Metallica Launches UK Blood Drive Ahead of June 28 Cardiff Show

7 articles · Updated · BBC.com · May 26

Dedicated donation sessions will run across Wales in the week before and after Metallica’s June 28 concert at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, with the band urging fans to give blood and plasma.
The campaign is expanding beyond Wales through England’s NHS Blood and Transplant and the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service to align with the band’s London and Glasgow tour dates.
Metallica said the UK effort is its first collaboration with British blood services, following similar drives in the US and Australia that raised awareness and, in one Philadelphia stop, collected 152 units.
UK blood services said the push targets a constant need for donations because blood lasts only 35 days and is critical for cancer patients, new mothers, people with sickle cell disease and emergencies.

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