That Fatal Kiss Music

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

New Songs Update

tfkm — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:28:54 +0000

As promised I have now uploaded Lead Sheets (melody line, lyrics and guitar chords) for two of the three new songs; Great King Of Love and In Your Arms.

Sanctified is so new that I haven’t even had the chance to get to work on it yet but, hopefully, this will be done and ready to upload over the next couple of days.

Every blessing,
David

New Songs

tfkm — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:00:31 +0000

Hooray for Spring Harvest … a few days in the fog, wind and cold of Skegness helped to clear my writer’s block (at least for the moment) and allowed me to write my first new song in over a year. Given the busyness of the last 12 months, there are now three new songs backed up that haven’t made it onto the site yet, and I am now in the process of putting that right.

In Your Arms is a simple song of worship celebrating what it is that Jesus gives us in our daily lives, and how solid and strong we can be if we rest our hopes and our lives on Him, rather than on our own humanity.

Great King Of Love is a song celebrating that Jesus is the King of Love and some of the things that His love gives us beyond the obvious.

Sanctified (the Spring Harvest song) combines gentle verses of reflection on our own weaknesses and our sins with a big, bold chorus celebrating Jesus’ holiness and asking him to forgive and sanctify us in His name.

I have already uploaded Chord and Lyric charts for each of these three songs … but these are no good by themselves as you don’t know the tunes. Therefore, piano arrangements will be uploaded over the next day or so, with demo recordings (probably just guitar and voice) shortly afterwards.

This process has also highlighted that the Download manager on the site does not display downloads in alphabetical order … I’ll have to see what I can do about that.

Every blessing,
David

More Rock Eucharists!

tfkm — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:09:46 +0000

The Communion on the Rocks continues to monopolise theREIGN’s diary for 2009, with some additional events being added both within their current “tour” and beyond.

The “tour” addition has been slotted in on Sunday evening 1 March 2009 and will be held at Victoria Dock Church in Hull. This is a local church with which the band have a close and productive relationship, and we are delighted to be invited back to lead “Rising Sun” again, having held the original live rehearsal there back in August 2008.

Further afield, and following another successful and blessed weekend with our friends in Barrow Upon Humber over the weekend of 7 and 8 February 2009, we have been invited back for a further concert/Rock Eucharist combo (the not-yet-written v3) over the weekend of 14 and 15 November 2009. This is looking good at the moment, but we just need to tie down everyone’s availability in order to confirm.

Finally, and most importantly for theREIGN at this point, we have now set a date for a Communion on the Rocks showcase event, to be held at St Aidan’s church in East Hull on Thursday evening 7 May 2009, beginning at 7:30pm. This event is designed for us to showcase/lead the Rock Eucharist event for a congregation of invited local ministers and youth leaders with a view to expanding the event’s ministry within local churches. Please pray for the organisation, promotion and execution of this event.

theREIGN are always looking for more opportunities to lead these exciting events, and if you are interested in holding one in your own church (or group of churches) please do not hesitate to contact us

Every blessing,
David

Download Update

tfkm — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:45:38 +0000

We now have pleasure in confirming that we have completed the update of the downloads module and all files are once again available (from the Songs section of the site.

As a special treat, we have replaced the sample audio files for Jesus The King and When I Survey with the full recordings from Where Jesus Touches The Earth. Enjoy.

Finally, in case you haven’t noticed, we have added new video to the download section, featuring a full live recording of Jesus The King filmed at Holy Trinity, Barrow Upon Humber in July 2008.

More song news to follow in the coming weeks.

Every blessing,
David

We’re Back!

tfkm — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:23:01 +0000

Thanks to a little luck, a great deal of elbow grease, some beyond the call of duty from our hosts and, I imagine, a little divine intervention the site is back up and running … almost.

All of the posts, pages, and calendar are back in place and up to date, along with the following sections of downloads: Audio Files, Radio Interviews, Outside Projects, Fun Stuff and Video Clips. The rest will be completed over the next few days.

We are trying out a new download manager on the site, in order to simplify the mechanism for getting separate categories on separate pages (otherwise known as not having to ask Tim Canty to change the code of the plug-in to make it happen). At this point, the plug-in simply produces a list of the files that can be downloaded which is not ideal as we would like to show a little more information about each one. The plug-in writer is working on this for a future update, so we’ll see how it goes.

At least we know this hacker attack (unlike previous ones) was not directed against Christian sites as they basically took out the entire server at the webhosts’ end … and I believe mine are the only Christian sites on it.

Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be any way to prevent this kind of thing from ever happening, so we thank you for your continued patience while we resolve the outstanding issues and look forward to getting back to the music imminently.

Every blessing,
David

New Video Added

tfkm — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:02 +0000

If you head on over to the Video Clips page, you will find a brand new live video available for viewing (via theREIGN’s brand new YouTube Channel) and for download.

This video is the first recording of a full live song performance that we have made available, but we very much hope there will be more to come in the near future. It features the opening song of the band’s well received concert at Holy Trinity Church in Barrow on Humber in July 2008, Jesus The King.

We hope you enjoy this little present, and would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry and blessed Christmas, as well as a Happy New Year. There are some exciting things coming from the band in 2009, and we will keep you posted on all the developments right here, as well as at theREIGN’s official website.

Every blessing,
David

New Downloads Available

tfkm — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:53:28 +0000

A quick database update to put right a few small discrepancies in the Lyric Charts section. It appears that when I migrated the site across to WordPress I missed a few of the files out of the new Download Manager. That has now been put right.

If you go to that page you will notice that the OHP Master files for Jesus The King, Surrender and When I Survey are now present and correct, along with a brand new file sitting proudly at the top of the list.

With the popularity among churches of EasyWorship for projecting words onto a screen from a PC, we have put together a simple EasyWorship schedule containing the words of all of the songs available on this site (including the more performance oriented ones). Just download the zip file, unzip, open the schedule in EasyWorship and elect to import the songs into your database. They will then be there for future use without you having to type a single word.

Obviously, there are other packages available and in use in churches so, if you would like these words available in other formats, please let us know and we will try and arrange that … assuming we can find someone with the appropriate software!

Every blessing,
David