by Tourdates staff writer, first published in LondonTourdates #037 ,12th December 2008
Middlesbrough.
Town of industrial misery and an underwhelming football team, right? Right.
And that’s why Teesside native Yan Yates took the plunge and took his acoustic singer-songwritery fare down south to London. He wasn’t going to get too far in Middlesbrough with a name like that.
Yates has busked his ‘nu-folk’ all over the world – indeed for a while there he was in New Zealand fronting The Stouts, something he did for no less than two years - and has played in prestigious venues all over London and the UK. A prolific writer and performer, the unsigned troubadour cites influences as Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen and the Beatles, the obviousness of which ensures his is not a sound you won’t have heard before, but it’s pretty nice anyway.
To hear Yan Yates mp3s go to tourdates.co.uk/Yan-Yates.
