Archive for January, 2010

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Vicky Leading Worship At Mars Hill

– January 27, 2010Posted in:

Hope you’re week is going well!

Great news – on February 7th I’ve been invited to lead worship at Rob Bell’s church, Mars Hill in Grand Rapids. I’m really looking forward to it. Recently they had my friend Stu G from Delirious leading there…so it sounds like early 2010 is the ‘British Invasion’ of Michigan!

Rob’s work is really excellent stuff. If you haven’t dived into his material, check out the NOOMA video series…

Or if you’d rather read something instead of watching videos, I recommend starting with “Velvet Elvis“:

I got interested in Rob’s work during the Delirious “Worship Revolution” tour a couple of years ago. Stu G (lead guitarist) and Jon Thatcher (bass player) were really into his writings and podcasts. So often we would listen to the podcast on the bus or in the green room, when we weren’t busy sound checking or setting up gear. They got me into Velvet Elvis, and another of his books, SexGod.

Looking forward to Feb 7th.

Have you read or watched any of Rob’s material? Thoughts from the crowd??

Vicky

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Carlos Whittaker – New EP Releases Jan 26th

– January 25, 2010Posted in:

Hi there :-)

If you watched the video I posted about Carlos a few days ago, you’ll have seen his little son trying to learn one of his songs… very cute indeed!

Well… the great news is that his 3 song EP is available in just  few hours…. as soon as the calendar flips to Jan 26th you can jump onto iTunes and buy it!

If you don’t already read his blog, click here and join the Ragamuffin Soul community!

A big shout out to his record label and mine – INTEGRITY MUSIC, y’all rock! A special shout out to Jay King and Stephen Brewster who masterminded his EP (and mine, which releases Feb 9th!!!!)

Love,

Vicky

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Vicky’s Video Shoot in London!

– January 23, 2010Posted in: Technology

Hi friends!

Yesterday I spent the day in central London with a camera crew and my manager Wendy, filming a video piece to go with my new EP and album! It was bucketing down with rain, under a grey cloudy sky… so it’ll look very legitimately British! We started off inside St Mary’s Church, a beautiful, tall church built in the early 1800s near Marble Arch and Marylebone in the heart of Westminster. We filmed the stories behind the songs on the album there. Then after grabbing sandwiches we piled into Wendy’s car and drove around the city center with both camera men hanging out the windows filming the city in motion!

We parked near the River Thames and got footage of me chatting about themes on the album and about life in general. The rain didn’t stop so I pulled out my black and white polka dot umbrella! We filmed the London Eye and the Houses Of Parliament, then drove into the dark and very heart-breaking area of Soho – it has been London’s prostitution district for the past 400 years.

I got out of the car with the camera crew and we captured the explicit and devastating nature of those streets. I shared thoughts with the camera on worship and justice and my passion to see human trafficking ended. We ventured down some very dark, small alleyways lined with prostitutes and pimps. My heart was racing when we got accosted by one of them and told to stop filming as what was going on was private and not to be documented. It was scary and we felt pretty vulnerable…but I am so glad we were able to go there and let our hearts be even more deeply broken by what goes on behind closed doors. Worship and justice MUST go hand in hand – one of the songs on the new album is all about that…so my decision to shoot some film in Soho was one I’m still glad I did.

Watch out for the video! We’ll post some “Flip camera” B roll in the next week or so to give you a taste of what the full version will look like!

Not long til my 3 song EP comes out…. Feb 9th!!

Love,

Vicky

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