Music for a new life

THERE WOULD be life after June Rock Out. HOPE Foundation is organising a rock concert, `LIVE AID' at Anna Auditorium on July 7, a fund- raiser for the rehabilitation of HIV-infected and abandoned women and children.

LIVE AID will feature bands including Moksha, Molotov Cocktail, Jus Friends, Xodus, Sunitha Sarathy, No Idea and Joose - all in a span of two hours!

Remind the organisers that two hours is very little time considering that there are more than half a dozen bands, and they promise that the bigger bands will play about five numbers, while the smaller ones would play two or three.

Not the kind of stage-time the bands would have liked to play, but it's all for a cause. The HOPE Foundation plans to ``furbish the rehabilitation home in Tambaram to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of the abandoned HIV- infected women and children''.

The centre run by the HOPE Foundation, will enable women to learn skilled work and provide education part from counselling and care, the organisers say.

``The purpose of setting up a rehabilitation home for AIDS patients is to bring them back from the emotional and mental fallout and to light a new hope in their lives,'' Dr. Ashok Kumar Prabhath, Chief Executive Officer of HOPE Foundation India, says.

Dishnet DSL Hub, has chipped in, for the Foundation's initiative, to raise funds and obtain sponsorship.

The tickets for the rock show priced at Rs. 150 and Rs. 500 will be available at Dishnet DSL hubs across the city, Landmark, Music World, Pro-music, Barista and at the venue.

More details are available on www.explocity.com. The site has a contest for music lovers, that will enable browsers to win an ACID music software package.

By Sudhish Kamath

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