Blake is a singer-songwriter from Bath. His music deals with issues of faith, politics and love. His latest album ‘Jubilee’ is due for release later this year. Blake’s musical influences include The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Bevis Frond, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac and Richard Thompson.
“Blake is a rising UK talent, a true conceptual auteur. Here, he's set his compositional skills to work to create a rock opera version of the Nativity story. It's a corker of an adaptation.” (Review of 'Star Over Bethlehem') - Oscar Hyde, CrossRhythms
“Your music evokes that magic San Fran psychedelic sound and resonates with a deep understanding and respect for that era.”
Steve Barilotti, Film maker behind 'Rick Griffin: The Film'
“While Blake pays due homage to his influences, it’s his integrity that’s stamps itself over the 10 tracks contained on this long playing disc.” (Review of ‘Stay Human’) Simon Wells, author of ‘Butterfly on a Wheel: The Great Rolling Stones Drugs Bust’
My first album, Solomon's Tump, was recorded in a Cheltenham bedsit in 2003 on a Tascam eight track machine, with an initial run of just 50 copies. The album was picked up by sound engineer Pascale Giovetto (My Bloody Valentine, Oasis) who invited me to sign to her London based Ectomusic label in 2004. I put together a band and under the name 'Karmatruffle' a single and album was released. I felt constrained by the indie-rock format, however, and in 2006 I left the label and Karmatruffle to release my own self-produced music. I recorded and released seven albums on my Rockhopper Records label between 2006 and 2010.
In April 2011 I began writing songs for a new album, Stay Human, after reading about the murder of the Italian peace activist and journalist Vittorio Arrigoni in the Gaza strip. The album was crowd-funded via PledgeMusic, with all profits going to the arts festival, Greenbelt. Stay Human was recorded at Gatehouse Studios in Swindon with contributions from many of my musician friends and was released on 15th April 2012, the first anniversary of Vittorio's death.
On 9th December 2013 I released Star Over Bethlehem, a rock opera telling the story of the Nativity with all proceeds going to two charities working for peace in the Holy Land: Musalaha Ministry of Reconciliation and the SIRA School in Bethlehem.
On 20th June 2014 I performed at the Bet Lahem Live festival in Bethlehem at the invitation of the Holy Land Trust. I performed songs from Star Over Bethlehem and Stay Human accompanied by my friend, fellow musician and sometime producer Joe Brown. On our return from Palestine Joe and I wrote and recorded a song called 'We'll Be Champions' which was released as a single on 25th July 2014 to raise funds for the Amos Trust’s Emergency Appeal for Gaza.
On Record Store Day 2015, I released a compilation LP called Vinyl Junkie - the title track is dedicated to record collectors everywhere.
On 8th December last year, on the 35th anniversary of John Lennon's passing, I released my latest single, 'Going Back To Liverpool', which will be featured on my new album, Jubilee, due for release later in 2016. 'Going Back To Liverpool' is available to download from Bandcamp. In fact, for a limited time, I am offering my entire back catalogue of thirteen albums at 90% off (just over £7!) on the site.
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Liam has been writing songs in the pop-folk tradition since he was 17. At the core of his album You And Other Stories is a deep sense of romance, not through sentiment but as articulate, intelligent, bitter-sweet story-telling. He is a skilled songwriter with real sophistication and these are proper pop songs, laden with hooks and refrains that make them compelling and timeless.
His narrative is the landscape of the troubadour – heartbreaking, idealistic, lush – a journey through life for everyman. Liam has always been drawn to the West Coast singer-song writers of the 70s. If he’d been born earlier he would probably be hanging out in Lauryl Canyon with Crosby Stills Nash and Joni Mitchell. His other musical influences are an immense sweep – from Gershwin to Goldfrapp.
He is a young dreamer and an awesome natural talent with a voice, described by BBC broadcaster Phil Jupitus as “achingly lovely”, that melts every part of you.
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Lincoln Jean-Marie was in the midst of 2012’s biggest celebrations – the Queen’s Jubilee and the London Olympics – singing alongside musical giants such as George Michael and Stevie Wonder.
Performing to global audiences and touring with the likes of Robbie Williams and Will Young has become normal for Lincoln, but the singer’s journey may only just be beginning as 2013 sees the release of his first solo album: Inspired.
Having survived a cancer scare and witnessed the power of prayer first hand, Lincoln’s debut solo release speaks of his experience of God. It combines musical genres including pop, jazz and funk to create a unique and vibrant sound.
The MOBO award winner says he’s been inspired to “write something uplifting” with lyrics which “help someone to consider the role of God in their lives and how he can help you.”
