Some of Australia's and America’s leading rock musicians are showing their support to one of Australia’s finest session violinists, Wayne Goodwin, who has been debilitated physically and financially by non-hodgkins lymphoma since June 2007, with a relapse of the disease to his spinal fluid in October 2007. Wayne Goodwin discovered the aggressive cancer after it was triggered by tick bites whilst living on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.  
Much loved by the artists he has worked with during his illustrious career including: Crosby, Stills and Nash; Tony Bennett; INXS; Midnight Oil and Sting, Wayne’s talent has prompted his friends and music legends The Doobie Brothers, Graham Nash, Chicago, Emmylou Harris, Jimmy Buffet and John Mellencamp to donate collectable memorabilia to help raise funds for him and The Leukaemia Foundation at ‘A VERY BIG GIG’ on Sunday night August 3rd at Sydney’s landmark live music venue The Basement.
The Basement  has provided their venue and services free to bring together Australia’s leading music and comedic talent including: Ebb Tide and the Shorebreakers (Midnight Oil members Jim Moginie, Rob Hirst, Martin Rotsey), ‘Daddy Cool’ Ross Wilson, Ian Cooper, Dog Trumpet, The Atlantics, Good News Week’s Paul McDermott, Flacco and The Sandman, who have all worked closely with Wayne. The Basement gives everyone the chance to experience this fabulous line-up in an intimate and lively atmosphere.
Wendy Harmer will be auctioneering items including John Mellencamp’s autographed Fender Acoustic Guitar; a Fender autographed by the Doobie Bros and Chicago, framed T-Shirts signed by The Doobie Bros, Gibson Guitar Custom jacket signed by Emmylou Harris; rare X-Files TV Show memorabilia; signed cookbooks from celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay, Kylie Kwong, Tobie Puttock and Matt Skinner, accommodation packages at Establishment Hotel in Sydney and Jonah’s in Whale Beach, a Sony Bravia TV plus lots more.
Each year in Australia around 4300 people are diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma which has also affected well known Australians such as Delta Goodrem, making it the fifth most common cancer in Australia. In some cases people don't have any troubling symptoms and the disease is picked up during a routine chest x-ray. In Wayne’s case, the ongoing effect of the tick bites signaled trouble. Following breakthrough stem-cell replacement therapy, and the support of his friends and family, Wayne is in remission and making a slow comeback.
The Leukaemia Foundation will provide the opportunity to bid for the collectable items online for anyone who can’t be there on the night. Guitars and memorabillia being brought to Sydney express courtesy of World Courier who specialise in time critical transportation.

‘A VERY BIG GIG’
Tickets through The Basement or at the door.
Price: $50
Time: 5pm-10pm.
Date: Sunday August 3rd 
Venue: The Basement, 26 Reiby Place, Sydney.

STOP PRESS:
Some very rare X-Files memorabilia will soon be arriving from the States to be auctioned on Wayne's very special evening. Wayne's brother, Robert Goodwin was the producer on the X-Files and has given some rare items to auction on the evening. Below are details of the memorabilia with Bob's explanation of where they originated from:
 
HATS
Cast and crew hat, end of first season:
This is one of two hats issued toward the end of the first season of The X-Files, at a time when the show had gathered a small, but growing, circle of fans. This features the first use of what quickly became the traditional X-Files logo, with the X crossing the I in Files. These particular hats were part of an order shipped to our offices in Los Angeles and the studio in Vancouver and were given as gifts to the cast and crew. Soon after, these same style hats became commercially available to the fans. At this stage, we were a 'cult hit', as opposed to the world-wide major hit we became over the next few years.
 
Second unit hat, third or fourth season:
This hat is very rare. It was created by our second unit crew and was gifted to only a few of us lucky ones. Most second units in film and television are small companies that film stunt shots or insert shots (close-ups of important things like a gun in someone’s hand, or the glass vial with the weird extra-terrestrial chip taken from Scully’s neck, etc.). On The X-Files, the second unit was as big and complete as the first unit: multiple large vehicles (camera, grip, electric, props, make-up, costume trucks, etc.) and as big a crew. This was because we couldn’t complete most of the episodes in the eight calendar days we were allotted and had to shoot three or four or more days with the second unit of scenes that had not been completed.
 
SHIRTS
Beginning of first season, cast and crew shirt:
Very, very rare. This is one of the small run of shirts Chris Carter and I had made up for our cast and crew less than half-way into our first season. It has the giant X that was soon replaced with the logo with the smaller X that quickly became the standard that is seen everywhere. This was my personal shirt – it’s slightly faded from being washed several times. I have no idea why it’s so enormous. In those days I was skinny, unlike the more ample me that developed over the following years.
 
Second season, my director gift to crew on Episode 8:
Another rare shirt. It quickly became the habit on the show for individual producers, directors and actors to commission shirts for specific episodes or events. In the second season, I directed 'One Breath' – the episode where Scully was returned after being abducted for the previous three episodes (so Gillian Anderson could give birth to her daughter, Piper), but Scully was on life support and had a number of near-death experiences. Fans have called it the 'sacred' episode and often referred to Scully’s mother as Saint Margaret, who was played in the series by Sheila Larken (also Mrs. Bob Goodwin). Instead of some catch phrase, like all previous T-shirts displayed, I went simple and just put on 'T SHIRT'.
 
Fourth season, another rare one:
I made this T shirt for the cast and crew while directing the fourth season finale, 'Gethsemane'. In this episode, the body of an alien is found frozen in ice in a cave high in the mountains. We rented an abandoned cheese factory, lowered the temperature to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and built a set made of real ice and snow. It looked great but was a challenge to work in, hence the logo on the shirt.
 
For further information on the memorabilia contact Mary Finkelsen 0402 13 88 31