Marty Stalker and Rick Trainor, who made the video about the Belfast4Haiti gig, are planning to have their own awareness-raising event this week. Marty is going to sit stationary for 48 Hrs on the top of a Belfast building and record a time-lapse video of it.
They’re aiming to raise £500, so head over to Marty’s Twitter to find out more details on how to contribute.
Right, Fun Run registration is up and, well, running!
Details can be found at this page, which will also take you to the registration pages.
Among those taking part will be the former Olympic pentathlete, Dame Mary Peters, and local actor, Gerard McCarthy, better known as Kris Fisher from the E4 TV show Hollyoaks.
The event will be a truly family-friendly one with music supplied by the Belfast Carnival Band, a bouncy castle, face-painting and balloon-modelling, and food all on hand.
At this stage I don’t think we need to tell you how important this all is, so I’ll just re-iterate what we’ve been saying since we started this – all we want is for people to come out and enjoy themselves and pay a small amount for the privilege – not to benefit us, but to help people who are currently living in a nightmare.
Yesterday we were on the Panic Dots Podcast. Go there to hear the show in full, wherein we talk about the bands playing and other events that are on as well.
Also on the show was Faye Rossi from HeARTS4Haiti, who have an art-sale on 14th February:
Thanks to Richard for hosting the show and Jude for recording it – we had a great time!
Anto and myself have been all over the radio this last few days talking about the campaign. If for some reason you want to here us bumbling through interviews the links are below:
I was then on U105’s Drive Time show presented by George Jones today at 4.40pm. This time I was accompanied by the latest addition to the bill on the 31st, the fantastic Brian Houston!
Unfortunately they don’t archive their shows, so you can’t listen to me starting to get the hang of this interview lark!
Straight after that I did a quick on-camera piece for BBC’s Breakfast show tomorrow morning. I think. I’ve no idea what time in the morning it’ll be on, so don’t worry about waiting all morning to see me.
Anto did an interview earlier today with Stephen McCauley for his show Electric Mainline on Radio Foyle – as soon as I can figure out when that’s broadcast I’ll let you know!
What else, what else… oh, this site!
I’d like to thank Alan at Blue Tube Design for putting this together for us – he’s been a great help with both this and putting us in touch with the Event Elephant guys who are one of our two ticketing partners, the other being Ticketmaster. Both companies have forsaken profit to ensure all the money you pay for a ticket goes straight to the Disasters Emergency Committee, the body we’ve decided to donate the money raised to.
We also got a 5 km Race 4 Haiti Fun Run organisation team off to a running start – that will be on the same morning of the gig, 31st of January in Ormeau Park. More details at this page.
It’s been a busy week…
I’m going to work on getting all the various events up here over the next couple of days, please bear with us!
The online tickets went on sale today – Event Elephant very kindly donated their fee for the use of their ticketing system. At last check the sales had passed 100 tickets in the space of only a few hours!
Also worth noting is that the tickets are now available from Katy Daly’s bar as well. Look here, proof!
Guys @folk4haiti are looking for people to volunteer on the 28th Feb and help out planning the gig. With them we can top £50k. Let's do it!! 2010/02/16
