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Our open recording session with Walk is the subject of a short feature by Matter Of Sound.
The ten minute video by Emily Brinnand (Guardian) and Hattie Pearson (Xfm) features interviews with Rik Warren and Louis Barabbas as well as footage from the session itself.
Watch more Matter Of Sound videos about the Manchester music scene on their YouTube channel.
On Sunday 5th July, we invited the public to see Walk record some new songs at The Eagle Inn, Salford. Below are the results.
Watch our past sessions (featuring the likes of Snowapple, T.E. Yates and The Bedlam Six) in the Open Recording Sessions section of the site.
Debt Records will be lifting the veil on the studio process once again, this time recording the amazing Walk at the beautifully intimate Eagle Inn, Salford. The event takes place between 3pm and 10pm on Sunday 5th July. Come for the whole day or just drop in and out of the session at your leisure. It’s free entry and the beer on tap is good!
About the band…
Walk is the modern blues project of Rik Warren and David Schlechtriemen. Though stubbornly ungoogleable, the duo has garnered formidable praise from audiences and critics all across the UK. Now Then Manchester summed it up well:
The kick with Walk is the evolution to sequencer blues; leaving electric blues in the past by warping their sonic creations with 21st century gadgetry.
The pair have a formidable CV between them: Warren being a founder-member of Ernie’s Rhythm Section, Noon and The Hallelujah Whip, while Schlechtriemen drummed with Driver Drive Faster, The Miserable Rich and his own project The Pickpocket Network. They both also play for Honeyfeet.
Here’s the latest in our Open Recording Sessions series: “Mystery Window” by the one and only T. E. Yates.
Recorded at The Eagle Inn, Salford on Sunday 7th June, 2015.
Engineered, mixed and mastered by WR Audio
Video by Matilda Smith
© Debt Records 2015
Band:
T. E. Yates – Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin
Sarah-Jane Pearson – Vocals
James G. Wilson – Electric Guitar
Dan Owens – Bass Guitar
Matt McNicholas – Drums
Matt Gallagher – Keys, Backing Vocals
Tom Cleghorn – Clarinet, Backing Vocals
Adam Snape – Backing Vocals
Debt Records is proud to present the chance to witness the amazing T.E. Yates record brand new material with his band at the beautifully intimate Eagle Inn, Salford. The event takes place between 3pm and 10pm on Sunday 7th June. Come for the whole day or just drop in and out of the session at your leisure. It’s free entry and the beer on tap is good!
About the artist…
Most musicians boast of exploding onto their local scene in a glittering blaze of media hype and spontaneous applause.
T.E. Yates, however, snuck in through an open window.
His name was not on the top line of event posters, but rather a discreet artist signature in the bottom corner; his first gig flyers and album covers were ones he designed for other bands not himself. He’s performed in front of huge crowds, but always as a hired hand or supporting player, a multi-instrumentalist in the shadows – mandolin, banjo, harmonica, even musical saw – you may have heard him on the tracks of other artists without even knowing it.
But now T.E. Yates has stepped out of the shadows, taking centre-stage with a formidable backing band (both onstage and on record) comprising members of Victorian Dad, The Bedlam Six, Ottersgear, Gorilla Riot and Honeyfeet. Even when performing solo the man doesn’t travel light – his weird and wonderful drawings regularly making an appearance between songs, baffling and delighting audiences in equal measures.
His debut EP “Possessed” was released on Debt Records in 2013 and described by BBC Manchester’s Michelle Hussey as being “like Nick Drake’s Lazy Jane with a touch of Roy Orbison” and by I Am Kloot’s Pete Jobson as “euphoric”.
Unassuming, unusual and enigmatic, T.E. Yates is a multi-disciplinary artist of rare and disarming qualities that must be seen and heard to be believed.