12/09/2025
Please join us to help keep the madman alive! Saturday 25 Oct 25 we are having the first all-dayer benefit gig to help cover the huge costs of Mike Spenser's cancer treatment.
Top bands and DJs! Mike’s treasure trove of videos! Maybe even his toddler bathtub videos! King Salami and the Cumberland 3, Martin Savage & the Jiggerz, RAW FUN, and a special guest are already booked with more to be announced shortly.
Mike thinks £15 in advance is too much, we think it’s too little, so we’ll pass the hat too.
The coolest venue in London you don’t know yet, Folklore Hoxton, is waiving their fee, video recording, and audio recording. Tickets from
https://www.14thfloormusic.co.uk/product/gig-mike-spenser-benefit-gig/
From the man himself:
“Hey there — I’m a rock ‘n’ roll lifer, wild at heart and still kicking up noise in a genre we call trash. I’ve been howling, riffing, and smashing stages for decades, most infamously with The Cannibals — a band louder than a riot and dirtier than a dive bar floor. I never lived by the rules, never wanted to. Life’s always been loud, messy, and totally out of the box — just the way I like it.
But now, life threw me a curveball I can’t just scream my way through: prostate cancer. I’ve been fighting it with the same fire I brought to every stage, but now I need help to keep up the battle. The treatments are mounting up — and while I never asked for much in life, this is the time I gotta ask for something real.
Every pound, euro, or dollar you throw in is helping me keep living, creating, and causing mayhem — just like I always have. If you’ve ever danced in the front row, trashed a flat to one of our records, or believed in the spirit of raw, honest music — I’m asking you to back me now.
Let’s keep the amps buzzing.
Much trash love,
Mike Spenser
(The Cannibals / Trash Rock ’til death”
