I've been speaking to Kurt the founder for a while now and he knows I've done a lot of music promotion and organising in the past and was invited up to help run a fundraiser event across 3 floors near Temple Bar.
Was a great night, I managed to waylay myself messing around in Galway for half the afternoon fixing bike punctures and what not but managed to get up there for about 8.30-9pm or thereabouts.
It was a free entry gig, which is very important for awarenness events such as the LMHR movement but a little difficult to make money. Seemed to be all bands and live music, which was quite a change for me because these days I only seem to be involved in DJ and various other means of electronic music. Back to my musical roots of guitars and drums for the night. There were some amazing bands I must say, though I cannot remember any of the names, I will look them up and possibly get in touch!
The guys were raising money in order to get a stage sorted out for Electric Picnic, Irelands biggest alternative (and not-so-alternative) music festival.
They were doing this by selling raffel tickets with some pretty good prises.
There were 2 pairs of EP tickets going, at around €250 per ticket that's a pretty good deal. There was also an electric guitar given by one of their sponsors.
It was a mad night altogether with a serious amount of cash being raised, it looks like LMHR will more than likelyt be going to the picnic. I only hope I get invited along! (Hoping also that having access to one of the best soundsystems in the West of Ireland will help also!)
I spoke with Kurt about a few ideas I have for LM;HR. I want to look at organising nationwide university tours, something that doesn't happen very much in Ireland. I am hoping to do this through the USI, (Union of Students in Ireland) and have 3,4 or 5 legs for an Irish Universities tour for bigger bands that may come from the UK or further. It is so much easier to bring over an band or and act of if there are a few gigs, not to mention cheaper for individual promoters!
I need to discuss this at length with the USI Equality officer to see how possible this is. It really would be fantastic to set up a partnership between Irish university student unions and an organisation such as LMHR. Especially with this recession and the fact that everyone is looking for someone to blame for them losing their jobs or their houses being reposessed. Its such a shame that there are still, in this day and ages, where we know full well how much big finance, governments and global corporation have been raping us all for so long, that people STILL look for the easy targets such as blaming immigrants, Islam and all sorts of other retarded accusations.
It saddens me that such labels still actually mean much to most people. I wonder how long will it be until we see eachother for who we are, not what we appear to be.
I am very happy to be working with LMHR, music is very important to me, I cannot think of anything on Earth that does more to bring people together. We all dance, we all bang drums, we all sing and we all enjoy it, no matter what religion, skin colour, eye colour or any other trivial factor. I believe that music is the key to understanding these issues, or at the very least, the best distraction we have to avoid focussing on such silly differences.
Next step is to start making gigs happen here in Galway to spread the message, Love Music; Hate Racism!
Much Love. :)
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