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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

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Album photo shoot

This week I was down in Brighton and Eastbourne for the photo shoot for the album.

I was working with Stew Smith design (www.smeezer.com) and Andy Hutch photography (www.andyhutch.com)

I had a great day and loads of the fun. Can’t wait for the artwork! It’s gonna be amazing!

I've attached a picture of one of the locations

January

Jan has been a really cool month and a great start to 2010.
I Was involved in some great events including LNS @ city church, Big Push and YFC event in Warrington.
I also played at a cool golf course (see photos) - it was a small setting but a really great time of worship.

New songs for Jan
This month I’ve been using 3 new songs:
Revelation Song - I’ve known this song for a while, but I heard the Jesus Culture version and the “Philips, Craig & Dean” version and thought we need to use this song
In Your Presence (Chorus) - a friend of mine posted a video on facebook of Stevie Wonder singing this. It’s by Jason Upton and it’s a really simple and powerful chorus. Check it out
Your Love Never Fails by Chris McClarney - I did some co-leading with a very good friend of mine Phil Wilkes and he used this song. I feel it’s a real now song. It was also free song of the month @ www.kingsway.co.uk

The album is due out in May and I can’t wait for it come out!

2010 Goals:

• To go deeper with God
• To be available for God to do whatever he wants in my life
• To learn more
• To be the best husband I can be
• To get out of my comfort zones and stretch myself
• To be more disciplined
• That the album will: impact peoples lives, change atmospheres, bring heaven to earth
• To write songs that: impact peoples lives, change atmospheres, bring heaven to earth
• To see lives changed, restored and healed
• To see myself as God sees me

2009 - Brainstorm

2009 has been an awesome year! (Probably my best yet) – This is my brainstorm of what I’ve been learning, doing, seeing and living in 2009

• A Year of seeing my dreams start to happen
• A year of increase (work, finance, gifting, church, family)
• Learning I am the righteousness of God in Christ
• Learning to Trust and keep trusting in God– no matter what we face He will get us through
• Knowing that He is always faithful!
• Becoming Broken – an increase in compassion, an increase to see justice
• The start of knowing that: We (the church) are the answer – We are the difference – We are the breakthrough
• Knowing the grace of God (blows my mind everyday) – It’s unending, It’s outrageous
• Learning to rest in God’s timing (His is not like ours)
• Learning about and receiving Favour (I am lavished with unmerited favour) I am highly favoured because I am a child of God
• Learning and beginning to know that the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives in me
• Learning To see myself through Gods eyes
• Learning It’s so not about me
• Learning that God using me has nothing to do with me, it has everything to do with Him,
• Learning to rest in His finished work, Rest in what He accomplished at the cross, Rest completely in Him
• Seeing our church move to the next level
• Learning that I am to comfortable
• Seeing God do new and amazing things: Seeing lives changed, impacted, healed and restored


Top quote:
“Write believing leads to right living” Joseph Prince

Top verses:
Romans 8:1
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 1:3-6
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

Worship Songs of 2009:
3 songs that I feel have really worked at church and various events through 2009:

Adoration – Brenton Brown
Be high and lifted up – Ben Cantelon
The First and the last – Hillsong

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