MUSIC

KSBJ Special Events presents Delirious? in Concert - KSBJ's 10th Enter His Gates Anniversary, Friday, June 12, at Grace Community Church - South Campus.  With guests SonicFlood, & John Waller.

Delirious?  (known formerly as The Cutting Edge Band) are an English Christian rock and worship band, featuring Martin Smith on vocals and guitar, Stuart Garrard (also known as Stu G) on guitar and backing vocals, Jon Thatcher on bass guitar, Tim Jupp on keys and piano, and Paul Evans on drums and percussion.

They are perhaps best-known for their modern worship songs 'Rain Down', 'Majesty', 'Lord You Have My Heart', 'Thank You For Saving Me' and their 1994 song "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever", which has been called a "modern worship classic" and is their most popular song in the United States.

The band was made up of multiple personalities from 1993 to 1996, before the decision was made to take the band full time with a finalized lineup. Between 1997 and 2001, the band targeted the majority of its work towards a mainstream audience, with several singles reaching the top 20 in the UK music charts.

However, since 2003 the focus has mainly been placed on the CCM market. Former drummer Stew Smith left the band at the end of April 2008, and it was announced via a press release on the 6th of July 2008 that Delirious? would retire as a band at the end of 2009.

Delirious? regularly play at Christian events such as the Greenbelt festival in the UK as well as mainstream festivals such as at the Glastonbury Festival. In the USA, they have played at such events as Acquire the Fire (an event hosted by Teen Mania) and Spirit West Coast. In New Zealand they have made appearances at the Parachute Music Festival, the largest 4-day Christian music festival in the southern hemisphere. They have also been the support act for several notable secular bands/artists, such as Bon Jovi in 2001 and Bryan Adams in 2002. In 2005, they helped lead worship at Soul Survivor and also took part in the closing festivities of World Youth Day to an audience of 1.2 million people, following Pope Benedict XVI's Mass in Köln, Germany. In Singapore, they have played three time so far. twice so far in the inter-denominational fellowship Festival of Praise held in the Singapore Indoor Stadium and one in Faith Community Baptist Church G12 conference on the 12-15 March 2009.

The band played a live show on the 14th of August 2004 in Athens, Greece, in the Omonia Square, as a part of the varied cultural activities that took place during the Olympic Games of Athens. At 15 June 2008, Delirious played in front of 30,000 people at EO Youth Day, in Dutch Gelredome Soccer Stadium.

As part of the launch of their new site which involves a members only section called the "Living Room", Delirious? have begun to sell tickets for what they call Living Room gigs. These gigs are presumed to take part in small venues across the UK (and later perhaps the world) in which the band will play to a limited audience and give away freebies. The first of these gigs was at the London Embassy in Mayfair and limited to 100 tickets to the public. The band gave away a special three-song EP of their 2008 album 'Kingdom Of Comfort'.