Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, Friday 15 June - Sunday 17 June 2018 What we did on our Church Weekend I've always been into the Blues. So much so that I spell it with a capital B. The Blues is not just a music, not just a feeling: The Blues is more personal than that. One …
Category: Music
God is with us
My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback Machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 24 December 2012 Blogging through Advent 19 God is with us Holy Trinity Huddersfield, 23 December 2012 Today we had …
A Rotten Councillor
A Rotten Councillor My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 3 May 2012 Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. On Christmas Day 1977, the Sex Pistols played their last …
Hold on fast
40 blogs of Lent - Day 16 Hold on fast Messages to the churches - Day 15 Thyatira - Day 3 I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. ... But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this …
New toy
This is it. It is a new cymbal, for the technically minded it is a Sabian Pro Studio 17" crash. Neighbours beware.
Why I am a musician
It is down to my mother. Mum never, as far as I know, ever played a musical instrument, or even showed any desire to do so, but she sang and sang. She sang when doing the housework and sang along with the radio. She did stop singing now and again, to watch cricket, or to …
Church percussion
This was the setup today at church: On the left from top to bottom. Mein HCS 8" splash. This is made of brass, the rest are bronze. Brass cymbals are cheap, but sound cheap. But trashy and cheap is exactly what you want from a splash cymbal, it is only used for accents. Meinl make …
Singing
... or how to grow a congregation. Like it or not, music is important in the life of a local church. It is one of the things that helps congregations to grow, and also one of the things that divides. Getting the negative bit out of the way, forcing a congregation into a style of music …
New instument
I have just put a deposit on a new instrument, one of these: What I like is that it is ancient and modern, modern electronic sounds and samples triggered from a traditional folk instrument. http://www.roland.co.uk/products/el_cajon_ec-10/ It will arrive in about two weeks. Then I can start playing with it. I am going to do this …
Too many tenors
One of the delights of pop music is it is easy to sing along to. And catch: Many are the earworms I have been unable to shake from my head. The problem is that for years I have been unable to sing along. My singing voice is in too low a register. Too many tenors …
Making an ass of myself 