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Poet Paradox in urgent need of help
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We thought we'd spread the word about a very dear friend of ours, the performance poet Paradox (also known as Chris or Rodney (!!), whom some of you may know or have seen at past wupadupa events) was recently very seriously injured abroad and is in urgent need of money to pay for the high medical bills and repaying plane fare costs to get him back home as quickly as possible.
Please check out the full details below but the latest news is that a very kind person has paid the money to fly him home to England where he can receive specialist treatment.
We're making our next wupadupa gig this Friday evening 18th July at the Grey Horse into a fundraising event for him, and will be giving all the money we make from it to the people raising money for Rodney.
Any money you can spare would be most welcome. I've been given 2 Paypal accounts which you can transfer funds to plus a Western Union account. These all belong to people who are dear friends of Paradox and who have been helping to look after him since the accident so you can be sure the money will go straight to where it's needed.
Wester Union Transfer to Western Union in Oaxaca state, Mex. In the name of Patricia-Anne Blanchet who is taking care of the bills, which currently stand at around £7,500
Also there are 2 paypal accounts,
(replace AT with @, this has been done to prevent spam)
Megan : magster_3AThotmal.com
or Soula : moonsmilk4AThotmail.com
If you've never heard of Paradox before, be sure to check out the amazing video of one of his poems linked to above...
Many thanks for your time!!
lotsoflove
uncle wupadupa x x x
FEW DAYS AGO, OUR DEAR BROTHER BADLY INJURED HIMSELF JUMPING FROM A CLIFF INTO A RIVER. THE BOTTOM WASN'T DEEP ENOUGH AND HE HIT A ROCK .
UNFORTUNATELY, HE CUT HIMSELF BADLY AND SUSTAINED A MULTIPLE FRACTURE TO THE HEEL BONE.
A BACTERIA ENTERED THE WOUND AND IN ONLY A FEW HOURS THE INFECTION SPREAD.
CHRIS SUFFERS NOW FROM THE MOST SEVERE CASE OF GANGRENE. HE IS AT RISK OF AMPUTATION OF HIS RIGHT LEG AND EVEN MORE SERIOUSLY THIS CAN BE A LIFE THREATENING CONDITION.
THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TRANSPORTATION INVOLVED IN ORDER TO FIND THE PROPER TREATMENT FOR HIS RARE CASE.
WE ARE NOW IN VERACRUZ CITY IN A PRIVATE HOSPITAL WHERE HE IS RECEIVING A TREATMENT CALLED HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY TWO TIMES A DAY, AND HAS RECEIVED MORE THAN 4 SURGERIES ONE FOR EVERYDAY THAT HE HAS BEEN IN THE HOSPITAL IN ORDER TO KEEP THE INFECTION FROM SPREADING.
HE'S IN GOOD CARE WITH COMPETENT AND CONFIDENT DOCTORS AND THREE POWERFUL HEALING SISTERS. HE SEEMS IN GOOD SPIRITS AND IS SURROUNDED BY LOVE, BUT HIS CONDITION IS NOT STABILISED YET.
WE HAVE BEEN PERSONNALY FUNDING ALL THE EXPENSES AND OUR BUDGET HAS RUN OUT.
Carrie Tree CD's, Glastonbury, gigs etc
Carrie Tree CDs are back in stock in the shop, Yay!
We're taking a week off as some of us are away for Glastonbury Festival from tomorrow and won't be back until Monday 30th June so any orders placed between now and then will not be despatched until Tuesday July 1st
If any of you are going to Glastonbury then you may see some of us around the Green Futures fields. Some bands to check out there are Bird Bones, Little Ray, and sugardrum among many others.
If any of you are around in Kingston this eve be sure to check out the following event happening at Kingston Theatre...
Reading Room is the new performance from award winning and critically acclaimed international choreographer and director, Jonathan Lunn. In a series of scenes, focusing on different lives and relationships it looks at the connections, disconnections, pacts, secrets and lies of our human interactions.
Jonathan Lunn skillfully incorporates language into the choreography, Reading Room includes original text written by Anthony Minghella and Samuel Beckett’s last prose work Stirrings Still. Each performance features a guest appearance from either Dexter Fletcher, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones, Miranda Richardson or Juliet Stevenson reading the text live.
Reading Room includes “Self Assembly” , the Place Prize Finalist 2006, and “Disassembly” an additional section specially created for a different local dance company at each venue including EDge (the postgraduate performance company from London Contemporary Dance School), Bury Dance Company, Macrobert Youth Dance Company. Bodysoc (University of Bath), Oxford Youth Dance and Hampshire Youth Dance Company.
Choreography - Jonathan Lunn
Set and lighting design - Peter Mumford
Music supervision - Gary Yershon
Costume design - Tina Bicat
Dancers - Carly Best, Christopher Evans, Rachel Krische, Lilou Robert, Christopher Rook
A small taster video can be found here, and tickets for sale here.
