ARTICLE: O Come All Ye Faithful
August 21st, 2007 |
Articles | Source: CMWired.com (255)
Dressed in the clothes of teenage rebellion but preaching God’s word, Christian rock is on the warpath in America. Martin Hodgson reports. Night has fallen, and a full moon is rising above the treeline as a five-piece band called Flyleaf launch into their set at Cornerstone, a Christian rock festival in rural Illinois. Their sound is a squall of ferocious, churning guitars - and at the eye of the storm is the band’s diminutive front-woman, Lacey Mosley. Dressed in ripped jeans and a black dress, she cuts a tiny figure against the wall of amplifiers, but she dominates the stage, her voice switching mid-song from fragile whisper to banshee howl. […read more]



