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Dirty Pretty Things Support Free Volunteers Gig
Dirty Pretty Things' Carl Barat is backing a massive free gig for young volunteers due to take place at the Royal Albert Hall in September, and the only way to get in is to give up your time.
The enterprise, entitled Orange RockCorps, intends to use music (and specifically the one-off Royal Albert Hall gig) to incentivise young people to take part in one of 50 community projects across the UK.
The gig itself takes place on September 26 with a variety of top name musical artists from across all genres, with Busta Rhymes the first name confirmed.
To earn one of the 5,000 money-can't-buy gig tickets up for grabs young music fans must volunteer to take part in one of the projects which take up to five hours to complete.
The first volunteer event took place this week (July 8) at Winton Primary School in Kings Cross with young people earning gig tickets after spending four hours helping transform the school's roof into a playground and vegetable garden.
The programme, which already motviated over 35,000 young adults to take part in community schemes in the U.S. (35% of which volunteered again within the year), has the backing of Prince Charles, Boris Johnson, Busta Rhymes and Carl Barat amongst others, as well as Xfm's parent company GCap.
To sign up to Orange RockCorps volunteer scheme click here.
Tagged as Dirty Pretty Things, Carl Barat, Tour Dates
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