{"id":2344,"date":"2015-06-16T11:49:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T10:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2011-07-15T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T13:09:27","slug":"waterboys-to-release-long-awaited-new-album-on-19-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/waterboys-to-release-long-awaited-new-album-on-19-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterboys to release long awaited new album on 19 September"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Waterboys long awaited new album\u00a0\u2018An Appointment with Mr. Yeats\u2019 is set to be issued by <\/strong>Proper Records on\u00a019 September 2011. <\/strong><\/p>\n

An Appointment with Mr Yeats<\/em> <\/strong>sees the words of W B Yeats, one of Ireland\u2019s greatest literary sons, merged with the music of The Waterboys, one of Britain and Ireland\u2019s greatest rock bands, in a truly unique and ambitious musical undertaking.<\/p>\n

The album features an extended Waterboys line-up including fiddle maestro Steve Wickham, new Irish singer Katie Kim, multi-instrumentalist Kate St. John, Flook flautist Sarah Allen and Catalan trombonist Blaise Margail. \u2018An Appointment with Mr Years\u2019 draws on fourteen of Yeats\u2019 poems, spanning both famous and lesser known works, from the wry to the romantic, the political to the mythological, all invigorated with the energy and exuberance of The Waterboys.<\/p>\n

The project has long been a passion for Waterboys vocalist Mike Scott, who first delivered a new dimension to Yeats\u2019 poetry in 1988, when he wrote a musical accompaniment for the classic poem The Stolen Child, <\/em>during the making of the Waterboys seminal album \u2018Fisherman\u2019s Blues\u2019. Five years later he set another Yeats poem to music, Love and Death<\/em>, which appeared on their \u2018Dream Harder\u2019 album.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Scott has been quietly crafting a wealth of material similarly based on the writings of Yeats. A number of these were performed by him at the Abbey Theatre during the Yeats International Festival in 1991, but most have remained in Scott\u2019s private songbook awaiting the right vehicle. An Appointment with Mr. Yeats<\/em> <\/strong>is <\/em>that long-awaited context.<\/p>\n

Of this magical project that has been more than twenty years in the making, Scott says: \u2018Since 1991, when I sang a few Yeats interpretations onstage at the Abbey as part of a festival, I\u2019ve had the vision of a whole show and an album using Yeats\u2019 words as song lyrics. Over the years I\u2019ve returned again and again to my book of The Complete Poems and have slowly built up a repertoire. And I should stress these are songs – rock\u2019n\u2019roll, pop, psychedelic and roots songs – not recitations. My purpose isn\u2019t to treat Yeats as a museum piece, but to connect with the soul of the poems – as they appear to me – then go wherever the music in my head suggests; and that means some surprising places.\u2019<\/p>\n

Scott\u2019s love of literature is firmly embedded throughout the work of the Waterboys. He has also put the writings of Robert Burns, James Stephens, Kenneth Grahame and George MacDonald to song. Speaking on his literary influences and loves, Scott explains: \u2018I grew up in a house full of books so literature – and language – have always been important to me. Working with other peoples\u2019 words is something that comes as natural to me as working with my own. In a way it\u2019s even more immediate; I\u2019ve always found writing music an easier process than the writing of lyrics, and setting words of the quality of Yeats\u2019 to music is an enormous privilege and treat.\u2019<\/p>\n

An Appointment with Mr. Yeats<\/em> is a unique and memorable opportunity for lovers of great music and great literature to celebrate the union of song and word in one spectacular record.<\/p>\n

The full track listing is:<\/p>\n

The Hosting Of The Shee
\nSong Of Wandering Aengus
\nNews For The Delphic Oracle
\nA Full Moon In March
\nSweet Dancer
\nWhite Birds
\nThe Lake Isle Of Innisfree
\nMad As The Mist And Snow
\nBefore The World Was Made
\nSeptember 1913
\nAn Irish Airman Foresees His Death
\nPolitics
\nLet The Earth Bear Witness
\nThe Faery’s Last Song<\/p>\n

A special preview of track 5, \u2018Sweet Dancer\u2019 has just been uploaded to Soundcloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The album will be released in both CD and double vinyl formats. Pre-order the CD<\/a> or vinyl<\/a> now on Amazon or CD at Play.com <\/a><\/p>\n

Downloads on iTunes and Amazon will feature bonus tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Waterboys long awaited new album\u00a0\u2018An Appointment with Mr. Yeats\u2019 is set to be issued by Proper Records on\u00a019 September 2011. An Appointment with Mr Yeats sees the words of W B Yeats, one of Ireland\u2019s greatest literary sons, merged with the music of The Waterboys, one of Britain and Ireland\u2019s greatest rock bands, in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,249],"tags":[423,424,1190,422],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-newsplug","tag-an-appontment-with-mr-yeats","tag-mike-scott","tag-newsplug","tag-the-waterboys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}