TREKSTOCK (link) is a charity that supports young people with cancer. It started in 2006 and has had muchos muchos support celebritos, and now a pop-up shop has opened off Carnaby Street, just opposite the cash machines that you'd go to if you were drinking in the John Snow. You know the ones.
Inside are lovely people selling a lovely range of limited edition band t-shirts (don't hold me to that limited edition thing, I haven't the foggiest if that's true), all of which are designed by either band members themselves, or by popular graphic artistes. And all of them are selling for the rather brilliant price of ten pounds. Just ten. Very good deal I think.
I got myself two. One was a Local Natives number, designed by the band's bassist Andy Hamm, and the other was for the Maccabees, designed with love and care and love by the groups lead singer Orlando Weeks. Here's a picture of someone modelling this particular model like a model:
Now just ignore the face for a moment and look at the...no, no, ignore the face, don't...I said look at the t-shirt, that's what's imp...no, stop it, STOP. Oh forget it.
To end seriously, I think it's a great cause, and these t-shirts are very nice indeed. There are more by the likes of Foals, Bloc Party, Yeasayer, Devendra Banhart, Delphic, Elli Goulding, The Horrors and Little Boots, and the pop-up shop is only open until the 15th of July, so if you get a chance, go down there, maybe catch one of the in-store performances by bands like Sky Larkin or Frankie and the Heartstrings, and get yourself a nice bit of musical fashion merchandise to make you, and others, feel better...
Do it. Go on. Love each other x
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