"Fiercely paced and vividly dramatic, it's a huge sing and a grateful one. Blackford has proceeded fearlessly, intuitively, but with confidence in his own craft. Which is considerable. Not In Out Time is a terrific piece whose textual content may cause choirs and audiences to think: is this for us? Emphatically it is."
Not In Our Time - a centenary commission for the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus - premiered at the 2011 Cheltenham Festival on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, and explores the concept of religion as a pretext for war with 21st Century texts juxtaposed with those of the First Crusade, 1000 years before.