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Mark Grove is a singer/songwriter and worship leader. He has been a songwriter since he came to faith in 1995, has been signed by an American record company, recorded CDs and as been featured on BBC RADIO and Sky Gospel Channels.
Mark and fellow worship leader John Hammond formed the worship band OneHEART in 2013 where the band are committed to leading worship at Cornwall Worship events, The Lizard Filling Station, Encounter and Oasis meetings in the Methodist circuit, and also Inter denomination meetings with Churches together in St Ives.
After an encounter with near death in an out-of-control fire blaze, and God`s grace on Mark`s life, Mark began to write worship songs, and found a solid relationship of faith and belief in the Great God of Heaven and earth. 'Jesus being the way, the truth and the life!'
Mark and his wife Mandy live in Cambourne, Cornwall UK. Son Ben Grove is a professional Skateboarder-Model 30 he lives in Manchester, and daughter Dannielle 27 is married to Nick and they also live in Manchester.
Based in Cambourne Wesley Methodist Church Mark leads the Worship band, and also visits other Churches and leads worship in Christian Events around the County.
Having had a vision a few years back, to see all denominations Worshipping together at the Minack open air Theatre, near Lands End, in Cornwall the success of the event, brought about the Cornwall Worship Trust, a team organising joint Worship events throughout the county of Cornwall.
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Nathan Bennett writes, composes and produces his own original music. Although he dabbles in guitar and drums, the piano is where he is most comfortable.
Writing and recording since the mid 1990’s. Nathan has penned over 150 songs - some gaining more exposure than others such as his track ‘Let It Go’ which went on to feature in the movie ‘In a Man’s World. This was distributed across Europe and Virgin Records Inshore Magazine voted it ‘Single Of The Month’ in 2006. Another track ‘Join Together’ was voted in the top 20 best unsigned songs by UK radio station TalkSport.
He has released 3 albums - all produced by himself including the debut album ‘Arrivals & Departures (2008), Piano and Voice (2010) and Branches in 2012. A new album is hoping to surface in 2016.
To promote these albums, Nathan has continuously toured opening for numerous sold out shows for Midge Ure, Edwina Hayes, Ellie Goulding, The Feeling, Phil Bates ELO plus many more.
On the side of his own music Nathan does session keyboard work for various others artists such as Enrique Iglesias.
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I hail from South Yorkshire in the north of England. I have been interested and fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. Throughout my teens I played keyboards in various local bands.
I first tried my hand at both singing and songwriting at the age of 18. I played on the northern club scene for 22 years before deciding to call it a day in 2010. I have many fond memories of those days (plus plenty I’d rather forget!) and I managed to collect quite a few awards along the way too. I am currently writing songs with a view to gaining interest from music publishers and artists.
For the past 10 years I have been involved in leading worship at my local church. This is an amazing privilege and responsibility which I enjoy and don’t take lightly. I have been busy writing and recording a contemporary Christian album called “Deeper With You” which you can find details of on my website. You can also check out the tracks on my soundcloud page. The album is available on cd as well as digital downloads on all the major download sites. Also the backing tracks are available to download on this site as a resource for churches.
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Robin has released a plethora of albums and EPs in the singer/songwriter format, many of which are available to download from his bandcamp page.
He performs these songs live either solo acoustic, with a small ensemble or full band.
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Steven Sproat is a singer songwriter with 6 albums behind him since the late ‘80s.
An accomplished guitarist, songwriter and ukulele exponent Steven is the Author to several best selling Tutorial books around the world. His forthcoming 5th Album will be called ‘Fruit for the Soul’ and shows the maturity of his songwriting and ability to discover catchy melodies and hooks. Stick around long enough and people start to notice; and that's what's beginning to happen, at last, to a fine independent artist.
His music has been played on BBC Radio 2 (Jeremy Vine, Aled Jones, Ed Stewart) and he has featured on TV including The One Show with Nicky Campbell, Alan Titchmarsh Show ITV and Frank Skinner’s recent BBC4 TV doc about George Formby.
With over 35 years playing experience he has appeared at numerous Festivals including Edinburgh Festival, Cheltenham Jazz Festival and Clubs such as The Mean Fiddler and Ronnie Scotts in London with appearances in New York and Dublin. He supported the legendary Jools Holland 2012 at various dates around the UK.
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Tim Jenks is a committed Christian with a passion for the blues. He has been involved in promoting the Lord via the medium of music for over half a century and has a fan base that stretches across the pond to the U.S. of A.
"The late '60s saw me introducing the electric guitar into our local church and the start of gospel rock making an impact within the coffee bar circuit. With a constantly changing line-up we settled on a three-piece boogie blues band called Life which spent most weekends hacking up and down the M6 to church coffee bar outreaches."
