Live Events Returning in 2022!
After a VERY long time of our wonderful stage falling silent, we’re coming back with a bang and are staging a major event with our friends at NWOCR. Stand by, because you wont want to miss it! NWOCR AND LIVEWIRE proudly present ‘Rockin’ by the River III’ Livewire, Saltash. Saturday, 19th March, 2022 All proceeds are going to Livewire, so let’s get behind this amazing event and once again, sell the venue out. All bands are playing for expenses only, so on Saturday, 19th March, 2022, there’ll be nowhere else in the SW staging finer bands for less money, or a worthier cause! FIVE great bands for just £11 Buy them from Seetickets here, now This will be our third Rockin by the river event in collaboration with the New Wave Of Classic Rock community.The event is both a fundraiser for Livewire Youth Music who provide invaluable music and emotional support to a great many young people, but its also a showcase of all that’s awesome about the new wave of classic rock. The event will feature 5 amazing bands – The Fallen StateSKAMSons of Liberty50 Year StormMinor Offences This will be a great event to blow away those Winter blues and welcome…
Allen & Heath – A Brilliant Donation
Livewire Youth Music have received an incredible surprise late Christmas gift from leading pro-audio live sound manufacturers Allen & Heath, with the donation of one of their flagship dLive c3500 live sound mixing desks to be used for gigs and teaching young people live sound in its amazing 250 capacity venue in Saltash, Cornwall. Over the years a great many local young people have been taught the finer art of mixing live sound at Livewire, including Sam Walsh who went on to be legendary Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre’s front of house engineer and Alex Skinner, who went on to develop a career at Allen & Heath himself. This amazing donation will massively enhance their ability to reach even more budding young sound engineers and hopefully support them into long lasting careers. Comments from Andy Rance, youth work coordinator: “We are so delighted with this amazingly generous donation from Allen & Heath – we have had a wonderful and long relationship with this UK leading live sound and DJ product manufacturer based right here in Cornwall. This new dLive desk will be a huge upgrade to Livewire’s live music venue and massively increase our ability to teach local young people…
Love Saltash – Nov 2018. Another big side of Livewire
Don’t you just love it when a popular local magazine is so supportive of what we do? Thank you Karen Pilkington and ‘Love Saltash’!
HEART SOUTH WEST Surprises Livewire Youth Project With £80,000 From Global’s Make Some Noise
Saltash, Cornwall. February 13, 2018: Today Heart South West Breakfast show presenters Matt and Victoria surprised Livewire Youth Project with a cheque for £80,000 raised by Global’s Make Some Noise. The charity was hoping for a grant of almost £38,000 but thanks to the generosity of listeners across Global’s radio brands, Global’s Make Some Noise donated more than double that amount. Livewire supports more than 1,000 children and their families in the South West providing young people with opportunities to develop socially, emotionally and musically in a safe and supportive environment. The money raised by Heart South West and Global’s Make Some Noise will fund the cost of their ‘Heart and Soul’ mental health project which is a music orientated mental health support service for young people aged 5-21. Global’s Make Some Noise is the official charity of Global, the Media & Entertainment group, and home to Capital, Heart, LBC, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X, Capital XTRA and Gold. Global’s Make Some Noise helps small charities and projects dedicated to improving the lives of disadvantaged youngsters living with illness, disability or lack of opportunity. Global’s Make Some Noise gives charities such as Livewire Youth Project a platform to reach…
Mental health worker to be based at the foot of the Tamar Bridge – Plymouth Herald, Katie Timms. March 1st 2018
A specialist mental health professional is being brought in following a series of tragic deaths at the Tamar Bridge. Video interview with Andy Rance here. “The bridge is famous for a lot of things – Brunel, wonderful engineering – but unfortunately it’s also famous for being that place that some people have chosen to end their life.” Andy Rance has had enough of seeing people end their lives falling from the Tamar Bridge. He has been a youth worker at the Livewire Youth Project – which is based at the foot of the bridge – for more than 30 years. Three people have died falling from the bridge in under a year. A 21-year-old man lost his life in February in a tragedy that followed the deaths of 38-year-old father Trystan Bryant and a 22-year-old woman, who has not been publicly named. Now Livewire has just been granted funding from Global, Make Some Noise, to recruit a part-time Mental Health Youth Worker in a bid to put a stop to the tragedies. The new worker will operate at the centre from around April or May and will hold sessions for young people struggling with their mental health. Andy said: “The mental health worker will…
Discover why Rockstars Love Saltash ‘Livewire’
A state-of-the-art recording studio for the young people of Devon and Cornwall, championed by rock royalty including Pete Townshend of ‘The Who’ and the late Lemmy Kilmister of ‘Motorhead’, will open its doors to the public on Saturday 3 March. Based at Saltash Waterside, Livewire Youth Music incorporates traditional youth work, a youth club and a music project. The world-class recording studio has been created for young people aged between 10 and 21, thanks to support from local organisations, major brands and celebrities. Between 10.00 am and 3.00pm, Saturday March 3rd, for the first time, Livewire will be swinging open its doors for everyone, young and old, to come along and have a look at their state-of-the-art recording studio, their live music venue and all their facilities. This is also an opportunity to meet the team, youth workers, musicians and management committee members. If you’re a parent, grandparent, a young person interested in music, an interested member of the public, a local business, town councillor, or someone who might want to volunteer, this will be great way to spend a few hours. The event is free and there is free parking – there will be refreshments available. About Livewire: Livewire…