Trent Yaconelli’s Birdwings

Trent Yaconelli is putting together a solo project and he needs help.  Please go to this link to get all the info you will need to help a great songwriter get an album made. www.indieagogo.com/trent On his blog ‘Morphine Life Trent says: For years, while a member of the band Five A.M, I have been Read More …

JD is giving stuff away

No… not the sports shop…  Jonathan, my Something Beautiful Podcast co-host! Sparrow Records has offered up a collection of CDs from Charlie Hall (think Marvelous Light, Passion Conferences, etc.) for Jonathan to giveaway and he’d love you to enter!  Just head over to Jonathan’s Blog and do what it says.

15 albums that will stay with you forever

There is a meme bouncing around Facebook at the moment… The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me, because I’m interested in seeing what albums Read More …

solas 2010 update

JUST CONFIRMED – YVONNE LYON, JO MANGO, KITTY THE LION, MONICA QUEEN & THRUM, CALAMATEUR, BRIAN MCGLYNN, RORY BUTLER, SUPLEX THE KID and THE RUSSIAN CHOIR Music-lovers are going to be spoiled for choice at Solas! We’ve got rock, folk, gospel, jazz, blues, Americana, traditional Scots ballads, Gaelic waulking songs, post-rock, indie, Russian liturgical music Read More …

redemption stories

redemption stories is a collection of stories. There are words, pictures and verse, but all of them tell a story — a redemption story. We received input from Adele Sakler, Ben & Joy Thomas, Laura Bridge, Jason Duke, Adam Howie, Christine McIntosh, Trent Yaconelli, Emma Boyd, Angus S. Mathie, Paula Spur, Avril Cutler, Emma Boyd Read More …

what do you hear?

I love when you hear a lyric in a song as though you are hearing it for the first time. I was walking to a meeting this morning with my iPod on shuffle when an Editors song came on.  For me that’s always a good thing.  The song was Smokers Outside The Hospital from their Read More …

U2 360 on YouTube

Photo: Jonathan Blundell at www.casadeblundell.com/jonathan/ Last night U2 streamed the whole of their 360o concert from the Rose Bowl on YouTube, for free.  The stream is repeating at the moment and will then be available on demand for a couple of weeks. If you have the time (and you should make the time) have a Read More …