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V4VELINDRE RAISES OVER FIFTEEN HUNDRED POUNDS FOR VELINDRE CANCER CENTRE IN JUST ONE MONTH!

A month after it’s release, V4Velindre has passed the £1,500 mark in funds raised. Thank you to everyone that downloaded the album, thanks to all the Indie stations that are playing the album across five continents (Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America), thank you to all the blogs and podcasts that have featured the album, and, indeed, granted me interviews to publicise the cause of raising money for Velindre Cancer Centre. And thank you, most of all, to the 50 artists who contributed a song to the album. It’s worth me pointing out how invested in the project many of these artists have been, both in terms of the quality of the tracks donated, but also in their dedication to promoting the album as well. 

It has been an incredible, and somewhat surreal, experience to have received the endorsement of  legendary writers John Harris and Pete Paphides as well as national broadcasters John Kennedy and Adrian Goldberg.  In Wales, I would especially like to thank Bill Cummings and God Is In The TV for covering the album before its release and for some badly needed off the record advice and guidance as to how things worked in the world of Bandcamp! Huge thanks to Adam Walton for devoting precious air time to the album on Radio Wales. I had hoped other presenters on the station would support an album that featured 30 Welsh acts, some of whom had created original work especially for V4Velindre, that hasn’t proved to be the case yet, but I will keep trying to enlist their backing. 

All of the sales so far have stemmed from contacts made via the internet. The ongoing pandemic, combined with my own health vulnerabilities, has meant that there have been no boots on the ground, so to speak. Ideally, I would have been traipsing around libraries, arts Centres, record stores and music venues putting up posters and handing out leaflets etc. Planning ahead for just such a campaign, I am massively indebted to Wayne “Purple” Pearson for supplying me, free of charge, with a significant number of V4Velindre leaflets and posters. Hopefully, I will be in a position to distribute them sooner rather than later.

The exact amount raised, as of today, is £1, 548.00. 

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