About: Yannis Philippakis

Yannis Philippakis is a British guitarist and singer of the Indie band Foals. He is of Greek descent, and attended St John's College, Oxford, but dropped out after his first year to pursue music. In a BBC 6 hub session interview Philippakis expressed his desire to write 'Ballet with beats'. As well as this and the recording of Foals' second album Philippakis will be working on a side project with ex Foals bandmate Andrew Mears (now of Youthmovies) called 'Bins Are For Bombs'.