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Song recommendations

2010-03-09T13:47:00.003Z

Check out these great worship songs on the new 'Discover Vineyard Worship' release from our colleagues across the pond:

Jesus' Name
Clean
All I Have

Burn Band Videos

2009-12-22T11:21:00.002Z

You're The Love

Falling In Love With You

Beautiful

Cage Free or Free Range?

2009-11-01T15:36:00.000Z

This article has been written by Alex MacDougall.
Alex is a veteran of the US Christian Music Business not only as a Musician, but also in management, especially in marketing and A&R. Alex has been associated with the Vineyard since 1996 and has been part of some of the most successful recording projects in the history of the Industry. However first and foremost Alex loves worship in the local church.

Have you ever wondered the difference is between Free Range Chickens and Cage Free Chickens? If you've been confused at your local grocer over this quandry, let me help you. "Free Range", according to the USDA, means that the chicken has had access to the outside, but is not necessarily grown outside. "Cage Free", on the other hand, is a commercial designation identifying the chicken as not being grown in a battery cage. Both designations have come about over the past few years as a direct result of the "inhumane treatment" of chickens. Which brings me to my point.

Churches with drum cages are inhumane! The plexiglass world that drummers animate themselves in should be the LAST on anyone's list of acoustic problem solvers, yet have increasingly become the first solution that music ministers, worship leaders and pastors are much too quick to adopt.

Recently, as a listener and worshiper, I've personally been subjected to 3 separate and horrific drum setups. In one, the drummer was placed in a completely separate ROOM, with a large plate glass in front of him. He was isolated enough for a studio recording to take place. At another church, the drum cage had a roof on it so low that the drummer had to hunch over to get behind his drums. You couldn't even hear him, but he was moving his arms, so I guess he was playing. And finally, the ultimate sentence to drummers, a church with TWO enclosures- both with roofs! The first cage for the drummer and the second for the poor percussionist. You could see his shaker and tambourine on a stand next to his wind chimes. His domicile was located next to where the brass section sat. I wondered what these monsters must do to deserve such treatment!

I detest these cages. I abhor them.
The presense of one of them tells me that...

1. As a drummer, I am not trusted to possess any sense of musical dynamics or sensitivity, or any reasonable disciplines of nuance.

2. I am out of control and a "rogue" on the platform, and do not know how to work with the venue, players and singers.

3. What I do is offensive to the ears of the congregation, and not necessarily a calling given to me from the Lord.

4. I am not a valued member of the worship team, nor do I need to really participate in the worship experience. They are simply placating me.

5. The PA system and house mixer are sophisticated and amazing, and I don't need to be worried about being heard. The pristine skills of the part time mixer are well-honed and his/her ears are finely tuned instruments in themselves.

King David said to MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE and TO PRAISE HIM ON LOUD CYMBALS. Not obnoxious cymbals mind you, but loud nevertheless.

What if guitar players were told to wear a blanket over their instrument, or were forced to use a frozen dill pickle chip in lieu of a guitar pick? What if a pastor with a high-pitched or harsh voice had their microphone run through a digital device to "smooth-out" their tone? Perhaps King David's tambourine, cymbal and drum players should have been relegated to a tent on the side of the palace. Selah.

I learned to play drums during a time when the ride cymbal had many more possible sounds than simply beating on it like a trash can lid. The cymbal had various areas and characteristics to it. A rim. A bell. The top. The edge. Underneath. Ridges. You learned about how to read a room, play with finesse and dynamics, and control yourself. You learned to provide a foundation AND COLOR the music where appropriate. I agree with Carl Albrecht's (see Worship Musician July/August 2009 issue) call for drummers to become more versitile and flexible to their churches acoustic needs. Using "smaller venue" kits, cymbals and drums (if you have that kind of money), and building your stick bag to include brushes, mallets and hot-rods, is sound advice. You can also modify your playing to include some drums and hand percussion. In short, know how to creatively ADAPT to the situation. I've been in circumstances where I only used a cymbal, conga, and some hand percussion, and it all worked out great. But the immediate "fix" of acrylic panels and enclosures is a degrading solution to anyone serious about music or worship drumming as a calling.

How many churches and venues are still "Cage Free"? I suspect fewer by the day. With such a beautiful legacy of historically causing the arts to flourish, I think this time the church has adopted an egg.

Worship Team Leaders and Pastors...Think outside the box!
And Drummers...Pursue cage free! ADAPT, don't adopt.

"Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel,
but on a candlestick; and it gives light unto all that are in the home". (Mt. 5:15)

Reprint used by permission of Christian Musician Magazine

Editors Note : Personally I play drums behind a screen like this twice a month, and I think that there are occasions where the screen are the right thing to do. However I do agree with Alex that they are far to prevalent and often used in situations where they really aren't necessary. On the occasions when I do get to play outside "the cage" I have to say its feels much more like the band is together.

Please do let us know your thoughts on screens and send in your drummer jokes to and we will try and post some of them on the blog. Email dave[dot]mitchell[at]vineyardrecords[dot]co[dot]uk

Post Strike - Expecting Pick Up Today.

2009-10-23T11:21:00.001+01:00

We are expecting a pick up of our post today (23rd Oct). All orders are being sent 1st class to minimise any delays caused by the strike action.

Royal Mail Strikes

2009-10-21T14:50:00.003+01:00

So It looks like we will be having Royal Mail strikes on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd - any orders placed during this period will be sent as soon as the service is available again.

Full details of the strike action can be found on the Royal Mail website here.

Should all be back towards a normal service by Monday 26th October.

Free 5 Song EP Download

2009-10-16T13:37:00.002+01:00

We are constantly looking for new songs and new ways to get them into the hands of worshippers, so this autumn we are giving away a 5 song EP of new songs and ones you might have missed.

Get the EP at vineyardrecords.co.uk/newsongs

Available as a free download, these mp3's and the PDF chord book are only free for a limited period of time – on 1 December 2009, they will still be available but there will be a cost to purchase them. So, if you know of any worship leaders (or anyone else for that matter) who would be interested in getting some new songs to learn, let them know about this before then!

Do let us know which songs are your favourites. Drop a line to info[AT]vineyardrecords[DOT]co[DOT]uk

New SongTeach.com

2009-10-08T12:18:00.003+01:00

We have a newly designed SongTeach website live, and lots of new videos on their way.

The new site is easier to navigate and there are no more annoying pop ups for the videos to display. Plus you can now subscribe to an RSS feed so you will know as soon as any new videos are posted.

