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.
