Chords for Mike Scott talks Mr Yeats on BBC Breakfast, 14.09.2011
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Thanks very much indeed.
Now I was admitted to a graveyard that sparked the inspiration for Mike
Scott's future music career as an 11 year old boy, his mother dragged him to the grave of the revered
Irish folk WBH, but the trip planted a seed in the lead singer of the Waterboy, something he's
never been able to shrug off.
And after 20 years in the making, Mike is produced, collectively
and sung by himself.
So before we talk to you, shall we sample a little bit of the project?
Here we go.
[C]
[G#]
[A#] [D#] [G]
[Cm]
[F#] [C#m]
[C#] [A]
[C#m]
[B] [A]
[C#m]
[B]
[A] [B] [D]
[Bm]
[Bm] [B]
So Mike Scott, [N] lead singer of the Waterboys is here now.
Very good morning to you.
So when your
took you, age 11, to this, it was a convention wasn't it?
Yates summer school in Sligo.
Summer school.
Yeah.
And when she suggested going to a Yates summer school, what did you think?
Well I'd heard her talk about Yates.
My mum is an English lecturer, she still is,
and so I grew up in a house full of books and she used to talk about this Yates guy in pushed
torns as if he was an incredibly serious poet.
So I had this impression of something very
important and I don't remember much about this life, but I do remember going to his grave and I
remember the strange mountain Ben Bulban broods over the landscape.
And then the graveyard thing,
not half on about that, but I mean you all kind of look, you know, you have a sort of, you know,
I don't know, actually very, very, very, very, very dark blue.
Is it?
Yeah.
Okay.
But it was
it, I mean, it's all tied in with, you know, this, the kind of, is there a gothic thing?
No, just a snappy dresser.
Yeah.
I love the shoes by the way.
All this Donnell was wearing
amazing shoes as well.
Got to keep up with the competition.
So you love the poetry and I suppose
as a musician, it's natural to want to put the poetry to music.
Yeah.
When it rhymes and scans,
yes.
I mean, it works relatively easy to.
Yeah.
That's the thing about, yes.
A lot of his poems
do rhyme and scan quite beautifully.
And when I read the poem, I will hear a melody in my mind.
So once that happens, I want to continue with it and write the whole song.
I see.
So actually when
you're reading, it is like music to you, you read it and there's something else going on in your
mind and then you just go and write that down.
Kind of.
Yeah.
Take it to your collective.
Yeah.
And what was the response when once you put all that together, you went out and performed it and
you had a really amazing response.
It was fantastic.
Do you know, there's a trend at the moment for
bands to go and play their classic albums and [Am] content.
Well, we've boxed that trend.
We went
and played an album that's not yet released 20 new [C] songs and it just went fantastic.
But I wonder what the audience thought.
I mean, you know, obviously your fans have kept up to date
with everything you do.
They've mentioned the Waterboys to the average person and they'll
remember the whole of the movie.
Yeah.
And then you say, and did you know that they've done this
collection of Yeats poems?
Yeah.
It's a bit of a, it's a bit different isn't it?
It's a bit of an ask.
People think it's recitation.
Of course it's not.
It's rock and roll songs.
[B] They're turned into
song lyrics.
There's no reverence about it.
Can we hear a little bit of the whole thing?
[G]
[C]
[F]
[C] I'll tell you what, that song, that is a song of stance.
Absolutely fantastic, isn't it?
Do you know what I mean?
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
That one works.
[Em] You mentioned [N] that people might've thought they were recitations to music.
The other thing that's
quite popular at the moment is for songwriters to put musicals on, to turn films or whatever
into musicals.
So did people think that?
It was just a kind of musical Yeats.
Yeats the musical.
Is there a story?
Yeah.
Of course there's not.
It's just a bunch of songs.
So just the poems and the music and the waterboy.
It's a rock and roll show.
Yeah.
Brilliant.
Lovely to see you here this morning.
Great to see you.
Thanks for having me.
Thank you very much.
All right
Now I was admitted to a graveyard that sparked the inspiration for Mike
Scott's future music career as an 11 year old boy, his mother dragged him to the grave of the revered
Irish folk WBH, but the trip planted a seed in the lead singer of the Waterboy, something he's
never been able to shrug off.
And after 20 years in the making, Mike is produced, collectively
and sung by himself.
So before we talk to you, shall we sample a little bit of the project?
Here we go.
[C]
[G#]
[A#] [D#] [G]
[Cm]
[F#] [C#m]
[C#] [A]
[C#m]
[B] [A]
[C#m]
[B]
[A] [B] [D]
[Bm]
[Bm] [B]
So Mike Scott, [N] lead singer of the Waterboys is here now.
Very good morning to you.
So when your
took you, age 11, to this, it was a convention wasn't it?
Yates summer school in Sligo.
Summer school.
Yeah.
And when she suggested going to a Yates summer school, what did you think?
Well I'd heard her talk about Yates.
My mum is an English lecturer, she still is,
and so I grew up in a house full of books and she used to talk about this Yates guy in pushed
torns as if he was an incredibly serious poet.
