Showing posts with label Bright Light Parade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bright Light Parade. Show all posts
HAPPY SEPTEMBER! (Torre)
WELL! This year has been a pretty slow one for BLP. So in March, my mom didn't want us sitting around the house so she made Lex and I get a job more than just our weekend one that we still have. So I started working part time at Jimmy Johns and Lex started being a nanny! Lets just say that our whole family had to get use to all of us on different work schedules! Lex just got done with her summer nanny job and now has a new one on her plate! She's so great working with the kids and doing fun stuff, sometimes I wish I could just skip a day of work and go hang out with her and the kids! hahaha. I am an inshop person at Jimmy Johns and just got a position as a pic which is a Person In Charge and I run shifts. I know scary right? I don't have many shifts, but I'm still getting use to the idea and blessed I have the hours that I do! :)
We are so happy to say that we started leading worship at a church in Owatonna, MN call Christian Family Church World Outreach. It's such a blessing to be working with such passionate people with such a great vision
We just got back from an amazing trip to Mississippi! We met so many great people and had a blast rollerskating and having a lake day while doing worship at night and ended the weekend with a concert! Now we are headed to Virginia Beach for 5 days or so in a few days! Make sure you follow us on Instagram, cause that's where I post lots of pictures on the road! @brightlightparadeofficial :)
Our new album IS out! We are so happy how it turned out! So lucky for YOU, we are having a giganticnourmous merch sale! Our t-shirts are 50% off and we have a grab bag with 2 shirts, a poster, bracelets, cds, and a photo for just $15 and everything is FREE shipping. www.brightlightparade.bigcartel.com I know, I know, I can't believe it myself! ;)
Well, I think that's all I have for right now! Hopefully we will stay more updated with everyone! Maybe Lex will write the next one so it won't be all over the place and make more sense. hahaha :)
Twitter- @BLParade
Instagram- @brightlightparadeofficial
Facebook- /brightlightparade
brightlightparade.com
brightlightparade.bigcartel.com
I hope you all have a great September and here's some pictures from MS! :)
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| Us with Patrick, one of the best promoters ever. :) |
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| LIME GREEN GROUP! The small group we joined for the weekend :) |
It's the most wonderful time of the year!!
Hey everyone! I know I don't usually send out this many emails in a month! But there's just SO many exciting things happening!
- We are having our "Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest" again! So pull out your ugly sweaters and post them on our Facebook!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwUCOHsV7JQ&feature=channel_video_title - ANDRIOD PHONE USERS! We now have a FREE app that you can download and you'll see our shows, pictures, songs, Christmas song, and instant updates!
http://www.reverbnation.com/mobile-app/62829/brightlightparade - We are honored to be in a contest for Christian Connections 2011 Voters Choice New Artist/Band of the Year! But we need YOUR votes! Just go to this link and vote for Bright Light Parade!
http://www.facebook.com/questions/10150467432184489/ - And last but not least! We are having a SUPER DUPER Christmas Merch Sale!! If you like free stuff and shipping you should check out our page!
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150397437647791
Words cannot express how happy we are to have the frans (friends/fans) that we do. We are blessed beyond measure!
We hope you all have an amazing Christmas with your friends and family!
<33BLP
Mail time!
Labels:
Blessed,
Bright Light Parade,
Mail,
Nashville,
Songs
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I just wanted to blog about our life a little bit!
We have new songs that Lex and our friend Eric worked on the last time we were down in Nashville and they sound so awesome! We can't wait for all of you to hear them! We currently don't have many shows for the rest of the year to take a little break and get refocused on the band and have time to spend the holidays with our family and friends. :)
We now have a P.O. box so if you ever want to send us a letter to encourage us or whatever heres the address :)
P.O. box 891 Faribault, MN 55021
We are planning to go back on the road in February and hopefully getting a new record out soon!
Thank you so much for keeping up with our craziness and blessing us along the way! You are all so amazing and we are blessed by you!
<3Torre
Nashville take 2! (Torre)
We are currently in Nashville writing some more with our friend Eric.
Lex is writing a song while I write this superly awesome blog! :)
This time we drove down here in my car to save money.
It was a 13 hour drive and Lex and I did it in one day.
Since then we've just been writing and hanging out with our friends that go to school down here, so its nice to catch up!
We checked out a church down here called Journey and it was such an awesome church! If we lived down here... pretty sure we already found a church :)
Have you guys seen that Lex's book she co-wrote is out now!? You should go buy 1.. or 2.... or 10! Its on Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and a bunch of other places!
If you wanna see some pictures that we took while we are in Nashville, go to www.facebook.com/brightlightparade and you can find them there!
Thanks for reading and supporting us!
<3Torre
Rock stars? Rock no thank you! (Torre)
Labels:
Bright Light Parade,
Facebook,
God,
Guitars,
Higher Ground,
Love,
Rock,
Shows,
Stars,
Tour
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Do you know what our days look like when we’re home? We spend time with family, clean the house, spend time at church, work at the Holiday Inn and spending time at home doing nothing.
Does that sound like a “rock star” to you?
