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AUDIO: Band's song for Sophie
7:01pm Thursday 4th October 2007
By Camilla Sutcliffe »
A MUSICIAN has written a song about alleged murder victim Sophie Lancaster - and she will perform it at a festival in her memory.
A 12-hour music marathon at Bacup Borough ground West View will begin at 1pm on Saturday with bands from all over Lancashire taking to the stage throughout the event.
Kelly Roddy, lead singer of Bacup band Cosmic Slop, has organised the festival and wrote the song "Walk in the Park", to raise money for a memorial fund.
Sophie, a former Haslingden High pupil from Bacup, died in hospital in August two weeks after she was attacked in Stubbylee Park.
Her boyfriend Rob Maltby survived the incident. It is suspected they may have been targeted due to their "gothic" style of clothing.
Kelly, 34, of Kiln Terrace, Stacksteads, said: "Everyone has been so shocked by what happened to Sophie that I felt I wanted to do something, not just to raise cash but also to get everyone enjoying themselves together and not bothering how someone else looks.
"I didn't know Sophie well but my son Jay knew her and I have always told him it's good to be different.
"That's what the song's all about, and that's what the festival's all about. We haven't had long to organise it but we've had help from loads of people.
"We've managed to get more than 15 acts to perform, and I've tried hard to get as many different music styles as I could, to really show that we want everyone, no matter what their taste, to get involved.
"We'll be performing 'Walk in the Park' at around 2.30pm, and we hope there will be lots of people there to hear it and think about Sophie."
The festival has been combined with Bacup Borough FC's Vodkat Northern Counties league match against Abbey Hey, which will kick off at 3pm, with free entry to the match.
Kelly said: "Everyone finds it hard to talk about what happened to Sophie because it's just too horrible for words, but hopefully we can bring people together with this."
Five youths have appeared in court charged with Sophie's murder.
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Adamsky, says...
8:05pm Thu 4 Oct 07
Tomb Raider, Bacup says...
9:41pm Fri 5 Oct 07
I'm looking forward to hearing it live tomorrow.xx
c, bacup says...
6:30pm Sat 6 Oct 07
barbara kosch, says...
5:46pm Wed 10 Oct 07
But anyway, i was wondering if u could help me. Barbara kosch
Tomb Raider, Bacup says...
6:19pm Wed 10 Oct 07
mail.co.uk and there is myspace.com/inmemory
ofsophie
RobF, says...
4:29am Thu 18 Oct 07
Despite the fact her face was repeatedly kicked and stamped upon to the point of being swollen out like a balloon and chunks of flesh ripped out from her hair being pulled with such ferocity, we have no absolute concrete proof that Sophie's death was anything other than accidental, eh?
When the Press use such offensive terms as this in order to be legally authoritative it seems obvious to me what kind of "justice" Sophie is going to get.
This was a hate-crime, pure and simple - and not a haphazard random unwilling accident.
Had this case been a chav couple beaten so viciously by goth kids you could guarantee there would be a huge media witch hunt in to their life-styles afterwards (with probably the devil mentioned somewhere along the line)and there would be no bandying around with words such as "alleged" to describe the event afterwards.
rach, says...
12:30pm Mon 29 Oct 07
Lisa, Bury says...
8:01pm Tue 18 Dec 07
titch, Burnley says...
8:03pm Thu 13 Mar 08
NO WORDS, Darwen says...
6:36pm Thu 27 Mar 08
THINK ABOUT IT, Darwen says...
6:41pm Thu 27 Mar 08
Lisa wrote:I understand your anger But i would think after everything that's gone on I'm sure the family and friends would NOT want to read that to add more pain,A time and place for everything.
My mum works at intensive care at fairfield hospital where she was admitted to. She was so furious because some of the doctors and other nurses at first refused to treat her because they thought she\'d overdosed, \"She\'s probably a drug addict\" one said . My mum went mental at them saying that they have no right to assume things like that, it\'s obvious that she hadn\'t overdosed, she ended up dying because her brain had swollen. It\'s absolutely appaling that not only the scum that do it on a regular basis (beating up people who AREN\'T chavs) and even the people who are meant to treat injured, dying people think the same thing.
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BLT, Blackburn says...
7:55pm Thu 4 Oct 07
Sorry,but why did Camille Sutcliffe use the term 'ALLEGED'?'
There was nothing 'ALLEGED' concerned with this story,and I think that you owe the family and friends of Sophie an apology for using that vile word in the first place...Shame on you,Camille...