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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…

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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Chord sheets are now available for Our God Reigns and Friend To Me. Enjoy!

A full version of “Our God Reigns” from the EP is now avaiable to be streamed from my Myspace page.

If you’re not my friend already, go ahead and add me. I like friends.

And if you don’t already have a copy, remember that the EP is available to buy on our online store. I’m sure my producer, Andy, will even throw in a signed photo of himself if you request it.

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I thought I’d share this with everyone. Here’s what happens when Phonetix and Andy (EP producers) get bored in the studio.

It’s just a bit of fun.

Our God Reigns Remix

(Click to listen or right click and hit “save link as” or “download linked file” to download)

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For those of you a few months behind and havn’t yet discovered “Leeland,” I thought I’d recommend their debut album “Sound of Melodies” to you.

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Here’s a brief story behind the songs from the ep.

Mindful of Me

“Mindful of Me” is a song that I’d been wanting to write for a while. I’d wanted to write something with some kind of steady, straight rock feel to allow some room for some nice warm guitars with a big chorus.

The premise of the song is taken from Psalm 8, one of my favorite passages of scripture. I love the way David focuses on Gods majesty, glory and creativity and then responds by humbly asking the question, “What is man that you are mindful of him?”
For me, that’s the most phenomenal thing to try and comprehend. That the God who created the universe, who crafted this world and all that is within it into existence, should still be mindful of me and care about the details of my life.
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Here is a little chat with Tom about the release of the new E.P. To view it you will need Quicktime which is available here. (more…)