That Fatal Kiss Music

Musings on a Ten Year Old Song

tfkm — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:18:20 +0000

As I always do after making new songs available via ShareSong, I have spent a little time looking out for votes to get a (vague) idea of whether it seems to be going down reasonably well, and something jumped out at me.

Standing at number 75 in the Top 100 songs is Awesome God, written back in 2000 and first released on my 2001 solo album I Will Follow, this has always been my most widely appreciated song (as evidenced by the fact that it has 75% more downloads than any other song on the site), but to see it still being downloaded and appreciated by churches and leaders unknown is quite a humbling experience.

Back in 2002, the song also spent a number of weeks at number 1 in the Christian chart on mp3.com.au, which was likewise an exciting and humbling experience.

If I am honest, it is nowhere near my favourite of the songs I have written, but it is probably the song that is most typical of the style of contemporary Christian worship music … and I imagine that explains both why it has been more popular than my others, and why it isn’t among my own favourites. All that said, it is a song I am very proud of, since it was the one that convinced me that I could write worship songs after all.

The recording includes some really nice violin playing from Helen Webber, and one of these days, I will probably get around to making a new recording to give it a little more impact, since I generally find those early recordings to be pretty weak, especially compared to the work I have done with theREIGN. It is now less than a year until TFKM celebrates its tenth anniversary, and that perhaps offers me an excuse to do some stuff like that.

If you are one of the three and a half thousand people who have downloaded Awesome God (and the many many more who have streamed it from various sites on the web) … thank you – knowing that it is appreciated makes all of this worthwhile.

Every blessing,
David

New Song Uploaded

tfkm — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:39:26 +0000

Following on from my post Spring Harvest musings about getting my songwriting mojo back, I decided to do something else I haven’t done in a long time and break out the recording gear and do a demo recording of one of the three songs, Every Sound I Make (Hallelujah).

I am very pleased with the results and will probably do the same for the other new songs over the next few weeks.

You can download the various items from the following links:

Audio File (mp3)
Chord Chart (rtf)
Lead Sheet (pdf)
Lyric Chart (rtf)

… or else have a trawl through the songs pages to snag these, and anything else that takes your fancy.

Every blessing,
David

Got The Mojo Back …

tfkm — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:20:10 +0000

Just back from a very enjoyable and blessed week at Spring Harvest. Trent’s big top worship was good, Steve Chalke’s Bible Reading talks were good, and it was superb to catch up with what Tony Campolo has to say after all this time.

More than that, though, SH2010 was particularly memorable for me because I completed 3 new songs (more than I have managed in th last two and a bit years combined). One of these Eternal Flame walks a tightrope between worship and performance, and could be easily used in either depending on how you arrange it, the second, Every Sound I Make has been kicking around for a little while lacking verses, but is very definitely a worship song, as is the third and final entry, Never Failing Love.

I will endeavour to get some files up on the site sooner rather than later, along with the long promised audio, or video, for In Your Arms. Now that theREIGN’s schedule has slowed down a little, I will hopefully get the chance to start putting those together pretty soon.

In the meantime, every blessing,
David

At Last!

tfkm — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:55:44 +0000

Well, it has certainly taken a while, but I have finally managed to upload audio files for Great King Of Love and Sanctified.

These tracks were recorded live by theREIGN during their concert at Barrow Upon Humber back in November 2009. Apologies in advance for the quality of my voice, which was starting to give up the ghost in the middle of a long run of events.

I hope you enjoy hearing them (at last).

Every blessing,
David

Server Change Update

tfkm — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:41:36 +0000

Of all the site moves I have made over the last month or so, this one was by far the easiest. After some consternation in moving others, PHP files to tweak whilse in situ, DNS changes not propogating across the web very quickly and sundry other small niggles, I changed the DNS settings for TFKM at around midnight last night and on waking up and trying it this morning it works perfectly from its new home.

Simples … as they say.

I say perfectly … in fact the events calendar was broken somewhere in the move, but since I was already planning to change from the Gigs Calendar plugin to Gigpress once the move was completed this was not a great hardship, and that change is now completed and the calendar brought fully up to date again.

