Backgrounds behind song words – yes or no?

By Guest Blogger | July 20, 2011

I was delighted to find the post below on Jamie Brown’s excellent blog. It reminded me of a discussion we had here way back about the usefulness of images behind words in worship. Its a particularly pertinent post for us as we’re about to launch our some new Worship Backing Band products which will include […]

Wedding function bands – can you really pull it off?

By Andy@Musicademy | April 6, 2011

Following on from last weeks’ discussion about musicians being paid to play at weddings, I wanted to bring the subject of wedding function bands to the table. Now at Musicademy we have a function band comprised of professional musicians that play at weddings, birthdays and other celebrations. We charge a set fee depending on the […]

Its a mad, mad, mad, mad world – Nick Langley on slash chords

By Guest Blogger | February 28, 2011

A quick word about slash chords. Well, a word about slash chords. Or two. Having spent a dozen years in the musical wilderness, the thought of “Slash” chords filled me with rock ‘n’ roll anticipation: Yeehah! There was I expecting free Les Paul gold-tops, a “marlie” tech who’d rush on in between songs stuffing Marlborough […]

127 hours (or at least it felt like that)

By Guest Blogger | February 18, 2011

Only kidding! The title is truly awful and an extremely tenuous link, but it was the first thing that came to mind. However, Mrs. Wife and I did recently attend a Moving Picture House to see the wonderfully sublime, The King’s Speech. It was, quite simply, brilliant. I’m not ordinarily given to gushing, but I […]

Me, worship and Jesus (though not necessarily in that order!)

By Guest Blogger | January 24, 2011

Paranoia is abjectly useless! Most emotions or thought processes at least serve some sort of purpose: fear can protect us from harm, injury or death; empathy enables us to enrich the lives of others, but paranoia is just utterly pointless. Picture, if you will, a 37 year old, hung-over, perspiring, middle-class man. Head bowed, not […]