Pineapster
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Pineapster is a web site, online community and arts collective 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.
From August 2004 until August 2007, the site ran 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 were split equally between the bands to ensure payment to artists.
Following the success of the communion club nights, the co-operative have moved to host a series of unusual one off events, raising money for charity and/or musicians.
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.
In December 2006, the co-operative promoted the first Leicester music week event, featuring two Communion launch parties for Sorted Records acclaimed release `Hollow Smoke`, a cd of the best and most acclaimed current Leicester musicians,
2007 has seen the co-operative curate the first Summer Sundae Weekender fringe festival. A week of activities were provided in the run up to the festival. The first fringe event involved a wide variety of musicians, bands, comedians, artists, and short films showcased in a wide variety of city centre venues. The fringe festival ran from Sunday 5th August to Thursday 9th August 2007. The culmination to the event were four official warm up parties, featuring acts across Leicester.
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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, Jamie Says,
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