We recently found out how Shelter spend their money and treat their staff so we're now donating the proceeds of the gig to Doctors Without Borders, to sopport their ugent work with the Haiti earthquke victims. Don't worry though we will still do a benefit for a homelessness charity sometime soon.
FREE Benefit gig for Haiti earthquake victims ----
http://doctorswithoutborders.org 28th January @ The Westgate Inn, Taunton, Somerset
Rash Decision ---- Punk/hardcore/thrash all the way from Falmouth
http://www.myspace.com/rashdecision 51st State --- Old Skool Punk From Ilminster
http://www.myspace.com/51ststate1 Po-lice --- Fast and Furious Ska Punk from Chard/Taunton
Knew Eyes (from The Insurgents) --- Underground Hip-Hop with meaning from Bristol
http://www.myspace.com/insurgentsmusic The Fatha of the Cods --- Punk Poetry from Chard
http://www.myspace.com/thefathaofcods A share of the bar takings will be going to Docters Without Borders.
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Scaled down poster
17.01.2010 15:21
Anon Promo
Good choice
17.01.2010 15:46
Can I ask for a favor though. too often these fund raisers are completely devoid of the cause, they are just parties, I think those could do with a touch more politics. maybe some film or talk or workshops or whatever, at least some decent amount of leaflets kicking about.
MSF are brilliant, there is loads to show for, not just from Haiti, but from the whole world.
ggg
Re: Good Choice
17.01.2010 16:17
But:-
"Can I ask for a favor though. too often these fund raisers are completely devoid of the cause, they are just parties, I think those could do with a touch more politics. maybe some film or talk or workshops or whatever, at least some decent amount of leaflets kicking about."
As much as I would like to think think this approach would work, in my experience it doesn't. Having put on punk benefit gigs all I can say is most people don't give a fuck and have come for a party. I put on films in a separate room once at a punk night and had several lifestyle punks telling me that they 'did not like being preached to'. I reminded them that there were other rooms with music they could go to but they just wanted somewhere to sit and drink. I felt quite angry at their ignorant reaction but considering the poor turn out afterwards I thought fuck it, let's just put loud money-making parties on and fuck the politics.
A good approach is to have good parties at the weekend to raise money and then have separate film/discussion nights with really good food.
Anonymous
Punk and Politics
17.01.2010 16:25
But why not just do some tabling there? People might float over and have a look, but it's not at all imposing. Also, it's up to us more politically minded people to make sure that the politics is boring or preachy, but is relevant and makes people actually care.
breakdown
Got this covered
17.01.2010 17:09
Thanks for the comments/advise on the matter.
Anon Promo