Bands For Debt Relief

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BANDS FOR DEBT RELIEF TO PERFORM AT NEW YORK’S KNITTING FACTORY ON MAY 26TH

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http://www.vortex4u.com/bandsfordebtrelief/

Five Indie Bands and Australian MTV VJ to Boost Bono’s Global Debt Relief Effort

NEW YORK, NY, May 3 -- Five indie bands will perform at the Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St.) on May 26th in New York’s first concert for global debt relief. Performers will include Brighton, Harvest of Souls, Truth, Vortex and a very special guest to be named at a later date. MTV Australia’s VJ personality Shorty Brown will MC the concert. Show time is 7 PM, tickets are $15 in advance from TicketWeb.com and $20 at the door.

This concert will promote awareness of global debt relief and gather signatures for online petition campaigns. Debt relief is a crucial issue for eliminating AIDS and poverty in the developing world. Today, more than 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa, nearly half the population, live on less than $1 a day, according to the World Bank. This number is expected to grow to 345 million by 2015. Yet this same region must spend $14.5 billion dollars each year to repay loan debts from the world’s richest countries, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund*.

(*Source: data.org, World Bank, International Monetary Fund)

The event kicks off plans to build a nationwide campaign by BANDS FOR DEBT RELIEF that will use concerts, the Internet, and other grass-roots programs to collect signatures for online petition campaigns hosted on the Web site of data.org. We extend this invitation to the general public and the media to attend the May 26th event, to be held at the main stage of the Knitting Factory, NYC.

Contact:

BANDS FOR DEBT RELIEF: Steve Baldwin

Tel: +1-646-361-2879

E-mail: steve@vortex4u.com <mailto:steve@vortex4u.com>

About BANDS FOR DEBT RELIEF

BANDS FOR DEBT RELIEF

Is an independent coalition of artists formed in 2004 by Chlo from the band VORTEX to raise awareness of global debt relief issues.

About the Bands

Montreal-based Brighton has showcased at the CMW festival, NXNE and the Pop Montreal Festival. The five-piece band has played at The Bowery Ballroom and Sin-E in New York, as well as venues throughout Canada. Brighton’s Web site is www.brightonhq.com <http://www.brightonhq.com>.

Harvest of Souls is a three-piece, NY-based band formed by Brian Sutor in 1999. They have played an extensive gig schedule in New Jersey and parts of NY; Harvest of Soul’s Web site is www.harvestofsouls.net <http://www.harvestofsouls.net>

Vortex is a two-piece NY-based pioneer of Trip-Hop electronica that has toured Europe, Canada, and the U.S. as well as every local venue in NYC. Vortex’s debut CD has been critically acclaimed on the Internet (Golden Artist, garageband.com) and more recently chosen for KCRW’s “MORNING BECOMES ECLECTICâ€, Nic Harcourt’s morning program in LA.

Vortex’s Web site is www.vortex4u.com <http://www.vortex4u.com>.

Host Shorty Brown is one of Australia’s best-known VJ’s who has been host and MC to some of the biggest pop festivals in the world and radio stations. Her Web site is www.shortybrown.com <http://www.shortybrown.com>.

About The Knitting Factory

New York’s legendary Knitting Factory has been the epicenter of Gotham’s avant garde scene for 14 years. Its Web site is www.knittingfactory.com

BAND LINKS:

http://www.brightonhq.com

http://www.harvestofsouls.net

http://www.dbrmusic.com

http://www.thetruthexperience.com

http://www.vortex4u.com

http://www.shortybrown.com (Our MTV VJ MC from Australia)

http://www.knittingfactory.com (venue)

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[pattbateman]

you will never get a "big" act to play it you hippie fuck cause they are money hungry fucks and will not accept the bad publicity! so you get shit bands to do it who will suck someones dick to get noticed by a bunch of other hippies! i love it!