This incredibly beautiful and honest post made me cry! Thank you for sharing your heart with us, and for the grace peppered throughout your experience of just losing the lyrics and going blank. (Been there, done that, and I identified with every word, just on a smaller scale with much lower stakes!)We all need grace in our weakness-there’s a glory that seeps out of the cracks of our human frailty in the Gospel, as we just cry out to the Lord and do our best to show up. Thanks for blessing us all.😊❤️
Thanks for sharing this, Andrew. I can totally relate to the feelings. I can also relate to being on the other side in the audience and the permission to be human that comes across when the performers aren't perfect. Also, I love that song.
Hi Andrew, not sure if you’ll read this but I was at the Nottingham show. I loved that you played The Year of the Locust. Thanks. After the show you all left so quickly, otherwise I would’ve come and said how much I appreciate your music. Maybe if I’d stayed a bit longer. Anyway, thanks for coming. We really loved the whole show.
I got my husband the vinyl for Christmas and he immediately put it on and we listened to the whole thing Christmas morning. He said it pretty much has all of his favorites on it, but I'm so glad The Year of the Locust is on there because that song is one of mine. And yes, Scottish people are amazing, I'm not surprised they were supportive!
That is rough!! But then I imagine could have happened if your friends weren’t there to “hold you up”. That would have been truly awful. Thanks for sharing.
I'm the sole music teacher at the school at which I teach. I usually have a pianist accompany the students, but for our big finish this year, "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus," I decided to accompany them myself on the ukulele. I made so many mistakes; I didn't give them enough beats before they came in and then I missed a number of chord changes after that. I hope what they took away from the whole fiasco is that their super cool music teacher also gets nervous and makes mistakes, but perseveres despite her failures. Thank you for being honest about your struggles as a musician. I agree with that first comment - you give us hope! And I love how God uses things in our lives so much differently than we could even imagine.
This incredibly beautiful and honest post made me cry! Thank you for sharing your heart with us, and for the grace peppered throughout your experience of just losing the lyrics and going blank. (Been there, done that, and I identified with every word, just on a smaller scale with much lower stakes!)We all need grace in our weakness-there’s a glory that seeps out of the cracks of our human frailty in the Gospel, as we just cry out to the Lord and do our best to show up. Thanks for blessing us all.😊❤️
Thanks for sharing this, Andrew. I can totally relate to the feelings. I can also relate to being on the other side in the audience and the permission to be human that comes across when the performers aren't perfect. Also, I love that song.
This is so good, Andrew. I think we all need this reminder regularly—crazy how our failures bring encouragement!
Hi Andrew, not sure if you’ll read this but I was at the Nottingham show. I loved that you played The Year of the Locust. Thanks. After the show you all left so quickly, otherwise I would’ve come and said how much I appreciate your music. Maybe if I’d stayed a bit longer. Anyway, thanks for coming. We really loved the whole show.
I got my husband the vinyl for Christmas and he immediately put it on and we listened to the whole thing Christmas morning. He said it pretty much has all of his favorites on it, but I'm so glad The Year of the Locust is on there because that song is one of mine. And yes, Scottish people are amazing, I'm not surprised they were supportive!
That is rough!! But then I imagine could have happened if your friends weren’t there to “hold you up”. That would have been truly awful. Thanks for sharing.
Ah, I can relate, Andrew!
Andy this was really good to me given my last year. Those locusts get so hungry. Thanks man.
I'm the sole music teacher at the school at which I teach. I usually have a pianist accompany the students, but for our big finish this year, "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus," I decided to accompany them myself on the ukulele. I made so many mistakes; I didn't give them enough beats before they came in and then I missed a number of chord changes after that. I hope what they took away from the whole fiasco is that their super cool music teacher also gets nervous and makes mistakes, but perseveres despite her failures. Thank you for being honest about your struggles as a musician. I agree with that first comment - you give us hope! And I love how God uses things in our lives so much differently than we could even imagine.
Thanks Andy, you always give me hope.