November 10, 2011
I had a good recording session yesterday. It looks like Volume IV is finally moving out of the mud. Really, I'd been stuck for a year, spinning my wheels with various genres / recording techniques that seemed to go nowhere. But yesterday, working on Horatio Bonar's I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say (local Edinburgh boy!), all the seemingly disparate and distracting elements came together. Should have something to show for it soon.
October 27, 2011
Great set at the Love Oliver fundraiser. We're doing another one on November 26 at the Rothes Halls in Fife, Scotland ==>
http://www.onfife.com/events/loveoliver-charity-fundraising-concert
July 12, 2011
No No No No No, two years in the making, is now available. It better not be lousy, eh? You can get it here.
July 01, 2011
Working on new stuff. Inspired by the below bit:
--The mixed response [Radiohead's] Kid A garnered in the UK revealed how the Britpop era has weakened the rock audience's (or more likely, the rock media's) ability to handle anything not blatantly singalong. At its lowliest--Oasis--Britpop was barely more than amplified busking, disregarding the studio's sound-sculpting potential and relegating rhythm to a menial timekeeping role.--
Within hymnody (both corporate and devotional) certainly "singalongs" are an integral living out of body of Christ united, but when hymnody is limited to this role, the songs will become stale arena rock.
Also, back up on Facebook.
June 30, 2011
Yesterday I quit Facebook, which means that temporarily the JG HYMNS page on Facebook is gone. There will be a new one set up soon.
JG
January 27, 2011
the Eric Liddell Centre
15 Morningside Road
Edinburgh
EH10 4DP
11 February
8 pm
£8 / 5 concessions
http://www.jghymns.bandcamp.com
http://www.alexjmacdonald.co.uk
January 04, 2011
The LOT is closing!
We get one of the last shows...
21 January
8pm
£8 / £5 concession
The LOT
4-6 Grassmarket
Edinburgh
EH1 2JU
www.the-lot.co.uk
August 26, 2010
After 14 months of labour, Hymns Volume III is finally mastered and finished ==>
JG
July 26, 2010
The first JG HYMNS show!
17 September 8pm
St Columba's Free Church
1 Johnstone Terrace (next to the castle)
Edinburgh
EH1 2PW
£8/5 concession
Featuring three bands and the Buccleuch Men's Choir
April 29, 2010
March 18, 2010
Posted two new tracks from Volume III that go together.
JG
February 23, 2010
1. Father, We Thank You For The Night
2. Come, Thou Fount
4. Such Great Love
6. Joseph, Part I
8. Jesus, Lover Of My Soul
10. 3 Years
February 18, 2010
Now posted.
JG
February 12, 2010
It's shorter.
Also, if you're at all visually inclined, and you're at all interested in what I'm doing here, please send me a note. I've got a billion ideas.
JG
January 25, 2010
Just added a Such Great Love!
The record is getting there. Nearly done.
December 04, 2009
Hi folks.
Now at www.NoiseTrade.com, you can download JGHYMNS B-Sides for as much or as little as you please.
JG
November 25, 2009
Just added Hermeneutics, an exercise in humility rather than defeat.
November 17, 2009
Just added Father, We Thank You For The Night, written by Rebecca J. Weston some time during the 1880s. I don't know a thing about this lady.