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Iain Mackinnon

About Me



I was born in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis growing up in a home where singing was a huge part of everyday life. My parents didn't quite see the value of learning to play guitar though, so I had to make do with playing "Love Me Tender" on a Yamaha keyboard while my mates were playing "Talk Dirty" on SGs in the barn down the road.


I went to Glasgow University in 1995 and finally persuaded my parents to buy me a guitar. I became a christian while in Glasgow. My cousin and I formed the band 'Canvas' in the summer of 1999 and released our debut album 'Less Than Perfect' in December 2001. After Ruairidh left the band to take up full-time ministry, myself and the remaining band-members started off 'Xtreme' - a truly in-yer-face youth event. See the website for more! www.xtremeevent.com
I began writing and recording the demos for my solo album 'Best Seat in the House' with Mike Merritt in 2002 and the album was released in August 2003. Check out my solo page - www.iainmackinnon.com for details and reviews.
As well as playing at 'Xtreme', I lead the worship at the Bayhead Youth Group in Stornoway every Sunday night and I'm the worship leader for the multi-denominational organisation, 'Stand in the Gap'.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/06/2005
Band Website: www.xtremeevent.com
Band Members: ::Iain - Rhythm Guitar and Vocals
::Paul - Lead Guitar and techy things
::Kenny - Bass Guitar
::Gordon - Hitting things

For video, click HERE

Influences: ::Musical - David Crowder Band, Third Day, Delirious, U2
::General - Loving God, Good books, Strong leaders, Founding Fathers, Loving mothers, Strong coffee
Sounds Like: :: Too much rock for one hand
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Switching Allegiance

Hi guys!Just letting you know that I've just set myself up with a Wordpress blog. I've not been keeping particularly up to date with myspace lately. It certainly has its plus points, but I'm just gett...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:34:00 GMT

Ta Daaaa!

Would you look at that? It would appear that I have suddenly become married!It is simply incredible the number of married people who come up to you after you get married and ask you "So how's married ...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:59:00 GMT

Plague of flies

"Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me. Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and ...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:54:00 GMT

Exhaustion, stress and acidy bogies

Urgh. And yet more Urgh. I am feeling scabby. Utterly exhausted and to top it all off, as always occurs when I hit this level of exhaustion, I am getting sick.This term is always bad from the point o...
Posted by on Thu, 25 May 2006 04:09:00 GMT

More Ram (not RAM) Issues

Further to my recent posting about my hassles involving my father's late ram (as in male sheep, not RAM - I have plenty of it and no problems with it) I now offer this little nugget.I was driving into...
Posted by on Thu, 04 May 2006 18:13:00 GMT

Xtreme Review - 28th April 2006

Another Xtreme event passeth! Friday night was great. Different, but great.Started out with us doing three songs with the support act (Keith "Outstanding" Morrison of Face the West fame) which went in...
Posted by on Tue, 02 May 2006 14:15:00 GMT

Highly amusing...

I've just been to the Apple website to check out the new set of Apple Ads going out in the States right now. Oh, the mirth! These are well worth a look. They feature two blokes playing the part of a P...
Posted by on Tue, 02 May 2006 14:04:00 GMT

New Xtreme Site

I'm all excited, me!Our lead guitarist in the band, Paul, has re-jigged our website and it is cooler than a shaved polar bear. Seriously. I mean, I'm all HTML-savvy, but this is simply superb. You mus...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:42:00 GMT

God is Not a Republican

Regardless of what Pat Robertson may think, God is not a Republican.I watch some of the Christian channels from time to time. Most of them are pretty good, some of the programming is excellent, some p...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:39:00 GMT

Flagrant abuse of the Express Till

I was in the supermarket earlier. Just grabbing some steaks and salad, as one does. The lines (as usual) were awful, and only 4 out of 962 lanes were even open, but I spotted that the express lane was...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:16:00 GMT