Genre: Pop/Rock, Worship
Members: Martin Smith (vocals, guitar), Stu "Stu G" Garrard (guitars), Tim Jupp (keyboards), Jon "Jonson" Thatcher (bass), Stew Smith (drums)
For fans of: U2, Radiohead, Coldplay, Oasis
Label: Furious/EMI Records

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"We just can't carry on the same way in any sphere of our lives. Everywhere you go there's a shift happening. People are evaluating what's truly important in life, and I think our new album reflects that urgency." — Delirious? frontman Martin Smith

For more than a decade now, RIAA Certified Gold-selling band Delirious? has provided the soundtrack for Sunday morning worship services worldwide. Tracks like "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever," "Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble?" and "History Maker" have inspired congregations to lift their hands and praise God with abandon.

But when Sunday morning has come and gone, what does it actually mean to be a Christian the rest of the week? What tangible difference are believers making in a hurting, impoverished world? Do our lives actually reflect what we say is important?

These questions, not to mention the band's first-hand experiences among the poorest of the poor in India, Cambodia, South Africa and beyond, have inspired Delirious? in unimaginable ways. Simply put, it's been the fuel for their latest album, Kingdomof Comfort, and the driving force behind how they structure their ministry.

"Playing in places like India makes us think about how we distribute our finances and how we're living our lives," Smith says. "It's imperative that we reach out and be a friend to the poor. That's the only way that God's light will shine upon us."

That particularly timely theme of reaching out to those who have no hope is one that's urgently communicated in the songs of Kingdom of Comfort, the band's 12th album.

"Seeing children looking for scraps on the rubbish dump they call homes in Cambodia and the education and feeding projects in the slums of Mumbai really had an impact on us," says lead guitarist Stu G. "It wasn't possible to simply proceed with business as usual. We had to ask ourselves, 'What am I building? A kingdom of comfort? Or a kingdom of heaven?'"

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