If you all ready have an account your existing user-name and password should work - but if you have forgotten anything just pop your email address in here and we will email you your details.http://songs.vineyardrecords.co.uk/vruk/user/password

Take a look at www.songteach.com and let us know what you think at songteach@vineyardrceords.co.uk

New Review of Trent Live - Burn Bright

2009-09-29T16:53:00.002+01:00

A new review of Trent Live Burn Bright has been posted up at http://www.everythingchristian.co.uk/

Take a look and if that has wet you appetite you can get the DVD/CD here...

http://www.vineyardrecords.co.uk/vruk-shop/trent-live-burn-bright-dvdcd

Or just the music on iTunes...

Photos from Greenbelt this year

2009-09-03T13:40:00.002+01:00

This August bank holiday Trent played at Greenbelt in the Centaur venue. As ever, they played a cracking set and pulled in a big crowd/congregation especially for a morning slot.

Check out the photos from this and their acoustic slot in the G-Music tent below.

New Shop

2009-08-27T08:57:00.002+01:00

After about 6 months of fighting with our new website about a month ago we made the decision to abandon it and move to another system. To those of you who were effected by the glitch we are very sorry.

Rest assured that the safety of your information is always our very highest priority and throughout the change there has been no compromise in our security.

Massive thanks have to go to Nick at zumzing.com who has been working night and day to get the new site up and running - and make the change as smooth as possible. You should only notice slight differences.

Your user-name and password are the same as they were before if you have shopped with us before, but you can easily get a new password here if you need one.

https://www.vineyardrecords.co.uk/vruk-shop/user/password

Thanks

Books @ VRUK

2009-08-06T11:38:00.001+01:00

We now have a range of books including books by John Wimber available at the VRUK shop.

Have a look at the range here...

New GBG Songbook

2009-07-15T14:34:00.004+01:00

The new Great Big God Piano songbook has arrived in stock, after a short wait with customs.

For the first time EVERY song recorded on a Great Big God CD or DVD can be found in one place.

Just to prove it has arrived here is a mobile phone pic of my copy...

Just wish I had stuck with the piano lessons a bit longer now!

(EDIT) oops - forgot the link... Great Big God Piano SongBook

VRUK supports Ukraine orphanage

2009-06-03T09:11:00.003+01:00

Vineyard Records UK has been supporting work in Ukraine for over 4 years. This work is two-fold in its approach:

1. We help with leadership training for church pastors and worship leaders.
2. We support both financially and with man-power an outreach programme with an orphanage just outside Odessa.

I recently had the privilege of leading a 10-strong team to spend a week at the Andreevo orphanage where we embarked on a programme of drama, sports, arts & crafts and general craziness! This is the third such trip to the orphanage and we are beginning to see the fruits of our labours both in a spiritual sense and also in seeing improvements to the orphanage itself. The director likened our visits to a big drop of water falling onto a stone and each time it fell it made a deeper hole. I think he was trying to say that we are making a significant long-term difference!!

Through the VRUK network with Vineyard churches around the UK and also in Ukraine itself, there are now 3 UK Vineyard churches involved in orphanage outreach and 2 Ukrainian Vineyard churches. As time goes on we hope to be able to resource further orphanages in the Ukraine by expanding the number of churches involved with the ultimate aim of bringing the love of God into the lives of many children who have very little hope.

Off to Ukraine

2009-05-27T16:25:00.002+01:00

Our boss Chris has left this week for the Ukraine along with a team from the Hull Vineyard Church.

They are leading a week long club at an orphanage, using games, craft, music and lots more to have fun with the children there and to share Gods love for them.

Your prayers would be most welcome for fun, friendships and safety as they travel.

Spring Harvest

2009-04-15T13:06:00.003+01:00

I got back from Spring Harvest in Minehead yesterday. We had a great week in the All Age Worship celebration, playing messy games, dancing to funky songs and learning how to be an apprentice of Jesus. (The theme in all of this years SH venues.)

Nigel Hemming headed up the team along with Amy, Amy, Dave (Hull Vineyard) Kat, Zara, (Network Vineyard Birmingham) James (Bristol Vineyard) and another Dave (Causeway Coast Vineyard) with invaluable help from the other Hemmings - Jo, Becky Zac and JJ.

We used a bunch of songs from the new Great Big God Live DVD that went down a storm, had a few technical difficulties with some phone in games; (and what I think we would all put as our highlight) had some amazing opportunities for ministry to pray with the families who came and for the children & parents to pray with each other. As Dave said one night there is no junior Jesus or mini Holy Spirit, we all get to play no matter how young or old.

A brilliant week - if you were with us - thanks. :-D

Great Big God Live Premiere

2009-04-01T10:47:00.006+01:00

The Great Big God Live DVD is available right now through our webstore - click here to jump to the product page or read on for some more Great Big God news!

The DVD looks and sounds amazing - and last Saturday we met up with Nigel Hemming and all the dancers and choir from the DVD for a premier screening at the Electric Cinema in Birmingham. It look superb on the big screen as well as home TVs and DVD players!

Here are some photos from the day:

Trent DVD Live filming photos online now!

2009-02-17T16:57:00.003Z

Photos don't take nearly as long as 7 video cameras worth of footage, so I thought you might like to see some of the photos from last Thursday's spectacularly good night of worship at the Trent DVD filming. Enjoy!

Latest from the Trent DVD Rehearsals

2009-02-11T18:57:00.000Z

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vineyardrecordsuk/sets/72157613659086824/show/The rigging and lighting is going up, and after we eat dinner we will be moving all the gear from the rehearsal space to the hall in the warehouse. Voices are just about holding up in the cold winter weather.
Things are shaping up nicely!

Here's a few pics from today:

Latest from the Trent DVD Rehearsals

2009-02-11T18:48:00.002Z

The rigging and lighting is going up, and after we eat dinner we will be moving all the gear from the rehearsal space to the hall in the warehouse. Voices are just about holding up in the cold winter weather.
Things are shaping up nicely!

Here's a few pics from today:

Photosynth of the Trent rehearsal room uploaded now

2009-02-11T13:31:00.003Z

As promised yesterday here's the Photosynth of the rehearsals (it's like a 3D tour of it). It should load up below if not click on the title to browse to it.

Lastest news and photos from Trent DVD rehearsals

2009-02-10T19:26:00.002Z

Tuesday has gone very well - the band have been running through the set, the string section have been in to join us today and half the lighting and stage crew have arrived with half the gear (the rest are arriving tomorrow!).

We've just had pizza for dinner and settling in to the evening session.

In the meantime here's some pics for today. Tomorrow I will do a "photosynth" of the rehearsal - a kinda 3D photo album... it's a bit geeky, but very cool!

