AStepFWD Choir Masterclass – April 2021

Speaking of events you HAVE TO be at: if you have any choir connections at all: cancel everything for this one coming up this weekend! Don’t take my word for any of this!!! Watch the video!!!🔥🔥🔥 This is a HUGE #PraiseAndWorship and #Choir event! If you’re a singer, belong to a choir, an arranger, musician or anything connected to the choral sounds of #GospelMusic, @AStepFWD … Continue reading AStepFWD Choir Masterclass – April 2021

Successful Music Streaming Seminar – this weekend!

One of the most exciting things about this season in the UK Gospel music industry: invaluable, *expert* knowledge is available to ANYONE, quite literally on tap. Here’s a fantastic example for you this weekend @Adegail has been running these brilliant knowledge sharing sessions (that EVERYONE can benefit from) for a while! This one is a MUST if you need essential information on: ✅ – Planning … Continue reading Successful Music Streaming Seminar – this weekend!

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Michelle John’s ‘Paper Doll’ – The Back Story that Never Got Told

Introduction I wrote this back in April 2016, with the original intention to have it coincide with the release of Michelle John’s EP, Paper Doll. If you’re wondering why you’ve never heard of Paper Doll, the answer is simple: it was never released.  I asked her a few years later why she didn’t go through with it and she cited two reasons, which – on … Continue reading Michelle John’s ‘Paper Doll’ – The Back Story that Never Got Told

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Legacy Series: Lain – Brother Soul

The ‘Legacy’ series is part of the content migration programme from earlier versions of UKGospel.com, ensuring the history and evolution of the UK Gospel music scene remains recorded and publicly accessible Original publication date: 15 July 2005 Written and edited by: Yinka Awojobi About ‘Behind the Beat’ ‘Behind the Beat’ was an ongoing set of stories where UK Gospel artists presented a track-by-track exposition of … Continue reading Legacy Series: Lain – Brother Soul

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Legacy Series: Focus on Kingdom Choir

This series is part of the content migration programme from earlier versions of UKGospel.com, ensuring the history and evolution of the UK Gospel music scene is recorded and publicly accessible Original publication date: 26 June 2005 Written and edited by: Yinka Awojobi I realised recently that UKGospel.com hadn’t done a decent piece on any UK choir in an age.  It wasn’t a deliberate thing, but … Continue reading Legacy Series: Focus on Kingdom Choir

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Legacy Series: Mr Damention – Blue Hearts and Golden Treasures

This series is part of the content migration programme from earlier versions of UKGospel.com, ensuring the history and evolution of the UK Gospel music scene is recorded and publicly accessible Original publication date: 2 March 2015 Written and edited by: Yinka Awojobi New Release from Singer/Songwriter/Drummer/Producer is an Excellent Departure from the Gospel Norm….  Back in one of the early UKGospel.com Podcast episodes the team … Continue reading Legacy Series: Mr Damention – Blue Hearts and Golden Treasures

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Celebrating #UKGospel: launching the Ladies Edition (Part 1)

I cannot tell you how SO, SO, SO PROUD I am of every single lady on this list!!!! Story time: like many of the exciting ideas I get, this one came completely out of the blue and hit me like a ton of bricks It went like this: last week as I was planning the relaunch UKGospel.com version 3, I thought I’d create a section … Continue reading Celebrating #UKGospel: launching the Ladies Edition (Part 1)

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Celebrating #UKGospel – Introduction

Part showcase, part profile, all celebration. Wide-ranging and slightly atypical, this series expands the type of recipient we’re used to celebrating in profile editorials of this kind. How about the producers and the song writers? What about the graphic designers that have given us distinctive visual branding over the years, on everything from websites to flyers to CD covers. What about the venues? And the … Continue reading Celebrating #UKGospel – Introduction

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UKGospel.com version 3: We’re Live!

After about 5 or 6 years of: Starting and stopping Copying and pasting Writing and editing Doubting and being confident HTMLing and Adobe Flashing Today, the BRAND NEW UKGospel.com version 3 website is LIVE!!!! YAAAAAAAY!!! So, what next..? Well, the UKGospel.com project has been going for almost 2 decades. As you can imagine so many things have changed in that space of time: We’ve gone … Continue reading UKGospel.com version 3: We’re Live!