Karl Wallinger is bringing his band World Party to America this month for a short tour, including a stop in SF!
Wallinger, the former Waterboys keyboardist who made five more-or-less terrific Beatles-y/Stones-y/Dylan-y World Party albums from 1987 – 2000, suffered a brain aneurysm in 2001. "It’s a bit crap when your head explodes," Karl told MOJO in the September ’12 issue. "It took four years to be back properly… I had to re-learn things because my eyesight is fucked. For a while I couldn’t see the end of the guitar so I was playing quite a few jazz chords. And now I can’t see my right hand on the piano unless I look very strangely to the right."
Eyesight problems aside, Wallinger has made an otherwise complete recovery. In April 2013 he released Arkeology, a 5-disc World Party rarities set, that also includes a couple new tunes.
World Party has amassed a collection of hit singles over its history, including ‘Ship of Fools,’ ‘Put the Message in the Box,’ ‘Is It Like Today?’ and the chart-topping ‘Way Down Now,’ while contributing to movie soundtracks for Reality Bites and Clueless. In recent years, Wallinger has taken World Party to the stages of Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot, San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and elsewhere.
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Wallinger, the former Waterboys keyboardist who made five more-or-less terrific Beatles-y/Stones-y/Dylan-y World Party albums from 1987 – 2000, suffered a brain aneurysm in 2001. "It’s a bit crap when your head explodes," Karl told MOJO in the September ’12 issue. "It took four years to be back properly… I had to re-learn things because my eyesight is fucked. For a while I couldn’t see the end of the guitar so I was playing quite a few jazz chords. And now I can’t see my right hand on the piano unless I look very strangely to the right."
Eyesight problems aside, Wallinger has made an otherwise complete recovery. In April 2013 he released Arkeology, a 5-disc World Party rarities set, that also includes a couple new tunes.
World Party has amassed a collection of hit singles over its history, including ‘Ship of Fools,’ ‘Put the Message in the Box,’ ‘Is It Like Today?’ and the chart-topping ‘Way Down Now,’ while contributing to movie soundtracks for Reality Bites and Clueless. In recent years, Wallinger has taken World Party to the stages of Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot, San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and elsewhere.
Karl Wallinger is bringing his band World Party to America this month for a short tour, including a stop in SF!
Wallinger, the former Waterboys keyboardist who made five more-or-less terrific Beatles-y/Stones-y/Dylan-y World Party albums from 1987 – 2000, suffered a brain aneurysm in 2001. "It’s a bit crap when your head explodes," Karl told MOJO in the September ’12 issue. "It took four years to be back properly… I had to re-learn things because my eyesight is fucked. For a while I couldn’t see the end of the guitar so I was playing quite a few jazz chords. And now I can’t see my right hand on the piano unless I look very strangely to the right."
Eyesight problems aside, Wallinger has made an otherwise complete recovery. In April 2013 he released Arkeology, a 5-disc World Party rarities set, that also includes a couple new tunes.
World Party has amassed a collection of hit singles over its history, including ‘Ship of Fools,’ ‘Put the Message in the Box,’ ‘Is It Like Today?’ and the chart-topping ‘Way Down Now,’ while contributing to movie soundtracks for Reality Bites and Clueless. In recent years, Wallinger has taken World Party to the stages of Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot, San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and elsewhere.
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Wallinger, the former Waterboys keyboardist who made five more-or-less terrific Beatles-y/Stones-y/Dylan-y World Party albums from 1987 – 2000, suffered a brain aneurysm in 2001. "It’s a bit crap when your head explodes," Karl told MOJO in the September ’12 issue. "It took four years to be back properly… I had to re-learn things because my eyesight is fucked. For a while I couldn’t see the end of the guitar so I was playing quite a few jazz chords. And now I can’t see my right hand on the piano unless I look very strangely to the right."
Eyesight problems aside, Wallinger has made an otherwise complete recovery. In April 2013 he released Arkeology, a 5-disc World Party rarities set, that also includes a couple new tunes.
World Party has amassed a collection of hit singles over its history, including ‘Ship of Fools,’ ‘Put the Message in the Box,’ ‘Is It Like Today?’ and the chart-topping ‘Way Down Now,’ while contributing to movie soundtracks for Reality Bites and Clueless. In recent years, Wallinger has taken World Party to the stages of Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot, San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and elsewhere.
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