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REND COLLECTIVE 

MY LIGHTHOUSE 

NEW STUDIO ALBUM, THE ART OF CELEBRATION, TOUR IN UK / IRELAND FROM MAY 2014

Rend Collective from Bangor, are known for pushing artistic boundaries have gathered together believers for sold out events in cities across the world, most recently in nine cities spanning seven states in the U.S. in November on the band’s “Campfire” tour. The tour was named after Rend Collective’s highly acclaimed, No.1 selling iTunes record "Campfire" which features vocals recorded live outdoors earlier this year around a campfire on Ballyholme Beach in Northern Ireland along with members of the collective’s. 

Have already sold over 100 Thousand albums, their new album "The Art Of Celebration" is fairly different musically from their debut "Campfire". There's more of an influence from the burgeoning alternative folk rock scene with a sound reminiscent of Mumford and Sons, The Lumineers amongst others. The album lead single "My Light House" is building moment and is gaining strong support at radio! 

Continuing to travel internationally, Rend Collective brought its “Campfire” tour to an additional 10 U.S. cities in Jan / Feb 2014 before joining Kari Jobe for a major, 30-plus-city tour in the U.S. that begins Feb. 27 and runs through April 13.  During the tour, Rend will perform new music from its highly anticipated, new album, The Art of Celebration, which is set to release March 17.  Following the US tour,  Rend will bring its “The Art of Celebration” tour home to Ireland in May along with a tour of the UK while hitting cities like Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow and Manchester.  


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DATES 
14th May Whelan's Dublin IRL
15th May - Mandela Hall, Belfast, GB           
16th May - Mandela Hall, Belfast, GB           


Rend  Collective - My Lighthouse

Build Your Kingdom Here

🛤️ REDEMPTION ROAD 🛤️

Walkin' through the shadows whispers of old
Sins behind me heavy weight takin' hold
In the dust of this earth gotta find my way
Crosses on the hill showin' light to my day

Rusty chains breakin' free from my soul
Threads of past life's sins takin' their toll
In the quiet night sky stars burnin' bright
Seekin' holy fire in the dead of night

Oh Lord guide me on this redemption road
Carry me through the darkness lift this heavy load
Your grace like rain fallin' from above
Lead me to the light with your eternal love

In the echo of hymns my heart finds peace
Old scars slowly healin' wounds release
With each step I take closer to grace
In this desert wasteland findin' my place

Through the trials and pain I raise my hands
Faith unshaken like the rocks and the sands
In the broken moments you make me whole
Singin' to the heavens savin' my soul

Oh Lord guide me on this redemption road
Carry me through the darkness lift this heavy load
Your grace like rain fallin' from above
Lead me to the light with your eternal love

Through the trials and pain I raise my hands
Faith unshaken like the rocks and the sands

Heavy Metal Thunder

Redemption Road

As Family We Go

Joy Of The Lord

These Simple Truths

You Love Me Anyway

Every Giant Will Fall

Campfire II: Simplicity

Oceans (Where Feet May FaiI)

The Art Of Celebration

Simplicity

Ultimate 50 Worship Collection

You Are My Vision

When I decided to put the Lord's prayer to music I wanted to try and preserve the lyrics without adding anything of my own. I've moved things around a little but am really happy with the results. Look forward to trying it out with the congregation. 

Demos

The Lord's Prayer

To understand what makes Rend Collective so unique and special among worship artists, you have to go back—way back. Some 1500 years ago, the Irish missionary St. Brendan sailed from the Irish coast without maps or any clue where he was headed. “The only thing he knew was that God had called him,” says bandleader and drummer Gareth Gilkeson. And so Brendan chose to “go”: a bold act of faith that not only echoes the album title As Family We Go, but also speaks volumes about the songs.

It also tells you a lot about Rend Collective, a Northern Irish band that has ventured from its native land at the beckoning of an invisible hand. And they’re doing it differently than most other artists before them, living and working—singing and sharing the laundry duties—as a tight-knit family. It’s just the foundation to foster faith and community through music, and forms the heart and strength behind their latest effort.

And my, how this musical family has grown. This young, freewheeling band has seen so much recent success: from opening for the likes of Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman and Kari Jobe, to landing Christian radio hits such as the revival hymn, “Build Your Kingdom Here.”

The next logical step, then, was to hunker down in their private studio and work at a brisk, breathtaking pace—cutting the eleven tracks on As Family We Go in two weeks. As Gilkeson puts it: “There wasn’t much time for sleep—just going for it.”

In this case, sleep deprivation yielded divine inspiration. Then again, how many bands brave a family pilgrimage the way Rend Collective does? Or proudly present themselves as examples of a self-styled genre, “celebration music”?

Though that describes the sound on the new disc—a joyful mélange of foot-stomping acoustic grooves and full-on pop pockets worthy of U2—it only hints at the spiritual thread that pulls everything together.

“We want to make music that is journey music,” says singer Chris Llewellyn. “We notice that sometimes music is seen as the end goal, that a worship encounter is having a music experience. But that’s not really it; it should be the soundtrack to mission: community living, the soundtrack to a meaningful worship experience.”

You Are My Vision

Rend Collective

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