G’day!
Thanks for visiting my site! My name is Damien Thornber, and my band The Orphans and I are on a mission of epic proportions! We have made a decision to dedicate our talents and time to serving a higher cause. We are an “all proceeds to charity” band. Our debut album Vow of Poverty will be aptly named, as we have signed the rights to all revenue raised from the sale of the CD to charity. The charity VOW International Services Inc is dedicated to funding education and building schools in the third world. 
The CD will be sold by donation. The recommended donation is $15.00 (+ postage). Whatever you can afford, we will be grateful for. Please bear in mind that for just $250 AUS we can send a child to school for one whole year in Indonesia! That includes all their books, a back-pack, school uniforms, shoes (most of these kids will never have owned a pair of shoes in their life) and one meal a day! That is about the cost of a good meal for two at a restaurant!

BUY CD NOW! AND SUPPORT VOW!

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Touring the North West!

 

With

ROS WORTHINGTON (OAM)

Founder of Make-A-Wish Foundation for Western Australia

Patron/founder of the Breast Cancer Foundation of WA

CEO/Founder Love Angels Project

In partnership with:

· Broome Picture Company

· Damien Thornber and the Orphans

· The Love Angels Project

· Moana Dreaming / 4 piece all indigenous girl band

· Dr Nial Townsend

· Patrick Davies / Cultural Health Services

Sponsored by:

· Department of Indigenous = Affairs

· VOW International Services Inc’

· Argyle Diamonds


LETS HAVE A YARN ABOUT SPORT, MUSIC AND HEALTH
The ‘Love Angel Tour’ is for ‘Kids in the Communities” -- bringing music, health and sport workshops to kids in remote communities, to inspire them to develop their talents though Indigenous Australian role models.

Along the way, we are stopping at several towns to play to the wider community too.The day’s events will entail a concert and live music, music lessons from Candice Lorrae = (music teacher for AB Music) “Love Angel Hour” with Ros Worthington and the Love Angels Team and music from Damien Thornber and the Orphans.


Program

Dates will be between the 14th and 27th of July 08

Work shops will be in school time if possible

Starting form 12-2pm in class

  • Welcome
  • Introduction
  • Yarning with Ros (see attachment)
  • Music Lessons with Candice Lorrae

Community concert 6-8pm

  • Damien Thornber and the Orphans
  • Moana Dreaming
PROUDLY SPONSORED BY

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GIG DATES;

·      Wed 16th  Wangkatjungka Community Concert. 12 Midday

·      Thurs 17th   Halls Creek Kimberley Hotel 830-1130pm

·      Fri 18th Warmun Community Concert. 12 Midday

·      Sat 19th   9-12pm & Sun 20th 6-9pm Kununurra Hotel.           

·      Tue 22nd Beagle Bay Community Concert. 12 Midday

·      Wed 23rd Broome: Roebuck Hotel Oasis Bar. 8-12pm

·      Thursday 24th  Derby High School Community Concert. 12 Midday

·      Fri 25th   Evening:  Derby Boab Inn. 8pm Till Late



We need your support for the Love Angels Tour.
Please visit the Donate page at VOW.org.au to make an online donation.


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Début CD LAUNCH; MUSIC, ART, MEDIA FUSION NIGHT FOR CHARITY

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Where; Fly By Night Club
When; 22nd March 08
Doors open at from 7pm
What; Music Media and Art Fusion Night for CHARITY!

Hi folks! Please don’t miss our Début Album Lunch and combined Music, Media and Art Fusion night. It will be a night to remember. Hosted by our proud sponsor the ‘Fly By Night Club’ we shall have a feast of info, music, media and film material to stimulate you visually, inspire you compassionately and provoke you emotionally.

Tickets can be bought on line at www.vow.org.au (hit the donation button and leave your details we will post them out)
Or at the door on the night tickets will be $15 each
Or if you are a local business make a donation and we will send out 4 tickets and place your logo on our web sites and all posters and advertising material

The forth coming concert will entail classical entry music from a string quartet.
Photo exhibitions from our tour of the world
A series of short films on solutions to environmental and poverty issues
Lots of stimulating visual art
Guest band ‘Good Little Fox’
And our Debut CD Launch of the album ‘Vow of  Poverty’
This is a charity event so all funds raised from door, collection and CD sales go to charity.

 

Some of the comments about our debut album.

......."The more i listen to it the more i like it".....

......."i enjoyed the music on the CD it sounds like in the same vein as Peter Murray who i also enjoy i think its a great CD and idea for a worthy cause"......


......."I really enjoy listening to the Vow CD in the car on the way to school in the morning, it is very relaxing and humbling to hear such an honest voice with meaningful words. It puts me in the right frame of mind to be caring and sensitive to the needs of others.

