Please find time to help a living legend of the Victoria and international punk scene.
Read about Murray here .
Canada's punk rock and free speech legend Murray Acton has recently been diagnosed with colon cancer... Here in his own words:
"So I guess many of you have seen that the Dayglo's will be on tour next month with Toronto's Random Killing. Well I can now finally say that yes that tour will happen and I will be there. The reason I say this is because something has happened in my life that has made me unsure of how my immediate future would unfold. Two months ago I was diagnosed with colon cancer. It did not really come as a big surprise to me because I had been tested for it right before covid and there was an indication that further testing needed to be done. Well the lockdowns prevented that from happening for the better part of three years. Through that time I could tell something was up so when I finally did manage to get the testing done I had a nasty looking tumour up my ass that had a three year head start on me. I have two oncologists that I am seeing. One of them is a surgeon, and the other is a radiation oncologist. They have decided to give me a 5 day radiation program starting on April 24th. Just today they gave me a cat scan and tattooed a couple of targets on my abdomen. They will then wait for two months to let the radiation shrink the tumour, then sometime at the end of June or early July they will surgically remove a fair bit of my colon. I hope that they will be able to connect what is left of it to my asshole because, well I probably don't need to explain why. I have had this thing in me for three years now which is not good. There is concern that it is metastable and spreading to my other organs but that is not something that I am going to dwell on. I have it firmly in my mind that I am going to defeat this thing. I am not a passive victim of cancer. I with the help of my friends have been reading up on all the latest alternative cancer treatments. I have found a lot of information in the form of peer reviewed papers in medical journals that contrary to what I was told by multiple people during covid-mania I am perfectly capable of reading and understanding and I have selected multiple alternative methods of fighting cancer that have shown promising results in trials, and don't interfere with each other or the traditional therapy. In fact they seem to enhance the effect of each other by attacking the cancer from different angles. In the long run they might end up to be more effective than the traditional therapy but it is not my goal to prove anything here. My only goal is to still be here 10 years from now. Anyway, I am telling you all this because enough people already know that it is only a matter of time before the rumours start flying around and I thought you deserved to hear it from me rather than some distorted gossip. It is the least I can do out of respect for all the years of support you have shown my bandmates and myself. I don't have much choice about touring. It is my only source of income and I'm not going to kid you, these alternative cures come with some expensive supplements, and it is important to me to really kick the shit out of that tumour as much as possible until the surgery date. Besides it's either getting out and visiting all of you again doing the one thing that relieves all my stress or staying home sick and alone with all the stress, worry, and depression, that goes along with that. It's an easy choice, and I am grateful that I have the ability to do that. I want you all to know that the only reason I can do this is because the venues know that if I show up with my guitar, you will all be there buying drinks off of them. I can't thank you enough, it could very well be the thing that makes the difference in my battle. So come on out and see us next month and help me beat cancer."
So let's all give back a little of what he has given us over the past 40 years and let Murray know that he is not taking on this fight alone.
