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  Paigey

  Jul 17, 03:25 PM

  AUSTRIAN SHOW WITH NEIL YOUNG, 17th AUGUST The Waterboys have been added to the bill for Neil Young’s show at the Lovely Days Festival, Festivalgelanda, Wiesen, Burgenland, Austria on August 17 (Sunday). It’s the Waterboys’ first Austrian show in eight years, and second gig with Neil this summer. Tickets are available from 0043 196096 or online from: www.musicticket.at Tickets €52 for the day. Other bands playing include Adam Green and Wishbone Ash. Further info: www.lovelyda... More... AUSTRIAN SHOW WITH NEIL YOUNG, 17th AUGUST The Waterboys have been added to the bill for Neil Young’s show at the Lovely Days Festival, Festivalgelanda, Wiesen, Burgenland, Austria on August 17 (Sunday). It’s the Waterboys’ first Austrian show in eight years, and second gig with Neil this summer. Tickets are available from 0043 196096 or online from: www.musicticket.at Tickets €52 for the day. Other bands playing include Adam Green and Wishbone Ash. Further info: www.lovelydays.at ROOM TO ROAM VIDEO UP ON MYSPACE PAGE Jacques Coetzer’s film of Mike and musicians and singers from the town of Huntly, Scotland performing Room To Roam has just been posted on our myspace page. To view the video please visit: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu seaction=vids.showvids&friendIDq722921&nq722921&MyToken4fee3-4d18-4de3-9771-01a5d58fb681 We’ve also posted the soundtrack of the song on our myspace MP3 player. NEW PHOTOS ON MYSPACE We’ve uploaded a motherlode of new photos at our myspace page and to make viewing them easier, we’ve divided them into seven different albums. Alongside live photos, artwork, vintage and miscellaneous photos, you can now view a set of twenty pictures from the recent Huntly Room To Roam project, and an extended selection of cartoons drawn by various Waterboys over the years. To view the photo albums you must be logged into myspace. MIKE APPEARING WITH CALI AT FRANCOFOLIES FESTIVAL, 21st JULY Mike will guest with his friend the French star Cali at the chanson festival Francofolies, in Spa, Ardennes, Belgium on Monday 21st July. Mike (and Steve Wickham) previously guested with Cali at shows in Paris this spring and Mike collaborated on two songs on Cali’s recent number one album L’Espoire. For further festival visit: http://www.francofolies.be/
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  Paigey

