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Sheffield’s Leadmill react to Arctic Monkeys’ raffle raising £100,000: “To them it’s a guitar, to us it’s a lifeline”
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nme.comArctic Monkeys raised over £100,000 through a charity raffle of frontman Alex Turner’s guitar.Earlier this month, the Steel City natives launched a raffle of Turner’s black Fender Stratocaster (which he used for many of the band’s early performances, including gigs at The Leadmill and Reading Festival in 2006) to help raise money for the Sheffield venue and other independent grassroots venues in the UK which have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.The band’s Crowdfunder campaign and raffle was launched to help stricken venues in conjunction with the Music Venue Trust and their #SaveOurVenues campaign, andremains open until 6pm on Tuesday August 25 – but the £100,000 target has already been smashed.“I can’t believe we’re over.
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