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I will soon be contacting various artists individually to inform them that Aid for Asia will be pushed to April.

Due to the number of tsunami related fund-raising activities going on at the moment, we figured it would be advantagteous to stage our event in April - when there will still be a pressing need for funds but less publicity surrounding it.

We still intend to distribute funds to Red Cross, Oxfam and Sewalanka. It looks likely that the Hyde Park Hotel will be the venue.

Thanks to Ando, KL, Nuno Van Damdam, Voyager, Micadelic, Cass, Badger and all others for their pledges of assistance. Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. I will be in touch shortly regarding the renewed schedule.

Shahid Afridi - The Old Butcher - took the game away from the Australian XI tonight in the blinking of an eye and shook the WACA to its foundations.

Afridi came to the crease when Yousuf Youhana's dismissal left the tourists at 6/170 after 36.4 overs, needing 95 off 80 for victory. When he was dismissed with the fifth ball of the 41st over, Pakistan was 7 for 223, needing 43 off 49.

Afridi scored 30 off 13 - hitting two sixes and three fours.

Abdul Razzaq and Rana guided Pakistan to victory from there.

The Old Butcher has averaged over 30 at a strike rate of about 180 this series. He puts the Windies on the chopping block on Tuesday.

The Shahid Afridi fan club will be present. Keep an eye out for our banner and drums.

“Beazley's gone to the back bench, but don't be fooled - he's only 55 and he's hungry. The roosters are on the march.”

- Giovanni Torre, in a letter written on October 16th, 2004.

Sly bastards, pretending to be dead. We know they are casing the joint out for their giant overlords.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4193409.stm

On the night of Saturday, February 26th, me and some colleagues of mine will be running 'Aid for Asia' at an as yet to be determined venue. We are seeking the Flying Scotsman and Velvet Lounge, as they were an excelent partner in our last pro bono venture, Sounds for Sudan (which I had only a little to do with).

All proceeds will be divided amongst a number of agencies working on tsunami-effected areas including Red Cross and Sewalanka (a Sri Lankan NGO). We are yet to decide on the full list of recipients. I am also planning a film night fundraiser at the Luna from which all proceeds will go to the same agencies.

To date, three acts are confirmed: two for the Velvet Lounge - Micadelic and DJ KL, and one for the Scotsman - Voyager. In addition, I am awaiting confirmation from The Funk Club House Band (for the Velvet Lounge) and one of Felix Jeppe's projects - possibly The McCarburetors, possibly The Salt Flats Trio. Unfortunately The Panics are unavailable as they will be on tour at the time. I am going to call Cheeky regarding Downsyde, and will no doubt have to discuss the matter with Paul Sloan at some stage.

As you may have gathered, the plan is for funk, hip hop and decks to operate in the Velvet lounge while varieties of the rock music operate in the Scotsman. My thinking is five acts in each area.

We will be doing radio promos on 107fm and RTR (at least), issuing press releases to The West, Sunday Times and all metropolitan community newspapers. There will also be some postering madness all over metro WA once most of the details are confirmed.

If any of you Westsiders want to help, contact me, Narges Razavi, Debbie Guest or Sunili Govinnage. (Just in case you know one of them and don't know or don't like me). We'll need people for postering teams, door work, band contacts, media contacts, promo ideas etc etc

FOR THE RECORD:

Narges Razavi and I set up 'Cooking With Gas' in March, 2004, when we ran Bands for Bam - a gig that raised $2040 for the Red Cross Bam earthquake appeal. Since then we've done Cargo for Congo (July '04) and Sounds for Sudan (October '04). We've raised almost $5000 for causes including Red Cross and Amnesty International. All bands and all people working on Cooking With Gas events are volunteers.