Trent DVD Rehearsals in full flow

2009-02-09T17:43:00.005Z

Dave and I are down in Nottingham with Trent who are rehearsing for this Thursday live DVD filming (along with Trevor Michael, the producer and Lionel who is mixing for the rehearsals). The new songs are sounding seriously good as are the new arrangements of older ones. All in all it's shaping up to be a cracking night.

Anyway here's a few photos from the warehouse we are in:

DVD Filming 7.30pm 12th Feb

2009-02-05T09:28:00.003Z

We have so much to pack in on the night that we need to bring the start time forward a little - we're going to start at 7:30, but if you could arrive in advance of that it would be great! We're expecting to be pretty full!

Directions to Trent Vineyard can be found here...

www.trentvineyard.org.uk

Oh and the bar will be open afterwards too!

TRENT - Live DVD Recording

2009-01-09T10:19:00.002Z

We are recording a new Live Album!

Just over 4 weeks from now we will be recording a new live album with TRENT, and we would love it if you could join us to pack Trent Vineyard to the rafters. Not only will you be adding your voices to the recording but as this album is being released as a DVD you may even see yourself.

Here's a short note from the TRENT boys...

"Well - it's all go! We're pleased to announce that we will be recording a live worship album in February this year. But this isn't any live album - this will be a live DVD. The date is February 12th and we will be recording the DVD at our home church, Trent Vineyard in Nottingham. We would love it if you could join us and take part in this unique event. Directions for finding Trent Vineyard are available at http://trentvineyard.org.uk/downloads/directions.pdf . For more info, email info@trentband.com and we'll anwswer any questions. Oh... one more thing... the event is free and will start around 8pm." TRENT

If your on facebook the event page is...

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=113736640326

Ryan Delmore Review

2009-01-05T09:28:00.001Z

Music Review - taken from www.todayscountrymag.com

Band: RYAN DELMORE

Album: The Spirit, The Water, And The Blood

Label: Varietal Records

In this day and age where so much music is created to have a particular sound fit for mainstream radio, you have to dig deep from time to time to discover an artist that blurs genres and delivers an album chalked full of passion. With his debut album, Ryan Delmore proves to be one of those artists. The singer/songwriter combines his influences that are steeped rich in gospel and Christian beliefs and combines it with an Americana based sound. His raspy vocals and acoustic guitar bring you into the album on “Mercy,” as he crafts a lyric about being forgiven and washed of sins. This acoustic style that originally captures your attention continues to be displa yed throughout the album on tracks like “Teach Me All Your Ways,” “Nowhere To Be Seen,” and album closer, “Love of God.” However, he also chooses to wear his influences from the rock and country genres proudly on his sleeve as well on this album. Tracks like “Provide For Me” introduce a more Neil Young type sound to the album as the music behind the vocals and catchy guitar riff take center stage to draw you into the song, as well as on “The World Can’t Take It Away,” where Delmore will have you tapping your feet along with the rhythm section as he brings a Tom Petty-esque style to the forefront. More often than not it is the lyric and vocals that act as the focal point of this collection of songs and Delmore masks his Americana style around a passionate delivery of them, and most proves that he isn’t afraid to sing about what he believes in on his debut effort.

Merry Christmas

2008-12-24T09:28:00.002Z

Merry Christmas from all of us at Vineyard Records.

We are all off for a Christmas break from Christmas Eve until January 5th 2009, when we will be back in the office ready for a busy 2009!

Already we have 2 recording projects planned in for the 1st half of the year, with a Ukrainian language album being recorded in January and Trent preparing to record a Live DVD in February.

Great Big God is back in 2009 too! The Great Big God Live DVD will be released at Easter - and Nigel Hemming and a team will be leading worship at Spring Harvest Minehead Week 2.

God Bless from all of us at Vineyard Records.

Jeremy, Chris, Dave, Nath, Paul, Irene & Alex.

PS - Any orders placed on the website will be sent out on Monday Jan 5th.

Christmas Post

2008-12-17T09:44:00.002Z

The last day that Royal Mail say that we can post to you in time for Christmas is this Friday 19th December.

So If you are looking for that last minuet Christmas gift order by 3pm on the 19th and it should be with you in time.

Merry Christmas,
Dave

Back from the DVD Filming...

2008-11-03T09:59:00.004Z

Last week I spent an amazing week in Birmingham as we recorded the Great Big God Live DVD.

The Live event was led by Nigel Hemming from the Vineyard Network Church in Birmingham and Jo Squires who founded Big Ministries. (and after an exhausting week was even out on Friday leading an event with them.)

The rocking band, and the kids who made up the dancers and choir were brilliant and recording went really well. The work now starts on editing, packaging and getting it all ready to release around Easter 2009.

If you came to the recording - THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. You really made it.

And to all the people at the Vineyard Network Church in Birmingham who hosted the recording week a massive thanks to you - we could not have done it without you.

There are a few photos courtesy of Nathan here...

Great Big God Producers Blog 2

2008-10-21T09:58:00.001+01:00

October 08

So the countdown on my google desktop tells me we’re 12 days away from our DVD shoot at this stage… Having never ever organised a film shoot before it’s been a steep learning curve for all of us but we have a great team working on making it happen and there’s plenty of enthusiasm in the camp. Going through the team lists yesterday I realised that there were around 50 adults involved in some way or other during the production week as well as the 25 kids singing & dancing on the stage and the other 100 or so who will come and be in the audience. It feels like an awesome & humbling privilege that all these people are coming just because I had a crazy idea one day.

After 2 days of intense band rehearsals at the end of September we got straight into working with the various kids who are going to sing and dance on stage which was a lot of fun. We actually took some good footage which we were hoping to upload a bit sooner but we got stuck with some legal questions about whether we could show the kids on the web (I think we can so watch this space). Everyone’s been practising their words and moves, the script is almost finalised, the backdrop is being printed, the food order’s gone for the week, the t shirt colours are firmed up and I can only count 16 things left on my to do list.

I’ll be so glad when the production week finally gets underway and I can dial down on the admin front and dial up on the creative side. There is a lot of energy and passion from everyone on the team & I’m so excited about being able to capture some of that on film.

There are still a few places left in the audience so if you know kids who would be up for it, do encourage them to book in.

Cheers - Nigel Hemming

Great Big God Video Blog

2008-10-01T14:47:00.000+01:00

You find all the details about coming to be a part of the DVD recording on this booking form...

http://www.vineyardrecords.co.uk/gbg/GBGDVD_Booking.pdf

Its in PDF format and if you don't have a PDF reader (most computers do) you can get a free one here...

