PUNK BAND TO DONATE PROCEEDS OF NEW EP TO HAITI EARTHQUAKE APPEAL
February 8, 2010, 05:00 PM
For the past twelve months, Cardiff-based punk rock band, John Q Public have been performing at shows across the UK, sharing a stage with such great bands as The King Blues, Sham 69, Sonic Boom Six, Dirty Revolution and Mike Park, to name but a few! The boys have been playing together as a band for over eight years, and have gathered a great fan base across the UK. 2010 will see John Q Public embark on several tours with some of the country’s best punk and ska bands. Playing to new faces and old, the band promise to attack British audiences with their unique style of punk rock, energetic live shows, and politically charged lyrics.
The band have been playing, writing and recording with the aim of putting out their eagerly awaited full-length album in 2010. After the Haiti disaster however, John Q Public have decided to put out a short EP, featuring tracks from their forthcoming album, on Monday 8th February, with all proceeds going to the Haiti Relief Fund.
John Q Public’s Voices of Refusal EP was recorded, engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Chris "MUG5" Maguire and has three brand new tracks, as well as a live version of an old favourite, and a music video to the title track ‘Voices of Refusal’.
This EP will be self-released, with some backing from Go Steady Records, and will be available as Pay What You Want. John Q Public will pass on 100% of all money made, to the Haiti Relief Fund. With a disaster of this magnitude, for those of us in the UK, lucky enough to have money to spend on luxuries, we have a responsibility to help those affected by this horrendous earthquake. Haiti is one of the world’s poorest countries, and they are relying entirely on international aid to come through this unmitigated atrocity.
The ‘Voices of Refusal EP’ is available for download as Pay What You Want, so people can pay as much (or as little) as they can afford to give, in return for not only some KICKIN’ punk rock tracks, but also the knowledge that their donation will go towards the biggest humanitarian relief cause in recent history. Anything we can send out there will be gratefully received by the hundreds of thousands of Haitians that have lost everything from their homes, possessions, and even their families.
