News reaches us that Live Earth, last year’s epic music event held in eight different cities across seven continents, is to be honoured with an environmental award at the Midem event in Cannes, which is apparently the “world’s music market”. (What’s that?) Along with the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, and the Paleo Festival Nyon of Switzerland, the Live Earth concerts are to be honoured with a “Greenie”. Not really. But that’s totally what the awards should be called.

Live Earth may have raised environmental concerns, but I’m pretty sure it caused more harm that good. I mean, flying all those musicians and celebs over from wherever they live? Getting Razorlight to sing at lunchtime because they had to jet off to Scotland to perform at a festival there? As a dramatic point, switching off all the lights at Wembley Stadium for a few minutes and then turning them all back on again? Could we not have just had a Live Earth “day” where everyone did their utmost to recycle, not use electricity etc? (Before, of course, ahem, continuing in this vein forever….) Still, it was nice weather and the Foo Fighters rocked.