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Musicians Against Homelessness visits the Barrowland Ballroom
September 26 2018
As our heatwave summer draws to a rainy conclusion, an ever growing team of campaigners across the UK are working hard to make a positive impact through music.
As our heatwave summer draws to a rainy conclusion, an ever growing team of campaigners across the UK are working hard to make a positive impact through music.
Musicians Against Homelessness (MAH) was launched by music mogul Alan McGee in 2016, and both raises awareness of, and fundraises for, the homelessness crisis in the UK. The organisation is run by volunteers, and all profits from the events go towards supporting charities like Crisis and Simon Community Scotland.
On Saturday 29th September Glasgow’s iconic Barrowland Ballroom will host the UK’s biggest MAH concert of 2018. Supported by an incredible line up from the Scottish music scene including Scottish ska legends Bombskare, Mickey 9s, rapper-come-Orwell Prize winning author Darren ‘Loki’ McGarvey and Becci Wallace, The Hollows, Jackal Trades, Dead Man Fall, Steg G and The Freestyle Master and Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5’s Mark ‘DJ5’ Lang.
Chief Executive of Crisis, Jon Sparkes, said: “I am delighted that Musicians Against Homelessness will be supporting Crisis again this year with what promises to be an even bigger and better programme of gigs and events in the autumn. Homelessness remains an unsolved problem across the UK so their help and support, in what will be our 50th year, is much needed and greatly appreciated.”
Tickets are £10 + booking fee and available in person from Tickets Scotland and online from Skiddle (website link).
MAH Glasgow Facebook event available here.
Who are Musicians Against Homelessness?
Musicians Against Homelessness encourages event promoters, venues and recording artists in every city, town and village in the UK to organise events unified under the shared goal of tackling homelessness. Since 2016, over 1,000 bands have played almost 250 gigs for the movement and earlier this year, MAH formed partnerships with Foodies Festival and the Celeb Soccer Six football tournament to expand their impact.
The grass-roots movement has successfully raised over £100,000 to date, and will support two whole months’ of fundraising gigs across the UK throughout September and October this year. The movement has been grabbing the attention of hundreds of bands, musicians and celebrities including Liam Gallagher, Shaun Ryder, Russel Brand and Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh.
Earlier this year alt-rock legends, James, recorded a new version of their 1989 hit ‘Sit Down’ with a string quartet at the Albert Hall in Manchester, complete with a new music video, to bring attention to the cause.
James frontman Tim Booth said, “Sit down is a song about empathy so we are really honoured and happy that this beautiful version … is being used to raise money for the homeless. We seem to be living in times of increasing inequality where all the safety nets that my generation took for granted have been taken away.”
Find a gig near you!
The Musicians Against Homelessness campaign supports hundreds of concerts across the UK. Visit www.facebook.com/mahgigs to find a gig near you!
Musicians Against Homelessness (MAH) was launched by music mogul Alan McGee in 2016, and both raises awareness of, and fundraises for, the homelessness crisis in the UK. The organisation is run by volunteers, and all profits from the events go towards supporting charities like Crisis and Simon Community Scotland.
On Saturday 29th September Glasgow’s iconic Barrowland Ballroom will host the UK’s biggest MAH concert of 2018. Supported by an incredible line up from the Scottish music scene including Scottish ska legends Bombskare, Mickey 9s, rapper-come-Orwell Prize winning author Darren ‘Loki’ McGarvey and Becci Wallace, The Hollows, Jackal Trades, Dead Man Fall, Steg G and The Freestyle Master and Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5’s Mark ‘DJ5’ Lang.
Chief Executive of Crisis, Jon Sparkes, said: “I am delighted that Musicians Against Homelessness will be supporting Crisis again this year with what promises to be an even bigger and better programme of gigs and events in the autumn. Homelessness remains an unsolved problem across the UK so their help and support, in what will be our 50th year, is much needed and greatly appreciated.”
Tickets are £10 + booking fee and available in person from Tickets Scotland and online from Skiddle (website link).
MAH Glasgow Facebook event available here.
Who are Musicians Against Homelessness?
Musicians Against Homelessness encourages event promoters, venues and recording artists in every city, town and village in the UK to organise events unified under the shared goal of tackling homelessness. Since 2016, over 1,000 bands have played almost 250 gigs for the movement and earlier this year, MAH formed partnerships with Foodies Festival and the Celeb Soccer Six football tournament to expand their impact.
The grass-roots movement has successfully raised over £100,000 to date, and will support two whole months’ of fundraising gigs across the UK throughout September and October this year. The movement has been grabbing the attention of hundreds of bands, musicians and celebrities including Liam Gallagher, Shaun Ryder, Russel Brand and Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh.
Earlier this year alt-rock legends, James, recorded a new version of their 1989 hit ‘Sit Down’ with a string quartet at the Albert Hall in Manchester, complete with a new music video, to bring attention to the cause.
James frontman Tim Booth said, “Sit down is a song about empathy so we are really honoured and happy that this beautiful version … is being used to raise money for the homeless. We seem to be living in times of increasing inequality where all the safety nets that my generation took for granted have been taken away.”
Find a gig near you!
The Musicians Against Homelessness campaign supports hundreds of concerts across the UK. Visit www.facebook.com/mahgigs to find a gig near you!
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