Posted on April - 22 - 2010
Solicitors in harmony for charity gig
Often when you peruse the ‘interests’ listed by a corporate solicitor on his practice’s website and come across the word ‘music’, you can be reasonably confident it is a fairly futile attempt to look quirky by someone who was last at a gig when Coldplay did the MEN Arena several years ago.
Not so Michael Slater, partner at Bolton-based KBL Solicitors. He lists music as one of his interests, but early next month he will be backing this up by providing lead guitar to business associate Ian Settle’s vocals at a charity gig.
Ian, head of business banking for RBS and NatWest in Bolton, has teamed up with Michael and friends Scott Woodward and Colin Lawrence-Sykes to raise money for Niemann-Pick Disease Group UK. One of Ian’s relatives has the rare genetic condition. They have formed the Chilli Monkeys for a gig at Bolton’s Beehive pub on May 8, playing pop, rock and indie hits.
Messrs Woodward (by day commercial manager at RBS’s Burnley office) and Lawrence-Sykes are in a band, Afterglow. Ian, who played in a band 15 years ago but hopes to raise at least £3,000 at the gig, said: “I wanted to do something personally for the charity but am not fit enough to run a marathon.”
We’ll wait until the early hours of May 9 to ask if he thinks fronting a two-hour gig for a 200-strong crowd of boozy professionals is any less exhausting.
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