I have set up the HM Magazine booth at the Purple Door Festival and am just waiting for things to start. I have met up with the folks from Stand True, Rock for Life, Girder Music, Spoken, Red, and the guys from The Showdown. It was fun showing them the new issue of HM, which has a big feature on the band, as well as the lead-off album review in this new issue. I think they liked it.
Apparently the photo we used of them standing in some water was not cropped the way they had hoped (it shows their jeans rolled up by their knees, instead of cropped mid-thigh.
The line-up at this 1.5 day festival looks great. Check this out:
Seabird
Reilly
Bob Lenz (speaker)
Red
Skillet
Calling Out Closer
Wavorly
John Reuben
Bryan Kemper (speaker)
Bradley Hathaway
We Shot The Moon
Kurt Weaver (speaker)
The Glorious Unseen
Sherwood
Disciple
Emery
Neocracy
Oh, Sleeper
Gwen Stacy
Inhale Exhale
The Showdown
Haste The Day
August Burns Red
Gulls
Kronicles
Spoken (acoustic, I'm guessing)
Hiram Ring
Farewell Flight
Timbre
The Mint
Foxhole
Denison Witmer
Derek Webb
How hot is that? All in one Friday evening and one all-day Saturday. I'm looking forward to it all starting.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at August 15, 2008 04:10 PMHey Doug, it was cool to meet you at Purple Door yesterday. I forgot to mention to you that when I first started getting into Christian music (shortly after graduating from High School), I relied on HM (and partially on cool cover art) to help guide me when purchasing Christian music. Anyway, keep up the deep thinking and good music loving. I hope to see you around again soon.
Take Care,
Phil - the bassist for Gulls
That is way cool. All in one day, how awesome!!..C ya when ya get back.
Posted by: tornado at August 18, 2008 06:24 AM