Thursday 3 October 2013 at Wharf Chambers Cooperative Club, Leeds.
What an amazing evening which we hope has raised a bit of money for a new pod and generated interest, sympathy and support for the Arctic 30. We are really grateful to all the fantastic musicians from Leeds College of Music who donated their talent to this very worthy cause. Rebecca deserves a special mention because not only did she sing (beautifully), do the continuity and keep all the acts to time, but made soup and baked cakes and then loaded her car with guitars, amps, keyboards, drums and musicians to take them home! A Great Effort!
From the beginning of the evening when we were sticking up posters of the Arctic 30, cutting out dove rainbows, setting up the projector with the Greenpeace slide show whilst the sound check was going on, there was a real buzz in the air. Then all the people started arriving and we had a queue ! All our lovely volunteers were busy asking people to write messages of support to the Arctic 30 on the doves so at the end of the evening we had a ship’s rope full of lovely doves.
The bands played, people danced and cheered. Everyone had a ball. It was a long way from a cold prison cell in Murmansk where our climate defenders are being held unlawfully for trying to protect a pristine environment from destruction and devastation. I wish we could send them some of the warmth from the back room of Wharf Chambers on a rainy night in Leeds where the temperature was hot.
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