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Topic: James Yorkston and the Athletes

	JAMES YORSKSTON & THE ATHLETES - JUST BEYOND THE RIVER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		JAMES YORKSTON: Growing up I was absorbing all kinds of different music and I was really getting into a lot of blues and jazz, dub reggae and traditional music.
		James Yorkston wordt wel eens vergeleken met Bert Jansch of John Martyn, maar dat vindt hij luiheid van journalisten: hij heeft ooit het voorprogramma van die mensen gespeeld - en dat is al.
		JAMES YORKSTON: For me the traditionals are a relief as well: I don't have to delve into my own; I don't have to be quite so specific.
	www.cucamonga.be /interviews/JamesYorkston1004.htm (1399 words)

	James Yorkston : interview
		Yorkston is supported by his group The Athletes and their second full-length album, Just Beyond The River - produced by label-mate Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) - is just about to be released.
		James was scheduled to appear on the T On The Fringe bill in Edinburgh recently, but when asked about T In The Park, he emphatically states:
		Yorkston comes across as very much a man for the smaller, intimate venues, and this is reflected by his tour schedule in October and November.
	www.musicomh.com /interviews/james-yorkston.htm (887 words)

	James Yorkston and the Athletes / Adrian Crowley / King Creosote Gig Review - SoundsXP
		James himself is full of warmth, happy to be back in Whelan’s and determined, in a laid back kind of way, to entertain us.
		The Athletes’ multi-instrumentalism is unhurried and natural rather than a forced boast, James at one point apologising for the large gaps between songs caused by his new tuner.
		Restricted by the clock, the watchless Yorkston is reassured that it’s “only 9.30” by the audience on several occasions, before he and his marvellous minstrels reluctantly round things off with a little Irish trad for the locals.
	www.soundsxp.com /1224.shtml (651 words)

	BBC - collective - James Yorkston & the Athletes (live)
		James Yorkston is having trouble with his guitar leads.
		James Yorkston is one of this group, and easily the most well-known, but there are others and two of them are supporting him tonight.
		James is an assured performer, at ease with his rising popularity, and he and his band are clearly enjoying themselves, laughing off technical problems and botched starts.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A3005894 (531 words)

	James Yorkston and the athletes - Moving up Country
		However, instead of the traditional 'one man and his guitar' approach as patented by the over-flocked singer-songwriter clan, Yorkston's sound is backed and beefed up by the gentle resonance of his group of backing musicians The Athletes.
		On opener in your Hands, Yorkston's Nick Drake-esque solitary finger picking is allowed just enough time to breathe and develop before the arrival of accordian, concertina and harmonica, lending depth and breadth to it.
		The rest of the album follows on in much the same way; Yorkston's clever quips (Yeh the rhythm sucked, and his equipment fucked) and unique songwriting style form the bones of his messages while delicate musical noodling become the flesh that envelops them.
	www.eclectichoney.com /yorkston.html (248 words)

	Rare FM - Album Reviews - James Yorkston and The Athletes - Just Beyond the River
		James Yorkston and the Athletes come from Scotland and are signed to Domino records, but any comparisons to Franz Ferdinand end quite firmly there.
		Just Beyond the River is Yorkston's second folky, acoustic album with backup band The Athletes playing the accordion, violin, banjo, etc. He used to be a punk.
		Now Yorkston plucks his guitar and sings in a mellow voice about long walks at night, conversations, relationships.
	www.rarefm.co.uk /album_reviews/james_yorkston_and_the_athletes_just_beyond_the_river.html (242 words)

	RoomThirteen.com - Where Music Rocks
		James Yorkston and the Athletes' sound varies from the opening tracks "Heron" and "Shipwreckers", with Irish sounding vocals à la Christie Moore and Planxty, to some distinctly Lou Reed Moments.
		The Athletes achieve these subtle fluctuations in style whilst simultaneously having an edge that is very much their own.
		The Athletes are quite the artisans and their music sounds like the method in which, (I imagine), it was written.
	www.roomthirteen.com /cgi-bin/cd_view.cgi?CDID=151 (448 words)

