Delirious at the Highland Festival in Inverness
I hadn’t heard about this until reading the Aberdeen Press & Journal this morning. I know that a number of the younger folk in my church, and some of the older ones too – I’m talking about you, Dave! – will want to pop along. I have no more details to hand than are contained in the article.
Soli Deo Gloria
DELIRIOUS IN INVERNESS PERFORMANCE AS PART OF UK FAREWELL TOUR
Leading Christian band set for gig with top evangelist
BY SUSAN WELSH
Published: 12/06/2009
Leading Christian band Delirious, who have supported both Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams, will headline the Highland Festival with Luis Palau next week as part of their history makers’ farewell tour of the UK.
Delirious have had seven top 40 singles and two top 20 albums, and are best known for ground-breaking albums such as Live and In The Can, which was sold in a tin can. The free show will feature many of their greatest hits, as well as tracks from their recently-released live album, My Soul Sings. Other bands appearing at the Highland Festival, which takes place in the Bught Park, Inverness, on June 19 and 20, include, L27, Hillsong London and The Listening.
Organisers say they expect an audience of more than 10,000 to attend, and at the end of each evening, Mr Palau, an international evangelist, will share a positive Christian message.
The festival is supported by more than 100 churches of varying denominations, representing more than half of the places of worship in the Highlands.
Lord James Mackay of Clashfern is chairman of the organising committee.
Kevin Palau, executive vice-president of the Luis Palau Association, said: “We are delighted that Delirious, one of the few British Christian bands which has managed to cross over into the mainstream music scene, has chosen to appear at the festival as part of their farewell tour.
“We are sure that their music, as well as that from L27, Hillsong London and The Listening, will prove exceptionally popular with the young and not-so-young people of Inverness and the surrounding area.
“We are therefore confident that Bught Park will be bulging with music fans in late June.”
The last time Luis Palau and his team visited the UK was 30 years ago, an event said to have been responsible for putting large-scale evangelism back on the British map. Mr Palau has shared the Gospel with more than one billion people through evangelistic events and the media and has spoken in person to audiences of more than 25million people in 72 countries.
Great. Like we don’t have enough God botherers in Inverness as it is.
We do not need these idiots brainwashing our youth into believing a fairy tale.
Dear Scott, how do you know they are idiots, and how do you know that anyone is being brainwashed, and why do you speak in such hostile and intolerant terms about someone whose only fault seems to be to have a different point of view to your own, and what proof do you present to demonstrate that a fairy tale is being pedalled?
You make a lot of sweeping statements in a most unfriendly way. You sound quite an intolerant person. I look forward to hearing your answers. I do hope you have some good ones.
Louis
I’ll defend on his behalf.
The music and all the rest of it, just sweeps in children, if you were really concerned about honestly winning converts you wouldn’t bother with all the song and dance that you go through with. You would just say, we are discussing jesus and trying to gain some converts.
It’s stirkes me odd that I actually had to do research into what this festival was, before finding out it was an attempt at religious outreach. I didn’t get that impression from the posters or the card I was handed, I actually had to grill the guy over what precisely this was, before he admitted that it wasn’t just a free festival, it was an attempt to convert people.
I have no problem with religious outreach, but their are going to be kids their and people know that they can win over those easy converts if they give them some music then social conformity will fall into place. Actually if you look into cult recruiting tactics, theirs a good couple that are often used in evangelical outreach programs.
When creationist science is seen as pseudo-science by the scientific community, I think he has the right to call idiocy. It’s like trusting homeopathy over surgery.
Put simply the way you have marketed is underhand, it looks to get people thier without them knowing what is going on, which in my eye’s makes you dis-honest and is actually a disgrace to your religion.
And intolerant is nothing, something INCLUDING this kind of event promotion do not deserve tolerance.
Best regards Finlay