An Appointment with Mr Yeats

Studio album by The Waterboys

Released

19 September 2011

Recorded

London, Dublin

Mike Scott, Marc Aciero

The Waterboys chronology

Book of Lightning
(2007)

An Appointment with Mr Yeats
(2011)

Modern Blues
(2015)

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 fourteen tracks, all of which are based upon the poetry of W.B. Yeats, a long term influence on lead-songwriter Mike Scott.

Scott premiered the tracks which would make up the album, as well as those produced previously, as part of the An Appointment with Mr Yeats concerts from 2010 onwards. Some shorter tracks such as Down By The Salley Gardens were either omitted entirely or provided as bonus tracks available for download only.

Track listing

"The Hosting of the Shee"
"Song of Wandering Aengus"
"News for the Delphic Oracle"
"A Full Moon in March"
"Sweet Dancer"
"White Birds"
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
"Mad As the Mist and Snow"
"Before the World Was Made"
"September 1913"
"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
"Politics"
"Let the Earth Bear Witness"
"The Faery's Last Song"

Amazon

Bonus Track Four Ages of Man

iTunes

Bonus Track Love Song

Personnel

Mike Scott - vocals, 6- & 12-string acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards (including acoustic & electric pianos, organ, flute organ, Mellotron, synthesized cello/horns/flute/mountain horn), 8-string bouzouki, percussion (hand drum, tiny cymbals, deep drum, snare drum, cabasa), programming, effects, treatments, "loop archaeology" on 'White Birds'
Marc Arciero - bass guitar (credited throughout as "earth resonator")
Ralph Salmins - drums (including "orc-drums" on 'The Hosting of the Shee'), tambourine
Steve Wickham - fiddles (including "pogged" and "fuzz" fiddles), "white birds" on 'White Birds'
James Hallawell - keyboards (including Hammond & Nord organs, piano, synthesized "etheric strings")
Kate St. John - saxophone, oboe, cor anglais
Blaise Margail - trombone
Sarah Allen - flute
Joe Chester - guitars, harmonium, additional vocals
Katie Kim - vocals (including whispers on 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree')
Freddie Stevenson - vocals

References

External links

Official Page

The Waterboys

Mike Scott Steve Wickham Trevor Hutchinson Roddy Lorimer Richard Naiff Anthony Thistlethwaite Karl Wallinger Kevin Wilkinson Marc "Archie" Arciero Colin Blakey Jay Dee Daugherty James Hallawell Katie Kim Ralph Salmins Sharon Shannon List of Waterboys members

Studio albums as The Waterboys	The Waterboys (1983) A Pagan Place (1984) This Is the Sea (1985) Fisherman's Blues (1988) Room to Roam (1990) Dream Harder (1993) A Rock in the Weary Land (2000) Universal Hall (2003) Book of Lightning (2007) An Appointment with Mr Yeats (2011) Modern Blues (2015)

Studio albums as Mike Scott	Bring 'Em All In (1995) Still Burning (1997)

Live albums	The Live Adventures of the Waterboys (1998) Karma to Burn (2005)

Compilations	The Best of the Waterboys 81–90 (1991, recorded 1982 to 1990) The Secret Life of the Waterboys 81–85 (1994, recorded 1981 to 1985) The Whole of the Moon: The Music of Mike Scott & the Waterboys (1998, recorded 1982 to 1996) Too Close To Heaven: The Unreleased Fisherman's Blues Sessions/Fisherman's Blues Part 2 (2001, recorded 1986 to 2001) Kiss the Wind (download only) (2008, recorded 1991 to 2006) In a Special Place: The Piano Demos for 'This Is The Sea' (2011, recorded 1985) Fisherman's Box (2013, recorded 1986 to 1988)

Related articles	World Party The Big Music

W. B. Yeats

Poetry

Volumes	The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889) The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) In the Seven Woods (1903) Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916) The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) The Tower (1928) The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

Poems	"Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" "Adam's Curse" "Blood and the Moon" "The Circus Animals' Desertion" "Down by the Salley Gardens" "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety" "Easter, 1916" "Ego Dominus Tuus" "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz" "Lake Isle of Innisfree" "On being asked for a War Poem" "Politics" "A Prayer for My Daughter" "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" "The Rose of Battle" "The Rose-Tree" "Sailing to Byzantium" "September 1913" "Song of the Old Mother" "The Fiddler of Dooney" "The Scholars" "The Second Coming" "The Song of the Happy Shepherd" "The Stolen Child" "Swift's Epitaph" "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time" "The Tower" "Under Ben Bulben "The Wanderings of Oisin" "The Wild Swans at Coole"

Plays

Other works

A Vision (1925)
"The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows"
Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 (editor)

People

John Butler Yeats (father)
Susan Pollexfen (mother)
Jack Butler Yeats (brother)
Elizabeth Yeats (sister)
Lily Yeats (sister)
Maud Gonne (lover)
Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife)
Anne Yeats (daughter)
Michael Yeats (son)

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