Mark is married to Jo and is a 23 year old youth and schools worker based in South Cave (near Hull). Mark spent 4 years as a youth worker in Peterborough whilst studying for a degree in youth work & ministry with Oasis.
I usually avoid Facebook groups but one titled ‘Rage against the machine for Christmas number one’ caught my eye (link).
The concept is simple…rather than yet another Christmas number 1 being the result of a tacky-manufactured television show it should be a song that stands for the opposite so the Facebook group (currently with over 200,000 members) is aiming to get ‘Killing in the name’ from Rage Against The Machine’s self-titled album to number one by encouraging as many people as possible to buy it in the week beginning 13th December up to the 20th December.
I think it would be a fantastic thing to see happen for many reasons but primarily because it will show us the power that social networking sites have.
I don’t know how many purchases of a song it takes to get it to number 1 but I’m sure there’s a good chance of it as least getting in the top 40.
To join in visit the website or facebook group
I’ll keep the blog updated on this…also I’ll do some more posts in the coming days on other things!
