Jonny Middleton gives us an insight into the creative process … You stand, gripping your 99p Flake Ice Cream (now £1.29 thanks to inflation) in mid summer – hand morphing into the cone because of the excitement this rare treat brings; you shove it wholeheartedly into your mouth and the initial flavours and refreshing smoothness [...]
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David Pickett gives us some advice … Choosing which songs to play during worship can be a little daunting – especially as you are faced with choosing from a massive collection of songs in a variety of styles and types. I’ve found, at first, it can be a real challenge deciding what songs to play, [...]
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Morning everyone, it’s time for another Bipbox blog! This week, after last week’s retrospective, I thought I’d look at some of the latest releases that you should be getting excited about. First of all, an interesting release that seems to only be available in the USA at the moment. TobyMac has released a DVD called [...]
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It seems like a lot longer than seven weeks ago that I first started looking after the Bipbox blog. Since then, we’ve had loads of great blogs written by Christians who love what we’re planning to do with the site, and several (not quite as good!) blogs written by me. As the blog editor, I’ve [...]
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It’s getting dark so early at the moment that sometimes we’ve been a bit gloomy in the Bipbox office. We’re beavering away, trying to get the site ready for Christmas. However, this has been a bit of a struggle as you’ll discover in our latest newsletter. We haven’t lost faith though. It does mean that [...]
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As we get closer and closer to the launch of Bipbox, more and more of you are finding out about the site, and are getting excited about it. Lots of you recently helped us out by answering our music download questionnaire, and lots more of you are signed up to our newsletter. Our recent iPod [...]
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As the resident blogger/marketer/dogsbody here at Bipbox, I’ve been immersing myself in more Christian music than ever. Whilst I’ve now got a greater understanding of the breadth of the industry, having listened to more Christian rap than I ever thought existed (and how about LZ7 getting to number 26 in the charts a few weeks [...]
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‘She Got it Bad’ and ‘All This Time’: two hit singles that have got everybody talking about BeBe Vox. With her first full album on the way, this latest artist from Manchester’s Innervation Trust, home to tbc and thebandwithnoname, is destined for bigger things. Bipbox was lucky enough to chat to the welsh electropop singer, [...]
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David Pickett describes the effect that Christian music has on him … I sometimes wonder why I spend so much time listening to Christian music when I seem equally to enjoy listening to secular music. I realise that what makes me want to listen to Christian music is the ability of it to demonstrate God’s [...]
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Jonny Middleton discusses his musical ‘philosophy’ If you ever play an instrument for any length of time, you’ll inevitably walk headlong into the issue of tuning, maintenance and replacement of parts … even perhaps the changing of the odd string here and there. This process is repetitive, but a bit like eating: it is always [...]
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