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Welsh bands play The Big Ask Live in Cardiff
12 April 2006
Date: Thursday 13 April 2006
Venue: The Point, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay
Welsh acts showcasing: Crosbi, Camera and Halflight
Tickets £ 7.50 - available on the door or from Spillers Records
Rising Welsh acts Crosbi, Camera and Halflight will showcase tonight (Thurs 13) at The Point in Cardiff in support of "The Big Ask", Friends of the Earth's national climate change campaign.
Tonight's event is organised by Cardiff Friends of the Earth and is part a series of 'Big Ask Live' gigs across the UK in March and April 2006 - tickets for the headline concert in London, starring Cardiff `s own Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals and Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, sold out within 2 minutes of going on sale. Going to The Big Ask Live gigs mean you can enjoy a great night of live music and do something worthwhile at the same time by supporting Friends of the Earth's climate campaign. What is The Big Ask? The campaign is about getting people to put pressure on their MPs to support a proposed new law - the Climate Change Bill - which would compel the Government to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by three per cent a year.
It was launched in May 2005 by Thom Yorke, who described the campaign as "the first sane, reasoned way out of what is basically an international emergency".
2005 saw the campaign off to a great start. Already over 50,000 people have asked their MP to support the law, either in writing or by going online towww.thebigask.com and taking action there. As a result, 335 MPs have added their name to a parliamentary petition in support of the law.
Now we need to build on that success. We need to keep on turning public concern about climate change into political change by getting people to contact their MP - and understanding that this sort of political pressure really does work.
Notes on the bands
Camera - Growing in recognition in 2005, featuring a spot at the Tsunami Relief concert in the Millennium Stadium, Camera recently released a new single on 6th March - 'Out On The Water'. The video for this single has been nominated in the public choice category for the British Animation Awards and was shown at cinemas around the UK in February. www.cameratheband.com
Crosby - An incendiary rock quintet fronted by the magnetic Andy Jones, Crosbi possess that attitude that some may misinterpret as arrogance, but true believers will recognise as belief in something bigger: in the power of music to affect, to comfort, to unite. Crosbi's debut album, "All In" is released on April 24. www.crosbi.com
Halflight - After the shimmering success of Subside e.p., halflight are back with a bold mini-album entitled `Pick Me'… In seemingly simple songs of loss and re-emergence, the band fuse guitars, cello, drums and vocals, to create a sound that is at once richly resonant and thoroughly compelling.
"The new jewel in the crown of Welsh music" - Big Issue www.halflight.info
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