The dreaded “whoah” section. You’re standing shoulder-to-shoulder on a Sunday morning with a friendly stranger, trying to get your mouth and vocal cords around another new song, and then you see it flash up on the screen. “Whoah! Whoah! Whoah!” Just to confirm, the worship leader encourages everyone, “Ok everyone, let’s lift our voices, sing … More Worship songs that go “whoah”
Following the release of the song story video for ‘Holy Overshadowing’ a couple of days ago, Make Way Music have just released the full performance I gave with Graham Kendrick, Mark Prentice and Terl Bryant. It was lots of fun going to film it. Credit for the arrangement goes to those guys – when I … More New Song Video – Holy Overshadowing
By way of a very brief update, it’s not long now until I will be able to send off my new EP to the press, and upload it to Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon MP3 and Spotify. I’m just waiting on the artwork, which is in progress. The working title is Where I Am Free, and will include … More An update on my new EP
I was really privileged to be able to take part in a new series of films which Graham Kendrick has been releasing over the last few weeks, including song stories and performances. I was brought in to help tell the story of how ‘Holy Overshadowing’ came about, which you can see below. This song has … More New Song Story video – Holy Overshadowing
I remember having a hard time explaining to Joe Blanchard who Charles Wesley was. I met Joe at the Christian Union but he went to a different church on Sundays. “He wrote hymns,” I started. “Hymns?” “Yeah. Old worship songs!” “Oh right! Like ‘How Great Is Our God’?” “Um, no, not that one.” “Oh right. … More Who Is Charles Wesley?
I’ve just come back from Ichthus Revive 2014 where we were so privileged to welcome Argentinian revivalist Carlos Annacondia and his team for his first ever visit to the UK. I’m shattered now so will keep this brief: I introduced a song called “This is the day of salvation” at the conference, so for anyone … More New song – lyrics and music on the way
We seem to have a tendency in modern worship songs to want to write simple statements like “God, you’re so good,” or “Your love is so vast” or something – statements that try to capture how big and how wonderful this love of our God is as we’ve discovered it. Often though, if you’re anything like … More Singing “Our God reigns” in a world of genocide
Hi folks The good people at Crown Lane Studio offered the competition prize of a music video shoot, and I was very pleased when they announced that I had won it! I decided to go for the first song on my latest EP, called “You Are With Me”. So here’s me performing it, shot nicely … More New Music Video “You Are With Me”
As readers will know, last year I released my second EP Invitation, and was very involved with two other big releases from our church – an album of live worship, and an album of Christmas Gospel arrangements. These were exciting projects, and the EP especially pushed me to be expanding my listening and assessment of … More 2013: Music I discovered last year
It is with great pleasure that I can announce that not one but TWO new albums have arrived in the land of the living from Ichthus Christian Fellowship! Those of us on the core team who put it all together are immensely pleased with the results. See below for more information about each album.
Ben David Trigg 