Farm Street performers rock the stage in Madrid

The band Ooberfuse, a London-based electro-pop band, has dominated the stage in front of Pope Benedict XVI and two million pilgrims at World Youth Day in Madrid.  Their front-woman, singer/songwriter Cherrie Anderson, has attended the First Sunday Mass at Farm Street Jesuit Church on several occasions and has taken part in the First Sunday day retreat for musicians in Euston.

Hal St John, one of the the musicians in Ooberfuse and another First Sunday Plus regular says: 'We had just finished playing our song Faith in You on the papal stage to a gathering of 2m people from around the world when to our immense surprise and overwhelming delight the guys in charge of all the footage and music starting playing another one of our songs called Unshakeable (hear it on www.ooberfuse.com - link below) through the monster PA system.  It sounded totally awesome!'

But not only did the technicians play it once: they played it six times to get the crowd going. 'You can't imagine what it's like to see so many young people clapping and dancing to Unshakeable', adds Hal. 'We were interviewed by EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) and the song is being pushed as the WYD11 soundtrack for English speaking pilgrims...We are truly blessed!'



 Ooberfuse