Following the band’s euphoric, landmark performance at the iconic Glastonbury Festival last month and the release of their acclaimed new album All Souls Hill, The Waterboys have released the video for their new single ‘Blackberry Girl’. The release comes alongside a Puck Fingers remix of the track, which is first in a series of exclusive ‘mashups’ taken from All Souls Hill.
Directed and filmed by Mike Scott and edited by Duende Visions, the kaleidoscopic video features background footage from Tokyo’s fashionable Takashita Street. “‘Blackberry Girl’ is a kind of inflation of the characteristics of the great women I’ve known. It’s kind of an idealised woman, the kind of woman I’d like to take charge of me,” Mike said of the video. “In fact… I just wish women ruled the world. I wish they’d relieve men of their pathetic, imagined and derelict responsibilities and sort out the whole mess that we’ve made, it would be so great if they would.”
The song drops as the band continue their packed summer of Waterboys festival appearances and comes off the back of the release of their stunning new album All Souls Hill – out now on Cooking Vinyl – and a reissue of their tenth studio album ‘An Appointment With Mr Yeats’.
The Waterboys play the following UK festivals this summer. Tickets available HERE.
July
Sat 9th Cornbury Festival, Oxfordshire
Sat 23rd Doonhame Festival, Dumfries
August
Fri 5th Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow
Sun 7th Wickham Festival, Hampshire
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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago and married my childhood sweetheart and life is good.
