Well I’ve got my Santa suit and yes I look very silly in it.
I’ll be running 5k in it on Sunday too, so I’ll be sweaty and silly.
But all in a good cause, so please sponsor me.
The idea is to donate 1% of your monthly pay
Or if you’ve not got it to spare just share this link on facebook and on twitter for me as that will raise money too.
Thanks for your support!
There is a fantastic full feature on me in the current edition of R2 Magazine (Rock ‘n’ Reel).
R2 is a national music magazine published bi-monthly in the United Kingdom. It focuses on roots, singer songwriters, folk, rock, world and blues.
You will find the feature on p83, written by Liverpool music writer Eddie Cooney.
You can get your copy at News From Nowhere in Bold Street, or the likes of WH Smith.
As well as my feature there are also features on Martin Simpson and Alison Krauss, as well as a review of my friend David Ferrard’s great new album. Plus a free CD of music on the cover!!
A week tomorrow (Sun 4th December) I’ll be donning my Father Christmas outfit and running the 5k Santa Dash.
Those of you who follow me on Facebook will know that I went from my slobby couch to a fairly advanced running schedule in the space of a few months, thanks to the Couch25k training schedule.
Well this is my first proper public run since I started. And I have to do it dressed as Santa!!
To add to the drama I’ve been ill for pretty much the past month so am all unfit and challenged again.
I ran again for the first time this morning (uugghh!) so have set myself a new training regime to be ready by next Sunday.
Cue Rocky style montage.
Who am I running for?
I’m raising money while I run for an organisation I’ve been involved in since its inception. It’s called BeOnePerCent.
I first heard of it last Christmas while it was in its planning stages.
I was having a festive drink with a bunch of friends, including the wonderful Liverpool musician Steve Pilgrim.
Steve is a great songwriter in his own right, but music fans will also know him as the drummer of Paul Weller no less, and before that John Power.
Steve and some friends had the idea that they could convince people to donate just 1% of their earnings to BeOnePerCent and it would be targeted directly to high impact projects fighting poverty across the world.
It’s now well up and running so that’s what I’m asking you to do too.
Sponsor me for 1% of your pay this month and in return I’ll make a divvy of myself running round Liverpool in a Santa outfit for 5 kilometres.
Stick with BeOnePerCent
To become part of the regular BeOnePerCent community funding fab things each month with just 1% of our dosh then visit BeOnePerCent’s website and join us
Last month for instance, we raised enough money so a school of 351 Malawi kids were fed for the entire year, and in April we got 4,500 kids vaccinated against measles.
Sponsor Me Details
Click here to sponsor me – the actual project this month is HIV/Aids Prevention
The Inside My Head Podcast from the USA has broadcast my song Because You’re Beautiful from the Corridors of Stone album.
It’s 150th episode has the theme of envy.
It’s a tough one to find a host of songs about envy but they’ve somehow managed it.
I’m happy to say that indie artist Jonathan Coulton is also on the playlist with my favourite song of his Code Monkey. Check it out, it’s a fab tune.
After all, I was once a code monkey myself you know. A very miserable one, but one nonetheless.
Wow! I’ve made the Top Ten in the fRoots Magazine folk charts.
You’ll already know fRoots as one of the leading monthly magazines nationally covering the world of folk and roots.
It’s available in all good magazine and music stores, including our very own radical bookstore News From Nowhere on Bold Street.
Check out the latest issue and you’ll see that NfN have been asked to contribute their top ten sellers to the charts pages, and there I am at number 6.
Woohoo!!
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