Jonny Solari

Science vs Religion

May 11, 2012 in Church, evangelism, God with 0 Comments

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted something with any real weight in terms of word count, but I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while now. I had a conversation with a friend of mine a few days ago and he is as atheist as they come. We were both sharing our views on the existence of a God and it struck me how incredibly hard it is for someone who believes in a spiritual existence, to explain this to someone who holds science as their only way of understanding the universe.

It is very frustrating for me because I look at what I know about God and it makes me happy. When my friend thinks about God his mind fills with a very different picture than the one I know. I wish I could show him what I see but as yet I have not found a way of doing this.

At this point I would like to say that I have found a remedy to the predicament that I am in, but unfortunately I cannot do so. At times like this the task of explaining a loving creator, and a universe that works in a very different way than popular opinion would suggest, seems like an impossible feat.

It is also helpful for me to remind myself that one man sharing his beliefs with another has never achieved anything of eternal significance, when men have been the only parties involved. Things happen in people’s hearts that we could never predict, understand or control, God on the other hand knows exactly what’s happening.

C.S Lewis – Four Loves

May 8, 2012 in cs lewis, God with 2 Comments

This has got to be one of my favourite quotes ever, it’s worth reading often.

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

Eliza Shaddad

May 1, 2012 in Music with 1 Comment

We had the pleasure of playing with Eliza Shaddad in London last week and she delivered an amazing performance. If you haven’t already heard her music, then you need to listen now! Check out the songs I have posted below.

The 1930s – April Tour – 2012

May 1, 2012 in Music, The 1930s with 0 Comments

Thankfully we had yet another highly successful tour. We played some brilliant shows as well as meeting some great people,to be honest there isn’t much more I could have asked for. We had a great time on the road but obviously it takes its tole on you after a while; it will be nice to sleep in a real bed tonight and I was getting pretty sick of eating cold sausages and McDonalds. Thanks again to everyone who came out to see us play and to those who let us sleep in their houses, it sounds cliched but without you this wouldn’t be possible.

One of my favourite things about touring is getting to hear lot’s of new musicians. We played a gig in AAA, London and had the pleasure of playing alongside a talented female singer songwriter called Eliza Shaddad, she put on a great show and you should definitely check out her tunes.

Talented Friends – Glenn Kennedy – Fine Art

April 17, 2012 in Art with 0 Comments

Glenn is a talented lad, not only did he lay down some sweet electric guitar on our EP, but he was also the guy who painted Andrew and I for the CD cover. When we aren’t roping him in to do something for us, he does some seriously sweet paintings which i’ve posted below. If you want to see more of Glenn’s work you can check out his site here.

The 1930s – New EP

April 16, 2012 in Music, The 1930s with 0 Comments

This EP has been in the works for almost a year now, it has taken a lot of time, effort and money, but it is finally finished and i’m very happy with it. It is a little less jaunty than our first release but i’m hoping people still enjoy it. I am still proud of the songs that we released on our first EP but this release is definetly a lot more personal and because of that I feel a lot more attached/protective of the songs on it.

I don’t often ask for retweets and shares etc, but i really want as many people as possible to hear this release. If you can post the player below I would really appreciate it and I hope you enjoy the songs!

Talented Friends – Jamie Neish

April 9, 2012 in Music with 1 Comment

First up is Jamie Neish. I don’t really need to say anything else, I feel the songs speak for themselves.

Easter Sunday

April 8, 2012 in Bible, God with 0 Comments

Easter is another one of those events that I sometimes find hard to feel any excitement for, mainly because of the numerous times it has been taught to me in sunday school. The same thing would happen every year as a kid, our sunday school teacher would teach us the easter story and then we would have to fill in numerous worksheets entitled “easter trivia” , as you can imagine this did not fill me with excitement and any enthusiasm I had for this day eventually evaporated.

It was only when I started to get a bit older that I realised that the importance of easter was not about questions like ”In what was Jesus wrapped before he was buried?”, but that easter actually changed the entire relationship between God and Man.

What happened over easter?

God was victorious – Fear no evil

When Jesus died evil made it’s strongest bid to defeat God, but when Jesus rose from the dead this showed God as being victorious over evil. There is no need to ever fear evil again because we’ve seen the fight and we know who wins.

God provided a substitute – Closed the Gap

Because God has justice at the heart of his nature all wrong doing must be punished. This alienated humans from God because wrong doing is sadly something we specialise in. Jesus then willingly took all of our wrongs on himself so that we no longer needed to be the ones punished, because Jesus did this there is no longer any separation between God and Mankind.

God identifies with humans – Through compassion takes pain

The death of Jesus shows God suffering in the most wretched way imaginable, I have heard people try to argue that there are worse ways on dying than on the cross, but they are focusing on the physical. When Jesus died he took the guilt for every wrong that mankind would ever commit, he died alone holding the guilt of an entire species. He did this out of love.

Jesus was the perfect example – Be inspired

Jesus showed his love by freely giving himself for the good of a hurting world.

Don’t let yourself think that Easter is mundane or irrelevant, we are celebrating the change in the universe that allowed God and man to interact. That’s HUGE.

Work In Progress – 1

April 3, 2012 in Music, Songwriting, The 1930s with 0 Comments

I have been doing a fair bit of writing over the last few days, so here is a pretty rough version of what looks set to be our next new song.

Your tongues a sword that you don’t know how to yield
You use your words to attack, use your smile as a shield
I see through all you put up, I see your cracks
and that’s why I don’t fight back

Inspiration requires effort

March 23, 2012 in Music, Songwriting, The 1930s with 2 Comments

When i first started writing songs i was under the impression that I could not start writing unless I experienced a moment of inspiration. I still believe that this is the case, but I have changed the way I go about gaining this. I used to sit and play a bit of guitar, ‘and if nothing immediately came out of this, I would put it down to the fact that i was not inspired, and give up on that writing session.

As you can imagine, I did not get many songs written this way. I would go months without writing anything due to lack of inspiration. What I have discovered more recently is that a lot of the time inspiration is something that needs to be sought after. You can wait for it to come and find you, or you can intentionally pursue it.

Whether this involves reading a great book, meeting with interesting people or even just going to a place that stimulates these thoughts and feelings, there are endless ways to fill your mind with things that will help you create something interesting, even though it is more tempting, and easier to sit back and procrastinate. (I still do this a lot of the time)

If you haven’t already heard any of my bands songs, there’s one below!

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