Songs
1. All Over The World
2. Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble?
3. Healing Rain
4. History Maker
5. Holding Nothing Back
6. How Sweet The Name
7. I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever
8. It's Rising Up
9. Jesus' Blood
10. Lord You Have My Heart
11. Majesty
12. Miracle Maker
13. My Glorious
14. My Soul Sings
15. Oh Lead Me
16. Our God Reigns
17. Rain Down
18. Shout To The North
19. Thank You For Saving Me
20. The Cross Has Said It All
21. The Happy Song
22. We Give You Praise
23. What A Friend
Albums
History Makers: Greatest Hits
History Makers: Greatest Hits (Limited Edition)
My Soul Sings
Kingdom Of Comfort
The Mission Bell
World Service
Access:d
Deeper
Audio Lessonover?
Glo & Mezzamorphis
King Of Fools & Live & In The Can
Cutting Edge 1 and 2 & Cutting Edge 3 and 4
Worship Leaders
My BlogMartin Smith (Delirious?)
On paper it should never really have made sense: Delirious? should never have got as far as they did. No band had that came before them had ever made so much noise in churches. No Christians had talked so openly about their faith in clubs and media for quite some time. No one had ever got this far out of Littlehampton.
Today - almost twenty years after those first home-grown gigs - things are different. Today we remember the Dove Award wining, Grammy nominated, RIAA Certified Gold Selling Delirious? as one of the most significant voices in the worldwide worship movement throughout the final decade of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first.
Not only did Delirious? become a dependable source of high selling albums and sold-out shows - with recent years’ touring stats regularly putting them playing in over 20 countries to more than 1,000,000 people. Their albums, live DVDs and compilations are still distributed as far as Singapore and the Philippines; they have also re-recorded the vocals of some of their greatest tracks in Spanish, a response to the support from South America. They’ve been top 10 in the UK album charts as well as Billboard and have supported Bryan Adams in Hyde Park and Bon Jovi all over the country. It was an astounding ride, and Delirious? got to know how loud it gets when armies of people are packed in to hear you play; crowds of 50,000 in Colombia are far less daunting when you’ve just played to 400,000 in India.
And now it is over.
After groundbreaking albums (like ‘Glo’ and L’ive And In The Can’) that redefined modern corporate worship, and inspiring collections (like ‘Kingdom Of Comfort’, ‘Mezzamorphis’ and ‘World Service’) that left a quizzical mainstream and a strengthened church, Delirious? reached a point where the journey simply felt complete.
The band’s final tour of mainland Europe and the UK was the clearest evidence yet that Delirious? have decided to say farewell while still at the top of their game. One look at the DVD version of their April 2010 release ‘Farewell Show’ and it’s clear that the passion and energy are every bit as strong as ever. Worship still pumps through their veins. Historymaking is still a matter of following Jesus.
When that last chord was struck - by an emotional-looking Stu G who promised over and over that “there’s more where that came from” - the end of the Delirious? days wasn’t and entirely sad occasion. As the crowd chatted and played and surged out onto the London streets they were a clear demonstration of what Delirious? leaves behind: the sound that rises up from the millions around the world who have learnt to sing a better song, to march to the beat of a different drum, to be the historymaker they were destined to be.
With the final fade-out blinded by the house-lights turned up bright, the crowd knew they had just seen the end of something special. And the beginning of something great.
You can find out more about Martin Smith (Delirious?) by visiting their web site:
www.delirious.co.uk/html/
