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PeterCrumpler @petercrumpler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here’s my review of ‘When the Music Fades’ by @lucysixsmith.bsky.social from October’s Premier Christianity magazine. There’s a longer review at www.premierchristianity.com/reviews/soul... @canterburypress.bsky.social

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(Not enough to have wished I was camping)

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I did a talk at Greenbelt and it is now available to listen to online. Link below. But first, I love weather

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

However, the really unique thing about this interview is that the fire alarm went off mid-recording, so if you like, you can try to guess which answer was recorded twice with a short, loud break in the middle 3/ open.spotify.com/episode/4hGA...

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Soul Survivor festivals: what if you were a kid in the crowd? | UCB 1 Life Issues

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's one thing to write your uncertainties, with plenty of time to ponder, revise and choose the right words, and another thing to talk directly about the same topics without even the courage to listen back to find out what I said. 2/

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It was great to talk to Vicky at UCB Life Issues about When the Music Fades; Spotify link below. Sometimes I worry I explain myself and the book differently in every conversation. Could there be some lack of integrity in that, I wonder to myself. 1/

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Who is the eighth who walks always behind you? When I look, there are only you and I together ... but who is that on the other side of you?"

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The eighth figure, looming behind us, is (I think) Lenin

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dad turned up a million photos from my evangelical gap year project. I have mixed feelings about evangelical gap year projects but we did well in this photo specifically

Teenager silhouettes against giant fountains at night

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The service very much helped write that chapter!

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thank you for reading it, and for this comment!

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The collective noun for Lives and Opinionses of Tristram Shandy is "a digression"

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ah that's a shame! Thank you, and wishing speedy recovery to sick pet

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Finally raining, and the colour scheme feels totally bizarre

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I have now written a talk for @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social. Do come along and look friendly in the Shelter venue on Friday at half past six

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have not yet written my talk for Greenbelt. I really, really, really must write my talk for Greenbelt

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PeterCrumpler @petercrumpler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Soul Survivor festivals were highlights of the summer for many church youth groups. In this personal memoir, Lucy Sixsmith raises disturbing questions about the events. www.premierchristianity.com/reviews/soul... @canterburypress.bsky.social #CofEpeeps

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Possibly the first ever ascent of the St John's College chapel tower by a colander

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

to improve sound quality for a podcast, I diligently closed windows, closed curtains, closed internal doors and put up a Do Not Disturb sign in the corridor. Mid-recording, the fire alarm went off

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

While looking for cheap C19 books on ebay I discovered a subgenre of teeny tiny BCPs, for people who have very good eyesight, or who know all the prayers by heart already

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

All this time in Cambridge, and I've only just discovered how charmingly the Grantchester Meadows benches are named

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Today in accidentally terrible Christian metaphors, Facebook reminds me of a summer festival called Wildfires

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

weirdly, I'm doing a talk at Greenbelt. If you are there please do come along on the Friday evening with your most unthreatening facial expressions www.greenbelt.org.uk/2026-lineup/

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Greenbelt 2026 Lineup

Dig in to the Greenbelt 2026 lineup. Explore artists, speakers, and performers who'll bring the festival to life.

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"a dinosaur model display, that's sweet... oh. oh no"

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Maybe it's a 6-7 joke with a build-up for dramatic tension

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today in rural church snooping, I suppose there probably IS a hymn number 666, if the book is big enough

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Feel the fear, etc. [do Halls Fell Ridge and Sharp Edge on the same day]

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Sometimes in hot weather I look up houses further north on Rightmove by way of pointless fantasising and I really think this one could not be sold better

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This week in unexpected but flattering plot twists, here's a whole podcast episode reviewing my book, from another Lucy on The Naked Unashamed Life open.spotify.com/episode/6m18...

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#44: Still Deconstructing: A Review of When the Music Fades by Lucy Sixsmith, Soul Survivor, Mike Pilavachi, and British Evangelicalism

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I was glad to talk about When the Music Fades on the Beyond the Happy Clappy podcast @resourcingrenewal.bsky.social . Interesting to listen back and hear the book discussed in a thoughtful, unapologetically charismatic context: open.spotify.com/episode/0kG7...

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Series 3: Ep 5 featuring Lucy Sixsmith

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Shout out to train staff @gwr.com who are handing out bottles of water, explaining delays clearly and calmly over the tannoy, and even making sure one passenger didn't forget her hat 👒 exemplary work much appreciated

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A new career for my copy of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (holding the window blinds still so they don't knock over the pelargonium)

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Walking through torrential rain under grumbling clouds looking out for lightning on a hot day it seems easy to understand how our ancestors came up with the general idea of a god of thunder

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

this time ten years ago, there was for some reason an entire train on the Moscow metro devoted to Shakespeare and low-resolution emojis

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I've made a rule for myself that I'm not allowed to look at the Amazon reviews, BUT if anyone did want to leave a positive one, thereby bumping up the average rating slightly, it would be a generous deed (thank you to those who have!)

several copies of When the Music Fades: Power, Surrender and the Soul Survivor Generation

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Fr Edward Barlow @edwardrhbarlow.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I'm looking forward to reading @lucysixsmith.bsky.social's #WhenTheMusicFades! Our church makes a guest appearance toward the end! Thank you, Lucy!

Don't Surrender: On the last Sunday before Lent, I find a spot in a back pew of a church in Bexley. My spot is a quiet spot in a building full of quiet. This space I suppose, is designed to hold enough quiet for the whole parish, breathing up into the rafters.

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

everywhere else: graveyard also everywhere else: ... or cemetery. That would be fine too. Just a bit harder to spell but fine Glasgow: NECROPOLIS

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I HAVE AUTHORITY OVER YOU 🤲 *nothing happens*

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

comedy skit in which a charismatic Christian attempts to activate the water sensor in an onboard train toilet by the power of faith

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Lucy Sixsmith @lucysixsmith.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Friends sometimes refer to this book as WTMF which was something I didn't think through

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