"Hang on Love" by The Wedding, Saturday, February 27, 2021

 

Back to Cornerstone, either 2007 or 2008. One dusty afternoon we found ourselves in a tent to see a surprise competition. Like most music festivals, there were different tiers of bands bands playing. At Cornerstone there were groups like Skillet, Flyleaf, Switchfoot, and Relient K who would frequent the main stage. However, small groups like The Wedding played in tents. Every year friends attending made their schedules--the must bands, the bands you may have heard on the radio, the ones with cool names or pictures or bios. So one of The Wedding's shows made our list. I had heard their songs from their first self-titled album on RadioU. Songs like "Morning Air, "Wake the Regiment," and "Move This City." I thought of them as the Fall Out Boy of Christian music.

I'M BEGGING YOU TO STAY. It was quite interesting to say the least. The Wedding and another band Wavorly, had been on the schedule at least three times each. The two bands decided to hold a competition to see which was the better band. They would each play four of the other bands songs and whichever band was cheered the loudest would play one of their own songs as an encore. I think Wavorly won the competition, but as a newcomer to both bands, the competition was confusing.  My friend bought The Wedding's CD, and I bought Wavorly’s album. On the way back from Cornerstone we listened to both bands back to back. We discovered that Wavorly's music and lyrics were a little bland. The Wedding's album had better songs but they weren’t as musically interesting as when they played Wavorly. The Wedding seemed to give more life to Wavorly's music.  The Wedding stuck around for a while. They went on hiatus and then they came back, reforming on Tooth & Nail Records. They released an EP and the LP which contains the song of the day, No Direction. The band never saw the levels of success of the bands they opened for. 

THIS COULD BE THE BEST WE'VE EVER HAD. I discovered this song last year. Ask any teacher about how they’re handling the COVID 19 pandemic, and you’ll probably get a rant you’ve never wanted to hear. I’ll spare you that for another day. Needless to say, I was quite discouraged. Work had little reward. I thought about changing careers every day. I felt like giving up and just collecting a paycheck. Motivation was a daily struggle. If it was like that for me, just think about students. A greater percentage of students used the class time for phone games and they lacked any forward thinking for after the pandemic. As far as we know, college applications would still exist as would jobs in some form. Next week the school year begins in South Korea. "If you’re tired love rest your head," but next month we go to war against apathy. Hang on!

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