Geldof to rock against poverty with Live 8 concerts

BOB GELDOF yesterday announced plans for five star-studded concerts to take place simultaneously in a bid to pressure world leaders into eradicating African poverty.

Twenty years after the Live Aid sensation, the man dubbed "Saint Bob" for organising the 1985 concert to save the starving in Ethiopia wants to influence the G8 group of industrialised nations which meets in Scotland in July.

"Here we are again," Geldof told a news conference in London, adding that he hoped to use the concerts "to tilt the world a little bit on its axis in favour of the poor".