS throughout Wales and across the UK will be able to
enjoy live, non-stop coverage of the Millennium Stadium's
Tsunami Relief Cardiff concert after S4C confirmed it will
broadcast the unique, sell-out event.
From early afternoon until late Saturday night, January 22,
the entire concert - which features top stars such as Eric
Clapton, Jools Holland, Manic Street Preachers, Aled Jones,
Charlotte Church, Keane, Snow Patrol and Feeder - will be
shown live in Cyngerdd Cymorth Tsunami Caerdydd.
With a capacity crowd confirmed for the Live Aid-style event,
the TV broadcast will give music fans at home an opportunity
to enjoy the acts - while encouraging further donations, which
will be in addition to the expected £1m raised by the concert
itself.
The concert coverage starts at 3.15pm and continues almost
uninterrupted all day, apart from two Welsh-language
bulletins. The Tsunami Concert will be both on S4C and S4C
digidol, which is available outside Wales on Sky channel 151.
Coverage of the one-off special event - dubbed Wave Aid - is
being provided for S4C by BBC Wales as part of its
contribution to the channel. The BBC will also be providing
two news bulletins during the course of the coverage.
Iona Jones, S4C's Director of Programmes, says: "S4C is
delighted to be in a position to provide extensive
broadcasting hours for the BBC's coverage of this charity
concert and to make it available to viewers throughout the UK.
"In doing so we hope to contribute to the event's
money-raising potential over and above that already generated
by ticket sales."
Presenters of the Cyngerdd Cymorth Tsunami Caerdydd are yet to
be announced, but the principal focus will surely be on the
hottest line-up of acts on an UK stage since the Live Aid
concert 20 years ago.
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14 January 2005 |
Live broadcast planned for Cardiff tsunami concert
The forthcoming UK tsunami fundraising
concert is to be broadcast live on the BBC, a spokesperson has
confirmed.
The January 22 event, to be held at Cardiff's Millennium
Stadium, features some of the UK's biggest musical stars,
including Eric Clapton and The Manic Street Preachers.
The concert sold-out in less than four days - with almost half
of the 60,000 tickets sold on the first day. However, the BBC
will broadcast the performance live, giving the fundraising
appeal the biggest possible audience:
"With all tickets for the event having sold out within days,
we are delighted to be able to bring the concert into the
homes of those who would otherwise have missed out," said BBC
Wales' Clare Hudson.
"The BBC has been talking to the Millennium Stadium since the
concert was announced and we have managed to reach an
agreement that will take full coverage of this momentous event
to the whole of Wales, the UK and beyond."
BBC Two will join the concert from 6-7pm taking live coverage
to other digital and terrestrial television viewers across the
whole of the UK.
BBC One Wales will carry the concert live from 9-10pm and will
return after the Ten O'clock News until the end of the event.
The concert will also be broadcast live online and on BBC
Radio Two/BBC Radio Wales. Live worldwide broadcasts are also
planned.
Other acts confirmed include Jools Holland, Aled Jones,
Charlotte Church, Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones, Keane,
Snow Patrol and Feeder.
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14 January 2005 -
Undercover |
UK Tsunami Gig Sells Out
by Paul Cashmere
The Live-Aid style Tsunami benefit concert
in Cardiff, Wales has now sold out with organizers confident
of raising more than £1 million from the event.
The live-up includes Eric Clapton, Feeder, Lemar, Snow Patrol,
Manic Street Preachers, Badly Drawn Boy, Lemar, Keane,
Charlotte Church, Heather Small, Liberty X and Craig David.
65,000 tickets sold out for the event in three days.
The concert will be held at Millenium Stadium in Cardiff on
January 22.
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12 January 2005 - PA News |
Church to Join Tsunami Relief Concert Line-Up
By Gemma Collins, PA
Teenage singer Charlotte Church is set to
take to the stage at a Live Aid-style concert for victims of
the Asian tsunami disaster, it was announced today.
The star said she had asked her management to try to get her a
slot at the sell-out event to be held at Cardiff’s Millennium
Stadium next week as soon as she heard about it.
She will join performers including Eric Clapton, Jools
Holland, Lemar and the Manic Street Preachers at the Tsunami
Relief Cardiff concert.
The 18-year-old said she was “absolutely chuffed” to be
involved, adding that she was looking forward to seeing the
rest of the line-up, which includes “lots of my favourite
acts”.
Church revealed she had wanted to go to the Maldives – among
the countries affected by the disaster – for Christmas but had
travelled there last October instead.
“I was unbelievably touched by what happened, so I wanted to
get involved in helping in any way I could,” she said. “I know
we have all seen the news footage but I just don’t think it
shows the enormity of what has happened.”
Concert organisers also announced today that up-and-coming
band Keane had been lined up to perform on January 22. Other
acts already confirmed include Liberty X, Craig David, Heather
Small, Badly Drawn Boy, Embrace, Feeder, Aled Jones, Katherine
Jenkins and Snow Patrol.
It is hoped that another three or four bands will join the
bill for the seven-hour concert in the next few days.
Church said today that it was going to be difficult deciding
what to sing.
“What the general public will want to see are the hits, but I
also want to sing something that is relevant, that will mean
something,” she said. “It is trying to find a balance between
those two things.”
Discussions are still ongoing with broadcasters about the
possibility of televising the event, and organisers are also
hoping to be able to put more tickets on sale after the
initial 60,000 sold within three days.
Today Millennium Stadium general manager Paul Sergeant paid
tribute to everyone who had offered help to put together the
concert but said no more assistance was needed.
“We have already spoken about the tremendous offers of help
from local bands to offer equipment and kit and people wanting
to lend a hand,” he said. “We are very grateful for all these
offers.
“I would like to say, however, that we have reached a
saturation point and have now satisfied the vast majority of
our requirements so I must ask people to stop calling.”
A website – www.millenniumstadium.com/tsunamirelief – has now
been set up for concert-goers to check details ranging from
the line-up to transport and parking advice.
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12 January 2005 -
Mirror.co.uk |
CHARLOTTE TO SING AT CHARITY GIG
CHARLOTTE Church has joined
the line-up of musicians performing at the Live Aid-style
concert to raise money for victims of the tsunami.
The 18-year-old singer will take to the stage at the
Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on January 22 alongside fellow
Welsh stars including Feeder and Aled Jones.
Eric Clapton, Lemar and Jools Holland are also on the bill.
A spokeswoman for Charlotte, who is expected to release a new
album this year, says: "She was approached on Monday and has
agreed to take part.
"We're not sure yet what she's going to do. It'll either be a
duet or a solo performance but it will be clearer nearer the
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