The Waterboys Announce Anniversary 'Fisherman's Box' And December UK Tour - Tickets ON PRESALE NOW
Thursday, 21 March 2013
Written by Jon Stickler
This October it will be 25 years since the release of the classic Waterboys album 'Fisherman's Blues'. To celebrate this anniversary, on 14th October, a 7-CD boxset titled 'Fisherman's Box' will be released, containing 121 tracks from the album sessions including all those on the original record and subsequent editions, plus an incredible 85 unreleased tracks.
The famous 'Fisherman's Blues sessions' ran from early 1986 to mid-1988 and marked a watershed in the musical evolution of The Waterboys. Rumours and bootlegs have circulated over the years telling of the huge amount of high quality music the band produced during this period, but the full story will be told on 'Fisherman's Box'.
The contents have been selected and annotated by Mike Scott, and additional sleevenotes are by Decemberists' singer and long-time 'Fisherman's Blues' aficionado, Colin Meloy. Tracklists details to be announced throughout the coming spring and summer.
As a further celebration, The Waterboys will tour Britain and Ireland in December 2013, with a special line-up reuniting Mike Scott and Steve Wickham with Fisherman's-era members Anto Thistlethwaite and Trevor Hutchinson. The four will be joined by current Waterboys drummer Ralph Salmins and the repertoire will be a re-exploration of the Fisherman's Blues period. Said Mike Scott: "We won't be playing the original 'Fisherman's Blues' album in order or anything tame like that. That's not the Waterboys' style. Instead we'll be roaming the band's old repertoire in a new expression of the freewheeling, improvised spirit of The Waterboys in those days. We want to get that old fire burning again, and I wanna hear Steve and Anto wailing like the two-man orchestra I remember."
Expect souped-up, full power versions of lots of 1985-88 Waterboys numbers, plus hits, innovations and surprises.
Sun December 8th 2013 - Philharmonic, Liverpool
Mon December 9th 2013 - Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Tue December 10th 2013 - Barrowland, Glasgow
Wed December 11th 2013 - Barbican, York
Thu December 12th 2013 - Alexandra, Birmingham
Sun December 15th 2013 - New Theatre, Oxford
Mon December 16th 2013 - G Live, Guildford
Tue December 17th 2013 - Colston Hall, Bristol
Wed December 18th 2013 - Hammersmith Apollo, London
Fri December 20th 2013 - TLT, Drogheda
Sat December 21st 2013 - INEC, Killarney
Sun December 22nd 2013 - Leisureland, Galway
Mon December 23rd 2013 - Convention Centre, Dublin
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