Orange Goblin Announce London Benefit Show For Team Rock Staff
Thursday, 22 December 2016
Written by Laura Johnson
Orange Goblin will play a London show next month to raise money for the former employees of music publisher Team Rock, who lost their jobs earlier this week when the company entered administration.
Following the news the band's frontman, Ben Ward, set up a JustGiving page to raise £20,000 for the 73 staff, who were behind Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and Prog magazines. The total currently stands at over £64,000 and is continuing to rise.
The show, meanwhile, will take place at the Black Heart on January 5. Entry will require a minimum donation of £10.00 and will be on a first come, first served basis. Support will come from Steak. About the event, Ward said:
“A few days ago when I heard the news that my good friends at Team Rock were being made redundant with no pay during Christmas week I just felt that I had to do something. That night my girlfriend and I set up the Just Giving page and within 2 days we had raised almost £60,000 and we were blown away by the response and generosity of people all over the world. To help raise even more funds, Orange Goblin will play a very special show at the Black Heart in Camden on January 5th.
This will be a minimum £10 donation to get in and admission will be on a first come, first served basis as the venue only holds 120 people! All proceeds for the night will go to the Just Giving page in hope that we can give something back to the journalists that have supported our band and our scene for many, many years.”
The fundraiser, set up by Ward and his partner Sandie on Monday evening, has raised over £60,000 since its launch and comes following the company’s liquidation and the announcement that 73 members of staff were laid off with no severance pay six days before Christmas. The campaign initially only aimed to raise £20,000, which was met around 5pm Wednesday afternoon.
The campaign has received donations from rock fans around the world, including high profile names like Avenged Sevenfold, Black Stone Cherry, Asking Alexandra, Tesseract, Earache Records and many more. British singer-songwriter Frank Turner has set up an auction in the hope of raising money for the 73 affected.
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