  Jun 30, 11:23 PM

  ROOM TO ROAM RELEASE DATE & MORE ROOM TO ROAM - REMASTER IS OUT 11TH AUGUST The remastered 2CD version of Room To Roam will be released by EMI on 11th August. The beautiful package includes new sleevenotes by Mike Scott, extended track-by-track musician credits and previously unseen photographs as well as 17 bonus songs. CD1 is the original album featuring the Celtic line-up of the band: Mike Scott, Steve Wickham, Anto Thistlethwaite, Sharon Shannon, Trevor Hutchinson, Colin Blakey an... More... ROOM TO ROAM RELEASE DATE & MORE ROOM TO ROAM - REMASTER IS OUT 11TH AUGUST The remastered 2CD version of Room To Roam will be released by EMI on 11th August. The beautiful package includes new sleevenotes by Mike Scott, extended track-by-track musician credits and previously unseen photographs as well as 17 bonus songs. CD1 is the original album featuring the Celtic line-up of the band: Mike Scott, Steve Wickham, Anto Thistlethwaite, Sharon Shannon, Trevor Hutchinson, Colin Blakey and Noel Bridgeman. CD2 contains 17 bonus tracks from 1989-91, including Sunny Sailor Boy, made popular by Luka Bloom, and storming live versions of The Raggle Taggle Gypsy and Twa Recruitin’ Sergeants. The full tracklist is: CD1 1. In Search Of A Rose 2. Song From The End Of The World 3. A Man Is In Love 4. Bigger Picture 5. Natural Bridge Blues 6. Something That Is Gone 7. The Star And The Sea 8. A Life Of Sundays 9. Islandman 10. The Raggle Taggle Gypsy 11. How Long Will I Love You? 12. Upon The Wind And Waves 13. Spring Comes To Spiddal 14. The Trip To Broadford 15. Further Up, Further In 16. Room To Roam 17. The Kings Of Kerry CD1 1. In Search Of A Rose (full band version) 2. My Morag (The Exile's Dream) 3. A Man Is In Love (alternate version) 4. The Wyndy Wyndy Road 5. Three Ships 6. Sunny Sailor Boy 7. Pedal Pusher's Blues (demo version) 8. The Wayward Wind 9. Danny Murphy / Florence 10. The Raggle Taggle Gypsy (live) 11. Custer's Blues (live) 12. Twa Recruitin’ Sergeants (live) 13. A Reel And A Stomp In The Kitchen 14. Down By The Sally Gardens (with Tomas Mac Eoin) 15. A Strathspey In The Rain At Dawn 16. A Song For The Life 17. The Kings Of Kerry (outdoor version) MIKE'S HUNTLY 'ROOM TO ROAM' VENTURE LATEST Mike has now completed the recent 'Room To Roam' project with the people of Huntly in Scotland and South African artist Jacques Coetzer. The song, performed by an ensemble of 29 singers and musicians led by Mike has been filmed and we will soon post the video on the Waterboys myspace page. Meanwhile you can hear the soundtrack recording and read about the project here: http://www.huntlytown.co.uk/roomtoroam/ Scottish daily newspaper The Scotsman featured the project last week. You can read the article here: http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Room-to-roam-artistically.4218241.jp MIKE, STEVE & ANTO REUNITED ON SHARON SHANNON RECORDING Mike Scott, Steve Wickham and Anto Thistlethwaite were reunited last week for a recording session in Galway for a future Sharon Shannon album. In Sharon’s own studio they did a version of the Waterboys classic Saints And Angels. The album, a collection of collaborations by Sharon and other musicians, is expected to come out in 2009. MAGPIE - NEW ALBUM FROM STEVE’S ‘OTHER’ BAND, NO CROWS No Crows, the Sligo four-piece band that features Steve Wickham on fiddle, have a new album called Magpie, recorded in the west of Ireland earlier this year. It will be available online through www.cdbaby.com from July 8th, and from late July from iTunes and UK & Irish record shops. Magpie is on Crow records, distributed via Whirling Discs. The band will play a launch show at Factory Performance Space, Sligo, Ireland on July 8th at 9pm. Tickets priced €15 are available from: www.ticketsonline.ie/cairde or tel. 00 353 71 9170431. See also: www.myspace./com/nocrows
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  Paigey

  May 19, 05:43 PM

  WATERBOYS PLAY SHOW WITH NEIL YOUNG IN HOLLAND The Waterboys have been invited to join Neil Young’s bill at BosPop in the Netherlands on Friday 11th July. The band will play for an hour on the main stage at 20.45 - 21.45, immediately before Neil. The last time The Waterboys played with Neil was at the Fleadh in London, 2001. “It was an honour then and it’s an honour now,” commented Mike Scott, “Neil brings with him a sense of meaning, a cocktail of ethical authority and natura... More... WATERBOYS PLAY SHOW WITH NEIL YOUNG IN HOLLAND The Waterboys have been invited to join Neil Young’s bill at BosPop in the Netherlands on Friday 11th July. The band will play for an hour on the main stage at 20.45 - 21.45, immediately before Neil. The last time The Waterboys played with Neil was at the Fleadh in London, 2001. “It was an honour then and it’s an honour now,” commented Mike Scott, “Neil brings with him a sense of meaning, a cocktail of ethical authority and natural wildness, that overlights every event he plays. It’s a privilege to share a stage with him.” Tickets are available from: www.ticketmaster.nl/ from €74. Festival website: www.bospop.nl
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  Paigey

  May 19, 05:42 PM

  PORTUGUESE FESTIVAL IN AUGU The Waterboys will play a show at the Allgarve Festival in Faro, Portugal, on Monday 11th August. Venue is Campo de Raguebi, Vilamoura. Tickets are available from: http://www.ticketline.pt price: €30. Festival website: http://www.allgarve.pt
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  May 16, 12:27 PM

  

  iTunes Essentials just posted their Waterboys Essentials list, featuring 45 of the band's best tracks. Find out more by searching "iTunes Essentials" on Facebook and becoming a fan of Essentials.
• 
  Paigey

  May 06, 02:37 PM

  Hey all- There's been a lot of discussion about formats etc. but I'm wondering what ya'll think about the new "Kiss The Wind" download album? Here's an interesting link: http://www.irishabroad.com/news/irish-voice/entertainment/Articles/waterboys010508.aspx For those of you who don't have it yet just visit www.mikescottwaterboys.com and click 'Shop' x
• 
  Paigey

