The Dave P Interview – 28 Years in UK Gospel
So, I didn’t really realise the importance of this interview until I started the final prep for it this week… After all, it’s only Dave. I’ve been listening to […]
[Free Download] ‘Riddim Culture Presents Ram 1′
As a subgenre UK Gospel Reggae has never really got the props it truly deserves. It has as many (arguably more) players active on the international scene as the more high-profile […]
[Free Download] – Dwayne – ‘Sun Is Shining’
The Writeway Music camp campaign to keep the good music coming continues… Dwayne (he used to go by the name ‘Rhema’) is one-fourth of Writeway Music (along with Tunday, Presha J and […]
[Video and Audio] Guvna B – Sending One Up
New Guvna B Single Challenges Judgemental Apathy You’ve probably seen it in action. I’ve certainly had to stop myself doing it: someone starts off as a hugely passionate Christian. And then they’re […]
Radio: BBC 2′s ‘Sunday Hour’ resumes with more ‘Gospel’
BBC Radio 2′s ‘Sunday Hour’ resumes with more ‘Gospel’ On BBC Radio 2′s ‘The Sunday Hour’ Diane Louise Jordan plays spiritually uplifting and inspiring music through hymns, Gospel and choral […]
Free Download and video: Ram 1 – ‘Babylon’
Free Download and video: Ram 1 – ‘Babylon’ Nottingham-based MOBO 2012 Gospel nominee Ram 1 put this out late last year. ‘Babylon’ is another Edward Holland Junior production so you […]
[Video] J.A – ’2013 Freestyle’
I came across North London-based J.A. completely by accident on the 5th of January 2013 when he tweeted me a link to his track called ’2013 New Year Freestyle’. As you can probably imagine […]
Free Download – sammy. – ‘The Soundtrack’
sammy. is back (don’t let the name confuse you – you’ll remember him as ‘Sammy G’) His first release after the widely-respected ‘Plain & Simple’ album is – in keeping with […]
Free Download – Bazil Meade and London Community Gospel Choir’s ‘Keep Moving’
More free music for your probably already-nearly-full hard drive. This time it comes to you courtesy of London Community Gospel Choir principal and UK gospel music industry veteran, Bazil Meade, and […]
New video: Aaron T Aaron’s ‘Double Double’
Aaron T Aaron adds to the batch of January 1st 2013 releases from the UK gospel music scene with the video to his popular song, ‘Double Double‘, taken off his strong debut […]
Free Download – New release from Jay Ess
On Christmas day 2012, Music of Black Origin (MOBO), US Stellar, and Dove-nominated artist, the London-based Jay Ess released his latest project ‘Walking By Faith’. And as with ‘Good Friday’, his previous […]
Free 2013 New Year Song from Da Sargeant
One of the more memorable releases from last year came from 20-year-old British-Asian Sam Daniel, aka ‘Da Sargeant‘. His Bhangra song, ‘Yeshuve’ (a remix of his acoustic original, included four […]
Top UK Gospel Sunshine Tunes to Warm Your Winter (Part 1)
So: it’s that time of the year again… 3-4 layers of insulated clothing is the norm (my default is 4). The dark days are longer, and my wearing a hoodie […]
Miss Kerr, the MOBOs and Migrating from UK Gospel…
I’m happy to admit I found 2012′s MOBO Gospel category difficult to call. The one thing MOBO Awards is pretty much guaranteed to do with Gospel every year is generate consternation […]
Top 5 Tips – Getting Your Music Played on Radio
Photo: Pure’s ‘Jongo Lifestyle’ Radio Here’s a quick update from the ‘Top 5 Tips’ Series: If you’ve ever wanted to know how to go about getting your music playlisted on […]
Why I Can’t (and Sometimes Won’t) Play Your Music On The Radio Part 2 – Matt Brooks
Matt Brooks (right), along with older brother Adam are two of the reasons why I’m looking to retire from publishing UKGospel.com very soon Through their excellent work on the mBrio […]
MOBO Gospel 2012 – Last Chance: Listen to the music – Then Vote!