"With gig demand ever increasing I prematurely ended my teaching career in 1974 to form the full time pro-band Aaron and after a year touring pubs and clubs - the emphasis being on playing places Christian bands normally didn't - Aaron was invited to tour high schools and colleges in the USA. Two nine-month tours followed and we successfully took on the secular glam-rock scene."
Tim has made four recordings since 2002. The first was a collection of four of Tim's original songs under the title 'Sands of Time'. The second was an album 'Tear Down the Walls' featuring five of Tim's songs. More recently he recorded a dedicated Christmas album combining some rock arrangements of traditional carols alongside four original songs especially written for a Christmas concert – 'Realms of Glory'.
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With a folk-blues style, we’re inspired by all that is good in society, life by the sea and a searching faith. We've played festivals from Greenbelt to Rock Oyster and love to engage with the crowd and have fun on stage, even throwing our own versions of well known songs into the mix if it feels right!
"original and accessible, compelling you to listen closely" – Janet McLarty, BBC Radio 2 producer
"a great band to see performing live" – Rosie Dunkley, BBC Introducing producer
The Claze are everything they proclaim to be and more-a life loving and faith filled band of brothers.
A group of friends, brought together through their Faith who almost have The Blues Brothers ‘mission from God’ to use music to change, improve and inspire people’s lives.
4 people who are selfless, generous and passionate about using the talent they have to benefit others.
Their work on Tulips and Coffee with Macmillan Cancer Support received National coverage, and spread the message of how community spirit and love can make such a difference to people going through difficult times.
It’s a message that often gets lost in the fast paced world we live in, but The Claze have the ability to not only create music which conveys this belief but also to do it with laughter, emotion and true heart.
As well as creating music which reflects on life, love and loss, The Claze have a bond with each other which shines from within.
Gareth, Tom, Dave and James have their faith in God which is gentle and true. And their faith in each other to support, care and stick together is what makes The Claze work so well as a band.
They sing, play and speak from the heart. They like talking about God, rugby and music over a beer. They want to make a difference. What could be more inspirational than that? - Emma Wright.
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"Her songs find beauty in the mundane and transmit it perfectly to the listener with the endearing skill and charisma of a true raconteur." - James Tait
Jodi is a singer and songwriter from Sheffield, England. Jodi plays the guitar and hand percussion drums such as the Cajon and the Toca drum.
Jodi is also one part of the ELECTROSPECTIVE trio, from the Midlands UK. Consisting of cousins Vision and Jdrums, with Singer and Songwriter Jodi, they create catchy, sweet sounding, radio friendly music.
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Isabella is a devoted wife, dedicated mother of four, gifted songwriter, anointed psalmist, worship leader, pastor, author, speaker and multiple award-winning Gospel recording artiste whose music ministry has impacted the lives of many people globally. Since founding Isabella Melodies in 2009 with the release of her debut album, Lost Without You, Isabella has become a well-respected voice in the Gospel Music ministry both in the UK and Nigeria. To date, Isabella has released six excellent albums and travelled extensively for ministry work across many continents.
Isabella has been described as a vessel with a remarkable anointing due to the uniqueness of her ministry. The multi-award winning artiste refuses to be boxed into a certain genre of gospel music but continues to creatively deliver new, innovative sounds which defy the stereotypes.
Her distinctive songs have earned her multiple awards, including:
* Woman In Music (Wise Women Awards 2016)
* Best Female Artist (GXMMA 2015)
* Best Gospel Act (BEFFTA Awards 2014)
* Artiste of the Year, Europe (Africa Gospel Music Awards 2014)
* Best Female Artiste in Diaspora (Crystal Awards 2013 & 2014)
* Woman of Praise Awards 2013
* Best Female Artiste in Diaspora (Nigeria Gospel Music Awards 2012)
She has recently been nominated in the UK for the prestigious Premier Gospel Music Awards 2016.
Isabella is the author of the best-selling book, ‘The Worshipper after the Father’s Heart’ which was released in August 2013, forwarded by the world-renowned American worship leader, Terry MacAlmon. Isabella’s fervent love for the Lord and His people fuels her passion for service and her desire to equip the Body of Christ with the necessary tools to understand, develop and experience God-centred and God-directed worship.
Isabella is also a teacher of the Word and she has established The Worshipper worship seminars (www.theworshipper.org), through which she mentors, coaches, teaches about worship to churches, worship teams, choirs and other groups.
She is also the founding president of the global charity, Women of African Origin in Music Ministry (www.waomm.org) which was established to support, encourage, equip and empower female Gospel artists of African descent.
Isabella is very happily married to Pastor Ogo and they are blessed with four children: Sharon, Stephanie, Shane and Shemaiah, and they reside in the United Kingdom.
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