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Carrie Tree CDs
we've temporarly run out of Carrie tree's album, "Suddenly Raining". Apologies to those who are after a copy, it should be back in stock soon.
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UPDATE (12th June 2008) : we've been on contact with Carrie and should hopefully have the CD's back in stock towards the end of next week sometime.
wupadupa charity gig, 29th Mar
We're very excited about out next wupadupa gig. It's a charity event supporting Hauyqui Oceano who is an incredibly courageous man fighting to protect and preserve the rights of the indigenous people of the Amazon forest against political corruption and corporate exploitation.
Acts on the night are a nameless band featuring ex semble Matt and Beth and Phil Dale from the wupadupa string thing fame, Little Ray and Bird Bones.
See the gigs page for more info. Should be a lovely night.
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wupadupa gigs page
the handbag of cyberspace
hapopy new year everyone!
we're going to be moving the website to a new host hopefully sometime in the next few days.
please bear with us if bits of the site start to disappear into the bottom of the handbag of cyberspace.
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wupadupa xmas gig!
hello
wupaupadupaumpalumpaness ahappenin saturday 8th dec grey horse pub, richmond rd, kingston
yeah!
come eat the free cake and listen to the free music (unfortunately the air costs £4 per person in the grey horse, no scuba gear permitted)
and pray what music doest thou speak of i don't hear you say but tellest thou i will ok
carrie tree - joyous joyous voiced lovely lovely
jono mccleery - joyous joyous voiced lovely lovey too
amrit sond - unleashing his guitar full of warring tribes and tropical fauna
sugardrum - manic and fragile out there story type songs ish
meadow social - 1st gig from the conglomeration of my electric cardigan, sugardrum nigel, post-semble matt and a drummist called andy
pinknruby - weaving whispers from the woodland microcosm (I knew i shouldnt have started these descriptions)
doors 8pm
all proceeds go to hope flowers school working for peace and community development in bethlehem
www.hopeflowersschool.org
now what have i forgotten....date place artists cost time cake ok fingers crossed
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new CDs in shop!
we've just added a couple of CDs from Carrie Tree to the shop. plus...
a very special limited edition semble tribute album called shmemble, which features various wupadupa artists performing cover versions of a semble song, with all proceeds going to Amnesty International.
it's all great!
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new photos from amnesty website
we've just uploaded some photos form this year's Amensty Freedom Festival. The photos are form the Rock night which featured Judy Fights Back, Special Benny and Velofax and from the wupadupa sing thing.
The festival was a huge success and raised over £3000 for Amnesty International so a huge thank to all of those who took part, helped out or just came along to watch.
Will we be having some new additions to the wupadupa shop very soon including a very special semble album and some music from Carrie Tree.
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new Amnesty Kingston Freedom Festival website
Full details of this year's wupadupa Amnesty Kingston Freedom Festival and now availble from the official site which has just been updated.
This year's event features the same great music, spoken word and comedy as the last 4 years of events plus a new wupadupa String Thing, a wupadupa Sing Thing and a new wupadupa Cinema night.
link : http://www.amnestyfreedomfestival.org
5th amnesty freedom festival
it's that time of year again. we're so verily excited about the amnesty festival. In particular our cinema night with artistes performing live soundtracks to film (pinknruby, jono mccleery, phil dale, matt kelly, beth perry + others) and also the wupadupa sing thing (like the string thing but with small choir) "Semble" will be making a one night return from beyond to have our favourite singers weave around them, with singing+sets from carrie tree, mark woodward, cate ferris, esther wilds and phil dale with percussion meisters mark fisher, storme and (original semble drummer) andy "phwat beat dem nuff in da area" lodge.
Here are rest of details
Saturday 22nd September, Kingston Parish Church, market place, doors 7, music 7:30 £7
wupadupa string thing.
The 3rd of these concerts with 30 piece string orchestra, grand piano, church organ and percussion accompanying singer-songwriters/groups:
Sugardrum, Bird bones, Esther Wilds, Weston Green, Special Benny, Jono McCleery, Mark Woodward, Beth Perry (semble), Dan Clarke (from "the hat" telling a story with music by Phil Dale), a future shorts film called "we have decided not to die" with music rescored by Matt Kelly. Numerous world premiere arrangements of songs!
Entry to the festival weekend is £6 per night or £15 for weekend ticket, all proceeds to amnesty international.
Friday 5th October, Grey Horse, Richmond Rd, doors 7:30 £6 (entry to both rooms)
Main room - Rock Night
Ram Jam Club - wupadupa cinema night with live music to film
Saturday 6th October, St.Lukes Church, Burton Rd doors 7:30 £6
wupadupa sing thing.
Semble, Cate Ferris, Phil Dale, Mark Woodward, Esther Wilds, Carrie Tree, Mark Fisher, Storme and Andy Lodge. A mass collaboration between these singers/musicians performing original material with small choir specially arranged for the evening.
Sunday 7th October, Grey Horse, Richmond Rd £6
Main Room - an afternoon and evening of blues artists
Ram Jam - Comedy