I’m on my way home after a GREAT time at the Christian Musician’s Summit in Buffalo NY. Here’s a few photos to tell you about the trip! (more…)

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

Hi friends,

It’s an exciting day… I get to unveil my EP cover! The EP is a limited edition, three track CD that will be available on FEBRUARY 9th! Here is the cover….

I’ll be sharing snippets of info about the three EP songs between now and the release…so watch this space.

We will also have a competition, when once you’ve purchased the EP (either from iTunes, my merchandise table on the road, or in a store) you can enter a draw to win some really cool stuff… More on that soon!

The full length album will be available online and in stores from APRIL 6th!

You like the EP cover? Hope you do!!!

Love,

Vicky

Video Blog #2 From The Studio – “Vocal Booth Truth!” from Vicky Beeching on Vimeo.

Hello!

Recording has continued over the past week… its going great!

We’ve got the drums, bass and guitars done on all 3 of the E.P. songs. Now we are just finishing vocals…

I was in the vocal booth yesterday and thought I’d make another ‘video blog’ for you with some behind the scenes footage… hope it makes you smile : )

Love,
Vicky

I had a wonderful, unexpected surprise this past week. My friends from the band “Leeland” – who if you’ve never met them are some of the greatest guys on the planet – were sound checking in San Diego for the Christian Music Awards. They had a few hours free, so they drove to the studio I’m recording in and sang some ‘gang vocals’ on some of my songs. Thanks guys!

Here are some pics…

Lots of headphone cables so everyone could hear and sing along!

The first step for recording was – turn off our phones! (You can see how many iPhone-users we had in the building!!)

Me teaching the songs on acoustic, and people learning the lyrics from their sheets…

Sarah teaching vocal parts… Baby Scarlett watches wishing she could join in the singing!

Some of the songs I joined the ‘gang’ and sang on… Others I just stood and watched as it was a special moment for me to see all those people singing my songs and bringing their voices and hearts to the record.

SINGING!

Jonathan, my Producer, at the desk recording it all!

Group shot! Thanks SO much everyone

Look for my 3 song EP coming out this Fall. Then the full-length album early next year! I can’t wait for you all to hear it.

Also…. Leeland’s brand new album hit the streets TODAY! Go buy it here!!

Are you part of a music community? Do you have people that you play with, sing with, jam with? For any musician or songwriter, a good musical community is a real gift from God. Do you have that or are you praying/searching for that?

Love,

Vicky

Video Blog #1 From The Studio! from Vicky Beeching on Vimeo.

Hey!

So you’ve heard me talk on Twitter and this Blog about recording my new album. So I thought it was high time you SAW and experienced it for yourselves!

Check out this video I made – you’ll get a guided tour of the studio rooms and gear. Then you’ll get to meet my producer, one of my favorite co-writers, my A&R man Jay King, plus baby Scarlett – who makes us all smile everyday!

Question for you – have you done any recording? How did it go and what software/hardware did you use? Or are you someone wanting to know where to start in making a decent demo? Lets chat about recording…all questions and thoughts welcome below!

Thanks for your support and prayers – I couldn’t make this record without you and I hope all of the songs will lead you closer to Jesus!

Love,

Vicky

Hope your week is going brilliantly!

When you click on the ‘store’ link on my Blog, now (drum roll….’da, da, daaaaaaa’!) you’ll be directed to the brand new merch store!

As well as buying CDs, we now have t-shirts! One is a black shirt, with a vintage British flag on it. The other shirt is gray & white striped (I love stripes…) with Yesterday Today and Forever on it… The scribbles on the shirt aren’t real words..just scribbles (in case you were wondering!)

More items will be added soon, but for now I hope you like the shirts!

What items would you like to see in the store? My passion is to resource people, not entertain…so I’m not wanting to flog cheesy items! Personally, I like buying t-shirts to support bands and artists I love, so that’s the reason I’m selling them : ) And a lot of parents tell me they want other options for their kids to wear, other than secular pop stars and bands shirts that represent behavior that’s not in line with what Jesus would want…so that’s my thinking behind it all.

Would you find it helpful if we sold printed songbooks with chord charts and sheet music in it for all my songs? Or do you feel able to get those elsewhere for cheap/free? How much would you feel was a fair price if it were pay-per-download for the sheet music per  individual song? I already give away chord charts on the blog, but am not able to give away sheet music…so I’m figuring out how to get people the sheet music they are asking me for… : )

Love,

Vicky

Vicky Beeching talk about Hope For Justice from Vicky Beeching on Vimeo.

Hey!

I have exciting news for you….

I’m teaming up with some British friends to be an ‘Artist Advocate’ for their organization. They are called “Hope For Justice”…  check out their website here!

Watch the video above to hear me sharing on it all….

Hope For Justice is headed up by Ben Cooley – a very visionary guy who lives in the UK and put on an event last autumn called “The Stand”. It’s been airing on GOD-TV numerous times, so you may have seen it. The event was powerful – Jon Foreman, BlueTree, Tim Hughes, myself and others played and funds were raised to get Hope For Justice off the ground and running toward their target of freeing many slaves round the world!

Will you pray for me as I step into this role with Hope For Justice? Will you join me in beginning to live out a “life of worship & justice” by reaching out to the poor, enslaved and needy in your street and town and nation??

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love,

Vicky

Hey friends!

Today I did some co-writing with my friend Phil Danyew. He is an amazing artist, signed to Sparrow Records, and making some incredibly cool and vibey music. Check out his Myspace to have a listen!

Phil Wickham was also in the studio all day finishing his album…its sounding great to watch out for that one when it releases later this year!

Back to the studio tomoro…

Question for you…. If I could write a song about anything, what would YOU choose it to be? Like, what theme, what Scripture passage or what kind of genre or feel?

Vicky

Hi friends!

Hope you had a brilliant weekend…

I played in Cost Mesa CA last night. Photos below! But before you look at them I have a new Blog to recommend to you….

My friend Wendy from Eastbourne in England has started blogging! I’ve been hoping she would for a while now as she has some really cool stuff to say.. Her new blog (which I built myself…da.da.daaaah!) is now LIVE! (thanks to Jonathan Paul for help with the icons and some troubleshooting)

Go see Wendy’s new site “Turn Up The Contrast”  HERE!

Her latest entry is about practicing ‘random acts of kindness’… The one before that is about when she and I went to a Tattoo parlor and I played Coldplay’s “Fix You” and God’s presence really showed up. Exciting times!

Here are the pics from last night in Costa Mesa, CA:

Great lighting, guys!

Jon Murray on bass….

Pete Kipley, my new producer, on electric…

Justin Glasco on drums….

Beejay Backlawski on background vocals…

People worshipping – they really went for it!

Kipley and his Les Paul, bringin’ it!

Ok, check out Beejay singing some SERIOUS vocals there!!!!! (now THAT is what I call a VOICE!)

I’m working on the new ‘theological debate’ question… so that’ll appear on here soon!

Go check out Wendy’s blog and leave her a comment to welcome her to the Blogosphere : -)

And in the Comments section today, leave me your Blog address and your name…. then I can check out what you guys are writing! Lets grow this Blog community wider and wider!

Love,

Vicky