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Interview - Phil Wickham

by Isabel G., Christian Today US Culture Correspondent
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 10:27 (GMT)
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PW: It's been amazing, I've been on the bus with The Myriad and we have become such great friends and they've written for me, and I've written for them. It's been so amazing to hang out with them and see them play every night.

The Crowder guys have been awesome too, since we're on different buses, we see each other at sound check and until we get on the bus and stuff. It's been so gracious and so thankful for what they've done. They're such gracious and sweet guys.

The people, themselves, are really what make the tour for me. Just the amount of goodness that are in the people in this tour. And secondly, the venues have been incredible. In New York - you know, you were there - it's like in midtown in the Hammerstein Ballroom.

And just all over America: The Fillmore in San Francisco, The House of Blues in LA, its been such an amazing experience to play at places that I never thought I would perform at, as a Christian - worship -leader - artist guy. (laugh).

It's all been sold out, the crowds have been awesome, and so it was really fun. I can't complain much about this tour, so that's really cool to be able to say that.

CT: What has been the most memorable moment so far on the Remedy Tour? I'm sure there was just a ton of awesome moments, but is there anything that will just stand out for you whenever you look back on this tour?

PW: My mind goes in different directions with this question. But as far as the "wow, this is amazing moment" was at the Wiltern in LA. I grew up in Southern California and the Wiltern was the coolest venue to go and see bands at. So the fact that I was playing there in front of around 2,000 people and people that I knew and knew me and people that were always rooting for me since I was little. So it was really cool to have all these people that I knew and people that I didn't know.

So it's like the area that I grew up in and to be able to perform there and have all these people sing out these songs with me, was great!

By the time I hit True Love, that's the song that I end with every night; I couldn't help but get all teary-eyed. I was so emotional and happy and excited.

On a completely different note, when you said "memorable moment", I thought of this. There is a guy in the tour and he had a kidney stone. There was one night, he was back stage and he had to pass it. And me and a bunch of guys and They Myriad were just rooting him on and he was just screaming out so loud, because it's so painful. That will just always stick in my mind and I just never, ever want to have a kidney stone in my life because of that moment!



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Added: Saturday, December 8, 2007, 18:27 (GMT)

What an awesome interview. Funnny, poignant, and purposeful. A joy to read. A blessing to reflect on. In Christ - Melody

Melody Milbrandt, Pleasant Hill, MO

Added: Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 2:32 (GMT)

I read the interviews that the people wrote Phil Wickham, and the way that Phil answered them was AMAZING!!! I think it's awesome how Phil relizes that God is really our one and only purpose!...Amanda *: )

Amanda Lucille Decker, Klamath Falls, Oregon

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