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Handwritten lyric sheet to This Is Your Chance To Save The World
£15.00
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Handwritten lyric sheet to This Is Your Chance To Save The World
£15.00
For a £15 donation to War Child you will get a handwritten sheet of the lyrics to This Is Your Chance to Save The World.
Donate now and it'll be yours when the shop opens 5th Jan.
You can hear this song in our Rising show.
About the show
The show is a 30 minute set we did at Soundstage Studios as part of the War Child Rising campaign.
It will be broadcast at 7.30 on 21st Jan and available to watch until Jan 26. Watch it here: https://hotvox.co.uk/event/
About War Child Rising
Rising is a platform that showcases the very best in new music, whilst raising vital funds for War Child UK. Created by London music promoters, Hot Vox, RISING has raised over £430,000 for War Child UK through gigs, showcases & live-streamed performances. More info here.
About War Child
War Child work in partnership with local organisations, providing emergency support such as food, clean water, hygiene kits, clothing, and blankets when conflict breaks out, and staying as long as needed to help children and families recover and rebuild their lives.
We share our evidence-based programmes and build the expertise, equipping local partner organisations with the tools and training they need to strengthen their teams and lead long-term support for children and communities. Find out more here.
About the song
The story of the song is that a mum has wangled her daughter an internship at an investment fund. But the daughter discovers it pours money into fossil fuels. Inspired by the 80s action movies she’s watching, she decides to take a stand.
In lockdowns I listened to a lot of these podcasts where these guys create new genres of music and count down the top songs in that genre. They did an episode on American 80s action-movie-type theme songs. Those songs have got such a distinctive feel to them - all cartoony heroics and eighties guitars and synths. I suspect loads of people secretly love these kind of songs but never mention it because they’re so desperately uncool.
At the same time I was doing some work relating to investment funds and the debates around climate divestment. The challenge of writing a pop song about climate divestment - something so arcane and un-pop-like but also completely central to solving the most urgent challenge of our time - was tempting. Combined with the challenge of trying to do a song in a style so deeply-uncool but that everyone secretly loves (you know it) - and trying to make the combination work… it was irresistible.