It’s our five years anniversary of our concert in the Syrian capital, right at the heart of Old Damascus. Although we’ve been observing the situation there closely, despite the media’s intermittent coverage, from the very beginning; we’ve never used our audience’s emotional responses to unethically drag their attention on us, in the name internet micro-fame, by making sentimental statements of how deeply we feel for our Syrian brothers and sisters from our comfortable sofas in an armchair revolutionary fashion , or virtue signal like some ignorant idiot (note that the word idiot comes from the Greek ιδιώτης-idiótes meaning a private person, i.e., one who is not concerned with what is in the public interest) would provocative have done.

From beautiful Helen’s golden stare to Franz Ferdinand‘s assassination and the first blood on the protests against the Syrian regime as part of the ‘Arab Spring‘ in early 2011, people have been very inventive with expanding ‘Jus ad Bellum‘ (the conditions under which States may resort to war or to the use of armed force in general) initiating bloody conflicts when it comes to power exchange and control. We are not political analysts so we won’t bore you more with our “big -lay- opinions” citing thing’s we have half-read in papers during metro rides. The crux of the matter is people are dying and children have been brutally murdered while they were having lunch with their parents, and the ‘civilised west’ would fairly denounce them with full conviction, as ‘horrific war crimes‘ and they’d sleep in clear conscience, or they’d really care and be upset for a week because of a viral twitter post. This is clearly wrong in so many levels and definitely needs to stop.

We’ll also refrain from boring you with how amazing and humanitarian beings we are, so if you happen to like the music and wanted a piece of merchandise, you can order our anniversary TEE designed by Mohamed Osman. ALL of the proceeds will be donated to the Syria Relief, Refugee Crisis Appeal! If you feel like donating directly by yourself, you’d make lots of people happy, so use this link here instead or any other organisation you have previously done meticulous background research on and is not a scam, because unfortunately some people can be shockingly enterpeneurial, committed and imaginative in their efforts to profit from human pain and misery.

Edit: The two-week campaign has finished, if you want a T-shirt with the Western Star design you should go to http://phase.gr/merch/product/western-star-82705/ the money will still be donated to the cause in a similar manner.