My goodness, we haven't written a blog post since January.... :-/ We are so bad at this! But hopefully we can make up for our bad-ness in this department by doing well in other departments, especially that of making music.

So speaking of making music... I'm sure our seeming silence this year has led some of you to wonder if we really are making an album, or if in fact there is still a Harbourlight, or actually, if there ever was a Harbourlight for that matter. Well I can promise you that although we may have been quiet on the gigging side, or news reporting side, we certainly have not been silent. To the contrary have been very loud and very busy in the recording studio.

When we headed into studio we were very excited as we felt this album had a lot of potential. Six months later we are a whole lot more excited! We really want to produce the best album we can, and we're allowing ourselves all the time we need to do that. This approach has paid off. Songs have been re-written, new songs have been written, arrangements have been worked and re-worked, until it feels like everything is hitting the mark. This all takes a lot of time, energy and patience, but it's so worth it.

We're not gonna hint at any release dates yet, but in a month or so we should have a good idea as to when it will be ready.... What we can tell you is that we think it's sounding amazing.... :) We can't wait to get this album out there, let you guys hear what we've been up to, and to start playing live again!

Well a happy new year to everyone! We had an amazing new years down at Arisefest – what an awesome way to go into 2010! Thanks to everyone who supported us there – it's one of the gigs we've enjoyed the most so far. And well done to the organisers of the event and the other bands who played there, it was brilliant.

We're all back from holiday now and trying to catch up with January. We're settling into studio and feeling even more excited about album 2. Last night we had our first practice for the year and things are getting rolling nicely.

I guess the biggest news we have at this point is that Craig got engaged after Christmas! Wow. So we want to say a huge congratulations to Craig and Aletta, we are excited for you guys and look forward to journeying and serving with you over the years to come. Whoop whoop :)

Otherwise we're playing at Rosebank Union Church this Sunday from 18:30. Please come join us if you can. Let's make the first gig of the year a big one....

Hope to see you soon

Shaun

Last night Chris and I did the first 'official' session for Album 2, recording guitar parts for one of our favourite songs on the album. It's exciting to be starting the album, but at the same time it's a little daunting when you look at how far there is to go. The December period is also probably not the best season to go into into studio as it is always the craziest time of year, but we are determined to make a bit of progress on the album before closing up for Christmas, playing Arisefest and taking a bit of a holiday. Then in the second week of January we'll get full swing into the recording process. Fun!

Hope you are all getting your Christmas shopping done, and doing lot's of exercise in between eating Christmas pies :)

Keep posted

We've just finished a great week of gigs, ending with Moreletapark on Sunday night. Here's a video of “In Your eyes”:

It was exciting to be playing on the same stage that we just saw Third Day on two weeks ago. Obviously the people just came for the evening service and not for Harbourlight, but it was still a great opportunity for us to play in Pretoria, in the biggest venue we've ever played in by a long way, and make some new friends up there.

The whole sermon and service had been planned around “In Your eyes” which we found amazing. We played two songs up front and then sat down for the sermon, before going up again to play the song that I find probably the hardest to sing of our repetoire (In Your eyes). I was really nervous for it, because we had to get up and play it from cold without a chance to re-warm up my voice. I was dreading those first falsettos which, if you watch the video, nearly went wrong :) But by God's grace we got through the first chorus and the rest was really enjoyable for us. Thanks to everyone at Moreletapark for having us!

Now we look at heading into studio to start album 2. It's going to be so much fun, and we aim to keep you up to date on the process with some video blogs.

Keep posted :)