Life in Technicolor II
Hello world,
I humbly throw myself at your feet in apology for not writing in a very long time. Major props to my boy Pete who is always so good about keeping in touch. Lately I have been plagued by the thought that my entries lack an underlying, unifying theme and for that they are no good. Such is the life of a perfectionist…
The rest of the crew and I have been longing for the days of torrential downpours and thunderstorms that seemed to plague us earlier this summer. The past few shows have been HOT. The crew has gone from having nice summer glows to constantly nursing sunburns. I’ve always liked having the red nose in the summer that suggests that I’d been in the sun, but my face is 4 shades darker than my neck now! Here are some “fun in the sun” pictures:
The Gorge Amphitheater. The stage literally sits at the edge of a cliff. Isn’t it breathtaking? When the VIVA banner dropped during Death and All His Friends, it went flapping in the wind and my crew mates were left having to try to grab on to it and hold it down to no avail.
The volunteer team at The Gorge was awesome. Don’t we look like one big happy OXFAMily in this picture? At this point in the tour, my face still looks like I have a healthy glow. Congrats to Team George for getting 898 new people to take action with Oxfam!
This is Eric. I met him at the San Diego show when I saw that he was wearing an old school red Make Trade Fair shirt and I hooked him up with a new, fluorescent green one. He came to the Irvine show as well where he let me pose like a nerd in HIS Chris Martin ala Viva La Vida jacket. I’ve seen quiet a few of these jackets since joining the tour, but I think Eric’s has been the best thus far. Teams San Diego and Irvine got 972 and 1142 new signups, respectively. Woot woot!
Yesterday’s show in Dallas was the hottest and most difficult show I’ve worked on this tour. A big thank you to Team Dallas for being such amazing sports and for getting 650 hot, sweaty, and irritable fans to take action with us!
Team Houston BROUGHT IT tonight getting 982 new sign ups! Houston always shows Oxfam so much love. We love you too!
A few days ago I told my friends that if their was a medal for BRINGING IT, that our Oxfam teams would take the gold. We are well on our way to exceeding our goal of getting 30K new people to take action with Oxfam America during the summer Viva tour. Here’s how the other teams did:
San Francisco: 450
Sacramento: 898
Carson: 906
The Southern California dates were particularly special for me because So Cal is my home turf! Much love to teams Carson and Irvine! They were represented by my friends in the Los Angeles Oxfam Action Corps. Before I ever worked for Oxfam, I was an Oxfam Action Corps volunteer and it was great to work with everyone once again. Here we are in Carson after canvassing an audience of 30K fans!
Yesterday I sent off a shipment of petition sheets from the past few shows totally nearly 6000! If you want to help Oxfam America meet and exceed our goal of 30K new actions taken on the Viva tour and join the over 20K people who already have, you can sign our petition here!
From Bus 2 en route to St. Louis,
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Coldplay has invited Oxfam on their mammoth Viva La Vida World Tour. Throughout 2008 the band played huge shows across 3 continents and 18 countries. Oxfam volunteers were there every step of the way, talking to 100,000s of people about how they can take action to overcome poverty. Now in 2010, Coldplay continue this tour with shows across in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Oxfam groups around the world will again join the tour, blogging as they go.
