Cargo Records

Cocopah

This 2 track single featuring “Cocopah” and the original version of “Rocket Girl” will be released on Monday, 28 June to precede the full length album, due out on July 12. Raising tens of thousands of pounds for CLIC Sargent, the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity would be an enormous challenge for a whole army of people but for teenagers Laura Green and Hannah Shayle-Kennedy it is fast becoming a reality. In January 2004, Mayflower Primary School pupil Declan Heath tragically lost his battle against cancer and died aged just ten. In memory of Declan his schoolmates decided to celebrate his life in what would become an annual concert.

In 2008 the song Rocket Girl by the Wire Daisies was re-recorded with the help of local musicians, parents, teachers and pupils from the Essex School. Aged just 14 at the time, Declan’s classmate Laura Green recorded amazing soulful lead vocals for the song.

A video of Rocket Girl was made and placed on YouTube with a link to CLIC Sargent to donate £1 per download. What happened next astounded everyone as not just a few hundred people visited this site but phenomenal tens of thousands resulting in more than £20,000 being raised for CLIC Sargent. Laura and Hannah have now recorded a unique collection of songs and are ready to showcase their unique talent, having successfully performed their first live gig at the University of Essex.