Comments on: Top 5: Green Thinking Bands

By: Joanna

Joanna — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:17:21 +0000

As far as I can tell, anyone with as much cash as these guys have can make large donations to charity without it even making a dent in their bank accounts, and ‘big’ gestures such as refusing to perform at a particular gig is pettiness to achieve publicity as much a any deep-seated desire to save the world. I would like to see all of these bands (and indeed all of the other multi-millionaires out there) start thinking seriously about reducing their carbon footprints. Stop flying needlessly from country to country, stop using enormous amounts of electricity at pretentious and overblown gigs, and start making a real difference.

By: John

John — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:54:27 +0000

What about Moby! His entire musical career has been all about recycling — reusing other peoples beats and riffs to forge tracks of his own. (On a more serious note – he should be definitely be recognised as he’s known to have considered environmental impact by scaling down touring; off stage he’s cool too – well known vegan and committed human and animal rights activist.)

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:43:58 +0000

Although they seem to attract their fair share of criticism, Coldplay have to be considered as one of the most eco-friendly bands around; particularly front-man Chris Martin who is passionate about Fair Trade and world justice issues. They even collaborated with the makers of the Solio to produce a special edition for release at the same time as their X&Y album. The singer isn’t afraid to speak his mind on eco and social issues either, he’s been quoted as saying; "Anyone who criticizes me for talking about fair trade is really a few pebbles short of a beach, because everybody should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment: because we all live here.”