Thursday 23 December 2010

Bandstand - The Gentlemen

From Sheffield, The Gentlemen are 'made up by brothers Joel and Josh Cana - who make up the rhythm and bass sections respectively, Sean Walsh on guitar and 'enigmatic, wizard-like lead singer' Nicholas Noble, who's as comfortable singing and breakdancing around the stage as he is on guitar or keys.'

Sir Terry Wogan himself played their debut single to his massive Radio 2 audience and ever since they have be striving for success. But as they strive is there a danger they have to push aside their Christianity to become mainstream?

Nicholas has been quoted as saying: "I think there's lots of people who have this slightly misguided notion that the purpose of Christians in the mainstream music industry is to get a high profile then at Glastonbury stop in a set and give a five minute gospel presentation and Glastonbury will turn to Jesus. That's never going to happen and it's not what we're trying to do. We're trying to make music that expresses who we are but also trying to follow Jesus in our own personal lives, and we think that's our calling to be Christians and not an evangelistic team as a band."

Check out The Gentlemen here.

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