Found this in my search for photos from Barrie

I found this guy's rant.... Hilarious .... a Cats Can Fly reunion would be great, he forgot Haywire, Plat and Corey...those artists would have made it better....GT was great the other night on that dumb show! Why do Canadians hate their 80's stars so much?

The question wasn't whether the Canadian Live 8 concert announcenment yesterday would prove worthy of scorn, but how much. The answer is SCADS. It's like they gift-wrapped the whole thing for critics and naysayers with a big stinky bow on top. The concert will indeed be held in Park Place (née Molson Park) and feature such luminaries as Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Blue Rodeo, Great Big Sea, Our Lady Peace, African Guitar Summit, Barenaked Ladies, Jan Arden, Bruce Cockburn, Deep Purple, Gordon Lightfoot, Tragically Hip, Tom Cochrane, Motley Crue and Sam Roberts and it will be hosted by Dan Ackroyd and Tom Green (I would have rather had Terrance and Phillip, especially with Celine taking part). I find it amusing that the CBC article says that Barrie "won" the concert. Getting stuck with Our Lady Peace doesn't feel much like winning to me.

Now I don't necessarily have anything against most of these performers but collectively put forward as the face of Canadian music, it's about as horrid, irrelevant and anachronistic as you could possibly get. It's like they've taken every bit of progress we've made in recent years in building a reputation as a country that produces innovative, creative and just kick-ass music and summarily dismissed it. "Yeah, you young'ns are all great but we're going to go with the 'Everything I Do' guy". Celine won't even actually BE at the show, she's phoning her performance in. Nice "headliner" (I've heard Bry-boy is doing the same but can't confirm that). It's a sad day when Motley Crue is the most exciting act on the bill. Hell, I could have accepted it if they had gotten Nickelback and Avril - certainly not my cup of tea but at least you could rationalize their popularity and global profile. Instead, we get artists who aren't even relevant in Canada anymore, let alone abroad. At this point, it wouldn't shock me if they added Glass Tiger, Honeymoon Suite, Cats Can Fly, The Box... Sigh. Know what a better lineup would have been? Leonard Cohen. Just Lenny. Sitting on stage, doing whatever. Making toast. Gawd. CHAGRINED.

Chart is hoping against hope that rumours of more acts to be added will make the event worth covering (since they'll have to anyway) and Radio Dan has his own act-by-act take on the lineup. Hello Newman prognosticated this days ago, Torontist is enraged and Pop (All Love) is just confused. As are we all, Aaron. As are we all.