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27 May 2010

TEENAGE CANCER TRUST BANDSTAND PICNIC

TOPSHOP AND TEENAGE CANCER TRUST UNITE FOR SUMMER BANDSTAND PICNICS, LIVERPOOL JUNE 19th

MIQUITA OLIVER ANNOUNCED AS PRESENTER & EGYPTIAN HIP HOP AS DJ’S

Isla Gladstone Conservatory’, Stanley Park, Anfield Road, Liverpool L4 0TD

Los Campesinos!, I Blame Coco, Blue Roses, Summer Camp, Egyptian Hip Hop, Blonde Ambition, Abi Harding and Candie Payne set to play special outdoor gig in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust

This year, throughout the month of June, Topshop will be hosting Topshop Bandstand Picnics for Teenage Cancer Trust, a series of very special events around the UK, a string of gloriously unique outdoor picnic events in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust featuring the cream of the new musical crop performing in the loveliest green spaces in London, Bristol, Liverpool and Birmingham. T4’s Miquita Oliver will be hosting the Liverpool Bandstand Picnic.

On June 19th in the lush environs of Stanley Park, we’ll find a mix of white hot musicians and DJ’s playing live to raise money and awareness for Teenage Cancer Trust amongst the nation’s youth, all of whom have very generously donated their time for the shows. Musicians such as Welsh indie popsters Los Campesinos!, rapidly ascendant pop-rockers I Blame Coco, hotly tipped dream Summer Camp and critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Blue Roses. Party vanguards Blonde Ambition, The Zuton saxophonist Abi Harding with Candie Payne and buzz band of the moment Egyptian Hip Hop will all be on DJ duty.

Other artists performing at the dates in London on the 12th , Bristol on the 19th and Birmingham on the 20th include electro trio of the moment Chew Lips, the swoon inducing Slow Club, indie darling Charlotte Hatherley and the gorgeously folky haze of Goldheart Assembly, along with the likes of Girlcore, Goldielocks, New Young Pony Club and Cocknbullkid among others numbering the DJ ranks.

The music, however, is only part of the equation, with the surrounding locale transformed into a classic, pincnic style playground, complete with Native Faces providing festival face decoration with Topshop Make Up, Sk8 House roller skate hire, and sports day games such as wang a welly, egg and spoon, and sack races with special prizes up for grabs. Attendees will pack up a picnic and bring along their Neon Rose picnic blanket that is available instore when you spend £60 or more. As well as this there will be the opportunity to chill out in the sun-shade area, complete with sun-cream samples. There will also be Vitamin Water and LOLA’s cupcakes on sale with all profits donated to the charity, as well as one-off Topshop/ Teenage Cancer Trust rain ponchos, which will be on sale with all the proceeds going back to the charity, all of which will combine to make these events completely unmissable in their own right.

Further to this, the Bandstand Picnic events will be branching out into selected stores from the 9th - 13th June and 16th – 20th June. London Oxford Circus, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Cardiff, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Manchester Arndale and Glasgow will be playing host to live DJ sets, daily raffles, instore competitions as well as a limited edition giveaway of a specially designed picnic blanket.

Also supporting both the picnics and instore activity for Teenage Cancer Trust will be a bespoke collection produced exclusively for the charity, instore from 17th May. Pieces will include a kaftan, headband, summer bag and friendship bracelets all reflecting the summer trends with exclusive bright, fun prints, with a percentage of sales going to Teenage Cancer Trust.

Artist Quotes:

I Blame Coco:

“The Teenage Cancer Trust is a brilliant cause, it provides unconditional love and support for teenage sufferers in their time of great need”.


Summer Camp:

“The Teenage Cancer Trust is a fantastic charity that works very hard to bring hope back to thousands of teenagers round the country, and we're thrilled to be able to support it this summer.”

Abi Harding & Candie Payne:

“We have both lost close people to us through cancer, as do millions of people around the world. So to us and many others it is a very important cause to support.”

Blonde Ambition:

"I firmly support the wonderful work of The Teenage Cancer Trust & it's a great honour to be playing at an event aimed in helping young people of today, for not many people actual realize that skin cancer is the second most common cancer found in 15-34 year olds...which is pretty scary. I'm looking forward to having safe fun in the sun!"

Tickets will be sold for the event in the Liverpool, Church Street Topshop store.

With all of the proceeds going back to Teenage Cancer Trust.


Topshop Bandstand Picnics for Teenage Cancer Trust
Tickets - £10 each, 500 available for each venue
On sale from May 21
LINEUP:
Liverpool June 19th
‘Isla Gladstone Conservatory’, Stanley Park, Anfield Road, Liverpool L4 0TD
Presenter:
Miquita Oliver (JUST ANNOUNCED)
Live:
Los Campesinos!
I Blame Coco
Blue Roses
Summer Camp
DJs:
Egyptian Hip Hop (JUST ANNOUNCED)
Abi Harding & Candie Payne
Blonde Ambition

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