T.E. Yates has launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund work on his ambitious new album Silver Coins And White Feathers.
More information and opportunities to get involved can be found here.
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New Video: T. E. Yates’ Evil Cat
T.E. Yates has locked himself away for a very long time. For over a year he’s been working on an animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 short horror story The Black Cat. Faithful to the original text, and synchronised to the music of the aptly named song Evil Cat from his own Possessed EP, Yates has now emerged from the shadows in order to present this creation to the world.
Song by T.E. Yates, taken from the Possessed EP
Animation also by T.E. Yates
MUSICIANS
T.E. Yates – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Electric Guitar
Francis Lydiatt – Keyboards
Biff Roxby – Cello
Matt McNicholas – Drums
Thomas Doherty – Bass
Utam “Gill” Singh – Dholak
Produced, recorded, mixed and engineered by Biff Roxby of WR Audio
Mastered by Dan Watkins of WR Audio
T. E. Yates’ Evil Cat
© T. E. Yates 2015
Part film night, part concert, Debt Records invites you to the launch of T.E. Yates‘ new animated music video with live sets from Alabaster dePlume, James G. Wilson and Yates himself (plus band) with DJ Rub The Sleep Out expertly filling in the gaps. The price of entry is £5 on the door.
Some background…
T.E. Yates has locked himself away for a very long time. For over a year he’s been working on an animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 short horror story The Black Cat. Faithful to the original text, and synchronised to the music of the aptly named song Evil Cat from his own Possessed EP, Yates has now emerged from the shadows in order to present this creation to the world.
Yates will be joined by a seven piece band on the night for a special performance to celebrate the release of the animation.
Also performing are Debt Records’ very own Alabaster dePlume and Yates’ regular guitarist James G. Wilson. Regular Big Hands DJ Rub The Sleep Out will be picking tunes on the night.
Entry is priced at £5 on the door. The event begins at 7:30. It is to be held at The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester, M4 2AF.
A raffle will be held for paying entrants – the prizes shall be framed original artwork from the animation.
Video: Open Recording Session With T.E. Yates
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
An Open Recording Session With T.E. Yates
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.