If you come across any broken links or downloads, please do let me know. Usual e-mail address: david@thatfatalkiss.com, or fill in the contact form.

Every blessing,
David

New Ways to keep up with theREIGN

tfkm — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:10:07 +0000

In a bold bid to enter the 21st Century, theREIGN have now created a presence on Facebook and Twitter, as well as giving their MySpace presence a long overdue update.

Given how poor I am at keeping this site bang up to date, it will be interesting to see how well I manage to keep on top of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter as well but time will tell.

Go have a look, become a fan or follower, and let’s see what sweet music we can make to further God’s Kingdom.

Every blessing,
David

Server Change

tfkm — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:02:38 +0000

After a review of all of my web hosting, including the related sites for theREIGN and the Rock Eucharist, I have decided to change my web host for the sake of flexibility and cost.

This means that over the next few weeks I will be working hard to get the sites moved over to the new server and there may be some downtime on the site, during which the downloads may also be unavailable.

Obviously, I will do everything I can to minimise the disruption and ensure as seamless a service as possible, but it looks as though it will be nigh on impossible to accomplish the move without the site being offline for a little while (possibly even a few days). The plan is to move one site at a time, so when this site goes down theREIGN’s site will still be available and once this is back then theREIGN’s site will be moved, and so on.

Please accept my apologies in advance for any inconvenience … I will, of course, post more once I know exactly when the outage will take place.

Every blessing,
David

So Much To Do, So Little Time

tfkm — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:42:31 +0000

It is always nice to be busy and in demand, but (as you will see if you check out the Calendar page) the last few months of 2009 really take the biscuit.

In between leading worship for various services at my home church in Swanland, there are half a dozen Rock Eucharist events with theREIGN, a Harvest Supper, a couple of carol services and a concert at Barrow, again with theREIGN.

Preparations for RE3: Though We Are Many have gone well so far, and the band are in good shape to kick off the Autumn season, which includes three events in the space of 6 days starting on Monday 19 October, so your prayers would be greatly valued for our stamina, fingers and voices as well as for the churches where these events will be held.

Likewise, I would value your prayers for my home church, St Barnabas. After a year long interregnum, 8 October sees the institution of our new minister, Francis Scott, who has a great interest in music (as well as a highly musical family). Please pray that his introduction into the life of the church and the community goes smoothly and that the Lord blesses him and his family in the new job/home/community.

Finally, I am still suffering a measure of writers block … particularly where lyrics are concerned. At the last count I have at least half a dozen songs at various stages of development which I just cannot move forward with for whatever reason. Please pray that this blockage is lifted so that my ministry in this area can continue to grow and glorify the Lord.

That is about it for now. As always, your feedback is welcomed on the songs and anything else you fancy, and if you get the chance to attend one of our Rock Eucharist events over the next six weeks, I would love to see you there.

Every blessing,
David

Potential New Feature

tfkm — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:19:34 +0000

You will have no doubt noticed that there are still no audio/mp3 files for the new songs added to the site back in April. This is entirely due to a lack of the time required to make proper demo recordings of the songs.

Consequently, having recently taken delivery of my 40th birthday present (a digital HD camcorder) I will be having a go at providing these in a different way … i.e. videoing myself playing the songs on guitar. Granted this means you will have to look at me, which is not necessarily ideal, but it will allow me to short circuit the time taken to get the songs onto the site, and also allow me some space to explain a little more about the song at the same time.

I am currently trialling some video editting software and once I am sure I can set these up the way I want to, the three newest songs, Sanctified, Great King Of Love and In Your Arms, will get the treatment and we’ll see how they go down.

Subject to audio quality, it is likely that I will also extract the audio track and include that as an mp3 file for download in the usual way.

Your feedback would be appreciated once these videos start appearing.

Every blessing,
David

“Sanctified” Updated

tfkm — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:06:26 +0000

We have now been able to add the Lead Sheet for Sanctified to complete the files required to play this song … although the melody is slightly more flexible than is indicated in the score itself.

All will become clear once the audio recordings are completed for the new songs, which should now be after theREIGN complete their “showcase” Rock Eucharist on Thursday 7 May.

Every blessing,
David Cooper