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Are they playboy bunny ears on the logo or a badly drawn peace fingers?
Robbie was pinching money. 😀
It's her 'thing' apparently, I had to google it too
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Mrs Binners is on fine form tonight. When it started, and Mumford and sons bloke came on, she said "Jesus! Have those poor people at the front not suffered enough?!"
When Katy Perry came on "is that Julian Clarey?"
🙂
I have the ideal person to ask, and my 13 and 11 yo daughters inform me that bunny ears are part of her image.
Okay, that explains it. I thought it was playboys logo but it's just bunny ears.
Yeah Robbie certainly wasn't as in shape as the take that guys.
My daughter & friends are somewhere in that crowd. I haven't a clue who half of the performers are (definitely not down with the kids me).
Yeah, by the looks of Robbie, Stretford Greggs have had a good afternoon
He's loving Bagels instead.
😆
Justin Bieber: "We should fight evil with good". They should put him in charge.
I put it on but the kids turned it over as they said it was sh*t. I'm not going to argue with them.
I'm not going to repeat what Mrs Binners has just said when Chris Martin walked on. It'll break the swear filter. But she'd also suggested that the 'surprise' ending would be great if it was Liam coming on and giving him a proper shoeing! 😆
I dunno, I'm happy to switch off my cynicism filter for this evening.
That would be a very un-manchester thing to do Bravissimo 😉
I'm happy to switch off my cynicism filter for this evening.
Oh I dunno. All we need next is Bono is playing a version of Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Coldplay dueting with Arianna Grande singing an Oasis song is not something you see every day!
Thankfully
Normally I would never tune in to such a motley bunch of shite, but felt like I should brave it purely because of the occasion...Coldplay and Bieber the worse acts of the night. Fair play to AG though...taking cynical hat off she's been very strong for a mere whippersnapper 23 year old.
Lots of people enjoying the music and the concert performances, lots of people still suffering the effects of the terrorist attacks, and lots of cash being raised to support them, and its free to watch or listen to on the BBC.
Whats not to love, press another button on the remote control.
enjoying it. hats off to all involved.
Fair play to her! Can't have been easy
Please God! Make Coldplay stop! They could raise a shed load of cash if they said 'donate or they'll play another'
Liam next...
To be fair, AG and her team have handled this very well from the time of the attack.
I'm ashamed to say that in a sea of musical shite, I've disliked Coldplay the least. 😳
That is quite an Oasis-ey sounding guitar
Hoping so 🙂
More like it!!! 🙂
Nearly.
binners has now got a hard on........ 😆
Is Liam heading off for a shift on a North Sea trawler straight after the gig ?
expecting rain, obviously.
binners has now got a hard on........
Mouth-vom
That is quite an Oasis-ey sounding guitar
But not a very Oasis-ey sounding Liam 😳
Awful awful vocal out of that cocky lil ****
We have to suffer him for more than 1 tune? 🙁
Another great quote from Mrs B...
"He's a massive *! But he's our *!"
Nice to see Bradley Wiggins back on the guitar.
Kudos to AG though, huge respect for what's she's done here.
Never really understood the dislike for Coldplay music, his image yeah but the music is good.
Can't imagine Liam having a chat with many of the acts back stage.
Loving the comments on this thread. Spent too long on the terrorism and political threads today.
Hey, Liam's other guitarist is the spitting image of the bloke from Coldplay!
I shed a tear or two when the choir was on, all the rest are all bland sounding drivel.
I feel really conflicted now. 😯
We're still holding out for it finishing with a shoeing!
Where's the other brother, the one with the talent and skill?
+1
Mrs Binners should have her own red button channel, so we can watch and enjoy her comments live.
Let's be honest. No one anywhere wanted to hear 'wall of glass'.
He should finish with champagne supernova. It's the only song worthy of it.
Chris Martin 'You and I are gonna live forever' - sounds like an arse-squeak.
if only Noel had come on and done the 'you and I are gonna live forever' line...
I reckon ariana grande has ensured honourary Manc status tonight. Fair play to the lass!
C'mon guys it's not aimed at middle aged cyclists! The kids appear to be loving it & singing along too.
she's nowhere near surly enough 😉
Mind; She'll not get short-served in Greggs if she insists on weighing her pies.
Grande is a class act. Fully applaud what she has done tonight
From a teary Mrs B...
"Someone go and give her a hug!"
Did everyone else spot Bregante....
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LOL! Not my kind of music but it was beautiful to see all those kids having a great time. That is the answer.
It made me feel old, I barely recognised any of the acts and was worried for the impact on the Old Trafford wicket.
C'mon guys it's not aimed at middle aged cyclists! The kids appear to be loving it & singing along too.
That but also:
We've raised an incredible £2.35 MILLION during #OneLoveManchester!
Thank you so much for your donations. http://redcross.org.uk/love
[i]from The British Red Cross twitter feed[/i]
I thought it was brilliant.
How can anyone be cynical about that event. Bloody superb.
