SONICblog: November 2005

SONICFLOOd @ YOUR Summer Festivals in 2006

Grant again!

You know, as we travel around doing concerts all over the place, we often get one special request:

“Please come and play this year at ‘XYZ Christian Music’ Summer Festival!”

Our response to that request is always the same. “We would love to!” and we are ABSOLUTELY telling the truth! We are hoping for, and planning on, a busy summer in 2006. We already have a European tour penciled in, but it’ll be great to make another run of the amazing US summer festivals.

But here’s the deal – we in the band have very little to do with whether or not we get to play at your local festival. Our booking agent or management needs to receive an invitation from the festival promoter for us to go. And festival promoters will invite us if they think that the PEOPLE want us there!

Right now is the time when the summer festivals are deciding on their line-up for 2006. Do you want to see SONICFLOOd at:
- Cornerstone?
- Spirit West Coast?
- Creation East or West?
- Alive?
- Purple Door?
- AtlantaFest?
… or one of the many other fantastic summer festivals?

We want to be there too! So please organize your friends and contact the festival. They all have websites with contact information. Just do a web search and shoot them an email or give them a call. It’s easy!

The influence of YOUR voice cannot be overestimated. We really appreciate it!

An Australian's Take on Thanksgiving

Hi Guys! Grant here. I’m guessing that most of the people who visit our site, and therefore most of the people who will read this, live in the USA. That’s where I live too (for the last 4 years or so), but I’m actually Australian. That’s why I’m still learning about things like saying, “Happy Holidays” in November and what Thanksgiving is all about.

The story of Thanksgiving itself, and how it came about, is amazing. I won’t try to give you a history lesson or anything, but you have to go back to the early 1600’s (when Australia was still well over 100 years from even being discovered by Europeans) to find its origins. The holiday was set aside by the first European settlers as a time to be thankful to God. He had guided them to the new world where they hoped to build a nation on Biblical principals and he had helped them survive the first terrible winter. That winter had killed about half of them and life was tougher than we can imagine! Yet they found reason to be thankful and praise God.

That’s a great reminder to me. Sometimes I even want to complain if the air conditioning is a couple of degrees not to my liking! Sometimes I just need a bit more perspective! Living a life that shows gratitude for all of God’s blessings is something that I strive to do everyday. But having a special time of year to show special “Thanksgiving” is awesome.

As we in the US celebrate Thanksgiving this year, let’s remember the original spirit of the oldest of all American holidays - gratefulness to our Creator. And if you don't live in the US, why not do it anyway? And have a happy holiday!

Thanksgiving Post from T-Rex and a note from Rick

Thankfulness is a core theme in worship and is an essential attitude for all children of God to have. With Thanksgiving this week, stop for a while and ask God to remind you of something to be thankful for. I believe in His still small voice, He will bring to your mind times when He showed His unconditional love when you thought you were unlovable. He will maybe bring to mind times when He has rescued you and restored your hope. He may ask you to look around and take note of the people He has brought into your life and then show you the way these relationships have made you better and/or brought you immeasurable joy. Then He will remind you of how He loves you; so much that He doesn’t want to live without you, so much that He allowed His Son, Jesus to die as a sacrifice so that you could have a relationship with Him… the way He wanted to live with you from the beginning of time. A thankful heart comes from a revelation of God’s love and the greatest revelation to us of His love; is the sacrifice He made so that we could be made pure and whole and be restored in our relationship with Him: the One who made us! Our Lord is a Good Father and ever good and perfect gift is from Him and so we enter His courts with Thanksgiving! Have a glorious Thanksgiving and may your feast be joyful and blessed!

On the plane home from Cali

Stockton, CA

A little song from Trey
(The power went out in the choir room, and the boys got bored)

Some crazy fans!

A Shout out from the stage!

Lunch stop for some spicy mexican food

Good morning Sacramento, CA !

FROM TREY--- hello friends!

what's up people??? i'm just sitting here on my couch..bored out of my mind!!!!!!! we've had a pretty slow month here in SFd world...i guess you could say we are starting to wind down for the holidays..but anyways, i'm excited to get back out there this weekend w/ the boys and play some shows..we're on planes all weekend which is kinda rough, but it's well worth it to see you guys!! we're going to be stopping in Findlay, OH on Friday night and then heading over to Sacramento, CA on Saturday and then to Stockton, CA on Sunday..should be fun times indeed!!! On another note, we have been getting ready to launch some much needed updates on the site. our awesome monitor engineer, Jon, happens to be an incredible computer guy, so look for some changes to the site coming soon!! also, keep checking the site for updated tour info and all that stuff..we've got some BIG things cooking for 2006, so stay tuned for that!!! anyways, i believe i'm going to go pickup some Chick-Fil-A now...YUM! made ya hungry, huh?!?!? But, before I go--please keep your ears open for our new single YOU ARE, now on radio...it was released two weeks ago and we're really pumped about this song... it is from our newest record THIS GENERATION, and you can listen to a clip of YOU ARE on the homepage of the website...so please give it a listen, call the radio stations and request it...tell all your friends to tell all of their friends to tell all of their friends...and so on.. alright kids...have a good one!!!

Trizzle.