Cutty Sark concert fundraiser planned
A summer concert is being planned to help raise funds to rebuild the fire-ravaged Cutty Sark.
Organisers are hoping that musicians including local resident Jools Holland and Mick Jagger will sing at the gig to pay for the £25 million total cost of restoring the ship.
Stephen Archer of the Cutty Sark Trust told Life Style Extra: "These are the sort of names we have been targeting... Mick Jagger was born in Kent where the Cutty Sark was moored for some time, so we would love it if he performed."
However, he added that the line-up was yet to be finalised.
Hopes are high that there will be many musicians willing to play the gig after the blaze struck a chord among the public, who have already raised £500,000 for the restoration work since the fire.
Police are investigating the possibility that the ship was targeted by an arsonist and described the fire as "suspicious".
Luckily the 138-year-old tea clipper was already undergoing restoration work which meant that about half of the ship was unaffected by the inferno, including the sails, masts and figurehead.
However, previous plans to lift the ship and enclose it in a glass canopy will still have to be delayed by a year until 2010.
