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Trent Are:

Adam Blundy - Drums
Nige Briggs - Vocals + Guitars
Rich Bull - Electric Guitars
Matt Loose - Keys, Piano, Backing Vocals
Phil Squires - Bass, Backing Vocals

About Us:

There’s an amazing scene in the Johnny Cash biopic - ‘Walk the Line’ – when Johnny is trying to get a recording deal with Sam Phillips in Sun Studio. Johnny plays a popular religious ‘Jimmy Davies’ song. Sam is suitably unimpressed:

"If you was hit by a truck and you was lying out there in that gutter dying, and you had time to sing *one* song. One song that people would remember before you're dirt. One song that would let God know how you felt about your time here on Earth . . . You tellin' me that's the song you'd sing? That same Jimmy Davis tune we hear on the radio all day, about your peace within, and how it's real, and how you're gonna shout it? Or . . . would you sing somethin' different. Somethin' real. Somethin' *you* felt. Cause I'm telling you right now, that's the kind of song people want to hear. That's the kind of song that truly saves people."

We want to sing something different, something real. Being a called a ‘worship’ band is a strange thing - but, for us as Trent, it’s about two things. Firstly, we write songs that express how we feel about God in a way that is real and authentic to us and for church community, Trent Vineyard. Second, how we play the songs matters.

We play in our church, Trent Vineyard, two Sundays a month - it's a priority for us and one of our key values. It's home and we like spending time there. We write songs to lead people in worship – that is, to inspire and give a voice for people to communicate with God, to sing stories of what He has done in our lives, as individuals and within our community, and to celebrate the amazing person of Jesus.

We also like our noise, our electric guitars and drums. When Bruce Springsteen inducted U2 into the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’ a couple of years ago he said that great rock bands search “for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.” - now that’s what we want to do - when we play together and lead worship we pray that something happens that is bigger than just 5 guys playing music. We pray God splits the sky and joins with us, a little bit of heaven on earth.