jonnybaker

linkage and worship trick 31 - sunday

a few news/link type things...

mike morris has started blogging.

beyond church has had it's first worship gathering that looks like it was a lot of fun. and their next event should be hilarious with the brilliant comedian milton jones...

ian adams is branching out into other creative areas and projects offering spiritual direction amongst other things

moby gratis is free music from moby for non commercial ventures. it's film score type stuff - ideal for worship background?

20 questions to use in a small group to get to know people

and darren wright has a whole worship experience called sunday that is free and downloadable. it was originally used at the australian black stump festival. i am making that worship trick 31

1 giant leap tv series on channel 4

starting this week on april 23on channel 4 is a series of 7 tv programmes from 1 giant leap . their first album and dvd was brilliant - a window into world music and global culture but whilst still remianing contemporary. looks like an album and feature film is also to follow...

[update: you can watch the episodes here]

haronell - new album on proost

this month's new proost content is an album harronell. 15 tracks by laurence keith from sheffield make up a beautiful, soulful and emotional debut with guitar and piano often used to minimal effect creating a sense of space. if you want musical references i was thinking blue nile or album leaf. go and have a listen in the media player. if you want to dive in try the track archangel which i absolutely love or graves. you can listen to the whole of archangel at laurence's myspace page

you may remember we ran a project unusual suspects when we relaunched last august with three talented and as yet unpublished artists. well the project continues and laurence is the first unusual suspect of 2008. we have lifted the age limit on it as we have met several people a little above the 25 age we had set who are creating wonderful stuff.

unkle brilliant!

well i finally got to see UNKLE last night in brixton and it was a fantastic gig...

a wonderful set up, great visuals, a band that absolutely rocked along, and guest vocal appearances from several people including ian brown who came on to sing reign and falling. they played most of the classics along with loads from war stories, one of my favourite albums of last year. james lavelle seemed to be loving the whole thing...

(thanks to mike for the pic bluetoothed from his phone on the way back)

rainydayz

amplive rainydayz remixes of in rainbows - free!

birthday drink, sacrifice and warming up for tom middleton

joel winning the open dex heat at the big chill bar gets to play a 2 hour set at the big chill bar (as well as competing in the final in july).

so he is playing from 4-6pm on sunday 24 feb at the big chill bar. the next day is my birthday so i am combining it with celebrating with a birthday drink (as is fellow grace friend paul wainwright for whom it is his actual birthday). so if you around and fancy it, come along and join us.

the sacrifice is that chelsea are playing tottenham in the cup final at the same time!!!! so i will have to watch the highlights later i guess...

joel is fairly excited because one of his DJ heroes and big chill legend tom middleton is DJing his top 100 tunes that evening so i guess joel is his warm up act (scroll down the what's on page)

he won!

open dex at the big chill bar, originally uploaded by jonnybaker.

cntrst [joel] in the open dex contest at the big chill bar last night. he won!!!! this was heat 1 - he will be in a final in july. the winner gets to play at the big chill festival. congrats joel...

cntrst end of year mix

joel has done an end of year mix of his favourite dance tunes of 2007

you can view his podcast here or subscribe in itunes as there will probably be further podcasts in 08

[i'm hoping he doesn't crash my bandwidth on typepad as i have no idea how much i get!]

the track listing is on a blog entry on his myspace page and you can catch him DJing on voodoo freqs every sunday night from 9pm to 11pm (uk time)

there's no place like home...

in february 1998 i visited palestine/israel. what i saw and heard shocked me and when i returned i recorded an angry sad album backbone telling the stories of those encounters. backbone is still one of the albums i am most proud of (and has sold the least copies!!!!).

anyway adam cleaveland sent me a link to a video he made using the track 'home' which he has put on youtube here with photos and video footage from his visit in 2005.

the track is sung in two halves. the first is sung by me as a zionist jew returning to the promised land, seeing the palestinians as the equivalemnt to the canaanites to be driven out in the name of god. the second half is sung by jon as muhanna arab, a palestinian i met who had seen his house and land destroyed and then lived in a beaten up caravan which was regularly stoned by the settlers. he also sings of ibrahim who we met - i have a stone from his house that had been bulldozed by israeli soldiers after spending 5 years building it. he asked us to take a stone to remember and tell the story. the chorus is 'there's no place like home'.

sadly it seems very little has changed in nearly 10 years. this video brought it all back to me...

radiohead live over new year

if you're home alone to see in the new year then rumour has it that radiohead will be performing in rainbows live on radiohead.tv

i am happy to say i managed to get tickets to see them in june in london...