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An Appointment with Mr. Yeats is the tenth studio album by the Waterboys, released on 19 September 2011 through W14/Proper Records.The album contains 14 tracks, all of which are based upon the poetry of W. B. Yeats, a long term influence on lead-songwriter Mike Scott.
Scott, the Edinburgh-born son of a college lecturer, is the founder and only permanent member of the Waterboys. Having begun his career in teenage Ayr punk band White Heat [8] and its Edinburgh successor Another Pretty Face, [9] he moved to London and formed another short-lived band, The Red and the Black.
[9] The Waterboys' first release was a single of "A Girl Called Johnny" in March 1983. The first album came out that June. The first album came out that June. Along with The Waterboys , the next two albums, A Pagan Place and This Is the Sea , released in 1984 and 1985, contained songs mostly written by Scott, and together formed the band's "Big ...
Mike Scott, the Waterboys' leader, spent time in Dublin with Wickham, and moved to Ireland in 1986. That year, the Waterboys performed "Fisherman's Blues" on The Tube, which was the first time the new musical direction the band was taking was demonstrated. The recording sessions for the album were lengthy and produced a great deal of music.
A Pagan Place is the second studio album by the Waterboys, released by Ensign Records on 28 May 1984. [1] It was the first Waterboys record with Karl Wallinger as part of the band and also includes Roddy Lorimer's first trumpet solo for the band on the track "A Pagan Place".
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Scott began writing the song on a plane flight from New York to London, at the end of the Waterboys' North American tour in November 1985. During his time in New York, Scott had a meeting with the band's manager, Gary Kurfirst, however their relationship had become strained by this time. In his autobiography, Scott revealed: "I knew that the ...
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