  May 04, 02:51 PM

  WATERBOYS NEWS: KISS THE WIND INDIVIDUAL DOWNLOADS / HUNTLY / DRUMCLIFFE KISS THE WIND TRACKS NOW AVAILABLE INDIVIDUALLY As of this morning, Monday 5th May, all the tracks on the exclusive Waterboys download album KISS THE WIND are available for individual download. You can link to the album here: http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/sites/waterboys/index.php?productId=1000045&pTypeId=6 MIKE COLLABORATES WITH THE TOWN OF HUNTLY Mike Scott is involved in a project for the Scottish... More... WATERBOYS NEWS: KISS THE WIND INDIVIDUAL DOWNLOADS / HUNTLY / DRUMCLIFFE KISS THE WIND TRACKS NOW AVAILABLE INDIVIDUALLY As of this morning, Monday 5th May, all the tracks on the exclusive Waterboys download album KISS THE WIND are available for individual download. You can link to the album here: http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/sites/waterboys/index.php?productId=1000045&pTypeId=6 MIKE COLLABORATES WITH THE TOWN OF HUNTLY Mike Scott is involved in a project for the Scottish town of Huntly, birthplace of Scottish novelist George MacDonald. Twenty years ago Mike set MacDonald’s poem Room To Roam to music and used it as the title of the 1990 Waterboys’ album. A few months ago Huntly artist-in-residence Jacques Coetzer http://www.jacquescoetzer.co.za/ asked Mike to help turn Room To Roam into the town’s anthem. Mike has been working with local musicians and singers on a communal version of the song to be performed at the Huntly Entertainment On The Square concert, Sunday 1st June (time tbc). We asked Mike how it sounds and he replied: “Room To Roam is amazing with a choir and a big band, like a mad carousel of music, and it’s great fun doing it with MacDonald’s own townspeople”. The project is being run in connection with Deveron Arts and Huntly Council. http://www.deveron-arts.com EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITY BY STEVE Steve Wickham will join Sligo writer Dermot Healy in a recitation and performance in Teach Ban Nua Art Gallery, http://www.galleries-online.co.uk/teacban/index.cfm by Drumcliffe Church, Sligo, on Saturday May 10th at 2.30pm, as part of the Bealtaine Festival.
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  Paigey

  May 04, 02:44 PM

  ‘KISS THE WIND’ DOWNLOAD ALBUM & WEBSITE STORE - OPEN NOW Our new website store is live NOW, set up and run in collaboration with top online retailer Townsend Records. The new download-only album, KISS THE WIND, exclusive to our store, is released today and can be purchased by visiting here: http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/sites/waterboys/index.php?productId=1000045&pTypeId=6 Plus, all Waterboys CDs from the first album through to 2007’s Book Of Lightning are available from o... More... ‘KISS THE WIND’ DOWNLOAD ALBUM & WEBSITE STORE - OPEN NOW Our new website store is live NOW, set up and run in collaboration with top online retailer Townsend Records. The new download-only album, KISS THE WIND, exclusive to our store, is released today and can be purchased by visiting here: http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/sites/waterboys/index.php?productId=1000045&pTypeId=6 Plus, all Waterboys CDs from the first album through to 2007’s Book Of Lightning are available from our store. KISS THE WIND features 16 rare or previously unreleased tracks selected by Mike Scott. Highlights include many never before heard songs plus Mike's demo of On My Way To The Big Light, an alternative Let It Happen, live versions of The Stolen Child and Jagger/Richards' Wild Horses and many many more. For the first week only Kiss The Wind is available bundled with extra track-by-track notes by Mike. From next Monday, May 5th, it will be available by individual track or bundled, but without the extra notes. The album costs £7.99. Individual tracks will retail for 79p. Samples of three tracks can be heard now on our myspace page at: www.myspace.com/mikescottwaterboys Kiss The Wind will not be available on physical CD and can not be purchased from any other digital or high street retailer. For full tracklisting see below the cover artwork. 1. Kiss The Wind 2. On My Way To The Big Light 3. Follow The Fellow Who Fiddles 4. Your Baby Ain't A Baby Anymore 5. Wintermind 6. Let It Happen (1999) 7. I’ve Been In The Storm For You 8. Anatomy Of A Love Affair 9. Independence Day 10. John Coogan Is Going 11. Wild Horses (live) 12. Big Day Boogie / Always / Broken Ring 13. Martin Decent 14. Send Him Down To Waco 15. The Stolen Child (live) 16. This Old Boat For the store front page go to: http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/sites/waterboys/ We have opened a blog thread on our myspace page where you can give feedback about the album. Check it out at: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=71722921&blogID=386356323