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Stewart Osborne
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Lupus Fest is an annual music-based charity event based in Weymouth, Dorset which is intended to raise awareness of and research funds for the auto-immune disorder Systemic Lupus Erythmatosus and the associated blood-clotting disorder Antiphospholipid or Hughes Syndrome. This year's event features more than 25 acts including The Lucky Bishops, Polygenes, Bebe & Paolo, Graham Dee, Fast Stark Horrendous, Darrell Mitchell & The Occasional Orchestra, The Andy Grant Trio, Kipper, Jumping Jimy Thunder, Jenny Stanley, Ian Sedwell & Matt Benjamin, Garfields Birthday, Damian Clarke, Marc Block, Amy Mayes Band, Tom Caulfield and Du' Kane performing in 2 venues over 3 days from 8th to 10th October. Post a CommentOops!The words you entered did not match the given text. Please try again. 3 Comments
Thanks for the suggestions to Facebook - do invite them to the main site too! I've sent you a longer message re featuring Lupus Festival - August or September?.
Good Luck with it all Viv
Many thanks Viv,
In fairness, it's the only event I organise and (unfortunately, due to my work situation) I've found myself with rather a lot of time on my hands at the moment! It will be great if you can feature Lupus Fest on the front page nearer the time. October's Lupus Awareness Month in the UK - which is part of the reason that we have the event then but also because the first "Lupus Fest" in 2007 (the event's slowly growing into the rather ambitious name that one of my friends gave it in jest at the time!) actually served a dual purpose as our wedding reception! At the time the date of which was chosen based on when the holiday season ends and the cost of hotels, b&b's etc. in the area starts getting cheaper as we wanted to encourage as many of our friends from Reading and elsewhere to come along - a consideration which has become even more persuasive as the event has grown and we're asking and increasingly wide circle of friends and acquaintances to come along in one capacity or another! The original idea was to give our friends - many of whom are musicians and former band-mates from my gigging days back in the Thames Valley - a taste of the amazing music scene that we have here in Weymouth, while raising a few pounds for our favourite charities in the process (Carol was eventually diagnosed as suffering from Lupus after she completely unexpectedly suffered a stroke in 2003). When we announced our intention to repeat the exercise in order to celebrate our first anniversary in 2008, a couple of those friends asked if they could participate instead of just spectating; by 2009 we'd expanded from 1 day to 3; and this year we're putting on bands rather than just solo acts and duos for the first time and have had to move most of the event to a larger venue to accommodate! The support we've had from our musician friends and venues has been absolutely overwhelming. In particular, when we started planning this year's event, I approached 4 different acts with some hugely ambitious requests for them to do things for us that I thought were almost out of the question, thinking that if even *one* of them agreed to those extraordinary requests I would be overwhelmed and overjoyed..... In fact only 1 of those acts actually *declined* - and only then after a lot of heart-searching because (unbeknowned to me) the reason why the band had stopped gigging was because of the singer's genuinely debilitating stage fright! The Lucky Bishops have kindly agreed to reform to make their first public performance in 5 years; Polygenes are reforming for only the 2nd time in 14 years; and my fellow Captain Beefheart-obsessive Benjamin Horrendous has actually assembled the band Fast, Stark, Horrendous especially to perform some of the songs from his numerous studio recordings live at the event, with the others members of the band actually travelling from London and Brighton to Ben's home in Keighley West Yorkshire for a number of rehearsals before they all come down here to play one 45-60 minute set in October.... With all of these people doing such amazing things for us, it seems the very least I can do to publicise the event as best I can and to get as many people as possible to come along to watch and try to make as much money as possible for our charities in the process! Oh and I sent out a load of suggestions for your Facebook page yesterday and 19 of our friends have joined you on there already - keep up the good work! Best wishes, Stewart
Welcome to THE GIG Stewart!
Spectacularly speedy, efficient and informative listings on the calendar. Thank you. Hope the festival goes well and invite your friends / musicians / event goers to join us on THE GIG. Viv Wilson (aka gigstogoto) |
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