After relentless amounts of touring, an EP release, and a loss of a singer only to gain a duo, the time has come for Scottish sextet Yashin to make their mark on the world with their debut full-length. Put Your Hands Where I Can See Them brings the sound of a very different Yashin in 2010, as opposed to that of when Michael Rice could be seen heading the pack.
Review: Yashin – Put Your Hands Where I Can See Them
February 11, 2010
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Interview: Yashin
November 29, 2009
Back in Newcastle for the third time this year, Scottish rockers Yashin pull into the miserable Saturday rain for their penultimate gig of the year. George catches up with the sextet’s vocal duo, Kev Miles and Harry Radford, for a chat about the bands new album making it’s appearance next year, a BIG tour, and… a plunger?
George: Can you say your names, and what you do in the band?
Kev: Ladies first…
Harry: My name’s Harry Radford, I sing in Yashin.
Kev: I’m Kev, I scream and make failed attempts at singing at times. [laughs]
George: Does the name have any influence from the Soviet goalkeeper? (Legendary sticksman Lev Yashin)
Kev: [laughs]
Harry: It does, actually! Our guitarist’s name is Paul Travers, and in school when he played football people called him Trev, then people started calling him Lev, then people started calling him Yashin, ’cause his name was Lev Yashin.
Kev: So, in a kinda gay, roundabout way, our guitarist named the band after himself! [laughs]
Harry: Usually, for press things, we just lie and say it’s Japanese for ambition and shit, I dunno if it means that, but that’s the actual truth.
Kev: Our Myspace URL had to be changed to /theyashin because some Japanese kid, fourteen years of age has myspace.com/yashin on it’s own, so it’s obviously got some bearing to the Japanese language, but to what extent, I don’t know. [laughs]
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Live Review: Yashin – O2 Academy 2, Newcastle, November 21st 2009
November 27, 2009
The penultimate show of a busy, busy year for bonny Scots Yashin sees them pull into Newcastle Academy in the pissing rain. With a killer bill, and a lot of new songs in store, the bad weather’s surely not going to put off what is a near sold-out crowd tonight.
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