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Live No Fear at Another World Festival
LNF Crew
The Live No Fear campaign took centre stage at the World Music festival, the southern hemisphere’s largest under-age festival,on cup Ever. Headline acts including Pez and 360 embraced the Live No Fear campaign, visiting the stand to sign autographs for fans.
Short Film Workshop
Dana, Cyrus and Sully
Yo!
Yesterday was such a great day, with everyone working together on the short film project. It was an awesome day and the scripts that came out of it are amazing. Can’t wait to start filming on Friday with everyone, including Sullivan Stapleton!
Music Video Live
Hey All
The time has finally arrived! And the music video is now live, check it out!
Well done to all those involved. Such a great outome. Congrats Real Truth….and thanks Pez
Cheers
Cyrus lyrics and the 30 second music video reel!
Hey guys Check out the new 30 second music video reel the following are lyrics from Cyrus…! Cyrus we as young teenagers life on the street is kind of dangerous like guns and knives can take away a life like cotton candy, coz we ain’t handy living as a teen is unprotected we go out and party coz we want to be active so what I’m trying to say is life is sweet that’s why we don’t need any knives in the street any knives in the hood, it ain’t no good reminiscing back in the days, my friend got killed coz he refused to join the wrong crew coz they’d push him around and tell him what to do all because of knives, my homie is dead all because of knives, I’m making it clear all because of knives, the song’ll be heard so we can lay it and tame it and give it a lane, cozThe Real Truth
This project was developed by a bunch of young people across the City of Melbourne. ‘Live No Fear’ tries to send the message that living without fear could be possible if a few changes can happen, and that this lifestyle is the best way to reduce the chance of being involved in a violent or threatening situation. From the very first moment I heard about what this project was all about, the thinking around trying to spread the idea that carrying knives and weapons is dangerous for others and yourself, I knew I wanted to be involved in any way I could be. All kids involved in this project felt the same way about this issue in society, and each and every one of us have been either affected by such a situation personally or know of someone else being affected close to them. The more people carry weapons, the more unsafe everyone becomes which then forces others to carry. “The real truth” is a group of us kids, writing our own lyrics, voicing our real opinions about this issue, trying to send the message that we can as a society break this bad habit of “thinking it’s cool to carry knives” or the belief “we need to carry weapons for protection”. Everyone can say they want change to happen, but it’s much harder to act and take the correct action, and by producing this music clip, I believe it is a first and big step to changing the terrible pattern of knife crime in all age groups, especially youth’s. It was an amazing experience to work with some of the best in the music industry and I met some incredible people that I now call friends. I’d like to thank all the people involved in this project “Live no Fear”.
Lauren Ure, Pez, Dj Maddox, The Salvation Army, Victorian Government’s (Department of Justice) Knives Scar Lives, The whole of Mushroom group, the group of talented kids in this project and just everyone for being interested in this issue and supporting us to try and make a change. By talking to others, spreading the word about our campaign, about what’s really happening in society, you’re helping.
And remember, if you are one of the people stuck in a gang that think it’s the way to hurt others for no reason, it’s not the way, and hopefully it’s not too late for you to realize you can leave, before it’s too late for your life or for someone else’s life you might cause harm to.
Were not the law and we shouldn’t try take the law into our own hands. That’s why we have the police for our protection.
“Living in fear has become a quick spread virus, we need to work together and create a cure to break this”
Pez
Yo homies, it appears I’ve been given the honour of doing the first entry on this new blog! so I thought I’d give a little recap of what took place (at least through my eyes).
Basically, I’ve been wanting to do some music workshops with kids for a while now, so when this opportunity presented itself, I couldn’t be more excited!… However, the fairytale picture in my mind quickly dissolved, when I walked into the Mushroom records boardroom and saw 15 faces staring at me from across the room, I was terrified!!.. I tried my best to look cool, but I think everybody could feel the nerves haha. Luckily the cutest 12 year old kid in the world (nathan) was there to help break the ice with his fearless attitude.
After I got a chance to meet everybody and get a pen in their hand, the nerves were a distant memory. Matik played the beat through his MPC and this amazing energy started to form in the room as all of these kids started to jot down these emotional, insightful lyrics. Raymes and I walked around from person to person to help bounce around some ideas, but it was clear that there was some real talent in the room even without my help. By the end of the session we had a good start on the direction of the song, and explained that we only had 1 more workshop before it was time to record! (which was a pretty daunting thought haha)
The 2nd workshop was a really relaxed vibe. Everybody was comfortable with each other by this stage, so it made for a great atmosphere. The dancers had a choreographer come in for the day to work on some stuff which was cool, Harry O from Collingwood dropped by for a while too which was awesome and we had a new inclusion in Cyrus (who with his extreme confidence and capability let me know he’d be ok to catch up). Binasa, Dana and Tyla had already finished lyrics so they were able to start practising their verses, which did wonders for inspiring everyone else to do the same. Raymes, Matik and I walked around from person to person again to give some help where necessary, but I knew we were looking good. Plus with a piano, drum kit and some guitars lying around, we found out pretty quick that some kids had talent for more than just lyrics! (which made it’s way onto the track too).
The day of recording was actually really smooth sailing when considering we had 20 people at a studio and a group of kids who were recording for the first time. It was just an awesome day! One by one they came in and delivered their lyrics with conviction (not as easy as it sounds haha), the weather was beautiful, the herald sun came down for some interviews and photos, we ate pizzas… it was just a beautiful thing! Then after 6 hours we finally had all of the recording done, the dancers had done their thing, and the buses arrived, so it was time to say goodbye! It was kind of sad, it reminded me of school camp haha…
Anyway, I waved goodbye as the buses pulled away… Then had to walk back inside and do 6 hours of mixing! What a life… haha
Peace Out
Pez
