Charity Fundraiser for Saplings School for Children with Autism (Rathfarnham).
SAPLINGS School for Children with Autism is proud to announce their charity fundraiser featuring a host of talented and fresh Irish bands, including The Gorgeous Colours, Attention Bébé, Oddsocks Revival and Thousandaires.
What Saplings does:
SAPLINGS is an independent not-for-profit registered charity which provides intensive, much needed one-to-one teaching for children with autism using the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis.
Due to increasing budget cuts, schools like Saplings need all the help they can get to provide their pupils with the resources and materials needed to maintain the high standard of education and life-skills training they provide.
This fundraiser aims to raise money to provide the school with much needed resources and materials
Where, when, how much:
The gig will take place in the Button Factory on Saturday April 9th from 7.30pm until late. Tickets will cost €20, and are available from Tickets.ie, with a limited number on the door on the night.
Who’s playing?
The Gorgeous Colours:
Their Creatures Down Below EP – their first release since their eponymous debut album in 2008, which was described by State magazine as “one of the finest Irish pop albums for some time…a quite remarkable debut” - was funded by their fans through an online pledge campaign. The video for the title track recently won the Viewer's Choice Award for best video at the IMTV awards.
Bandcamp: http://thegorgeouscolours.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheGorgeousColours
Attention Bébé:
Attention Bebe are a gargantuan band that love to play 90s dance tunes and ‘90s chart music. They like to raise the roof, pass the parcel and party. They have played The Electric Picnic and have a regular night in Crawdaddy.
www.myspace.com/attentionbebe if you want to hear some tunes and remember how great the 90s were.
Oddsocks Revival:
one of the most exciting live acts to hit the Irish music scene are bringing their epic live performance to Europe this March. They have also just finished recording their eagerly anticipated debut album, which is due for release at Easter. The Debut Single “Right On” is out on April 15th and it will bring their unique blend of funk rock to the airwaves of the masses. These Sligo natives have been touring Ireland constantly since April 2010. Oddsocks Revival have toured and performed with the infamous Alabama 3 and just recently jammed with Tommy Ramone at one of their legendary after parties. On this tour the band will be doing three London shows; Joining Primal Scream in Brixton, Alabama 3 at their request and fellow Irish band The Rubberbandits.
Thousandaires:
Thousandaires are a young Dublin Based four piece beginning work on their first EP for release in Spring 2011.
In addition to the bands above, there will be a raffle on the night with fantastic prizes!! We hope you come and enjoy the show.
Contact us: saplingsfundraiser@hotmail.com
