With a week and a half to go before the official Live 8 DVD is released, the timing for a rebroadcast of highlights of the concert on German TV seems particularly strange.

TV channel Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) is airing over 23 hours of the best bits of the Live 8 shows in London, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Tokyo and Philadelphia. The highlights are being shown after midnight on 28th and 29th October, and 4th and 5th November. Included of course, will be the headline-grabbing reunion of Roger Waters with Pink Floyd - we understand that they will be showing this complete.

RBB can be received via satellite in Europe, on the Astra 19 east analogue service, for those who want to remind themselves of the show before the DVD itself arrives. The DVD will feature the band's rehearsals and interviews with them, too, so the television broadcast will be interesting but not as good, in our opinion! Our thanks to Kevin O'Donoghue for the heads-up.