Manchester Band ‘The Last Party’ are donating profits from sales of their single 'A Thousand Smiles' to the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and local community causes.
Last year the band was spotted by actor Idris Elba, after appearing at London rock & roll night and celeb haunt This Feeling. Idris Elba is best known for his performances in The Wire, Luther and his portrayal of Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
Elba subsequently offered to direct the bands next video expressing his love of the bands energy and sound. He located to Manchester during one of his only weeks off of 2013 and brought in local production company Northern Lads Productions to help with the project. The video features appearances from This is England actors George Newton and Andrew Shimm and over 200 people from Manchester.
The band's frontman/ songwriter Liam Manton said:
'We didn’t even have the song recorded when Idris met us at This Feeling, and to be honest, we couldn’t have done it without our mates Northern Lads Productions and a few others from Manchester. An accountant mate of ours got the council to let us use the Town Hall, Blackdog Bowl let us have the run of the place, and we ended up with Pretty Green (Liam Gallaghers clothing company) rigging us out - a decent week - as our way of saying thanks to the city thats helped us make this thing possible, we’re donating a chunk of the profits to Forever Manchester to help them support community projects across Greater Manchester and also to CALM, (Campaign Against Living Miserably), in memory of my mate Geno who we lost to depression just after Christmas a few years ago.'
In an interview earlier this year, Idris Elba said of The Last Party:
'I just love their energy. The lead singer, Liam is so charismatic and weird, and I just wanted to shoot that.'
50p from every download will be donated to CALM & FOREVER Manchester.
The single is now available to download from iTunes HERE
Follow the band at:
www.facebook.com/thelastpartyuk,
youtube.com/thelastpartyofficial,
instagram: thelastparty
