Ah ha .. so, we’re BACK!
Ok, so after a year off, we’re back this year with a new member, and also a helping with the launch of a new event in Manchester! Ooooo I hear you say!
First off, the new member! We’d like to welcome Rob Bane into the Rufus Garside family as our shiny new bass player. We found Rob lurking about on the streets of Cleveleys, well of sorts. Rob found his way to us through a good friend of the band, Chris Krawiec, and after working with Gill and I for a few sessions at Chris’ church (St Andrew’s in Cleveleys) we decided to invite him along to audition for the band (more of a formality than anything else as he’s very good you know!) and to meet Luke. The rest as they say is history and we’re now getting back up to speed with the old material, but also focussing on writing some more of our own, hopefully getting some stuff recorded at last and making sure we keep up with the trends bringing all those worship songs that people just love at the moment!
On on that note, the new event! Matt Lawley-Brown (a Methodist Youth Worker and another good friend of the band) recommended us to headline a new event for the Manchester and Stockport Circuit of Methodist Churches taking place on April 9th. So, a quick text round, diaries are free and we’re booked to be there. However, as you all know, we’re lacking a drummer following on from Josh’s departure last year (truth be told, as we had the time off, we didn’t look for one, we just happened across Rob really). But that’s not all bad news, because Josh, still working with the Vision team and doing his session drumming, will be coming back to gig with us at this event, which gives us the privilege of being able to pay him in his own ministry as a session drummer, and continue in ours as worship leaders! It’s win win all round!
I’ll be posting more information very shortly about all of this, so keep your eyes and ears open and look out for more Rufus Garside to come this year! Whoop whoop!
God Bless Y’all
Andy T 🙂