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Aussie Joy

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About Me

Over the next 10-weeks, Alabaster Box will be giving you a sneak preview of their fourth studio album, "We Will Not Be Silent".Every Tuesday, Alabasterbox.com will be updated with a new video with one of the guys introducing the ‘song of the week’. This week’s song is ‘We will not be silent’. Check out the vid below to see Matt’s explanation of the song, and to hear how it sounds.The album will be available in Australia and New Zealand during March from anywhere where good Christian music is available. The album releases to the USA and the rest of the world via www.musichristian.com on April 15.
A few pics of my trip to Mexico! (more under the pic section)
November 07 I got to go on the road with the band (kinda - I flew to meet them in Tampa, FL and flew home... so that was pretty hard to deal with :) ) It was the first visit to the beach in 9 months.
Adventures with friends in Australia...
More good times in Australia...
Nat comes and visits from Aussie... crazy times!
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A bit of my story... till now...
Well, I was born in a small town about an hour from Brisbane City in Australia. I lived on a small farm that had a few dairy beef cattle, lots of animals and way too many cats!
During highschool I somehow ended up working as a strapper on a racehorse spelling farm. So I spent most of my holidays working and saving $ for my first car!!!
During University I worked at a Domino's Pizza joint... most scary moment was when this wild chick asked me for a lift back into town at a set of lights - before I could answer she opened my car door as if she wanted to pull me out and take off in me car! Thankfully she then ran off into the night! Freaked me out though!
At University I did a teaching degree - and ended up in teaching at a Highschool in the bush with 36 kids in it. It was pretty interesting... a fairly remote place. The toughest part was being so far away from Christians my age. Sometimes I would drive 200kms (about 2 hours) to a church!
Later I ended up teaching at a Christian school in Brisbane. Some how during this time I organised a concert for a band called Alabaster Box. From the moment we met there was some kind of connection (more a 'God' moment) that (after serveral years) has resulted in me becoming their bookings and tour manager.
In March 06 I moved to the US to continue working with Alabaster Box and to seek ministry opportunities for them.
Check them out www.alabasterbox.com!
Also check out our online mag for chicks - www.godslittlerocker.com

My Interests



The great outdoors - the beach... the snow... the bush! Meeting new people... traveling... drinking hot tea... black or green... entertaining people - cooking meals, scones and damper... chillin out... jogging on trails...bush walking...singing round a bonfire...riding horses... going to the beach...full moon...welding...buying new clothes on the cheap...eating cadbury chocolate...or any Aussie lollies/candy bars for that matter...going to church... worshiping and praying to my God with friends...hearing God's voice...

Music:

Chris Tomlin, Hillsong United, Day of Fire, The Lads, Soul Survivor, David Crowder Band, Passion, Switchfoot, Third Day, Leeland... and a little country when your on the roads to Nashville - Go Keith!

Television:

Home and Away... and 'All Saints' hehe... aren't I sad! Mcleods Daugher... I miss those Aussie TV shows! Don't really have time to watch anything!

Books:

The Heavenly Man by Brother Yun, No Compromise by Melody Green, Blue like Jazz by Donald Miller

The bible!

My Blog

See Matt talk about the making of We Will Not Be Silent!

Hey gang,Over the next 10-weeks, Alabaster Box will be giving you a sneak preview of their fourth studio album, "We Will Not Be Silent".Every Tuesday, Alabasterbox.com will be updated with a new video...
Posted by Aussie Joy on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:31:00 PST

A different kind of Saturday...

I knew today would be a different way to start a Saturday. I had no idea how to prepare... and if could I'm not sure what I would have done different. A group of us met at Grace Pregnancy Centre at ...
Posted by Aussie Joy on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:24:00 PST

Christmas Time in Australia 07 - Finally blogging

Time in Australian was great! The weather was no where near as hot as normal... which had its pro's and con's... not awesome for beach going and swimming... but great that you didn't have to walk aro...
Posted by Aussie Joy on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:19:00 PST

Australia Day in Nashville TN

True to Nashville style... double the amount of people who RSVP'd showed up to tonight's 'Australia Day' celebrations at the Outback Steakhouse. I'm sure we slightly overwhelmed the waiters... who ...
Posted by Aussie Joy on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:18:00 PST

Northeast Tour update

So I got to see Boston, Massachusettes on Monday!  What a beautiful city... probably up there with my favs!   Hundreds of years of history... did you know... The Boston Tea Party was ...
Posted by Aussie Joy on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:52:00 PST

Year 2s

Last week I was asked to be a 'special guest' at a local primary school and had to share about Australia to 100 year two's!  It was so funny.  I thought I would share some of the questions t...
Posted by Aussie Joy on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:50:00 PST

Adventures in Michigan

--- Matt's ROCK stance  Last weekend I joined Alabaster Box on the 'Tour Van' and we headed to Michigan.  Nice long 13 hour drive& a couple of us got 3 hours along the way by leaving on Frid...
Posted by Aussie Joy on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:06:00 PST

Bec Scales Visit

Last week, a good friend Bec Scales came to visit.  I met her in 2000 at a Beach mission on the Gold Coast in Australia.  We ended up going to church together for a few years in Brisbane at ...
Posted by Aussie Joy on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:02:00 PST

Mexico trip 07

  As most of you know, last week I spent a week in Reynosa, Mexico on a mission trip with Harvest International.  Many have asked, 'how was it?', 'did you have a good time?', 'what happened'...
Posted by Aussie Joy on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:57:00 PST

Amazing testimony about Alabaster Box

"Hi, I'm Michelle and this is my story. It's important to give you a snapshot of the life I was living, which brought me literally to the brink of a life and death moment. I married young and had four...
Posted by Aussie Joy on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:37:00 PST