	James Yorkston and the Athletes: Moving Up Country - PopMatters Music Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For James Yorkston, it seems that he can do no wrong when it comes to being at the right place at the right time.
		When he was 17, a friend working at a record shop offered Yorkston's name as an opener for Bert Jansch.
		One thing that is certain is Yorkston could carry a tune in a bottomless bucket.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/y/yorksonjames-moving.shtml (785 words)

	Crown Dozen
		Soft, dusky, and posessed of a snug campfire-glow warmth, Beyond the River is also one of the most sophisticated and accomplished acoustic folk albums to emerge from the currently burgeoning scene.
		The album’s complexity is belied by James Yorkston’s effortless (almost lazy) vocal delivery, and the simple instrumentation and harmony that are layered into each track.
		Yorkston, whose whimsical and self-aware lyrics thread easily through tunes that smack of tradition and a universal melodic appeal that his contemporaries in the genre seem to be missing.
	www.crowndozen.com /main/archives/000589.shtml (436 words)

	Ink 19 :: James Yorkston and the Athletes
		From the moment James Yorkston starts to sing -- or mumble, as it may be -- you know you're in for something truly special.
		Equal parts Smog and Leonard Cohen, Yorkston has made an album of lush, wide-open songs, both unpretentious and comforting, with depth and a sense of direction and purpose.
		Elegant and impressively composed and executed, Yorkston is joined by a truly stunning band, and even the weaker songs -- of which there aren't many -- come out looking great.
	www.ink19.com /issues/september2002/musicReviews/musicY/jamesYorkstonAthletes.html (187 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - James Yorkston and the Athletes - Just Beyond the River
		James Yorkston's debut, 'Moving Up Country', ranked as one of 2002's standouts - you sat down for a quick listen and ended up getting lost for hours.
		"Have I a future, have I a lover who understands?" wonders Yorkston, with the irony being that anyone that hears this record is likely to swoon.
		Together with his band and producer Kieran (Four Tet) Hebden, Yorkston has come up with a sound that's beautifully intricate, but relaxed enough to sound like it all came together in an afternoon.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2004/0921/yorkstonj.html (200 words)

	BBC - collective - james yorkston 'just beyond the river'
		James Yorkston’s world-weary vocals wax poetic from the same lyrical palette as Nick Drake — loss, nature, love, all things blighted and beautiful.
		The brooding, melancholic whole is broken by the rousing Shipwreckers, and while this album is good, there’s a slightly banal slickness to it: this style of musical fare is best served raw and was done infinitely more powerfully back in the days of 60s UK folk.
		James Yorkston And The Athletes — Just Beyond The River, released 20 September 04 on Domino.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A3009728 (248 words)

	Gig Preview: James Yorkston & The Athletes To Play Auntie Annie's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Good Sports James Yorkston & The Athletes, folksy favourites of the indie press, are to play Belfast's Auntie Annie's on Tuesday October 5.
		He followed a girlfriend out of the village to settle in Edinburgh at the age of 17, inspired to see the world and write songs by his love of music like Madagascan guitarist D'Gary and folk singer Anne Briggs.
		James Yorkston and the Athletes have a strong live reputation, built in Scotland, and are ready to play in Europe and the Americas later this year.
	www.thebiglist.co.uk /industrynews.asp?ID=32793 (320 words)

	RTÉ Television - Other Voices
		Described as "folky without ever being fuddy", the album showcased Yorkston's tales of love and longing, wrapped up in his inspired guitar playing and a delicate and intimate sound.
		Yorkston grew up in the Fife village of Kingsbarns, where he began playing guitar at the age of eight.
		A less immediate album than its predecessor, it was also greeted with widespread acclaim and signalled that Yorkston will be one of the brightest and most enduring talents in the years ahead.
	www.rte.ie /tv/othervoices/jamesyorkston.html (226 words)