So I had this impression of something very
important and I don't remember much about this life, but I do remember going to his grave and I
remember the strange mountain Ben Bulban broods over the landscape.
And then the graveyard thing,
not half on about that, but I mean you all kind of look, you know, you have a sort of, you know,
I don't know, actually very, very, very, very, very dark blue.
Is it?
Yeah.
Okay.
But it was
it, I mean, it's all tied in with, you know, this, the kind of, is there a gothic thing?
No, just a snappy dresser.
Yeah.
I love the shoes by the way.
All this Donnell was wearing
amazing shoes as well.
Got to keep up with the competition.
So you love the poetry and I suppose
as a musician, it's natural to want to put the poetry to music.
Yeah.
When it rhymes and scans,
yes.
I mean, it works relatively easy to.
Yeah.
That's the thing about, yes.
A lot of his poems
do rhyme and scan quite beautifully.
And when I read the poem, I will hear a melody in my mind.
So once that happens, I want to continue with it and write the whole song.
I see.
So actually when
you're reading, it is like music to you, you read it and there's something else going on in your
mind and then you just go and write that down.
Kind of.
Yeah.
Take it to your collective.
Yeah.
And what was the response when once you put all that together, you went out and performed it and
you had a really amazing response.
It was fantastic.
Do you know, there's a trend at the moment for
bands to go and play their classic albums and [Am] content.
Well, we've boxed that trend.
We went
and played an album that's not yet released 20 new [C] songs and it just went fantastic.
But I wonder what the audience thought.
I mean, you know, obviously your fans have kept up to date
with everything you do.
They've mentioned the Waterboys to the average person and they'll
remember the whole of the movie.
Yeah.
And then you say, and did you know that they've done this
collection of Yeats poems?
Yeah.
It's a bit of a, it's a bit different isn't it?
It's a bit of an ask.
People think it's recitation.
Of course it's not.
It's rock and roll songs.
[B] They're turned into
song lyrics.
There's no reverence about it.
Can we hear a little bit of the whole thing?
[G]
[C]
[F]
[C] I'll tell you what, that song, that is a song of stance.
Absolutely fantastic, isn't it?
Do you know what I mean?
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
That one works.
[Em] You mentioned [N] that people might've thought they were recitations to music.
The other thing that's
quite popular at the moment is for songwriters to put musicals on, to turn films or whatever
into musicals.
So did people think that?
It was just a kind of musical Yeats.
Yeats the musical.
Is there a story?
Yeah.
Of course there's not.
It's just a bunch of songs.
So just the poems and the music and the waterboy.
It's a rock and roll show.
Yeah.
Brilliant.
Lovely to see you here this morning.
Great to see you.
Thanks for having me.
Thank you very much.
All right
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Thanks very much indeed.
Now I was admitted to a graveyard that sparked the inspiration for Mike
Scott's future music career as an 11 year old boy, his mother dragged him to the grave of the revered
Irish folk WBH, but the trip planted a seed in the lead singer of the Waterboy, something he's
never been able to shrug off.
And after 20 years in the making, Mike is produced, collectively
and _ sung by himself.
So before we talk to you, shall we sample a little bit of the project?
Here we go.
[C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _
_ [A#] _ _ [D#] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#m] _ _
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_ So Mike Scott, [N] lead singer of the Waterboys is here now.
Very good morning to you.
So when your
took you, age 11, to this, it was a convention wasn't it?
Yates summer school in Sligo.
Summer school.
Yeah.
And when she suggested going to a Yates summer school, what did you think?
Well I'd heard her talk about Yates.
My mum is an English lecturer, she still is,
and so I grew up in a house full of books and she used to talk about this Yates guy in pushed
torns as if he was an incredibly serious poet.
So I had this impression of something very
important _ and I don't remember much about this life, but I do remember going to his grave and I
remember the strange mountain Ben Bulban broods over the landscape. _ _ _
_ And then the graveyard thing,
not half on about that, but I mean you all kind of look, you know, you have a sort of, you know,
I don't know, actually very, very, very, very, very dark blue.
Is it?
Yeah.
Okay.
But it was
it, I mean, it's all tied in with, you know, this, the kind of, is there a gothic thing?
No, just a snappy dresser.
Yeah.
I love the shoes by the way.
All this Donnell was wearing
amazing shoes as well.
Got to keep up with the competition.
So you love the poetry and I suppose
as a musician, it's natural to want to put the poetry to music.
Yeah.
When it rhymes and scans,
yes.
_ _ I mean, it works _ relatively easy to.
Yeah.
That's the thing about, yes.
A lot of his poems
do rhyme and scan quite beautifully.
And when I read the poem, I will hear a melody in my mind.
So once that happens, I want to continue with it and write the whole song.
I see.
So actually when
you're reading, it is like music to you, you read it and there's something else going on in your
mind and then you just go and write that down.
Kind of.
Yeah.
Take it to your collective.
Yeah.
And what was the response when once you put all that together, you went out and performed it and
you had a really amazing response.
It was fantastic.
