Last year in May I held a benefit @ Smalls in Hamtramck, MI (a Detroit bordering city). All door proceeds went to The National Kidney Foundation. This year were going to do it again!!!
As many of you know, Squirrel (lead singer of the Detroit Oi band - The Cavity Creeps, and long time punk scene supporter) has renal disease, kidney failure, and relies on dialysis treatments 3 times a week for 4 ½ hours each time to stay alive! I’ve been on the kidney transplant list since 2006. Things don’t always get better for people on dialysis as this is after all an artificial way to do what your body is to be doing naturally!
Tentatively it will be at Smalls bar again, and around the same time as we did it in May last year (The same weekend as the NKF walk at the Detroit Zoo, which this year is May-18)
We are looking for bands that would like to play and companies/bands to donate items for a ‘door prize’ and ‘raffle’ drawing! Such as cd’s, t-shirts, gift certificates, ad space in your magazine/zine, etc.
If you can help in any way please contact me with what you can help with!
Here is the poster we had for last year’s event. Done by the extremely talented, Craig Holloway, who has designed MANY posters, logos, cd covers, etc. Recently doing the new AGNOSTIC FRONT cd cover!!
SO FAR WE HAVE CONFIRMED - Jimmy Doom (poet & vocalist of Detroit punk legends A.L.D.), Lisa Vicious (poet), Grommet (band) & The Cavi
