In conjunction with the G8 meeting, a live event, organised by Sir Bob Geldof (he of The Boomtown Rats and organiser of the original Live Aid concert) was televised on TV today.

Jo and I waited patiently for 10 hours for the (I think) penultimate act: Pink Floyd.

This was not just Pink Floyd as they are now, which would have been good enough, but reunited with Roger Waters. The band put aside their personal differences to play a few songs in Hyde Park.

All I can say is that it was worth the 10 hours of reasonable, and not so reasonable, bands just to see them.

About 100,000 people were in Hyde Park today. If the ‘normal’ Pink Floyd were to play three songs free of charge anywhere they would get this size of audience. Think how many would come (area permitted) to a paying Pink Floyd mini-concert with all the original members (sorry, LSD fnas, Sid does not count).