You may have noticed all the stuff on the Beeb at the moment about the fortieth anniversary of Live Aid. I was only two in 1985, so I don’t really remember it. The commemorations make me wonder, though: could a similarly enormous event happen these days, and what could it look like? Obviously we still get the periodic global mass media event, and of course I’m thinking about olympic opening and closing ceremonies etc; yet in these online, social media days, could anyone still organise a huge, international fundraising pop-concert, watched by virtually everyone in possession of a television?

As I know from my incredible experience a couple of weeks ago watching Guns And Roses, Wembley Stadium is still a mind-blowing, awesome place for a rock concert. I wonder though, could someone like Bob Geldoff still be able to get everyone together, like he did in 1985? And what might that event look like in these days of Iphones and social mass media? Thus, my open question for everyone today is, if you were somehow asked to organise a gigantic concert like Live Aid, who would you ask to perform? As for me, I think I would definitely start with Greenday and The Cat Empire!