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Monday, March 15, 2004

What a Weekend !

It's finally done, after an exhausting 11 hours at church over 2 sessions we have finally recorded our Paradise live album. Thanks to BMG Guy Sebastian was able to be on a few of the tracks, at least in a limited way: we are limited to 10,000 copies. I ordered 4 :). The choir was awesome, there were 150 of us and we were still going strong at the end, even after they sprung an extra set of 4 songs on us to make sure we had the recordings we needed. Tina, Cherrie and especially Duncan did an amazing job of getting us there by looking after and leading us.
Some highlights:

On Sunday morning Princess C offered to put some product in my hair to make it look fantastic for the DVD. I sat down and after a couple of minutes of pulling at my hair C says S help! and calls Queen S over to lend a hand. I then had both of them working on me at once (and you can bet I was enjoying the attention ;-) ) before Queen S finished off and then got me back after a few minutes to finish off with hairspray. Princess CB did the honours for the evening session. Thanks girls, I really appreciate the help, I got lots of complements.
The choir was really jumping (literally). During the praise set of the 7pm service (our 3rd of the day) I was finding it hard to stay in contact with the choir stand like I was supposed to. It was a moment of being completely sold out to God and giving it all for Him like I've never experienced before.
Princess CB lost her voice (and let me tell you that is a major handicap ;-) ouch, I thought I'd get that in now because she will hit me when I next see her :) ) and then had to do an interview for the DVD "making of" special which was very funny but also a great expression of how much effort went into the performance.
Oh Man, Lucien, what a guitarist!

I'm completely exhausted but proud to be a part of something which I pray will touch so many lives.

posted by Peter at 7:55 PM