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

The Great Big God Blog

2008-09-22T11:00:00.002+01:00

Announcing Great Big God Live DVD

When the idea for the song ‘Our God is a Great Big God’ first popped into my head a few months before the end of the last millennium, I had little idea that just short of 10 years later we’d be releasing a live DVD! As I write, we have seven weeks until the filming and a not insignificant amount of planning still to do. It’s true we have the band booked, we’ve hired the cameras, we’ve auditioned some children to sing and dance on stage and we’ve chosen the songs, but we still have to finalise designs, get an audience, finish logos, think about arrangements, start rehearsals, recruit security and find someone to apply the makeup!!!

Nigel Hemming

Read more about the GBG DVD project on the GBG Blog http://greatbiggodblog.blogspot.com/

FREE New Song Download - My Soul It Yearns For You

2008-07-15T11:54:00.004+01:00

This month we have another FREE New Song download for you-

My Soul It Yearns For You is co-written by Samuel Lane (from the Burn Band, he also wrote Beautiful, All From You and So Near amongst others) and Benjamin Lucas. It's a powerful worship song of longing for more of God.

It's available for a limited time for FREE! So don't miss out on this song.

We are also giving away a PDF chord chart and there is an accompanying SongTeach video for it.

Get it all here now!

Radio Everything - Out Now!

2008-07-10T09:35:00.001+01:00

Radio Everything - the New EP from Trent.

Available as a CD or download from Vineyard Records UK.

Click here for the CD...

...or here for the download.

Trent New EP PreOrder and Launch Gig

2008-06-30T11:59:00.005+01:00

Radio Everything - Pre Order the New EP
Trent have been busy leading worship at home at Trent Vineyard as well as around the country at Spring Harvest and at Hope 08 events.

Still they found time to make a visit to g2 studios where they recorded the Radio Everything EP. The EP is out on July 10th and you can Pre Order your now at vineyardrecords.co.uk

EP Launch Gig - July 19 7pm - Trent will be headlining at the Rescue Rooms in their home town of Nottingham to launch the new EP Radio Everything. Tickets are just £5 and are on sale now through Ticketmaster (18+) and at the Trent Vineyard Warehouse.
We have also created an event for the gig on Facebook so you can see who else is coming and a few photos from previous gigs. Click here to go to the facbook event. (Remember once you have joined the event you need to get your tickets from Ticketmaster or Trent Vineyard)

New Song for June: Maranatha [FREE DOWNLOAD]

2008-06-06T10:39:00.002+01:00

Yesterday we recorded and edited a new SongTeach video to accompany June's free New Song download. The MP3, chords and video are all available now for free.

The song is called Maranatha, written by James Hellings (who wrote All Hail Jesus). It's a great intercessory song and well worth getting hold of.

Get it here now

We love it and hope you do too.

free song for may - Desire

2008-05-15T14:36:00.002+01:00

The free song for May is available now.

Desire written by Micke Fhinn can be downloaded from vineyardrecords.co.uk/newsongs

If you download any of the songs from this page your feedback on them is really valuable to us. If you could let us know what you think at vineyardrecords.co.uk/feedback that would be great.

Cheers
Dave

The Burn Band Camden Gig 10/5/08

2008-05-07T16:06:00.001+01:00

The Burn Band are out playing a gig on Saturday 10th May as part of the Pentecost Festival, Venue hosted by Nth-fest. They are playing at 4pm. Simply... It's gonna Rock. Free Entry.

THE DUBLIN CASTLE
94 PARKWAY
CAMDEN
NW1

Check out the facebook event page...
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12417924158

And the Pentecost Festival Website...
http://www.pentecostfestival.co.uk/

Worship touches young offenders

2008-04-14T12:06:00.002+01:00

The following is an email we received from Soozie Courtney, worship leader at Reading Vineyard. Sooze also sang on the VRUK album 'Love Divine' and here she tells of the impact worship music is having on the guys at the Reading Young Offenders Institute. Isn't this exactly what Jesus loves!

"I lead one of the worship bands at church and as part of church each one of our homegroups/worship groups etc are encouraged to get involved in some kind of regular outreach. We heard that Reading Young Offenders Institute wanted some people to get involved with their Sunday services so we went and did a couple. They went well I think, as much as you can ever know really, so we volunteered to lead some of their 'Befriender' evenings on Wednesdays. The evenings are a chance for a few prisoners to meet some new people and someone often shares their testimony etc and tea and biscuits. We went in the Wednesday before Easter for the first time and played some songs, including 'Umbrella' by Rhianna and 'How to Save A Life' by the Fray, one of our guys shared an incredible testimony, we played some clips from the Passion and finished the night with the fab Dave Crowder song Surely We Can Change. It was an utterly incredible evening, God was there in abundance and by the end we really felt, and so did the chaplaincy guys, that we really made a breakthrough. When we left we gave them Easter eggs and copies of 'Love Divine' the new VRUK album. They were SO hugely pleased with the albums. These are some seriously tough guys, and it was incredibly humbling and exciting to see how pleased they were to have them.

We went back last Wednesday and a lot of the guys said they'd pretty much had them on non-stop since they got them, and some of the guys even go to sleep with them on. I guess the reason why it's so exciting to see is that even when I've given mates copies of albums I've been on they haven't bothered to listen to them, or shown any interest. These guys nearly bite your hand off because they don't have the cash to buy music and they don't often get people wanting to give them things. Also, some of them can't read so well, or just aren't used to reading the bible so hearing stuff in songs is perfect. Songs like 'Unfailing Love' or 'Amazing Grace' can speak to them in ways that sermons will never be able to.

This is really just a message to say what an amazing opportunity there is with worship. It's hard leading worship with 30 guys who've never been in church or sung worship just staring at you, but the difference with them having had their albums to listen to was that we could sing songs they knew and understood and it was almost like they 'got' what we were doing all of a sudden. VRUK have given us some more albums to give out and it's just really exciting that we can keep on giving and hopefully they can keep on getting. I'd just encourage anyone to see whether there might be similar opportunities where they live because it's so important to try and get the message to these guys that God loves them and won't ever give up on them."

Photos of Trent - LIVE

2008-04-07T10:46:00.005+01:00

Last Wednesday (2 April) night a few of us from VRUK negotiated the country lanes of Lincolnshire to see Trent playing live at Spring Harvest in Skegness.

They have been playing late night gigs at Skeggy and Minehead over the past couple of weeks and even with other late night sessions going on featuring Jeff Lucas, Chris Bowater and The Riding Lights, Trent still pulled in a very respectable crowd of well over 300.

