The Atomic Cherries Deflower the Financial District

The rest of us play Uno. 6pm daily. Where have you been?

Obviously SOMEONE (Cough-jerroldtanjatim- cough) didn't send me the damn memo.

For those who are sorry they missed it, the Cherries are doing a non-secret Halloween show at the Bovine on Sunday night.

HOT :)

Raine Maida was raising 30,000 to build a school in the Congo. Give him a break.

OLP have sold more than 30 million albums world wide, and that was before we all had 7mbit cable connections. Maida could just GIVE the $30,000 and not have even felt a twinge in his bank account.

Oh wait? What's that? He's got a solo album coming in mid-November and he could use some nice publicity?

Nope, I hadn't thought of that at all.

We should totally start getting together for Uno.

Or just remember faces from the staff meeting.

It was fun. I hate Raine Maida. Trying to out-busk me? NEVAR!!

(I don't really hate him, and it's good to try to raise money for starving children...)

Actually, Maida has done his fair share of work for Warchild for some time now.
I don't want to go off topic here, but Ryan, you're dissing raine maida for trying to raise money because you think he's rich and needs PR?...wow buddy, where is your sense of compassion and logic? Regardless of who is promoting the cause, these kids need a home. At least someone is willing to step up to the plate, and celebs do raise more money than random pan handlers. anyway, I'm just saying that we should all do our part and not turn a blind eye because we feel like celebrities should end poverty with their wealth.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for supporting charities and whatnot. I'm just saying this:

-No one needs millions of dollars to live comfortably.
-Raine Maida is a fucking billionaire (an exaggeration, yes, but he's a millionaire several times over).
-The school would get built a lot quicker if he just GAVE the $30,000.
-EVERYONE is willing to step up to the plate for a good cause so long as their name is plainly visible. Giving away money you'll never need is one way. Busking for the cameras and media a month before your solo album comes out? That's another way.
-Celebrities totally SHOULD end poverty with their wealth. Bill and Linda Gates donate millions upon millions of dollars every year to charities, and they're not in need of a tax write off. 30 grand for Raine Maida and Chantal? A drop in the bucket.
-Random panhandlers need money too!

Sure, I'm totally playing up the Devil's Advocate, but I'd be way more impressed if Maida didn't have an album coming out in under a month. As it is, it's great that the kids get some support, but it's a total publicity whore-out, make no mistake.

AWESOME show. I had a perma-smile that lasted the entire day.

If I wasn't holding a flash the entire time I would have joined in on the dancing. It was worth it though - look how great the pictures turned out!

Can't wait to see the Cherries again - great job.

PS: Our Lady Peace can suck it.

And while it's noble to dedicate one's time to a worthy cause, the skeptic in me thinks the publicity stunt Raine was pulling had more to do with pimping his own shit than feeding starving children in Africa.

Seriously, where's that Uno FB invite at?

Rebecca, if I only I knew your secret identity. This changes everything!

Sure, Maida can easily fork over $30k of his own money, but staying home and doing it quietly doesn't help to encourage OTHER, non-rich people to donate. The publicity for War Child is worth more than the $30k he was raising that day. As someone who was a fundraiser for a number of years, people really don't give money unless you get in front of them...that's the truth. I'm certainly no fan of Raine Maida, and would likely donate for him NOT to play, but he shouldn't be punished for being a public face for a good cause.

Ok, FOR THE RECORD here...

I said "Fuck Raine Maida" at the performance because it was a bit of a joke. "We're competing against Maida?" "Ah fuck'im". That's not me saying that raising money for war child is bad or anything, so please stop thinking that's what I'm saying people.

2, like I said in my last comment, IT'S GREAT THAT IN THE END THE CHILDREN GET SOMETHING OUT OF IT. It's fucking great, SERIOUSLY, NO SARCASM. Money for charity is never a bad thing unless the charity's a sham. In War Child's case, IT'S FANTASTIC. They need the money.

3. He's got an album coming out in a month. It's naive to think he's not busking (of all things) publicly for the pure and unadulterated good of War Child. They both benefit GREATLY. That includes War Child.

4, the people who can seriously afford to give their money away to good causes aren't the non-rich people, it's the RICH PEOPLE.

5. No one was punishing him for raising money. I said it's fishy that he chose to do such a public thing to raise a relatively low amount of cash so close to the launch of his solo album. Busking? Raine Maida, a man who was in a band that sold THIRTY MILLION ALBUMS is asking me to give my money away, when I owe how many grand in student loans? Frack, man, how about donating a portion of his digital and brick and mortar album sales instead? Or a portion of the merch profits from his impending tour? That'd see him not only raising a CRAZY amount of money for war child, but it would involve him doing more than volunteering an afternoon of his free time. It would mean he actually donates money that he'd normally get to keep. Money that he most definitely DOES NOT NEED like the kids that would benefit from the War Child donations.

Best of all, with that last point, it would be very much a public act that would encourage other RICH people to donate their excess wads of cash. It wouldn't be a quiet thing that no one would notice.

Again, it's great NO MATTER WHAT that War Child get some exposure and some cash. It was just done in a very fishy way, and it could be better done, especially on the part of Maida, who didn't do anything but hold out his diamond encrusted hand for handouts from other people.

Yay! Titties!

i'd fcuk Raine Maida any day :D