Survivor: Celebrating 15 Years

A decade-and-a-half since its launch, the Survivor Records story reaches its final chapter with the release of a special compilation that celebrates all that it has achieved. Survivor Celebrating 15 Years is a remarkable album, proving that the Survivor story will go on touching lives for many years to come.

From Matt Redman to Brenton Brown, Tim Hughes to Onehundredhours, Yfriday to Tree63 as well as Soul Survivor, Vicky Beeching, Lex Buckley and Ben Cantelon, Survivor was a label that worked hard to serve those that served the church. And what started out as a project to support the baby steps of an emerging UK worship scene grew every bit as loud, as strong and as influential as the artists it worked with.

Founder and Head of A&R, Les Moir, knows well the extent to which the label helped to support the life of the church: “With every move of God there are new songs and a new sound. I feel Survivor helped reflect and record those, and it encouraged and motivated a new generation to express their worship in a way that made it their own.

"The songbooks and Survivor books resourced and inspired new forms of creativity and helped breed songs of content. The One Voice project also brought different voices and cultures together in a new way.

"So this new release that celebrates the 15 years of Survivor also demonstrates how Kingsway is now a multigenerational, multicultural label: one Church, one voice, one God.”

Survivor Celebrating 15 Years had an impressive back catalogue from which to choose. Many of its albums made a significant impact, not just on the church in the UK but across the world. This album celebrates the very best of those releases, with songs that shaped and stretched the church, colliding to spur on a generation to greater, bolder faith in God.

From Happy Day by Tim Hughes to Brenton Brown’s Praise Is Rising, All Of Me from Onehundredhours to My Soul Sings from Delirious? and many more, this album is as strong as they come.

Fifteen years is a long time in music, and today the future offers a different path. The songwriters and worship leaders who took those baby steps are no longer the sound of the future; they are the sound of the present, and many have future projects underway with Kingsway. As Adrian Thompson says, the future’s looking good:

“Survivor was always under the umbrella of Kingsway and the ethos of giving a new generation of worshippers their own voice has not changed. As Kingsway we are firmly committed to resourcing worshippers with songs and sounds that allow each generation to worship.

"We see ourselves as a family or community of worshippers that is now serving the wider Church and our commitment to our writers and worship leaders is unwavering. As the Survivor generation is growing up we still have a platform that will enable them to reach their relevant generation.”