The Jimmy Cake & Little Green Cars have been added to the bill for the Alliance benefit gig in aid of Concern’s Horn of Africa Crisis Appeal in Whelan’s on Sunday. They join And So I Watch You From Afar, Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands, Retarded Cop & many more.
The line up so far is:
Main Venue
14:30 The Former Soviet Republic
15:15 Sert One
16:00 Great Lakes Mystery
16:45 We Are Losers
17:00 Retarded Cop
17:45 Funeral Suits
BREAK – Front Bar – Little Green Cars
19:45 Alarmist
20:30 Spies
21:15 Tieranniesaur
22:00 The Jimmy Cake
23:00 ASIWYFA
24:00 Patrick Kelleher
Upstairs
19:35 White Collar Boy
20:10 Reid
20:55 Soil Creep
21:30 Moths
22:15 Angkorwat
23:00 Daithi
23:00 Toby Kaar
24:20 The Last Days of 1984
Nialler9 & Harmless Noise will be DJing.
So, why is this benefit happening:
The drought situation in the Horn of Africa has reached crisis levels. This is the worst drought to hit the region in 60 years. More than ten million people are in need of humanitarian aid; including approximately 3.2 million in Ethiopia, 2.8 million in Somalia and 3.2 million in Kenya.
The drought is caused by the La Niña phenomenon, which leads to increased rains and flooding in southern Africa, but has resulted in below normal rains in the Horn of Africa region. It hasn’t rained properly in thre region for two years. Five of the past seven years have seen chronic drought in the region due to poor or failed rains.
Although the rains have now arrived, rainfall is expected to be less than average and inadequately distributed. People severely affected have lost nearly all their assets, and if the current rains are inadequate, and indeed next rains thereafter, the crisis will get even worse.
The UN estimates that less than 50 per cent of the money needed for the emergency response is available. Concern is working to prevent a crisis situation, such as in the 1990s where a quarter of a million people perished due to starvation.
ALLIANCE – Independent Artists for Africa
A Benefit for the Concern Horn of Africa Crisis Appeal
Sunday Sep 25th
Doors 2pm til LATE
Whelan’s main room & upstairs
Tickets €15 available online from www.tickets.ie & WAV box office or call WAV [Lo-Call 1890 200 078]
http://www.whelanslive.com/index.php/archives/4954
http://www.concern.ie
