Support The Moon Cardiff's Staff

Hey everyone, Ed here

Firstly, I want to say thank you. I've been overwhelmed and in shock by both the news I received yesterday morning and the response from the music community. As of today we have had 143 supports and almost £4000. Wow.

I want to let you know what you're supporting.

When The Moon closed suddenly 9 staff members immediately lost their jobs. 4 sound engineers lost the work they had coming up and in the future at the venue. We also lost our second home.

Your contributions will help us whilst we work out what happens next. Some of us have been working at the venue for a few months, some of us for years. Now we have to work out what do next. If you've ever been through unemployment or redundancy you know how hard this can be. If you've been through that in the music or hospitality industry, you know  how even harder that is.

There's no new immediate new venue for us to step into. However, I want to say personally thank you to Le Pub in Newport and our neighbours in Fuel who have already reached out to offer us temporary work. You guys are legends, and we are rooting for you.

I finally want to say thank you to my colleagues. I met up with a fair handful of them yesterday to work out next steps and everyone was brilliant. There was no finger pointing, no resentment, just love, passion and hard work. I'm so proud of you. 

I had to make some truly terrible phone calls yesterday to let people know they had lost their jobs. I would never wish that on anyone, but the responses I received from everyone were understandably sad but dignified. I appreciate all of your hard work so much, and I am so happy that so many people have come out in support of you. You deserve it.

I will keep everyone updated over the next few weeks hopefully with some messages of thanks from everyone in the team, but I want to say right now, again, thank you. The messages of support and love for our venue have made all the blood, sweat and tears worth it over the years. 

Love to all, see you at the next gig x

Ed Townend
Technical Manager, Promoter and Sound Engineer at The Moon