WRITTEN ON October 18th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN bucklame, kiwiland, music

Tags: concerts, music, samoa tsunami

Tonight, starting at 7pm at Auckland’s Vector Arena: Neil Finn & Tim Finn, Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga, Savage, Scribe, Hollie Smith, Elemeno P, Nesian Mystik, Jordan Luck Band, J.Williams, Che-Fu & Kratez, Open Souls, Kirsten Morrell, Sweet & Irie, DJ Sirvere, Aaradhna, PNC, Devolo, Mareko, King Kapisi, Feelstyle, Adeaze, Cydel, Ardijah and Lapi Mariner make up the list of artists performing in the ‘I Love the Islands’ concert. All the funds from this massive benefit gig go straight to the victims of the tsunami in Samoa.

It’ll be an evening full of good music (I mean, come on, look at that line-up!) and also some strong emotions - artists like Scribe and Savage will be performing in memory of the relatives and friends they lost in the tsunami.

Funny how the proximity theory really does work. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t feel so much for the tsunami victims if I was still living in Portugal. Somehow, your geographic position in relation to things does have a strong link to how you react to them. It goes almost hand to hand with your emotional link to things (I can be far away from my country but, in that case, emotion is stronger than geography and distance will never affect my reaction to events there). Anyway, enough of that. T minus 6 hours to the concert - w00t!