They played a great set mixing new songs with old - songs included Unfailing Love, Shine On, Glorious Life, Skin & Bones and Perfect Sacrifice.
It's not often that I am not packing a camera and this was a good time to test out a new lens... we will be posting the results on the Trent website photo page

You can still catch them at Spring Harvest in Minehead on 14 & 15 April.

Trent at Spring Harvest

2008-03-27T15:10:00.006Z

If you are at Spring Harvest this Easter then keep a look out in the after hours for Trent. They are playing at all 6 weeks of Spring Harvest and will be showcasing some new material.

28th March - Week 1 Skegness

2nd April - Week 2 Skegness

5th April - Week 3 Skegness

6th April - Week 1 Minehead

14th April - Week 2 Minehead

15th April - Week 3 Minehead

Also available at Spring Harvest is a limited edition single featuring live versions of Perfect Sacrifice (All My Hope Is In You) and Shine On.

New Song for March

2008-03-05T16:27:00.002Z

We have just uploaded our New Song for March to the VRUK website.

You can vist www.vineyardrecords.co.uk/newsongs ans listen to this months new song See The Risen Lord it was written and sung by Kate Cooke who also sang on the latest VRUK Live album Love Divine.

We really appreciate feedback on these new songs so all we ask in return for giving them to you for free is that you let us know what you think at www.vineyardrecords.co.uk/feedback

One last thing....

We will be making these songs available on iTunes - so when they leave the VRUK site as Free downloads you will still be able to find them in the iTunes music store, though they wont be free anymore.

God Bless

SongTeach: Perfect Sacrifice (All My Hope Is In You)

2008-02-25T12:24:00.005Z

Last week Nathan and I went down to the Trent Vineyard in Nottingham to record a quick SongTeach video of a great new song. Perfect Sacrifice (All My Hope Is In You) has been written by TRENT, and Nigel Briggs who plays guitar and sings for the band took us through the song and you can watch the video now at songteach.co.uk. Plus you can download the chord chart all for Free!

New Song- Led Like A Lamb

2008-02-11T15:11:00.000Z

We have just uploaded our New Song for February to the VRUK website.

You can vist www.vineyardrecords.co.uk/newsongs to give Led Like A Lamb a listen, then you can download the mp3, or get a bundle with the mp3, chord charts and a SongTeach video showing an acoustic version of the song.

We really appreciate feedback on these new songs so all we ask in return for giving them to you for free is that you let us know what you think at www.vineyardrecords.co.uk/feedback

One last thing....

The free song for January How Much More Beautiful is still available - but It won't be free for much longer. So if you haven't all ready got this song now is the time to pick it up.

God Bless

Can't get much better than this....

2008-02-04T14:39:00.000Z

VRUK have just returned from the UK Vineyard's National Leaders Conference held last week on Hayling Island.

This annual conference brings together the leadership from Vineyard churches around the UK plus some from the US, Scandanavia and mainland Europe.

Speakers this year were Simon Ponsonby from St Aldates, Oxford who is widely regarded as one of the finest Bible expositors in existence; Rich Nathan who grew and pastors the largest Vineyard church in the US (which probably makes it one of the largest in the world) and David Carr of the Free Methodists who leads a 2000-strong church in Solihull. It really can't get much better than this in terms of speaker line-up and the richness of theological and practical teaching. The over-riding theme was that of 'Influencing and being effective in your community'.

You may either download individual talks from our website or buy all of them on memory stick for just £45 (this also includes the many and varied workshops throughout the week). Click on this link for info on how to purchase.......

The worship this year was predominantly led by the Trent band along with our American friend and guest Casey Corum. Without doubt the anthem of the week was Trent's new song 'Perfect Sacrifice' which is definately a song to look (or listen) out for. This song is available on both the New Wine 2007 'Cry Freedom' album or VRUK's 'Thankyou For The Cross' album (hear and buy them here......).

Click here for Cry Freedom

Click here for Thank You For The Cross

Unfailing Love Scores 95% on Premier Radio

2008-01-23T11:36:00.000Z

A BIG Thank You to everyone who voted on the Premier Radio drive time song yesterday. Unfailing Love scored 95% of the vote! Thats mighty impressive we think.

Thanks again! :-D

Vote for Unfailing Love on Premier Radio

2008-01-22T10:03:00.000Z

We need you!!

Unfailing Love from the Love Divine album is up for favourite 'drive time' song on premier radio.

You can vote for Unfailing Love now just follow this link . . .

http://www.premierradio.org.uk/shows/weekday/premierdrive.aspx

Listen to Premier Drive between 3 - 6pm to see who wins this afternoon.

Thanks for Voting!

New Kathryn Scott album available - visit our Shop

2008-01-18T11:20:00.000Z

Kathryn Scott has a new album out now. Its available from our online shop here...
http://www.vineyardrecords.co.uk/uk/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=451

You may also be interested in Kathryn's blog at http://kathrynscott.blogspot.com/

New Songs 2008 - online now and FREE

2008-01-07T12:02:00.000Z

We are pleased to announce that New Songs is now live!

We will be giving away a recording of a brand new song each month for you to download, keep and hopefully use in your congregational worship.

We're not just making a monthly MP3 available but we are also giving you it's corresponding chord chart and we'll even be doing a SongTeach video to accompany it.

All we ask is that you'd give us feedback on the song especially if you have tried it out in a worship setting.

This morning we have uploaded the first song called How Much More Beautiful, so stop reading here and go and find out more at the New Songs section!
Click here to go there now.

Trent band gigs

2008-01-02T10:53:00.000Z

Look out for Trent who will be playing at various events around the UK. You can view our events schedule under our 'Our Ministry' category, but events to note this first quarter of 2008 are:

Jan 19 - Trent, alongwith Vera Cruz, will be playing at RayD8 in Ivybridge, Devon. For more info visit www.rayd8.co.uk.

March 8 - if you happen to be in Vienna, Austria, Trent are playing at the Upraise event. For more info visit www.upraise.at

As 2007 draws to a close, we reflect...

2007-12-19T15:17:00.000Z

This past year has been a busy one for Vineyard Records UK (VRUK - pronounced 'vee-rook'!) and it's good to look back and see how God has been faithful with our plans.

So, what have we been up to??

January - we mixed the 'Love Divine' album in Stockholm of all places! We think the location had something to do with it but the real reason is that we used a great guy called Bo Reimer to mix it.. who is Swedish... and lives in Stockholm.
We also attended the Vineyard National Leaders Conference where Terry Virgo shared his wisdom, experience and heart for the Church in the UK. Totally inspiring and also a great time for us to connect with some 600 leaders from the UK Vineyard churches.