	Guardian \| Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus
		Yorkston's second outing is a thing of rare acoustic beauty.
		Opener 'Heron' sets the pace as a bare picked guitar accompanies his rich tones, to be joined, gradually, by a higher guitar part and harmonies, then piano, accordion and ticking hi-hats.
		Elsewhere there is some lovely fiddle and great banjo work, and Yorkston is a definite kindred soul for the New American Folkies (Devendra Banhart, P.G. Six) across the water.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5019245-113098,00.html (668 words)

	Domino: News
		James will be stopping of at Birmingham on his way home from The Homefires event in London the same weekend.
		James Yorkston and The Athletes release a new single, Shipwreckers, this Monday.
		James Yorkston will release a new single, Feb 14th, backed by three new sides, "Harmonium" on the B of the 7", and ''The 'A' of the Oboe" and "Heron" (demo) on the CD.
	www.dominorecordco.com /site?page=news&artistID=121 (350 words)

	James Yorkston and The Athletes: Just Beyond the River - PopMatters Music Review
		Yorkston is best at creating vignettes of intimate conversations and chance encounters that capture the delicate moments when relationships begin -- or end.
		Like all singer-songwriters of distinction, Yorkston has his own manner of phrasing, giving the impression that all of the songs are related to one another.
		Overall, Just Beyond the River finds James Yorkston creating music that is steeped in deep tradition and full of the comfort that comes with honest self-expression.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/y/yorksonjames-justbeyond.shtml (705 words)

	James Yorkston: Just Beyond the River [with The Athletes]: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For Yorkston, it's the terrifying present with its ever-shrinking family units and a lack of emotional solace casting a fraught shadow over even the most idyllic melody.
		Yorkston heroine Briggs recorded this traditional folk song a cappella, filling it with her delightfully unaffected melisma.
		In Yorkston's version, the tune drones, pounds, and jabbers in a language that somehow bridges the rest of the album to Hebden's work.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/y/yorkston_james/just-beyond-the-river.shtml (406 words)

	Win tickets to see James Yorkston and the Athletes.... - dublin music - dublin folk
		James Yorkston and the Athletes play Whelans on Wednesday, the 6th of October.
		After his wonderful concert for the Bud Rising festival, James Yorkston and the Athletes return to promote their new album with a concert in Whelans.
		James Yorkston was born and raised in the small Scottish village of Kingsbarn in Fife.
	www.dublinks.com /index.cfm/loc/16/pt/0/spid/AD016112-F8ED-4D71-BC9DF9ED1B956A47.htm (415 words)

	Twisted Nerve Records - The TN Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We cannot recommend the excellent James Yorkston and The Athletes (Domino Records) highly enough.
		"James Yorkston's debut album, 'Moving Up Country', was one of 2002's least-fanfared gems, an album of brittle singer-songwritery recorded in a remote Scottish cottage and possibly involving quite a lot of drinking." - NME
		Just 23 years of age and hailing from Salford, Aidan Smith has managed to soak up most of the best music of the 20th century and make something new that is completely his own.
	www.twistednerve.co.uk /newsletter/tn041.html (310 words)

	Amazon.com: Moving Up Country: Music: James Yorkston and the Athletes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		James Yorkston's melancholic vocals and soft melodies are the perfect antidote to todays up-tempo, hi-profile, style obsessed, substance starved artists.
		James Yorkston's Moving Up Country is a pastoral album of wandering meadows, roaming fields, and babbling brooks.
		Unfortunately Yorkston puts some of the least accessible tunes at the beginning of the disc which makes Moving Up Country initially slow to appreciate, but repeated listens prove an album worthy of the beautiful landscape it depicts.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000068FTA?v=glance (1112 words)

	Drowned in Sound - Reviews - Single - James Yorkston And The Athletes
		Cat Power, James Yorkston And The Athletes, Montana Hi-Rise at London Bush Hall, Sun 05 May
		Heavy-hearted but with an interwoven sense of impending hope, James Yorkston muses sadly how “the hardest time to forget/ is when sleep clears your mind” and a thousand delicate waifs sigh with him.
		James Yorkston And The Athletes - St. Patrick
	www.drownedinsound.com /articles/4486.html (275 words)

