Stay Up Late

A campaign for people with learning disabilities… fighting for the right to party!

Events

Forthcoming Stay up Late events.

  • 20th Jun - Heavy Load live - Millfield School, Street, Southwest - 3pm
  • 21st Jun - Heavy Load live - Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff, Wales - 8pm
  • 27th Jun - Heavy Load live - Glastonbury Festival, Southwest - 6pm
  • 15th Nov - Heavy Load live - Brentwood Theatre Brentwood, East - 7.30pm

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Hi. Welcome to the Stay up Late Campaign run by Heavy Load,the UK's only punk band made up of musicians with and without learning disabilities. Lots of people come to our gigs, but they cannot stay out late to watch us. They have to go home early because their staff finish work at 10pm. Heavy Load are fed up with this! We think people with a learning disability have the right to stay up late and have some fun!

24

Jun

2009

The Daily Dust

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Here’s an article about the campaign from The Daily Dust

 Daily Dust website

23

Jun

2009

Rock The Boat - 8th July, Proud, Camden

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Rock The Boat and Stay Up Late!

…and it’s free beer for the first hour!

19

Jun

2009

Stay Up Late at Glastonbury

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or why not Stay Up all night long!
Heavy Load will be performing at Club Dada at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
Club DaDa flyer

19

Jun

2009

Stay Up Late Wales launch - 21st June

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Mencap Cymru and Heavy Load launched their Stay Up Late Campaign in Wales on Sunday 21st June to close the Undod Festival, and to start the celebrations for Learning Disability Week.
Thanks to everyone who came along and organised the event. It was a great night and it sounds like there are some exciting ideas in Wales about how the campaign can move forward and make some real changes.

Diolch yn fawr iawn

Cymru am byth!

14

Jun

2009

3 Reasons Why by Claire Webber

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3 Reasons why Learning-Disabled People Should Stay out Later
They have fun too

The fact that people with learning disabilities are forced to go home early from many live music venues, as well as recreational experiences in general is purely a result of their staff going home early. This has nothing to do with the issue that learning-disabled people want to go home early; rather, they want to actively participate in many different forms of entertainment at all hours. They should not have to be stifled in cultural gains solely because their staff has to go home early; they are entitled to a night out as well. Additionally, the fact that Heavy Load contains members that also have learning disabilities is telling, in the fact that their members stay out late in order to entertain and benefit the cause. It is obvious that there is nothing preventing this aside from the different staff that works with learning-disabled people. Therefore, it should be noted that at least once in a while, people with learning disabilities enjoy taking time off to relax and stay out later to enjoy music or other sources of entertainment.
To prove that others can do the same
Once so many people with learning disabilities are able to petition the right to stay out later, more and more will join the rally for this cause. After the inclusion of one learning-disabled person, more will be encouraged to get their staff to stay out later at least once a month. One reason for the early nights could be related to the fact that many staff feel their patrons will not be able to handle a late night. As soon as it is obvious that staying out later does not negatively affect their well-being, it should therefore be concluded that some staff members should stay out later to allow learning-disabled people to do the same.
Promote their cause
Many citizens are not aware of the trials and tribulations that people with learning disabilities undergo throughout their life and causes such as these assist in relaying the message to others. For example, if you happen to work with a learning-disabled person, you may not understand their need for a type of “freedom” in which they are allowed to stay out late, or do what they want to do. Causes such as these help to relaying this message of freedom to people who otherwise would not understand the reasoning for this type of benefit. Heavy Load has spent a lot of time and money investing into this particular cause, and once more people begin to recognize this effort and change their ways, it will be a domino effect, leading to even more people staying out later.
This post was contributed by Claire Webber, who writes about the online best colleges. She welcomes your feedback at Claire.Webber1223 at gmail.com

Claire Webber writes for the blog www.bestcollegesonline.com

19

May

2009

Club Marmalade - 31st May - Punk Rock special

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Club Marmalade, Wokingham, Surrey, England are having a punk rock special.

Pogo your way down there from 7pm ’til late!

www.clubmarmalade.org.uk

30

Apr

2009

Top 40 update

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Blackburn

Some might say this was a total disaster as we didn’t even get near the Top 100 but we had loads of fun trying.
Thanks to all of you who took part we know loads of you tried your best and told your mates and we will try again at some point.
Next time we’ll try and pick a week when multi-national platinum selling superstars aren’t also releasing their new songs!

30

Apr

2009

Sheffield Half Marathon

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Lucy, Heavy Load volunteer and Brighton Uni student, runs the Sheffield Half-Marathon in aid of the campaign. Hats off to Lucy and her mates!

31

Mar

2009

DVD out now

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DVD

Heavy Load the movie was released on DVD (region 2) on 30th March and features the birth of the campaign and plenty of Stay Up Late action. 

You can buy a copy for £10 through the Heavy Load online shop - www.heavyload.org

13

Mar

2009

Top 40 Campaign - Help Required!

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Get Heavy Load on Radio One!We are trying to get the Stay Up Late song (backed with ‘We love George Michael’) into the charts. We understand that if we succeed the song will have to be played on Radio 1 which will be a fantastic way of further spreading word of the campaign!

The fun starts on Monday 16th March and there’s a Facebook site to coordinate our efforts. The songs will be available on all the usual download sites and cost as little as 79 pence.

We need at least 5 times as many people as we know to download it in order to make this work, so please tell everyone you know - mates, family, neighbours, work colleagues… Let’s make it happen!

We’ll post up further information next week and updates as the week progresses.

Join us in Cardif for the spectacular launch of Stay Up Late Wales
Recent Comments
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