February - towards the end of the month we took the Great Big God event to the USA, stopping first at the Maryland Vineyard in Baltimore and then onto Anaheim Vineyard in sunny southern California. Maryland was very cold and we were blessed with a foot of snow on our afternoon trip to see Washington DC. Anaheim was very warm and we even got to swim in a very cold pool. The events consisted of doing a GBG Praise Party for the kids as well as doing some training for kids workers.
Also in February Vineyard Records hosted the first-ever acoustic unplugged stage at the Christian Booksellers Convention in Telford which proved to be a resounding success - well, the CBC board have asked us to do it again next year so we must have done something right!

March - we launched the Love Divine album with a listening party for all the songwriters and musicians involved with the project. Soul Survivor church in Watford kindly lent us their very cool venue for the evening and we played the completed album to eager ears! Many of the participants in the project hadn't heard the album songs since the recording night the previous November but thankfully they were happy with the final result!

April - Chris & Jeremy flew to Kiev for some chicken and meetings with Ukrainian and Russian pastors. VRUK has been involved in supporting a number of churches in Eastern Europe as well as helping fund and resource some orphanages in southern Ukraine. We are thrilled to see God working powerfully in that region and bit by bit opening people's hearts to His love. It's a privilege to be involved at such an influencial time for the church there. Back in the UK the East Anglia regional worship leaders retreat took place at a wonderful priory in Sussex. Over 40 worship leaders from the region attended for some inspirational teaching by Simon Ponsonby.

May - VRUK hosted the first ever northern Vineyard worship leaders retreat at the wonderfully remote venue of Gartmore House, nr Stirling. John & Ele Mumford (National Director of Vineyard Churches UK) shared with us how the Vineyard movement began in the UK over 20 years ago and what worship has meant to the movement ever since. Matt Turrigiano also shared with us and on the Saturday evening the Spirit of God fell in the room with such power that everyone was touched deeply. It felt like a 'holy moment' and we look forward to the fruit that will come from it.

June - an eventful month in several aspects! First, VRUK was proud to be involved in the Passion 07 event at Stoke-on-Trent with The Burn Band playing to a crowd of 1500 people. By all accounts they went down a storm (even though it was a sunny, hot day). The week following we had our southern worship leaders retreat at Lee Abbey in N Devon. With over 120 worship leaders in attendance, it was, again, a wonderful time of fellowship, bringing together the worship community from the southern Vineyard churches. We had our good friend Randall Butler come over from the US to share his long-time experience of worship leading. Randall is a veteran Vineyard worship leader having served under John Wimber in the early years of the Vineyard's influencial era of making worship 'culture current'.

Immediately following the retreat, another event occurred which gained national headline news - the BIG FLOODS! We didn't escape the flooding and our ground floor was up to a foot deep in brown, smelly floodwater for 3 days. Thankfully we were able to rescue the servers and other vital equipment before the floods hit us. The renovation work still continues!

July - VRUK alongwith the Hull and Bristol Vineyards took a team of 15 people to work for a week in an orphanage in southern Ukraine. Covering everything from drama, arts & crafts, sports and lots and lots of fun, our remit was to show the love of God to the kids, many of whom had no natural parents. Our theme through the week was that of Moses with the message 'God can use all of us to achieve great things for Him!'. The weather was baking hot (low 40s celcius) but the team were brilliant and we came back far more impacted than we'd anticipated. Plans are afoot for another team to go back there next May.

August - a fairly quiet month - thank goodness! The Trent band led worship at New Wine south for Venue 2 and were, as always, excellent!

September - the VRUK went away for a couple of days on 'retreat' - which was more of a 'thinktank' session. Given our busyness, we try to schedule in at least one of these times each year to enable us to really focus on planning for the future.

September also saw Chris & Nathan join with Cross Rhythms in their Ben Nevis Challenge to raise money and profile for more new Christian radio stations around the UK. You can read more about this feat in the blog entry.

Chris, Jeremy & Alex went to New York for 3 days to meet with our counterparts from Vineyard Music USA. This proved to be a productive time of discussing plans of close cooperation, principally through marketing efforts and joint productions. From NY, we flew directly to Oslo where we met and did some training with the Nordic Vineyard pastors. Joining us in Oslo to lead worship were members of the Hull Vineyard worship team.

October - quiet..... but important for us to attend to those important things that need, importantly, to be done!

November - this was the month of Area meetings. The Vineyard movement in the UK is divided up into regions to enable effective governance and development of the churches in those regions. For 3 consecutive weekends, Area meetings were held around the UK. This gave VRUK an invaluable opportunity to present to the leaders of these regions the plans, products and resources we have or are developing to enable worship in our churches to flourish. First up was the SE & London Area, followed by the SW region, followed by the Northern region. In amongst these, we also supported a Midland region worship training event in Birmingham.
At the end of November, Chris, Alex & Nathan attended the UK Songwriters Consultation hosted by Graham Kendrick. This was a great time to connect with the wider worship and songwriting community.

December - the usual Christmas rush! We close for the holidays on Friday 21st December and will see you again on January 2nd 2008!

From all of us, to all of you, have a blessed, happy and fulfilled Christmas and may 2008 be a year of God's favour and blessing for you!

The VRUK Team - Chris, Jeremy, Paul, Nathan, Alex, Dave & Irene.

Christmas Opening

2007-12-19T12:26:00.000Z

The VRUK office will be closing on December 21st and Opening again on January 2nd. The website will still be available to take orders and we will get these in the post to you as soon as we return.

We hope you have a Merry Christmas.

Office closed for staff day...

2007-12-18T09:13:00.000Z

The VRUK office will be closed today (18th Dec) for a staff day.

Shopping for Christmas? If you place an order before 3pm on the 19th Dec through the website we will have your order in the post before Royal Mail's Christmas deadline.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Presents from VRUK

2007-12-13T16:13:00.000Z

Merry Christmas - with just a few days until Christmas we thought it was time to give a few presents.

Everyone who buys something between now and Christmas Day* will get a Christmas present from us. Just make sure you ask for your Christmas present in the comments section of the checkout (and mention that you heared about this in the blog) and we will put something extra in the post to you with your order.

Even if you don't buy anything you can pick up a free mp3 download of the song "Comfort Me" that's not available anywhere else. Just add it to your basket in the VRUK store checkout and you won't pay a penny. Click here for the free song.

* NB - If you order after 3pm on Dec 19th your parcel will probably not arrive until January. The office will be closed from 21st Dec to 2nd Jan.

Posting for Christmas LAST DAY TODAY!

