I’ve just been listening to Damon Albarn on the radio (listen here) criticize the lineup at the Live8 concerts for being “Anglo-Saxon”: far too white and middle-class. Of course, Albarn, who has somehow transcended the limitations of his own skin pigmentation and social-economic status, will be staging his own, far cooler event: “Flight 5056.” This will involve artists playing African music in different pods of the London Eye. There’s a touch of the Nathan Barleys about the whole event, but, I thought, at least it’s slightly less grim than being crammed into a stadium field with 50,000 people holding lighters aloft as Coldplay* portentously unravel their latest platinum-selling dirge. *Here’s a compelling summation of why Coldplay is “the most insufferable band of the decade.”