'It’s A Strange Day...' Campaign in aid of WHO's Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund

July 27, 2020  /  Adam Klein

I’m excited to let you all know that I’m starting a campaign called It’s a Strange Day to raise funds towards fighting the impact of COVID-19 worldwide. 

We’re going to donate all the profits from the sales of merchandise I designed for our 2020 sell-out Felt Mountain: The 20th Year Tour to the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. 

Items for sale include a synthesized-felt tote bag with “It’s A Strange Day… ” lyrics from Utopia, and a pack of ten postcards featuring Felt Mountain imagery by artists including Simon Periton, Anna Fox and me in a hand stamped “no time to f**k” brown paper bag referencing Felt Mountain track Paper Bag. 

As you all know, this year’s tour was postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19 whilst we were in rehearsals. It was heart-breaking at the time, but we are so lucky to be working towards the new dates next year. So now is the time for us to join together, recognizing people in all walks of life are suffering. The World Health Organization has combined forces with UNICEF to help treat victims, support frontline workers, limit spread of the virus, and develop vaccines working all around the world and so this way we can help a little bit with those key efforts. 

To launch the campaign I’ve made a series of new images at home during this lockdown taken with wild spring flowers referencing the original Felt Mountain alpine theme.  

The COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund will direct your support to fund the following crucial work as part of the World Health Organization’s Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan: 

  • Putting in place activities to track and understand the spread of the virus 

  • Ensuring patients get the care they need 

  • Buying and shipping essential supplies such as masks, gloves and protective wear for frontline workers 

  • Producing evidence-based guidelines and advice, and making sure health workers and responders get the information and training to detect and treat affected patients 

  • Producing guidance for the general public and for particular groups on measures to take to prevent the spread and prevent themselves and others 

  • Accelerating efforts to develop vaccines, tests and treatments 

We have appreciated your support so much over the years and particularly recently as the tours were postponed. We hope you enjoy these goodies knowing you are helping to soften the awful impact of COVID-19. 

Love to you all

Alison x 

Felt Mountain: The 20th Year Tour - Rescheduled Dates

March 17, 2020  /  Adam Klein

Hello deers,

 COVID-19 UPDATE

In the light of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Monday 16 March 2020 statement to avoid places of public  congregation and non-essential contact with others,  we have taken the very sad but essential decision to postpone the upcoming ‘Felt Mountain: The 20th Year Tour’ until 2021.

Safety is of paramount importance to us and for obvious reasons we all believe this is the only way to navigate these very strange times.  

The new dates will be as follows:

March/April 2021

Sat 27 March – Oxford Academy

Mon 29 March – Gateshead Sage

Tues 30 March – Edinburgh Usher Hall

Weds 31 March – Manchester Albert Hall

Fri 2 Apr – London Royal Festival Hall

Sat 3 Apr – London Royal Festival Hall

Mon 5 April – Birmingham Symphony Hall

Tues 6 April - Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion

While we would love to schedule these shows sooner, venue availability makes this impossible. We are extremely grateful to our band, crew, promoters, suppliers and our production teams  for their flexibility and enabling us to make this change possible.

Your current tickets remain valid for the rescheduled dates. For the London shows, Royal Festival Hall will be in touch with more details in due course as to how current ticket holders can transfer their tickets to these new dates. While we hope you can still join us, if you are unable to attend for any reason, please contact your point of purchase for a full refund.

We are sorry for everyone who planned to join us and for the disruption that coronavirus  has caused in general. We had all been enjoying rehearsals so much, and it was heartbreaking to have to stop. But none of it is in vein, as we continue to work towards summer festivals and the shows for next year. 

Meanwhile, lots of love to you all, and look after each other.

-Goldfrapp