Gosh its been a while!!!
Easter to be exact, now quite alot has happened since then!
Including alot of trips to wales, obv working every day, and drumming at many many differnt places!
I had the honor of being a part of the revival that broke out in Dudley, and drummed there at the end of July for the weekend, and am infact going back to drum again at the start of October.
Various cool events with THRE3, including Marks Tey (poss my fav gig yet) where everyone was just going for it,
and also the Tiptree Youth Fair, which was just fun! playing Rain Down to the people of Tiptree : )
We also played in Germany (as im SURE most of you will have heard about by now)
which was just an unreal weekend, and then again at the opening of the CO1 event.
I have always enjoyed drumming, its like a differnt side of me that comes out just for an hour, but the last few gigs have been something else, letting go of literaly everything (excpet my sticks) and being able to lay into my drum kit, no matter whats happened that day, who is watching, whateva the tech problems have been, ive lost all self awareness, which for me is a very hard thing to go of. We have played to various differnt crowds, both large and small, at the CO1 gig, there maybe wasnt as many people as we were hoping for, and because of this, we decided we wouldnt change into our 'gig clothes'.
But during a bit of worship before, i could see Jason was really thinking about this, and it was playing with my mind too, why would we not give our 100% all to God because of a few people not turing up? it made no sense what so ever. And so we both agreed, we would get changed because we wernt there to play to these people anyway. People always say "well your playing to an audience of ONE" which when your playing to a smaller crowd, starts to really make sense. So, as we always seem to do now, just totally went for it. and gave God all 110% that he deserved.
Oh, and ive bought a new China cymbal!! 20"!
my goodness is that a bad boy sound : )
The next 2 and a half months sees no free weekends, including more trips to Wales & Dudley, various worship events, and also hopefully meeting my cousin for the first time : )
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Easter!!
Well, its easter afternoon, and there is snow falling and snow men being created!
quite odd really...
Well support for THRE3 is now becomeing very strong, its very strange, people who don't actually know you telling you to "keep up the good work" and stuff!
As a band we are becoming quite close off stage which in turn is meaning we are getting better and better on stage, its a nice progression.
We played at a gig called Genex with collective, last saturday, and everyone there was so up for it, was a great night, and (thanks to mark and simon) we got some fantastic live photos out of it.
We are now coming up with more ideas for live sets and planning stuff that we might want to see happening in a worship time, which is very cool, its kinda at the stage where, ok we have led good worship, now we wanna take it a bit further, and really get into seeing God doing amazing amazing things with his people.
We had our first studio photoshoot yesterday! very funny, but some good results, i seem to be able to do the moody look pretty well...
Things to come:
We are leading worship at Clacton Elim in a few weeks, which im looking forward to, they are a great bunch of people and really love worshiping God.
More writing/recording will be happening, and finally getting our EP done!
here comes the photos! (of which more can be found on facebook:
quite odd really...
Well support for THRE3 is now becomeing very strong, its very strange, people who don't actually know you telling you to "keep up the good work" and stuff!
As a band we are becoming quite close off stage which in turn is meaning we are getting better and better on stage, its a nice progression.
We played at a gig called Genex with collective, last saturday, and everyone there was so up for it, was a great night, and (thanks to mark and simon) we got some fantastic live photos out of it.
We are now coming up with more ideas for live sets and planning stuff that we might want to see happening in a worship time, which is very cool, its kinda at the stage where, ok we have led good worship, now we wanna take it a bit further, and really get into seeing God doing amazing amazing things with his people.
We had our first studio photoshoot yesterday! very funny, but some good results, i seem to be able to do the moody look pretty well...
Things to come:
We are leading worship at Clacton Elim in a few weeks, which im looking forward to, they are a great bunch of people and really love worshiping God.
More writing/recording will be happening, and finally getting our EP done!
here comes the photos! (of which more can be found on facebook:
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Feb / March
Well things are really really starting to happen!!
As Jason says as a joke after every gig..."another gig, another booking"
But it really feels like that! We (THRE3) are being booked up for all kinds of projects and events all over the place, its totally mental!
Here are some pics of our travels....
The pics are:
saturday night project
hope accademy
feb xalt
cyo open evening with collective
On top of all that, we are now getting down and writing, what i feel are some top quality tunes. Songs like Cant Wait and Greatness Astounds, so full of passion and feeling. Greatness Astounds is prob my fav. you can hear them on the THRE3 facebook music page.
As Arthur Blessitt so rightly put it on Sunday night....one step at a time : )
As Jason says as a joke after every gig..."another gig, another booking"
But it really feels like that! We (THRE3) are being booked up for all kinds of projects and events all over the place, its totally mental!
Here are some pics of our travels....
The pics are:
saturday night project
hope accademy
feb xalt
cyo open evening with collective
On top of all that, we are now getting down and writing, what i feel are some top quality tunes. Songs like Cant Wait and Greatness Astounds, so full of passion and feeling. Greatness Astounds is prob my fav. you can hear them on the THRE3 facebook music page.
As Arthur Blessitt so rightly put it on Sunday night....one step at a time : )
Monday, January 28, 2008
End of Jan
Almost the end of January!
And i finally got a job! starts on the 4th of Feb, very happy bout that!
2 nights ago was Xalt, in which THRE3 led the worship, and it was good!
We are now focusing on writing and recording our EP, while also planning for events such as the Saturday Night Project (9th Feb) and the CYO Open Evening (3rd March).
