Please, watch this. And pass on the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEoEUdOKhsA
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About Me
Regular contributor to the Guardian, The Word, Uncut, New Statesman, the Herald and theartsdesk. My work has also appeared in the Observer, the Telegraph, Esquire, Mojo, Time Out, Rolling Stone, HMV Choice, Oxford American, the Sunday Business Post and Record Collector. Occasionally I’m allowed to break cover on Radio 2, Radio 4 and Radio Scotland.
Author of five books: Complicated Shadows: The Life & Music of Elvis Costello (Canongate, 2004); Willie Nelson: The Outlaw (Virgin, 2006); I Shot a Man in Reno (Continuum, 2008); and Under the Ivy: The Life & Music of Kate Bush (Omnibus, 2010). I’ve just published The Resurrection of Johnny Cash (Jawbone, 2011).
I’ve sat on a sofa in the control room of Abbey Road's Studio 2 and watched Paul McCartney remove his socks. Keith Richards phoned me at 4 a.m. to ask, 'Whatya doing up so late, old boy?'. I've been offered a potentially fatal Camberwell Carrot by Willie Nelson. I've made Bob Geldof cry into his meat loaf, and Elvis Costello once threw a peach stone in my general direction. He's even less friendly these days.
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- Word magazine
- Under The Ivy: The Life & Music of Kate Bush
- Time Out articles
- The Herald
- The Arts Desk
- Reviews: The Outlaw
- Reviews: I Shot A Man In Reno
- Reviews: Complicated Shadows
- RENO at Amazon US
- RENO at Amazon UK
- Powell's
- Once Upon A Time A Song
- Observer articles
- New Statesman
- Last Year's Girl
- Journalisted
- Jeremy Thomas
- Jenny Brown Associates (Agent)
- Guardian music
- Guardian articles
- Continuum
- 33 1/3 blog
4 comments:
Beautiful, and very powerful. Well done Mike Scott!
Thank you, that's wonderful.
This song is completely embedded in my head. I keep coming to your site to play it.
So what is the story? Is this a new Mike Scott/ Waterboys song? I can't seem to find it on iTunes that's for sure.
Thank you and again a great blog Graeme.
Beautiful, isn't it? Here's all the info from the Waterboys site:
"Mike Scott, his wife Janette and Waterboys’ webmaster Ian Barratt have created a 3-minute video titled LET THE EARTH BEAR WITNESS in tribute to the Iranian protesters. The film shows fantastic images of the uprising in Iran to a soundtrack of a split-new Waterboys with a lyric by the great Irish poet WB Yeats.
Says Mike: "Let The Earth Bear Witness is inspired by the amazing scenes of hundreds of thousands of Iranian people standing up for their rights and freedom. I took the words from two old Yeats poems, in which he was writing about Irish freedom fighters. But his words apply to any freedom fighters, anytime, anywhere in the world."
The film is live on youtube now.
We’re working on a version with subtitles in Farsi and this will also be posted shortly. If you find the film inspiring please pass on or tweet the link to everyone you know.
LET THE EARTH BEAR WITNESS words by W.B. Yeats
They shall be remembered for ever
They shall be alive for ever
They shall be speaking for ever
The people shall hear them for ever
Let the sea bear witness
Let the wind bear witness
Let the earth bear witness
Let the stars bear witness!"
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