Wednesday, January 19, 2011

AN APPOINTMENT WITH MR.YEATS THE WATERBOYS at the RCH




This unique long awaited project to translate some of Irelands legendary poet work into an album of music by Scottish musician Mike Scott of The Waterboys came to Glasgow.

According to Scott the appeal of WB Yeats through time and cultures is his universal themes of Love;Politics;Mysticism;Celtic love of the land as part of the body;Soul and that remarkable thing called the Human Experience.

Here is a version of The Stolen Child from the album:



And from the actual concert itself , a magnificent version of Dont Bang The Drum which presented the poetry reading like no other could be.



And last but by no means least is a version of Politics , this poem was the last one in the last collection published by Yeats before his passing at a vital phase in a juncture of history that meant so much in 1939.A prescient and fitting way to go.
This recording was made at a series of concerts at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin which Yeats helped to set up.You can get a review of the show from the Irish Times.



The Scotsman Newspaper has a review of the Glasgow Concert ,a concert , as she correctly states, was 20 years in the making and well worth it for the audience, though Fiona Shepherd does get the object of the video incorrect as it shows images from Iran during the last elections and not in this case Iraq.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

THIN LIZZY live at the CARLING ACADEMY GLASGOW




I missed them in their heyday for a reason so trivial i can barely recall what it was , something like only having £6 in my pocket when the tickets were £7.A big regret in my life which i hoped to rectify in this tour.

A sensational performance it was , most striking was to hear fairly placid songs like "waiting for an alibi" as thundering live experiences along with the classics.

This is a video of the electric Cowboy Song/Boys are back in Town.



You have got to catch these bands while you can these days.Thundering live experiences bringing some of the old magic back to what live music is all about.

When they played my favourite song i was thinking of Tommy Sheridan and how he would love to rock and sing-a-long-with -it.



This interview with lead singer Ricky Warwick describes the experience and positive feedback of the tour