T.E. Yates: tour dates

Folk troubadour and illustrator T.E. Yates has four shows lined up, kicking off with an afternoon performance at Hawkwind's final Hawkfest on September 9. Expect lots of songs from his latest EP Strange Weather: "As an artist he is always asking questions and looking for answers, although the latter are in short supply most of the time, as he carefully explains in Palace of Your Master, a country ballad with C.J. Hillman laying down a pedal steel guitar part for the ages. Yates is serious, but he can be a jester when he wants too as well, as he takes a scalpel to the false promises of bedtime stories in Fairy Tale and job hopping (Jack of All Trades)".

T.E. Yates: three shows @ Glastonbury Festival

Folk troubadour and illustrator T.E. Yates will perform three shows at this year's Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, Somerset. Expect lots of songs from his latest EP Strange Weather: "As an artist he is always asking questions and looking for answers, although the latter are in short supply most of the time, as he carefully explains in Palace of Your Master, a country ballad with C.J. Hillman laying down a pedal steel guitar part for the ages. Yates is serious, but he can be a jester when he wants too as well, as he takes a scalpel to the false promises of bedtime stories in Fairy Tale and job hopping (Jack of All Trades)".

He will be playing with Joe Mansfield (fiddle), Kai Carter (guitar) and Joe Trudgeon (bass).

T.E. Yates: show in Bristol with Ryde & Fritillaries

Folk troubadour and illustrator T.E. Yates will be performing @ To The Moon in Bristol, sharing the bill with jazz-folk duo Ryde and Americana duo Fritillaries. The show is organized by Pear O'Legs Records, a collective, community and micro-label supporting musicians.

T.E. Yates: Strange Weather

He is a singer-songwriter. He is a multi-instrumentalist. He is an artist & illustrator. He is an award-winning animator. T.E. Yates should be famous, or at least well-known, but somehow that has hasn't happened yet. His new EP Strange Weather is a text book example of how to create superb folk-tinged music with hints of country, jazz and music hall thrown in for good measure.

Yates wears his Englishness as a badge of honour, using elements that were used to great effect by songsmiths like Nick Drake and Ray Davies. As a neurodivergent person he does not fit in, but he does not allow it to cramp his style. If anything he used it to jump ahead of any prejudice. Condition, the first track of the EP, is both sad and boisterous: "It’s a condition not a sickness // Both a blessing and a curse // And you know you shouldn’t worry // Worry only makes things worse". Just as his voice is about to break, the brass section turn it up a notch to have his back... He has surrounded himself with a circle of musicians who are capable to bring his vision to life. The cinematic Fierce Horses is a widescreen experience, but he also zooms in every now and then to have a closer look at details, where he can add a few dabs of musical saw.