4 July, 2005

Japan ticket confusion

» The Age | Japan ticket confusion
4 July 2005
By Deborah Cameron

Ambitiously the organisers had booked one of the city's larger venues, a 20,000-seat auditorium, but it was only half full when performers, including Icelandic singer Björk and Japan's most popular rap musicians took the stage.

» Reuters | Björk rocks Tokyo as Live 8 marathon kicks off
2 July 2005
By David Dolan

While awareness of Live 8 is high in Britain, other countries on the concert schedule have had little time to prepare and faced public apathy.

The lack of publicity in Japan, the world's second largest aid donor, restricted the size of the audience early on, but fans at the Tokyo concert said they sympathised with its aims.

If I tried every means available for a ticket, there would have been a chance for me. However, you know, I was too busy to do so. What a shame.