	Triple R FM
		JAMES YORKSTON AND THE ATHLETES "in your hands" [domino]
		JAMES YORKSTON AND THE ATHLETES "moving up country, roaring the gospel" [domino]
		JAMES YORKSTON "in dessexshire as it befel" [domino]
	www.rrr.org.au /onair.php?paid=37&prid=25 (106 words)

	James Yorkston and The Athletes - Official home on the internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		James has finished a solo EP entitled 'Hoopoe' for the Spanish label Houston Party Records.
		James on Magnetophone (posted 23/10/05)- JY contributes to a track on the new Magnetophone album - The Man Who Ate A Man. James does a take of the Pinder Family's G'Night Sweet Love.
		James and The Athletes on RTE - This was filmed late last year - some rather odd editing going on during 'Surf Song', but well worth a look - here
	www.jamesyorkston.co.uk (716 words)

	erasing clouds
		James Yorkston & The Athletes, The Pictish Trail, Gummy Bako, Onthefly, H.M.S. Ginafore, Lone Pigeon, Pip Dylan, Immigrant, U.N.P.O.C. and Shinya Mizuno are just a few artists included in the long list of Fence bands.
		Music is not a competition, it'd be great if the album sold another 60 thousand albums and we made into the chart, but I don't expect to and it's not a big deal, I'm not worried about it, the least of my concern is the album getting into the charts.
		When I met James, the band had just come back from touring Belgium and France and were already working on the new album due to be released in September 2004.
	www.erasingclouds.com /0505fence.html (2381 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| James Yorkston
		On the Saturday morning that we meet, James Yorkston is suffering.
		He is involved in the Fence Collective, the loose collection of artists and musicians based around the village of Anstruther in Fife, Scotland, that have set up a self-sufficient cottage industry and play in their local pub every Sunday, he writes songs that are romantic but honest, and he drinks real ale.
		The guitarist was playing on the back of a truck in a city square on a Saturday night to a drunken audience of 30 people, some of whom were wearing novelty hats and one of whom was carrying a blow-up sex doll.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /fridayreview/story/0,12102,1502663,00.html (915 words)

	Music \| James Yorkston and the Athletes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sensitive boys, take heed: coming on folk without the freak, Scotland’s James Yorkston just wants to give you a hug, maybe a tumble, in this gauzy collection of make-out tunes.
		As produced by Four Tet’s folktronic auteur, Kieran Hebden, it’s a bit of a vibe album, with Yorkston’s moody, Nick Drake—ish vocals set against lush acoustic backdrops.
		(James Yorkston opens for Sam Prekop next Thursday, June 2, downstairs at the Middle East, 480 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square; call 617-864-EAST.)
	www.providencephoenix.com /music/otr/documents/04715047.asp (137 words)

	Lemon Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Fife alt.folk troubadour James Yorkston hits the road in support of his new Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) produced album Just Beyond The River.
		It's the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his debut record, Moving Up Country, which was rapturously received on its release two years ago.
		James is a former member of the band Huckleberry and an associate of the Fence Collective, whose bucolic, acoustic sound is very much in tune with his own.
	www.lemontree.org /Music/event.cfm?eventid=2186&tempmonth=10 (73 words)

	Eyeball Kid - Album Reviews Round Up - 30th Nov 04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Roger Hadwen checks out a couple of acoustic releases from James Yorkston and the Athletes and The Finn Brothers.
		Oh well, given the recent news stories on how the UK is a nation of sleep deprived insomniacs, this could be the cure-all we need.
		James Yorkston and the Athletes have produced an album of lilting country lullabies as powerful as any sleeping pill and I would applaud them… if I had the energy.
	www.eyeballkid.com /album_reviews_round_up_301104.htm (328 words)

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