SUBPLAN

Metropolitan Gruffalo is a soundtrack to an event that happened a couple of weeks ago in the London Tube. David was standing on the platform, waiting for a Metropolitan line train in the Tube in London, and he thought he saw The Gruffalo walking down the platform.

Now, he -was- drunk and it -was- late, but nonetheless, we think it may have happened just as he saw it. We thought about that for a bit. Then we wrote a soundtrack to it. Come listen to it (and download it if you like) at our music page.

We’ve had a lot of help and luck (some of which we made ourselves) getting started, and we want to find ways of giving back. So we are now official donors to UNICEF and the NSPCC, and we’ll be donating 80% of the sales on our first EP, Miles Away, to Unicef’s General Emergency Plan, which takes care of children in conflict areas like Gaza and also natural disasters. Next one will be NSPCC.

Here’s our fundraising page at UNICEF:

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Our target is £1600 (which is the potential value of the copies we’ve got left of the EP after promotional copies, at £5 each, £4 of which, 80% going to Unicef.

You can find the EP for sale on this page.

The way we see it is, we (the last couple of generations) may have been stupid enough to let religion, money and politics create completely unsustainable situations and terrible wars, but there’s no reason why children of incoming generations need to suffer from our idiocy. And while we don’t think Subplan’s music is going to fix the world or even make people feel better about our collective inability to treat HIV properly in Africa or appease Middle East conflict, we do think we can contribute to organisations who are making a serious difference. Unicef’s work is the most important there is: protect and educate our most precious citizens. And locally, NSPCC help UK children climb out abuse and poverty in what is (incredibly) the most hostile European nation in which to be smalll.

As making music is the only thing we know how to do well, donating our profits, at least for now, is the only thing we know we can do to help.

One Love.

So we released the Miles Away EP, and we’re trying out the blog format for this site. Look at the Music link above to find places where you can buy and download our music, and Places to find other Interwebs where we hang out.