This was at The Bunker, Devonport Folk Club, Auckland, NZ

Signs - Mark Laurent @ Auckland Folk Fest 2020 "We can read the signs of the seasons - why don't we read the signs of the times?" http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Pania - Auckland Street Choir (a song by Mark Laurent) Some of you know I've been involved with Auckland Street Choir for a few years. We had our 6th birthday party the other night (though I've only been part of things about half that long) and we were jamming on whatever anyone wanted to sing. Someone asked for my song Pania, and Sandra Eriksen videoed it. It's an honour for me that these guys choose to sing this song - one that several members particularly relate to. They bring added wairua to it. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

It's Only Love (@ Trinity Farm) - Mark, Brenda & Susan Collien-Reid http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Crazy - live @ Auckland Folk Festival 2020 - Mark Laurent I was a guest at this fest and this was part of a songwriter session. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

House of the rising sun - Mark Laurent @ Rafters Folk Club On a borrowed 12-string. I played 12s all the time for my first few years. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

The Penny - Mark & Brenda & Brenda Liddiard @ GodSong Cafe Sometime late last century... http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

A Benediction - Mark Laurent My musical take on a somewhat unconventional Franciscan prayer. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Jesus @ The Crossroads Mark Laurent @ Auckland Folk Festival, January 2020 http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

All Fall Down - Mark Laurent Musing on the apocalypse. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

The World Needs Jesus (Malcolm & Alwyn cover) - Mark Laurent Malcolm Wild & Alwyn Wall are a couple... read more of English musos whose Jesus music made quite a strong impression on me when I was a young fella in the 1970s. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Be Careful What You Sign (Larry Norman) - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Guru - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

I Choose Love - Mark Laurent "I have decided to stick with love, because hate is too great a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Just As I Am - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Reason For The Blues - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Won't Be Down For Long - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

The Rope - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Take Up Your Cross - Mark Laurent This is one I wrote in my early Jesus days - hadn't played it in decades but it's still there. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Fair Question - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

It Makes Me Wonder - Mark Laurent "The sun is going to rise in just a few minutes It's been doing that for as long as I remember..." http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Not Just A Taker - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Long Way Down - Mark Laurent Originally from the album Spiritual Graffiti. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Living The Life (live) - Mark Laurent The electric, studio version of this is track 12 on UnderGrowth. https://marklaurent.bandcamp.com/album/undergrowth http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Rushlake Green - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Stuff Just Happens - Mark Laurent & Brenda Liddiard http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Signs - Mark Laurent (images Jos Laurent) "We can read the signs of the seasons - why can't we read the signs of the times..?" http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - I Wonder Why. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

You First Loved Me - Mark Laurent This is a really old song - from the 1980s - I rediscovered. Time and experience have made it less twee and more resonant I think. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Everything Is Free (Gillian Welch) - Mark Laurent I love Gillian and David Rawlings' music. This is a poignant song about the current state of the music industry. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - Lucky Man http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - Nothing Else - from a webcast concert in early April 2020. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - The Approaching Of The Light I wrote this years ago on the death of a friend. Now another one has gone so it seems like a good time to put it out here. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

All I Do - Mark & Brenda One more vid from the Covid lockdown sessions. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - Fair Question

Mark Laurent - If I Don't "Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels ... if I don't have love I am nothing." http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - River Of Life http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - Hard Life Getting Down http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - Going Somewhere. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - The Road I Travel I just rediscovered this one I'd written about 30 years ago but never performed. Still feels fresh. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - Alright http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

You Most Of All - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Brand New Blues - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

It Just Goes To Show - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

I Just Wanna B God - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Climb That Mountain - played by Mark Laurent. This is a cover I learnt back in 1972, apparently by someone called Publius Singer (a nom de plume no doubt). From the Jesus revolution days. :) http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

A Whole Lot Going On - Mark Laurent (Poetry Live session) http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

My Friends Are Dying - Mark Laurent. In 1986 I did an album called Kindness In A Strong City. I was "on a mission from God". :-) Sometimes you don't know when you hit your peak until long after you've passed it. After 35 years this is still the album that has the longest tail - the one people talk & write to me about all the time, and I'm really grateful that they do. Technically it wasn't my best album, but it mattered. A lot of my friends from the 90s onwards won't have even heard the songs off Kindness, as, being very Jesus-centric, they're not the usual fair for pubs or folk clubs. I was around & close to a lot of young people who got too deeply into drugs in the early 70s - I wrote this for them, and a few get mentioned in the lyrics. The title, My Friends Are Dying, comes from a Ray Comfort book of the same name. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Crazy - Mark Laurent (from the Poetry Live session). http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Jesus At The Crossroads - Mark Laurent. "I met Jesus at the crossroads And I heard him call my name..." http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

