It's that time of year again!! For the 5th year in a row Jammin for Jethro Auckland, 2015!!
Jammin for Jethro raises funds for Mangawhai resident Jethro Morrow who is the only child in New Zealand requiring Solaris which costs $500,000 per year. Jethro was born in 2010 and so far hasn't needed the drug but his family are raising funds for that day, because they never know when it will be needed.
As always this show is a mix of genres, show casing the wide range of talent that is in our tight knit Rock and Metal Community.
This year we have 3 killer bands performing with entry being only $5! As the show is on a Thursday night it will have an early run time - Doors 7.30 with bands on the hour for 45mins from 8pm so the show will be over well before midnight so no excuses about it being on a school night!
Watch Me Burn
Watch Me Burn are a 5 piece hardcore band who like loud angry noises and breakdowns. Learn some lyrics, get in our faces and come have a mosh with us \m/
Thirty Years Late
We like our rock with a little bit of groove…
Thirty Years Late was born from a desire to play hard rock that makes you want to move. For the last few years it’s been exactly what we’ve achieved.
In the last three years we have released two EPs with our most recent EP (Life Botox) mixed by UK Producer Kenny MacDonald (Texas, Gun), toured the North Island twice and received airplay on Kiwi FM and several local radio stations.
2012 started off with the band slaving away in the Studio. It saw the release of the singles Amazing and Slipping Away.
As much as we like recording, our spiritual home is on the stage. The band is hungry for more shows and general mischief.
Subsistence
[suh b-sis-tuh ns]
noun
1. The means by which one maintains life.
2. The act or condition of subsisting.
3. A thing which has real existence.
4. The state of being inherent.
Subsistence means the means by which one maintains life. For all of us in the band, that is music. Our goals are to spread positive messages, help enlighten people to the true state of the world to inspire a new, more positive movement forward for the future and help to de-stigmatize mental illness, as everyone in the band has moderate to severe issues with depression or anxiety.
As an unsigned, fully independent band, our workload includes but is not limited to; social media management, art and merch design, producing our own videos, recording, mixing, advertising, album printing and production and making connections. Any and all support, no matter how small, is really so hugely appreciated. Thank you to everyone who has helped and supported us and to everyone who will do so in the future!
As always the cut that Black Frog would normally take from an event will also go to the Jethro Morrow Health Trust.
Here is a bit more about Jethro's story:
In October 2010 when Jethro was 8 months old our lives changed overnight.
I took Jethro to Starship Emergency Department thinking he was suffering dehydration from a flu, hoping they could help get some fluids into him. As we were about to be sent home Jethro produced a funky coloured vomit and a nurse decided to do a blood test. It was then we found out his kidney's were no longer working. Within 48 hours Jethro was in surgery having a catheter inserted through his stomach so he could begin Dialysis to work for his kidneys as his no longer did. That was a shock, but to then find out his kidneys were failing because he had a very rare condition Atypical Hemolitic Uremic Syndrome was a real blow!
There is no cure, and no treatment guaranteed to help him survive. It is just trial and error to keep him stable as this condition is so unpredictable and spontaneous. 60% of children die within the first year of diagnosis. The complications associated with this illness are
• Kidney failure
• Seizures/Neurological problems
• No response to supportive treatments
• Return of HUS even after kidney transplant occurs
• Severe Hypertension (high blood pressure)
We had to begin intense treatment with Plasma Pheresis, which consists of hours of removing his blood, spinning it, depositing it with other blood products and putting it back into his body, and regular infusions of Fresh Frozen Plasma.
What a little fighter he is though! He was on life-support within days of us finding out he was sick, but within 48 hours he was back and smiling away at us.
Since his diagnosis we have spent many months living in Starship, he has undergone many surgeries, and every week we go to Starship for a whole day to have FFP Infusions, we have now had over a year and a half of Plasma Infusions every thursday.
For Jethro to have a chance at a long life we need to get him onto a drug Soliris, as fate would have it the world's most expensive drug. It it is his only hope of having a somewhat stable life, and is proving to help the few others with this condition around the world. This drug is around $500,000 annually, however, we have recently found out that while his weight range is between 12-20kg it will cost $200,000 annually. He would need to be on it for the rest of his life. We have applied for funding and been rejected two years in a row now as it is an ongoing cost.
It is our mission to somehow get him on this medicine, but everything seems to work against us. We are at a loss as to where to go from here but to fundraise and keep applying for funding. The company who make the drug are willing to give him a 6month dose free of charge, but that is all he will get. We are choosing to not utilise this unless he goes downhill as we only have that small amount available at this stage and would want to use it wisely. Soliris is now funded everywhere else but in New Zealand.
If anyone out there has any ideas, knows the right people and can suggest anything that may be able to help our amazing little boy it would be appreciated.
He is such an inspiration to everyone that has come into his life. He has the happiest outlook on life, smiles 24/7, even during his treatments he laughs. He is such a fighter and is already proving to beat the odds having remained well for the past year and a half coping on just Plasma. Plasma is not a permanent treatment however, one day his body will not respond to it and the Soliris will be necessary. We would love to have Jethro on this before the damage is done.
Any ideas can be submitted to us here:
jethroteam@gmail.com
We have a Trust Account set up for donations or for anyone willing to set up an automatic payment of $1 per week. If 10,000 people were to do this it would cover the costs of his medicine.
Kiwibank
The Jethro Morrow Health Trust
38 9012 0102064 00
If you are paying from Overseas:
A deposit can be made directly into New Zealand Dollars from another bank anywhere in the world. You’ll need to make sure you use the following information:
Account name: The Jethro Morrow Health Trust
Account number: 38 9012 0102064 00
Bank: Kiwibank Limited, Wellington, New Zealand
SWIFT code*: CITINZ2X
Correspondents: Use Citibank NZ correspondents for all currencies
Other information/reference: Include ‘forward to Kiwibank’
* The SWIFT code belongs to Citibank New Zealand, which accepts payments on behalf of Kiwibank.
You may be asked to provide extra information like BSB numbers, sort codes, routing codes or IBAN numbers.
These are just different terms used overseas for bank, branch and account numbers.
Just use the full Kiwibank account number we have provided.
If you are wanting to make a donation via internet banking there sometimes may not be enough fields to enter both Jethro's account number and New Zealands swift code.
In these cases the Kiwibank Limited can be left out but you must make sure you quote the 38 at the start of Jethros account number.
Ways you can also support Jethro are:
Enrolling your child in a Free Learning Programme care of Footsteps, they will donate $100 to Jethro http://www.footsteps.co.nz/jethro
