The Waterboys have confirmed a full slate of dates across North America in the fall. After touring Canada in July with a featured stop in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Waterboys will return to the U.S. to play 25 American cities.
It is the band’s first U.S. tour in six years, and their biggest to date.
According to Scott, “North America is just about my favorite place in the world to play and I’m thrilled that this year we’ll play more concerts there than any year of the Waterboys' existence. Our Fall 2013 tour is the longest Waterboys American tour ever and we’re doing it with an American line-up. Apart from myself and fiddler Steve Wickham, all the band members are Americans based in the New York area, players I handpicked myself. I can't wait to see what kind of a joyful, wild noise we’ll make.”
Along with selections from their catalog, including Fisherman’s Blues, the show will feature material from the 2013's An Appointment With Mr. Yeats — one
of the boldest, most ambitious projects of Waterboys auteur Mike
Scott’s storied career. Scott collaborated, figuratively speaking, with
the legendary Irish poet W.B. Yeats on the 14 songs of An Appointment With Mr. Yeats, released
this past March on Proper Records.
“I
love the way Yeats’ poems lend themselves to music,” says Scott. “But I
also like Yeats as a guy — a dandified, opinionated, larger-than-life
character. I feel a kinship to him. My purpose isn’t 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.”
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