2007-12-10T16:11:00.000Z

Its not long until the postman will be collecting his bag from VRUK, its probably the last bag of post that will get to you before Christmas. So if you want anything winging its way to you in that bag be sure to place your order before 3pm on Wednesday 19th December.

Merry Christmas. :-)

Back from Heart & Skill

2007-11-26T13:21:00.000Z

On Saturday I went to the Network Vineyard Church in Birmingham for the Heart & Skills event they were running. Nick Sutton from the Coventry Vineyard opened the morning after worship led by Trent by looking at our Hearts as we lead worship and reminded us all that worship is about us giving to God and not about what we get out of it.

Practical workshops followed covering everything from bass guitar, keys and song selection to sound checking and PA basics; there was something for almost everyone.

The day ended with another time of worship - this time a cappella with everyone lifting their voices in worship, the sound was amazing.

...my mistake...fixed!

2007-11-26T12:35:00.000Z

Thanks to the people at Kall Kwick here in Hull we now have stock of the Great Big God Piano Songbook with all the correct pages in the right order. (see what went wrong here)

It will be going in the post today to all of you that pre-ordered a copy, and replacement copies to everyone who we sent editions with the bad pages in too.

Owning up to my mistake...

2007-11-19T14:54:00.000Z

Last week our lovely new Great Big God Songbooks arrived. Today I found out that I had put 2 pages in the wrong place (one of our eagle eyed customers called to let us know). Our very nice printers have got the books back now and are working on printing the new pages and swapping the pages over so that its all in the right order. This should be done by early next week.

So for the moment we are not sending any books out. I spent this morning calling those of you who have bought a copy through our web-site and thank you all for being so nice about it. If you have bought one at an event please give me a call (I'm Dave) on 0870 1200 553.

Rachelle who transcribed the book for us had this little line in her email signature - feels awfully appropriate right now. "Taking responsibility for mistakes is more important than taking credit for successes."

The NEW Great Big God Songbook - Arrived Today!

2007-11-15T12:22:00.000Z

It arrived today. The new Great Big God songbook is currently sitting in our shipping room waiting to be sent to all of you that preordered a copy.

Rest assured all the preorders will be in the postman's bag today so you should get yours at the weekend.

If you didn't Preorder click here to get your copy.

Local school raises money for Ukraine orphanages

2007-11-06T15:30:00.000Z

Kelvin Hall School in Hull have raised a whopping £1200 towards orphanages in Ukraine.

Following their involvement in ministering in Ukraine, VRUK staff have been into several Hull schools over the past year to raise awareness amongst students of the high level of orphans in Ukraine and the conditions they live in. Several schools have donated clothing, shoes and toys and Kelvin Hall raised funds through a non-uniform day and end-of-term show.

The monies raised will go towards medical, educational and sports equipment.

VRUK has been partnering with several Vineyard churches in Ukraine over the past 2 years doing church leadership training and looking at ways to support the many under-funded and under-resourced orphanages. This includes raising awareness in the UK of the plight of Ukranian orphans and helping to fund and equip the orphanages.

New Stock and back in stock...

2007-11-05T15:21:00.000Z

You will be pleased to hear that the Musicademy DVDs for Guitar & Keyboards plus the Vocals warm up CD that were out of stock last week are back in stock now. Here is a sample of the Beginners guitar DVDs.

Plus today we also received stock of the New Wine Songbook, containing 99 songs including...

God's Love Is Big (Great Big God)
Heavenbound (Trent)
I Give Thanks (Great Big God)
Kiss Is Better (Great Big God)
Perfect Sacrifice (Trent)
Great Big God (Great Big God)
Singing With The Angels (Great Big God)
Sweetly Broken (Jeremy Riddle)
Unfailing Love (Trent)
Grace (Trent)
Glorious Life (Trent)

Cry Freedom - New Wine album with new songs from Trent

2007-10-25T15:42:00.000+01:00

Stocks arrived today of Cry Freedom, the new New Wine Live album. Recorded this summer at all weeks of the festival it includes 3 tracks played by Trent including two great brand new songs, Glorious Life & Perfect Sacrifice and their version of Sweetly Broken by Jeremy Riddle. Also featuring Brian Doerksen and Martin Layzell amongst others this double CD is well worth a listen.

You can get it now in the Vineyard Records shop for just £12.97 with free UK P&P.

Trent tour taking shape

2007-10-12T15:56:00.000+01:00

Trent, the worship band from Trent Vineyard, Nottingham UK, will be playing in Vienna on 8th March 2008 at a worship event called 'UPraise'. We're trying to sort out another gig somewhere in Germany (Berlin hopefully) for the following evening. More details to follow as we get them...

They've also been invited to play in Slovakia in August at a major worship festival there called CampFest. Again, more details to follow shortly.

And finally, for now at least, they'll also be playing at the Passion 08 event on 18/19 July in Stoke-on-Trent.

We'll update you on these and other events as details become clearer....

Oh, and if you want to hear their music, buy 'Unfailing Love' here through our SHOP!

2 New Videos at SongTeach.co.uk

2007-10-12T15:17:00.000+01:00

We have 2 new videos online at www.songteach.co.uk, Nothing In This World, taken from the New Songs Vol.1 EP and I Will Hold On from the Hold On CD.

These were recorded a while ago by Graeme Campbell. Graeme has been teaching guitar for many years and recently moved back from Scotland to lead the Colchester Vineyard with his wife Debbie.

Its now even easier to support stop the traffik!

2007-10-12T10:35:00.000+01:00

Phil Lane from Oasis Global has created a Facebook group called A million to Stop the Traffik, so now its even easier to sign the petition online. They are looking to present a petition to the United Nations in February next year with 1 million names on it.

Vineyard Records UK is proud to be a member of the Stop the Traffik coalition, part of a global call to end the injustice of people traffiking. You can lend your voice at www.stopthetraffik.org or join the Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/n/?group.php&gid=12001655194

Improved security now and downloads coming soon.

2007-10-10T11:54:00.000+01:00

As part of our new website design we launched a new payment system today. Keeping your card details even more secure and letting you know instantly if your payment has gone through.

As well as increasing security this new system means that we will be able to develop a download service, offering sheet music & resource downloads. Look out for a Beta testing version of this service coming soon.

Heart & Skills event in Birmingham

2007-10-04T15:17:00.000+01:00

The Vineyard Network Church in Birmingham is running a Heart & Skills event on November the 24th. Its being led by two Nigel's with teams from Vineyard Network Church and Trent Vineyard.

