How I Made It: Thomas Austin and Theofolk Music
“If I say God is good, that’s that. But if I say God is an oak, it opens up a lot more room for a listener to take the song into their own hands.”
“If I say God is good, that’s that. But if I say God is an oak, it opens up a lot more room for a listener to take the song into their own hands.”
That ‘Wild Mercury Sound’ On Tuesday night, May 17th 1966 the large ‘Free Trades Hall’ in Manchester England was filled to capacity. Music fans had been lining up on the street for hours; having held their precious concert tickets for months. They had come to see their hero; the ‘spokesman of a generation,’ the ‘champion of the underdog,’ the street poet who was their poet: Bob Dylan—‘Folk Singer.’ A storm was brewing that night, and it burst wide open in the second half of the program. In the years 1964-1965 Dylan had toured the UK singing all the songs the...
TGCA Social Media Editor, Brianna McClean talks to WA artist Tenielle Neda about her journey to faith and forthcoming EP, What is My Hope? TGCA: Tell us a bit about yourself! What’s your journey with Jesus been like? When did you start making music? What does life look like for you right now? I was born in Carnarvon and have grown up in Western Australia in various towns—Perth mainly, in my teen years and onwards. In my twenties, I did stints in Sydney, Melbourne and Karratha—sometimes for extended periods, sometimes all at the same time! (FIFO life!). I am about...
A new recording from the students of Sydney Missionary and Bible College (and named for the college’s street address), Badminton Road offers us a mix of songs and styles over its six tracks.* Among the Nations EP by Badminton Road It bursts open with a driving version of “Crown Him with Many Crowns”, which, while it is not uncommon nowadays for Christian artists to record modernised versions of old hymns, is done especially well. There is an edge to this track that is too often missing in Christian music, and is confidently led by the drums through several quite different phases:...
It is very encouraging to listen to an album made by a student of the Bible college where I serve. This is first, because we are so pleased to be training people for many different kinds of Christian ministry, and secondly because the student, Jake Heading, has realised that it is good and right for Christian music to showcase solid theology. Too often we can fall into thinking that it is only senior pastors who need to formally study the Bible in any depth, but this arises from too narrow a view of Kingdom ministry and it risks us limiting...