We don’t want to live on the road, but live at home, and share what God’s doing in our home when we’re on the road. We feel called to keep our roots in our home town of Knoxville, TN. Usually 5 to 7 days a month, with a few longer international trips per year. “You guys don’t tour too often, do you?”Ĭompared to a normal band, we don’t travel much. Good read.) We love the Church and live to serve Christ’s bride. More complicated answer = we are part of a small house church community that, as we say it, “does life together” throughout the week. The name stuck way before there was an album recorded there. The Banks house simply resides on Banks Ave. This might be sad for you to hear, but there is no Mr. “ What is the Banks House? Who is the Mr. “How old are you guys?”Īs of 2014, we range roughly from 23 to 36. We formed our own in-house record label, which is a fancy way of saying we write, produce, record, create art, websites, videos, and tour with the help of our amazing and talented community. This is scream your guts out “anthemic” worship”, if that’s a real thing. You might remember him from his previous dance/pop project. This time around, its with Michael Ketterer. The first three happened to be with Will. We’ve always planned on releasing multiple worship albums from different members of our community. He masterminded this gem.Ģ014: Michael Ketterer & United Pursuit, The Wild Inside And you get a nice devotional worship album in the process. We decided to partner with Iris Ministries, an orphanage/church planting movement in Mozambique, to help raise some money for them.Stylistically, the music felt unique and different enough from our previous material, so we didn’t want to stamp UP on the end of it and potentially confuse people with “ hey, your about to listen to a vertical worship cd” when it was more like “dance/pop tracks you’d like to work out to (Michael Ketterer)”, or “ beautiful love songs you’d like to walk down the isle to (Andrea Marie).” The plot thickens indeed. UP acted as the indie record label here, while the UP community helped make these albums happen. We decided to pool our resources and help each other record and release albums. As our numbers grew, so did the amount of songs being written and recorded. Anyone know someone who works there?) Ģ011: Michael Ketterer, Andrea Marie, Brock Human, Love/War/Solar System, Here Begin, Color of Red (Alas, Facebook won’t let us change our name, so we’re sorta stuck in the mean time. It felt more appropriate to describe UP as a collective. We felt that we couldn’t be limited to a fixed group, as our numbers kept growing. To us, “band” represented a fixed number of members. Noticed how we took off the word “band”? Well, turns out “band” didn’t quite do our story justice. Thus, Will Reagan & the UPB was born.Ģ010: Will Reagan & United Pursuit, Live at the Banks House, Endless Years But Will didn’t want to call it solely a Will Reagan album, because we all played on it. It didn’t feel right to call it a UPB album because it was all his songs. This time around, Will had a bunch of songs he wanted to record, and we all gathered around him in the studio to help make it happen.Makes sense right? We all wrote songs and put them together on two albums.Ģ009: Will Reagan & the United Pursuit Band, In the Night Season There were a few of us back in the day, and it seemed at the time that we were a band.The beginning, 2008: United Pursuit Band, EP, Radiance Probably more info than you’ve ever wanted to know… I’ll walk you through the name evolution. This has happened because, like I said above, we’ve grown organically and so has our name. “But almost every album your artist name changes! Please explain.” So in short, United Pursuit is the collective name of our worshipping community, loosely based out of Knoxville, TN, but with members scattered across the US. We were and still are friends first, musicians and songwriters second. Ok, seriously though, United Pursuit is simply a name we gave our music 5 years ago when we set up our Myspace profile. For example, when a piece of audio gear breaks and we want to replace it, we’ll often look up into the air, and ask the great UP in the sky if we have permission to buy a new one. We often refer to United Pursuit as a mythical being up in the sky. So for the sake of bringing a bit more clarity to the messy, here goes. Thanks by the way:) One of the things that comes with organic growth is ambiguity of all kinds. For the past 5 years, United Pursuit has grown slowly and organically by you guys spreading our music. ![]() But it felt appropriate on multiple levels, the main reason being we’re in a season of clarifying who we are and what our vision is for our future. ![]() I know, top 10 lists are so cliché of me. Ten Things You Might Not Know About United Pursuit
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