That's What It's Like - Mark Laurent - 8 May 2020. "When you feel down and troubled..." - well, maybe not as serious as it sounds. :) http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Peace - Mark Laurent "Don't let your heart be troubled Don't be afraid I'm with you all the way..." http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Funny That Way - Mark & Brenda - 27 April 2020. This is the last of our daily Covid lockdown videos. Things are starting to ease up a bit here now so we're going to relax our work ethic a bit too. :) Hope you're all doing well out there. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Poetry Live Songwriter Set - Mark Laurent - 28 April 2020. This is a virtual set I did for an Auckland poetry online gig. Five tracks plus a bit of talking - about a 25 min set. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

The Penny - Mark & Brenda - 23 April 2020 "Rivers flow down to the sea But the sea is never full Must be some kind of miracle..." http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Trimmed And Burning - Mark Laurent - 22 April 2020. The Rowan Lute was built for me by a luthier friend - there are only 3 of them. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

All I Ever Really Wanted - Mark Laurent - 7/4/20 http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Blue Sky - Mark & Brenda - 16/4/20. "It's nice to be with you today We spend this little time, then go on our way You might not remember a word that I say And I may never be able to recall your name But we're all under the blue sky..." http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

One True Gift - Mark Laurent - 16/4/20 We've all got something we can give - I guess Fadalism is evidence of that eh? Take care out there everyone. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

A Lot Of Blues - Mark Laurent - 13/4/20 An unlikely title for a song of hope - it's day 20 of our lockdown here in New Zealand. Hope you guys are doing ok out there. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Something I Believe - Mark & Brenda - 11/4/20. I believe we're not alone - I believe in miracles - I believe we'll be alright. Happy Easter everyone. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Redeemer - Mark Laurent - 7/4/20 This seems an appropriate song to be posting at Easter. It's from one my second album, Kindness In A Strong City, released in 1986. I haven't played this in years, & my voice has lost some of the idealism & sweetness of the original, but gained some pathos & gravitas maybe. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Quiet In The Eye Of The Storm - Mark Laurent & Brenda Liddiard - 9 4 20 This seems like an appropriate song at a time when the world's going through a bit of a tempest. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Anyway - Mark & Brenda - 7/4/20 "The people in this town, they look at you obliquely Open up their mouths and say 'Hasn't it been nice lately?' They smile with their lips, but eyes quickly slide away Look a little harder - love them anyway." http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Take Me To Your Leader - Mark Laurent. Before I started performing & songwriting in the 'mainstream' from the early 1990s, I'd already had a decade where nearly all the songs I played & wrote were as part of the Jesus movement - I was a kind of evangelist with a guitar, traveling around the country, mostly singing in churches & 'outreach' events, trying to use the music to share my faith. Of course I still do a bit of this, & my core beliefs haven't changed, but doors open & close over time. Take Me To Your Leader is a track that appeared on my first album, which came out (on vinyl) in 1982. When we went in to book the studio (Mandrill) and told the guys we were wanting to record a 'gospel' album the first question was "How big is the choir?" I think they were a bit surprised when we turned up with guitars, amps and a drum kit worthy of John Bonham. :-) This was one of the two acoustic solo tracks I did on that set. I hadn't played this at all in decades but a few months ago I brought it out in a busking situation & it seemed to go well. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Here We Are Again - Mark & Brenda - 05/04/20 "We were never meant to be alone We're all travellers on our way home..." http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Who Do You Love - Mark Laurent - 31-03-20. You gotta serve somebody - as Bob Dylan put it. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Pania - Mark & Brenda - 02-04-20. This is about a girl who lived on the streets here in Auckland back in the 1980s. She eventually died of an overdose. Unfortunately homelessness is more common now than it was then. Kia kaha. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Job's Blues - Mark Laurent - 31-03-20 http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Opoutere - Mark Laurent (with Brenda Liddiard) - 30 03 20 "Man is like the ocean / so much hidden below..." http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Nothing Else - Mark & Brenda - 29 03 20. Another day, another video. Trying to do one each day of our Covid 19 lockdown here in New Zealand. Hope you guys are well & keeping yourselves & each other safe. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

