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Yannis Philippakis | |
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 Yannis Philippakis performing at Roskilde Festival 2011 with Foals. | |
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| Birth name | Yannis Barnabas Emanuel Philippakis |
| Born | 23 April 1986 Karpathos, Greece |
| Origin | Oxford, England |
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| Website | www |
Yannis Philippakis (born 23 April 1986) is the lead singer and guitarist of the British indie rock band Foals.
Early life
Born to a Greek father and a South African-born Ukrainian-Jewish[1] mother (Renee Hirschon),[2] Philippakis lived in Greece until he was 4 years old when his family moved to South Africa. After living there for a year, his parents divorced and his mother moved with him and his brother to Oxford, England; his father left and went back to live in Greece.[3] Every summer Philippakis would visit his father in Olympos on the Greek island Karpathos. His father played a significant role in his life regarding music, teaching him traditional Greek songs.[4] Philippakis was raised in the Greek Orthodox religion.[5]
Education
Philippakis was educated at Magdalen College School. There he had met all of the requirements for an assisted place at Magdalen, where he had taken classes on French, literature, and art. While attending school, Philippakis faced many difficulties due to his father's absence; he would get into trouble with the teachers and was ill-tempered. This led to his being suspended twice. Philippakis then went on to study English Literature at St John's College, Oxford; he dropped out before completing his degree to focus on the band.[6]
Career
Music
Foals
Philippakis formed on FOALS in 2005 with friend and former Youthmovies frontman Andrew Mears after the break-up of his former band The Edmund Fitzgerald, which also featured his Foals bandmate, drummer Jack Bevan.
Other musical projects
In a BBC 6 hub session interview, Philippakis expressed his desire to write a 'ballet with beats'.[7]
In 2010, Philippakis appeared and was interviewed in Anyone Can Play Guitar.[8]
Philippakis produced the track "Wolf" on Trophy Wife's 2011 EP Bruxism.[9]
In January 2018, Philippakis began a monthly club night in south London called MILK. Special guests are kept secret until the night of the performance, making each night different. Every night at MILK is recorded and made available in limited numbers on vinyl for purchase at the following month's event. Philippakis said, “I want to make a club night that me & my friends would want to go to. Where the night acts like a sort of dream collider of different musicians in the hope of the surprising, the life affirming & the downright dirty."[10]
Other
He performed as an actor in an adaptation of Marguerite Duras' Moderato Cantabile, directed by Alexander Zeldin.
TV appearances
Individually
With Foals
- EA Sports
- Later... with Jools Holland
- Skins (Released as a MySpace exclusive, then aired by E4)
- The Culture Show
- T-Mobile's Transmission
- The Album Chart Show
- Barclaycard Mercury Prize Sessions
- Live from Abbey Road
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- Austin City Limits' with Alejandro Escovedo & Peter Buck
Albums
- Antidotes (2008)
- Total Life Forever (2010)
- Holy Fire (2013)
- What Went Down (2015)
- Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 (2019)
- Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2 (2019)
References
- ^ "We're brainy - and proud". thejc.com.
- ^ Dave Simpson. "Foals: 'I built an enamel around myself'". the Guardian.
- ^ Lewis, Tim (26 June 2016). "Yannis Philippakis of Foals: 'There's something feral in me'". the Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ "From Karpathos to the charts, By Yiouli Eptakili - Kathimerini | Kathimerini". Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ "Religion informs the Foals new album - The West Australian". yahoo.com.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Simpson, Dave (6 May 2010). "Foals: 'I built an enamel around myself'". the Guardian. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ Denney, Alex. "BBC - Music - Review of Foals - Total Life Forever". Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ "Yannis Philippakis". IMDb. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ "Watch: Trophy Wife & Yannis Foals In The Studio With 'Wolf'". This is Fake DIY. 29 September 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Foals' Yannis launches "hedonistic", vinyl-friendly club night with surprise guests - NME". NME. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
External links
- Official website
- A Band That Cradles Its Rock, Even Under All Those Layers of Expectations, New York Times
- Music Review: Foals, BBC Norfolk – 2008
- Foals reviewed on The Mag
- Yannis Philippakis at IMDb
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