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Teenage Cancer Trust

The Teenage Cancer Trust is a charity devoted to improving the lives of teenagers and young adults with cancer, a severely medically and socially underserved group. TCT achieves its goals through a number of initiatives, all dependent on private fundraising efforts that range from high profile concerts and sponsored treks to local community events and personal charitable giving.

More information here Teenage Cancer Trust

About the Tour

I shall be flying a Cessna 172 with a small PA system, acoustic guitar and electric keyboard and navigating my way to small airfields around the country where I shall unload the equipment and set it up to do an informal live performance.

This will take place beginning on Friday September 5th in the afternoon at Kemble Airfield where I will fly in and set up the PA system perform a set at 1pm and then fly on to Gloucester Staverton to do an evening show at 7pm. This intense tour will continue Sat 6th and finish Sunday 7th September at Goodwood airfield where I will have done 6 shows in less than 72 hours !

I will be having special guests at some of my shows, so each performance will be quite an event.

The shows will be free entry (just in case bad weather means we have to postpone, I don't want to disappoint people or have them worrying about tickets).

Now that all the airfields have agreed to a part of it I am very excited.

Cool Ideas

Obviously everything we do has an impact on the environment around us and so I have taken some time to calculate that this tour will create about 3-4 tonnes of CO2.

I shall be offsetting the Carbon Emissions by buying the equivalent "cool" tonnage from Global Cool to create a Carbon Neutral Tour. I am a member of this funky but very inspiring site and have made some simple pledges to make a personal difference, why not join me there and see what you can do as well?

Acoustic Airwaves 2008

Acoustic Airwaves 2008 is about to land near you!

Well, AA 2008 turned out to be something very different from originally planned when the weather was so atrocious that it was impossible to fly. However, I didn't want to disappoint anybody, especially as at Fenland 50 tickets had already been sold ! So I came up with a cunning and brilliant plan, and re-christened the tour Acoustic ROADWAVES and drove to all the gigs! Lucy Dixon shared driving duties (and there was a lot of driving to be done) and for the first few days Sarah Scott joined me on the team...although the dismal rain made some of the locations..uh, shall we say limited in the audience capacity..everyone was incredibly generous and the total we raised for Teenage Cancer Trust was a little under £1,500...

Steve Cooper and all the team at Goodwood gave me a fabulous end of tour experience by donating some time in a Cirrus to "fly in" land, get out the plane and walk onto the stage

All in all it was a fabulous experience despite the change of transport!
Thanks To everyone for playing such a supportive and wonderful role in making this happen - Look out 2009 Acoustic Airwaves will be back bigger and better

Bad Weather Warning

It is important to state that in order to make this a safe and secure tour, I may be unable to appear at an event if bad weather makes flying impossible. My apologies in advance to anyone who may miss a show due to adverse conditions. I will try to make it up and re-schedule any performances that are cancelled. One of the reasons for making all the shows FREE entry is to allow for any unexpected problems without causing anyone any financial loss. I hope everyone understands.

Here is the final lineup

5th September- 1pm
Kemble , Kemble Airfield - AV8 Bar

5th September - 7.00pm
The Aviator Bar & Restaurant, Gloucester (Cheltenham) Gloucester Staverton

6th September - 1.00pm
Netherthorpe Airfield Bar & Restaurant (Sheffield)
with Special Guest Helen Boulding

6th September - 7.00pm
The Club House, Fenland (Kings Lynn)

7th September - 1.00pm
The Aviator Garden, Sywell (Northampton)

End of Tour Party

3rd September - 8.30pm
The Bedford, 77 Bedford Hill, Balham, London SW12 9HD
with Special Guests
Jack Savoretti, Steve Brookstein, Sonna Rele, Alice Watts
Doors open at 7.30pm - Call 0208 682 8940 to reserve a table
Nearest tube Balham

News

Daily Express: Friday, 3rd August

There was a short article about the tour in the Daily Express today. You can see the online version by clicking the link above.

Radio Cambridgeshire: Tuesday, 31st July

Tony joined Sue Marchant to talk about the tour, Teenage Cancer Trust and his career so far. You can listen to the recording by clicking the links below:

Radio Cambridgeshire Interview Part One

Radio Cambridgeshire Interview Part Two

Purpose

To raise money and awareness for the Teenage Cancer Trust in areas around the UK that are fairly close to proposed new wards being built.
To spread the word of GA flying by doing something unusual that will raise the profile and hopefully inspire more people to try it.
To put together an informal acoustic show that is entertaining and great fun for everyone.

Timeline

The Last two weekends of August and the first weekend of September. Starting the tour with a mini gig and press launch at Wycombe Air Centre (where I learnt to fly) on Friday 17th August at 11 am. Then packing up the gear, loading the aircraft and flying off for the first stop, Glorious Goodwood!

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