Words: STREETBRAND Reporter
Thursday, 1 October 2009
Imagine our surprise when we saw Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child/Chicago fame, talk on British national TV about the UK gospel music band New Direction Crew, who had been nominated for a MOBO award in the Best Gospel category.
Williams said: "I love New Direction 'cause I live in Chicago and they're from Chicago. For years, I used to want to be in the choir New Direction; a choir full of young people with some of the baddest musicians."
Eerrrr, what?
Only New Direction Crew are a four member band from London, England.
New Direction Gospel Choir on MySpace
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For me, this episode is a good illustration of something I've been saying for years: When Christians form bands/choirs/step out as solo artists, they always choose their band names from the same small pool of religious cliches (without much effort, right now I can think of three acts called 'Witness' and at least two called 'Deliverance'!). As longs as artists stick to this unoriginal way of choosing names for themselves, this sort of thing is always going to happen.