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| January 2010 Sadly they are no more and have gone their seperate ways. We wish them all the best for the future. 4th of December 2008 Classic Grand, Jamaica Street, Glasgow Matinee show doors open around 5pm. Show opens with SONS OF DAN who are as follows: Mick MacNeil Keyboards. Brian McGee Drums. Derek Forbes Bass. Owen Paul Lead Vocals. Frank O'Hare Guitar. (We will be playing favourites from our past from the early albums, chosen by Mick, Derek and Brian ) Followed by FOURGOODMEN who are as follows : Derek Forbes Bass. Mick MacNeil Keyboards. Graeme Duffin Guitar. Ian Donaldson Vocals. Smiley Drums. Jane Button Vocals. Carrie MacNeil Bagpipes and Vocals. Yvonne McHugh Bagpipes and Vocals Show ends around 7pm to allow everyone plenty of time to get to the Simple Minds show at the SECC (about a 15 minute walk). Evening Show doors open around 10pm. Show opens with an acoustic set with KIRK BRANDON (Spear of Destiny). Next SONS OF DAN. Followed by FOURGOODMEN. Before retiring to the aftershow party downstairs at the same venue, if time permits, we may have a celebrity jam with Owen Paul and Kirk Brandon and the rest of us fighting for the microphone........ Dancing and chatting and swallying till 3am......... Derek Forbes 28th February 2008 The following write-up appeared in tonights Glasgow Evening Standard... Former Simple Minds stars are to front a charity concert in aid of Maggie's cancer care centres. Mick MacNeill and Derek Forbes, now of Scottish group Fourgoodmen, are lending their support to the event to raise vital funds. Normally used to performing in front of thousands of fans, they will be playing an intimate gig in Bearsden Burgh Hall. The band agreed to perform after a chance meeting with fundraiser and former cancer sufferer Cath Howden. She used the phone book to find a number for a studio to record a charity track and picked Mick's. Cath,
who has three children, said: "My daughter Sarah and her pal Katie were
looking for somewhere to record a charity CD in aid of the Ayrshire
Hospice and Maggie's. We went along to Mick's and everything
steamrollered from there. "I mentioned I was putting together a charity
concert and they offered to step in." Derek said they were delighted to
help. He said: "It is an honour to lend a hand to one of the UK's top
cancer carer centres." Cath, 46, was diagnosed in January 2005, but she
had first become aware of a lump like a pea on her left breast in
autumn 2004. She has been in remission for 16 months, but has never
forgotten the help and support she received from the Maggie's Centre,
which is based at the Gatehouse near the Western Infirmary, Glasgow.
The money raised from the gig will go towards opening a second Maggie's
Centre in the city. The first was built five years ago after Evening
Times readers raised £1.2million towards the cost. The new
£2.1m centre will be built at Gartnavel Hospital, close to the
Beatson Oncology Centre, which sees about 8000 new patients a year and
where staff administer more than 20,000 courses of chemotherapy. Cath,
from Bearsden, said: "The medical treatment I received was wonderful,
but when I left the hospital there was always something I needed an
answer to and Maggie's was there for just that. "It is a place you can
go for relaxation and I even took my teenage daughter along. In some
way I think it reassured her about what I was going through. "Now
Maggie's is campaigning to build another centre and I want to help in
whatever way I can so others can benefit." Cath is working on various
fundraising events and plans to run the Glasgow Women's 10k in May with
a team from Clober Primary, Milngavie, where she is a classroom
assistant. The gig at Bearsden Burgh Hall is on March 14 and will also
feature ceilidh band Skerryvore. Tickets, £15, from ticketscotland.co.uk![]() 15th February 2008 COMING SOON - TO A WEBSITE NEAR YOU - 4GMTV !!! Exclusive video clips for our fans to enjoy, in the LOUNGE on Fourgoodmen.com Watch this space... |