Do you know, there's a trend at the moment for
bands to go and play their classic albums and [Am] content.
Well, we've boxed that trend.
We went
and played an album that's not yet released 20 new [C] songs and it just went fantastic.
But I wonder what the audience thought.
I mean, you know, obviously your fans have kept up to date
with everything you do.
They've mentioned the Waterboys to the average person and they'll
remember the whole of the movie.
Yeah.
And then you say, and did you know that they've done this
collection of Yeats poems?
Yeah.
It's a bit of a, it's a bit different isn't it?
It's a bit of an ask.
People think it's recitation.
Of course it's not.
It's rock and roll songs.
[B] They're turned into
song lyrics.
There's no reverence about it.
Can we hear a little bit of the whole thing?
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] I'll tell you what, that song, that is a song of stance.
Absolutely fantastic, isn't it?
Do you know what I mean?
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
That one works.
_ [Em] You mentioned [N] that people might've thought they were recitations to music.
The other thing that's
quite popular at the moment is for songwriters to put musicals on, to turn films or whatever
into musicals.
So did people think that?
It was just a kind of musical Yeats.
Yeats the musical.
Is there a story?
Yeah.
Of course there's not.
It's just a bunch of songs.
So just the poems and the music and the waterboy.
It's a rock and roll show.
Yeah.
Brilliant.
Lovely to see you here this morning.
Great to see you.
Thanks for having me.
Thank you very much.
All right
Now I was admitted to a graveyard that sparked the inspiration for Mike
Scott's future music career as an 11 year old boy, his mother dragged him to the grave of the revered
Irish folk WBH, but the trip planted a seed in the lead singer of the Waterboy, something he's
never been able to shrug off.
And after 20 years in the making, Mike is produced, collectively
and _ sung by himself.
So before we talk to you, shall we sample a little bit of the project?
Here we go.
[C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _
_ [A#] _ _ [D#] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#m] _ _
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ So Mike Scott, [N] lead singer of the Waterboys is here now.
Very good morning to you.
So when your
took you, age 11, to this, it was a convention wasn't it?
Yates summer school in Sligo.
Summer school.
Yeah.
And when she suggested going to a Yates summer school, what did you think?
Well I'd heard her talk about Yates.
My mum is an English lecturer, she still is,
and so I grew up in a house full of books and she used to talk about this Yates guy in pushed
torns as if he was an incredibly serious poet.
So I had this impression of something very
important _ and I don't remember much about this life, but I do remember going to his grave and I
remember the strange mountain Ben Bulban broods over the landscape. _ _ _
_ And then the graveyard thing,
not half on about that, but I mean you all kind of look, you know, you have a sort of, you know,
I don't know, actually very, very, very, very, very dark blue.
Is it?
Yeah.
Okay.
But it was
it, I mean, it's all tied in with, you know, this, the kind of, is there a gothic thing?
No, just a snappy dresser.
Yeah.
I love the shoes by the way.
All this Donnell was wearing
amazing shoes as well.
Got to keep up with the competition.
So you love the poetry and I suppose
as a musician, it's natural to want to put the poetry to music.
Yeah.
When it rhymes and scans,
yes.
_ _ I mean, it works _ relatively easy to.
Yeah.
That's the thing about, yes.
A lot of his poems
do rhyme and scan quite beautifully.
And when I read the poem, I will hear a melody in my mind.
So once that happens, I want to continue with it and write the whole song.
I see.
So actually when
you're reading, it is like music to you, you read it and there's something else going on in your
mind and then you just go and write that down.
Kind of.
Yeah.
Take it to your collective.
Yeah.
And what was the response when once you put all that together, you went out and performed it and
you had a really amazing response.
It was fantastic.
Do you know, there's a trend at the moment for
bands to go and play their classic albums and [Am] content.
Well, we've boxed that trend.
We went
and played an album that's not yet released 20 new [C] songs and it just went fantastic.
But I wonder what the audience thought.
I mean, you know, obviously your fans have kept up to date
with everything you do.
They've mentioned the Waterboys to the average person and they'll
remember the whole of the movie.
Yeah.
And then you say, and did you know that they've done this
collection of Yeats poems?
Yeah.
It's a bit of a, it's a bit different isn't it?
It's a bit of an ask.
People think it's recitation.
Of course it's not.
It's rock and roll songs.
[B] They're turned into
song lyrics.
There's no reverence about it.
Can we hear a little bit of the whole thing?
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] I'll tell you what, that song, that is a song of stance.
Absolutely fantastic, isn't it?
Do you know what I mean?
Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
That one works.
_ [Em] You mentioned [N] that people might've thought they were recitations to music.
The other thing that's
quite popular at the moment is for songwriters to put musicals on, to turn films or whatever
into musicals.
So did people think that?
It was just a kind of musical Yeats.
Yeats the musical.
Is there a story?
Yeah.
Of course there's not.
It's just a bunch of songs.
So just the poems and the music and the waterboy.
It's a rock and roll show.
Yeah.
Brilliant.
Lovely to see you here this morning.
Great to see you.
Thanks for having me.
Thank you very much.
All right