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'Do What You Like' is a folk-rock single from Gavin Chappell-Bates which will be released on Thursday 4th October 2018, World Animal Day.

Gavin wrote the song to reflect on how we, the human race, treat our home, planet earth, and the other inhabitants that we share it with.

As well as being available to purchase as a digital download, a short film will also be released on the same day to accompany the single. This was created by Gavin with footage provided by a number of animal welfare and conservation charities to help create a visual representation of the song’s message.

Gavin wants to use his music and the release of ‘Do What You Like’ to raise awareness about animal welfare and conservation issues. He is asking others to join him in this mission by signing up to a Thunderclap campaign.

Gavin deliberately chose to coincide this release with World Animal Day, a social movement which aims to raise the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards across the globe. You can find out more here: www.worldanimalday.org.uk

All proceeds from sales of ‘Do What You Like’ will go directly to these charities that provided footage to make the film: Animal Aid, Animal Equality, Animals Australia, Earthling Ed, Greenpeace, PETA, Save Me Trust, Tiger Awareness and Viva!

Gavin wrote the song to highlight his biggest fears, the destruction of our environment and the mass slaughter and suffering of animals. In 2014, inspired by his affection for his cat Sully, Gavin had an epiphany and converted first to vegetarianism and then to veganism. Having been a consumer of meat and dairy for over thirty years he had never previously questioned what he put in his body but with increased awareness he, along with his wife Alison, decided he had to make a change.

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Do what you want to
Do what you like
No thoughts for the future
What you’ll leave behind
You’re so blind
So you do what you like

Take what you want to
Take what you like
Scorch the planet
Leave it to die
You think it’s your own endless supply
So you take what you like

YOU SAY YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW
BUT IT’S YOUR WORLD, IT’S YOUR HOME
YOU WON’T CARE UNTIL IT’S ALL GONE
SO YOU DO WHAT YOU LIKE

Hurt who you want to
Hunt what you like
In your concrete jungle
Nothing can survive
For your production line
You kill what you like

YOU SAY YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW
BUT IT’S YOUR WORLD, IT’S OUR HOME
WE CAN’T JUST CONTINUE TO GROW
UNTIL IT ALL EXPLODES
WHEN NATURE TELLS US TO GO
WE WON’T DO WHAT WE LIKE

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from Do What You Like (single), released October 4, 2018
Gavin Chappell-Bates - vocals, guitars, harmonica
Tim Gifford - bass
Paul Richards - drums

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Gavin Chappell-Bates Cambridge, UK

Plant-powered 🌱 music maker 🎵 writer 📖 animal lover 🐱 💚

Gavin Chappell-Bates is an acoustic folk-rock singer-songwriter from Cambridge, England.

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