It was a wonderful time although I did feel a little ‘the odd man out standing on my lonesome’ as the rest of the day the stage was filled with great worship bands and excellent preachers. And….what I did was ah sort of different! I think I was definitely the ‘light entertainment’ of the day as all the songs I sang were pre 1985! I think I fulfilled an important role though as it was 3pm post lunch and a hot sunny afternoon. I think my job was to wake everyone up with dancing and marching songs…and I think I achieved that! Just to prove how rather different my set…

Moving on (as one must) I’m now really looking forward to Saturday at Lincoln Showground to join in the 40 year celebration of Grapevine/ The One Event. Lots of well known worship leaders will be taking part and on the publicity I’ve been called a worship leader! Actually I can’t remember ever being classed as a worship leader before….I’m usually just classed as ‘Ishmael’….as no-one is quite sure what kind of songs I will be playing and singing once I get on stage … inc me!. Anyway, I will be doing a short 20 minute ‘nostalgic’ all age Praise Party but I’m also there to honour my good buddies Stuart…

Doesn’t time fly! Can you believe that it’s now over 10 years since I released one of my favourite albums ‘Songs & Hymns’ and after a decade i think it deserves its place to be classed as one of my many ‘back catalogue’ albums. So like all my other back catalogue albums I will be running copies of ‘Songs & Hymn’s off as people require them and of course reducing the price accordingly. Hard copy CDs are now £5.00 plus £4.00 p&p. Downloaded CDs are £5.99 If you’ve not yet got a copy of this album it’s worth getting as I believe it’s one of my best. The songs are…

The Praise Party in Kettering was really amazing. More came than expected and as it was all adults I had the chance to sing quite a few Bible story songs such as ‘Bubbling pool’ ‘Bartimaeus’ and ‘4 days ago’ (the Lazarus song) which were really well received along with some lively praise and fun songs…. Of course! At the end, after fellowship over refreshments, people even applauded again as I said goodbye and left the building (and not like in the old days applauding because they were pleased that I WAS leaving the building)! Everyone was so appreciative. I made so many new friends. These bookings dare I say are…

Just checking the diary and brilliant news, September is full and the first 2 weekends in January have now gone.But….I really would like some of you to invite me to be with you in October, November and December. I fear if you don’t I’ll only stay at home gardening and getting stung by more wasps! Seriously I know many Churches are still concerned about numbers returning but I repeat again, I love small audiences and let’s give those who have decided to return some lively praise a bit of simple teaching and a lot of smiles and fun! Also we will have the ‘Our cancer journey’ book and the ‘Scripture…