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Show will be poetry in motion – literally
ROCK veterans the Waterboys will be putting poetry into motion when they hit the road next month to plug their latest album.
The Scottish band, formed in 1983, will kick off a 20-date British tour in the north east.
Their show at the Sage Gateshead on Tuesday, March 20, like those that follow it, will be a game of two halves.
Half will be given over to tracks from their new album, An Appointment with Mr Yeats, a collection of tracks based on poems by William Butler Yeats.
The other half, according to band leader Mike Scott, will be “a killer set of vintage Waterboys”.
Songs likely to make an appearance in that part of proceedings include their only top 10 single, The Whole of the Moon, a No 3 in 1991, and perennial live favourite Fisherman’s Blues.
Besides Scott, the only ever-present in the group’s ever-changing personnel, on guitar and vocals, the seven-piece band for upcoming tour will consist of fiddler Steve Wickham, singer Katie Kim, keyboard player James Hallawell, guitarist Melvin Duffy, bass player Marc Arciero and drummer Ralph Salmins.
The band’s latest album, their tenth, was released last year to critical acclaim and their best sales since the band reunited in 2000 after seven years apart.
A follow-up to 2007’s Book of Lightning, it earned them their highest UK chart placing – just making it into the top 30 – since Dream Harder way back in 1993.
Tickets for the band’s Tyneside show cost £25 or £28.50. For details, go to www.thesagegateshead.org or call (0191) 443 4661.
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