My band the Orphans and I are an art, music and media fusion band for charity.
We have taken a Vow of Poverty on our music and donate all the money raised from the sale of our CDs to funding education to poor/orphaned children.
We are currently working on our second CD now, which, like the first, will be donated to charity.
We have several projects currently running, including the sponsoring of 29 children into school in the poor remote village of Karnangasem in Bali, Indonesia, the development of Bio-Latrines in Asia, a school in the Southwest of China in ZhaoJue (one of the 500 poorest areas on earth) where we now have 20 registered orphans and we are now planning to repeat the tour into Remote Indigenous Communities for a second year running. This time we hope to take more music, more workshops, more indigenous artists to a bigger audience on many more remote communities to more kids. VOW Music Workshops Tour is to inspire indigenous children to develop their talents through indigenous role models, using music as a medium to develop career opportunities, a cathartic avenue or an outlet for expression.
If you would like to find out more, visit www.damienthornber.com.
Our album will be sold by donation via the VOW web site www.vow.org.au
Cheers
Damien Thornber
Desert Feet Tour 09
Hello there! How you going? I wrote a new song today and recorded it and put it on myspace. Its called BIGGEST MISTAKE. Please have a listen and leave comment when you have time. Cheers Adam
Hey Damien & Co. Thanks for responding to our current Friends drive and adding Bands@Manjimup. We are doing this because we have a few really exciting events coming up like our recent concert, on Friday 20th, featuring Elora Danan (photo below) on their debut album tour, Manji prog rock band Ashoka and Perth ambient rockers Laced Affair. It was a high energy show with fantastic sound, and those who came got to meet the bands for more than an hour afterwards. The pictures are now up as a slideshow. Check them out at the top of our profile.
Next, we'll be hosting the biggest regional event in this year's WAMi Festival calendar, on 22nd May. The support acts: Abbe May, Sneaky Weasel Gang, Desert Radio and Ashoka. The headline act for the concert needs to change and will be announced asap. Following day Abbe (songwriting) , Drew Goddart (guitar) from Karnivool, Roy Martinez (bass) and Nick Johnson (drum tuning, cymbal selection and kit set-up) from Eskimo Joe will feature as lecturers in our B@M Youth Muso Workshops.
The June gig will feature an even bigger headline band, probably supported by local heroes Ashoka and Electrostatik.
We'll keep you updated with bulletins and you may want to tap into the bands listed on our Top 40. You'll always find the performers at our next gig right up the top. At the other end you'll find bands that have recently played, followed by acts, who want to play at B@M. Send us a comment if you like them and they maybe get the go.
Lastly: PLEASE VOTE AGAINST DAYLIGHT SAVING! It prevents proper FX lighting at outdoors concerts before 9pm in summer. Especially for support bands. It’s gotta go!!! Peace, The Terminator
Hi there! we appreciate your friendship.. thank you:)
We also just posted a new video for our song "Live Before it Kills You" on our space and a new video interview so you can see what the bands all about. if you have a minute we'd like to hear what you think of our songs and videos .We respond to as many message/comments as we can so please keep in touch.
THanks for your space! Mat McHugh is about to embark on a small solo tour around Australia promoting his new album, Seperatista! Check out his myspace page for all the details www. myspace. com/matmchugh Cheers! TBG
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