The Waterboys - An Appointment with Mr. Yeats CD

"An Appointment With Mr. Yeats" is the brand new album by the iconic English rock and roll band The Waterboys. The album focusses on nothing but innovative experimentation of blending beautiful and classic poetry with the brilliant rock music that founder, front man and lead singer Mike Scott and his band The Waterboys specialise in.

This record features the collaborations of various artists who seemed most appropriate to breathe new life in to classic poems such as these, and includes contributions from the likes of Irish rock singer Katie Kim, Irish musician Joe Chester, and more.

The album is original in practically every way it possibly could be, as Mike Scott draws upon his love for the poetry of Irish writer W.B. Yeats and sets it to the style of music which he and his band have aptly named "The Big Music". An ambitious idea to set any slight bit of poetry to music, yet Scott has somehow managed to rewrite and pull off an entire album's worth, a whole fourteen tracks, tweaking each poem to fit just right. Not only this, but each reinvention is given new life and vitality with the contemporary and modern twist that Scott feels apt to place within each line, giving it a darker rock and roll, bluesy edge. (Cat Emerson)

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