Nick Cave donates pair of Gucci socks to help independent music venue in London

Back in April, Music Venue Trust launched the #SaveOurVenues campaign to help save grassroots music venues across the UK during the coronavirus pandemic.

Trinity, an independent venue in Harrow, has received a kind donation from Nick Cave, a pair of Gucci socks that they will auction off to help save the venue from closing for good. The manager, Christopher Perdue (a huge fan of Nick Cave), is hoping to raise £20,000 for their #SaveOurVenues campaign. He writes, "We are under immense pressure from our Landlords now to cough up rent. This is our single biggest overhead. That on top of having to keep the power on (without refrigeration our cellar stock is under threat), insurance, licences as well as allow the partners some income to eat and pay their bills things are getting tricky to say the least."

In the Trinity Auction House Facebook group page, a friend of the venue who reached out to Nick Cave regarding their future, wrote of his donation, "To say we were dumbstruck would be an understatement; we’d contacted him in the hopes of getting him to contribute something/anything, but this - excuse the cliché/awful pun - blew our socks off! A truly unique item, and fucking funny as well - receiving a pair of socks from our favourite artist in the mail also ranks amongst the more absurdly hilarious things to have happened to any of us, ever, and we can’t thank Nick enough for this!"

Jubilee Feet!

So @nickcave donated his sparkly socks for our #SaveOurVenues campaign. Pretty cool right?

Check out Trinity Auction House for all the details.https://t.co/NAm09Kj5MP

Goes to auction tonight at 8pm. pic.twitter.com/iuH4Lir7Bt

— trinitybar (@trinitybar) June 3, 2020