Big props to all the musicians and industry peeps that support CALM - join the list!
Creamfields / Cream, Factory Records, In the City, Sankey’s Soap, Circus, Chibuku Shake Shake, Garlands, 3345 Parr St, Ear to the Ground, The Picket, Voodoo Rooms, Zanzibar, Barfly, The Warehouse Project, Mellowtone, 2 Many DJs, A Skillz, Ash, Beni G (Mixologists), Blade, Buggsy Don (Zulu Nation), CAST, Derrick May, DJ Leo Belchetz, DJ Pied Piper, DJ Skizza & Wonder, Doc Brown, Elbow, Farma G, Graham Park, Groove Armada, Ian McCulloch, Ian McNabb, InJa, Jo Mills, Judge Jules, Killa Kela, MC Balla, Moby, Phi-Life Cypher, Rodney P & Skitz, Sef Karma & Vincent, Shy FX, Sizer Barker, Skinnyman + Mudfam, Taskforce, The Asian Dub Foundation, The Lightning Seeds, Tim Lennox, Tim Westwood, Yousef, BBC Radio 1, Countdown Productions, Doodlebug, Manchester Poetry Festival, Filmstock, Mcr:Music, MRD Promotions, Rawganics, Live Magazine, Liverpool Echo, Facto Magazine, CityLife Magazine, Piccadilly Records,
Skiddle.com, Urbanworld.co.uk, MTV
Television
We love Ogilvy + Mather and Dick Curruthers (Oasis, Portishead, The Who...) who are both responsible for all our TV adverts so far and MTV for airing them.
Heroes
James Scroggs & David Baddiel for being Patrons of CALM, Anthony Wilson for agreeing to be a Trustee, in fact all of our Trustees.
About me:
The Campaign Against Living Miserable (C.A.L.M) was launched as a charity in March 2006. CALM is aimed at men aged between 15 and 35. CALM offers young men a website, with information about a range of issues including drugs, relationships and debt. Our website can be seen here
Why do we exist? Because suicide accounts for the deaths of more young men, aged 15-35, than any other single cause over the last 4 years. More men have died from their own hands in the last 4 years than have died in road accidents, drugs or AIDs. We need to change that...
There is pressure on men to deal with problems on their own; a lot of this pressure is from friends, family and the media. Men are pressured to be strong and silent, however we believe that being silent isn’t being strong. It can be hard to talk about personal things - especially with family or friends. The important thing to remember is that if you are feeling down, isolated or generally pissed off, you are not alone. It happens to everyone at some time in his or her lives. CALM believes that young men should be offered support if they are having difficulties in their life, whether the problem is big or small CALM is here to support and provide information.
Keeping problems, thoughts and feelings bottled up inside isn’t healthy, it is important that these thoughts and feelings are dealt in a positive way, you have to deal with it, otherwise it will become overwhelming.
Who I'd like to meet: Musicians, DJs, producers, promoters, comediens, sports bods, celebs, PR people, marketing pros and all young men who back the campaign...
We are a quiet bunch till we get on stage that is lol
Please stay in touch though as we love to hear from everyone
We have a thing on our page called an honesty box if you feel inclined help yourself to telling us what you think of what we have created … we are very difficult to offend so don’t worry haha
We also have a mobile number if you want to text us or what ever it is 07530 487447 … why not eh !!!
We are going to be putting up new material as soon as its ready and hope to be gigging out and about as soon as we have the new line up sorted (which shouldn’t be too long) !!! Just need a bass player now and then its sorted … if you happen to know one throw them at us please ..
Anyways I wont clog up your message box too much lol
just stopping by to say thanks for accepting the request, of course. we appreciate you listening and we hope you enjoy the home-made sounds, let us know sometime.
Just to let you all know that this Sunday at the Wilmington Arms, Exmouth Market kicks off at 7pm and as well as all our beautiful bands, we also have homemade cakes (mum specials) and a swap shop. So get your little bottoms down there armed with any old rubbish you don't want anymore and swap it for something fantastico!!!
its great what u guys r doing I have been effected personally by this and its so good to see someone doing something positive and raising awareness, xx