Nigel Hemming from the Network Church Birmingham who wrote Our God is a Great Big God and Nigel Briggs from the Trent Vineyard in Nottingham. Nigel Briggs is part of the band Trent who led worship at New Wine this summer and wrote the songs Unfailing Love and Love Divine.

Click here to download a booking form.

Report: What Is Worship in Bury St Edmunds

2007-10-03T14:03:00.000+01:00

I am back in the office today having had the pleasure of attending the What Is Worship conference in Bury St Edmunds.

The West Suffolk Vineyard hosted the event and were fantastic at that too! From event set-up and organising to packing down the last cable on the day they were just great.

Dan Wilt was on form as ever - challenging, inspiring and arm-waving too of course! This was the 7th What Is Worship that we have done and I've been to all of them and still loving it.

The worship band was put together by the guys at the Southend Vineyard (another top bunch!) and they pulled together folks from the West Suffolk, Southampton and Hull Vineyards.

We worshiped, soaked in Dan's teaching and God presence on a sunny market day in Bury, where the soundwaves echoed out above a townfull of shoppers.

A wonderful day, a wonderful conference and a wonderful host church.

If you see a What Is Worship near you... get to it!

Postal Strikes

2007-10-02T10:15:00.000+01:00

ANOTHER UPDATE (16.10.07)- The CWU and Royal Mail may have come to an agreement. Planned strike action is on hold for the moment and we hope that parcels are getting through the back log. Fingers crossed everything will be back to normal soon.

UPDATE - It looks like there may be more industrial action starting on Monday Oct 15th. This appears to be more localised than the previous action so you may find that your service is not affected or that the affect is minimal.

We will do our best to get your orders to you as soon as possible.

You can see the full details on the Royal Mail website.

The Communications Workers Union has announced two 48 hour strikes (from lunchtime on 4th October until Saturday 6th and from the early hours of Monday 8th October until Wednesday 10th) that will be affecting getting CDs and other products from our online shop to you as quickly as we normally do around these dates.

If you are looking for an album fast why not try iTunes where you can download albums and individual tracks - just search for "Vineyard UK" in the iTunes Store.

Worship Theology

2007-10-01T11:53:00.000+01:00

It's taken a little while to dot the i's and cross the t's but the section of worship theology is now live on the website.

While by no means the the most comprehensive article on worship thologicaly it provides a basis for the way we see have come to see worship here at VRUK.

Click here to take a look

quiet week in the office?

2007-09-24T14:23:00.000+01:00

Its very quiet in the office today, Jeremy, Chris and Alex are on their way over to America to visit our friends from Vineyard Music USA while Nathan (having recovered from the Ben Nevis challenge) is with another friend Dan Wilt.

Dan is here in the UK leading an Institute Of Contemporary & Emerging Worship Studies intensive course for a small group of worship leaders from around the UK at the beautiful Westwood retreat centre high on a hill above Slaithwaite. Then at the weekend will be leading the What is Worship? Event at the Corn Exchange, Bury St Edmunds.

That leaves Paul and myself to hold the fort today.

At least it was quite until this arrived outside...

Ben Nevis challenge report

2007-09-17T10:08:00.000+01:00

I can confirm that Chris and I have returned to Hull safe and sound - albeit with a few aches, but thankfully no bad pains or blisters.

The Ben Nevis Cross Rhythms challenge has been met indeed.
The weekend started with an easy drive up to Fort William aside from yet another traffic jam in Glasgow. We got to enjoy the drive up to and through Glen Coe in a sublime sunset - Chris and I both agreed that it was a wonderfully romantic setting but for the company... which was Chris and I!

Sadly the glorious weather of Friday turned to rain and howling winds for the Ben Neves climb (but we wouldn't want it to be easy anyway). Our party of 23, made up of Cross Rhythms staff and supporters, set off early-ish on Saturday to make it to the top to do a live broadcast.
From about half way up the visibility dropped to about 10-15 metres as we were enveloped in cloud and high speed winds.
All to say we made it to the top, where some reports hinted at 75mph winds - I'm not quite sure it was that high, but it was freezing - and then back down.

It was great to be able to connect everyone on the trip and support Cross Rhythms in their ministry as they have supported ours over the years. We hope and pray that this day was a significant and successfull one for them and their ministry.

New Website

2007-09-14T10:46:00.000+01:00

The new VRUK website is here!

Take a look around - we are still adding a few pieces here and there but it's mostly there.

So whats new?

Well we have added loads of information about who we are and why we do things the way we do. Most of that is in the Our Ministry section. Our new Great Big God website has finally arrived and you can download a guide on how to run a kids praise party plus there are dance action videos to loads of the Great Big God songs, and the resources section gives some advice on leading worship and songwriting. We hope you like it!

It would be great to get your feedback on the new site drop me a line at dave(at)vineyardrecords.co.uk

The eve before the eve of the Ben Nevis challenge

2007-09-13T16:40:00.000+01:00

Having been raised in relatively rural surroundings, I have always been prepared for the elements (see photo on left). Tonight I shall pack my walking trousers, boots and socks for tomorrow I (Nathan) shall travel with Chris Whitelock up to Fort William. There's we shall meet with more intrepid explorers who shall be ascending Ben Nevis on Saturday.

This is to help raise funding for Cross Rhythms new radio stations around the UK. For more details see their website here. This is a truly daring feat, but not as insane as my attempts to find somewhere in Scotland to catch the England vs South Africa match on tomorrow night (surely they must allow me some freedom too).

Chris and I were thrilled today to see that the weather forecast for the Fort William area has been changed from sunny and fresh, to dark clouds and heavy rain as we will both get the joys of road testing our new water proof clothing.

In all seriousness though, we are delighted to be involved in this chance to help support another UK ministry. Check back next week for the news on how it all went and, I am sure, many an anacdote too.
Now where did I leave that Runrig CD..............

Back from Greenbelt

2007-08-31T13:54:00.000+01:00

Back from Greenbelt where the guys from Trent played in the Underground venue on Saturday, when even at 9am the venue was almost full and Sunday when the venue was filled to capacity! Sunday saw Nigel and Rich play an acoustic set in the G-Music tent. A busy bank holiday weekend, but a thoroughly enjoyable one.

A BIG Thank You for coming and singing the along with the "oh's" if you were there.

VRUK to sponsor Cross Rythms Ben Nevis Challenge.

2007-08-13T11:34:00.000+01:00

Vineyard Records UK are the main Business Sponsor of the Cross Rhythms Ben Nevis Challenge!

We're excited to be on board with CR as they expand Christian radio across the UK and will be joining them as they climb Ben Nevis in September.

Check out www.crossrhythms.co.uk/bennevis to find out more.