Mason said that the band's appearance at the awareness raising event in Hyde Park two years ago "showed that the door can be opened".

"If there was a suitable reason or things change a bit in the next year or two and everybody suddenly thinks, 'Well, actually, I really would like to do that' then I think it'll happen," he said. "But until there's that sort of sea-change, the only thing that would generate it would be something the equivalent of Live 8."
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