Newsboys

with Duncan Phillips

Mon, 31 Jan 2011

After merging talent from two of the supergroups of Christian music, former Sunshine Coast band Newsboys has had one of its biggest years in its 25-year career.
The band, which has sold about seven million albums, reinvented itself in 2009 after long-time lead singer Peter Furler stepped down.
News that Michael Tait, from one-time "rival" band dc Talk, was stepping up to the microphone, set off a firestorm of online debate with some Christian music commentators suggesting the new line-up would never work.
But they were wrong with fans quickly taking to Tait and the new album, Born Again.
Aussie drummer Duncan Phillips says that before Tait joined newsboys they were looking at the demise of the band. But the Aussie spirit that established them wouldn't cop fading into the sunset.
Phillips talks about "the punt that paid off".

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