text: A music fan inspired by the recent glut of crowdfunding campaigns from Foo Fighters fans has launched his own effort to keep Nickelback from London.The Canadian band, fronted by Chad Kroeger, do not currently have any scheduled dates in the capital and Craig Mandell is hoping to keep it that way. He is hoping to raise $1000 (£626) in order to keep the band out of London for the foreseeable future.On the Tilt page – headed 'Don't Let Nickel Back' – Mandell, who is a friend of Andrew Goldin who successfully used the same method to bring Foo Fighters to Richmond, Virginia in September, explains his game plan. "With your help, we can ensure that the band do not schedule any gigs here, do not attempt to come here – nor even phone here," he writes."Just imagine, thousands – perhaps tens of thousands of music lovers – all not witnessing an exclusive concert by Nickelback in London. It will be glorious."Those who contribute to the scheme will have an email sent on their behalf to Nickelback's management. The severity of the message in the email depends on how much money is contributed. Mandell has given himself until November 3 to raise the funds. At the time of writing he has received no funding.Meanwhile, the crowdfunding campaign to bring Foo Fighters to Cornwall has reached its target of £150,000 in just two days . However, the organisers must now convince the band to agree to play a show in the English county. ||||| Correction appended, October 7, 2014 
   
   Nickelback doesn't have any shows scheduled in London right now, and if one man gets his way, the much-maligned band will never have any shows in London again. 
   
   Inspired by a recent Tilt campaign, that brought the Foo Fighters to Charlottesville, VA for a previously unscheduled gig, Craig Mandell has created a Tilt crowd-funding campaign to prevent Nickelback from returning to his city. 
   
   The campaign, titled “Don’t Let Nickel Back,” hopes to discourage the Canadian band from playing in London through a barrage of emails. For every $1 donated to the cause, Mandell will send one email to Nickelback. A $5 donation gets you a “slightly more forceful email” while a $50 contribution “will result in an email to Nickleback with an attached mp3 of Nickelback’s music. This way, the band will hear their own music, and likely retire immediately, thereby ensuring the success of our campaign.” 
   
   “Just imagine, thousands – perhaps tens of thousands of music lovers – all not witnessing an exclusive concert by Nickelback in London,” wrote Mandell. “It will be glorious.” 
   
   Mandell states on the page that the campaign is not for his own profit. "All proceeds will go to charity," the site says. "Or perhaps therapy for those who've been affected by the band." 
   
   (h/t NME ) 
   
   The original version of this story misidentified the crowd-funding platform. It was Tilt.
target: – It seems almost everyone dislikes Nickelback, but one London man apparently hates them more than most: Craig Mandell launched a crowdfunding campaign with the sole aim of keeping the Canadian band out of his city, Time reports. "Don't Let Nickel Back," which is being funded on the Kickstarter-like platform Tilt, has a goal of $1,000. For every $1 received, Mandell will email Nickelback's management on the donor's behalf "kindly requesting that they do not play in London, England, for the foreseeable future." For $5, you get a "slightly more forceful email" sent on your behalf; for $10, an email "full of explicit phrases and lots of capital letters and maybe even a rude emoticon or two." But the pièce de résistance: For a $50 contribution, Mandell will send an email to Nickelback ... with an mp3 of the band's own music attached. "This way, the band will hear their own music, and likely retire immediately," he writes. Mandell was inspired by a recent crowdfunding campaign that convinced the Foo Fighters to play a previously nonexistent show—something he does not want to see happen with Nickelback. Mandell is actually friends with the organizer of that campaign, NME reports. As for the money he raises (he's currently only at $189), Mandell says he's not in the market for "personal profit" and will donate it to charity—"or perhaps therapy for those who've been affected by the band." (Could U2 be heading for Nickelback's fate?)