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Tim Arnold, Canadian Music Week 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

Sunday 8th<\/sup> October.<\/h3>\n

Weird day today.\u00a0 After Michael and Katie lost their home a few weeks ago in a fire, the same thing has now happened to my friend Kathy and her mum Neva.\u00a0 In fact all the apartments in their block have burnt down, related to an attack on one of the Syrian families living there.\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe it.<\/a><\/h3>\n

I remember the first time I met Kathy.\u00a0 It was my first trip to Canada for Canadian Music Week 2016.\u00a0 I was very torn about the trip because on one hand, I was excited to have an opportunity to meet new people in a new part of the world that I had never been to before, and on the other hand, my other Mum, Toni, the lady who helped bring me up, had just entered the final stages of terminal cancer.<\/h3>\n
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Tim and Toni, Brighton 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

On the first day of the conference, I couldn\u2019t leave the hotel room.\u00a0 I was in bits.\u00a0 And yet, downstairs on the concourse, the music conference was in full swing with people who work in, and love music. \u00a0<\/em>I had only found out how bad Toni\u2019s cancer was before I left England, and it was hard for me to embrace something that I felt I had waited years to be a part of \u2013 being included in a small way, in a new and exciting part of the music industry. Suddenly there was another world that was open to me and had invited me to participate. \u00a0It was a real honour. \u00a0All I had to do was take the elevator down and start meeting people. But I was on the phone to Toni who was sounding weaker and weaker.\u00a0 She told me \u2018get off your arse and go downstairs, don\u2019t worry about me\u2019<\/em>.\u00a0 I did what she said and when I got down there, the first person I met was Kathy.\u00a0 I apologised for being late and explained that I had some family stuff going on.\u00a0 She could tell by the look on my face that I was distressed and within two minutes, Kathy had sent one of her friends to go fetch some Bach\u2019s Rescue Remedy for me.\u00a0 From that moment, we somehow started to talk about healing, crystals and Rosicrucians – in the middle of the international market place at Canadian Music Week.<\/h3>\n

Since then, Kathy, me and my music have travelled together to Cannes, London, The Isle of Wight, Montreal and Brighton, where she got to meet Toni before she passed away.\u00a0 They also became friends and stayed in touch over Skype and Facebook. \u00a0Everyone I’ve ever written a song for always have one thing in common: they bring light into my life.\u00a0 So when the news travelled quickly that Kathy and her mum had lost their home and everything they owned \u2013 the words and the music just flew out of me.\u00a0 The song took as long to write as it takes to listen to.\u00a0 Just under five minutes. Because Kathy is a true friend.\u00a0\u2018Be There To Find You\u2019 was written as a reaction.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think about it.\u00a0 Until after I wrote it, and then I set up this fundraiser<\/a> to try and help her get back on her feet.<\/h3>\n