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Two years ago Ian Yates was a young worship leader committed to a small church set in the middle of one of the UK’s areas of highest unemployment. Today, little has changed: the youth, energy and optimism is as fresh as ever, the church is still made up of a dedicated band of believers serving a community that is now struggling more than most with the recession. Ian Yates is still worshipping. The only difference is that now the songs that have emerged from Ian’s guitar are starting to travel a little further than the front of Bootle Elim Pentecostal Church. And with The Hope And The Glory - his debut album - getting released in spring 2010, Ian Yates’s songs are about to do a whole load more travelling. Ian’s take on the two-year period up to the album’s release tells us a lot about the man: ‘Around early 2008 my brother told me that Soul Survivor were asking for songs for a new Peoples album. I only had a week to get them in, but I managed to send them a couple. Somehow they go...