Young suicide is on the rise...

Just before Christmas last year my cousin Emma took her own life at the age of 22, in that same month there were 7 other unrelated young suicides in Coventry.

As a reaction to this and to try and give our family something positive to remember Emma by and raise awareness to a very difficult subject I asked a group of local musicians in Coventry to record a song for Charity in Emma's name.

The song is 1000 Tears by Coventry singer/songwriter Malc Evans, in addition to this track Richie Wermeling from 90s band Let Loose gave a song called God Bless. All the proceeds of this songs will go to Papyrus, a charity which is committed to suicide prevention, focusing predominantly on the emotional well-being of children, teenagers and young adults.

The support and help I have from this project has been fantastic, from Andy McCluskey(OMD) giving his studio fro free on the day of recording, The staff at the studio working for free, all the bands that gave up their time, Mal Holmes at Fin Music for putting Song4emma on to i-tunes, The Merch Foundry in Nuneaton for all the Merchandise, Loft Studios in Liverpool for mastering the song for free, Corky and Steve Nicholls for the website  www.song4emma.co.uk  and many, many more people.

We are aiming for the single to be out at the end of May and 3 month run of local charity events which will end on 27th August when we hope to present Papyrus with a very big cheque.

If anyone reading this can promote,help or give any advice on getting as many people to support this project I would be very grateful to hear from you;  song4emma@live.co.uk

Song4emma CD artwork