With Live Earth set to storm the musical world this weekend, I thought I'd take a sneaky peak at what they have planned for Antarctica. The concert will feature musicians performing on all seven continents, including the white continent - which is only fitting as the concerts aim to focus the world's attention on climate change. Performers at Live Earth wil include Shakira, Duran Duran, The Police.... but the band of the moment on the world's most remote, windiest and coldest stage will be none other than the British Antarctic Survey's own Nunatak (aka a group of musical scientists at Rothera Research Station). You can see them rehearsing for their gig by clicking here onto Youtube.
The group take their name from a Greenlandic word for mountain peaks that protrude through overlaying ice sheets. By day, the band members research evolutionary biology and climate change. By night, they are the house band at Rothera Research Station on Adelaide Island, located near the middle of the Antarctic Peninsula that stretches towards Chile/Argentina.
The concert will kick off outdoors - in temperatures expected to be about 10 degrees below zero celsius - on a stage at Rothera Station's airstrip. Then, the band will move to what Nunatak's ace fiddler describes as a 'very poular venue known as the 'sledge stall''! Because of the difficulties of broadcasting from Antarctica, only those 17 devoted fans based at Rothera will be able to watch Nunatak's live show. I just wish I was there!
Hello, I can't believe that you share my passion for Antarctica. I live in hope that I will be able to go at some point in my life. I love the cold. and to be able to see the ice would be so wonderful.
I am living in hope always.
Susan May
Posted by: SUSAN MAY | July 13, 2007 at 03:00 PM
thank you for good news!
Posted by: Eun | July 07, 2007 at 02:11 AM