Rocking all over the World

The line up for the UK leg of Al Gore's Live Earth concerts have been announced - not a bad show if a little bland. I'll be very interested in how the Beeb covers this if they get the TV rights - watching Jonathan Ross tying himself in knots covering the Make Poverty History concerts as he couldn't even hint at anything 'political' was car crash telly at its best. They even had to cut out bands' patter between songs in case anybody said anything vaguely controversial. Is climate change political? Well if poverty is, then this will be too.