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The Sunday Night Live Sessions: Complementing the coffee house events

Cross Rhythms recently reported on the Sunday Night Live events that through the Starbucks, Costa Coffee and Café Nero coffee house chains have brought a live performance revolution to British grassroots Christian artists. Since their inception in May 2009, these events have swept across Britain and are now showing signs of making inroads internationally. Now the SNL gigs are getting a further publicity push with the release of the album 'The Sunday Night Live Sessions'. A classy studio set, it features some of the outstanding artists who have so far performed at SNL. Said SNL's visionary founder Johnny Kinch, "There has been so much time and effort spent on this project, from the design to the recording and production, all whilst still growing with SNL, which I feel shows a little of the amazing growth that we are seeing, and really enjoying being a part of. There are a total of 12 tracks, all performed by different artists singing their own songs, which sound absolutely incredible! With each artist having played at SNL, it really illustrates just how open the doors are to promoting talent. Each artist has their own unique sound, and the album really shows great musical depth and diversity with each carrying biblical messages without being too in-your-face. I really believe this album is a great promotion of both our faith and the great, untapped talent that exists in this country, and more importantly within churches throughout the nation."

The album was produced in Sheffield by Andy Baker of Resound Media. Baker is, of course, well known for his productions for, among many others, The Gentlemen, GoldDigger and Philippa Hanna. In fact, Philippa is one of the artists showcased on 'The Sunday Night Live Sessions'. Andy explained how he got involved with the project, "I got a call from Johnny as Philippa Hanna had been going down a storm at several SNL events as they started springing up. Johnny had heard we represent a few other artists and wanted to look at how we could work closer together. After spending some time with Mr Kinch, we decided to go ahead with putting together the first SNL album, showcasing some of the best UK talent around."

Even for a session-seasoned man like Andy, recording the project was something special.

Kraichitti Art Gallery. Bangkok. October 2008. | Coffee Experts

Now the Khao San Road Starbucks.

The former Director-General of the Fine Arts Department, Chao Phraya Athonthurasin (Mom Luang Chuang Kunshon), had his Ban Kraichitti (Kraichitti House) designed by Italian architects in 1909 as a present to his daughter, Khunying Choei Kraichitti on her wedding to Phraya Kritaratsongsawat.

Some of the original art works thave been nicely preserved by the global coffee barons, such as Egyptian style frescos, Chinese friezes, Victorian twiddly bits …and ceiling paintings and the stuccos around the window frames as created by Khunying Choei herself.

As wedding presents go it beats a set of steak knives.

This picture sits in a set – now the Khao San Road Starbucks.

The former Director-General of the Fine Arts Department, Chao Phraya Athonthurasin (Mom Luang Chuang Kunshon), had his Ban Kraichitti (Kraichitti House) designed by Italian architects in 1909 as a present to his daughter, Khunying Choei Kraichitti on her wedding to Phraya Kritaratsongsawat.

Some of the original art works thave been nicely preserved by the global coffee barons, such as Egyptian style frescos, Chinese friezes, Victorian twiddly bits …and ceiling paintings and the stuccos around the window frames as created by Khunying Choei herself.

As wedding presents go it beats a set of steak knives.

This picture sits in a set – Call me crazy, but I’ve taken in a stray. I am a cat person. I love cats. I was with my old girls for a long long while (13-14 years) so being without a cat in the house this year has been sad. I find them to be comforting. And the last week or so I’ve found myself poking around on petfinder.com, looking for kitties in need of homes. Even left a couple of voicemails, but never heard anything in return. Around that same time this little stray adopted us . She was sleeping on our front steps, trying to get in the door, rubbing against our legs as we made our way to the car. So I started feeding her. And then…I finally took her in yesterday. She’s confined to the bathroom for the time being, until I can get her checked out at the vet’s Monday. But just what I need right now, with my house of chaos, eh?

The little man will be so surprised when he gets home.

p.s. I had a much better shot than this one, it was perfect, and I somehow managed to delete it. New rule: no culling from the camera before coffee.

Ordered chaos, the interpretation of English noun-noun compounds

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