Songs '..of grace and wit', The Musician. 'A voice and sentiment to lift you from slumber', Fatea Records. 'This will get in your head', BBC Introducing.
Many thanks to all who braved the rainstorms to celebrate the release of our EP, Scribble on a Cheat Sheet with us, as well as to the acts who opened for us and particularly our friend Dayve Dean who depped on bass during soundcheck in Simon's temporary absence until showtime. There was also the wonderfully quirky songs of Jasmine Allen Estate and a beautiful set from Violet Cry.
Photo by Helen Kay
We did a live Q&A before our set Photo by Helen Kay
Dayve Dean stood in for Simon during Soundcheck as our bass-man was not able to come along until later in the day.
We're thrilled to unveil our brand new, unusually for us jazz influenced video-single "I Wish I Could Fall", featuring footage from our recording sessions at Fox Barn Studios. This track is a departure from our usual sounds, giving you a taste of what’s to come before our full 5-track EP "Scribble On a Cheat Sheet" suffused with rock, funk, and folk rock vibes, releases everywhere from September 12th, 2025.
I Wish I could Fall is a celebration of platonic love; feelings from when you're getting to know someone who is kind of perfect for you in every way, but there just isn't that romantic/sexual fire present - but a lifelong friendship is born.
We really hope you love it as much as we enjoyed making it, and get ready for the full EP takeover!
Our lovely bass playing friend and partner in creative endeavours Simon has some important stuff to do that wouldn't be fair to go into on a public forum, but it meant that we had to cancel a previous show (only the 2nd ever cancellation by the way - a record we're very proud of) and we also turned down a very nice festival offer.
Now we're currently not certain if Simon will be joining us for the EP live launch night but at rehearsal last night we thought we'd better make plans for 3 piece versions of the songs. As well as the strong urge to celebrate our EP, A significant milestone for us - we also have responsibilities to the venue & the other lovely acts we've booked to support us.
What I can say is that if this will be a 3-piece version of the band playing the launch night then we have made some minor plus some significant changes to the 5 EP tracks in order to make them work in a live scenario without Simon's very significant creative input.
In particular the opening track on the recording "The Stronger You Love" is a powerful riff-based rocker, almost a punk version of this song in the studio version that just doesn't work played in the same way without Simon's bass, so drummer Dave had some good ideas of turning it into a lilting, off-beat, swing version for the acoustic version we tried out last night, and instead of ripping a rock-guitar solo for instance - I carved some jazz chords into the solo section.
So if it turns out that we play the launch as an acoustic 3 piece, you will at least get to hear some very unique versions of these songs!
We can now reveal our coming EP name, cover image and tracklist!
Our new EP, Scribble on a Cheat Sheet is out everywhere on your favourite digital platform from 12/09/2025!
Part A - The @foxbarnstudios Sessions
1. The Stronger You Love
2. Funk 23
3. I Wish I could Fall
Recorded, mixed, produced & mastered by Daniel J. Logan.
Part B - The home recordings
4. Recently Deleted
5. After the Morrow Moon
Recorded by The Blue Yellows, mixed, produced and mastered by Manu Arteaga
As you can see, the cover is a collage of images obtained from various moments and there are lots of smaller images, cymbals and signs around the collage that in some way represent aspects of the band and individual members.
Updated 22/06/2025 to include link to full interview)
This year's Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival had moved slightly to the fields just outside of the town to mark bigger & better ambitions for this well established event.
Thanks to everyone who came along and gave us a good time (thanks too, to the mayfly - see last photo).
Top merch team!
Pre-Gig interview behind the folk stage for Salt Town Radio Photo: Manu Arteaga (see bottom of this page)
The bridge in our song After the Morrow Moon uses the analogy - "we dance for just one day the free mayfly". Well, this mayfly joined us on stage for the duration of our show.
Updated 22/06/2025 to include top 2 photos from Barn54
Tonight, me and Dave had the absolute pleasure of joining German duo Barn54 again on the Conwy stop of their European Tour at Y Gloch Las.
Simon & Sina are such special people who make beautiful music & share their sounds & stories from their camper van as they tour almost incessantly all over Europe.
It was a delight for both of us Yella fellas to join them as some bandee extras for the night.
The biggest challenge for me was that I've only ever played one song with them, on or off stage, before! So - I did a bit of homework but there was certainly a bit of a seat-of-the-pants element on my part, but I hopefully got away with it.
Beautiful stuff and a lot of fun with our new friends.
Today was another special studio day, this time in just sitting and listening to the (almost) finalised mixes for the Fox Barn Studios part of the coming EP.
One track stood out as a potential, though perhaps unusual lead single.
Afterwards I missed my train by 6 minutes so Dan & I were forced, unwittingly - to the pub!
Updated 18/05/2025
The band-gang have approved the mixes so the next stage is mastering.
Outboard spring reverb deployed!
Automated reverb on lead vocals - now that's perfectionism!
Perhaps it's because he's a close friend (or am I looking for excuses?), but I did no vocal warm-ups or guitar warm ups before this session AND IT SHOWED!
An absolutely incredible night - I joined Maddison Kent from Somerset, Michael Wack from Germany and the inimitable Simon and Sina - ie Barn 54 at the award winning venue, Percy's Cafe Bar for not just a gig, but Barn54's live album recording.
A stunning night - you had to be there!
Jonathan White wrote an article about the event here
Photo by TMR Photography
Photo by TMR Photography
Photo by TMR Photography
Photo by TMR Photography
Pre-show - Photo by TMR Photography
Pre-show jam with Barn54 and Michael Wack Photo by TMR Photography
We've been so busy working with just a few songs and their arrangements for recording that we arrived at Tom's Tap and Brew feeling pretty under-rehearsed.
The occasion was to support Tim Lee and his special night launching his beautiful new album - The Cuckoo Set.
Various "Yellas" joined him on stage for different songs including our Em who played - both live on the night and on the album itself, on the sad and stunningly beautiful title track.
Another utterly fantastic day for us at Fox Barn Studios under the direction of the mighty sound-brain of Daniel J. Logan. Recording in such a quick, creative way is a big part of what we're all about even if we rarely get a chance to do it quite like this, and - there's a bar!
Paradise.
One of the songs in particular actually transformed in today's session, from sounding more breezy straight-rock to gaining a much more punky approach than we were originally looking at, and we're loving it. We're loving it all.
