Radiohead, Foo Fighters and more have created custom Brompton bicycles for charity

Virgin Radio

28 Apr 2021, 13:24

Fancy some new wheels?

Even better, these are all for a good cause.

Artists including Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Phoebe Bridgers and more are creating new bicycles as part of a fundraiser for charity. 

They've teamed up with bike maker Brompton, to create custom one-off special edition bikes.

If you want to get your hands on one of these, they will be auctioned off for Crew Nation. Set up by Live Nation, the fun aims to help people in the music industry who have had their livelihoods hit by the pandemic.  

You can find all of the details of the new bikes and the auction that starts next month, here.

Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien said: “Thank you to Brompton for asking us to be a part of their campaign to raise funds for Crew Nation… We love our crew and we love our Brompton bikes.”

Stanley Donwood is the band’s visual artist. He added: “I’m ridiculously happy to have been asked to design a Brompton bike that’ll be auctioned to raise money (and awareness) for Crew Nation.

“Brompton bikes are fantastic zippy folding freedom machines and crews are the unsung heroes of every gig, festival or live events that you’ve ever been to.”

“We love the vibrancy the music scene brings to the cities we call home, so we’ve joined forces with Crew Nation to raise money for the countless members who work behind the scenes to make live music happen,” Tevis Jory of Brompton said of the project.

Live Nation’s Crew Nation fund was set up on March 31 last year.

The organisation is supporting crew workers, who lost most of their work thanks to the widespread cancellation of festivals and concerts across the globe due to the pandemic. 

Live Nation said in a statement: “Crew members are the backbone of the live music industry, and we hope you’ll join us in supporting them through this temporary intermission until we can once again unite millions around the world through the power of live music"

Those supported include production managers, tour managers, sound engineers, lighting directors and many more.