Recently released on the BBC Hereford and Worcester introducing series, Ellice is featured live in concert with Matt, her guitarist. The clip also features an interview with Ellice prior to the live set.

Music for Easter 2015 …..

We recommend:

J.S. Bach. St Matthew Passion.

Music for the film ‘The Passion Of Christ’ by John Debney

XTC. Wrapped In Grey & Peter Pumpkinhead (for Holy Week & the Passion) Easter Theatre (for Easter Sunday)

Three homegrown songs from David Clifton: There Is A Green Hill, I Believe (it’s true) and No Greater Love

We journey from the celebration of Palm Sunday and through the agony and The Passion of Holy Week, to the despair of Easter Saturday. Seemingly the Light Of The World had been extinguished forever. Yet the resounding joy of Easter morning confirms that every promise made is indeed true, and that the words of Jesus Christ can be trusted. We open our hearts and step through the door to a new dimension of Spiritual reality. We set sail to a new destination, in the trust of our faith, safe in the knowledge and reason for our belief. A path to follow along the journey of this life of joy and sorrow. We celebrate the treasure of our Christian faith in a world that is currently persecuting followers of Christ in ways hitherto not imagined. We pray for peace, tolerance and understanding. And we pray that the Spiritual depths of the Gospel will be revealed to a world that so often misunderstands the Way, the Truth and the Life of the compelling vision of the Gospel and the transforming message of Jesus Christ.

Recording news:

Charlotte Parmiter. Congratulations to her on the birth of her fourth child! All lead vocals now recorded, and the acoustic guitars being re-recorded this Spring before the mix begins. “Having taken this long it is worth getting it just right” (…. Going for the longest production time ever?!)

David Clifton: Recording overdubs for the sessions previously started at Wild Chorus with Scott Minor. A new Sacred Songs project which started with tracking at Fifth Avenue is well underway; vocals harmonies, guitar parts, string quartet now added, with additional recordings taking place in and around the Knoxville Tennessee area with Ben McAmis and Will Reagan skilfully guiding and assisting.

We thought you might like to read something that was sent to us recently…..

Valentine, the priest after whom Valentine’s Day is named, was martyred for his belief in the institution of marriage.

The emperor of Rome, Claudius, passed a law banning marriages.  His reason was simple: men would not volunteer to join the Roman army with wives and fiancées to leave behind.  Valentine knew that God instituted the family and His will included marriages.  So, he kept on performing marriage ceremonies – but in secret.  He would whisper the words of the ceremony, while listening for soldiers on the steps outside.

One night, he did indeed hear footsteps.  The couple he was marrying escaped, but he was caught.  He was thrown into prison and sentenced to death.

Valentine remained cheerful while he was in prison and many people came to the prison to visit him.  He even continued to perform marriage ceremonies while he was in prison. He converted the jailer to Christianity. The jailer’s daughter would often visit Valentine in his cell and they sat and talked for hours.  She believed he did the right thing ignoring the Emperor and performing marriage ceremonies.

On the day Valentine was to die he left this girl a note thanking her for her friendship and loyalty.  He signed it, “Love from your Valentine”.  That note, written on the day Valentine died –  February 14th, 269 AD – started the custom of exchanging love notes on St Valentine’s Day.

Valentine was truly a man of courage.  The theologian Karl Barth wrote: “Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”  Let’s be as courageous as Valentine himself and bring about change to a world that’s hurting.  Simply by serving as channels of God’s healing love we can inspire more change in people than we might ever imagine

“For God so loVed the world, 
……That He gAve 
………..His onLy 
………..BegottEn 
…………….SoN 
………………..That whosever 
…….Believeth In Him 
………Should Not perish, 
.……But have Everlasting life.”
John 3:16

Almost a Happy New Year.

With the news of the appalling events that have taken place in Paris, France, (and the continuing conflicts that fill our precious world) comes the reminder and awareness that life on this earth is indeed a temporary blessing.

Take no one and nothing for granted; enjoy each moment; give thanks for the good in your life; celebrate the temporary; embrace the eternal; stand up for love, peace, truth, justice and righteousness; speak out against evil and wrong-doing.  Remember that each act of kindness makes a difference.

God bless you.

Christmas is coming, and with it a brand new song from David Clifton calling to remembrance the Christmas Truce during the Great War of 1914. Due for release on the 14th December, and titled The New Born King (Christmas Truce 1914), the song tells story of the dawning of a cold and frosty Christmas Eve morning, when no guns were fired, and soldiers of both sides began singing Christmas carols to each other across no-man’s-land.

In disobedience to their officers, and obedience to the peaceful message of Christ, they downed their weapons and began meeting on Flanders fields, exchanging gifts and even playing a game of football. Based on eye-witness accounts from the time, notably the soldiers of the Royal Warwicks and North Staffordshire Battalions and regimental war artist Bruce Bairnsfather, this beautiful new carol captures the mystery of the Gospel message of peace, which has eternal power to inspire, and which stopped a war for two days for those soldiers 100 years ago. It will be available here on Little Room, on iTunes, Amazon and all digital download stores. All proceeds are being given to Help For Heroes and The Royal British Legion.