Martyn Joesph

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Date: 28 November 2003 16:31:35

Last night i went to my first ever Martyn Joseph concent with Annie P and Tom Day from the ship. It was amazing. So i will now spend several paragraphs gushing about one of the most wonderful concerts i have ever been to (not that i've been to many concerts)

We had to stand outside in the cold for quite a while before getting let into the building and nabbing three seats in the last row. The last row was about 3 meters from the stage where MJ was playing. The concert began with serveral songs i didn't recognise and i began to wonder why i had been told to go to a live gig...About half way into the first half MJ began playing songs i recognised and a few people were singing along. Gradually the audience singing got louder with encouragement from MJ and the first half ended with a long story in the middle of a song (i think it was hang the world).

We had a drink and i found some church friends who knew martyn joseph and i stood with my mouth open for several minuets after finding out that they were his friends (i've not lost my "wow - famous christian :notworthy:" attitude to people who play or write or sing although it's not as bad as it was). Then the second half started. Again, the singing got louder until in one song (lets talk about it in the morning IIRC) Martyn stepped back from the mike and let the audience sing the song. All of the song. Until the instrumental (which we tried to sing anyway). It went from there really. Because we were in a reasnoblaly small room it was quite easy for people to hear that others were singing and so they joined in. MJ also did Liberal Backslider, which is one of my favourite songs, and the line that was the loudest and sang with most passion was:

gonna take me a TV evangelist and punch him in the face

the last song (before the encore) was called whoever brought me here will have to take me home. And was amazing. Really really really really amazing. The encore was Aching and Longing (audience sung) and Sum of all these parts, which MJ went on another tangent on. The most easily rememberd lines of the tangent were: "it's 11.02 and is past the curfew but it doesn't matter as i'm singing quietly" and "i need to get back to the minor key again"

It really was a wonderful concert. I can't wait to see him again!

After the concert i went a talked to MJ and asked if i could use some of his song lyrics for my photography project (which has to be in two weeks today) and he said yes :D. so i'm now picking out sound bites from songs to put in my project, which means i have 4 people who have been asked (Wood, Mike Riddell, Sue Wallace and Martyn Joseph) and only one who can sue me (C.S. Lewis).

yay :D