That girl showed some proper character tonight. Inspirational.
My kids were in tears watching it.
Had to keep my cynical filter on like you gits though. Otherwise I would have got sand in my eyes
Some of the vocals were shocking, genuinely. But **** it, the kids there were in another world. Far away from the recent horrors. I take my hat off to all that made it possible, it was like a huge collective therapy group. BZ.
FFS - the performers had very little time to rehearse and they put on a great show in a few days. I think everyone involved should be applauded. I particularly enjoyed Bieber personally but I thought Coldplay shouldn't have had the top billing they got.
@johndoh, I get it pal, not trying to be a dick. It speaks more about the state of modern music than anything personal against the artists. Like I said, I applaud them all for taking the time and effort to make that happen for that city.
Never really understood the dislike for Coldplay music, his image yeah but the music is good.
I think you've answered your own lack of comprehension there 😉
Personally I thought it was far to early to be putting a benefit show on, surely the Police must have enough on their hands with the ongoing investigation and protecting vulnerable areas.
My Daughter and Mrs enjoyed it in the other room.
Christ the are some mistake f*****s on here. Why don't you just accept it for the great event that it is/was or watch something else.
It's a good job no one outside a few bores on stw have any interest in what we are writing.
Prior to last week I'd never heard of Ariana Grande, but by way of balance one of the fans on twitter said she'd had to google "Liam Gallagher" during the show. Which seems like it's how things should be. This show wasn't for me, but I'm glad it happened.
Aye, they got a good spectrum of acts to suit everybody. Fair play, they need it. Like I said, one big collective therapy session. Can't fault the spirit of the thing in the slightest.
Turns out the choir were from my godsons school. 😀
#tenuousclaimtobeingaManc
Personally I thought it was far to early to be putting a benefit show on
Why? Show the bad people that they have changed nothing, people like to get out and watch a show.
And the Police would probably like a night where everyone is all smiles and happy after some of the stuff they would have had to deal with at the arena.
And while it's all fresh the Red Cross will get more money. Good work
Christ the are some mistake f*****s on here. Why don't you just accept it for the great event that it is/was or watch something else.
Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed it. And I'm full of praise to Ariana Grande for stepping up and doing it, and the many other things she has also offered in the wake of Manchester, and to the Manchester authorities for saying 'you know what - it will stretch resources a bit but **** it, let's have a concert anyway because we don't give in to shit like this'.
But please don't stop middle aged men from responding in our normal way to this sort of thing either - which for me is gently taking the piss a bit. Because that's normal, and if I can't be a bit normal at times like these then i would just lie down and cry and not get up again.
It's not meant to be nasty, it's my only defence to this kind of crap, to carry on being as normal as I can.
I didnt watch it all as it made me nervous for some reason.
But hats off to them all. A massive gig in a short space of time. That lass (who i never knew who she was tbh) has pulled it out of the bag imo.
Massive respect to all involved with that. It cant have been easy.
binners - Member
When Katy Perry came on "is that Julian Clarey?"
I thought it was Gozer the Gozerian
Katy Perry looks well strange now.
Has anyone else seen Liam's Twitter feed ? I will not repeat it on here as you can imagine the tone, but he is not happy with Noel.
[i]"He's like a man with a fork, in a world of soup"[/i]
Noel Gallagher about his brother Liam
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I thought that Katy Perry looked more like Myley Cyrus than Miley did 🙂
I was also surprised to learn that Bieber could play a guitar 😆
Wasn't my choice of viewing, but didn't find it too offensive, even if the missus had to tell me who half the acts were
Cheers, Rich
C'mon guys it's not aimed at middle aged cyclists!
Why would you even watch it? I totally understand the sentiment or donating but why would you wilfully sit through that sugar coated pop dirge?
Fair enough if you are in a school age female household with only one TV but if ever there was an opportunity to read a book/watch an 'art movie' on the laptop in private/ go to the pub then surely that was it.
Despite my allergies to Bieber et al I'll probably watch it on iplayer tonight. Seems like the thing to be done.
I too had no idea who Aria was until two weeks ago, but kudos for pulling off the biggest "**** You" to the terrorists she could have. Huge live concert organised in less than two weeks, proceeds to charity and everyone happy. Amazing effort.
The police don't all seem to find it an onerous task.
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Nicely done!
Why would you even watch it?
Because I'm not a miserable cynical old fart.
My partner watched it on her laptop while I followed the rather more entertaining commentary on here. OK so it wasn't anything I'd want to listen to, in fact some of it appeared be totally unlistenable but I think it went down well with the target audience and achieved what it was meant to achieve.
Because I'm not a miserable cynical old fart.
Never watched children in need but that hasn't stopped me donating. Just because something is for a good cause why do you have to force yourself to watch it? That's not being miserable or cynical it's just deciding that you don't want to sit through a couple of hours of teeny pop just because everyone else is.
Fair enough if that's music you love but I can't believe that's on your average STW‘ers playlist.