Formed at the Hillside Conference in Brisbane, Australia in the late 1980s,
Hillside music has become something of a phenomenon of Christian worship and
praise songs ever since, with numerous big-selling CDs and branches in different
parts of the world. The originator was Geoff Bullock, a former ABC TV cameraman,
who went on to join the ministry, pioneering Hills Christian Life Centre in 1983
before being appointed Worship Pastor for Sydney's Hillsong Church. As convenor
of the annual Hillsongs conference in 1987, he wrote a series of songs of
worship which, over the next decade,...