Eddy Says

Eddy Says: Let’s do some good

By Eddy Temple-Morris | Published on Monday 13 December 2010

My dear colleagues and friends,

Sorry I didn’t have the time to put fingers to keyboard for Eddy Says last week, the gargantuan task of Cage Against The Machine properly took over my life.

I’m now facing a solid week of calling, texting, emailing, tweeting, posting and screaming from the roof, to get people to buy this record. Of course it’s imperative we raise as much money as we possibly can for these charities that get so very little from anyone.

It’s earth shatteringly urgent to deal with the fact that depression is the biggest killer of under 25s in this country, and astonishing that you’re between four and five times more likely to kill yourself if you are male. CALM – the Campaign Against Living Miserably – works to provide support to young men who are suicidal, so buying this record will, seriously, go towards stemming this awful tide. And it’s urgent that we raise awareness and put money into finding a cure for tinnitus. The fact that we still don’t really even know what it is (exactly) prevents us finding a cure, and the money raised for the British Tinnitus Association by Cage Against The Machine will help immeasurably.

So this week, it’s all hands to the pump. I’m posting the email being sent to all Cage Against The Machine artists, so you can pitch in too, because every single bit helps. And please allow me to give you the final piece of encouragement and motivation to really get behind this. It’s not a picture of the late, great, Chazz from Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, it’s not a picture of Losers Tom Bellamy in virtual tears after a gig in Reading that made his tinnitus so bad he almost threw himself in front of a bus… Allow me to quote the very funny DJ Wrongtom, in reply to my many tweets, putting out reasons to buy John Cage’s ‘4’33″‘:

Reasons to purchase Cage Against The Machine’s 4’33” no. 1: youtu.be/2bTesvOLhfA

Last year, together, the real music fans of Great Britain got Rage Against The Machine to number one to stop Simon Cowell’s dominance of the Christmas chart. But this year we have a nobler cause, joining the chart race to support under-supported charities, great causes that too often miss out on funding. It’s not going to be easy, so unto the breach, dear friends, and let’s do some good. CALM and The BTA salute every one of you and with, hand on heart, bow in your direction, you lovely people.

x eddy

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CAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE – SPREAD THE WORD…

HERE IS THE ITUNES LINK: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/cage-against-the-machine/id408870584

FULL LIST OF DOWNLOAD STORES SELLING THE TRACK: www.catm.co.uk

Facebook
Head to www.facebook.com/cageagainstthemachine and ‘like’, then post or ‘tag'(@ sign before the name of the page) in any update on your page mentioning the single and you’re involvement/support. Please encourage people to head to the page and ‘like’.

Single art/logo for the campaign are in the Photos section on the Facebook page, please post this or pictures/articles from the recording on your fan page wall and change your profile picture to the artwork. Also please post sales links to wall where possible.

Twitter
Twitter address is www.twitter.com/johncagexmas. Please include @johncagexmas when talking about it and encourage your follows to follow it (include in Follow Friday). When talking about the single, be sure to include the hash tag #JOHNCAGE to try and get it ‘trending’. If posting the FB page to Twitter you can use this short link http://bit.ly/433xmas and if possible mention John Cage in the body of the tweet (to try and get it ‘trending’)

Elsewhere
See below for html embedded code that will click through to the buy link. Please post and plug as much as possible in the run up to the Christmas number one (13 – 19 Dec). HTML embedded artwork code:

Soundcloud
For the remixes of the single we’re getting established artists to send in four minute and 33 second snapshots of their lives. On Soundcloud we’re encouraging other people to do the same. Please mention this where possible and relevant. soundcloud.com/RemixAgainstTheMachine

Online 4’33” installation
From Monday 13 Dec at 4:33pm and 4:33pm local time globally, artist Kilford will curate an online installation of his 4’33” music painting that he created during the recording of Cage Against The Machine. The painting (which is void of paint) will automatically be exhibited on www.themusicpainter.com for exactly four minutes and 33 seconds.

The installation will allow people to view the painting as they listen to their purchased Cage Against The Machine music and technical instructions are provided so any websites that wish to replicate the installation and show support visually for Cage Against The Machine can do so by downloading a zip file from www.themusicpainter.com/433

Please support all the above and help us get the single to number one this Christmas and support the charities the best we can. Please spread the word.

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