Ian Yates Music

Monday, 17 May 2010

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Just seen a great review of "The Hope And The Glory" from "Never For Nothing" Fanzine - 10/10
review below:

IAN YATES : The Hope and the Glory. (Survivor Records) Young Bootle-based worship leader Ian Yates started his musical journey back in the 1996 after hearing Delirious live in concert, inspiring him to start a band Seraphim which ended in 2004. His passion for worship still burned & he had an independent release in 2007 entitled "Desperate to see Your Glory", but it wasn't until 2008 when Ian's brother told him that Soul Survivor were looking for tracks for a new People's Album that a major label picked up on his talent. A couple of his tracks were picked, the A&R man met up with him & the rest is fast becoming history. Ian cites musical influences as Delirious & Matt Redman, but from listening to these tracks there's more than just a subtle hint of Kings of Leon plus even some U2 in the mix. The opening track "Take my Life" is a real prime example - a new take on a classic hymn with the chorus & intros being Kings of Leon slightly manic "Sex on Fire" drums overlaid with U2 'jangly' guitars reminiscent of "Beautiful Day" - a highly effective combo giving bucket loads of energy and bringing out the passion in the lyrics. Unlike a great many worship albums that seem to follow a "loud to start with then go quieter after 2/3 tracks so we can be more worshipful" formula, the energy continues aplenty until midway through the album when things do calm a little when we reach "Broken" where the lyrics pack as much of a punch as the drummer's kick! The band manages to keep the music very much alive in every track which lifts the words right up where they need to be, as they're so full of raw passion. Even the classics such as "Here is Love" get a new lease of life! It is so obvious that God has had a real impact on Ian's writing & there's no sense of performance through any of this whatsoever. It's also fantastic to see someone that isn't from one of the big churches well known for producing worship leaders to make it up to the front. I look forward to hearing much more from Ian in years to come - keep it up! 10/10 Simon Redfern

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Monday, 26 April 2010

FAITHFUL GOD

Listen to "Faithful God" @ Myspace, Facebook, Ilike

With 3 weeks to the release of "The Hope And The Glory" a new track will be available to listen to each week till the launch

Monday, 19 April 2010

Listen to "Crying Out"

Exclusively listen to "Crying Out" at www.louderthanthemusic.com
link below
http://www.louderthanthemusic.com/document.php?id=1266
for week only

Album Review

The great guys at www.louderthanthemusic.com have reviewed "The Hope And The Glory"
check it out;
http://www.louderthanthemusic.com/document.php?id=1270

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Sample the tracks

@ http://www.kingsway.co.uk/Shop/Products/156577/Home/Survivor/Lead_Worshippers/Ian_Yates/The_Hope_The_Glory_PRE_ORDER.aspx

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

Friday, 19 March 2010

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

Monday, 15 March 2010

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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