Voted for your favourite UK Gospel act for MOBO 2012 yet..? No? Well, maybe you need a reminder. Here’s a summary of the nominees, in alphabetical order. You have less […]
Top Apps to Keep You Creative on the Move Part 2 – Hardware
Easy I won’t spend much time on the background to this (get Part 1 here), but the premise of this series is simple: Share apps and processes I’ve come across […]
And – finally – I’d Like to Thank God…
Sometime in September Miss Tobi sent me the tweet congratulating me on the nomination. It was the first I heard of it. As it turned out, I’d been nominated in […]
[Video] – Brand new music from Writeway Music
Ever since they announced their joint WriteWay Music project to the world Tunday, Rhema, Leke and Presha J have been fussy about the quality control around every product put out […]
Top Apps to Keep You Creative on the Move (Part 1)
Spinning Plates Like most people, I have to keep lots of plates spinning in the air at any given time. Keeping track of – and managing – important tasks can […]
How Not to Promote on Facebook
How Not to Promote on Facebook… This is quite a short post. I get this on a fairly frequent basis, so I thought I’d point out a few things: 1. […]
The Essential UK Gospel Tracklist – March 2012
Happy New Year! First ‘Essential’ post of 2012. Sorry it took so long. The short version: through the ‘Essential UK Gospel Tracklist’ series I’ll point you in the direction of […]
Why I Can’t (and Sometimes Won’t) Play Your Music On Radio
Funny old thing, radio… Before I started presenting the Gospel Breakfast Show on Premier Gospel, my relationship with – and impression of – radio was probably similar to yours. I […]
New E Tizz album ‘What I Gotta Say’ – out February 7th on iTunes
If some of the music I’m hearing (both new and imminent releases) is anything to go by, then it’s pretty safe to say 2012 has already kicked into high gear! E […]
Why Your Media Contact Doesn’t Respond To Your Tweets
I start with a disclaimer: the title is somewhat disingenuous, as this is less about what every media person thinks, and more about me just venting about my pet Twitter […]
The Best 2011 UK Gospel Tracks You Probably Never Heard
(Picture: FreshFiber.com - Red iPhone 4 case) Last Updated: 26 December 2011 I know we die-hard fans say this pretty much every year, but: 2011 was awesome for UK gospel music. However, you don’t […]
More Top Tips to Make The Media Work for You
Keen for Others to Succeed One summer’s evening in July 2011 I logged on to Twitter just in time to catch a rant so passionate it reminded me of the fact […]
Four Kornerz return with ‘Dynamite’
Fresh off the back of a surprise but nevertheless deserved MOBO 2011 nomination, Four Kornerz return to the scene with yet another solid track, ‘Dynamite’. Produced by in-house producer SCSI (pronounced ‘Scuzzi’), ‘Dynamite’ […]
Karl Nova announces ‘More Than Just Music’
Let’s get the most obvious bits out of the way: there’s no hiding the fact that ‘more than music’ is one of those phrases that’s so overused it’s well beyond […]
The Essential UK Gospel Tracklist – June 2011
It’ll be pretty obvious to anyone who cares to look that we’re in the middle of an amazing run of great new music in the UK at the moment And […]
Top 5 Things that will Make The Media Work For You (part 1)
Back in January 2011 I promised you a ‘Top 5′ series, offering advice, tools, tips, hints and more. Well, here’s the first: ‘Top 5 Things to Make The Media Work […]
16 Tweets to start your radio (and media) career…
Funny how things turn out… If you’d told me just over a year ago that I’d be on radio presenting a breakfast show on one of the most recognisable Christian […]
Want some *awesome* UK Gospel Music..? Start here!
The recent holiday season was amazing. If you were shrewd enough in your planning, you might even have been one of those people with an 11-day holiday stretch. I’m not […]
Official music leak: Jahaziel is ‘Broken’
If you have even the flimsiest of connections to the UK gospel scene then you probably know that ‘Still Livin”, Jahaziel’s new mixtape, is due out next week. In the […]
UK Artist Makes US Dove History
Lola Godheld image by StarlightImagery.co.uk Last week was a good one for UK gospel, not least because on the 20th of April, 2011, London-based Lola Godheld made history by becoming […]
The Essential UK Gospel Tracklist – April 2011
The UKGospel.com Essential UK Gospel Tracklist – April 2011 2011: April. The good music keeps coming. Last updated: 21st April 2011 Month four already, and if the response to this […]
Music update – ‘The Essential UK Gospel Tracklist’
The UKGospel.com Essential UK Gospel Tracklist – March 2011 2011: third month in, and things have been off to a cracking start right here in the UK. I can barely […]
New Blog Series: ‘Top 5 Things To Do Before…’
New Blog Series: ‘Top 5 Things To Do…’ Like many of the good ideas we all have from time to time, this came to me out of the blue. Exciting […]
Video: Faith Child ‘Just Pose’
Very catchy, great little song of affirmation from the forever-cheeky, London-based Faith Child. Proof positive once again (as if you really needed it) that you don’t need a huge budget […]
Roucheon – Never Gone (video)
This is the second Royal Priesthood video I’m posting in as many hours. Smooflow’s got the mellow RnB/Hip-Hop flavoured groove down to a fine art, and – as per usual […]
If you’re going to cover a song, *this* is the way to do it….
So, anyone who knows anything about the UK scene knows Labrinth is a genius. ‘Let The Sun Shine‘ is a fantastic song. However, take a leaf out of the ACM […]
Download: Eddie Kadi on the Gospel Breakfast Show on Premier Gospel
I met Eddie Kadi for the very first time on this audio you’ll hear. I can’t believe how quickly we hit it off. He came in to the show I […]
Download: V9 Collective UKGospel.com Podcast
Fun podcast with Yinka Awojobi and London family group V9 Collective – V9 chat to Yinka about their excellent debut album ‘World to Me’, selecting a few tracks to highlight: […]
Guvna B Gospel Cypher Freestyle (video)
Easily one of the best things I have seen in months. I’ll let the video do the talking: LINKS Guvna B website Guvna B Facebook Guvna B Twitter
Royal Priesthood: Rise [VIDEO] – I *LOVE* this…
One of my all-time favourite tracks from one of the UK’s hardest-working groups. Rise is *awesome*: old school Hip-hop loop with serious content. If you like it, get the album […]
So, my BIG ANNOUNCEMENT is…
Thanks to Dayo from Quadosh for the GREAT picture. If you’re my friend on Facebook or following me on Twitter, then you know I’ve been dropping these rather unsubtle hints […]
Audio: Breaking into the industry
Breaking into the mainstream music industry I don’t know how long this BBC 1Xtra Audio documentary is going to be up, but it’s well worth you taking 20 minutes out of […]
Mark Of The Beast: Endgame Theory
Mark Of The Beast: Endgame Theory I’m always wary about the default doomsday scenario panic mode that some Christians go into when looking things to do with the sign(s) of […]
News: Book on British Black Gospel: crash and burn – or eagles’ wings…?
Just took delivery of this book ‘British Black Gospel‘ a few of days ago. It’s written by Steve Alexander Smith, a guy I know is majorly into his UK gospel […]
