Press release:
'Skin Côntact LIVE! Raises £10,000 For
Charity - and raffle winners announced
On Monday night, Skin Côntact took to the
Vinopolis stage for their one-off gig spectacular – and it rocked! More than
300 tickets were sold, and after the final calculations over £10,000 is
expected to be donated to Wine Relief, the wine trade’s fundraising initiative
for Comic Relief.
These funds were partly raised by selling
832 raffle tickets, and the draw for prizes has now taken place. We are very
pleased to announce the following winners:
Alex Layton: 12 bottles of Rhône wine,
donated by InterRhône
Jim Budd: 6 bottles of Rhône wine, donated
by InterRhône
Leah de Felice Renton: 6 bottles of Rhône
wine, donated by InterRhône
David Searle: a signed copy of the fourth
edition of the Oxford Companion to Wine, due for release this autumn, donated
by Jancis Robinson
Anthony Rose: two Zalto red wine glasses and
a decanter, donated by Around Wine
Gustavo Lobianco: a copy of Wine Grapes
signed by all three authors, donated by Jancis Robinson
Justin Howard-Sneyd: two tickets to the
Vinopolis Wine Tasting Experience, donated by Vinopolis.
The gig itself was a triumph. Skin
Côntact’s mastermind Richard Hemming said, “I was thrilled with how much Skin
Côntact LIVE! rocked. The band and the singers played and sang their hearts
out, DJ Neal Martin kept the dancefloor moving and the Rhône wine flowed
freely. Our caterers The Frying Scotsman were hugely popular, and the event
branding was a great job by design agency Breakfast.
“Social media has been buzzing with
positive feedback, which is wonderful to hear – and above all, it looks like we
are going to exceed our target of raising £10,000 for Wine Relief.”
Agnès Heller from Skin-Côntact’s partner
for the evening, Inter-Rhône, comments, “How amazing to have the opportunity to
lend our support to such a worthy cause in such a fun way! Huge
congratulations to the band and guest singers for a roof-raising
performance. And credit to the visionary Richard Hemming who gave us Skin
Contact LIVE! and an unforgettable evening.”
The initial photos of Skin Côntact LIVE!
can be found here:
with the official photos due to be released
very soon.'
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More pics mainly of David Williams:
David with the Red Sisters
Richard Hemming and Alex Hunt
