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Happy New Year

Gaz Simmonds | January 9, 2012

Happy New Year, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas time. I felt I should update you on what’s going on as of the start of 2012.

I have been writing some more songs as of late, and really hope to be able to share them with you at some point. In 2012 I am looking to spend more time doing gigs, I am really grateful of the experience I gained in 2011, doing numerous shows supporting Philippa Hanna, Roo Walker, and others.

Another thing I am going to start doing, is uploading more Youtube content. This will mainly include a monthly cover. Which I am in the process of recording and editing now. So keep your eyes pealed for this.

To go along with this I hope to give my website a little bit of a revamp, which is some thing i’ll look at in February…

In the meantime I would really love it if you could head over to my Facebook page, there is a link on the homepage and to the right of your screen now, I hope! Or you’ll find me at www.facebook.com/gazsimmondsmusic, please give my page a ‘like’ and I will be very grateful.

And finally, please don’t forget that my album is still available on iTunes, and Amazon…
iTunes
Amazon

Enjoy

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Weekend Away 2011

Gaz Simmonds | October 20, 2011

Last weekend we took our oldest youth group on a weekend away. Along with Accorn church and Walton Evangelical we packed up 2 minibuses and 2 cars and ventured off deep into Wales (well, not exactly, just over the border!)

We had a great time hanging out, some good banter, as well as a visit to an immense swimming pool! Complete with a water flume and rapids (though not hugely rapid), it was like being a kid again! – makes me very excited for my upcoming holiday to Center Parcs!

Anyway, what I learnt from the weekend – I learnt that we have some immense young people in our church, and so do Walton and Accorn, it was an honour to hang out with them.

I learnt that God loves it when his churches put aside any differences an just get on and enjoy life together, let’s be honest if there even is any differences, the love of Jesus far outweighs any of that. – I believe the quote to be quite true ‘the church is often the devils greatest weapon against God’, and this weekend I saw the church being used for the opposite.

And lastly, God is far bigger than any of the hype that we try and create for him. It’s great going to events like soul survivor and new wine and such things, but actually all we did was drive 2 hours, borrow a house and hang out, and God was with us. Sometimes you don’t need 200 flashing lights and loud bass drums to realise that God is real, and wants us to know him.

Not that flashing lights and bass drums aren’t cool.

- lastly, I write this in the comfy space that is St Thomas’ Coffeebar, you really should check it out! www.stthomascoffeebar.co.uk

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Summer 2011

Gaz Simmonds | October 18, 2011

I sit here in Morrisons Cafe awaiting my much anticipated traditional breakfast thinking to myself, ‘it’s really about time that I write my annual blog post on my website’

Once again I find myself in the unfortunately over familiar situation of apologising to both of my readers for not writing in so long!

Since I last wrote a lot has happened! I had a pretty immense summer… Starting off with a couple of weeks in Fuertaventura, got some good sun, and did some surfing, which on a couple of occasions I thought was going to kill me! And I also went scuba diving along with Katie and her family which was incredible! Can’t wait to do it again sometime…

I played some keys at new wine CSW with my good friend Jamie Thomson, and funnily enough I spotted myself on the promo video for new wine 2012 haha! – minor claim to fame… Very minor.

We took St Thomas’ youth to Grapevine in August, and just last weekend got back from another weekend away with them in Wales, which I will try and write about this week…

The archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams came up to a very sunny chesterfield the St Thomas’ centre and St Thomas’ Coffeebar finally, which was a very exciting day… You can check out the website here… www.stthomascoffeebar.co.uk

That’s about all I can remember right now! But I would say it’s been a great summer, lots to be thankful for…

In other news I have 2 gigs coming up, and i’d love it If you were able to pop down…

26th November at the St Thomas’ Centre, I’m holding a concert in the Coffeebar, gonna be a bit of a Christmas feel. Tickets £3, let me know if your interested.

19th December – the winding wheel, I’m playing some songs as part of an event that New Life Church are putting on, I think Hannah Howe is also playing, so it should be a good night

I solemnly swear, that I will update this blog again before 2013. Thanks for reading.

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Turn On The Tap

Gaz Simmonds | June 21, 2011

Greetings,

So I thought it was about time that I uploaded something on here, as this website has been rather reminiscent of a ghost town as of late. Sincere apologies there.

One thing that has been really on my heart lately is a project called Turn On The Tap. This is a great project run by the guys at Samaritans Purse, who you may be aware of from other projects such as Operation Christmas Child, the shoebox appeal.

Turn on the Tap aims to provide clean, safe water to families in parts of the world where this is not the case. Some families walk miles each day to collect water, yet the only water they can collect is not clean, not safe and certainly not acceptable.

About £10 will give one person clean, safe water for life.

In the last couple of weeks I have moved into a new flat, moving out of my family home where I moved back to live for the past nearly 2 years. It has made me realise just how much things cost in life! And I have cut down on many things that I don’t need. It has made me a little sick really when I think about the money I used to waste on a lot of stuff.

Look familiar? 14 cups in this photo, say £3 a cup, often it’s more… £42, you could have pretty much saved a families life. Say I buy 3 coffees a week? That is one child every single week that I could have given clean water to, for life.

So what are we going to do about it? One thing I am doing is donating money from all of my CDs to Turn on the Tap. if you head over to My Online Shop I have reduced my EP to just £4, and 50p of every CD sold there will go straight to Turn On The Tap.

This is not all, I will be back to share more with how you can get involved.

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Download Chords

Gaz Simmonds | March 30, 2011

I have just added a new section to the website, where you can listen to some of the tracks from my EP on this website, and download Chords if you so wish.

Over the coming weeks I will upload Chords for more songs, for now you can check out the chords for ‘He’s Alive’ – If you are looking for a song for Easter…

Let me know if you find this helpful and which songs you would like me to post chords for…

I am also planning to upload some live Youtube videos of some of these songs, which I will also post on the ‘Music’ page… Enjoy!

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