TV review: Live Aid docuseries paints Geldof as the good guy

"...it is also the story of a group of Irishmen haunted, as Bono says, by the “folk memory” of our own famine and a trauma passed down the generations..."

Fri, 11 Jul, 2025 - 10:36

The 1985 Live Aid concert was a historic gesture of international solidarity by the music industry — a business not generally known for its generosity or humanity.

But it is also the story of a group of Irishmen haunted, as Bono says, by the “folk memory” of our own famine and a trauma passed down the generations.