Give My All is the second full-length live album by RPM

Rock Productions Music

RPM are the youth band of Bradford's Abundant Life Church. The band cite their musical styles as including rap, rock, and indie; Cross Rhythms has noted influences from Delirious?.-History:...

, the youth band of Bradford's Abundant Life Church

Abundant Life Church

The Abundant Life Church is a large Christian neocharismatic church based in Bradford,in the north of England, which is part of the British New Church Movement. It is led by senior Pastors Paul and Glenda Scanlon....

. The CD was released with a bonus DVD, featuring four songs from the album, a "Rocknations Backstage Pass", and a multi-angle feature.

Give My All was recorded at the church's Rocknations conference during August 2007. The band released numerous video updates during the relatively short production timeline, including the full video for the title track. Give My All was made available within the church during November, and is scheduled for a wide release during February 2008.

Background and recording

Following I Surrender All

I Surrender All

I Surrender All is the debut LP of RPM, the youth group of the Abundant Life Church in Bradford. The CD was released with a bonus DVD, featuring four songs from the album, a documentary on the youth group, a promotional video for RockNations , and scores for all the songs...

, RPM took a heavier musical direction, due in part to the influence of worship leader and songwriter Mike Harvie. The band combined Harvie's metal

Heavy metal music

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 influences with the "full-on rock" of Jock James and the rap of Marcus Lee, creating a far "harder" musical soundscape than usual for a worship band. Lyrically, too, the album differed from earlier RPM efforts and more traditional worship music; Harvie's experiences of peer pressure soon after his conversion to Christianity

Christianity

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 inspired "Now or Never", whilst the church's work with underprivileged youths set the backdrop for Lee's "Why We Live".

The album was finally recorded and filmed live at the Abundant Life Church

Abundant Life Church

The Abundant Life Church is a large Christian neocharismatic church based in Bradford,in the north of England, which is part of the British New Church Movement. It is led by senior Pastors Paul and Glenda Scanlon....

, Bradford

Bradford

Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...

, during Rocknations '07

Rocknations

Rocknations is the young people's ministry of the Abundant Life Church in Bradford, England and Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is also the name of the church's annual youth conference, held in August each year.-History:...

.

Track listing

1. "Songs of Ascension" – 3:08 (Jonathan James, Marcus Lee, Dan Brummitt, Mike Harvie)
2. "Now or Never" – 4:35 (Harvie)
3. "Give My All" – 4:14 (James, Harvie)
4. "Greatest of All" – 7:45 (James, Matt Hooper)
5. "Fire" – 4:41 (James)
6. "New Creation" – 3:42 (Harvie, John Rees)
7. "Get God Known" – 4:08 (Harvie)
8. "Thank You for the Cross" – 7:32 (James, Harvie)
9. "More Like You" – 5:45 (James, Brummitt)
10. "Addicted to Jesus" – 3:50 (James)
11. "Why We Live" – 5:05 (Lee, James)

Personnel

• Worship leaders: Jonathan James, Mike Harvie, Heidi Fisher, Marcus Lee
• Vocalists: Kate Walker, John-Daniel Goodwin, Allison Harvie, Moses Duenas
• drums
  Drum kit
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  : John Pullan, Matt Buck
• Bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  : Keith Nixon
• Electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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  s: Dan Brummitt, Jonathan Phipps, Jonathan James
• Acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
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  : Jonathan James
• Vibraslap
  Vibraslap
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  : Dick Swiveller
• Keyboards
  Musical keyboard
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  : Vanessa Brummitt, Gordy Alexander
• Choir directors: Michael Hollands, Christie Stansfield
• Mixing: Sam Gibson
  Sam Gibson
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  at Chapel Lane Studios, Hereford
• Mastering: Leon Zervos