Neil Alton
I’ve known Neil for about 10 years or so since I booked him to play with his then band Nervous Passenger for the 1st Crossover. Since that first time hearing Neil I’ve been hooked. Here he is playing Hallelujah:
Category: Music
Things re-discovered
I’ve has a busy weekend and in between preaching at Dunfermline (thanks for the tie!) and visiting parents (thanks for a lovely meal!) I rediscovered some things forgotten. I watched the Masters Golf. I’m not sure I’ve watched it so much as I did this year for ages. For me the Masters seems to hold Read More …
Christian Art?
I met with an old friend (as in someone I’ve been friends with for ages not that he is old) I haven’t seen in years today. Clive was a student of mine, then a colleague for a while, then someone who’s band I booked and told people about and then we lost touch. Facebook to Read More …
mixtape club
The Church of the Exiles have a brilliant mixtape club! People who go along to their meetings are encouraged to make a CD of their favourite tracks and they swap so people can both discover something about the person who makes the mix and maybe also some new music. Brilliant idea!
Lent
I know lent is a whole month away but in a stunning act of forward thinking I was looking through my files and came across these images by Si Smith illustrating Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness. They are fantastic and also make a pretty cool movie if you stick them in movie maker or Read More …
Running To Stand Still
‘Scream Without Raising Your Voice’ comes from one of my favourite U2 songs, Running To Stand Still from the Joshua Tree album. I’ve always seen it as part of a set… It comes after Bullet The Blue Sky on the CD and mostly the two appear in the same order in U2’s live shows. Bullet Read More …
Wanderer
We watched the Jonny Cash bio Walk The Line the other night. What a brilliant film. I don’t know much about Cash but the movie was very engaging. Bono wrote a song for Cash called The Wanderer and it’s on the Zooropa album, performed by Cash himself. You should search it out. It is a Read More …