Paul Smith, Maximo Park (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Maximo Park have aimed to highlight the selfless work of MOAS – a Malta-based foundation helping migrants and refugees – with an alternative video for their Risk To Exist single.
“After reading a newspaper article about the amazing work that MOAS do, we felt the song’s issues aligned perfectly with the organisation’s founding ideal – that to do nothing when people are in danger is immoral,” Paul Smith states.
“The song is all about the fragility of life and nowhere is that more visible than in the footage of the rescues undertaken by MOAS, where flimsy dinghies are overloaded with desperate people, literally clinging on to life.”
“Even though the song was borne from self-expression and a more generally empathetic position, it became, to my mind, a rallying call and we felt that any profit from its sale should go to helping this cause.”
All proceeds from the single will go to MOAS.
