See Ooberfuse live at our free 10th March 2012 Peace Concert at Trafalgar Square!
Ooberfuse, when asked to perform at our peace
rally on 10th March 2012 to commemorate Bhatti, have written a track to
honour the memory of those who lose their lives in defence of the marginalised
and oppressed. Please listen to and download the track for FREE here:
Front-woman of the band, Cherrie says : ‘we
were very touched to have been asked to participate in the rally and concert.
It proved to be a grave and solemn undertaking to capture musically the sense
of outrage which the spilling of innocent blood naturally arouses. We had to
balance these feelings with a heart-felt cry to those forces in the world that
feed on violence. A positive message of peace and reconciliation is contained
in the song. We hope it will help to defuse the rage that fuels such atrocities
and abominations.’
Hal from Ooberfuse adds : ‘in our research
for the song we looked at extremely disturbing footage. Shahbaz’s car, after a
visit to his elderly mother’s house, was riddled with bullets and spattered
with blood following his assassination. We also watched an interview with
Shahbaz weeks before he was killed in which he anticipates further suffering
and continuing death threats. The song, Blood Cries Out, samples a phrase
from the interview in which Shahbaz says he has experienced already the
suffering of the cross. It is a tragic irony that Shahbaz’s message to those
who would listen was Christ’s very own “Do not kill in the name of religion,
but love each other.”
Blood Cries Out is available as a free
download from www.ooberfuse.com. If
anyone is moved by the message of the song, please feel free to donate to
British Pakistani Christian Assocation (BPCA)
It will be performed during the rally and
peace concert on 10th March in Trafalgar
Square
http://britishpakistanichristian.blogspot.com/2011/11/protest-march-and-trafalgar-square.html
Ooberfuse is
a London
They wrote
and performed the Youth Anthem, Heart’s
Cry, for the Papal Visit to the UK Madrid
The band is made out of frontwoman
Cherrie Anderson (Vocalist), Paul Francis Kelly (Vocalist, guitarist) and Hal
St. John (Backing vocals, synths, guitar and kulintang). Cherrie started singing
at the age of 7, appeared on Philippine television and performed in front of
capacity audiences. Hal is a singer / song-writer who has performed his own
material in London London Dublin , moved to London a few years ago and has been the frontman in a band
based in Stockholm , Sweden UK
and also Scandinavia .
Their
first album Still Love My Enemies was
chosen by Cross Rhythms, one of UK
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