When we’re on the road, this is what our days look like. We wake up (usually early..), get ready (takes about an hour..), load up the van or trailer, drive hours, get to the show, unload and set up, sound check, eat dinner, play a show, meet amazing people, tear down equipment, load up and drive either home, to a hotel or a host home and repeat this for as long as we’re on tour. J
Does that sound like a “rock star” to you?
If those make someone sound like a rock star then you’ve got it all wrong. When Lex and I were younger and started the band we wanted so hard to try and make it “big” with music and be like these other bands we looked up to. We tried acting like “huge rock stars” and it got us nowhere. We have realized that being a rock star is not what we want. We’re normal people with normal jobs and happen to be in a band that travels sharing Gods word and love. We have had the privilege to play with some bands that we have always looked up to and wanted to be like. We saw how they acted on stage and off. We couldn’t believe how they would stay in their buses all day, or play a show and not looking like they’re having any fun at all and acted like what I’d call “divas”.
We played a show yesterday at a festival in Minnesota called Higher Ground and here is all what went wrong during our set: Ears weren’t working, guitar straps broke, guitar strings broke, amps weren’t working, and to top it all off we were already running 10 minutes late with our sound check. But you know what? We were all still smiling and having a blast. When we got done and all loaded up we had a voice mail from our little helper that said, “You guys need to not dilly dally. There’s a signing line for you guys.” As I was walking to the merch table I was thinking “I bet when I get there, there’s going to be one person..” I got to the table and there was no one there. So I thought to myself “I knew it!” Our little helper handed us markers, pointed and said “Okay.. There’s the line!” All 4 of us looked at each other and couldn’t believe that many people would want our signatures, or even wait in line!
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| It may not look like a lot.. but it was a lot for us! J |
What I want this blog to get across is, we are not rock stars and we don’t ever want to be. God has brought us to where we are to be the difference the world needs to see. Just because we’re in a band does not make us more cool or better than anyone.
We do what we do because we love what we do. J
If you need prayer, or just want to talk write to us!
brightlightparade@hotmail.com
brightlightparade@hotmail.com
Or add us on Facebook! :)
facebook.com/lexbanderson
facebook.com/torreblp
<33
Welcome to Minnejungle! (Torre)
Labels:
Bright Light Parade,
hot,
sonshine,
trailer
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It seems that Minnesota is never happy.. It's either sad, angry, or just really cold. This past week has been on record the hottest days ever in Minnesota. They're comparing our temperatures to jungles... WHAT!? So I've been spending most of my time eating ice cream and hanging inside with the nice air conditioning.. but this past weekend we had a show in Willmar, Minnesota at Sonshine Festival. Lex and I have been going to that festival for 6 years and the first year we went we got burnt like no other, stayed at stage 2 all day to see Falling Up, The Wedding, Run Kid Run, and Barlow Girl. Our best friends mom always told us we were going to be playing main stage some day and we all just kinda laughed at her and brushed it off. Last year we played on the Show Mobile Stage and we were very happy with just playing at Sonshine but then our booking agent called us and let us know that we were playing Main Stage this year... WHOA! We were all taken back.. We played the same day as Newsboys, Anberlin, The Almost, Francesca Battistelli and many more amazing bands. We felt SO blessed to be on that stage with such amazing bands. So thank you to all of you who came out (an hour earlier!) to come see us! You are all so amazing :)
And if you didn't know... on our last tour we ended up having to buy a new trailer. With that, it had us go into more debt. We had heard of this online giving place called Kickstarter. So we thought we'd give it a try because we realized we can't keep supporting BLP on our own. So we only put up half of what we needed to raise ($3,100) and in 45 days we made our goal! So thank you again to everyone who gave or even who prayed for us! We have the best fans/friends in the whole world! We couldn't do what we do without all of you lovely people!
<33Torre
<33Torre
Joy (Lex)
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Bright Light Parade
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A week ago, life started getting a bit more crazy. There were many things in my own personal life going on, and things just in general were not going as planned. My week filled up fast, and I knew that it was most likely going to be a bit overwhelming. I spent some time in prayer, and seeking Him out and His plans for this week. If this all happened a year ago, I would be a complete wreck right now. I would be cranky, uneasy, and definitely stressed. It's amazing, though, in just this past week of craziness, God has granted me this sense of peace and patience! Even through the things going wrong, people treating me poorly, and just chaos, He has remained faithful and has shown me a small glimpse of the bigger picture! I have been completely filled with joy, through it all! An unexplainable joy. Things that would make me a little cranky before, have not bothered me! He is continually reminding me different things. When someone cuts me off while I'm driving, He says, "Calm yourself. You have bigger things to focus on.", or when something goes wrong in life, He says, "Just trust Me. I've got it all under control." It's amazing how our God works, huh? :)
The enemy has been defeated, and my God has WON!
We'll be touring out to California and back, with stops on the way there and also on the way back. Check out our Facebook "Events" page to see if we're coming to a town near you! Please keep us in your prayers as we travel, and as we encounter new fans and friends. We have been given these gifts and talents for a reason, and that's to glorify our Lord and let Him use us to advance His Kingdom!
-Lex
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