All tickets for the London Live 8 concert have been distributed. Additional tickets to view the event via closed-circuit television in Hyde Park are being distributed. In addition, the concerts will be broadcast publicly throughout the U.K. via BBC Big Screens. Locations for these viewings at this time are as follows:
- England
- Manchester - Exchange Square
- Birmingham - Chamberlain Square
- Birmingham - Cannon Hill Park
- Liverpool - Clayton Square
- Hull - Queen Victoria Square
- Leeds - Millennium Square
- Gateshead - Gateshead International Stadium
- Bournemouth - Meyrick Park
- Plymouth - Armada Way
- Wales
- Cardiff - Cooper's Field, Bute Park
- Wrexham - Queens Square
- Northern Ireland
- Belfast - Customs House Square
- Scotland
- Inverness - Caledonian Stadium
- Channel Islands
- St. Helier, Jersey - Peoples Park
- Guernsey - L'Eree
There will be no tickets required for the concerts in Barrie, Canada, Berlin, Johannesburg, Moscow, Paris, Philadelphia, Rome, and Tokyo. Further details for some of these other Live 8 concerts are available through the links below:
If you cannot make it to the concerts in person, they will be broadcast in a number of ways.
- America Online will broadcast the concerts live on the web in one of the largest international webcasts ever.
- The BBC will be providing coverage on BBC One, Two and Three on television as well as Radio 1 and Radio 2. Radio broadcasts are available free of charge via the web.
- MTV and VH1 in the U.S. will provide 8 hours of Live 8 coverage.
- ABC Television in the U.S. will provide 2 hours of highlights from the concerts 8 p.m. ET the evening of July 2nd.
- XM Satellite Radio will provide full coverage of the concerts.