Thanks for giving us the opportunity to purchase it".......

......."A journey of heartache and sadness but without that something so soulful and beautiful may never have been born"...


We are on triple J Unearthed! Click here, or the banner to vote for us!

Below: the liner notes for our debut album 'Vow of Poverty'

  1. Time flies
  2. When you call
  3. Little secrets
  4. Do you know
  5. Angel in white
  6. The prayer
  7. Captain true
  8. Still drinking
  9. Gospel stuff
  10. Unspoken word
  11. Kookaburra
  12. All is well
  13. Time flies (fox mix)
All songs written & composed by Damien Thornber & arranged by Rob Findlay
Vow of Poverty was recorded at Leeming Tower Studios summer to winter 2007. It was engineered & produced by Rob Findlay and mixed & mastered by James Hewgill at James Hewgill Music September 2007.
All musicians and artists on this album have volunteered their talent, time and love toward the VOW International’s mission out of the charity of their hearts. My kindest and warmest thanks go out to them forever.

Damien Thornber and the Orphans: Damien Thornber - vocals & guitar; Rob Findlay - guitars, bass, drums, percussion, keyboards; Emily Minchin - viola; Pat Cullen - bass; Gary Cornell - drums. Guests musicians: Nathan Woodward – drums Time Flies, Unspoken word ; Matt Ubiss – drums Little secrets, Angel in white, Kookaburra, All is well ; Carl Fox - Backing vocals Little secrets, All is well (additional mixing Time flies fox mix) ; Sean Davey – harmonica Captain true, Kookaburra, harmonies Captain true, Still drinking, All is well ; Karen Findlay-Grove - Backing vocals Time flies, Kookaburra ; Nikki Lea Chandler - Backing vocals Time flies ; Trent Humphreys - keyboard and Hammond Little Secrets (additional mixing on Little Secrets and All is well); Jessica Kenny - Backing vocals Angel in white, When you call ; John Reed – Citern Still drinking, Unspoken word ; Spoken mediation extracts used on Time Flies (fox mix) - Indavar and Mouna; CD art work: Jessica Harlond-Kenny.
Dedicated to my dearest mother for showing me there is strength and dignity in death, and from whom I inherited a spiritual fortune through the example of service to others; to the 12 steps for showing me how to claim my life back from addiction, a debt I shall never finish repaying.

Thanks to Samuel Markus (Dunn) for showing me the way of music as a form of catharsis, creativity and love. My inspiration and soul brother. We share birth dates. Love ya man; to Mouna who showed me that allowing oneself to be vulnerable can also be ones greatest strength. To your eternal spirit. RIP.; to Rob Findlay for believing in my music and shaping it into to something bigger than the sum of its parts; to our sponsors, whom without there would be no project; to all of you that have tirelessly laboured as a volunteers in the spirit of love for an ideal and a cause, for your vision in this concept, and your staying power in times of my own self doubt, and for your support when the going got hard. I love you all.

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Help us, help them!
Congratulations on purchasing your Vow of Poverty CD. Your purchase is a 100% donation to VOW International Services Inc. with every cent of your purchase going toward helping venerable orphans in the world (VOW). Damien Thornber is committed to a life of charity and he, along with his band, have taken a vow of poverty on this CD in order to fulfil a dream of funding education for poor, orphaned and underprivileged children in the third world. VOW intends to contribute through building schools and orphanages and bringing basic human rights like water, food, health care, shelter and education to people that need it. You can find out more about where your money has gone by visiting us at any of the following links:

“I believe every child on earth deserves the opportunity to rise out of incomprehensible conditions [such as poverty and abuse. In Australia I have enjoyed the fruit of free education, clean air and water, free health care, social security and many other commodities that are easily taken for granted. As a subject of this unquantifiable gift, I feel it is my duty to make a difference to those who will never experience these benefits at all. I have made it my life goal and soul ambition to dedicate my work and every moment to the idea that this imbalance can end and that this inconceivable level of extreme poverty can be stopped by unity and generosity from the more fortunate. I pledge to never stop till there are no children living in suffering and poverty on this earth.” Damien Thornber

Did you know that if you live on welfare in Australia you are still in the top 1% of all the wealth in the world; that out of the 6.3 billion people on our planet 3.2 billion of them will not eat today; and that 2.1 billion of them will be lucky to have one meal, while in the west 35 million people will die this year from over consumption related diseases like high blood pressure, blocked arteries, high cholesterol, stroke, heart attack and diabetes; and that a mere $200 AUS (the cost of a dinner for two in a nice restaurant) can educate a child for 1 year in Indonesia, including school clothes, shoes, books and one meal a day.