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This page is: Cornwall News Archive
Day For Darnell A Success
Ten teenage bands took to the stage in aid of the dying five month old baby Darnell, and raised over six hundred.
On Saturday, 23rd February, the normally abandoned theatre at Truro College rang with the sound of voices, instruments, and stomping feet. The usually empty Helford Building instead buzzed with incomers and outgoers, as fans, bands and pressmen went busily about their business, dancing, jamming and snapping off shots. Cars piled up outside. The cause? A 5 hour live music charity jam, of course.
A Day For Darnell kicked off at 12.30pm with the mesmerising Veto, a group of five energetic pop-rock musicians fronted by Morna, an Aguilera-style singer with a voice about ten times too large for her body. Their watertight guitar harmonies were succeeded by Tom Law’s laidback acoustic set, accompanied by the sound of twenty teenage voices chanting out his lyrics and the mantra, ‘Tom Law from the radio!’. And this was just the beginning.
Over eight acts took to the stage during the next few hours, including an enrapturing new acoustic duo comprising of Faye Gibson (lead singer of prog-rock band Auditoria) and Harriet Brown; their pure harmonies and smooth performance gave light relief amongst the heavier bands playing before and after them. Other highlights included the energetic, increasingly popular Bite The Bullet, who managed to get an exhausted audience back on their feet and jumping, and surf-grunge trio Para Siempre, who loomed mysteriously out of the dry ice and delved into extended instrumentals and the faintest hint of prog.
Overall, the day was a huge success, with over £600.00 raised in aid of Darnell, the five-month-old baby suffering from severe Spinal Muscular Atrophy. The money raised will go to The Jennifer Trust, a registered charity who fund research into SMA and offer treatment and support to sufferers and their families.
A CD featuring tracks from seven of the bands who played on Saturday is available for only £2.50. Featured bands include Veto, Parasiempre, Auditoria and Bite The Bullet. To order, call: 07707 912963 or email: auditoria_the_band@hotmail.co.uk.
Words by Rose Grigg
www.jtsma.org.uk
Story added 25th February 2008
Veto
Tom Law