More events and bookings keep coming in, which we are just blown away by really haha!
here are some pics from xalt....
And i finally got a job! starts on the 4th of Feb, very happy bout that!
2 nights ago was Xalt, in which THRE3 led the worship, and it was good!
We are now focusing on writing and recording our EP, while also planning for events such as the Saturday Night Project (9th Feb) and the CYO Open Evening (3rd March).
More events and bookings keep coming in, which we are just blown away by really haha!
here are some pics from xalt....
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
since last blog...
hello!
well since i last put those pics up the following things have happened!...
I have been to a Delirious? gig, which was awesome as ever.
Jasons back garden studio has been completed.
The 7 on the end of 2007 has changed to an 8.
I have been writing some new songs for the Thre3 EP.
I have ordered a new drum stool.
Been to Kristian and Sophies wedding (I drummed at it aswell)
thats about it!
Things to come...
Xalt this month on the 26th, which Thre3 are leading worship!!
We are planning songs/sets/tracks as we speak! will be a good one.
There are lots of other things in the pipeline aswell, which is really exciting!
well since i last put those pics up the following things have happened!...
I have been to a Delirious? gig, which was awesome as ever.
Jasons back garden studio has been completed.
The 7 on the end of 2007 has changed to an 8.
I have been writing some new songs for the Thre3 EP.
I have ordered a new drum stool.
Been to Kristian and Sophies wedding (I drummed at it aswell)
thats about it!
Things to come...
Xalt this month on the 26th, which Thre3 are leading worship!!
We are planning songs/sets/tracks as we speak! will be a good one.
There are lots of other things in the pipeline aswell, which is really exciting!
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Monday, December 03, 2007
Into December !!
hmm, well some houses seem to have put up thier pathetic christmas lights so it cant be far away now!
I've just had a pretty amazing, challenging, knackering and inspiring weekend...
First of all Friday night, i spent in Bury St Edmunds with my old friend Hannah,
she is an amazing person, used to be a christian but has fallen away, and yet in almost everything she says, its almost like theres still something inside of her clinging onto it. Had many many powerful chats with her over the years. My conclusion with her is that its no longer my job to save her, because only she and God can do that, which is a bit of a relief really, all i can do is be there for her, which i will continue to do.
I trust Gods got it sorted, so its over to Him...
Saturday started poorly with a 7-2 trashing for my football team, but its ok cause its all about the taking part...
Saturday evening was Sophie from Collectives leaving do, in which me, Dad, Jason and Tom performed one of thier dances,
after 2 months practice, my word we were good!
Sunday morning saw the return of the PA guy inside Dan! as David was drumming, enjoyed it alot! gave the skin on my hands a breather as some of it was starting to fall off....opps..
Then Sunday evening Thre3 played at Clacton Elim, quite simply the nicest bunch of people you will ever met, the pastor is a bald scotish bolk called steve, total legend.
It was a baptism service so there were lots of people there.
It was an amazing night, we were blessed, they were blessed, God was blessed, everyone is a winner!
This is a church where a drum kit is a bit of an alian feature in worship, and some of the older members wernt to sure when they walked in to see Jason and Lee's amps stacked as high as the people playing them.
But such was the atmosphere of excitment in that place before we had played one note, that the whole place just went for it, and the singing from the church almost drowned us out, which is a hard thing to do!
Loved it there, cant wait to go back
Playing at Essex Uni this Wed with the Xalt band and next Wed with Thre3,
Drumming tonight, obv Wed, Friday night, Saturday, Sunday morning, Monday night and then Wed again. Thank You God.
I've just had a pretty amazing, challenging, knackering and inspiring weekend...
First of all Friday night, i spent in Bury St Edmunds with my old friend Hannah,
she is an amazing person, used to be a christian but has fallen away, and yet in almost everything she says, its almost like theres still something inside of her clinging onto it. Had many many powerful chats with her over the years. My conclusion with her is that its no longer my job to save her, because only she and God can do that, which is a bit of a relief really, all i can do is be there for her, which i will continue to do.
I trust Gods got it sorted, so its over to Him...
Saturday started poorly with a 7-2 trashing for my football team, but its ok cause its all about the taking part...
Saturday evening was Sophie from Collectives leaving do, in which me, Dad, Jason and Tom performed one of thier dances,
after 2 months practice, my word we were good!
Sunday morning saw the return of the PA guy inside Dan! as David was drumming, enjoyed it alot! gave the skin on my hands a breather as some of it was starting to fall off....opps..
Then Sunday evening Thre3 played at Clacton Elim, quite simply the nicest bunch of people you will ever met, the pastor is a bald scotish bolk called steve, total legend.
It was a baptism service so there were lots of people there.
It was an amazing night, we were blessed, they were blessed, God was blessed, everyone is a winner!
This is a church where a drum kit is a bit of an alian feature in worship, and some of the older members wernt to sure when they walked in to see Jason and Lee's amps stacked as high as the people playing them.
But such was the atmosphere of excitment in that place before we had played one note, that the whole place just went for it, and the singing from the church almost drowned us out, which is a hard thing to do!
Loved it there, cant wait to go back
Playing at Essex Uni this Wed with the Xalt band and next Wed with Thre3,
Drumming tonight, obv Wed, Friday night, Saturday, Sunday morning, Monday night and then Wed again. Thank You God.
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