As a band, we have two goals for our music …

Firstly, it must glorify the Lord and be scripturally and spiritually sound. This doesn’t necessarily mean that every song has to directly reference God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit, or even directly address issues of a solely Christian or spiritual nature. What it does mean, however, is that every song must reflect the band’s heart for worship, and enshrine values and desires in accordance with living our lives for the glory of Jesus.

Secondly it must be good music, by which we mean it must be good to listen to, tap your feet to and sing along with. We are not satisfied with knowing that we are doing this for the right reasons, and following Christ’s call on our lives. He demands that we give of our best in everything that we do, so we strive to take a professional approach in all things so that the music we make is of the highest quality, be it live or recorded.

It is also important to us that we do not alienate anyone. Our music must stand up on its own strengths regardless of whether any, all or some of the audience share (or even sympathise with) our Christian faith. Music has a way of conveying emotion and spirituality through the way it sounds and feels, whether you understand, agree with or believe in the content of the lyrics or not and, for this reason, theREIGN looks on its music as an entry point to the Christian faith – expressing the heart and spirit of the gospel message of Jesus Christ in a way that will (at the very least) entertain and uplift the listener and, ideally, have them leave a concert, or turn off a CD, having seen some small vision of what it means to worship the Lord Jesus Christ.

You can view a listing of all our upcoming events by clicking here.

Performance

theREIGN have performed concerts across the City of Hull and beyond, and have a particular gift in outreach, especially among young people.

Over the years, we have taken our music as far afield as Barrow Upon Humber, Witham in Essex and Torquay in Devon, as well as performing a successful set at Greenbelt 2007, and one of our most successful offerings is a combined Saturday evening concert (generally aimed at young people) followed by our leading worship for the church itself on Sunday Morning.

Worship

Every member of theREIGN is involved with leading worship in their own church and, with several decades of experience in worship leading between us, we love nothing more than the opportunity to worship with others. Lead singer David Cooper is an experienced leader in his own right, most recently leading worship for an international mission agency conference in Spain.

In recent years, theREIGN have also been privileged to join the official worship programme for the Greenbelt Festival, leading a late night Rock Eucharist event on the opening night of the festival.

The band are very skilled at gearing the music that we play to the audience/service, using a great deal of our own original material, along with songs by well known worship leaders, such as Martin Smith, Matt Redman and Chris Tomlin, some traditional hymns, and a smattering of secular covers where appropriate.

If you are interested in theREIGN putting on a show for your event, or leading worship in your church, just drop us an e-mail or submit the Form on the Contact page. We look forward to hearing from you.

Recordings

theREIGN have released two collections of their songs on CD, Sing in 2003, and Where Jesus Touches The Earth in 2006. Click on the artwork to find out more and order your copy. Both albums are also available via iTunes, MSNMusic and other online music stores.