Guaranteed (Phatfish album)

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Guaranteed
Guaranteed cover.jpg
Studio album by Phatfish
Released Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of the United States.svg 1 July 2007
Genre CCM
Worship
Christian rock
Length40:38
Producer Kevan Frost and Nathan Fellingham
Phatfish chronology
There Is A Day - The Video Collection
(2006)There Is A Day - The Video Collection2006		Guaranteed
(2007)		 15
(2008) 152008
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Cross Rhythms (10/10) [1]
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The Jono Show Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [3]

Guaranteed is the 2007 studio album from Phatfish. It features the vocals of Lou Fellingham, and consists of 10 new tracks written by various members of the band. Phatfish worked with Kevan Frost on the album, who produced their 2001 release Heavenbound.

Phatfish (1994–2014) were a Christian rock, CCM and worship band. They lived in Brighton, England and spent twenty years writing and performing their own brand of worship-oriented rock, as well as leading worship both in the UK and across the world. They released a number of their own albums and played alongside many well-known worship leaders. They also appeared on many worship albums and on national television programmes such as BBC1's Songs of Praise. Their home church was Church of Christ The King, home of Stuart Townend and other prominent Christian figures.

Lou Fellingham singer-songwriter

Louise "Lou" Fellingham, , is a Christian worship leader, singer and songwriter from Brighton in East Sussex, England. She is a founding member of the British band Phatfish and has also pursued a solo career. In 2008, she won a Christian Broadcasting Council (CBC) Award for her album Promised Land, in the category of Best Worship. She has worked alongside other Christian artists such as Matt Redman, Graham Kendrick, Tim Hughes and Stuart Townend. She regularly leads worship and performs at different venues around the world. A rendition of Fellingham leading the hymn "In Christ Alone" has had more than six million views on YouTube.

Kevan Frost is a British Tony Award– and Drama Desk Award–nominated composer, musician, and record producer.

Contents

The album received a positive response, with Cross Rhythms website giving it 10/10 in its review and the album peaking at number 4 on the monthly sales charts. The tracks "Amazing God", written by Nathan Fellingham and Paul Oakley, and "Best Thing" were chosen for radio airplay with the latter reaching Number 1 and staying there for 9 weeks. The track was the 13th most played song of the year for Cross Rhythm's Radio for 2007.

American website Christianity Today gave the album 4/5 stars, with various other critics, Christian music reviewers and online shops rating the album well. The album was chosen as CD of the month in August 2007 for Wesley Owen, an online website and chain of Christian shops based in the UK. It also reached top of the contemporary charts for the website.

The track "Amazing God" was chosen as Kingsway Song's song of the month for July 2007, offering sheet music and an audio download of Nathan Fellingham describing the song for free. "Amazing God" was also offered as a download for Phatfish newsletter subscribers before the release of the album, along with the band's website receiving a new colour scheme and entrance page to coincide with the release of Guaranteed.

In late 2007 Lou Fellingham, Nathan Fellingham and Michael Sandeman made a TV appearance on Premier TV, talking about Guaranteed and other topics.

Live

To follow-up the release of the album Phatfish did not embark on an official Guaranteed Tour, rather opted to play one off concerts titled Phatfish and Lou Fellingham.

Two songs from the album, "Pouring Out" and "Amazing God" have started to appear on live worship albums and were sung at the Newday, Together On A Mission and Mission:Worship conferences in 2007, which Phatfish attended.

The song "Amazing God" has grown in popularity. As well as being the title song for the 2007 Newfrontiers live album "Amazing God" (sung by Kate Simmonds), it was covered by American worship leader Kelly Minter on her studio album last year. A Phatfish version featured on the 2008 Mission:Worship live album, which was recorded late 2007, titled "A New Day Of Worship". In addition, a newer version features on the upcoming Newday Live 2008 album titled "This Is Life", played by Phatfish & Lou Fellingham. The most recent rendition of "Amazing God" can be found on the 2008 live album from the Keswick Convention, titled Keswick Live. The track is played by Phatfish, lead singer Lou Fellingham with Stuart Townend on guitar.

Newfrontiers neocharismatic apostolic network of evangelical, charismatic churches

Newfrontiers is a neocharismatic apostolic network of evangelical, charismatic churches founded by Terry Virgo. It forms part of the British New Church Movement, which began in the late 1950s and 1960s combining features of Pentecostalism with British evangelicalism. Other streams of the British New Church Movement with which it shares some features include Together, Ministries Without Borders, and Life-Links. Groups like Pioneer, Ichthus Christian Fellowship, and Vineyard are more distantly related. Newfrontiers describes itself as "a group of apostolic leaders partnering together on global mission, joined by common values and beliefs, shared mission and genuine relationships." Its theology is distinctively Reformed. Newfrontiers is committed to building churches according to "New Testament principles." One of the slogans of the movement has been "changing the expression of Christianity around the world," which is based on a prophecy given by Paul Cain to the movement in 1990.

Kelly Minter is a Christian worship leader, author, speaker, songwriter, and musician. The daughter of a pastor, Minter grew up in Northern Virginia and as a teenager was more interested in sports than music. When she was a senior in high school, Minter was offered and then lost a college basketball scholarship. To help her recover from that disappointment, Minter started playing the guitar.

Newday organization

Newday is an annual Christian youth festival organised by the Newfrontiers family of churches. Established since August 2004, the event is aimed at young people between the ages of 12 to 19, either Christian or non-Christian.

The song "From The Rising Of The Sun" featured on the 2008 Newfrontiers live worship release Salvation's Song, played by Phatfish. They were leading worship at the conference Together On A Mission when it was recorded.

Track listing

  1. "Pouring Out"
  2. "I Am Yours"
  3. "Amazing God"
  4. "Best Thing"
  5. "Who Else Could I Run To?"
  6. "Holy Spirit"
  7. "This Year"
  8. "Rise Up"
  9. "Come And Behold"
  10. "From The Rising Of The Sun"

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Cross Rhythms review
  2. ↑ Christianity Today review
  3. ↑ The Jono Show review
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