New Horizons Internet Cafe

Edinburghlass_2 · 1 June 2005 at 10:35PM

Drum roll please, the New Horizons Internet Cafe is now open for business :hello:

With all the talk of Live8 in the news this week, how about chatting about who you would like to see at Live8 and was anyone actually at LiveAid?

For some reason I was in an electrical store when LiveAid started and remember being very emotional watching it kick off. At night I invited a load of friends down for drinks and charged them for the privilege and we then donated the money.

Who can forget the awful images played to the haunting music, it still makes me cry to watch it.

Anyone planning on marching to Edinburgh?

No need to stick to this as a topic, just a suggestion. Pull up a chair and join in

edited to add I just noticed this is my 3,000 post

Edinburghlass_2 · 2 June 2005 at 8:14AM

Morning everyone, I do hope someone will come in today and chat to me

Queenie · 2 June 2005 at 8:43AM

:hello: Gooooooooood morning!!! :hello:

It's a b-u-t-ful day here in the sunny south east

Ok, well it's overcast, grey, slight breeze but ....

... in Queenie Land, it's a gorgeous day

trafalgar_2 · 2 June 2005 at 11:14AM

The Live 8 is already being discussed in discussions,why are we having cafe style threads on other boards now

just curious

Edinburghlass_2 · 2 June 2005 at 11:20AM

Because the SS users wanted to discuss when the next Elton John concert would be and Live8 seems a good place to start as Elton will be appearing.

hermit-crab · 2 June 2005 at 12:24PM

Unfortunately my wife and I were abroad in 1985 when the original live aid took place, so we missed the entire event. As luck would have it my brother in law and I will be in Edinburgh in July. It should make for an interesting time. Can anyone tell me why it is so difficult to post this afternoon? It seems to be taking forever to read a page.

trafalgar_2 · 2 June 2005 at 12:52PM

Edinburghlass wrote:

Because the SS users wanted to discuss when the next Elton John concert would be and Live8 seems a good place to start as Elton will be appearing.

oh I see,this could be useful then:D

http://www.eltonjohn.com/home_index.asp?page=now/news/news.asp

Edinburghlass_2 · 2 June 2005 at 1:15PM

hermit-crab wrote:

Unfortunately my wife and I were abroad in 1985 when the original live aid took place, so we missed the entire event. As luck would have it my brother in law and I will be in Edinburgh in July. It should make for an interesting time. Can anyone tell me why it is so difficult to post this afternoon? It seems to be taking forever to read a page.

Oh Hermit, could be a busy time for Edinburgh at the beginning of July. I will be on holiday but fortunately will still be here to see the Hyde Park concert.

Due to heavy traffic on MSE after the email goes out it is slow over a Wednesday night and Thursday morning, it does seem particularly slow today though.

Vermilion · 2 June 2005 at 3:37PM

Edinburghlass wrote:

Who can forget the awful images played to the haunting music, it still makes me cry to watch it.

And me.

I remember stopping whatever it was I was doing when the concert started and being totally mesmerised.

Good luck all in the text lottery

Queenie · 2 June 2005 at 6:16PM

Edinburghlass wrote:

With all the talk of Live8 in the news this week, how about chatting about who you would like to see at Live8 and was anyone actually at LiveAid?

I was there - well, glued to the goggle box anyway! It was a scorching hot day so at one point, I had my dining windows open, my dining chair outside peering through to watch it

I think (for me) the one thing which stood out about the original was Queen's performance - superb! I can't really think of anyone who could even match that in a modern version