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HAITI

Right folks it’s a new year and with it new triumphs and new disasters. I try to refrain from hectoring on this site of ours but hector, a little, I must. 

With what has happened in Haiti it is now more important than ever to not give a damn about creed, colour or geographical position but realise instead it only matters that it’s happening on this earth right now. Not far, far away. Here, now. Terrifying how a nation can literally crumble to dust and bone and rock in the blink of an eye. The first person to try and fit this into ‘god’s great plan’ gets a punch in the nose. This is no plan. This is chaos. This is a very cruel reality that no one should have to suffer through alone. These people need to know the world is watching, it cares and is acting. 

There are many other things that need attending to in the world and we can’t all care about them all the time. That’s why we need charities like Save The Children, One and oneXone to do the hard stuff for us all. Charity is not a naughty word, apathy is. I was apathetic or at least bemused in earlier stages of my life. Bemused about how to help or what to donate to or even what to care about. Yes charity funds to third world countries are often misappropriated by greedy despots or corrupt officials and we should perhaps teach (give a man a fish…etc) rather than supplement but in the case of the complete destruction of Port-au-Prince in recent days money is necessary and fast. So giving something to charities like those above is vital.

I’ll not go on and on as I know you’ll all be as horrified as I am watching the footage from Haiti in the last few days with, I’m sure, the same feeling of paralysing powerlessness. Money may seem like an empty gesture but put into the right hands it can make a huge difference. I’ve seen it work (and also not work) in Uganda first hand and when it works (clean water, new schools, vaccinations and AIDS drugs) it is a special thing indeed. I’ll not bang my fist on the table like Sir Bob and yell at you but I could hardly just post up one of my usual rambling monologues in the light of what’s happened. Those of you expecting one of those well, all in good time. For anyone that would like to learn more about the situation there and how aid is being delivered then please check out oneXone at www.onexone.org as I know for a fact these guys are acting by getting doctors, aid and medicine into the right hands.

To everyone peace, love and understanding. Lots of love. Gary.x

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Jan 20, 2010 - HAITI
Nov 20, 2009 - ALL BRIGHTON THE NIGHT
Nov 9, 2009 - GUESTING GAME
Oct 13, 2009 - BOOK 'EM DANNO
Aug 3, 2009 - Go K**T Yourself
Jul 27, 2009 - MERCURY`S IN RETROGRADE - PART 1
Jul 27, 2009 - MERCURY`S IN RETROGRADE - PART 2
Jun 20, 2009 - HOME TRUTHS
Jun 14, 2009 - Here we are in North America again.
Apr 10, 2009 - SIR STUART MACONIE
Mar 13, 2009 - MUSIC AND MAYHEM
Feb 22, 2009 - Heroes
Feb 22, 2009 - Heroes Part 2
Jan 28, 2009 - THAT CHRISTMAS TREE IS REALLY STARTING TO SMELL
Nov 17, 2008 - ALTERNATIVE ULSTER SAYS YES!
Nov 3, 2008 - thank you all.
Oct 12, 2008 - women of the world take over. part 1
Oct 12, 2008 - women of the world take over. part 2
Sep 30, 2008 - there's an elephant in the room
Aug 28, 2008 - first plays and tracklisting of a hundred million suns
Aug 1, 2008 - the title of the fifth album
Jul 22, 2008 - achtung baby! hero lodger transformed into low idiot!
May 22, 2008 - I’m sorry Mr Dracula but it’s the bats…
Mar 24, 2008 - Miracle Fortress and other stories
Jan 6, 2008 - so this isn't christmas part 1
Jan 6, 2008 - so this isn't christmas part 2
Jan 6, 2008 - so this isn't christmas part 3
Sep 17, 2007 - there and back again
Jul 20, 2007 - bright light city gonna set my hair on fire
May 27, 2007 - here comes the summer
Apr 11, 2007 - the end of tour and all who've sailed in it
Mar 6, 2007 - Crash! Bang! Kazowee! Biff! Zap! Smash!
Feb 14, 2007 - "Homer, did you say beer or deer?"
Jan 10, 2007 - things what that i liked
Dec 15, 2006 - "the boys of the nypd choir we're singing 'galway bay'.
Dec 4, 2006 - does anyone remember portland bill? no? god i'm old!
Nov 24, 2006 - what does this button do...oh right...sorry
Oct 25, 2006 - remaining french and german appearances cancelled!!
Oct 18, 2006 - avast ye and such and such
Oct 7, 2006 - Hop, skip, Kaboom!
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Aug 15, 2006 - pigs will fly
Aug 6, 2006 - "...hide the rum"
Jul 24, 2006 - we're not in kansas anymore toto
Jul 7, 2006 - ...back from outer space...
Jun 10, 2006 - american dates postponed!!
Jun 3, 2006 - shows postponed!!
Apr 9, 2006 - at lunch with the mystics
Apr 2, 2006 - back in blighty
Mar 28, 2006 - so good they named it twice
Mar 17, 2006 - secondary searches
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Mar 8, 2006 - two (fat) lips in amsterdam
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Mar 4, 2006 - nothing is rotten in denmark
Feb 28, 2006 - ole ole ole etc!
Feb 22, 2006 - greetings from asia
 
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