Pineapster
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Pineapster is a web site and online community whose purpose is to promote independent music in the East Midlands region of the UK.
The site was initially created, with charity funding, in 2001 by Charnwood Arts, Cuttlefish.com, and The Left Legged Pineapple (an indie record shop in Loughborough) to help work with local bands, musicians and artists.
Since August 2004, the site promotes a monthly club night `The Pineapster Communion` within Leicester to provide a varied line up of local and away from home bands for people to watch. Unusually the door takings are split equally between the bands to ensure payment to artists.
Each Christmas the site hosts an `Enchantment Under The Sea Dance` aimed at promoting local charities. The Dance also incorporates the annual `Pineapster Awards`, in which local musicians and promoters are nominated for the unique prize of a golden pineapple.
In January 2006, the co-operative combined forces with Steve Dyer and Sean Tizzard to work on the Moolah for Malawi project. Dyer, a medical student was due to spend eight weeks working in Ekwendeni Hospital in Malawi. Pineapster worked with the men to run an All Day concert at Firefly bar in Leicester. The Moolah for Malawi project raised over £3,000, to help the Ekwendeni Hospital purchase urgently needed antibiotics.
Upon August 10th 2006, Pineapster presented the Summer Sundae warm up party. An extraordinary Communion which occurred, as a warm up event to the Summer Sundae festival in Leicester. The co-operative ran the event, in Firebug bar. An audience of nearly 400 people gathered to raise £2,000 for LOROS, a local Leicester hospice.
The co-operative now work towards Moolah for LOROS, a repeat of the 2006 event, an all day event to raise more funds for LOROS (towards a raised target of £5,000). The event will occur in early Feb 2007.
Bands that have played the Pineapster Communion include RedCarsGoFaster, Cousin Scampi, Love Ends Disaster!, TEAM, [Misterlee], Parisman, The Neutrinos, Lo-Ego, Kevin Hewick, Perfect July, ist, Hinterland, Don's Mobile Barbers, The Displacements, Vitriol ID, House Of Spon,
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