It's Only Love - Mark & Brenda 26 03 20 Since the live gigs have dried up because of the Covid 19 lockdown, we've started putting up 1 live video each day on Facebook, & I'll post some of them here too. This one was requested by a number of people so it got to be our day 1 instalment. Stay safe out there you guys. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Trust - Mark Laurent (video by Andrew Hoggard). "Why wake up early, & go to bed so late, when worry won't add one minute to your time? I'm learning to put away things too hard for me." http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Tahora window 3 - Mark Laurent - Lucky Man. My friend Robbie Duncan set up his Zoom cam-corder at a window in the farm house at this new year's festival in Taranaki, New Zealand, & invited anyone passing to put down a one-take wonder. This was mine. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

The Lords Prayer - Mark Laurent. This one's a bit different. My old mate Andrew Hoggard made the slideshow for this just because he likes the song. The words are by Jesus, from The Message version. I'm singing a lot lower than usual - what do you think, does it work ok? It was just a demo, done years ago, that I happened to give Andrew a copy of. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Rosie - Mark Laurent. There was a nightclub in Auckland in the 1980s called Mainstreet. Around the corner on the brick side-wall of the building was a piece of graffiti - "ROSIE DON'T YOU ACT SO WILLING". My imagination got to work & this song came out of it. I'd always imagined a video clip of a rainy night on the street with shadowy figures slinking along the footpath & taxis dragging slowly up the wet street. In the meantime here's a demo. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Come Along With Me - Mark Laurent http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

All I Do - Mark Laurent, Craig Denham (piano), Chris Priestley (cajon, bv), recorded at Cafe One2One on a lazy Saturday afternoon. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Fool No More (Peter Green) - Mark Laurent & friends live at Cafe 121. I know I posted another version of this fairly recently but this is a more electric take (using a 1958 Hofner) so hope you don't mind it again. :) http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Make Peace Today - Mark Laurent (& Brenda Liddiard). Recorded at an arts event on International Day of Non-Violence. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Fool No More (Peter Green cover) - Mark Laurent, with Stu Grimshaw & Steve Cournane. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - Just Can't Last Too Long. I was digging through old demos from the 1980s & found this idea, so sat down & jotted the lyrics then sang it in one take. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

You Gotta Move - Mark Laurent. Originally by Mississipi Fred McDowell, I picked this up last century from the Rolling Stones. Always loved the song but I've never played it before - don't know why? http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Me TV - Mark Laurent. It's been raining in Auckland, so this old one of mine came to mind. Sitting in my living room on the 20th floor of an inner-city high-rise. There was a lightning storm just after I did this. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Man Of Peace (Psalm 120) - Mark Laurent. I put this psalm to music back in 2003 at the time of the second Gulf war. It seems the sabre-rattling is going on again, this time with Iran as the target. Iraq turned out to be needless aggression built on a fabric of lies. Iran may well be the same thing. The iraqi war was fostered by a Christian president - if Iran is attacked we'll have a repeat performance. What does any of this have to do with the prince of peace or his children? I'm sorry that I've felt the need to sing this song again, but 'the times they are not a'changing' - yet. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Going To California (Led Zeppelin) - Waiting For Donald. Zep were a big influence on me when I was a young player. I've still got a few of theirs tucked away in the recesses of my covers repertoire. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

I Walked A Mile - Waiting For Donald @ The Third Eye. A track from one of the band's occasional reunion gigs, this one in Wellington, New Zealand. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

The Great American Novel (Larry Norman) - Mark Laurent. Larry was a huge influence on me around the time I first started writing songs, so I thought it was time I did one of his (I knew almost his entire repertoire in the 70s). http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

A Lot Of Blues - Waiting For Donald. Videoed at The Third Eye, Wellington, 15 December 2018. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - Poetree (with Brenda Liddiard). This video was originally a live-to-air broadcast from Shine TV, a station in New Zealand, who were having a telethon to raise funds so they could keep broadcasting (they're still going strong). This was in 2006 so I had more hair then than I've got now. :) Brenda Liddiard on mandolin & bv. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz

Mark Laurent - Stuff Just Happens (with Brenda Liddiard). From the album Spiritual Graffiti, 2005. This was videoed for TV in New Zealand. http://www.marklaurent.co.nz