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http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002390000-2007410701,00.html

This is amazing!

I had the pleasure of attending Leeds Festival over the weekend. British Indie music is clearly at the height of it’s revival with more bands than you can shake a stick at, each offering their own version of cheeky, arrogant, guitar music you can dance to, it’s great but will it soon get tired? I hope there isn’t a pop revival like the late ninties. The headliners didn’t particularly interested me but there was a few good non-mainstream acts there, Seasick Steve, !!! (chk, chk, chk) and Battles were all entertaining. !!! certainly had me a dancing. For me the stand out band were a four piece, American outfit called Mute Math. They had a great mix of amazing musicianship (their drummer is a machine), athletic performance and awesome sound. Check them out…

Apologies once again for the lack of posts throughout August.

I have spent most of the summer away from home mostly working at the Soul Survivor festivals so blogging time has been reduced to well…..nothing.

However, I’m not one who likes to let people down, so make sure you CLICK HERE to see what I was involved with and visit the brand spanking new “Soul Survivor Underground” youtube channel - tip of the hat to Gareth for being such a machine.

tom

So David Beckham is now an LA Galaxy player and as a result, I’m sure that it is now only a matter of time before Americans have a glorious epiphany and gain a deep love for “soccer.” Hmm.

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Look at this two posts in one day! I have a confession to make, I tend not to like Christian music. I know that’s going to be a shocking revelation to some…sorry. For sure I like worship music but when I’m worshipping or focused on God. I find it strange as background music, normally if I have worship music on it’s at full volume and I’m screaming my lungs off to keep up with these guys. I don’t want to upset anyone I just find it odd to have worship music in the background at 5 on the volume, I know some people find it a real benefit to hear this all the time, one friend of mine talks about filling your house with praise and I would not for one minute criticise that concept. But….
Contemporary Christian Music or CCM (deary me even the genre sounds bad) I have a real problem with because it can be so bad, so often it’s getting something from the mainstream, trimming off the bits that are a bit dubious, throwing in some christian words and selling it to christians who think that anything with a back beat is of the Devil.
I think Tom might tell me off for being so cynical on here so I better get positive quickly, one word Switchfoot.

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Well finally Heroes has arrived on to Terrestrial TV in the UK and I advise anyone who has nothing to do on a Wednesday night or has access to a VCR or PVR (Sky+) to set it recording to BBC 2. It seems like quite a few people have watched it already and it could be a rating success for the channel. It’s nothing new in one sense as it is very close to the concept of the X-Men but it is done in a very different way so much so that my sister-in-law enjoys it. It’s action packed, plenty of twists and turns, a little gory in parts, good characters, some humour, suspense and there is even some interesting philosophies in there too. If you hate spoilers I’d avoid anything that even remotely mentions it on the internet.

Mark 14 tells one of my favourite little stories in the Bible. The writer tells us about a women who pours an expensive bottle of perfume over Jesus as a display of worship to him. I love the lessons that we can learn from this ladies heart. However, the other day, whilst reading this passage, I noticed something very significant in the setting of this story.

Verse three of Mark 14, can at first appear to be merely a trivial piece of information for the reader, however, it is in actual fact loaded with relevance.

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This past wekend I went to see the long awaited new Transformers movie. It was a good fun film to watch and I thoroughly enjoyed feeling like a 7 year old again for a couple of hours. The other day I saw a small boy playing with an Optimus Prime action figure and think I might have teared up a little at the sight.

Anyway, before the movie started, they showed the trailer for the currently untitled JJ Abrams film that is set for release in January. Looks like it’s gonna be pretty cool. Take a look at the linked preview below.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/medium.html

Just a quick note to let you know that we’re not dead, just been very busy.

Will be some new posts here very soon.