October 27 2008
Sunday Set List - “Witchcraft on stage”
Tagged Under : Come Thou Fount, Delirious, Hillsong United, John Mark McMillan, Life Connection Church, Merchant Band, worship
It was a innocent enough comment. Our “10 before” countdown video which warns people the service is about to start, to take your seats and get out of the cafe, was largely ignored. So as I welcomed everyone I noticed most were still milling about and said, jokingly, that they were rebellious. Blatantly ignoring the instruction to come into the sanctuary and that biblically their rebellion was as witchcraft. Well apparently that awoke a war in the heavens on a scale of which I would find out later at the most inconvenient time in the middle of our worship set.
In the middle of the set satan sent his XLR demons to strike down a critical cable running from the loop direct box to the snake. All of a sudden in the middle of singing, and playing an important loop, the XLR cable rebelled and worshiped satan instead of working as created and facilitating the praise of Jesus. That cable not only carries the Ableton loop signal it also carries the piano signal to the mains. So while I heard everything wonderfully in my headset the congregation thought I was playing air-piano and was probably wondering…”boy they sure are doing a lot of a cappella today.”
Luckily my pastor walked up on stage and drove out the XLR demon by stepping on the cable which allowed us to complete the last 2 songs as intended. As you can imagine I was in no mood to write this recap last night and I didn’t get much sleep in either. I can’t stand disasters like this. I feel like replacing every single cable on stage now. Anyway here was the set.
- You Love Me Forever - Merchant Band (loop used, not yet available)
- Dress Us Up - John Mark McMillan
- Come Thou Fount - own arrangement
- My Soul Sings - Delirious (listen to loop)
- Be Lifted High (tag of From the Inside Out) - Hillsong United
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
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Dang, I hate when things like that happen……it makes me crazy to try and worship after that or in the midst of that. My sympathies!
Oh yeah, there we go, that’s the memory I had blocked out as an uncomfortable worship moment (as referenced in the above post). I have to say that was so awkward and I had no idea what to do since I was the only one on the worship team that knew the piano wasn’t in the mains (as I keep one of my in ears out). I was torn and thought I should walk over and tap you on the shoulder but then part of me thought maybe you knew what was happening and were just soldiering on despite the lack of sound coming from your instrument. It would have been a nice acapella sound had the drums and bass not come in. I think that gave it away, that and the “air piano” you were rocking out. Eesh, I’m glad we can all laugh about it now. I am actually laughing about it right now, pretty hard, at work, which is always fun. Kyle, you rock!
I remember one of the first Sundays I used in-ears. I was leading “mighty to save” from a keyboard, and part way through the first verse I guess both my mic and keyboard stopped coming out of the speakers. So there I am, rockin’ away in my own world (literally one of the only times I didn’t have my eyes open… always lead with your eyes open), thinking that everything is going great, until I open my eyes and see strange blank stares.
Things got worked out and we were back on. I think I told a stupid joke to ease the pain (I’m good at self-deprecating humour), and went on our way to finish the service.