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The first exclusive full track stream will be on 19th April

ALBUM LAUNCH 16th May 2010

Album Launch 16th May 7:00pm @ Liverpool Lighthouse Oakfield Road, Anfield, Liverpool L4 0UF.
For tickets email ian@ianyates.net with how many you want
The event is free

The Hope And The Glory OUT 17th May 2010

THE HOPE AND THE GLORY

Press Release

Survivor Records is proud to announce the debut album from a raw new talent, Ian Yates. And it’s not just the sound that’s fresh – Ian’s backstory is as authentic as they come.
The son of a Pentecostal minister of a church in Bootle, Liverpool, Ian has grown up used to the idea that Christians – and the churches they form – should be fully engaged with the communities that surround them. And the fact that the community which surrounds Bootle Elim Pentecostal Church has experienced some of the highest levels of unemployment in the UK means that Ian has seen at first hand just how much of an impact the church can make.
But what does this matter to a collection of eleven tracks from a first time artist? It matters because that first time artist has turned out eleven tracks that are so full of truth and life and honesty and a cry for God that can only come out of experience. The Hope And The Glory may have been recorded in a studio, but it was written on the streets.
From the brooding atmospherics of ‘Broken’ and ‘Carry Me’ to the passion of ‘Desperate’ and ‘Crying Out’ Ian’s songs have that unique quality of being instantly familiar and appealing even at the first listen. Think Hillsong United and Kings of Leon after a two-week missions trip.
The Hope And The Glory grew out of a fairly unlikely beginning. Two years ago Ian’s brother prompted him to submit some of his home-grown, home-sung songs for a forthcoming Soul Survivor People’s Album. Ian did and the response was about as good as it could have been: two tracks made it onto the album - ‘Desperate To See Your Glory’ and ‘No One Like You’.
After that Ian’s song ‘Father Of Compassion’ was then featured on the Survivor Summer Sampler as a bonus track, and a mini album started to form in the minds of Ian and Survivor Records A&R Adrian Thompson:
“When I first met Ian I saw a deep and rare combination - a deep yearning after God’s inner dwelling, a young life that had experienced and witnessed hardships beyond his years and a massive understanding of the spiritual impact of worship. Ian lives and worships in one of the UK’s most depressed areas, so when he worships with a cry for God to break through and his heart for worship it really is ‘rubber hitting the road’. An honest and raw worshipper.”
Working with producer Trevor Michael, that mini album grew into a fully-grown affair – fully-grown with degrees of both maturity and passion that are rare finds in debut albums these days.


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Crying Out - Recorded @ The Gathering 2010

My brother recorded this on his camera from the Gathering last weekend.

It's a little shaky, but it really captures the song and atmosphere