Friends Helping Friends Benefit - For Robby Redcheek's Family

Our very good friend - Robby Redcheeks (famed Philadelphia Hardcore show promoter!) lost his mother to cancer a week after This Is Hardcore Fest this summer. In Robbie's words......

"The days after TIH, my mother started getting worse. That whole month my step father Charlie had been staying in the hospital with her on a cot next to her bed. He is an amazing person. He has worked 3 jobs to support the family the entire time I have known him. Hes is a great father & a great husband to say the least.

My mother struggled to raise me as a single mother. She worked whatever jobs she could get & really busted her ass to make it all work. She always wanted that "family" for us but it was just the two of us. We had a great relationship when I was growing up. We constantly joked around and laughed. She was a great mother under the circumstances.

When I turned 20 she got remarried to Charlie & his 5 kids. Then she had 2 more with him. My brothers Ryan & Sean. Charlie gave her the stable family life that she always wanted for me. I was grown at this point. But I also gained a Family. A great one at that. All my brothers and sister are amazing and we are extremely tight. No such thing as step family here. Blood doesn't dictate who your family is. This is my family and I am thankful for them all.

4AM on Aug 24th I got the call from my step father that I should rush to the hospital because they do not think shes going to make it through the night. I was there by 5AM. At 11AM she passed away. Charlie held her hand till her very last moment.

I cant explain in words what kind of man he is. Other than to say I hope that I can be as good of a husband & father as him someday.

The reason for this show is to help me and my family out during Hard Times. I ask Bands I have been friends with for years like Floorpunch, Blacklisted, Cold World, & Let Down. All the people in these bands have been good friends for a long time and we have always helped each other out time and time again over the years. I also asked bands that I am new friends that mentally helped me out During all this.

Anyway I feel like I needed to get all this out to everyone so they could understand the why. Its not just about a show, its not just about a reunion. Its about the choice we make to be HC kids, in the biggest family possible.

Thank you to every person that has written, donated, or been apart of this in anyway"


Robby Redcheeks



Sunday October 28th
Doors 1:30 pm

FloorPunch
Blacklisted
Cold World
Have Heart
Bitter End
Let Down

@ the Starlight Ballroom
460 N. 9th Street
(between Spring Garden & Callowhill Sts.)


$15 in advance (www.r5productions.com - http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=214290

For those who can't make it and would like to send support here's the paypal address for donations or if people wanted to write something:

familyhelpingfamily07@yahoo.com