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CANCER BONUS TOUR Veteran LD Bryan Leitch has set up a new incentive to aid others suffering from blood cancers.
Former TPi Lighting Designer of the Year and Knights of Illumination from both on and off the stage to pay a visit to help spread the word about Lifetime Award winner, Bryan Leitch, is one of the most well-known the charities and encourage people to donate. From now until the end of names in the industry. However back in 2009 he was sadly diagnosed the tour, I will be updating the website to include interviews and videos of with a form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After a successful bone marrow artists I have worked with, plus photographs of them with the car.” Some transplant, five-year later, Leitch’s cancer returned. But thanks to of the artists that have already confirmed their support are Slaves, Feeder, on-going research, and a new chemotherapy treatment that had been Billy Ocean, Editors and Bryan Adams to name but a few. developed, he’s free of the disease again. Leitch said: “That was a year “I will also be inviting fellow touring personnel and promoters to join me ago. I know I have been very lucky over the past en route to share stories and take part in interviews. seven years and it’s thanks to cancer research These will also be recorded for the website,” said and the efforts of the NHS medical staff that I am Leitch. alive today. That is why I made a decision to do The tour will start in May and all the costs will something about it.” be funded from Leitch’s own resources to ensure With the goal of raising money for Bloodwise and every penny raised through sponsorship and private the Sussex Cancer Fund, Leitch and his wife Tracey donations benefit the two charities. He is currently have set out to tour the country, visiting some of the seeking tour partners to be involved in this tour many venues which the LD has worked in over the who will be offered advertising space on the car and last 30 years. “Throughout my career I have worked the website, plus an opportunity to join him on the www.thecancer at over 300 venues in the UK alone, from Inverness to journey. For further enquires head to The Cancer bonustour.com Truro. For this tour, I will be visiting everyone of these Bonus Tour’s web page. venues in a 1963 Vauxhall Victor bought espeically for TPi the tour. At each venue I will invite some of my friends www.thecancerbonustour.com
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