Last updated at 07:04, Friday, 11 December 2009

BANDS from across West Cumbria have produced a CD to raise money for the flood appeal.

Clint Stamper, of Cockrock, with the new CD

CockRock’s festival committee has been working with 13 bands for three weeks to produce the Rain, Sweat and Tears: A New Beginning.

The CD includes 13 tracks from West Cumbrian bands The Naturalz, Water’s Edge Colt 45, Brightside, Vertigo, The Hoodoo, Rigsby, The Revolution, Feed Me, Mazzoni, South Quay, Solway Deltas and Glassheart.

CockRock chairman Clint Stamper said copies will be sold in Cockermouth’s Billy Bowman’s Music Shop and Sainsbury’s and Wellington Jersey Ice Cream and The Old Stackyard Tearooms, just off the A66.

Clint said: “It has been heartbreaking to see our home town and surrounding area effectively ruined and to see people we know and love devastated by the floods.”

Gary Jackson, of Cockermouth band The Naturalz, said: “I wanted to write something that would reflect the feelings of uncertainty and unknown that the local area was experiencing.

“It is an honour to be included on the album as a Cockermouth band and a particular honour for me to have an original composition on the album, having been raised in Cockermouth by my parents who still live there.”

First published at 19:21, Thursday, 10 December 2009
Published by http://www.timesandstar.co.uk