Temple Lane Recording Studios are teaming up with KnockanStockan Music & Arts Festival to produce a charity album, in aid of people who don’t have a home or a community to rely on. The album, entitled ‘Growing Home’, will raise money for the Peter McVerry Trust.
To kick things off, student engineers from the Sound Training College, KnockanStockan crew and musicians featuring on the album, are ‘sleeping rough’ for a night on the streets of Dublin. On April 22nd they’ll be camping out on Grafton Street, with collection buckets for people to support the cause.
“It’s one thing to record an album to raise funds for charity, but we wanted to take it a step further and get closer to what it is that we’re raising money for – to help people whose closest thing to home is the street,” explains Alex
The Peter McVerry Trust works to address homelessness, drug misuse and social disadvantage. Growing Home is about reaching out and lending a helping hand to those in need. The album will be a celebration of home, community, and family, with all proceeds going to the charity.
Throughout the month of March, final year students from the Sound Training College have been recording ‘KnockanStockan’ bands such as The Hot Sprockets, Fox Jaw, Leo Drezden, Interskalactic and Mongoose, in Temple Lane Recording Studios, covering classic hits such as Dionne Warwick’s ‘Walk On By’ and Phil Lynott’s ‘Old Town’.
Tracklisting so far…
Rob Walsh – Ghosts of Dublin (Original)
Val Normal – Help (Beatles)
Mongoose – Old Town (Phil Lynott)
Leo Drezden – I Feel Good (James Brown)
Interskalactic – What’s Going On (Marvin Gaye)
The Hot Sprockets vs. Fox Jaw – With A Little Help From My Friends (Beatles)
Ájo Arkestra – Mother Father (Dublin Afrobeat Ensemble)
Pockets – Iron Sky (Paolo Nutini)
Mama Kasbah – Dirty Old Town (Luke Kelly)
Kingston – The Last Living Souls (Gorillaz)
New Secret Weapon – It Ain’t Easy (David Bowie)
more acts and collaborations to be announced very soon.
The Peter McVerry Trust (www.pmvtrust.ie) was established in 1983 by Fr Peter McVerry to tackle homelessness, drug misuse, and social disadvantage. Since then it has supported thousands of vulnerable young people on the margins of Irish society. It is committed to the principles of a Housing First approach. Peter McVerry Trust’s vision is of an Ireland that supports all those on the margins and upholds people’s rights to full inclusion in society.