Antarctic monkeys play coolest Live Earth gig

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LONDON (AFP) — A group of scientists in Antarctica joined in the Live Earth concerts around the world Saturday, playing to a global audience of billions from a frozen ice shelf at Britain's Rothera Research Station.

Wrapped up in hats, gloves, jackets and boots, Nunatak, the British Antarctic Survey's house band whose name derives from the Greenlandic for exposed mountain ridge or peak not covered with snow, played two tracks.

The songs were pre-recorded and beamed back to the BAS's base in Cambridge, eastern England, to be transmitted on television and on the Internet at www.antarctica.ac.uk.

Unlike the stadium gigs elsewhere, the five-piece played in temperatures of -4 degrees Celsius (24.8 degrees Fahrenheit) with a snowy, mountainous backdrop and a pink...