Louder Than The Music

Louder Than The Music asked Frontman Aaron of rock group Kairos to write a blog for us about his day at The Big Church Day Out. So check below to see what the band got up to. Find out more about Kairos from their website www.kairos-band.co.uk

Well, the day started at 4.30am for me as my alarm sounded waking me up. It was light but I was expecting it to still be dark outside, as I don't really usually get up at that time in the morning! Once the rest of the band arrived, we set off in our trusty transit, pulling our box trailer filled with all of our backline.

When we arrived on site we all started to get excited as we saw special signs that said "Artist Entrance Only." We then traveled down the tiny narrow country lane and finally came to the first security check point to which point I rolled down the window and said, "Hi, we're Kairos...." We were then told where to go to register and received our AA back stage passes, which made us feel a little special.

We were early and because we didn't need to sound check for a while, we took our time to walk around the site and then watched Israel Houghton's band sound check on the massive main stage, (they were pretty tight, as most American musician's are!) The shear size of the site was incredible. This was going to be a massive day.

The day was really heating up, the sun was out and it was getting a bit toasty. It was then time to get our backline set up ready for our sound check. Tim, the bassist, had just recently bought himself a new bass rig stack. The thing is huge and weighs a tonne! This was the first gig he was using his Ashdown rig, so I think he was kind of excited. When we finally had all our gear set up, we started to play and get our in ear monitor mixes dialed in. We rushed through our sound check because we took so long to set up, then we took a 45 minute break before we kicked off our set.

We were then welcomed onto the stage by the MC's and we kicked into our first song, "Break the Cycle." We had tailored our set to be quite punchy, and only brought one song completely down to just myself singing and Jonatas on the Rhodes to give a bit of dynamic contrast to the rest of our songs. We played for about 35 minutes and included the new songs that we had been working on for the past few weeks. I think they were received well and it felt great to play them. I always get a little worried when playing to people who hear us for the first time. I guess we all have a natural part inside of us where we just want people to like us, its human nature after all. I hope the people that were listening liked what they heard and saw, and that something they heard in our music connected with them on some level.

The rest of the day we just chilled out. We watched some of the "big guns" in Christian music, and got completely sun burned! Its always very inspiring to see Delirious play; there will be a big hole in Christian music at the end of the year and some big shoes to fill if anyone is up to the task. I'm sure the next "delirious" won't be a carbon copy, but probably packaged a little different, look a little different, sound a little different, but with the same spirit behind it all, to connect people to God through music.

All in all, we all had a great experience at the Big Church day out. We felt blessed just to play as we were the only 100% independent band there on the day. Thank you to Tim Jupp for having us there for the day, you organised a great event.