Hope And Play fundraiser
Schedule
Sat Mar 01 2025 at 07:00 pm to 11:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Hanks Dirty Cambridge | Cambridge, EN
We are doing a fundraiser for Hope and Play children's charity in Gaza, Palestine. This charity provides art classes and games to help children have a couple hours normalcy to just be children in the middle of their war torn lives. They also provide trauma counselling and make sure get access to food and find their families.Door charge will be £10, and there will be a donation box if anyone wants to donate more. All money will go straight to the charity. We can accept cards but cash preferred to avoid losing a little to card charges.
Bands confirmed so far are...
Rites Of Hadda:
Sax 'n' drag and rock 'n' roll.
Anarcho-pagan-gothic-psychedelic-queer-Witchpunk.
Mental Issues:
Mental Anarcho-Grotesque Punk collective where nobody knows wtf is going on but that's not an Issue
KiLuna:
One half of KLMB
Anarcha-folk punk-rap
Paul Neale:
Drummer for hard hitting punk duo 'Dogs Teeth' and filty blues band The Mojo Slide. This promises to be a totally apt, unique & rare one-off performance, perfect for this noble cause which understandably is very close to Paul's heart too.
He is a singer songwriter with a strange & interesting history,
part of which involved him traveling through the West Bank & also the Gaza Strip on a UN vip stamp during the mid 1990's where he was taken in by Ex PLO terrorist Abu Hussan in Hebron who introduced him to the FATAH Party. Paul visited the UNRWA Refugee camp & interviewed a suicide bomber who survived & got to ask that immortal question; 'why did you fo it?' before being taken to the Hebron children's music academy where they performed for him.
Paul was also arrested in Raffa for requesting a glass of water in Hebrew & then escorted to the border where he was met by and given a small gift by each of the school children of Gaza City who were taken there to meet him & shake his hand.
Paul was quoted by Yasser Arafat in the world media (he refuses to talk about this as a rule but will make a one off exception) and also wrote a song for him called 'All the Way - a song for peace'.
Paul wrote a song called Ketusha while sat on top of a bomb shelter in the Golan Heights while small rockets (ketusha) were fired from over the Lebanese border
Due to the nature of this fundraising event for Palestinian children caught up in the current conflict, Paul will perform this 'song for peace' along with other songs that he wrote during his time in the occupied territories which share his experiences & observations of the long running conflicts between Arab & Jew, with the odd anecdote & poem he also wrote at that time to set the scene.
